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    Thoughts on the anti-hunting movement

    When i first met my college girlfriend and she found I was a hunter, she almost ended things right there because she associated hunting with Ted Nugent. Fortunately, a conversation over a plate of elk stir fry smoothed things out. In fact the elk stir fry got me invited to a bunch of potlucks...
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    Goat/bear rodeo

    Our oldest drew a goat tag this year but due to prior commitments (basic training and AIT) we didn't get much scouting in. Fortunately the unit is only an hours drive from home and he has plenty of time to hunt this fall. We went out for this past weekend with the intent watching some...
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    Wilderness Area montage

    Hyalite Porcupine Buffalo Horn WSA this morning. Almost as much fun as chasing elk
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    Wilderness Area montage

    Another twofer - foreground HPBH WSA, background on the right side - AB wilderness - This morning
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    Winter Pictures

    It is actually still winter out there. You should recognize this one Rob
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    Hyalite now closed to recreational shooting (MT)

    I'm in assuming I am in town
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    Hyalite now closed to recreational shooting (MT)

    Unfortunately this needed to happen. I have been shooting up there regularly for 20 years and have been appalled at some of the behavior up there. Its too bad because there are not a lot of other options in the valley. I don't like the idea of being forced to join a political organization...
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    270wsm / 300wsm

    If you want to get rid of any of that.270 wsm brass, I would gladly help you out.
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    OnX Hunt Maps and smart phones...a word of causion.

    I used the map system on my phone pretty extensively last season in areas that have little to no coverage and thought it worked great. It took a little planning ahead of time to make sure I had all of the maps downloaded in the right format and scale, but once the maps are downloaded it worked...
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    Once Again, the GOP Comes Out as Anti-Hunting

    Reasons why the sky is falling applies to guns but not public land 1)There is a constitutional amendment protecting guns, not so for public lands 2)numerous state republican parties, including mt, have an explicitly stated platform supported divesture of federal lands 3)At least two of the...
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    Elk Hunting Gear... Necessity or waste of time?

    Minnesota hunter nailed it with the number one priority - gym membership. In over thirty years of elk hunting there are really only two reasons I have missed out on opportunities at animals. I couldn't get my behind to were the animals were or I wasn't dressed well enough to stay out long...
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    Bozeman Hunting Film Tour

    Count me in
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    Electric Bicycles?

    All public land management agencies view E bikes as as motorized vehicles so any route that is closed to motorcycles is closed to E bikes. If Matzinger is using his ebike in a non motorized area, he is breaking the law. It is really not that difficult - If a bicycle has a motor, it is a...
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    MT Governor inspecting the shoulder season landscape

    I teach a class on wildlife biology and just last week we had the discussion about the unholy alliance between politics and science in wildlife management. Having this article on the front page of several papers this morning made the point more effectively than any thing I could have possibly said.
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    Contradiction between ESA and Evolution, thoughts?

    "I do however not believe there is a place for the Fairy Shrimp, also on the ESA, that cost developers thousands and thousands of dollars each year in mitigation costs. At what expense/level do we say, that species just didn't make the cut? It is at junctures like this that in my opinion we just...
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    NR - AK unguided sheep/goat/bear

    I would be very supportive of anything that gave me a chance at an sheep tag without the guide.
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    Whats our President trying to do to us gun buyers/owners

    Va Speedgoat - I think that is actually pretty rational. I'm willing to take a competency test to buy a gun - we already have to take a class to carry one - and if you can't carry, whats the point of owning one? I would even go a step further . . . I wouldn't mind registering my gun - that...
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    more rabbit fun

    There are plenty of rabbits out there. I have been taking the opposite approach and glassing them up on sunny slopes and shooting them at long range with the .17 hmr. Good practice for next years sheep hunt. A head shot at 100+ yards is challenging and leaves the meat nice and clean
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    Revenant

    Yeah, I realize I am not the target audience for Hollywood movies. If I had seen the movie when I was stuck in town I would have been able to sit back and escape for the 2.5 hours of the movie. I now spend at least 20 hours a week very week in the outdoors and the disconnect was just too...
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    Revenant

    I saw it, wanted to like it but as Oak said I couldn't get past the whole disconnect between the film and "science and nature". I didn't expect it to be a documentary but I do expect even fiction to be believable and there were so many scenes that were so far past believable that I could not...
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