I love my wall tent and use it a lot. When you’re out for 1-2 weeks there’s a lot to be said for comfortable night’s sleep. I have a 12x14 Davis and set it up by myself in a little over 20 minutes.
Virtually everything made in the last 20 years is good for 200,000 at least. It really just comes down to maintenance. If you take care of, it'll be good to go. I drive a 2004 chevy 2500 and don't even think about going from my home in Washington to hunting-fishing trips in Dakotas, California...
I use my chevy 2500 pick up with a canopy on it. It has an 8' bed, so I have a fold up bed in the back. When I get tired, I just pull into the next rest area, make something to eat and sleep on the bed. In the morning, I make breakfast & hit the road. It carries a lot of stuff, is comfortable...
I love my enclosed trailer. Keeps all my stuff dry & out of sight, sleep in it in a pinch of bad weather, and it serves as the camp kitchen, which I like a lot more than the tailgate of my pickup.
I love my Schnee's Hunter pac boots. Warm and dry comfortable. I just wore them every day, al day, for a week pheasant hunting in North Dakota and I love them. Temps were in single digits with windchill well below 0. The only other brand I have experience with is Sorel and there is no comparison.
I've bought a couple pairs of Schnee's this year and love them. If you call them on the phone and ask some questions I'm sure they'll help you. I've called with questions and they were very helpful.
I don't. There's a ton of public land in Washington, including the Blue Mountains in the SE corner. The passes are expensive and access is closed off pretty much every year because of fire danger. I'd rather use the money for traveling to another state.
I'd g with the Sig. I like & use Leupold products, but I hated the Leupold range finder I had- it was junk. It had a bunch of different modes & every time I turned it on it would pick some mode that wasn't what I wanted to be doing and it was very difficult, if even possible, to make it change...
I have a brand new pair of Schnee's Hunter II that I picked up in Bozeman a couple weeks ago. They're soooo comfortable. I can't wait to try them out hunting pheasants in North Dakota in a few weeks.
If you send an email or phone call to OnX they'll help you do it. I asked last week & they told me you can save the maps with all your markups to the chip. I'm not ready to do that, yet, so I didn't get into how exactly.
Patagonia makes great clothes & I have a lot of admiration for Yvon Chouinard's entrepreneurism & business savvy. But, according to the Oregon Outdoor Council, Patagonia gives significant amounts of money to organizations that are trying to make my way of life illegal. While they & I are on the...
I was going to do this this year, but I can't afford the tag this time, so just pheasants & ducks this year. From my research, the bulk of the public land- there isn't much- is the national grasslands in the SW area of the state- W of Dickinson & S of I-94. That's where I'm planning on going...
There are a lot of deer here, and lots of public land. Western Washington can be tough because the woods are thick & black tail are afraid of themselves, it seems. They can be a tough hunt. The East side of Washington's probably a lot more like Wyoming. Fairly open to wide open spaces and some...