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  1. RG_Adult_Onset_Hunter

    Aladdin Valley Washington Bear Hunting Mentor Needed for My Wife

    I live about halfway between Colville and Northport. My wife and I have been bear hunting on and around our property with little success (units 108 and 111). My has now been on two bears that someone else shot or shot at. At this point I'm honestly out of ideas of where I can go within range of...
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    Attack on Bear Hunting in Washington. Your hunt is next.

    The spring bear season in Washington State was quietly suspended this year without much ado from the hunting public. You might not have hear about this because it was done via a kind of odd rule making process administered by the WDFW special Commission. I did a more informative post in the...
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    WA 2022 Spring Bear Hunting Suspended. Is it Lost for Good?

    I love bear hunting. As a person that tries to derive their protien primarily from game meat, the animal and the hunt has a cultural and nutritional value that is hard to find elsewhere. For this reason and many others, I am saddened the Special Fish and Wildlife Commission's recent decision to...
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    House Bill 2676 Oregon ban on New Fur Sales

    Link to the Bill I really do believe that anti-hunting/trapping groups aim to take away any sort of traditional subsistence option from us one small piece at a time. While the argument for this bill appears to be aimed at commercial fur raising, the nature of the bill would also hit fur...
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    .308 vs Black Bear Skull (nope, I don't reccomend this)

    I got my bear back and it's just barely able to be measured a half an inch back and I'd have lost some valuable width. I have to wait 60 days to get it measured but my taxidermist put it at 20" 1/8th. Shot placement was through right the eye.
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    Oregon BLM Fire Closures

    If the smoke is not enough to send you inside BLM has announced several closures around the active fires. https://www.blm.gov/programs/public-safety-and-fire/fire-and-aviation/regional-info/oregon-washington/fire-restrictions Please check the regs before venturing out, and stay safe. Some of...
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    Dealing with Bear

    I know the T word is going to be thrown out right off the bat. So I am just going to pre-empt that now. The following is the most well researched website I have found on the subject. If you want to eat predators I suggest you read it. https://porkgateway.org/resource/trichinae/ That said. I...
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    Gratitude and My First Bear. Long Story.

    The story of my first ever bear (harvested about one week ago) is a LONG one. Too long to even get the successful hunt day int HT's 10000 character limit for a single post. I want to tell this whole story though, so I will be posting sort of episodically. With that said I want to at least tease...
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    SOLD Hoyt Powermax Vicxen

    I got this bow as my startup last year and used it to practice last year and put one dear down. It's a solid performer, in good condition, but I have a long draw and decided to upgrade to something that does not force me to compromise my form (Hoyt RX-4 Carbon Ultra in Long Draw in case you are...
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    Wife's Shotgun Broke (advice on a replacement)

    Ugh. So I got my wife a Franchi Instinct last year on clearance before the Instinct line split into several different sub models. We also got it shortened to her absurdly short LOP of 12.5" and installed a Gracoil on it. She now love turkey hunting, but this gun has given her grief from word...
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    Jackrabbit and Porcini Stroganoff with Homemade Egg Noodles

    I love peasant food. I like it enough that I ran out of my shanks, ground meat, neck, and front shoulders way before I ran out of backstrap. A steak is nice, but a well-crafted casserole or stew is magical. Stroganoff is designed around taking cheap stuff and turning it into something hardy. The...
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    The Unfairly Maligned Jackrabbit and a Few Rules for Cooking it.

    Almost every time I tell someone that I am craving jackrabbit I am met with an expression of incredulous disgust. This look says, “jackrabbit is not meant for human consumption; furthermore, you should probably go to the hospital to make sure you did not catch something”. I’m OK with people...
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    Wild Turkey Ramen

    This is not the ramen that you grew to detest when you were too poor to eat anything else. This ramen is so rich and complex that you will find yourself craving it shortly after your finish the first bowl. I lean pretty heavily on Vietnamese and Thai flavor profiles for this ramen. The dish is...
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    A fitting end to turkey season

    “So that’s turkey hunting?!”, breathless from laughter, frustration, and fatigue, I shrugged. “Yeah, that is about it.” Moments earlier I was behind our parked car, my wife well ahead of me with good back cover, shotgun at the ready. When I called, the response of the birds we knew to be...
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    No Guarantees in Turkey Hunting

    “I can’t guarantee they will be there.” I was tentatively told by the landowner. There always seems to be this hesitation and disappointment about the possibility of coming home empty handed. “That’s kind of the idea though,” has been my typical response. We had come back every time empty...
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    My First Deer Part 5 (A Grateful Hunter)

    It turned out plan C was a failed grouse hunt. I won’t go into the details of that failure, other than to say that we had a great campsite with now chance of getting birds. Baptized in fresh air, I regained a clear head about this season and its failures. I wanted that trophy buck, badly enough...
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    Trail Camera Footage Sorting/Storage Solutions

    Trail cameras are great for gathering data, but like most capture devices they are capable of accumulating a tremendous amount of data. What are your strategies/tips for: Sorting through all the pictures/video you get? Storing the data? Patterning the animals so you can put all this info to use?
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    My First Deer Part 4 (A Shot I Never Should Have Taken)

    My saddle arrived a week or so into the season. This was the new plan I needed. I had spent several weeks staring at the various trees on the property trying to select the best one to use. I wanted something near the travel pathway of the deer, easy to get to from my access point, and with some...
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    My First Deer part 3 (Opening Weekend)

    I got up early and made my way quietly to my blind in the predawn black. The path was less crunchy than the rest of the forest because I had raked all the detritus of the forest out of the way. I knew each range to each tree by heart at this point. I simply had to stay still and wait. Staying...
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    My First Deer Part 2 (getting ready for opener)

    I found a bow in my garage. It was grandpas old Indian Archery recurve from the 70’s. It was missing a string, and clearly the arrows were way too short for me. I had the money to invest into new hunting gear, but I liked the idea of trying to get my animal with a recurve. This is when the folks...
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