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    A vote to increase resident permit cost in Montana

    More money doesn't make a shitty agency work better. Those prices would exclude natives from taking their kids hunting. Our instate wags suck and always have. I would favor doubling the out of state fees and cutting the license numbers by 1/3. We've been through this before. If you don't like...
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    Timber Hunting For Elk

    I've killed over 50 head in the thick timber/jungles. Patience and learning the land, trails, bedding areas is critical. Then it is praying for the weather to assist. Wind and snow is critical for much of it. Much of the wind has a differant direction in each draw. Pay intense attention to it...
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    This Summer's Burns

    I recently rode through one of my hunting areas recently. I found that the edges burned lightly and should recover easily. The wetlands didn't burn. However where the dead lodgepoles were stacked up 5-8 ft it burned so hot that roots, stumps and logs burned to and into the ground. Some places...
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    Tough Trip Through Paradise by Andrew Garcia

    Nameless Range : Trying to get a packhorse through a curtain of peckerpoles is a challenge of immense proportions. I walked for an hour 2 days ago. The average size was 1-2 inches and so dense that you had to go through sideways between the trees. Getting a horse through that would have...
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    How far do elk move?

    Periodically the aliens pick them up and transport them to a differant planet. At a random time later they bring them back. Still waiting for them to be returned this year.
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    What Hunting Boots do you wear?

    Whites and Hoffmans caulked pacs. Alows me to hunt in the downfall and the vertical rocks. Even airbobs won't work in that type of terrain and vibrams are ice skates.
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    Gold Prospecting Trips

    In Montana, pick up a copy of " Gold Placers in Montana" by Lyden. It will tell you where. Look at " Gold Placer Exploration and Evaluation Techniques" SP -115. It will tell you why and explain what you are seeing. Thirdly look at "Montana Placer BMPs" . It will provide best management...
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    Horseback Hunting??

    Yesterday we gained and lost 1400 ft of elevation three times over 12 miles in less than 7 hrs. Try that on foot - especially over 60. For me the horses are a critical component of my hunting life.
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    Why do hunting boots have to be tall?

    All depends on your use and land. We spent the day traversing cliffs and extremely steep hillsides. The higher tops protect your legs from sticks and rocks. If you aren't scared about sliding down the hill or rock cuts- you likely don't need them.
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    College costs

    Also as a retired professor, let me give a few ideas. The first two years often contain filler classes for that rounding program. Take them at a cheaper school. Get a bunch of catalogs from prospective schools and curriculums. Compare costs and classes. Then look closely at transferable credits...
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    This Doe identifies as a Buck

    It's not all that rare. Saw a bull years ago in Idaho that had castrated while in velvet that just kept growing until killed. Another was castrated after shedding his horns and was a really big cow until harvested. They are just sex linked traits. Every system has testosterine and estrogen...
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    Anyone else injured for the opener?

    Got a surgical truss to support my incision after I put a bandage over it to avoid abrasion. I saddled up a mare yesterday. The saddle weight exceeded my doctors recommendation but then again most of my gear weighs more than 10 lbs. I sawed my way into a high meadow and out of it with my...
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    Kids and hunting

    When my kids were born, we started on horseback at 1 month. As they got bigger they did what I did. Camping, fishing, trapping and shooting. I took them where I worked. We surveyed underground mines, sampled placer mines, pitched camps and camped every nite for weeks at a time. By the time...
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    300 win mag rifles

    Hate to be a realist but once you get a group of quality rifles then the big issue is fit. We are not all built the same nor are they. When you throw it up there it locks into place or it doesn't. You know it when it does. Some wives are similar. It wasn't a fit but they were just to pretty to...
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    Elk quarter weights

    They will vary by age and area. Split at the third rib, they seem to range from 62 - 85 lbs per quarter (bone in). Bones weigh about 28%. I remember killing an old bull in the 60s that the hind quarters weighed 104lbs by butcher scale. He was charging by the lbs to cut it so----. I killed a...
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    Rumors

    Heard one this morning that a pickup in Dillon had 4 six points in the back. Whole! Must have been a big truck. I rode 7 miles today through 6 drainages, with 3 inches of snow. Cut one track. It was heading for town. Slim pickens. Had a young lad tell me that my north field had cow elk in...
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    camp spot

    Never put camp in closer than 1-2 miles and even then 2-3 miles from the truck. Never pitched a tent in a clearing. Always in a barren jungle. Watch for falling trees. Never had a campfire. Did have a wood stove. Guess I just can't fit in.
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    Teach me about pants....

    I know you will swat me for this but---- I have worn woolrich malone pants for 45 years just like my father before me. They are good in snow and rain. Quiet in the brush and I only wear them out every 20 years or so. It's hard for me to get new and fancy when things work this well for so long...
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    Woodstove for house

    We have a big Vermont casting in the west end of the house and a Quadrafire on the east end (3200 ft2). Most of the time we are toasty with the Vermont casting but under a sustained -40 or below we will burn a load in the quadrafire to warm up the kitchen. With 8 inch logs and box beam ceiling...
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    Studded Tires?

    Born in St. Ignatious, raised in Plains, graduated from Hot Springs. Occasionally there is some freezing rain in Dec- Jan. Pretty rediculous to put on studs for 6-10 shiney mornings. Slide with the rest of us or put in 4 wheel drive.
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