Recent content by npaden
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2024 Colorado Draw Results Thread
Since Colorado is a 100% preference point state it would be easy to make sure you didn't draw your first choice so I guess they do allow the first choice to be a point. Most states don't. Congrats on drawing 2nd choice. Evidently dmac2444's cow tag wasn't a sure thing this year as a 2nd...- npaden
- Post #475
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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2024 Colorado Draw Results Thread
Not 100% positive in Colorado, but in most states if you put PP as your 1st choice then that's what you get and it doesn't go to your second choice. You would need to apply for a tag that you know that you don't have the points to draw as your first choice then the cow tag as your second...- npaden
- Post #472
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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2024 Colorado Draw Results Thread
Anyone got an email on the LPP draw? I didn’t have any points so it was a long shot for me this year but not sure how the whole process works. The website says results will be emailed beginning of June but all the other results are already out so curious when I’ll get the unsuccessful email to...- npaden
- Post #464
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Ban the biscuits and open flames!
I am about to have my house paid off and I'm going to look at going to catastrophic type homeowners insurance. My insurance here in Texas with the wind and hail is up to almost $4,000 a year for a $300,000ish house that they make me insure for $475,000. I would like to bump the deductible up...- npaden
- Post #20
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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New SAR tool
Pretty amazing stuff being developed. I guess law enforcement could use it as well if someone wanted to intentionally get "lost". I assume it only works if the cell phone is turned on and not in flight mode. I know a lot of folks that turn their phones to flight mode when out of cell service...- npaden
- Post #3
- Forum: Fitness, First Aid, and Backcountry Survival
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School Me on Hunting In Grizz Country
I didn't read through all of the posts but having hunted off and on in some pretty thick grizzly country I just try to go on with life and not worry about it too much. With that said, I carry bear spray and try to keep a clean camp and all that fun stuff, but when I'm hunting, I'm hunting and...- npaden
- Post #129
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Please BEAR with me, 2024 is going to be full of unBEARable surprises!!!
Good luck and have fun!- npaden
- Post #45
- Forum: Live Hunts
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Roth for a kid?
It’s just so hard for me to tell someone that young to pass up the huge tax advantage with a Roth IRA. I have some money in a brokerage account right now that is almost untouchable for me because the giant unrealized gains in it. Even with the capital gain tax at 20% I have to pay the extra...- npaden
- Post #24
- Forum: Money and Finances
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WTB a couple inreach’s.
The Zoleo's are a little cheaper on the front end and people really seem to like them. I have an InReach SE that is 10 years old now and still working fine. Not looking to sell it though.- npaden
- Post #4
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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Options to help judge bear size?
Thanks for the comments. I've only shot 2 bears in my life. One dink when I was in college walking closed logging roads up by Libby, MT and one decent one on POW a few years ago. One thing that I was surprised at was this past fall we saw one of the smaller bears that I have been getting on...- npaden
- Post #8
- Forum: Other Big Game
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Options to help judge bear size?
Some elk pictures from the same camera to help with perspective.- npaden
- Post #5
- Forum: Other Big Game
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Options to help judge bear size?
I have gotten quite a few trail camera pictures of bears on my place in Colorado. I’m pretty sure some of them are really nice bears. I just don’t know how nice. I get most of the pictures on the same camera that is a pretty good location for all kinds of other animals as well. I go back and...- npaden
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- Forum: Other Big Game
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Roth for a kid?
We setup a Roth IRA for my son from his earnings last summer. I have other investments at Fidelity so it was a very easy deal to set it up for him over there and invest it in an index fund. Most likely never going to be at a lower tax bracket (zero) than now so it seems like a no brainer for...- npaden
- Post #3
- Forum: Money and Finances
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New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it
I haven't ever looked at a 16D rifle tag. I was specifically thinking about Unit 36 when I posted that and I have seen those listed for less than $10,000. Just looked at an outfitter's website and the price difference between a Fully Guided with a landowner tag and a Fully Guided without a...- npaden
- Post #290
- Forum: NEW MEXICO
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New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it
The answer is somewhere between what abqbw and Treeshark want. I think most of us can see that. When you consider the alternative options in New Mexico specifically, Deer, Pronghorn and Elk outside of their core area are all unlimited tags available to the landowner. You read that correctly...- npaden
- Post #279
- Forum: NEW MEXICO
