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  1. Great write up @Spaulding Smails , thanks for sharing and great pics! That was a nice bull your partner got! Sucks about your scope - what cartridge and scope are you shooting if you don’t mind?

    Do you think your elevation turret could have been turned a full revolution and you didn’t notice? That, or leaving the scope dialed up for some potential shot and forgetting to turn it back to zero is a fear of mine.

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  2. Went to my new lease in Arkansas for muzzle loader opener this weekend. Had a gentleman on the lease who had a gas leak in his camper. Long story short…


    That’s terrible but wow could have been so much worse. Glad everybody made it out alive.
  3. Well, bad luck today again. On my way into the spot I wanted to hunt today I spooked a good size herd that was bedded maybe 30 yards off the trail. It was too dark to see them but it was a good number of elk, lots of noise as they got up and got out. There wasn’t a way to pursue them through the thick timber and private land was only a mile or so the direction they headed, so I waited at my spot, a nice meadow up the hill from where they were bedded, but no luck. Another beautiful day 8000’ above my typical rat race. Taking a nap in the mountains after a backpack lunch out of cell service is best nap possible.

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  4. Yep.  Rinella edumacated me on that watching Meat Eater.  Also said mountain lion meat is better than pork?  I've had bear steaks with some kind if berry reduction sauce.  Damn good.  

    I’ve heard him talk about it and I think it was in a book I read about Boone. Also there is a roadside historical monument by a settler’s cabin site close to Junction that talks about how they ate bears in lieu of pork there as well.
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  5. Cooked elk steaks from my last year’s bull over the open fire tonight which was nice. Also bought a bear tag today. We saw a decent black bear last year here and the neighbor said they saw a big one a few months ago. Bear bacon, bear grease, hams, a rug and a skull would be fun.

    In the frontier days, bears were market hunted for eating while deer were primarily market hunted for hides.

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  6. Did my last bit of target practice Saturday while the OU game was starting. not great / not terrible results. (Swirling wind, i held too much windage, need to not overcompensate)

    I couldn’t let it screw up my hunting prep if Texas was screwing up in Dallas; figured I’d watch later on delay or dvr. Dad came down to the barn at halftime and said you’re going to want to come see this, so I wrapped up practice and enjoyed the game. Still enjoying it on third rewatching.

    Back to hunting: took time Sunday and Monday to get 95% packed. Leaving Thursday, can’t wait. Imitation elk quarter isn’t going; getting in a one more Ruck around the neighborhood tonight before I swap the cargo net off the frame for the bag.

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  7. I screwed up last season and guided an inexperienced hunter into shooting two does, the second of which happened to be a button buck. I just didn’t check closely enough. Honestly it was only at ~100 yards so I probably just took a glance through the binos before giving him the green light. My eyes just aren’t good enough to take much for granted anymore.

    Luckily he wasn’t bothered by it.

  8. Decent interview:

    https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-canadian-foreign-minister-melanie-joly-at-a-joint-press-availability/

    “It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs.”

    I’m wondering if we should be isolating Putin from Russia at this point in communications, i.e. something like “we will welcome the Russian people back into the international economy when they stop Mr. Putin’s wars, etc.; in the mean time we will work to make sure alternate energy supplies are available to our Allies and partners who wish to avoid doing business with Mr. Putin.”

    Start clearly illustrating the off ramp for the Russian people, since Putin isn’t interested in off ramps.

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  9. I mean we all fucking know what happened here.... the guy in charge of making the winter uniforms made 1% of the entire order for show..... and now that they were needed, they suddenly "got lost in transit"
     
    el oh el.....  and the crazy part is everyone in Russia knows exactly what happened here. and no one gives a shit because thats how shit goes down in Russia

    The Russians are terrible at BS and spin because they have no opposition party and can just say whatever. The obvious spin would have been “the unis were burned up in a warehouse fire started most likely by some Ukraine nazi loving Anglo-Saxon operatives. Please alert your local FSB branch if you have any info related to the recent rash of arson.”
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  10. @deadshank did you had to drive the whole way back yourself with your busted up partner riding shotgun? How far did he have to walk out with the broken bones? That must have been tough.

    Sorry to hear that it was a tough trip. That looks like some really rough country in those mountain pics.

    One of the things that makes a successful hunt so great is knowing just some of the infinite number of things that could have gone wrong.

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