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I hear you! we got hammered last night with 0.20" didn't knock any of the fires down though.

take a ride into Vermont, there is an Upper and Lower Podunk too.

FOUND IT! this recipe with bear is FANTASTIC, I'm drooling just remembering it... .https://www.blueapron.com/recipes/congee-caramelized-pork-with-crispy-shallots-and-black-garlic and it was great with the pork too...

don't let this one try at bear make up your mind, its how the game is handled from field through freezer that makes the flavor or destroys it. there's a guy from CT I know that marinates everything I give him in Italian dressing...everything tastes like Italian dressing then, the she the goat the mtn lion, whats he care what I give him ...its going to taste like his sauce, marinade etc not the meat. bear is best prepared like you handle pork, so you can still taste it, we tried this a year ago from blue apron and use it with bear all the time with company, its fantastic. https://www.blueapron.com/recipes/pork-larb-with-coconut-rice and let's hope he took care of it like a really great steak and didn't drive around with it for 2 days or drag it through a drainage ditch then hang it in the garage for everyone to come see...would anyone do that with a prime rib?? not many but I see people do it with game from rabbits to grouse to big game all the time...

Russell moccasins. My one brother bought me my first pair when I 'graduated from jr ass (assistant guide) to full share hand in our family's guide business, and I've had the same pair for all these years, and added 3 more pair, two are variations of their current high country hunter and Sheep hunter, one is a toe lace hunter modified for my tastes of a stalking boot they've been resoled many times, the oldest pair I think 6 or 7 times, partially rebuilt once my wife gave me a pair of chukkas for driving and around town, they're ok for walking around town, but aren't my thing. I wouldn't buy the chukkas again but the sheep hunters and high country have never failed me in 32 years of guiding, if you're willing to drop $400 on off the shelf boots that need to be replaced periodically why not drop $600 on fully custom made boots that will never be replaced in your life time, that's what I think, for what its worth/

sure are!

yepper, very much like landmines, you can be around them and never have a moment of trouble, but when you do it has your full attention. I didn't see any bears at all today, which was surprising I don't think I did anyway, long day maybe I forgot one in the morning pretty sure I didn't see anything but deer, elk, bison and bighorns today, both kinds of eagles ofcourse, and the usual swan, pelicans, wolf critters etc, but no bears.

Rebel Darling did you take that in Alaska? that looks like one.

I have a ridiculous number of photos on my phone....whoever thought those words would ever be said? I'm getting messages I'm out of memory, I thought perhaps you might enjoy some of them as I delete them.

they use DNA here, that's how they know which bear to kill for eating someone. I'd assume the same there.

that's because the SW states are suing the feds over grey wolf introduction that could ruin red wolf restoration areas....now the feds say you aint got red wolves there be only one wolf...OUR WOLF, now sit down and shut up we are introducing predators everywhere we want.

and a headband, golf club covers, an Easter bonnet for the wife to wear to church, couple pairs of real cool fuzzy boots, wristbands for the gym, bike shorts, can cooler covers, hitch covers, a grill cover, ear muffs for the grand parents at Christmas, you are going to need to shoot more bears, I can do this all day....

tree sets and buckets, though even with 55s you'll catch coon and skunks. easiest way to target only fisher is to make tree sets as straight up as you care to, the more slope the better your chances of catching bobcat the down side is most fisher contrary to urban legend stay on the ground not in the trees so you will miss a lot, even with cubbies and buckets sometimes they play on them and don't go in, so shrug and smile and wait some more. Can you use cage traps in NY ?

I started on a stevens 220s in 20 gauge perfect gun to learn on and easy transition to a SxS my older brothers all started on the SxSs they were going to get eventually anyway, parker vh 20s, and Pop just made them only load one barrel until they became very proficient. I was thrilled to start on the stevens 220, those parkers were a damn heavy club when you were 6 or 7 years old.

thanks! all I needed to hear was china. back to Excalibur maybe...sigh...

true but on the bright side you can sell to taxidermists who will be all filled out by Dec and won't be buying anymore, I'd rather drop them whole on the floor for the same price as putting them up, no drumming charges, shipping, etc. That was the problem trapping VT MA and NH after northern zone, all the taxidermists had all they wanted after northern zone opened. its only a 5 day season, hit them hard sell them whole and buy some beer.!

I'm looking at the CenterPoint Sniper 370 Camo Crossbow Package and after trying many crossbows at different shops I'm leaning this way, HOWEVER, this one I haven't been able to try yet. does anyone have any feedback on this Xbow? I can't find too much helpful info on Centerpoint or on this particular package. Thanks to all for input!

thanks JJB for the idea of other options, I have to go, I don't have to bring guns or hunt. I don't think I'm going to bother. I'm thinking bite the bullet go, get it done, get out.

we are very blessed to live in prime Chukar country. carrying over guzzler technology we learned living in color country Utah we have food and guzzlers around the property here for chukars. feeding supplemental feeds of high quality and high protein meal worms we get a very health chukar and that leads to increased chick survival and so on etc. right now we have a good hatching of 50 or so young, and this is the first nesting of the year, some years we get three, depending on brood survival we can have new nestings into august, we truly enjoy them and get a kick out of their antics, between them and all the rabbits we are entertained until the deer return from the high country. We have chukar, sage grouse, sharptails, around here, with blue and ruffed grouse in the forests and pheasant, huns and turkeys in the agricultural areas. do any of you chase chukars? sorry about the blurry second photo, it was shot through the window screen.

damn. I was going to bring some guns when we go east and maybe hunt in Vermont NY and MA but the hell with it, I'll end up in jail. we never unload guns here. I'm getting a great education on the crossbows from you all, thank you very much! I'm narrowing my choices down.

we have 4 pair of different leupolds, I've only had a problem once 30 years ago with a gold ring that kept fogging, factory never could fix it, kinda ticked me off they didn't offer to replace them for me. but the new ones are light, cheap $300 and under for acadia, Mojave, etc, and they are fine for glassing general use, they range from 8 to 12x power in the bunch we have you're going to want a scope, in my experience. we bought a swaro atx scope, and the horse it was on fell off the mountain, the scope was damaged, went back to swaro and took over 6 months to get back to me, then it happened again and I sold it, and bought a cabelas scope, its made by meopta or something but I can go into cabelas and hand it to them and get one handed back to me, was the main reason for that choice and its clear enough. some of the sheep guides here use leupold scopes, they love them, so maybe think that route a bit more. don't forget the atmosphere here (NW Wyoming, west in general) is going to be hot at some point, intense direct sun so heat waves stop you from going to 60x, I mainly stay around 20x on the scope or it distorts, so you may say, yeah I can do binos only... but glasses are hard to use only without a scope of some kind, I don't see how you can get away with just binos. or I guess I mean to say, I can but I won't. I'd buy the $300 leupolds and spend the saved $1200 on staying longer west or a good camera, put it towards a leupold spotter, my 2 cents,

we eat buffler, moose and elk, in that order, we don't like killing the critters here much, none of the folks here do, well, the kids do and the people with horn fetishes, and residents are in the same draw you are, except we don't get all the PPs you do, only can build PP for moose and sheep. we don't hunt sheep. we get WY moose tags about every 10 years averaged out. I don't know of too many residents that hunt General areas unless they are desperate, but yes, we can buy general tags. antelope are hard to draw here as a resident, they aren't mountain critters, low number of tags near us. We can buy some tags leftover but the hunt areas are 2+ hrs away, I'm not driving 2+hrs each way for a speed goat. They don't taste THAT good. we don't hunt mule deer they are in serious trouble here, I'm not going to contribute to it while Game and Fish has their heads up their rumps and whitetails are not found on the north fork, yet.... we can buy all the elk antlerless we can stand but season is nov and dec and I'll be back east this year for most of that so why spend the money. Jan they'll sometimes have a cull hunt and we'll shoot some then too I thought my wife had bought some elk tags for cows but she didn't ---says she's going east with me and the hounds this year...get my brother's house in Vermont ready for sale. Idaho we mainly hunt for wolf and elk, and same montana, if friends want to hunt elk in montana that year I'll buy a MT tag. Colorado we hunt archery elk every few years, depends on the year. this year I have all of Sept to fill my any elk archery tag, if it snows they will move down more, doesn't snow and stays hot I'll just wait for colder weather and help friends fill antelope tags, shoot some bears when they get into the corrals in the fall. don't really enjoy killing bears but its a lot of meat. and you know, honestly, when you have the animals around you all the time the desire to kill them really isn't that high. a documentary on mule deer Joe Hutto made, excellent scenery by the way, summed it up pretty well, a tourist shot one of the bucks that lived on their ranch and asked, Geez, any idea how old this buck is, and Joe said yeah, he was 7 on June 13th, I've known him since he was born. Bison , Elk And Moose I don't get to know well enough to mind chewing on them and of course can't draw a tag for most of them to save my life!