MULEPACKHUNTER

Like the top photo comment says, sous vide. Salt,pepper,butter,rosemary, sealed in ziploc bag air taken out and sous vide at 132 for 3 or more hours then marked hard in a Dutch oven with olive oil no more than 3 or so minutes then rest for 45 minutes. Had some for lunch today and it was tender but not as moist. Search "sous vide everything" on YouTube, you'll look at cooking meat in a whole new light. Game changer. I started using this method while catering some private dinners. It's hard to mess up and helps with timing for a large party meal. It's also great for meal in a bag dinner. I like to cook carrots,onions,potatoes,spinach,in a pan then place in vacuum bag with chicken breast and put in sous vide at 160 degrees for several hours and eat whenever dinner hits. Works awsome and little fus or mess

Some of us do what we can, the on the ground work is poorly ran by all groups who do the work, they don't get the word out and they don't have flexibility on the times. I would love to get out there and get involved but it's always on the weekend and it's last minute if I hear anything at all , this area needs a lot o work to get the word out. Again education

Raffle tags will not work, 673,000 raised in last years big game super raffle which is nation wide and 10 tags and that's not going to get the funds needed.

Money raised from the 200 tags in the raffle in Utah 1.50 of the 5.00 per raffle tag goes to conservation on the ground, 70 percent of the money goes to admin fees for SFW and the mule deer foundation. You'll be happy to know that a state wide az mule deer tag is auctioned off at the same expo. 280,000 last year. The good news is over 4 million is raised at the event and a large amount like 93 percent of that money hits the ground. Also good news is the money from az auction tags does come back to az. This is all new to me and I'm having a head ache now

I think Jay did just fine getting as much info out as possible at this point. The only way this works is if they do auction tags, I know this is not popular and the rich guys seem to be the enemy but the fact is they raise the majority of the money going this route. With that said I don't believe this is the way to raise the money and I would not support anything involving tags at this point. I would rather have a separate Arizona tax on hunting related products to raise the money or something in that relm. If you look at the math from last years Expo in Utah the majority of the money raised was auction tags. 2 auction tags raised almost as much money as the entire azbiggameraffle for 10 tags nation wide. The raffle tag model will not work in my opinion, and tossing numbers like 100,150 tags makes my stomach turn, also hearing someone try to tell me that that number is such a small percentage of the total tags is even worse. Draw odds in AZ are terrible as it is, driving them down will only alienate more potential hunters or even current ones. I agree 100 percent on the need for education of the public that does not understand AZGF, Hunting, Fishing, and general public lands issues. As a new hunter I dove right in and joined conservation groups and devoured information from guys like Steve Renella, Cam Hanes, Joe Rogan, Randy Newburg, and more. I myself have converted my anti hunting Vegan Mother to the point that she would actually support hunting if confronted with the chance. I have met many people who are just not in touch with this part of their world and unfortunately these are the people who decide on issues like the Cat hunting Ban. HSUS is very good at getting to these voters by playing on their lack of knowledge on the subject. An article or add written by HSUS can easily leave out details and sway the uninformed voter to slowly take all hunting away. Education is going to be essential in the future not only to help keep public lands open but to keep conservation efforts like hunting in the hands of biologists and science based groups like AZGF. It would help maybe if all of the numerous conservation groups who receive millions of dollars in support from sportsman and woman could get together in a think tanks situation and come up with something to help with education of the non hunting community, this is not just an Arizona issue, every state is going to need similar ideas. Anyway Just My Thoughts

My boy Trump JR broke down the door to get some scraps.

Any suggestion for nice dinner in or near Gunnison?

900 $ dollar bottle of wine no thanks, I can survive on my beer and vodka for 3 months with that amount, Thats nuts .....Ya you can but why would you want too? Hey, maybe I can auction off my elk tag and we can split the bottle me and you, see what we are missing? Haha

Ah not sure I care if they make money selling adds on the tags. Why not , not like it hurts me or anything. The one that bothers me is "somehow " my email address ended up in some outfitters outbox for services on my upcoming hunt. That one ticks me off.

Last nights dinner was in Durango at a place called Seasons, no messing around wine list topping out at 899.00 a bottle for one of the wines. Food was high end, highly recommend, steamers brewery is very good also.

Ya what's up with the new tags? Got mine , selling adds on there now too

We went to black stock bistro and it was awsome, the brewery called high alpine brewery was closing the kitchen earlier than we could make it so blackstock it was. Lamb , and tuna poke' and beef tartar. The raw beef was soo good.

I don't always drink beer but when I do it's in a frosted RMEF glass and its paired with fancy elk meat.

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I am confused as well????

No I'm talking behind his horse trailer for camping , he's been wanting a bed in his trailer this would be better

Hey edge man you should Grab this and tow behind the horses. Perfect set up

Hammered the striper today, filled the freezer for the year. Dad nailed 2 big channels and we managed 5 or 6 largemouth after dark.

When you draw an Arizona elk tag and mountain house is on sale !!!!

I use msr pocket rocket, next choice would be jetboil. I take a titanium pot and lid for boiling and coffee.

The sale is through a military discount deal in sure most have heard of, I can't really mention it due to the rules of membership. Costco should be getting the 12 packs back in soon as well which is 40 bucks for 12. As far as steaks over a fire well yes we may have steaks a few nights but I won't be near the truck for days at a time and weight is paramount so pro packs wil be in my pack. I'm lucky I can handle these meals no prob, I know some guys can't digest them well. I actually like them.

Exo for sure, worth the wait

Anyone order from outdoorsmans lately? How was your experience? I guess when you have good products you can take care of orders whenever you feel like it. 8 days and order has not even shipped yet and yet they have items in store?

Suis vide elk roast at 132 for 8 hours then sear off in a Dutch oven and hit hard with torch. Grilled and roasted potatoes, carrots, onions, and apples to balance everything out. Believe it or not paired this with a Chardonnay. Super smothe creamy white.

If you like external frame packs this one will be good. It's very modular to handle different bags and meat hauling. This is my second atlas unit but I have not used their bags yet. A couple things I don't like are the weight and the lack of a handle on the top. The bags may have a handle to grab to get it up on your hip but this set up does not. The weight is not a big difference but it's more than my go to pack and my dream pack. One cool thing is the frame is flexible side to side so it moves when you do.