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  1. Montana have any leftover general tags? I want to check into that in couple of years, I have my NM tags this year. I think if you get an archery tag there you have to have taken a bowhunter safety ed class.
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    Unit 42 Elk Pics!!!!!!!!!!!

    Learned today from a close source it was a misprint: NOT unit 42 but 4B.
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    Muzzleloader Help

    Let me check around Albuquerque. If I can find some I am planning on coming down to Reserve in the next week. I will have my passport so can cross into AZ. and meet you in Alpine. Let me know the brand as I think most pellets are made of Pyrodex and not BP. Let me know if that works for you and how much you need if I can find it.
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    Ethical???

    I don't get mad, I get even. Numerous ways to do that. I would leave a camera farther back the trail to catch them coming in and out. Then you know who the are. I don't think you did anything wrong. Anybody trying to claim an area on public ground can only do it by first come first served when hunting.
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    Hunting has Changed for the Worst...

    I have to agree with a lot that has been said here. The only way hunting is a competitive sport is against yourself. Each person should decide if they want to shoot an animal or have tag soup. It seems like some are more interested in getting high fives. I love to see big racks but that is more in respect for the animal than the hunter. I remember when I was taken out of school for a week to go hunting back in the 70's and 80's they were excused absences from school. I took all my school work with me and did it everyday. Now if I want to take my daughters out of school for hunting they are unexcused. No work sent with them, they have to make it all up when they get back. I guess you can't learn how to take a standardized test out in the wilderness. The majority of the the hunting shows really aren't about hunting anyhow. They are to promote the newest products to make you a better hunter. That is why I only enjoy four shows: Fresh Tracks, Meat Eater, Bowhunt or Die, and Gritty Bowmen. Not nearly as much I wore x boots, with y jacket, and z pants, used the ? call, had to have an ozonics with my scent killer , etc.,etc.,etc..
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    Unit 42 Elk Pics!!!!!!!!!!!

    The infrared filter causes that if it is an IR camera or blackflash. The pics I have seen like that is there is an IR filter that allows only IR light in at night and blocks IR in daytime. The IR filter is not closing during the daytime so the pictures are red, nighttime pictures you won't notice a difference since you want to allow IR into the cam.
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    unit 24

    I have seen them but not often enough to give any recommendations. Now mule deer on the other hand I have some spots in that unit.
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    Elk call question

    Yearly. I usually buy two in the spring and wear one out in 3 months practicing. Then the other one is done by the end of elk season. I don't use them a lot but the latex gets loose so they don't sound quite right.
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    Wild Horses

    Just make the horses disappear and blame it on the wolves. Let the bunny huggers fight it out among themselves. Then maybe the wolves will be gone as well.
  10. Heads up! June 21st for NM residents. Looks like about 350 deer tags, no unit 23 and youth only in 15. Mainly muzzleloader with some archery. About 100 archery javalina tags. Listed on the NM G&F web site if anybody is interested.
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    12V Solar Panel with Moultrie Cams

    Usually the batteries are wired in series to give you 12 volts. If your game camera uses 8 batteries, 8x1.5 volts =12 volts. 4 batteries, usually the older C and D cell, give you six volts. Just make sure you can hide the solar panels really well and still have them work. The other option is to have an external 12 volt battery, think emergency exit lights, that the solar charger hooks up to.
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    Left over tags on sale June 22nd

    29 tags : Jan. 2018, archery, in unit 27 are FAWTD .
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    Youth hunts vs regular hunts

    I put my kids in for general hunts here in NM. The reason is cost is the same, better odds to draw in the general hunt, the JR hunts have way worse draw odds due to less tags and higher numbers of youth. If they don't draw the NMG&F offers youth encouragement hunts ( cow elk ) that are first come first serve, I have not had any problem buying them a tag.
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    Dead head

    I would rather have the sheds because that means he won't be out there this September. Nice find either way.
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    Left over tags on sale June 22nd

    Sent you a PM PRDATR.
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    Life

    Sorry for your loss.
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    Some UPS Counter Employees Suck

    I tried to have a shipment held at the UPS location in Albq. so I could pick it up. Couldn't do it on the web site or by phone so my wall tent was delivered to my house when I was on the way to the NRA Whittington Center on Thursday and I just got home today.
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    Resources for wolf debates

    I don't understand the question. You want information to argue with the hysterical anti-wolf crowd? I think most ranchers, hunters are anti-wolf, meaning against the wolf reintroduction. Do you mean pro-wolf, anti-hunter crowd that you want to argue with?
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    Who owns this Hand...

    It belongs to Capt. Hook, he got an upgrade. You can find him in Never Land on the Jolly Roger
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    Rest upgrade

    Nothing wrong with the Whisker Biscuit IMO. I think after a lot of shooting you need to replace the Whiskers. I was grouping really well with the old biscuit and just got tired of re-fletching arrows. The point when I switched was when I shot 6 arrows at the start of a shooting session and took a fletching off of each one. I would rather be shooting instead of fletching.
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    Rest upgrade

    After 3 years of shooting the Whisker Biscuit, grouping and shooting really well I guess I wore it out. It started ripping fletchings off the arrows. So I finally went with a QAD Ultra Rest. One step up from the Hunter rest, easier to broad head tune since it moves up and down as well as left to right, but not micro adjustable like the HDX. After 3 days I really like the drop away rest. Quiet and no fletching contact what so ever. I modified French Tuned the bow and re-sighted with the 20 yard pin after getting the new rest on. Groups tightened up where I am stacking 3 arrows at 30 yards, now to move out to 40. When is elk season again?
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    Camp fire blanket

    Go redneck like we did. About 1/3 of a 55 gallon drum, top cut off and flared to sit over the cut drum. Handles welded on the lid. Holes in bottom of ring to allow air in, you can even put dampeners on them like a weber grill. Then when it is bedtime or the wind comes up, throw the lid on and turn dampeners down. Still have coals in the morning.
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    Meat in the pit

    I was so looking forward to women mud wrestling with this post headline.
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    Yes or No to the TREE STAND

    The fall is the fun part, it is the sudden stop that really sucks.
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    Arrow setup for Elk

    Read post #11 and then ask those questions again.
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