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I'll look that up and see what I can find. That sounds pretty sick

Gotcha. I think imma just get a few different types and mess around with them when I buy a muzzy. Is it okay to order powder online and send it to my house. Or is there legalities with shipping anything with gun powder?

I think imma order an optima. Imma still spend the extra for BH209 though. Seems like a better way to go. I am willing to spend extra to get a good shot and kill too. I went to sportsmens to check them out a bit ago. I wanted to get the one with the thumb hole in the stock. Also what would be better? The 28 in or 26? Or is it more of how it feels when I shoulder the gun? I also wanna know if the scope it comes with is good too. If not what kinda scopes do you like. Anything around the 200 yard range is gonna be a good shot for me after doing more research now too. Any bullet recommendations too? I keep finding stuff about the barnes 290. But what about the power belts or Hornady? Thank you

Gotcha! I was just reading too that the UML would need a special breach plug to even shoot the Blackhorn 209 also. I've seen most people recommend the BH209, but I haven't done any research into the triple7 so I'll be sure to check that out. For bullets I was looking at the Barnes 209 grain. I think they are called TEX or something like that. I'll check out some other setups people use for the optima. Thank you very much for the advice! 150-200 seems pretty good though!

Russ is awesome. Do tye co-op hunt. It's free. You are by yourself the whole time. But you meet with other hunters and kinda work together on who goes where. No spots are really better than others. Especially now that you can't use cams they don't really know how often bison come off that park border. But he will help you and all other tag holders. Also will help a ton when you tag a bison too! Great group of people!

I had a similar injury in my right shoulder about 4 years ago from wrestling. I was able to get to 55 a little less than a year later in 2020 and now I am at 70 with no problems and can shoot all day with no issues now. Take the healing process super slow and it'll benefit a ton. I had to bring my bow back down to 25 the first few outings with the therepists permission. My dad rushed to recovery with a back injury at 47 years old. He tried doing yard work and archery a month after surgery in his spine and he regrets it. You gotta baby it and it'll pay off for the rest of your life

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I know it's super early to be asking about elk hunting with all the season wrapping up but I had a few questions. I am going to be scouting a few units this week because I am interested in some late season tags but I also love hunting the rut in September with my friends and family. What do you guys tend to perfer? How all do you guys wait for 10+ years it seems like for these tags? I was thinking of putting in eventually for the early archery hunt in 7E or the late archery in 23. But I don't wanna waste my points if it's bad. I guess the main question is would you guys rather wait a long time for a good tag. Or do you guys like to go out on a harder hunt season or unit every couple years and really learn the ropes? Thank you

Last few years has been the end of December. But I remember last year they had issues with unit 10 and the boquillas. I'm sure that might be why it's late this year. They put the booklet out too early last year

Just gotta go to the right areas. I hunt thus unit every year for archer otc and I always stumble on em. I just suck at shooting lol. I got charged by 2 of em before too and still missed

Not too sure if this is a topic already. But I just downloaded the etag app onto my phone. G&F posted about this app a few days ago so I gave it a try. It just stays on the homepage. It won't do anything. Is anyone else having the issue or heard about it?

The app they made also gives you draw results and all your licenses too. So it's like the portal but no service needed. But for me I have taken my family members hunting a lot over the past couple years since I got my driver's license. Almost every time they forget their tags weather its just the morning hunt. Or they left the tag at home and we didn't find out till the first day of hunting. On my brother first hunt which was late archery elk we drove up to Williams set up camp n all that. Woke up the next day and started hiking. We get up to a glossing point and I asked to see his license and tag and he didn't. So we had to drive 4 hours back home n all that stuff. So I guess for me it'll be nice for myself and them. Just depends on your predicament

Ah gotcha! Thank you!

That's the plan! Thank you!

That's sick man. I was looking into those but for now I don't feel too comfortable hunting that late due too the snow. I still have my little 2wd ranger. Maybe it'll get me on the main roads but sometimes the snow can get rough really fast. I'd hate to be stuck out there after a storm goes in. I have been saving for like an XJ or a 3rd Gen 4runner. After that I would like to start doing those late rifle tags. Odds seem to be a bit better!

Yeah I was thinking about using a hotel. I don't have good enough camping supplies to really keep me warm if an early front or storm came in. I have been doing research on some of the units. I just kinda figured that imma put in for some harder tags like early archery elk and the kaibab mule deer tags, while I wait imma use this year to start kinda doing photography so I can learn about these animals without hunting them. Maybe I'll get better at stalking them I'm the long run too. I'm about 5-7 years away from the unit I wanna hunt. So I figured I'll learn a lot in that time

Who all is going to 36a? Me and my buddy are going there Wednesday night to setup camp. If anyone wants to join us and combine camps lmk. If not good luck guys!

Sounds good! Thank you! I keep looking into it more and more, and it kinda sounds like it might have to be a next year trip

That's awesome dude. Congrats man!

Geez. That helps me make my decision

That's awesome! If I get drawn imma prolly end up shooting the first bull I get the opportunity to shoot. I'm trying to kinda narrow down areas I wanna hunt. Try to scout it a little before the draw. At least learn the roads

Dang thats crazy man. I was on an early cow hunt with my mom this last season. It was fun calling the Bulls in. I found a nice pocket in 4b with pleanty of elk. Would you recommend a cow tag for early archery? Would that be a waste of 3 points or should I just keep going all in on bull tags?

Gotcha. I got to go to a lotta good units during the rut the last few years. Called in Bulls almost everyday. Freaking insane!

Lol was it that bad?

Me too. I'll let you know what I find for mule deer!