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    I had to write the same paper in forestry classes 5 years ago... I did road closures as well.... I remember how hard it was to find scholarly articles on road closures.... I think the mandate of copper ammunition in some areas would be an interesting paper.

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    I do a fair amount of hunting down south, I've had two issues nothing bad enough to scare me away but bad enough that you wouldn't catch me down there without at least a handgun. Most of the people you run into are non-issues but when that one guy decides he needs your truck more than you do having that 10MM sure is nice! I wouldn't camp alone down there anymore like I used to but I have no problem hunting down there.

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    My Emergency kit is quite simple, 1 havalon blade, duct tape wrapped around a nalgene as a pseudo roll ( about 15 feet) super glue, a few vicodins and 25 ft of 550 cord. I think most people add way to much to their first AID kits, before I was Wilderness First Responder certified I was guilty of it too, sure bandaids are nice, and mole skin is a luxury however, if I cant fix what I need to fix with duct tape and super glue, I doubt its something I can survive any ways. I'll hit the button on my SPOT unit and if that doesn't work well it was probably my time. I also carry a small bottle of Aqua Mira drops incase my filter breaks., almost everything else found in most medical kits can easily be adapted from other items (clothing instead of gauze, para cord and sticks to make a splint, tyvek ground cloth in case of a sucking chest wound. etc. The most important thing is your head and if you use you and have the drive to survive you should not need a large first AID kit at all.

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    Amanda, how does that montbell super spiral move with you? I thought the concept was intriguing however I wasnt sure if it was worth the extra half pound or so over the Western Mountaineering ones. Also, do you have the Standard 650 fill down or the ultralight with the 800 fill?

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    I carry DT in my 10mm, shoots very well no complaints. I roll my own for everything except my defense rounds, and my department doesnt issue 10mm for off duty so 10mm DT is the only ammo I buy. I usually only carry my 10mm as a woods gun. I had to dispatch an injured cow with it once, worked well. Have shot about 150 rounds of the stuff without any malfunctions and it performed fine on the cow, have not shot anything else with it.

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    I recently got a SPOT connect, it basically pairs with your smartphone via blue tooth and turns your phone into a one way satellite communicator, the pairing is decent at best and sometimes it takes awhile, however when paired you can send pre canned texts (customizable at home) for free or type personalized messages for 50 cents each, it is very slow to send but is a nice thing to have if youre running late or even coming home early and out of cell range. The service is 100$ per year which to me is totally worth the extra piece of mind knowing that if needed I can hit the help button (which a phone does not need to be paired with to work) and Search and Rescue will be dispatched to my location. I have not had too much time to play with all of the features of the SPOT connect yet but so far I'm fairly pleased with it with the exception of the difficulty to pair with my iphone on occasion.

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    For me it all depends on weather, I have a mountain hardware spire 2.1 tent that really doesnt weight much more than a bivy and packs down to almost as small as the bivy I cary, If I can get away with it and I'm going solo I'll usually bivy, although if its going to be windy or a chance of rain at all I'll bring my tent (much more comfortable to get out of the elements and feel less claustrophobic. In the sumer I'll often go out with a bivy and a microfleece jacket and cap as my sleeping gear. In the winter I'll always bring my tent because it keeps me warmer as I can use my backpacking stove and crack a door a bit and it really heats it up probably 15 or 20 degrees on the inside. Bivys are great if youre just trying to run and gun but if youre setting up a spike camp a tent is much more comfortable for me at least. If you can split a two person tent up between two people it is certainly worth the warmth in the colder months of two bodies heat being contained a bit.

     

    Bivys seem like a great idea all the time until you have to spend the night in one in a nasty storm, its miserable especially if you dont build a dam around the head area because rain always seems to get in. Plus they hold in condensation something fierce and your sleeping bag will almost always be wet if you need to actually use the sack for what its designed for.

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    Stash water during monsoon season, water will be plentiful and you can hike in 10 or so gallon jugs and a water filter, and fill them close to where you intend to set up a spike camp, find a cave to stash them in just make sure its hidden well, otherwise the water supply will really dictate where you're going to be able to hunt, remember even the nastiest water is drinkable with a pump filter, I use a hyper flow with a pre filter.

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    I've done it in a day in 6A and I've done it with all browns but not in one day. I've got sets off of all and sets of browns off muleys and elk but not whitetails, I found 3 sets off the same bull in one day all within a 400 or so yard radius in a canyon (actually found 9 horns in one small area which was the coolest day of shed hunting I've ever had)

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