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Depending on where you are hunting in 36B you don't need a camera to find deer. Why lose $100 if you don't have to.

So what are you going to do with it?

Guys, I like my coffee but some mornings there isn't time to drink a couple cups, plus if you are sitting a blind with a quart of coffee in you pretty soon you spend more time peeing than watching, and invariably you have to pee at the wrong time. A quick cup of thick brew is more than sufficient to start the day. I picked up these things this season, makes for really strong coffee fast - 3 sips and you may crap your pants. The 10 oz job from GSI Oudoors makes 1 cup ready to drink between 4 & 5 minutes after you turn the heat on. I use 1 heaping spoon of fresh grind or 2 good, not heaping, spoons of ready grind espresso for 1 cup, there is room to make it thicker if you want, I will if I have to share. A pinch of salt cuts down on the acidity if I remember to add it. The other one makes a good cup and a half or so in about 7 to 8 minutes. I use 2 normal scoops of fresh grind or 2 heaping of ready grind. Same salt deal..... If you have to share with a couple people then load up the grounds for normal espresso, I figure it may give 3 people a morning blast. I have a GAZ burner I use but any propane burner will work, house or field your choice. http://www.gsioutdoors.com/products/...mini_expresso/ http://www.bialettishop.com/MokaExpressMain.htm - I use the 9 cup version of this, runs $40. Shop the net and you can pick it up in several different places.

Not many people load that anymore, rifles - or should I say reasonably priced ones - are not very available so it doesn't get a lot of use nowadays. I would love to put one in my safe. Good luck on your search, I think you may have to hit a manual or two.

yep, for elk and antelope, have to wait for deer........don't worry, I'll post when they come out....

don't worry boys, I'll tell you when the draw hits......you can trust me.......

Have you thought about swapping it for a lighter draw bow? I have a friend that broke his arm when his motorcycle bucked him off and jumped on top of him, he has to shoot a 50 - 60 lb draw bow backed off to about 53 because his arm doesn't work right anymore. You may try taking it to a shop and trading for something you can shoot, shouldn't be too hard since that is a good bow.

You can also hike in the 2.5 gal containers you get at the supermarket for around $3. Once you know where you are going to go hump in 2 of them and stash em in the bushes, come back a week later with all your loot and hunting camp is established.

I read somewhere that the HD is great for digiscoping but for avg glassers we wouldn't see much of a difference. Have no idea if that is the case, haven't spent any time behind an HD scope.

got nothing nice to say about how the Endangered Species act has been bastardized to support a viewpoint that end goal is to eliminate hunting by the average citizen because they don't like it, "science be damned we'll just shop around until we find a Judge that sees things the way we do".......

Your son has a great unit, won't be hard to find elk. Both of my girls took several out of that unit over the years.

Nope Ernesto, he's mine. At 400 yds I hold at the top of the back, been doing it for years, I probably have a longer zero, haven't done the math in years.

I'm shooting my .270win with 130 gr round, I'm lining up about the top of the lungs with the vertical hair just on the inside of the right foreleg and squeezing. I sight my rifles in about 2.5 inches high at 100 yds, gives me about a 250 yd zero depending on the ammo, with a good sized kill zone like he presented he won't go far from that spot.

I was thinking that was pretty steep country........

don't ya hate it when those little surprises happen Lark......

You can also pick up a peep aligner, acts as a nocking point, they work pretty good, I believe TRU makes them. Their Spyder string silencers work too, if you have a chrono and a little time you can add fps to your bow if you find the sweet spot.

When I walked up on a mama and her cub many years back I had to jump in the creek and swim across the hole or she was going to kick my butt. She stood on the bank and talked about my ancestors while she hopped and stomped about. Glad yours was a much more relaxed encounter.

Great pics Amanda, did your friend have to change anything?

yep, I have been trying to hook up with them for a couple of seasons but dates haven't panned out. They do great stuff for the kids and that's what it is all about.

His story is true, I was about a mile away to the S/SE on Father's Day, went in by Spring Valley Work Center. A couple of times on the way out I saw elk feeding in green patches while stumps smoldered and burned around them, one night was 3 cows, the next was 2 decent bulls - I was surprised about what I saw sticking out of their heads already.

I suggest you take a trip to the Outdoorsman and look through a couple different brands. They will let you take them outside, set up tripods and look up the mtn to the NW at the hikers. And don't discount Vortex, I have some 15x50's Vipers that are my backups/loaners that are good glass, they just didn't cost over 2k. As far as tripods, for years I used a lightweight aluminum set that is still kicking, they are what the Vipers go on. Glassing is a skill and you don't have to have the most expensive stuff on the market to be good at it, just time behind optics. One of the best guides I know uses average glass, he is just good at what he does. And I know people with top of the line gear that couldn't find game if it was painted bright orange and tied to a tree in the open. No matter what brand you choose I have one suggestion - get into the grades that have lifetime warranties, stuff happens in the field and someday you will appreciate the warranty.

water makes seeps...... Depends on the geology of the area, for most seeps they were probably running springs a thousand years ago and now where there is enough rain for the ground to hold water it will seep out of cracks, fissures or soft spots. I don't know that there is anyway to look at a map and figure them out, at least not the maps available to most of us. Generally they are going to be in draws, sometimes at the head and others down in the bottoms, the only way to find them that I know of is to cover country footback or horseback.

It is pretty tough. You can usually make out the difference from their tracks, but not always. A doe has slightly wider hips for birthing, so when their back foot steps on the track of the front foot it is slightly outside where a buck is centered or slightly inside because they tend to have a wider chest & narrower hips. On a really good buck you can sometimes see all 4 tracks as their body length is long enough they don't step on the front track with the back foot. But just looking at legs in a pic - go fish....

I prefer to shoot them from the truck, the mirror makes a nice rest for my rifle and they are usually close to the road........

The burned areas will be great hunting when they get some moisture. We had a spot in Wy we called the Burn, my Dad drove a water tender on the fire when he was 14. Over the years we could always count on finding elk there even 20 years after the fire. Also, some of the first plants to grow back in burns are berry bushes, when my girls were young I took them to a Dude Fire burn and we pigged out on raspberries till their fingers were purple. In the short term burns are heartbreaking, but the Earth has a long term view on things. I was on the Eagle Rock fire watching the mushroom cloud form, the Paramedic was on the hill that day (his turn to walk with the shots) and has some time lapse photo's that I will share if/when he sends them to me. He and the Safety Officer reported a 'small puff of smoke to the east' about noon, then said it was getting bigger, by 1400 it was blowing hard and the cavalry was being organized, they stripped our division of all but 2 engines, 2 Type 2 crews and 2 shot crews to send over. The next day we were down to 1 shot crew and one Type 2 and the 2 Engines. I have read negative comments about the response to the fire in other places, takes a while to organize personnel and create a strategy, first priority is to protect life, then structures then the woods. When I got home yesterday the TV was full of Micheal Jackson crap, didn't hear a thing the day before about the anniversary of 9 people that got burned to death on the Dude Fire many years back tho.