Flatlander

I was trying to send a text and accidentally posted it in your thread 🤣 Unless everyone wants to weigh-in on our department workload. Heaven knows I could use all the help I can get.

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Holy heck man

You still have over 3 weeks to hunt. Keep at it. Don’t hesitate to take a break. Six days hitting it hard in such a low density area is a real grind. Go find yourself another $5 box of donut holes 😄 Keep us posted.

Pics or it didn’t happen.

We should talk. I’d love to get in on something like that.

So sexy. Too bad you don’t hunt coues no more.

I really don’t like posting in these garbage go-nowhere threads. I hate responding to anything ThomC word vomits even more. But dude grow up. Find something to contribute to the conversation or just go away already. Didn’t your mom tell you it was rude to interrupt while the adults were talking? Nothing on this thread is going to have any impact on the rule-making decision. I proposed that the commission require the Dept to form a committee of stakeholders (hunters, Dept, whoever is complaining about cameras, wildlife organizations etc) to study what the problem is. I still don’t know why this rule making recommendation is even being proposed. And then that group should provide recommendations of both rule-making and non-rule making solutions.

This one was trashed from many many days in a saddle. Unfortunately it had to be done. The sealer was coming off and when I used it on a wet day once you could see the moisture working its way under the sealer and saturating the wood. My hope is that he appreciated that I cared enough to spend the time working on it. If he was mad he never said so, but being a lifelong farm hand, he was far more interested in utility than sentiment. I would bet he was alright with it. Interesting side note, he bought this rifle to hunt elk after having less than optimal performance with a .300 savage on a horseback hunt in the Selway (what a dream, right?). He never shot another elk and so never got to see the performance of the .270 on that quarry. When I was 14 I shot my first big game animal, a cow elk, with this rifle. He was thrilled that it finally got to serve its designated purpose and I was happy to report a one-shot kill. I shot one more elk with that rifle, a calf on a limited opp hunt, before I upgraded to a more modern rifle. I might need to pull her out of the back of the safe and get her properly set for hunting again.

Tempting

I refinished the stock on my Grandpa’s 721 when I was in High School. Here is a pic from when it was in progress.

Thank God Nick!!! Thanks for posting this. You made my day brother, so happy for all of you.

I have a 721 in .270 that my Grandfather bought after getting home from WWII. I cherish that rifle but haven't ever considered it a collectible because they were budget rifles for the era. Maybe I should get it out and dust it off.

Awesome sheep! Congrats.

Same

Cool buck. Congrats!

I thought that was a thing on some of those corridor units. I thought there was even something in the regs about dudes camps getting robbed while they were hunting. Maybe that’s just a way to keep chicken white boys like me from applying. Good luck all around. I really enjoy hearing about these hunts.

I thought those things rutted in July? Good luck man. Camp looks like it could be rough, hope you don’t get robbed.

Are you finally replacing that Nikon Rifle Hunter 550 you sold me? I wasn’t aware of the battery issue. Was it specific models?

Yeah, I’d settle for that buck too! Congrats to both of you. You always get the job done. I bet those moments are even more significant with your oldest out now. Soak it up.

What is the problem we are trying to solve?

Anyone headed out to help? I can loan a spotter for the duration.

Nice work. Not an easy place to go 2 for 2 or back to back.

Thanks man. I cleared out my PM’s by the way.