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  1. 686
    Cooked elk steaks from my last year’s bull over the open fire tonight which was nice. Also bought a bear tag today. We saw a decent black bear last year here and the neighbor said they saw a big one a few months ago. Bear bacon, bear grease, hams, a rug and a skull would be fun. In the frontier days, bears were market hunted for eating while deer were primarily market hunted for hides.
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    Made it to CO, saw lots of mulies and turkeys today, but no elk yet. Hopefully tomorrow. A little too warm, but very scenic.
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    Thanks! Southwest Colorado. Scouting and small game hunting Friday, elk hunting starts Saturday. The calf muscle I tore in March is still bothering me, so going to be taking it slow and easy.
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    Did my last bit of target practice Saturday while the OU game was starting. not great / not terrible results. (Swirling wind, i held too much windage, need to not overcompensate) I couldn’t let it screw up my hunting prep if Texas was screwing up in Dallas; figured I’d watch later on delay or dvr. Dad came down to the barn at halftime and said you’re going to want to come see this, so I wrapped up practice and enjoyed the game. Still enjoying it on third rewatching. Back to hunting: took time Sunday and Monday to get 95% packed. Leaving Thursday, can’t wait. Imitation elk quarter isn’t going; getting in a one more Ruck around the neighborhood tonight before I swap the cargo net off the frame for the bag.
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    I screwed up last season and guided an inexperienced hunter into shooting two does, the second of which happened to be a button buck. I just didn’t check closely enough. Honestly it was only at ~100 yards so I probably just took a glance through the binos before giving him the green light. My eyes just aren’t good enough to take much for granted anymore. Luckily he wasn’t bothered by it.
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    Decent interview: https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-and-canadian-foreign-minister-melanie-joly-at-a-joint-press-availability/ “It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs.” I’m wondering if we should be isolating Putin from Russia at this point in communications, i.e. something like “we will welcome the Russian people back into the international economy when they stop Mr. Putin’s wars, etc.; in the mean time we will work to make sure alternate energy supplies are available to our Allies and partners who wish to avoid doing business with Mr. Putin.” Start clearly illustrating the off ramp for the Russian people, since Putin isn’t interested in off ramps.
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    The Russians are terrible at BS and spin because they have no opposition party and can just say whatever. The obvious spin would have been “the unis were burned up in a warehouse fire started most likely by some Ukraine nazi loving Anglo-Saxon operatives. Please alert your local FSB branch if you have any info related to the recent rash of arson.”
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    Probably a low hanging tree branch. Dad just the same thing to our beautiful barn kept 25 year old Hew Holland. : (
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    Sako TRG precision rifle?
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    Burn baby Burn
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    @deadshank did you had to drive the whole way back yourself with your busted up partner riding shotgun? How far did he have to walk out with the broken bones? That must have been tough. Sorry to hear that it was a tough trip. That looks like some really rough country in those mountain pics. One of the things that makes a successful hunt so great is knowing just some of the infinite number of things that could have gone wrong.
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    SIAP. Russians must still get some real info somehow. This lady knows what is waiting in Ukraine. “You send our children there, and then they burn in tanks.”
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    How did they taste?
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    I think that’s basically most small rancher’s dream scenario. Pretty fun to see what turns up.
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    Yeah that first buck is basically the Texas Trophy Hunters logo. I feel like we just saw $50k worth of deer. Whatever you guys are doing Cajun, it’s working great. That’s an amazing low fence herd.
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    Awesome buck! If that’s low fence that is incredibly impressive.
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    Its seems like murdering political prisoners is something Putin sees as bad for his internal politics. He obviously has attempts made on political rivals outside of prison, but not inside (yet to my knowledge). Khodorkovsky and Navalny still being alive are the big data points here. The only thing I can attribute this to is it would be too much like the worst of the Soviet era for most Russian’s taste, and he doesn’t want to go there. http:// https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/02/russia-political-prisoners-day-of-commemoration-victims-political-repression/
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    If I’m him I’m just trying to live through the next year or two, get to the other side of the coming Russian internal crisis and then be in a place to try and lead the recovery. Pretty decent odds Putin isn’t in power (or even alive) in 24 months, but the defenestration directed by him is going to probably pick up speed as things devolve. Prison may not be a terrible place inside Russia for Navalny at the moment, if he isn’t murdered he could pull some from Nelson Mandela’s playbook on the backside of Putin’s shitstorm.
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    What brand bow you considering?
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    Any elk steaks consumed yet? What else did the processor work up for you? My go-to quick and easy elk steak recipe from the last year of enjoying them is: defrost steaks, (tenderize with a bladed tenderizer if the processor didn’t) put in 1gallon ziplock bag with ~1/3 cup Fischer Weiser Raspberry Chipotle sauce and ~1-tbs Worchestshire sauce, mix thoroughly and refrigerate ~30 min. Get a good fire going (or gas grill as hot as it will go~ 500+), and cook the steaks over direct heat for ~3 min per side(total only about 6 min, depending on thickness), check internal temp as needed, don’t overcook. The marinade will caramelize, hot fire gives you some crispy outside, comes out nice.
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    Good looking bucks! do you know the ages of the big ones?
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    It may be some of the remote fly-in areas, like in Unit 25 the regs say “meat taken prior to Oct 1 must remain on the bones of the front quarters, hind quarters, and ribs until removed from the field”. I just never understood why the state is requiring pilots to fly out ~200lbs? of bones instead of just deboning before transport. Maybe it’s for ease of hanging as you mention and they are worried about spoilage if it’s warm.
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    A cheap ~30 yr old smith and Wesson 22; fun to shoot and lightweight.
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    Packing out in waders sounds insanely swampy. Yeah in the research I’ve done about Moose hunting, calculating the meat pack out is basically priority 1 before going after a bull. Can they fully debone it in their area? Isn’t there an area where you can’t fully debone prior to transport?
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    Nice! I can’t believe he’s in a carhartt - looks like it would get soaked through and cold fast!

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