Good luck and safe travels!! Can't wait!

This thread was not created for the sake of complaints, although I have my opinions on the way the deer herd is managed here. Just thought that decrease in harvest was a substantial and interesting number, and worthy of a discussion.

I didn’t have time to process a deer I recently shot and my usual processor jumped his price to $185 for their basic cut. Insane, and I’ll be cutting up my own deer from now on.

Lots of good points have already been stated, and I think there’s a significant cost barrier surrounding hunting right now - licenses, weapons, equipment, private access, processing costs, and so on. Not sure if there’s a solution to that and I agree the trophy mindset is a detriment to future recruitment efforts.

University of Wyoming, Dairy cattle management major. Went 3 1/2 years then quit as my family had sold the dairy and I would have had no cows to manage. Best thing : it was where I was introduced to snaring, that introduction really threw gasoline on the trapping fire within me.

Again, directly correlated to the influence of social media and the like. A person doesn't need the latest greatest despite what you see and hear in the magazines, tv shows and on facebook and instagram.

Your hand me down 30-30 or base model bolt gun, camos bought at walmart and a $2 orange hat kills deer as dead as a carbon fiber gun and sitka gear.

At 14 yrs old, I was out of my mind to whack a 4 pt on state land with my dads 30-30 and a blaze orange suit I got for my birthday from the discount store while sitting on a lawn chair in a blind I built from limbs and brush with a handwarmer with a burning charcoal stick in it. That was before I learned a 30-30 wasn't tough enough for deer and I needed an Ozonics system to de-scent my clothes.

Doug Collins is one of the good ones. I wish he was running for Governor.

This after the jury only had to deliberate 2 hours to find him guilty based on all the evidence against him.

Very cool workmanship

" “While there was a significant amount of investigation and work put into the case against Mr. Yusif, there was not enough from which to infer Mr. Yusuf’s guilt,” West asserted, finding that withdrawals signed by him were just “purported to be.”

“While the Court is troubled by the manner in which fraud was able to be perpetuated at Promise, the State’s evidence did not exclude other reasonable, rational inferences that are inconsistent with Mr. Yusuf’s guilt,” West wrote.

West reasoned that, while Yusuf owned the organization, it was his brother, Mohamed Yusuf, who was being fraudulent. “[T]he State overinflates the actual fraud in their investigation and presentation, failed to provide actual circumstantial evidence tying Mr. Yusuf to his brother’s activities, and the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction for the six counts of Aiding and Abetting Theft By Swindle.”

West noted that while the court was “concerned that he may have been more involved than the evidence presented makes it appear,” ultimately she found that she had no other option than to grant defense’s motion due to “the reasonable inference inconsistent with guilt that comes from the case presented.”

The Attorney General’s Office is appealing."

Source: Minnesota Lawyer

Looks like the brother may still be going down?

Looking into purchasing one for taxidermy, thinning whitetail capes. Dont know how well they work on green hides. Not many manufactures of them anymore. Was looking at Dakota because deal allot with MCKenzie.

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Years ago I bought a 12 ga Mossburg bolt action with a riffled barrel. I just finally put a scope on it, need to get it sighted in. Bet that’s going to be a fun one.
We do have a shotgun only elk hunt here, I would like to draw it in the next few years.
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Have a good one. I just hope your wife doesn't buy you a goat or a chicken or.... you get the idea.

Just sit on the couch and do nothing, (probably impossible for you I know)./

Pete