At 72, I'm am a huge believer in Wilderness Athlete products. Altitude Advantage, start taking it a few days before you arrive at camp. Hydrate and Recover, my friends and I call it Hydrate and Pee Double. I also take Midnight Build to help with muscle recovery after a strenuous day of hunting...
I have two Kifaru Spike Camp packs up for sale. These are great internal frame day packs that can be used to pack out game. I have packed out mule deer, caribou and elk on these packs. When the Spike Camp first came out, Patrick Smith, the founder of Kifaru, advertised them with a picture...
I would not use the SST. They will kill an elk too dead. Nothing worse than a deader than dead elk. I'll stick to Bergers in my 7MM. Bergers kill an elk just the right amount of dead.
Federal Vital-Shok 180 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip 5 full boxes
Federal Vital-Shok 210 gr Nosler Partition 17 rounds
Hornady Superformance 200 gr SST 9 rounds
$250 shipped
+ one on the fixed blades. I use Slick Trick Magnums. They fly just like a field point out of a tuned bow. I'm not a believer in heavy arrows. My arrows weigh just 370 gr and fly right through elk up to 50 yards that I know of for sure, and probably farther. The last elk I arrowed, it went...
Hoyt RX1 Turbo. I keep looking at newer bows, but this thing weighs just 3.9 lbs bare. The 32 1/4 ATA is a happy medium between the too short 30's and the too heavy 34's.
It's variable. Calculated based upon the ratio of resident applicants vs non-resident applicants in each hunt on a moving average over a 3 year period. In other words, we can never know. In 2022, the early mule deer hunt in 114 was 60/6, 121 was 40/2 and 131 was 45/1...
Steel doesn't perform nearly as well as lead in my experience on ducks and geese. Longer range shots that would result in a dead bird with lead, would show feathers raked over most of the body with steel and a bird continuing to fly. But nothing is as deadly as HeviShot. That stuff flat knocks...
Last night, I was looking at the NM site to figure out where I wanted to apply for a hail Mary. This morning, I can't wait for the portal to be updated so I can see if I drew an early archery or late archery tag. There is still hope.