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.
Apply every year you want to hunt in NM because they have no point system. You have the same chance as anyone to draw a tag.
I know NV can be expensive, but their draw system gives you a chance to draw even with zero points and only gets better as you accumulate points. The odd thing about NV...
I wish I would have started when I was 26 instead of 50. Good on you. Apply in as many states as you can afford to start building points, AZ, NV, UT, CO & WY. You can apply in ID & NM every year since they don't have a point system. In 10 years, you will start drawing tags pretty much every...
I've had several Browning A-Bolts and X-Bolts that all drove tacks with factory ammo! Except one, an A-Bolt Medallion in .338 WM. Killed 2 elk and 2 oryx with it out to 300 yards, but couldn't punch paper under an inch. It was too pretty to using as a hunting rifle anyway.