I’m one of you, and I’m curious if anyone has out there has taken this next level and subscribed to both toprut and gohunt. How do the draw odds calculations compare? I’m only on toprut, and I swear there are some crazy weird numbers out there that I have a tough time believing, particularly...
In October, I made a memorable trip to Montana for my youngest’s first deer. Next on the 2023 priority list was getting my older two to NE Wyoming in late November. I promised their mom that we’d all be home by noon on Thanksgiving Day. I think she doubted we’d make it in time. Caleb (16) and...
It’s tough being the youngest of three boys. My ten-year-old, Luke, always has to follow his brothers into everything. And he’s keenly aware of how they “do it better.” Never mind that when they were his age and everything was new there were no big brother comparisons. You know the drill if...
and I’m not very good at it. And I like to hunt way more than I like to cook. But sometimes things work out.
Deer backstrap wrapped in bacon and marinated in a fajita seasoning… then cooked until medium rare, sliced and placed on a fresh tortilla with grilled peppers & onions. Topped with...
In adulthood I’ve faithfully ascribed to the notion that one should outsource all non-core competencies. When a guy is short on core competencies, though, this philosophy gets a tad expensive. So… after overpaying for a Euro on my way out Wyoming this past November, I vowed to expand my limited...
I managed to carve out time from my growing boys’ busy schedules and head back to Wyoming & Montana for some elk hunting. Yeah, they missed some school. I’m not apologizing. 😁
We hunted some new areas and some familiar ones and had a great time with 3 generations of Youngs in the field. It’s...
Some crazy pictures coming out of the Gardiner/Mammoth area. Big time flooding on the Yellowstone and tributaries. The Carbella Bridge washed out. Gardiner-Mammoth Road is closed (see photo).
Does anyone else notice that their Elk B bonus points in MT have increased by one even though the draw results still show “pending”???? Is that a backdoor suggestion that we didn’t draw? Or is this some more funny business out of MT this year? I’ve never noticed this before in my previous MT B...
So here's my situation: My cousin back East is a single mom who, despite some odds stacked against her, has raised three great kids. Her oldest is a sophomore in HS, and I plan to take him antelope hunting in Montana in 2022. The original plan was Wyoming, where I had built up a couple of points...
I know there's a lot of justified angst about Montana hunting right now. But I don't really want to get into the weeds of that with this thread. I'm weighing my options for Montana deer in 2022, and I'd like to poll the audience. The deal is that I have a friend traveling from out of state to...
I really shot the moon in the 2021 application game. I found out on April 20 that I drew a Colorado bighorn ram tag. On April 21 I discovered that I drew NM elk. Kind of a surreal week.
The CO ram tag devoured most of my time and all of my scouting dollars. I really didn’t have much of either...
I hesitate to do this. It seems like a perfect way for me to jinx a sheep hunt is to post about it before it happens. Plus, I’m no longer a CO resident, so my one-and-only scouting trip just concluded. It will not be an epic, rolling account of a month in the unit like @Greenhorn ’s trending...
I have a pair of Scarpa boots for sale, size 10. They have been used very, very little because they're just too narrow for my fat foot. For someone with feet more narrow than mine, these are nice boots. I forget the actual model name, but I think it might be the Scarpa Charmoz. If not the...