Brian in Montana
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What worked:
Tikka T3x Lite .308 - That rifle kicked butt. Accurate and light weight with a smooth action and crisp, light trigger. I hauled it all over the Highlands and the Custer. It will be my companion on many hunts to come.
165 grain Hornady BTSP Interlocks. I shot 3 deer with these this season with the afore-mentioned .308, and many others in the past few years as well as 2 elk, they flat out kill the heck out of stuff. They carve a great wound channel through the animal and hold together. They are accurate. All my rifles love them, but the deer and elk do not. I will continue to rely on them in everything I shoot. Standard cup and core, not considered a "premium bullet" but I've seen enough good results in several cartridges to be a believer.
Garmin E-trex - Very simple, easy to use, and reliable. No downloaded topo maps or fancy-pantsy stuff. Just saves way points and points you in the direction you want to go. My E-trex lead me to the skelleton of an elk I killed 7 years ago in a wilderness jungle.
Keen hiking boots. Keens tend to get a bad rap from, but they are comfortable to hike 15 miles in. You'll want a good pair of gaiters in the snow, however.
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I didn't have any real Fails, but my Nikon Alcon range finder works well for archery distances, but you get out around 275 yards and have a hard time getting it to read.
Cabella's Alaska frame pack - It's bulky and noisy, but I've used it to pack hundreds of pounds of meat out of the mountains. It could withstand the blast of a surface-to-air missile and you can put more weight in it than could be carried by a mortal, but I don't want to hunt with it on my back. I consider it my "heavy lifter". I just throw it in the truck when I'm heading out in case I kill something, but it's not useful as a day pack.
REI 10X32 binoculars - They don't pick up great detail, but they do a lot of things I like. They're light weight and rugged. I've layed prone on a rocks and army crawled through snow with them on my chest; beat the crud out of them and they keep doing what they're made to do. They're clear in good light, but not great in low-light conditions. I keep thinking I need to get a larger pair of binos for low light and longer distances, but the REI's are great for the run and gun situations I tend to find myself in.
Tikka T3x Lite .308 - That rifle kicked butt. Accurate and light weight with a smooth action and crisp, light trigger. I hauled it all over the Highlands and the Custer. It will be my companion on many hunts to come.
165 grain Hornady BTSP Interlocks. I shot 3 deer with these this season with the afore-mentioned .308, and many others in the past few years as well as 2 elk, they flat out kill the heck out of stuff. They carve a great wound channel through the animal and hold together. They are accurate. All my rifles love them, but the deer and elk do not. I will continue to rely on them in everything I shoot. Standard cup and core, not considered a "premium bullet" but I've seen enough good results in several cartridges to be a believer.
Garmin E-trex - Very simple, easy to use, and reliable. No downloaded topo maps or fancy-pantsy stuff. Just saves way points and points you in the direction you want to go. My E-trex lead me to the skelleton of an elk I killed 7 years ago in a wilderness jungle.
Keen hiking boots. Keens tend to get a bad rap from, but they are comfortable to hike 15 miles in. You'll want a good pair of gaiters in the snow, however.
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I didn't have any real Fails, but my Nikon Alcon range finder works well for archery distances, but you get out around 275 yards and have a hard time getting it to read.
Cabella's Alaska frame pack - It's bulky and noisy, but I've used it to pack hundreds of pounds of meat out of the mountains. It could withstand the blast of a surface-to-air missile and you can put more weight in it than could be carried by a mortal, but I don't want to hunt with it on my back. I consider it my "heavy lifter". I just throw it in the truck when I'm heading out in case I kill something, but it's not useful as a day pack.
REI 10X32 binoculars - They don't pick up great detail, but they do a lot of things I like. They're light weight and rugged. I've layed prone on a rocks and army crawled through snow with them on my chest; beat the crud out of them and they keep doing what they're made to do. They're clear in good light, but not great in low-light conditions. I keep thinking I need to get a larger pair of binos for low light and longer distances, but the REI's are great for the run and gun situations I tend to find myself in.
