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School Me on Hunting In Grizz Country
I’ve spent some time backpacked into griz country solo. Never used a fence, but it’s been on my list to start considering. Don’t over think it or freak yourself out. Use common sense. Keep a clean camp. Nothing in your tent that would attract a bear. All smelly stuff goes in a dry sac in a...- brocksw
- Post #20
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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School Me on Hunting In Grizz Country
Scoped rifles can be almost useless at night when trying to get on a bear in my experience. I had a griz at 40-50 yards in some regrowth on a steep mountain, with 2 headlamps in his direction. I would’ve been lucky to get one shot off if he came out of the regrowth at a good clip. Even at 3x...- brocksw
- Post #17
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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The Rinella Effect
All spot burning on HT 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Delete that chit.- brocksw
- Post #117
- Forum: Fireside (A Place for Friends)
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New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it
I fail to see how your willingness to make poor financial decisions justifies the Eplus system.- brocksw
- Post #50
- Forum: NEW MEXICO
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New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it
FYI, every single landowner in that table drew a tag. So, whatever SCR draw odds are, every single acreage in that table drew a tag. 244 were 20 acres or under 548 were 50 acres or under 846 were 100 acres of under 87 landowners got over 20 tags. 20 landowners got over 50 tags one landowner...- brocksw
- Post #49
- Forum: NEW MEXICO
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New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it
Tell that to a New Mexico resident. I'd guess there was not a 99.98% discount for being a NM resident? I know there are some tags that go for that low, but my understanding is that is the bottom end, and it only goes up from there. If for some reason, $5,000 for a single elk tag is a...- brocksw
- Post #46
- Forum: NEW MEXICO
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New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it
40% of all NM elk tags are privatized, aka “transferable”. We can guess how many of those are affordable to everyday New Mexicans… IIRC, something like 70% of New Mexico Resident applicants get turned down in the resident draw for an elk tag every year. New Mexico’s system is very beneficial...- brocksw
- Post #43
- Forum: NEW MEXICO
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New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it
Just over 2,000 landowners vying for ~12,000+ elk tags available to them through outfitter set asides and the Eplus system. Are you saying the drawing odds for those SCR landowners is anything less than stellar?- brocksw
- Post #40
- Forum: NEW MEXICO
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New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it
Looks like more than "one or two" to me... https://assets.nationbuilder.com/backcountryhunters/pages/11295/attachments/original/1648069046/EPLUS-Landowner-List-PMZ.pdf?1648069046- brocksw
- Post #37
- Forum: NEW MEXICO
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New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it
This is the crux of these discussions in my view. Landowners want to complain about elk problems, but won't let public hunters on to help solve the problem. When the landowner wants to sell property, elk (and wildlife) are the first thing he advertises as a selling point to his property...- brocksw
- Post #35
- Forum: NEW MEXICO
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CWD Confirmed in California Deer Population
California has tested over 6000 animals since the early 2000s IIRC. Don't quote me on that. But to your question, I can't say for sure. Could have been infectious material transported to CA by other vectors. For example humans could've dumped a positive carcass from another state near this...- brocksw
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- Forum: CALIFORNIA
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CWD Confirmed in California Deer Population
With sheep there was 2 different kinds of scrapie, "classical" and "atypical". The atypical is a sporadic or spontaneous form of this disease. Meaning there is no infection source (that we know of) so to speak, it just sporadically appears in the sheep population. Atypical scrapie also...- brocksw
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- Forum: CALIFORNIA
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CWD Confirmed in California Deer Population
It would not surprise me to learn that there were some random sporadic cases that pop up in cervid species here and there. But keep in mind that there has not been a single sporadic case found in deer or elk to date. These cases in California are the first found in over 20 years of testing.- brocksw
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- Forum: CALIFORNIA
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Oklahoma HB 3462 is now law
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North Dakota BHA podcast with Randy Newberg
Almost forgot, Thanks a bunch for coming on @Big Fin.- brocksw
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- Forum: Hunt Talk Radio Podcast
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North Dakota BHA podcast with Randy Newberg
Wasn’t sure where to share this, but figured here is as good a place as any. Spotify: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/north-dakota-bha-podcast/id1738868251?i=1000653332552- brocksw
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- Forum: Hunt Talk Radio Podcast
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Oklahoma HB 3462 is now law
Bill language: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24%20ENR/hB/HB3462%20ENR.PDF?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR09crJk4EZkzitWXc3yzmnJhZ_dCEtnY4uP981e4dcH_NkKgBly6UBprKM_aem_AXFeSEMJrddYd5SMyL-ZpJFLNbYWz4kC5E6hHJPhHCrX-Y1d4Eu1mpEe-xjGMvuqGLvCMLWps8T5iFHjf5mJp35x... -
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Safari Club International supports WEST Act to withdraw Public land rule
Based on the contacts I've made, SCI hasn't even engaged with the BLM on that issue. It's almost as if they are just following the bill sponsor's lead for political expediency or for other political motivations. I can't find any validity to Congressmen Curtis's sentiment that this rule will...- brocksw
- Post #8
- Forum: Public Land Issues
