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It's the fact that there's a lot of people who like and use the Wiggy bags but some here cannot or won't accept that fact. Glad we have so many choices but it's to bad we can't discuss things without a pissing match interupting things. That's an amazing statement considering my whole disagreement with AC had absolutely NOTHING to do with the merits of a Wiggy bag. Methinks that alot of the problem is certain guys from AK cannot handle the fact that Wiggy bag(s) might not work for everyone, especially if it's one of us wussies down here in the lower 48 where the rain aint nowhere near as cold and wet as it is up there. Personally I could care less what work for someone or what they have in there pack...I don't have to sleep in it. I've got 3 synthetics, a NF, a Wiggys and a Kifaru. I like them all.
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Whatever Ken, enjoy your gear.
That's ok, I'll ass shoot a dink.
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There are guides who will not take the client UNTIL he is in a Wiggy bag, so they keep them on hand. A miserable client will turn a miserable tip when his guide doesn't give up the Wiggy bag to him. I've heard stories exactly like that. From who? Wigutow? Who in the name of Hades are these guides? And these hunters? What kind of lower-than-whale-crap so-called hunter would even ASK to use another man's sleeping bag? What else does he want? The wife and the dog and all the cold beer? What kind of outfitter would put up with that nonsense for the sake of a "tip"? Are you telling me that some Alaska "guide" is going to look my ID bag and say, "Hey, you're going to have to leave that piece of crap here because I don't want you getting wet and cold and whining for my Wiggy's bag and then I'd have to give it you because it's so awesome and because I don't want you to stiff me on my tip." Is Alaska that big of a goat rope or are you just the Energizer Bunny of Wiggy sales? On second thought, Taylor, forget I asked. I'll just go back to the NWT where the Canadian guides bake good bread, brew a heckuva pot of tea and they treat hunters like hunters.
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I'm staying at the kids table. I've been through years of this stuff. This rhetoric is what propelled me toward them, only to learn otherwise over time & expense-to those who feel I'm an a$$hole for standing my ground.
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There are guides who will not take the client UNTIL he is in a Wiggy bag, so they keep them on hand. A miserable client will turn a miserable tip when his guide doesn't give up the Wiggy bag to him. I've heard stories exactly like that.
On the other hand;
I've had clients march a guide into this store to buy the guide a Wiggy bag AFTER the hunt in which they both slept, well actually only the client slept, in the rain on a mountain for a couple days What a crock! I thought I had heard it all. This just keeps getting better. Marc Taylor ![[Linked Image]](http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u200/gunnerratlouski/pinocchiosmall.gif)
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Hampstead - If you think a guide requirement is anthing but hand-holding, to include the gear selection process, then you're delusional. And just look how many hunters would show up with their favorite Moonstone-Sunbeam-Lightweight-Just-Add-Water-and-CHILL down bag. To be assigned another hunter to point out your game and assist you in taking it, however, is required in some instances as we both know. Not much of a way around that.
Yep. "Must own a Wiggy bag," says the guide. I don't give a flying fart whether you believe it or not, however. And it's the same kind of guide that has to hold the hand of a U.S. resident in Canada regardless of whether it's whitetails or polar bears that he's hunting. At least we draw a line in Alaska as to where the hand-holding begins, not require it of every hunter.
Come on, Chawn... We can't even take you at your word anymore that you won't be back to this thread? It's like sitting at the kids table and reaching over to touch the heater every once in a while to remind yourself that it's hot...
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No, Dudlie-Dooright, you haveen't heard it all, but stick around for another twenty pages on the Wiggy Thread. Now IT'S the Energizer Bunny!
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Come on, Chawn... We can't even take you at your word anymore that you won't be back to this thread? It's like sitting at the kids table and reaching over to touch the heater every once in a while to remind yourself that it's hot...
Taylor I'm done posting anything about these guys, their gear, or their tactics (clearly, to everyone's pleasure). It's plenty good with me that they are the new favorite flavor around here; guess it runs in cyles. Learned a lot about character, though. I don't believe I betrayed that statement. My most previous post was not about you, your gear, or your tactics.
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I'm staying at the kids table. I've been through years of this stuff. This rhetoric is what propelled me toward them, only to learn otherwise over time & expense-to those who feel I'm an a$$hole for standing my ground. Don't see anything there that violated that statement.
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some of the group at the kids know the heater is HOT and still
insist upon touching it anyway.
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Is that map or JW you got there? ![[Linked Image]](http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff232/internet_stuff_just_4_me/energizerbunny.jpg) Marc's fictious Alaskan guides ![[Linked Image]](http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u200/gunnerratlouski/brokeback.jpg)
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 G'Night.
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Don't mind me, I'm just posting for posting sake. Since this thread keeps appearing to be Lazerus, I thought I would check it out. What a waste of my time. I just felt obligated to post in the 17 page thread. Have a good night everyone.
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Is that map or JW you got there? Marc's fictious Alaskan guides that's pretty good for a wanna be gfo map
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Probably make your mouth sore map
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That makes alot of sense you dweeb. Your just to clever you got
you some there. You probaly fly a rainbow on back of your vehicle
more than likely a stob knobber.
sincerely gfo
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You really should get a stomach pump installed map. uuuh sperm burper ![[Linked Image]](http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u200/gunnerratlouski/thz4kw4luf.gif)
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Then the bear comes in and destroys your camp...
Then the rain turns to sleet...
You could then maybe try to start a fire with your down bag to get some warmth.
What if two chipmunks and a white tail deer gang up on me and destroys my camp...  Then the rain turns to...Hold on it only sleets in AK. Come on guys we are talking about sleeping bags. Oh man. Hay what bag you goning to get Map? Cat's meow? Chawn.. Holly cow...... Wow....... In any case we are talking about sleeping bags. Wow 42 pages of God knows what.
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Yep, all that down chit on K2, Everest, et all. Poor, dumb bastards...
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