Sorry for your losses. Seems like those grief things crop up more during hunting season and holidays.
I thought I was done for in 2020 with cancer treatments and didn’t hunt then, but here I am! Not as good as I once was, and not even as good once as I ever was. 😎
Good luck hunting!
Life Member NRA, RMEF, American Legion, MAGA. Not necessarily in that order.
The thought of skipping even one hunting season is beyond my rather limited comprehension.
I've been way too close to death, precisely twice......one of my own making and another beyond my control.
Perhaps the third time will be the charm.
Definitely no second-place trophies.
You fight and win.......or you lose.
Don't get arrogant, though. You may win the battle, remember who wins the war.
Hunt elk to your last year. Side-by-side, if needed.
Apply for left-over, WY hunt-area 7 cow elk.
Originally Posted by WAM
Saddlesore,
Sorry for your losses. Seems like those grief things crop up more during hunting season and holidays.
I thought I was done for in 2020 with cancer treatments and didn’t hunt then, but here I am! Not as good as I once was, and not even as good once as I ever was. 😎
Good luck hunting!
"Those that think they know everything are annoying those of us that have Google." - Dr. D. Edward Wilkinson
Note to self: Never ask an old Fogey how he is doing today. Revised note to self: Keep it short when someone asks how I am doing.
I will be 80 in August. I am on Supplemental Oxygen, wear two knee braces, and have a heart monitor embedded in my chest.
In the last 47 years. I have missed one elk season. That was in 2022 when I had the stroke a month before ML season.Ten years before that in NM I missed darn few.
I plan on going this year.
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If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
Talked with a gentleman in zone 7 (December, 2021) that was 79 years old......after he just packed a cow elk out.
Told him he would live to 100, if he kept this stuff up. His son in law promptly piped up he hoped not, good for a laugh.
He moved from Jackson to Sheridan, when things got stupid. Interesting individual.
Originally Posted by saddlesore
I will be 80 in August. I am on Supplemental Oxygen, wear two knee braces, and have a heart monitor embedded in my chest.
In the last 47 years. I have missed one elk season. That was in 2022 when I had the stroke a month before ML season.Ten years before that in NM I missed darn few.
I plan on going this year.
"Those that think they know everything are annoying those of us that have Google." - Dr. D. Edward Wilkinson
Note to self: Never ask an old Fogey how he is doing today. Revised note to self: Keep it short when someone asks how I am doing.
For EM011O1R, pp830 of the Draw Recap: Im from here and for the 2nd time in my life, i wont be elk hunting. 1st time was for a OIF/OEF deployment, this time it's because the CPW places a higher value on non resident hunters than someone thats from here. No NR should draw with a 3rd choice over a resident that put in as a 1st or 2nd choice. Thats what happened for 46 NRs that applied as a third choice...There shouldn't have been ANY NR licenses issued that were 2nd or higher choice. It's sickening...
Of all of the residents that applied this year (includes 4th choice) 64% drew a licenses. Of all of the non residents that applied (includes 4th choice), 71% drew a license. The CPW "post draw successful box" states residents had a 40% success rate while non residents had a 55% success rate. These are percent rates. If you look at raw numbers, 1916 NR drew v 1395 for residents.
CPW needs to go away and we need to start over. Problem is, hunters don't have the political clout to effect change in Denver or with CPW and so we have effectively been cleaved into the pot of "you will take what we give you and you will like it".
AND furthermore!! 2nd and 3rd seasons are now 5 days in the "effected" NW units. How long until CPW keeps it that way (or adopts it for the whole state) and adds another 5 day season? Im shocked that they don't already force everyone to apply online for a license. I spend WAY more to apply for me and my family every year than i do for the licenses they issue to us.
I will be 80 in August. I am on Supplemental Oxygen, wear two knee braces, and have a heart monitor embedded in my chest.
In the last 47 years. I have missed one elk season. That was in 2022 when I had the stroke a month before ML season.Ten years before that in NM I missed darn few.
Shouldn't you be tugging on outcome-based scenarshooter, SKane?
Originally Posted by SKane
Salute! 💪
Yawn.
You bring nothing to this place unless there was a call-for-pricks-thread that most of us overlooked. But congratulations on learning to post a pict - it's been a big week for you.
It's not a pic.......it's an 'attachment' from the phone. So happy you looked. Could be more!!!! How is scenarshooter doing? Geritol working? TFF!
Originally Posted by SKane
Originally Posted by MIKEWERNER
Shouldn't you be tugging on outcome-based scenarshooter, SKane?
Originally Posted by SKane
Salute! 💪
Yawn.
You bring nothing to this place unless there was a call-for-pricks-thread that most of us overlooked. But congratulations on learning to post a pict - it's been a big week for you.
"Those that think they know everything are annoying those of us that have Google." - Dr. D. Edward Wilkinson
Note to self: Never ask an old Fogey how he is doing today. Revised note to self: Keep it short when someone asks how I am doing.