stevebeilgard

It has been one heck of a fast 10 years. It's been far too long for lots of us.

It seems we are all "too busy" for the forums. It was once great, but somehow (I'm guessing facebook) things have changed. Yet, our love of the industry remains strong.

The fire jumpers are in the worst category of safety. If things change on the jumpers, they is no backup to help them. Hooray and God bless to one & all of them.

Very nice!

Great job. Summer is about here.

Somehow, I'm translating "watching" him to "patterning" him....

At 74, it all applies. lol

Congrats, Lewis. 47 years as a guide/outfitter tells me you'll love it. At least I sure did. Good luck and good success. I'm not a bear hunter, but I do have friends who are bear outfitters. I helped him with 2 types of bait. One was shetland ponies and old horses. He'd lead them to the stand for a 1 way trip. The bears would take a week to eat them. The second thing he did was gather donuts daily from the local donut shop. The free, day old ones. He put them in a 55 gallon drum all year long. At hunting time he'd set the drums out. The bears cannot resist donuts, and the bait was free. Just a couple things to consider.

You are living the dream

America lost a hero.

That works for me, too.

Way to go. What a treat.

Wyoming has more antelope than people. They still offer up to 5 tags per person, with excellent results. Lots of open land hunting, lots of ranchers will let you hunt (ususally $$ involved) and camp anywhere.

A peppermint cream works well for us fishing in Alaska, but I don't know how well the mint smell will work in the woods. I think the deer may be keene to any unusual smell. Then again, mint is a natural thing so maybe animals will be fine with a mint in the air.