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Offline Karl Blanchard

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #255 on: December 17, 2015, 08:17:16 AM »
So preliminary outline for 2016 is looking something like this:

Utah archery mule deer in the Wasatch range when I can fit it in
Disabled Veterans deer hunt in Oregon Oct 1-5
Idaho deer the 3rd or 4th week of October (2 tags)
Colorado 3rd season deer
Washington stuff to fill the gaps

Obviously these are all subject to a few draws that may pop up.  RT may screw up all my plans with his possible idaho veterans tag.  I'd give back most tags in order to tag along on a unit 40 tag though :IBCOOL:
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #256 on: December 17, 2015, 09:02:19 AM »
Price wise that don't seem to bad. I've always been scared to figure out what it costs me.

Looks like you need to add a couple elk trips to your 2016 schedule.

Washington stuff to fill the gaps is how I roll too.


Only 9ish more months :drool:

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #257 on: December 17, 2015, 09:04:23 AM »
Washington stuff to fill the gaps  :chuckle:

You need to start a thread, "GearFest 2016" to help you ramp up to "DeerFest 2016"
Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with too many facts.

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #258 on: December 17, 2015, 09:26:32 AM »
Washington stuff to fill the gaps  :chuckle:

You need to start a thread, "GearFest 2016" to help you ramp up to "DeerFest 2016"
  I'm actually looking at a pretty smooth year gear wise coming up.  Maybe a Kifaru super tarp but that will be it.  I'm going with more tags vs. gear upgrades this year.
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #259 on: December 17, 2015, 09:29:07 AM »
Price wise that don't seem to bad. I've always been scared to figure out what it costs me.

Looks like you need to add a couple elk trips to your 2016 schedule.

Washington stuff to fill the gaps is how I roll too.


Only 9ish more months :drool:
It's probably more than that honestly.  I try not to keep track.  I have a dedicated bank account and debit card for all my hunting expenses.  If it runs out, I stop :chuckle:

Dude I want to do more elk hunts so bad but I'm a full fledged mule deer junkie so I can't bring myself to axe a deer hunt to go shoot elk.
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #260 on: December 17, 2015, 09:55:05 AM »
Washington stuff to fill the gaps  :chuckle:

You need to start a thread, "GearFest 2016" to help you ramp up to "DeerFest 2016"
  I'm actually looking at a pretty smooth year gear wise coming up.  Maybe a Kifaru super tarp but that will be it.  I'm going with more tags vs. gear upgrades this year.

I always think that and end up finding more stuff    "I need".  There's been so many deals lately, it's hard to not buy gear.

Weren't you looking at getting a new scope too?

I find it hard to give  up a September Elk hunt for an archery deer hunt. One of these years I'm going to do a high country archery muley hunt.

For the most part I elk hunt september and focus on deer in later Oct/Nov.

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #261 on: December 17, 2015, 10:43:33 AM »
Washington stuff to fill the gaps  :chuckle:

You need to start a thread, "GearFest 2016" to help you ramp up to "DeerFest 2016"
  I'm actually looking at a pretty smooth year gear wise coming up.  Maybe a Kifaru super tarp but that will be it.  I'm going with more tags vs. gear upgrades this year.

I always think that and end up finding more stuff    "I need".  There's been so many deals lately, it's hard to not buy gear.

Weren't you looking at getting a new scope too?

I find it hard to give  up a September Elk hunt for an archery deer hunt. One of these years I'm going to do a high country archery muley hunt.

For the most part I elk hunt september and focus on deer in later Oct/Nov.
:chuckle:  I always say that too but as I was putting stuff away this week :'( I was taking inventory and I'm at that point where I need to purge some gear actually.  I need a few odds and ends small stuff but that's it.  And ya, a new dang scope too :bash:
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #262 on: December 17, 2015, 11:01:51 AM »
Washington stuff to fill the gaps  :chuckle:

You need to start a thread, "GearFest 2016" to help you ramp up to "DeerFest 2016"
  I'm actually looking at a pretty smooth year gear wise coming up.  Maybe a Kifaru super tarp but that will be it.  I'm going with more tags vs. gear upgrades this year.

I always think that and end up finding more stuff    "I need".  There's been so many deals lately, it's hard to not buy gear.

Weren't you looking at getting a new scope too?

I find it hard to give  up a September Elk hunt for an archery deer hunt. One of these years I'm going to do a high country archery muley hunt.

For the most part I elk hunt september and focus on deer in later Oct/Nov.
:chuckle:  I always say that too but as I was putting stuff away this week :'( I was taking inventory and I'm at that point where I need to purge some gear actually.  I need a few odds and ends small stuff but that's it.  And ya, a new dang scope too :bash:
Purge that $h!t my way :chuckle:

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #263 on: December 17, 2015, 11:38:34 AM »
Your wife is really gonna start to not like me :chuckle:
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #264 on: December 17, 2015, 11:53:07 AM »
I'm not sure what my wife hates more.  Me buying new gear or selling it for pennies on the dollar  :chuckle:
Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with too many facts.

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #265 on: December 17, 2015, 11:57:20 AM »
I'm not sure what my wife hates more.  Me buying new gear or selling it for pennies on the dollar  :chuckle:
I traded a spotting scope for a years worth of eggs once.  That went over quite well :chuckle:  of course now I hold my nose at everything but farm fresh eggs :chuckle:
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #266 on: December 17, 2015, 11:58:38 AM »
Wow, thanks for the idea.  I need a spotting scope and I sell fresh eggs.  "lightbulb"

 :whoo:
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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #267 on: December 17, 2015, 09:06:47 PM »
I'm not sure what my wife hates more.  Me buying new gear or selling it for pennies on the dollar  :chuckle:
I traded a spotting scope for a years worth of eggs once.  That went over quite well :chuckle:  of course now I hold my nose at everything but farm fresh eggs :chuckle:

That's to funny my wife was trying to get me to trade some reloading stuff to the neighbor for chicken eggs.. I told her she was crazy.. 

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Re: DeerFest 2015!!! year in review
« Reply #268 on: December 18, 2015, 06:27:05 PM »
Wow!  Thanks for taking the time to write it all up!  that was Awesome....now I feel completely inadequate as a hunter, I need more time away from work though I can see that!

Congrats!!!
Mike

 


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