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    Where are we buying land?

    The list never ends. The first piece of property I bought was a ranch in west Texas, I closed on the sale of that ranch 2 days ago. For the past few years I have been buying ranches along or near the Rio Grande in Northern Mexico. Recently @Tony Caggiano has been trying to get me to buy a ranch...
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    Travel horror stories. The ones that make for great bar talk later.

    About 10 years ago I went with group of friends to Nepal for a semi exploratory tahr and blue sheep hunt. A retired outfitter arranged a large team of 10 local guides who only spoke Nepali and had never guided hunters before. We had been made aware of this while planning the trip and had no...
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    Interchangeable blade (scalpel) knives. Love em' or hate em'?

    I stay away from the scalpel blades for no reason other than the growing number of used blades I find on elk hunts every year.
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    Thoughts on image stabilization in spotting scopes?

    I have used lots of stabilized optics from the gigantic $8,000 Zeiss's for truck based desert hunts to Fuji's for offshore fishing, including the Sig spotter (which suck as much as Sig's customer service). Image stabilized optics have always had a substantial give and take. They all compromise...
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