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I have personally found that in this day and age, real connection comes from being disconnected. Our lives have become so entangled in the web of constant headlines, media, music, internet, shopping, and other stimulating things that we many times forget to focus on the things that matter truly...

I just turned on the Voluntary Public Access map layer on my OnXHunt app and the amount of VPA land is very surprising. These are private lands that the landowner has opened up to the public for hunting use. I have never stepped on private land ever during a hunting trip and am taken back by the...

I finally got to take my first shots of this hunting season today at some doves. I stood on the edge of a tree line as a bunch of doves kept swarming over it. Unfortunately I missed all my shots. It was with a .410 bolt action with a fixed choke of full constriction. I plan on taking the 12...

This is a way of life. And it will take me years to become good enough to consistently harvest game with thousands of hours spent in the field. I am sure the experienced members on this forum have spent many days and nights in the field accumulating a lifetime worth of experience. It shows the...

Agreed. 👍🏻

I certainly am young and foolish at this stage however am trying to obtain as much experience as I can through actual time in the field. I started off watching content online and arguing like many others, about minute ballistic details of the many different rifle cartridges that are out there...

A lot to unpack here. Thanks for all the commentary. Firstly the reason I was trying to navigate this forest in the first place was to (this may sound stupid) find porcupines and snowshoe hares. My mentality was that I needed to go "deep" and "off trail, where the animals really are" in order...

Does anyone here have tips on how to quietly move through thick forests such as the one in the image covered with branches, stems, and foliage without making excessive noise? I find it extremely challenging trying to balance these three things: not making excessive noise, not making any rapid...

What time of the day was this?

Alfalfa fields are few and far between. Den sights are abundant and I could setup a trail cam with a salt block.

Looked at some pictures online and that is porcupine scat. This is perfect. Now I know exactly what to look for.

Are the pellets on the ground around the hole pieces of porcupine poop?

Sounds good! The dens are easy to spot like you said. I have crossed numerous buried or hollow logs with entrances to them. Some of those definitely have to be porcupine dens so I'll scan the vicinity of those either early morning/dawn or wait until dusk. Planning on using a pressure cooker to...

Thanks for the insight. I keep scanning the ground and edges of trails/dirt roads while I am out searching and plan to keep doing that. Never ruling out the possibility of finding one out in the open in the middle of the day. However, I have read that porcupines in the rocky mountains...

I've gone out a few times trying to harvest a porcupine as they are one of the handful of species legal to harvest this time of the year and I have read that they have good meat quality. Have not managed to find one yet. The area I go to is mature pine, birch, and maple forest with plenty of...

I see.

How do you even get within eyesight range of that thing let alone kill it? Dogs? Hunting at night in pitch dark conditions? Using thermal/night vision scopes?

Sounds like a great opportunity to use the legendary 375 H&H!!!

Understood. Depends on the outfitter and the property. From your message it sounds like their is plenty of opportunity to hunt truly wild animals on large properties. Definitely seems worth it if you can find the right scenario especially considering how difficult it is to draw big game tags...

As a more traditional hunting focused individual, I am very curious to learn as to how these private hunts on Texas ranches work (and Africa). I have only stalked deer on public land in Wisconsin. Does the outfitter/guide drive the clients up to the herd in an offroad vehicle and have them take...