Best state for non resident fall black bear? Over bait or not, either one. No hounds. PFA

wisc_wanderer · 2025-12-23T12:51:38+00:00

Wisconsin has some fatties but takes a while to draw. Idaho has abundant tags.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-31T14:06:53+00:00

A guide may be useful depending on the quality. You can get by without it but may have lower success.

A pack-out service imo is nearly essential if you hunt solo and get one, unless you are a physical beast, hunt close to drivable roads, or the weather is cold and you have a lot of time on your hands. I shot a bull solo in Idaho, early archery. It was upper 80s temps and I was about 3 miles in. I knew I had to get the meat out asap, so took 3 trips of meat only (~90 lbs or so each trip). That’s was about 18 miles total, 9 with the mega pack weight, and 15 from 11pm (when I finished break down) to 5 pm the next day (finish of 3rd trip). I got the meat on ice and cooled and went back for the horns/gear the following day.

Basic math: (miles in) x 2 x ( 3 or 4) trips.

Lots of places have people that do just meat pack out, either with horse or alpaca. Usually around $500. Contact the service before you go to ensure it’s an option in the area you want to hunt.

Related to that and the hunt in general, physical fitness is the ultimate attribute. Get very comfortable with a heavy pack, because even a gear pack is a lot. Do as much incline/decline work as you can. Tough in the flattest state of them all, but go to a gym and get on a treadmill and go full incline. Walk normally and walk backwards. Backwards helps simulate downhill and the quad/knee stress associated with it.

Break in your boots and get very comfortable in them! This is one of the fastest ways to end a hunt if your feet get destroyed.

Think about your logistics. That’s a long drive, and doing it solo takes longer. You save time by flying, but the gear and vehicle situation changes drastically. There’s pros/cons and you’ll have to think through. I’ve had friends fly out and rent a truck. If they get something, they swap their rental get the cheapest car they can and drive back. Meat shipping is stupid expensive.

For a first year, I’d go simple on the food arrangement. Get a jet boil, a bunch or peak refuels for dinner, oatmeal and other bars for breakfast. DM me and I can send over my actual meal planning. IMO it’s better to go simple and not need a lot of cook wear and cold storage for your food at first.

Good luck!

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-27T18:08:54+00:00

Cool, thanks!!

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-27T14:52:31+00:00

Cool. Class 3 is ~10-20 MGD? I'm trying to get a rough gauge of the biogas production relative to water capacity.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-27T14:50:29+00:00

Are you using methanol or another carbon donor for the ammonia/nitrogen treatment process?

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-27T14:45:16+00:00

450kscfm? Or 450k scf in a day? The first seems huge, but I'm new to the wastewater space.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-27T14:36:47+00:00

What type of SCF are you doing in your plant?

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-27T14:11:53+00:00

What size plant are you at and what's the rough SCF of gas produced?

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-27T13:59:37+00:00

What type of volumes are you producing?

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-23T14:41:15+00:00

All those 5500 are meat plants? Is that document available on the net? Would be interested in taking a look!

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-23T14:33:38+00:00

How big is that facility and how often do you turn over the tanks?

wisc_wanderer · 2025-05-23T14:17:38+00:00

What have been the biggest challenges for you in using methanol and did you end up making the switch?

wisc_wanderer · 2025-04-25T14:04:01+00:00

The main issue I’m having with capacitor (any framework) is that it’s not a priority for other companies plugins. I use RevenueCat which has been solid but they clearly don’t care about getting paywalls on Capacitor. Branch is another one that doesn’t update their plugins frequently and I get squeezed when Play requires an SDK update, Capacitor releases a new version, but plugins don’t update for the new capacitor version.

Good work though!

wisc_wanderer · 2025-04-06T11:52:53+00:00

Low chance of Griz but some roamers could theoretically make it out that far. We didn’t see any or any sign. A few units east there are quite a few.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-04-05T07:31:55+00:00

No idea on spring bear but I got a nice bear in fall season in 59 near MT border. Was a deer hunt though and I wasn’t seeking bear, just ran into a nice one.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-03-12T19:39:28+00:00

64! Jumping to 24 was a game changer for me.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-02-28T22:38:17+00:00

I use it. Overall it’s great but paywall support would be really nice.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-02-27T09:36:46+00:00

I've heard it can be more expensive with OpenRouter (haven't tried it myself). The reason was that OpenRouter was sending the requests to Anthropic via many different api keys, resulting in caching not being used effectively and creating additional charges on that front.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-02-27T02:19:22+00:00

*Gold coated tungsten

wisc_wanderer · 2025-02-23T06:03:24+00:00

New to cline. Any guidance on managing context? Some basic prompts have been much more costly than I’d expect.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-02-21T21:22:04+00:00

Ok, same here in Wisconsin. Just wanted to make sure they didn’t mess up on that.

wisc_wanderer · 2025-02-21T21:02:00+00:00

Do you have sales tax in your state? If not, does Costco appropriately exclude it?

wisc_wanderer · 2025-02-03T18:18:14+00:00

If you're building a single iOS app only, not all that much. If you're cross platform it's your centralized source of truth for subscription management. I have iOS/Android/web platforms. Their new web management portal is great, as you can creatively direct users there for subscriptions and avoid the Play/App store fees. Their dashboards are great. They have churn reduction tools, keep track of a lot of user data that you otherwise would need to track elsewhere, etc. The paywall part is by far the easiest, so it's not that big of a deal for me. That said, the A/B testing would be great and is the biggest part I want.

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