Slicin' and Dicin'
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Dustin07
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on the west side we have blacktail, east side of the state is whitetail and mulies, we've pretty much hunted all of them. My brother has taken I think 2 elk on mom and dads fields, but they're a bit harder to get at in that area without a predation tag (and blackpowder only). I was hoping to take a blacktail this year (archery) off our woods this year, its just going to come down to time/schedule! actually, on the west side everything is hard to get at unless you go way up north to snohomish area and have access to a lot of farm land, most of our public hunting land on the west side has such a thick underbrush its just miserable to hunt lol.
Dustin07
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I shouldn't complain though cause WA in general is such a mild state, we don't have to worry really about snakes, poisonous spiders, scorpions, etc. We do have rattlesnakes but you rarely see them, black widows and brown recluse, but not really an issue. worst thing I've encountered hunting in WA was ticks during turkey season but even that wasn't too bad, I had 2 on me and neither were drawing blood so I just flicked them off lol. I did open my tacklebox that afternoon after the turkey hunt though to go fishing and there was a black widow in it, so that was a pretty buggy day, ha.
Dustin07
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both actually- on the west side we have the Roosevelts pretty much wide spread from OR - Canada, west of the mountain range. On the east side in the highlands with the mulies we have the Rocky Mountain Elk. They're all big but when you come across a heard of Rocky Mtn's after growing up around Roosevelts they look kina squatty like someone cut off 6" of their legs lol.
here's a cougar/mountain lion I had on my front porch last fall:
gphagan1
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Great work on your OHP, and way to get back after 200 and getting it after the initial miss. You did that 200 in a joker set after you had already hit your 5/3/1 sets…. I guarantee you that you probably would have been able to get 205 if you weren’t already pre-exhausted. And those are some impressive push press numbers too.
Dustin07
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Thank you, Sir! With my strength numbers going up and my focus being pretty locked in, its really hard for me to not play with more oly stuff. Right now the occasional front squat and push press joker seems to be OK and appropriate (rather than a focus).Great work on your OHP, and way to get back after 200 and getting it after the initial miss. You did that 200 in a joker set after you had already hit your 5/3/1 sets…. I guarantee you that you probably would have been able to get 205 if you weren’t already pre-exhausted. And those are some impressive push press numbers too.
It is sorta weird that 225 is a heavy feeling with me sitting at my previous OHP highs, even though I have jerked 270 overhead when my OHP was probably 190-200 at BEST. I know that overloading and excessive jokers could be a detriment if I'm not careful, but I think getting those heavy weights on my body is helping a bit.
Definitely building a different kind of strength right now, and a totally different set of skills than when I was more oly focused...