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    Using a Dog Spray as a self defense

    I did door to door census work in Detroit when I was 18. There were a lot of stray or neglected pit mixes in my life for a few weeks. Dog spray barely works for dogs. It has a range of about 2 to 4 yards, and the size of the tube means it's hard to aim and you'll miss at first, using at least...
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    Beaver trapping 2021-22

    I haven't bothered putting up beavers for NAFA because fur prices are at an all-time low. At the last auction I went to there were a lot of nice pelts done up by a lot of guys who knew what they were doing, but the average beaver price was only about $11. I still put up pelts because beaver fur...
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    One drinking bottle for everything?

    I just drink hot drinks out of the same 900ml titanium mug I boil water in. That saves an additional item and a cleaning step.
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    Beaver trapping 2021-22

    Are you allowed to use cable restraints? I honestly think they're the most humane way to live trap beaver. Beavers don't really have a neck, so they always end up wearing the cable over the shoulder or around the waist like a seatbelt. A beaver in a cable restraint usually just swims in lazy...
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    One item you wish you carried sooner?

    Surgically enhanced eyeballs
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    First Rifle for Western Hunting- what would you do?

    When I moved to Montana at 19 I bought a stainless Tikka t3 in 30-06 and put a Leupold vx1 3-9 on it. I obviously could have done a lot worse, but if I was starting over I'd do a few things differently. I'd get a smaller caliber. The most important aspect of learning to shoot beyond tree...
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    Where did it start for you?

    No one in my family hunts so I didn't get started until a friend took me squirrel hunting as a teen. I was in a cervical collar because I had gone through a windshield a few weeks before. It is really hard to squirrel hunt without being able to look up or move your neck. I found a squirrel...
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    Stuck with a stap-on bino adapter?

    Hello Rokslide, I've been using Diamondbacks with an outdoorsman stud in a tripod for years. I recently inherited a pair of Zeiss Victorys after my grandfather passed away. The glass on these obviously blows my Diamondbacks out of the water, and they have pretty serious sentimental value to...
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    Hippy scum Rainbow Family coming to CO

    The gathering was held in the Beaverhead along the Idaho/MT border in 2013. I remember finding a group of about a dozen hippies laying down in various states of undress all tangled up together, right in the middle of the thickest patch of riparian poison ivy I had ever seen. I tried to let...
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    If you had $600 what muzzleloader would you get?

    If you're not in a hurry, $600 would get you an excellent used setup with money left over. For whatever reason, muzzleloaders don't hold their value anything like modern firearms. They're also much less of a precision instrument than a rifle, so you even if you don't know too much about...
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    Best AR upper for $600 and under

    I've been happy with an Aero Precision upper that's right in your price range. The 1:7 M4E1mlok upper was $419. Aero obnoxiously sells uppers as "complete", without a charging handle or a BCG. It was an additional $130 for the nitride BCG and $60 for an Ambi charging handle. You could save...
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    Redneck truck bed trailer

    The money you could get for the truck could buy you a military surplus trailer. They are nice for towing off-road because they are purpose-built for it. The 1.2k you could get for your truck will buy an M101a2 trailer, on the bigger and fancier end.
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    Hudson, OH Mayor States: Ice Fishing leads to Prostitution - Yes He Did!

    Damn, so I really ought to elaborate when I tell people my favorite type of ice fishing is darkhouse spearing.
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    Acupuncture, Anyone try it

    I had dry needling done on my shoulder for a torn rhomboid, rotator cuff, and bicep tendon. I always felt significantly worse for the next few days. My shoulder did get better, but it's hard to say what role dry needling played in that because I was doing a lot of other physical therapy stuff...
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    Inov-8 Roclite G 345 GTX Boot Review

    I own the 345s, haven't tried the 400s. For what it's worth I have really messed up feet and ankles. No arches to speak of, lots of old PTT and Achilles tendon injuries, and missing spring ligament in my left foot. I generally need a more supportive shoe than most because my stuff is so messed...
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    Barnes VOR-TX Good or bad?

    Both 150 and 180 grain factory vort-tx ttsx group right about 1 moa coming out of my tikka superlite with a 1:11 twist. That's more than good enough for me, and you could probably squeeze more accuracy out of the factory ammo with a heavier gun or better shooter sending it. The terminal...
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    Ar-15 load for wolves?

    +1 on the 62 grain ttsx. I only have a handful of yotes for a sample size but it's a much more fur-friendly bullet than the tmk.
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    The dumbest sh!t hunters say...

    I know a lot of granola types taking up hunting use the word "harvest". It always made me imagine accidentally mowing fawns in a hay field, or shooting an obese whitetail at a predetermined time under a corn feeder on Bubba's Big Buck Tejas Drive-Thru roadside attraction. I just say "shot"...
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    Idaho Lighted Nock and Expandable Broadheads.

    I'm a little apprehensive that these two archery gimmicks are a trojan horse setting a precedent for ballot box or special interest biology to ignore agency science on future issues. If I'm wrong and there isn't some sinister plan behind this, I'm still annoyed that legislators are spending...
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    The Most Unnecessary Sh*t

    I hiked one of those Intex get-drunk-and-float-the-river rafts 12 miles into an alpine lake at 9.5k feet. I had been dying to try to fish the middle of that lake with a sinking line for a year. I got it inflated, then my fiance picked it up and stumbled into the only sharp piece of deadfall in...

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