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    Vaccine?

    They don't work perfectly. They just work well enough to stop the spread of the disease when enough people get them. With the best vaccines reported so far, a vaccinated person is about 20 times less likely to catch Covid than an unvaccinated person, but at least some of them can still catch it...
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    Vaccine?

    Yes, murdered. Specifically, it's depraved indifference murder, although it's happening too often for anyone to get around to prosecuting all the offenders, and it's too hard to prove individual cases. The specific definition varies by state, but in general it's that "defendants commit an act...
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    Vaccine?

    Absolutely yes I'm taking the vaccine as soon as I can (pending its very likely approval by the FDA), but I'm in a low-risk group so I'll be near the back of the line. It's completely irresponsible for anybody to refuse to be vaccinated unless they have a very good medical excuse and their...
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    Army Corps says no to massive gold mine proposed near Bristol Bay in Alaska

    Alaska didn't have the power to change the federally recognized name of the mountain, but the state requested that it be changed in 1975 and many times since. They've been blocked by congresspeople from Ohio, who wanted Alaska's iconic mountain to continue to be named after a man from their...
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    What does everyone do for a living?

    No kidding! Even smaller world: I lived in Fairbanks for 10 years before moving down here.
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    2020 MT public land muley

    Wow, that's a beast! Nice job.
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    Idaho NR tags

    The online system worked smoothly for me. I logged in about 5 minutes before they started, got randomly assigned #2679 in line, waited 25 minutes (they estimated 28 at the start), and bought a deer tag. I never would have guessed the order in which units have sold out, but I could have waited at...
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    What does everyone do for a living?

    Fish ecologist specializing in the feeding behavior & population dynamics of trout and salmon in streams. I share some of my research on my personal website.
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    Alaska Airlines

    I lived in Alaska for 10 years (and now in the Seattle area), so I've flown with them a lot with my dog, my gun, my game meat, fragile/expensive work cargo, etc. They know what they're doing. I trust them way more than any other airline and will always go out of my way to fly with them when...
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    Coldest Temp you have camped/hunted in?

    Coldest tent camping with no stove was just below 0 on opening day in Idaho last year, I think. I'm pretty sure I've hunted colder than that but I never really kept track on car-based or day hunts.
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    First Mule Deer Hunt

    Good luck! I've been enjoying your AK hunt reports for years since I lived in Fairbanks. Looking forward to this one!
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    Photos & lessons learned from my second Idaho muley hunt (2020)

    I didn't take away as many lessons from this hunt as last year's, because it wasn't a long string of failures. But I try to take something away from success, too. Here's what I think I learned this time: I don't need to see a lot of deer to find bucks, because the bucks are more solitary and...
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    Photos & lessons learned from my second Idaho muley hunt (2020)

    Earlier this summer I posted about what I learned from last year's hunt, which was my third straight year trying to get a mule deer but instead defining "success" in terms of lessons learned rather than meat in the freezer or antlers on the wall. I talked through what I learned (or thought I...
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    2020 Best Buck Mule Deer Photo Contest, sponsored by Kryptek

    I got my first mule deer this year in Idaho, and a herd of 40 elk decided to watch the show (top right corner).
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    Idaho Unit 43 ... Seeking Logistics not Game info

    I hunted near but not quite in 43 last year. There was water fairly high up in the creeks, but not on the hilltops where I was. The temperature dropped below zero (Fahrenheit) on the night before the opener, but I guess that's unusual. I was wearing waterproof, uninsulated boots (Lowa Tibet GTX)...
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    Seek Outside 5400 Spectra Custom

    I imagine it comes down to personal fit for everyone, but I retired my Kifaru the first time I packed out a deer off a mountain with my Seek (Gila 3500). Then I went and ordered a bigger Seek with the same frame for bulkier loads. I haven't tried every brand out there (or even most of them), but...
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    Backcountry Etiquette

    "Leave no trace" is critical. That includes toilet paper in places you'd think nobody will look, because if somebody does find it, that's a unique damper on their wilderness experience. Bury it well. If I see somebody off in the distance, I'm instantly thinking about ways to stay away from them...
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    Spotter & Lunar Observation

    Most telescopes are made to gather much more light than a spotting scope. That's why they've got a wider tube and mirror or objective lens, except maybe for the very smallest, cheapest refracting scopes. You don't have to worry at all about looking at the moon through a spotter. It's totally...
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    Creepy experiences in the backcountry

    This one briefly startled me and got my wife a bit more concerned: we were camping in the New Zealand backcountry, where there aren't any dangerous predators, and we heard a loud bark like a dog, not far outside the tent, in the middle of the night. This wasn't the kind of place anyone would be...
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    States that force you to wear mask

    Bingo. The science is increasingly clear that masks offer substantial protection to the wearer and even more protection of others from the wearer if they're infected and don't know it yet. Refusing to wear a mask around other people in enclosed public spaces is now similarly irresponsible to...

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