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    Car Crash Centered First Aid Course

    If someone is bleeding to death, call 911and try and stop the bleeding. If they don’t have a pulse, call 911 and then do CPR. Beyond that, it doesn’t matter.
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    Money Saving Tips / Ideas

    Be careful with “payroll deduction.” I see people at work all the time just go crazy when we have vendors come in. They can “payroll deduct” so they think that they aren’t really spending money. I heard one colleague tell me she had $7k racked up on payroll deduction. Only thing I use it...
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    A health revolution brewing?

    If you child is bitten by a rabid animal, will they get the rabies vaccine??
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    Helene destroyed my hunting season

    It’s hard to fathom how bad this is. I’ve seen it first hand and still can’t believe it. The body count is going to be horrendous. There are thousands still unaccounted for. Many will never be found. They’ve been swept away or buried under 30 ft of rubble/mud in some hollar. My BIL is...
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    Helene destroyed my hunting season

    The damage this storm did is unfathomable. Even if you see it you can’t believe it. I have a friend flying helicopters up there trying to rescue people. He said “If you asked me to describe what the end of the world would look like, it wouldn’t be as bad as this.” There are thousands of...
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    40 Mile Air vs Ram Aviation?

    Others may chime in, but the last I heard is 40 mile Air wasn’t taking any new customers. Returning customers only and they have such a long list of returning clientele that I think you are going to have get willed a spot to get in with them.
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    Life after stents?

    My Dad is 65. He had 2 stents placed earlier this year. The blood thinners they put him on caused more issues than anything. He nearly bled to death twice from his bladder. The cardiologist was adamant that Dad could NOT be off blood thinners for a year after having stents. The urologist...
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    How do you deal with poor harvest rate in the field?

    If I only had 2 weeks a year to hunt, then I could hunt those 2 weeks non stop and not burnout. I’m talking about hunting 60-70 days in a season, 4-5 days a week, week in week out. 4 solid months of your life doing nothing but hunting. That’s what I mean when I talk about dialing it back...
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    How do you deal with poor harvest rate in the field?

    I think sometimes we expect too much of ourselves and set our expectations too high. I can remember when I got really into bow hunting whitetail deer. I hunted a ton. First few years I was pretty successful and then I started pushing harder. Despite the fact that I was hunting 20-25% more...
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    Has anyone experienced burn out due to shift work and night shift?

    Night shift work just plain sucks. I switched to night shift about 8 months ago. They dangled the proverbial carrot in front of me (more money) and i took the bait. I’m exhausted all the time. Never feel like I sleep right. On the days I work, I’m happy if I sleep 4 hours. On the days I’m...
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    Hunting in the 1980s and 90s

    Live and hunted in NC for over 30 yrs. Pretty much everything is better now than it was in the 1990s. More and bigger deer. Bear season open statewide with huntable populations in over half the state. Turkeys are booming. Public land hunting pressure is almost zero compared to 90s. I...
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    My elk bowhunting soapbox.

    Practice how you hunt, hunt how you practice. I have always shot with my quiver off. So that’s how I hunt. I practice shooting with my pack on. I practice out to 80 yds. My absolute max hunting range is 60 yds and that’s if everything is perfect. 45 is my more realistic yardage. But...
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    Guys I need your input on blood pressure. I don’t want to mess up

    I wouldn’t take meds for that. That’s my blood pressure on BP meds. My BP without meds is 160/100. I’ve been on BP meds since 18. There are some things you can control and some you can’t. I’m 39, run marathons, don’t smoke and eat well. My BP just sucks.
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    A health revolution brewing?

    The reality is Father Time always wins. For me, it’s not about living forever or living longer, it’s about being functional during my living years. I don’t want to be laying in a bed shitting myself at 70.
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    Favorite deerstand?

    On my private lease my favorite stands are my enclosed shooting houses, that are insulated and have a heater!!! When running and gunning on public it’s my Summit climber.
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    A health revolution brewing?

    This is true to a point. I work in emergency medicine. The old school ER docs have no issue telling people like it is. They order fewer meds, order fewer tests and have no issues telling people they are fat. The new ER docs were trained to make people happy. And they will tell you that...
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    A health revolution brewing?

    It’s our heavily processed foods and the American desire to be fixed “right now.” I have worked in health care for quite a while. People want a pill to fix everything. Doctors give them whatever they want because it’s easier than listening to people whine or being sued. The fact of the...
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    Most Reliable New 250/2500 Series Truck

    I got out of the diesel game after my Ford 350 left me stranded…. 3 times. I have a Chevy 2500 6.6 gas. So far so good. Tow a 12k 5th wheel with it. Sure it drinks the fuel, but it was $15k cheaper than a diesel in the same trim. I can buy a shitload of gas for $15k.
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    What Whitetail woods will 2024 take you to?

    I’m staying pretty local this year. Public land and private lease close to home. But will venture out to some permit hunts in Virginia and West Va.
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    What’s your go to?

    I don’t have a “go to” rifle. I have several in my safe that I rotate through. But I guess if you forced me to only use one ever again it would be my plain old boat paddle stock Ruger M77 .270 win. It was my first rifle. Mowed a ton yards to pay for that thing.

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