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    23 hours ago, Delw said:

    I dont see the fascination with dogs, we had quite a few of them over the years. they reminds me of a liberal. most cant do anything for themselves, the beg and whine alot, cant be left alone etc etc.

    Cats on the other hand are self sufficient, self entertaining. not to mention if you get one that wants to learn they can trouble shoot CNC equipment ,  keep and eye on the machines and even lend a hand to inspection.

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    Cats are great shop pets.  I lost mine about 3 weeks ago.  He wasn’t really mine he was a stray that hung around the industrial complex and made himself at home in everybody’s shop.  He came to visit me dang near every day for the last two years and would hang out on the forklift or on my desk right in front of me while I was trying to do office work.  I have no idea what happened to him.  I hope someone scooped him up and took him home.  Better that than the highway getting him.  
     

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    2 hours ago, GreyGhost85 said:

    I read the first 10 words and had to stop.....

    It was a tough one to get through.  My black labbie is 10 now.  All gray around the muzzle, eyes gettin blue, noticeably slowing down and is now more content to bark at her younger sister while she chases the frisbee rather than do any fetching herself.

    that struck a little close to home. 

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    On 8/10/2020 at 9:03 PM, AZbowhntr said:

    Not sure how you could possibly road hunt bears.  I have never seen one even close to a road.

    Really?  You must be hanging out in the wrong units.

    I had them run across the highway in front of me at least a half a dozen times.  Fooling around in 27 a few years back, came around a hairpin turn on a FR and ended up nose to nose with one that was walking right down the middle of the road. 

    this guy in 20a dang bear got in the truck with me.

     

     

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    Must be a slow day on the interweb for you fellas to argue over the price of groceries.  I couldn’t tell you what anything costs, shopping is my wife’s job.  If I ever have to go in a store for anything, that means my wife is broken and needs to be tuned up or replaced. 

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    Good reminder:  I gotta do some long bombing.... 

    ling range shooting + aiming drills is the best cure for target panic I’ve ever found.  I shoot like crap at that range, but find that if I can shoot well enough to stay on my 20” target at 100 then I’m shooting a softball group at 50.  
     

    like @creed said: follow through is everything.  If you drop the bow arm or torque it just a little, you’re way off.  However if I still see the target in my pin guard after the shot, I’m usually pretty close

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    I say the blind too.  What I do if weight is a concern is just get some camo netting or burlap blind material and keep a good length of that and some para cord and you can throw up a makeshift blind in about 2 seconds.

     It’s easy to just sit still and they’ll often walk right up close, but the minute you try to move to draw they get ya, ghillie suit or tshirt doesnt matter their eyes are designed to pick out the motion.  Which ever way you go, don’t move if you can see his eyeball.  Wait til he looks the other way and you can see the back of his head.
     

    Last year I killed a little button buck here in Az while wearing blue jeans and a tshirt with an American flag on it.  I was in a tree saddle above his line of sight so neither him or the two does with him saw a thing until it was too late.  
    Then in November I hunted in Nebraska and shot a whitetail doe on the ground from a range of about 10-12 feet.  Stood between two cedars on a fenceline.  She was supposed to walk past me and give me a quartering away shot but instead she stopped dead in front of me and looked right at me.  I stayed still like a statue, she eventually took another step forward and looked the other way scent checking the cornfield.  As soon as she turned her head I drew back and heart shot her.  Good times! 

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    Thank god for the USA, that was born on this day under the ideas of liberty, equality, opportunity, individual freedom and the responsibility that goes with it .  We’ve had our share of problems along the way, but nothing at all is perfect in this world and this country is FAR more good than it is bad.  We’ve lifted 100s of millions out of poverty around the world and provided freedom from tyranny to our own citizens and many millions of foreigners as well.

    thank god for all the brave that have worn our uniforms, our Leo’s and first responders that guard the line between civilization and chaos, and for all the moms and dads that raise their kids right, and teach them to stand for that flag and love the country that has given so many gifts to so many people.

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    I'm willing to give the gov the benefit of the doubt and say that they over reacted in March due to bad data from China & ignorance about what we're dealing with.  However, there's been data from antibody testing around the world since as early as April that showed conclusively that in Germany, South Korea, California & New York (and certainly more places, but these are the ones I specifically heard about) this disease was already waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more wide spread than they thought and packing a mortality rate 25-40x lower than what was original predicted. 

    I also remember that in March our brilliant government in their infinite wisdom was saying 15 days to slow the spread.  It was acknowledged that we could not stop the virus, we just needed to buy some time to let the hospitals get ready so they weren't over whelmed.  At some point, however, a point that was actually very very early, the goal-posts started moving.  There's even people talking about "we won't get back to normal until there's a vaccine".  REALLY???  How's the vaccine for SARS coming along?  HIV???  We've been working on that one for at least the last 40 years. 

    Everybody know all along that cases would spike again when people went out and started moving around and going back to work.  Why the heck is it suddenly a surprise, they talked about it in March.  Gov. Cuomo himself stated that not one patient in NY died from lack of care.  Not one!  The epicenter of this mess, plus their idiotic government doing everything they could (like shoving covid patients into nursing homes with old folks) to make it the biggest disaster that they possible could, and they still couldn't over whelm the health care system.

    I have sympathy for anyone that gets it or has a family member get it.  I also have sympathy for the people that are going to die of heart disease and cancer this year, and those diseases are going to take a helluva lot more than covid will.

    I've said it before, I'll say it again.  I was wrong:  My BS detector started beeping right out of the gate on this one & my first thought was 10% virus, 90% political BS.  I now see clearly that it was and still is 99.999% BS.  

    We can handle covid.  We can't handle a decade and possibly an entire generation of state dependency & poverty. 

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    5 hours ago, ctafoya said:

    ended up at archery headquarters. Walked away with a thin wallet and a new hoyt carbon. 

    Nice!  I was gonna treat myself to a new one for my bull tag too, but then the Chinese bat flu made me poor.  Instead I just built some heavier arrows.

    those new hoyts are pretty sweet.  Enjoy!

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    38 minutes ago, BeardownAZ said:

    It’s a virus, we can’t escape it, or sanitize the world to avoid it. You honestly believe a thin paper mask As your only PPE will stop something so contagious?? If it’s that contagious, it’s everywhere and you will eventually get it, short of living in a plastic bubble. And the fact that the CDC changes its stance so often, how do you trust them? And no one should trust the WHO period!  It’s obvious in our modern world, politics trumps all. Do what your told if you so choose, but stop at some point and really try and think independently of what we are constantly being feed by a vial, and utterly biased media doing its best to push an agenda. Too add to that, I’ve seen many of our local doctors and nurses in town. None wearing a mask. None

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    1 hour ago, ronk said:

    Prior to c-19, on average nearly 8,000 people die in the US everyday. Now if any one of those died and they just happened to have c-19 or antibody, they would be a c-19 death.

    A few weeks ago there were stories that states were starting to reevaluate their covid deaths to get a more accurate count.  Most prominently I remember the gov of Colorado talking about it, as they’d over counted by as much as 25% I think the number was.  But as with any bit of good news surrounding the bat flu those stories are short lived and not usually remembered when making policy

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    5 hours ago, JSR said:

    https://www.realclearpolicy.com/2020/05/25/cdc_best_estimate_implies_covid_fatality_rate_below_03_492459.html

    And you have to keep in mind that 0.3% is a blanket of ALL age groups.  If you spend some time digging through the several thousands of lines of data on the CDC website you find that for younger people the flu and pneumonia are more deadly, then they catch up around mid forties to 50 ish, the covid becomes more deadly for people in their 60s and 70s, then around 75+ it’s all neck & neck again, because at that age many people would get knocked out of the saddle by a stiff breeze or literally ANYTHING!  
     

    And it’s important to note that the cdc data is based only in confirmed test results, it does not include all the people who never identified they had the virus.  If you factor in all those people, covid becomes less dangerous than the flu and pneumonia for all age groups under 60.  But of course it is much more highly contagious, so it’ll still out score the flu in the long run, but this thing is not the Black Plague or anything even close.

    we were duped.  Dr Fauci needs to be tied to a stake and shot in the face with a ball of his own feces. 

     

     

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    18 minutes ago, dustin25 said:

    Fair enough. I was just using the mortality rate that was thrown out... but if every single person had COVID in the us, at a .03 mortality rate, that would be a little over 98,000 deaths. So it’s clear that the mortality is much much higher then that. Let’s say on the extreme high end of your argument, 25% of the us has had it like in NY, that would put us at .14 mortality rate.taking the average of the antibody studies that I read,we are probably more around 3-5% community infection as a country,maybe less.So even on the optimistic side we are likely lookin at a mortality rate around .5-.7 , no politics just strictly looking at the numbers.

    I agree to the point that California is not representative and their mortality rate may well have shifted.  NYC’s mortality was much higher, although it was influenced heavily by their local leaders’ decision to throw covid patience back into nursing homes with obviously extremely vulnerable populations.  With any disease , you will inherently see a drop off in mortality rate after the initial hit that ravages the vulnerable.  That’s an ugly fact, but a lot about nature is ugly.  I consider it a worth while effort to shelter the vulnerable, but that could have been done without shutting down the worlds economy and courting the disaster of global poverty.  
     

    the part that really pisses me off is that they already know their models and data were bad at the outset, but they keep persisting with the same line of bs.  To me it’s painfully obvious that a certain perspective is being pushed and any countervailing arguments are being intentionally silenced.  That’s worrisome to say the least.  

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