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  1. MinnesotaHunter

    Mountain lions "losing fear of man"?

    Bart George?
  2. MinnesotaHunter

    Mountain lions "losing fear of man"?

    I don't think it is a individual lion thing, other than when a young male gets kick out of the area and is forced into less than ideal place. I think it is a generational thing, aggregated experiences and learned over time.
  3. MinnesotaHunter

    Mountain lions "losing fear of man"?

    I think they do the same in WA. harassing cats into staying away from livestock. I think they use paintball guns and the like.
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    Mountain lions "losing fear of man"?

    If I were to make a semi informed guess. I would say this graph shows a dynamic that has resulted in lions (who are territorial) have been forced into closer proximity with areas of higher human traffic, and they have become desensitized to humans and the urban interface resulting in more...
  5. MinnesotaHunter

    Weekend Libations

    Russel's 10 and a couple of Russel's Private Barrels sit right next to it on the shelf! RR10 is tough to beat for the $$$
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    Weekend Libations

    Like this old? ;)
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    Weekend Libations

    1910 is one of my favorites!
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    .17 HMR TNT vs. V-MAX

    I have had really good luck with the 17grn V-Max out of my CZ 457 American. ~1" @100yds.
  9. MinnesotaHunter

    Do you have an inner monologue?

    That is really interesting. For me it is almost the opposite. I am sure there are many ways in which our brains work differently.
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    Do you have an inner monologue?

    I am not sure it is possible to critically think without one. How else do you synthesize multiple streams of information into coherent thoughts of your own? Now that said I think much of society today just parrots back what they have heard anyway, so what do I know....
  11. MinnesotaHunter

    Ethics of removing tree stands from public land

    One morning I bumped into a warden at a trailhead as I was coming off stand in northcentral MN back in about 2008, and he asked me if I wanted the two stands he had just taken down that had been illegally left on the public. They were heavy as hell, so I declined, but had they been decent I...
  12. MinnesotaHunter

    Help! I can't get my lab to stop digging!

    The hard part is catching them in the act consistently enough that they make the correlation. Otherwise you just create confusion.
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    Help! I can't get my lab to stop digging!

    It is tough to fight their nature. They evolved to build a den. With my lab I just encouraged him to pick a spot out of the way and stick with it. I even helped him make it better, and once he had his spot, he focused his digging there. YMMV...
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    "Killing Animals Helped Me Make Peace With Death" by Nicole Qualtieri

    Interesting read. I am not 100% sure where I stand on the idea though. I have seen a lot of death, and there are two deaths that hit me harder than any others, a 5 month old girl in AFG in 2005 and my last dog Jack. I cannot tell you why, but they did. I have lost friends, grandparents, seen...
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    Great Social Media posts?

  16. MinnesotaHunter

    Ukraine / Russia

    I wouldn't presume to argue with you on this point, but I am not sure this is what is informing the average 19yo's opinion.
  17. MinnesotaHunter

    Ukraine / Russia

    You aren't too far off from what I have seen. I don't think I would go so far as anti-Americanism, but rather a good sized chunk of the population that is so self-interested they do not see any kind of service as a noble profession. I did a hitch in recruiting command in the late 2010s, and I...
  18. MinnesotaHunter

    Ukraine / Russia

    The recruiting trend has been down for decades??? Recruiting standards and incentives have always ebbed and flowed with demand. The last time the DoD as a whole has been in this situation is post Vietnam, and the GI Bill is what got it out of it. Propensity to serve is a social issue, and it is...
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    Ukraine / Russia

    From what I understand is that this is an over simplification. I don't believe Iran's primary purpose for prodding their proxies is due to Russian influence. I think if you want to understand Iran's current motivations you have to look at what was happening prior to OCT 7th when Israel and Saudi...
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    Ukraine / Russia

    Charles, The Houthis are already using these, and they aren't really affecting our abilities, we already had the boats out floating around. They are just good target practice.

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