Wife is a labor nurse and has been awaiting studies on these sorts of things. Anecdotally she's seen more neonates struggle to thrive, decells, demises, etc. Who knows if its the virus or just the societal stress on the body but its noticeable.
Just got done with Covid, Male, 33, fit/active and mostly healthy. I've had brief bouts of pretty sever asthma in my life, its been controlled and I was not on medications for it except for carrying a rescue inhaler. Vax x2 but hadn't been boosted.
Started with a dry cough and tested negative...
I was going for squeeky wheel gets the grease but I'm pretty sure it just gets you to the back of the line. Stan sure is johnny on the spot replying to emails though.
Chatting with folks in my zone the consensus was less NR's but more hunted days. Lots of NR's camped/spike out for the duration of the tag rather than hunting for a week to 10 days like is used to be.
Drove Rangely to Junction one evening to pick up family from the airport. Must have been 100 cars pulled off on the pass with folks leaned on them glassing through their riflescopes waiting for critters. Weird part of the world.
Breaking on visual birds is tough on a pup, even if getting there on a 'woah' command. Check cord, woah barrel, pigeons etc as mentioned will help. Have you been able to shoot birds from scent points? If you're in that habit and are disciplined enough to not shoot at bird that the pup isn't...
Ditching the G20 I carry archery hunting for the new M&P 2.0 10mm. When hunting with a partner I never carried a round in the chamber, I hang it from my bino harness and sans safety I wasn't comfortable with it hot. Thumb safety makes me a bit more comfortable.
I put one on an Axis II bull barreled 308. It's an extremely accurate 'cheap gun'. Looks nice enough, required a tad bit of filing to get the mag in and out smoothly. Its not a light set up.
Disclosure: I work for the housing authoriity in Teton County Idaho, where Jackson shoves all of its housing issues. This law is all about maximization of profits so sales will likely add more billionaire mansions and not address any housing issues. Even if it did I'd still be against it. Well...
From Stan today:
"They shipped a few that I got last week. Remington shorted us almost 600-700 pieces, so I made a stink. There is 2 more pallets of them supposed to deliver next week"