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    Low kick muzzleloader

    Back when I was in high school I bought a Traditions 50cal sidelock and shot 85gr Pyrodex FFg and a 44cal 240gr HTP (predecessor to the XTP). Killed dozens of deer out to 180 yards with that little gun, it didn't kick bad at all. If those 155gr XTPs are accurate from the gun 80gr should be...
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    Well house mini cabin.

    I have a 12X20 cabin, prebuilt finished and wired from a local company using Amish to build them. Quality was good, brought it in on a truck and drove it up on my pad with a remote control "mule". Put in a 4000W inverter, 400Ah of batteries and a 800W solar array. I can run 1-2 days without...
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    Cuddelink L series Q & A

    I managed to obtain a couple L IR cameras and added them to my system yesterday. One is in a spot in a food plot at the bottom of the hill, so the ground is at an angle so weird in the detection window. I had a couple different J cameras in that spot over the past 6 months, neither captured...
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    What is the mental dynamic involved

    My mentality is that the value of a hunting experience is more than the size of the horns. At this point in my hunting career, I've probably shot about 150 or more deer. In years past I hunted areas with generous anterless quotas so 5-6 deer a year was not unusual. Hunting alone, no way I...
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    Cuddeback's Cuddelink

    I'm certain. That's why it stuck out to me as so odd. I don't know what all the possible messages are, only what I actually see. I wouldn't know there was a "cell tx" message unless I actually saw it on the camera/
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    Cuddeback's Cuddelink

    That's interesting. I had one on solar run away; I put a different camera which had been fine in to replace it...hooked up to the same 12-battery box and solar panel...and it did the same thing. I visited it again today as it hadn't sent a pic in awhile and it said "cell tx" (it's a normal J...
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    Rifle Range Upgrade

    The angle of impact is important here. Early in my centerfire rifle days (I grew up in a shotgun-only deer zone) I took my 300WM out for load development on the family farm. I didn't have a backstop but I had a significant downward slope to the target, and a freshly plowed field behind the...
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    Rifle Range Upgrade

    You can do just a dirt mound, it will just take more dirt and space. By using stacked filled tires on the back of mine I made that side steeper and required less dirt....left the front natural slope. How deep the berm needs to be is more a maintenance question than a safety question; it does...
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    Durability of legacy hunting camps

    Point systems and specifically point creep relate to supply and demand. The fact that there is a marked increase in points needed to get tags, across the board in western states, indicates that there is not only not a decrease in hunters but an increase in demand unless you believe there is an...
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    Durability of legacy hunting camps

    Not disagreeing with you, can't see I haven't seen some of these signs, but then why the crazy point creep with western tags? Are we to expect that this is some sort of balloon that will implode when it hits a generational gap? Because over the past 10 years this has gotten insane. Tags I got...
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    Cuddelink general Q&A recommendations

    Thank you. I went to the camera, and verified it triggered because it was counting down when I opened it. Now it appears every day on the email report with all the appropriate information looking normal, but it does not appear in my account on the website. I was hoping to remote trigger a...
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    Easement question for potential property

    What you end up spending in court could squander what you "think" you are saving on the property. If they can't produce evidence of clear right-of-ways and surveys I'd run, and run fast. Guy whose property I used to hunt bought a property like this, learned his access road was not legit and it...
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    Durability of legacy hunting camps

    I think this is a drastic simplification. I grew up on a family farm and I absolutely have love and bonding to it. But it barely supported my family growing up as a kid, and at this point a 150 acre family farm absolutely would not support my family and my kids and would not justify the size...
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    Hows your outdoors / hunting desries / habits changed as you get older.

    At 44 I'm only 3 years into having my own hunting land, and just figuring it out well. So I'm bullish on that. Finally shot a great buck last year and looking forward to more. I do find other, old hobbies falling to the side. I was an Olympic Trials hopeful in the marathon, an all-consuming...
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    Pond close to your house

    Make it big enough to keep fish in. When we bought our house it came with a 2 year old, 10 ft deep pond roughly 25 by 70 yards about 80 yards from the house. Mosquitos were bad. We put fish in, now mosquitos are not any worse than neighbors without a pond.
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