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Title says it all. I know that it greatly depends on shot placement, but is it adequate for black bear and wild hog. It would be for encounter situations, not hunting black bear and hog from something like a stand.

At a rural church, the pastor arrived to find a mule had died on the doorsteps. Reluctantly, he called the Chairman of the Deacons, who he didn't get along with. "I hate to bother, you, brother, but there's a dead mule on the church steps," he said. "Well, preacher, if you'll remember our last...

Was out and about not all that late last night, and atmospheric conditions were such it was easy to see the glow of distant towns on the horizon. I started picking them out, recognizing the towns from where I was on the road, but then I came to one glow, I drew a blank. I could see the town in...

Eisenhower did this in Arkansas. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-faces-growing-calls-federalize-texas-national-guard-1863839 The real question is why Biden hasn't done so. Election year is one answer, but is there a fear Texas national guard units would refuse?

Okay, so this looks strange: https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2024/01/22/new-jersey-bag-ban-followed-by-increased-use-of-plastic/ Basically, customers are using multi-use bags only a few times or even only once,

This looks interesting: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/fake-joe-biden-robocall-tells-new-hampshire-democrats-not-vote-tuesday-rcna134984

It's happened in real life: https://www.wtoc.com/2024/01/18/bull-possibly-thrown-into-different-pasture-by-severe-weather-jeff-davis-co/

CNN is calling Trump's win in the Iowa Republican Caucasus a landslide: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/16/politics/trump-iowa-victory-analysis/index.html What was Trump's percentage of the vote? 51.0 %. CNN calls this a landslide?

The good news is I've got a week off from work. The bad news is it's to isolate for COVID-19 The good news is that the symptoms are much milder than when I had it a couple of years ago. The bad new ... well, can't think of any right now.

Family here. One getting a bath. It sounded like the water was running a long time to me. Then the dreaded call "There's no hot water." On a Sunday, the day before Christmas. With thoughts that it would be Wednesday before I could get a new heating element, I cut the power and checked. Both...

Well, she's on the ground now. Getting from roof to the ground, though.... It started with me taking off trash. I had come out with several bags and glanced up and saw her on the edge of the roof, acting proud of herself. I made comments like "I see you up there. You're a big cat, up on the...

For I while I've had difficulty with the question of faith and prayer. Specifically, when God seems to say "No." At times prayer seems futile. Yet I'm reminded that Jesus prayed, if it were God's will, that He might be spared the cup that was ahead of Him, and it was not. None of us are greater...

This is something I stumbled across today. The National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia, issued a statement about this, on 2/23/2023, but it could age off their web site (look under Public Information Statements if you want to see it. Basically, four tornados in Georgia rotated around...

A man in the UK faces two years in jail for stealing 200,000 Cadbury Creme eggs. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/14/man-facing-jail-over-theft-of-almost-200000-cadbury-creme-eggs

... You might be a right-wing extremist. At least in the UK. That's according to the UK's Prevent program, as reported here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11764775/Yes-Minister-flagged-beleaguered-counter-terror-Prevent-scheme.html Other works listed include Beowulf, The Canterbury...

It looks like the works of Roald Dahl are getting a make-over: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/17/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-offensive-matilda-witches-twits/

You know that balloon shot down last week near Alaska? It may have belonged to the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade. No, really: https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf

...Will China will send the US balloons for Valentine's Day?

I think we've all seen that particular mem. Anyway, when it comes to high altitude objects, the US military isn't ruling out aliens. Or so they say: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/military-shoots-down-another-high-altitude-object-over-lake-huron-officials-say/ar-AA17oNsG Sigh. Not quite how...

Last week it was the balloon. This week it was another high altitude object over Alaska. Today there's a report the US downed another object over Canada: https://apnews.com/article/united-states-government-canada-ottawa-93071207f2bbdf93b591d6b40ce1cb5a