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    Google Earth winter image?

    Life_feeds is correct, there's a time bar slider as an option in one of the layers if I remember correctly, but the images it gives you are completely dependent on when the satellite going overhead took them - there are some pretty large gaps in time and it might even skip seasons or a couple...
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    Kuiu kenai ultra on sale

    Just a point on the fit of the current kenai ultra in the outlet versus the earlier model - I ordered the gray version maybe 2 months ago and it fits way more closely than my approximately 5 year old version in verde, especially across the shoulders/chest and and upper arms. I'm not a huge...
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    Great idea or accident waiting to happen?

    I use those straps as they're intended to stabilize my lone wolf climber and have had them slip on me - no way I'd use them as a lineman's rope. It would be well worth it to either buy a premade lineman's rope or make your own with a prussic as suggested. I built one with some extra climbing...
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    Human Interference

    I got called into a foxpro while out small game hunting once... I heard the racket and figured I'd go try for a shot at whatever was tearing the rabbit apart. I got to the edge of the cornfield it was coming from and couldn't see anything, so I start glassing with my binoculars and found two...
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    Women's Sitka Raingear at Cabelas

    Looks like Cabelas is clearing out the women's Sitka Cloudburst pants and jackets - picked a jacket up for my wife yesterday and paid $165 (originally $350). We got her a pair of pants the last time we happened to stop in back before Thanksgiving and think we paid somewhere in the neighborhood...
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    Climbing stand replacement parts

    You can look at the third hand archery stabilizer straps if you want a better idea of where they go/how they work. Like Mak45 said though, you can easily fashion a set out of inexpensive tie down straps.
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    Has paypal ever screwed you over???

    Got burned pretty bad by them twice - once when the guy I sold an item to changed his mind becasue his daughter wasn't happy with it (wasn't the color she wanted or something to that effect) and another time when I bought an item but what I was sent didn't even come close to resembling what was...
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    Ruger American Rimfire 22

    It's a two piece base with separate rings.
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    Ruger American Rimfire 22

    We put a Nikon Target EFR on the one we got for my wife with a basic set of, I believe, Warne mounts. The combo's a shooter - plinking golf balls at 100 yards on the range out back is just about automatic. You might be able to find one of the Nikon's on sale or lightly used now that they've...
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    Alone show on Netflix / History channel

    In the first season, during their safety briefing before they went out to their locations, they had a couple fish and game officers there and I recall hearing them say that they had all resident hunting and fishing privileges extended to them while filming. There may have been some restrictions...
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    Alone show on Netflix / History channel

    The wife and I watched a couple seasons during lockdown, and you definitely start to get a feel for who will make it longer than others pretty quickly. I felt bad for the guy who ate his "pet" squirrel in the arctic season.
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    National Forest Tree Markings

    I would say survey markers as well, especially since some of the trees are also already notched. They marked out the business/farm assessed tax property boundaries with blue paint at the resort I previously worked at a couple years back. Prior to that I was under the impression that the blue...
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    Anyone ever leave a light on to help find camp?

    I'll second this but also add that the age of the line/how hard it has been used plays a part in it. The reflective tracers in the line wear out over time from repeatedly rubbing across the bark on trees. I've been using the bear line from Lawson for a couple of seasons now and it has gotten...
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    Custom rod builders

    Rodgeeks is the only one I'm aware of that can get you a custom painted blank. Any respectable rod builder should be able to take care of the rest. It's a fun hobby, but, as mentioned, it takes a couple of rods to find your technique, which ay or may not be worthwhile for you.
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    Reflective arrow wrap experiences?

    I used the ones made by onestringer but moved on to standard white wraps as they were quite heavy and difficult to remove before refletching. They did stand out very well at night though and at least as well as a white wrap during the day. I bought the 7" version (if I remember correctly) and...
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    Backpacking stove failure

    I did the same modification to my OliCamp pot a couple weeks ago and was very impressed by the increased efficiency. It definitely bucks the wind a little better now as well. I use a Kovea Spider remote canister stove and an older MSR Pocket Rocket with it.
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    Move from NJ to MT or CO? Need guidance.

    My wife and I went through a similar process almost two years ago and spent time researching in both states. We are also from NJ, although a little further North and West in the Sparta area. As you already mentioned regarding Colorado, the home prices and COL were not what we expected. We were...
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    Painting your bow?

    Thanks! It was satin Rustoleum "Painters Touch, 2x Ultra Cover Paint and Primer" in fossil (light tan), espresso, moss green, granite (gray), and nutmeg colors.
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    Gravity filter

    How are you planning on getting the water into your "dirty" drom bag? A lot of systems use a bag with a ziploc style opening across the top so you can kind of "scoop" from your source to fill it up; as you have it shown, I imagine you would need either a decently deep pool/puddle to submerge...
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    Step boxes

    We've been using sections of a large diameter tree (~30") that fell in the yard cut to various lengths and stood up.
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