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paleotn

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26. Some dangerous ones but not as many as we'd think.
Sat Jun 1, 2024, 11:08 AM
Jun 2024

Thanks in part to corn subsidies and high fructose corn syrup. Ironic really. Most gun types I know, even up here in the relative healthier north tier, expend maximum effort just to get off the couch. They ATV into the woods during hunting season. Something I still chuckle about when my better half an I go on our spring wildflower jaunts and fall foliage hikes. May sound like "well, in my day" but still, we hoofed it for miles into the woods back in the 70's and 80's. Then, if one of us got a deer, we dragged and carried it back out on foot for those very same miles. Carting 130lbs of dead weight isn't an easy task. Today's crew can't physically do that in most cases.

Short story is they're probably not much of an effective fighting force. But then again, to your point, it doesn't take a hell of a lot of them to cause a really big stink.

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Some dangerous ones but not as many as we'd think. paleotn Jun 2024 #26
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