{"id":203,"date":"2004-09-02T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2004\/09\/02\/no-threat-to-wildlife"},"modified":"2004-09-02T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T03:11:00","slug":"no-threat-to-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/no-threat-to-wildlife.html\/","title":{"rendered":"No Threat to Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; nor to anyone&#8217;s berth on the archery team in 2008, either.<\/p>\n<p>BUT, after a twenty-year break (give or take a bit), I am <i>finally<\/i> shooting a bit again.  [Thanks to an incredibly generous neighbor with an extra bow.]<\/p>\n<p>So, after tuning the sight, and tuning the shooter, I have gone from &#8220;not reliably hitting the backstop&#8221; at ten yards to &#8220;reliably hitting the target bag, some evidence of shot clustering&#8221; at ten yards.  (Bullseye?  What&#8217;s that?)<\/p>\n<p>Deer have no reason to fear &#8230; yet.  It&#8217;s a good thing my family is not relying on my marksmanship to put meat on the table.<\/p>\n<p>And my neighbor&#8217;s trick of bagging <b>bear<\/b> this way?  To quote Larry the Cucumber: &#8220;Nope.  Not gonna do it.&#8221;  <i><span style=\"font-size:-2px;\">(&#8220;Aw, c&#8217;mon.  It&#8217;s for the kids.&#8221;)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; nor to anyone&#8217;s berth on the archery team in 2008, either. BUT, after a twenty-year break (give or take a bit), I am finally shooting a bit again. [Thanks to an incredibly generous neighbor with an extra bow.] So, after tuning the sight, and tuning the shooter, I have gone from &#8220;not reliably hitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traditional-skills"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-3h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}