{"id":15423,"date":"2019-01-06T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=15423"},"modified":"2019-01-06T15:06:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:06:28","slug":"15423-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/15423-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Stuff Hunters Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deer hunters do a lot of stupid things. Not because they are stupid, but because they have been fed bad information by folks who ought to know better. Did you miss your deer this season? Here are five common mistakes hunters make. Stop doing stupid stuff!<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanhunter.org\/articles\/2017\/8\/10\/stop-doing-stupid-stuff\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15424\" style=\"width: 745px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15424\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/stupid_stuff_triggers.jpg?resize=745%2C419\" alt=\"\" width=\"745\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/stupid_stuff_triggers.jpg?w=745&amp;ssl=1 745w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/stupid_stuff_triggers.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One <em><strong>smart<\/strong><\/em> thing you can do is fix your trigger. Either get a gunsmith to do it for you, or get a Timney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deer hunters do a lot of stupid things. Not because they are stupid, but because they have been fed bad information by folks who ought to know better. Did you miss your deer this season? Here are five common mistakes hunters make. Stop doing stupid stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2522,2820,2815],"tags":[2848,2790,13,2849,249],"class_list":["post-15423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hunt","category-latest","category-nras-american-hunter","tag-3-9x-riflescope","tag-30-30","tag-deer-hunting","tag-neck-shots","tag-timney-triggers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/stupid_stuff_no_bench.jpg?fit=745%2C420&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-40L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14289,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/five-stupid-things-people-say-about-guns-on-facebook\/","url_meta":{"origin":15423,"position":0},"title":"Five stupid things people say about guns on Facebook.","author":"gunwriter","date":"March 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"You see a lot of stupid stuff on Facebook about guns. 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