Some people flock to a warm fireplace when it’s cold outside, while others curl up under the covers and watch a good movie. And some people tend to hibernate like a bear, and never leave the comforts of home, while unknowingly letting cabin fever set in. We’re different around here, though – we’re from Michigan, and we’re addicted [...]
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January 24th, 2011
Accidental gun deaths vs. accidental medical deaths
PoliFacts Florida checks out the NRA statement that more people die from medical accidents than do from firearm accidents and rates it mostly true. Their conclusion is that the statement made is entirely true, although the data is imperfect, and…
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dv’s Top Product Picks From ATA (Part I)
By Jerry Long, January 24, 2011 I examine the products that struck me most from the Archery Trade Association show. Just like People Pictures From The Archery Trade Association these products may not be the expected line up, but they are the things that I think are the most valuable from the show. 1. [...]
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One More Time: Push To Give President “Kill Switch” For Internet
Are we so blind that we would actually agree to allow any president of this country the authority to shut down the Internet? This is being shrouded under the cloak of national security. “We’re not trying to mandate any requirements for the entire Internet, the entire Internet backbone,” said Brandon Milhorn, Republican staff director and [...]
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Bear-Proof Certification Process Overhaul
The Feds are looking at all the people heading into the backcountry with bear canisters and trying to figure out how they can get in on the action. Currently their $50k a year testing program charges manufactures about $150 to test a ‘bear-proof’ product. The canister is loaded with food and dropped into a bear’s [...]
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Skouching Utah
This is the kind of trouble your kids get into when you raise them in a place like Utah: abundant cheap couches, loads of snow, old skis, and plenty of free time. At least it’s not like every other state in the U.S. where kids are just sitting around listening to music and smoking weed.
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Trek Light Adventures: A Look Back on the Hammock Adventure of a Lifetime
Thank you. With all sincere honesty your hammocks put us at the tops of trees, beneath bridges, above rivers, on hillsides outside of farm cottages, on cliff sides overlooking oceans, on top of Maya…
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Rahm Emanuel gets the boot
Story here. An Illinois appellate court rules he cannot run for mayor of Chicago because of a minor problem — there is a one-year residency requirement and he only moved back to Chicago in October. (That didn’t stop the trial…
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West. Assoc. of F&W Agencies: Let States Manage Wolves Now
At its winter meetings in Tuscon, Arizona, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies voted 17-0, with Montana abstaining (don’t know why yet), to draft a letter and a resolution to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar requesting management of wolves be turned over to the states. Below is a copy of the letter (find a [...]
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Thoughts multiple rifle sales reporting
David Codrea has some thoughts….
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1/11 P.M. Alabama Deer Hunt
Headed to a food plot that I haven’t hunted this entire hunting season. My buddy Clint was in the tree manning the video camera because he had tagged a nice 8 point earlier in the week. It was a slow start to the evening with nothing moving until around 4:30 p.m. His climber was about [...]
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You need to rest & I do too
As a mother I am militant about making sure my children have ample opportunity to get the rest they need but am often neglectful of my own need for rest. A quick perusal of my archives here will show you how often I do without sleep in order to accomplish X, Y and Z. Lately though my body has demanded that I slow down and rest, and I have begun to consider all the benefits of a good night’s rest
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The Danger Taking a Small Dog into the Backcountry
A Florida woman received a valuable lesson about domestication and the food chain when a hawk swooped onto her second-floor balcony and picked up her 2-pound Chihuahua. It had been playing with her other small dog when she heard the thing screaming and ran to find out what was wrong.
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January 24th, 2011
Gray Ghost Productions “East by North East” scheduled for PBS broadcast in February
Manchester, New Hampshire – January 24, 2011 – Gray Ghost Productions, a Manchester, New Hampshire outdoor adventure film company unites once again with Maine Public Broadcasting Network with an edited version of the 2009 film “East by North East,” premiering Saturday February 5, 2011 at 11am and re-air on February 10, 2011 at 10pm. After [...]
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Legendary Filmmaker Werner Herzog took some time off from his last project (reading Where’s Waldo) to film Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Shot in 3D, Herzog documents artwork more than 30,000 years old that was found in a cave in 1994. The film looks more epic than the time Herzog saved Joaquin Phoenix.
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Website Review – HuntnFish Regs.com
In addition to all the guns and ammo, gear and camo, the SHOT Show gives me an opportunity to meet a lot of folks with some less tangible products. One of the standouts this year was the guys from HuntNFishRegs and their website. HuntNFish Regs is a pretty simple idea. Take all of the hunting and fishing regulation [...]
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The All New 2011 PSE X-Force Dream Season EVO
BOW SPECIFICATIONS
FPS (IBO) 345
Axle-to-Axle 32 1/2″
Mass Weight 4.4 lbs.
Brace Height 6″
Draw Lengths 25 1/2″ – 30”
Draw Weight 50-70#
Cam Axe+
Let-Off 75%
MSRP
$849.99
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