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Flashback to When This Guy Found a Lever-Action Rifle in a River

Flashback to When This Guy Found a Lever-Action Rifle in a River

YouTube: Aquachigger
find a lever action rifle in a river

Do you ever wish you could just find a gun? Well, this guy found a rifle underwater. YouTuber Aquachigger is a wizard with a waterproof metal detector. He finds all kinds of things lost in the water. This lever-action rifle fished from a deep hole is certainly a keeper. Watch the video below and see for yourself:

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More Than a Year Ago, More Than 1,000 Guns Were Seized From a California Home

More Than a Year Ago, More Than 1,000 Guns Were Seized From a California Home

Screenshot: ABC7.com
massive gun collection seized

A Los Angeles man had enough guns to supply a small army. On May 19, 2019, authorities seized more than 1,000 firearms, which included an especially wide variety of rifles, shotguns and handguns, from a man’s home in Los Angeles’ Holmby Hills neighborhood just northeast of UCLA. The Los Angeles police and ATF agents executed

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Idaho Poachers Who Illegally Took 16 Elk, 3 Deer Face Fines and Jail Time

Idaho Poachers Who Illegally Took 16 Elk, 3 Deer Face Fines and Jail Time

Travis Smola
Poaching

Six men sentenced for poaching of numerous trophy animals. With the crazy negative news cycle of 2020, we will take any good news we can get at this point. Six poachers now must pay over $75,000 in reimbursement over a 2018 elk and mule deer poaching case in Idaho. In a press release on their

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Small Alabama Town Breaks Ground on $6 Million Fishing Park

Small Alabama Town Breaks Ground on $6 Million Fishing Park


fishing park

Alabama’s soon-to-be tourism attraction is catching the attention of outdoorsmen across the nation. The town of Lincoln, Alabama has broken ground on a $6 million, 38-acre fishing park. The small town off Interstate 20 is known for its Honda plant and proximity to the Talladega Superspeedway, and it’s banking on the fishing park becoming a

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Jacksonville Jaguars’ Jawaan Taylor Catches a Scale-Tipping Grouper with BlacktipH

Jacksonville Jaguars’ Jawaan Taylor Catches a Scale-Tipping Grouper with BlacktipH

Screen Grab via Twitter/@jawaan_taylor74

Even the pros are getting in on some awesome saltwater fishing this season. NFL tackle Jawaan Taylor is listed at 312 pounds, according to ProFootballReference.com. That’s pretty big, even for a professional lineman, but it still doesn’t reach the weight of the massive Goliath Grouper he caught while fishing in Florida last week. It appears he

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6 Rifles Chambered in .357 Magnum Perfect for the Range or Deer Woods

6 Rifles Chambered in .357 Magnum Perfect for the Range or Deer Woods

Ruger/Marlin
.357 Magnum Rifles

These .357 Magnum rifles will put deer on the ground this season. While one may traditionally think of handguns for self-defense when they think of .357 Magnum, this round has proven itself over the years as a quality hunting round for deer and similar-sized big game animals. Using .38 Special as a parent case, .357

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6 Great Hunting and Cowboy Rifles Chambered for .44 Magnum

6 Great Hunting and Cowboy Rifles Chambered for .44 Magnum

Ruger/Winchester
.44 Magnum Rifles

These 44 Magnum rifles are perfect brush and hunting guns. When it comes to iconic handgun cartridges, the .44 Remington Magnum sits up near the top of the list. Developed in the 1950s and made famous by the giant magnum revolvers in the “Dirty Harry” movies, this round delivers muzzle velocities between 1,100 and 1,600

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Hilarious Parody Highlights the Difficulties of Starting a Bonfire

Hilarious Parody Highlights the Difficulties of Starting a Bonfire

YouTube: Charlie Berens
Bonfire

This hilarious look at starting a bonfire is too true. Nothing really says summer quite like a nice roaring bonfire. It is the chance to roast some hotdogs or marshmallows, crack open some cold ones and enjoy a nice evening with friends and family. Of course, at any gathering comes the inevitable argument about the

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