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The Story of the Alaska Man Who Killed a Charging Brown Bear with a 9mm Pistol

BuffaloBore.com

It’s a miracle this Alaskan fishing guide and his clients lived to tell the tale. Phil Shoemaker was guiding a couple of clients on a salmon fishing trip near the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska back in 2016 when they had a close range encounter with an angry brown bear. Phil runs Grizzly Skins of

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Stormy Kromer Hat: What Is It and Where Did It Come From?

StormyKromer.com

If you’ve always wanted to know what a Stormy Kromer hat is, we’re here to explain. It all started when George “Stormy” Kromer, a semi-pro baseball player and railroad engineer, kept losing his hat while traveling on the train. He subsequently asked his wife, Ida, to sew a band onto his favorite ball cap to

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