A teenager near Pringle, South Dakota set on stand in his backyard to cull a young mountain lion after it began to kill his family’s animals. And you thought that a little kid’s playhouse was only good for playing in. Enter one fearless teenager from the Mount Rushmore State who took it upon himself to
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This duck hunter tried to lower the boom on some waterfowl and almost got clobbered by his flying gun barrel. There are varying reasons why the barrel of your shotgun might fly off in your face when you fire it, including the possibility that you didn’t tighten it correctly, or worse, it actually exploded from
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No matches or lighters needed; just pull the Pull Start Fire string for a campfire. A campfire is a must for the campground. That’s where memories are made. Roasting hot dogs and s’mores is one of the best parts of camping with friends and family. As much as we all enjoy time around the campfire, starting
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With steely nerves, an 11-year-old boy armed with a shotgun saved his family from a charging brown bear when he put the beast down mere feet away. With a presence of mind and nerves of steel, 11-year-old Elliot Clark stood his ground as a charging brown bear barreled through two adults and ran straight for him.
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Deer vehicles collisions are a part of life in America. Here’s what you need to know. It’s not something to joke about: deer vehicle collisions are a serious threat to the safety of not only our wild whitetail and mule deer herds, but to our human driving population. Real injury and even death can result
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Watch an Alaskan Bull Moose keep up the pace with a moving boat. Instagram user Gabe Nyblad took an epic video of a bull moose chasing his boat in Alaska. Incredibly, the moose seems to keep up with the moving boat by simply trotting right next to it! Watch and listen as the men in
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How much do you know about “Doomsday Preppers?” “Doomsday Preppers” was an American reality TV series that aired from 2011 to 2014 on the National Geographic Channel. For four seasons, American viewers got to see what it was like for those people in the world that believe we’re all doomed, but not so much that
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This isn’t quite what hunters mean when they say they got skunked. Has this ever happened to you? There are many things, unfortunately, that get in our way when we just want to get out and do some deer hunting. Chief among them is one little critter with the best self-defense mechanism ever. Watch the
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Here are some useful facts about this brazen member of the canid family. There’s a lot outdoorsmen and women have come to learn about the Canis latrans, or the common coyote. Sometimes those things are interesting, other times they’re frustrating. Some hunters, specifically deer hunters, truly despise the predators they’d refer to as dirty dogs
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A pocket chainsaw is the only gadget you’ll need for splitting firewood. If you’re the designated person on campfire duty, you know that splitting firewood is part of the process. Many campers and Boy Scouts pack axes, hand saws, and large chainsaws for camping trips, but you don’t need to do that anymore. Gone are
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