Did you know you can use animal grease to ignite your fire to cook your wild game?  As hunters, we should try to be as resourceful as possible with the game we harvest. I eat just about anything I harvest. In the video below, this super sexy guy (yes, me) shows you how to use
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Can you really bury a rifle in a cache for a year? Even casual preppers have probably at least heard suggestions about burying an emergency rifle in a cache for a SHTF scenario. Of course, with that idea comes all sorts of questions. How do you pack it? Will a properly packed rifle really still
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I remember as a young man I spent a considerable amount of time hiking, backpacking, and camping in the mountains, usually by myself. Getting away from it all and honing my skills of self-reliance at the same time has always appealed to me. Maybe it is something, on a primal level, relating back to my cave man ancestry.
It has been my experience that anytime you are completely alone that your awareness and senses go into overdrive, bombarding you with all sorts of new stimuli. At times, this can become overwhelming, and I would be lying if I stated that I have never had the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I was deep in the woods all by myself.
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Sometimes, you just need an off-road machine with a little something more. Well, the folks in this video drove nine hours to pick up one of the strangest, coolest ATVs we’ve ever seen. That off-road machine, which looks like a mini monster truck, is the SHERP. The ATV was created in Russia in 2012 and
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Fishing guide ‘Smiley’ Yanez saved a lost raccoon in the bay off the coast of Texas. Captain Ismael Yanez was fishing in the bay somewhere near Rio Hondo, Texas, when he came across an unlikely swimmer that needed a lift. Upon realizing what it was, the incredulous charter captain got the video rolling. A raccoon was swimming
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Would you stick your arm shoulder-deep in a hole filled with snakes? This guy did and they just keep coming! Cor Viljoen, a safari guide of Bala-Bala, captured nest full of baby snakes in South Africa. After being contacted by a local farmer to remove the snakes said to be pythons (presumably non-lethal ones), the man scooped them
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Our man in the jungle continues his pottery and firing experiments by making a kiln from mud bricks. He spent a considerable amount of time making the wooden form used to mold his mud bricks to a consistent shape and size. By cutting down a tree with his stone axe and splitting it with a stone
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Hypersonic weapons pack a massive punch and the ‘Rods from God’ could hit like a nuke, but with no fallout. Imagine a bunch of telephone-pole sized tungsten rods, dropped out of orbit, reaching a speed of up to ten times the speed of sound. ‘Project Thor’ is a protocol that could use these projectiles and
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Doomsday preppers are a sophisticated bunch with a tremendous resolve, but sometimes they go a little overboard… or do they? To exist in the world of the preppers, sometimes you have to stay a little ahead of the next guy or get caught with your pack-ratting pants down. While it’s definitely not a game the
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Two hikers were attacked by a black bear in the Sudbury region of Ontario, Canada after it chased their dog back to them. Two hikers in Subury were enjoying a stroll through a beautiful wooded trail near Long Lake Road on their Labor Day holiday when an aggressive black bear started to chase their dog.
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