A grizzly accident was caught on video when a Georgia man lost his leg after firing into a riding mower packed with Tannerite. 32-year-old David Pressley along with some friends put about three pounds of Tannerite into an old riding mower with the intent to shoot it and ignite the explosive. Video shows a man
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It hardly takes a trip around the block to know Spyderco knives as some of the most reliable tools out there. Spyderco’s craftsmen and engineers are also true masters of bringing utility and beauty together. It’s no surprise their knives are consistent top sellers: the question is, which Spyderco do you get? Here are our top 10 picks of
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Here’s one we’ve all heard before (not): A snake-eating hawk started a 40-Acre Montana grassfire that took firefighters over an hour to contain. With the dryness of the summer making things difficult enough for firefighters in the Treasure State, an accidental spark can be devastating. Enter one enterprising and hungry hawk that just wanted a
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It’s one thing to hook a nice muskie, it’s quite another to watch one twice the size follow it right up to the boat. Many times as anglers we’ve hooked a fish and watched one of the same species follow its buddy to our boat, wondering what all the hubbub was. Here’s a case of
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Our man in the jungle has built a simplified furnace and blower and in using it he ended up creating tiny bits of iron. This could lead to something significant. Our man in the jungle of New Zealand built a simple, hand powered blower and a small clay furnace chimney to prove that primitive people
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The Buzz Mill is our kind of place. Meet us there for a drink? Just a skip down the road from downtown Austin, Texas lies the Buzz Mill, the big city’s version of an outdoor, wilderness-themed coffee shop, cafe, and bar. We’ve stopped in a few times, and knew it was the sort of place
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Badass flashlights are a dime a dozen. These three flashlights are the best of the lot, from tiny EDC to lighting a bait-sniffing coyote up 200 yards away. My wife says I have a problem. She has asked me (more than once) if I was locked in a dark closet for an extended period of
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Here’s a great video showing a diamondback rattlesnake doing what a rattler does best: strike and eat. When you first start the video you may think that the rabbit is just trying to stay a step ahead of the snake, but then you will realize that the strike has already happened and it’s only a
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WATCH THE VIDEO NOW Camelbak keeps up the good work with collapsible water bottles. The Mossy Oak licensee event we attended featured something that not only hunters, but anybody heading into the backcountry could get some use out of. It’s the Camelbak Quick Stow Flask, and it does exactly what its name says it will. Camelbak
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A Minnesota man was hobnobbing in the North Carolina woods wearing a raccoon pelt suit when he was spotted by a group of Bigfoot hunters. On that day, Gawain MacGregor, a plumber from Minneapolis and self-described practitioner of Enkiduism, donned a homemade suit of raccoon pelts that he’d made for himself and took a stroll
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