Besides striking some people as uniquely beautiful, a strong, high-quality serrated blade can be a pleasure to use. A common myth about serrated blades is that they’re less useful and a pain to sharpen. In reality, most people simply don’t know how to sharpen them, so they get intimidated—and they’re missing out. There’s a reason the most trusted cutlery companies continue to
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The Henry U.S. Survival .22 AR-7 Rifle is ready to save your life. I got a chance to review this handy little rifle and test what it is really capable of. In 1958, legendary weapons designer Eugene Stoner had an idea for a takedown self loading rifle perfect for Air Force pilot’s survival kits. Lightweight
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Thanks to the remarkable work of his talent and a small miracle, this man is alive after a grisly suicide attempt. Doctors in Russia performed an amazing life-saving operation after a man shot himself twice directly in the heart with a crossbow. The 53-year-old man from St. Petersburg was rushed to the hospital with two arrows sticking out of
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Try this unique bacon and eggs recipe the next time you’re in the backcountry. Sure, you could cook your bacon and eggs on a frying pan, but where’s the fun in that? You’d be surprised, but cooking them in a paper bag is pretty effective, and tasty. This old boy scout trick for cooking bacon and eggs in the bush
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Hummingbird lovers, look away. If you see a praying mantis on your hummingbird feeder, get the shotgun! Hummingbird lover everywhere will tell you that the sound they make as they buzz by you will make you think that a big, huge bug just flew by. Well there’s something else out there that thinks they are
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a 72-year-old Kinta woman found 11 copperheads under her trailer so she did what any granny would do: get out her 20 gauge and take care of it! Mrs. Newby of Kinta, Oklahoma already had one diamondback rattler under her belt from the month before when she discovered a den of venomous copperheads living under
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Everyone knows that duct tape is the emergency repair, fix-everything, multi-purpose magic material. Here are a few more uses for when you’re in the backcountry. If you don’t know that duct tape is just about the most widely used emergency repair or fix-it material on the planet then you must have just been dropped on
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A saltwater crocodile was freeloading some scraps from a fishing boat when a shark tried to get in on the action. Now you see the shark, now you don’t. Some fishermen on the Prince Regent River near Kimberley, Western Australia were discarding some fish scraps when an enterprising crocodile came up for a free lunch.
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Bobwhite quail love to devour ticks and now one New York district is leveling an army of them to combat the dangerous blood suckers. Anybody who has hunted the venerable quail knows that they like the dense cover and stay low to the ground until flushed. Now the same legion of hunters that chase these awesome
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Watch Shawn Woods expertly craft a replica of the knife and sheath used by the centuries-old Canadian Iceman, using only primitive stone tools. The Canadian Iceman is the name given to the body of a young man – around 20 years old – that was discovered in 1999 in the Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Wilderness Park in northwest
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