Bears would give me an incentive to run too. Professional runner Marube Maninda was just out for a morning run when he was given a reason to, well, really run. About halfway through his exercise, he was charged by two black bears. He recaps his experience in the video below from Sun Journal. That’s a
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A tree dropping from this kind of height is one of the scariest things you’ll ever see. Now, there are a lot of videos of intrepid, professional tree experts cutting down tall trees from some crazy heights. The difference here is that it looks like, from the point of view of the camera, this tree is
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A Colorado teen was roused early in the morning by a “crunching sound” when he realized that a bear was dragging him by his skull. At around 4:00 a.m., a young man awoke to what he described as a “crunching sound,” only to find that his head was inside the toothy maw of a large black bear.
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Welcome to a fascinating history lesson and hands-on tutorial on a common 18th century survival food: parched corn. Here’s how you can make it yourself. “Corn was such an important food for the Native Americans and the settlers in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries,” says Jon Townsend. Parched corn was a method of preparing the
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Birch oil has a ton of beneficial uses. Knowing how to make birch oil yourself is one easy thing you should add to your ever-growing list of skills. From practical uses on your tools to hygienic and medicinal purposes, birch oil is always something that’s handy to have on hand or to be able to
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Polar Bear tubes are what you need to make for your coolers today. Polar Bear tubes are an amazingly simple solution to the problem of keeping your cooler cold without having to deal with ice. Polar Bear tubes are super easy to make and the cost is extraordinarily low for each tube. The original idea
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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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If you put a full ammo storage can underwater  for over a year what will it look like when you pull it up? Find out now! If you are looking for a way to store your ammo, either short-term or for a long-term survival situation, then one of the first places you’ll probably look is
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This is surely the most riveting account of not one, but two separate grizzly bear attacks that you will ever hear, from the man who survived them. This is simply incredible. There are few words that adequately describe the account by Todd Orr, the man who survived two separate grizzly bear attacks last year and lived
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Our man in the jungle needed charcoal, a very useful item with many applications. So, he built a charcoal kiln and used the same mound again. Charcoal is a valuable commodity if you’re doing a lot of furnace or forging projects. It burns at a higher temperature than the wood from which it was produced.
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