When it’s finally time to venture out, will you make up for lost time? It’s never easy when you’re left wanting the escape and the exhilaration awarded by the outdoors. Yakima is fully aware of the need, and has been there to assist ever since they started as a small machine shop in Washington. They’ve
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Things are moving along for the Great American Outdoors Act. On Wednesday the Senate passed the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act, hoping direct billions in resources towards support for outdoor recreation on public lands. The vote was 73-25, and the bill will now leave its fate to the House of Representatives. Specifically, the Great American
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If you have friends like this guy, you have awesome friends. Okay, seriously, who doesn’t love a good prank every now and then? Even better yet, this one involves deer hunting. In this video, we are introduced to an unsuspecting, rifle-toting, story-telling, novice hunter making what appears to be his first-ever shot on a massive buck.
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This could be the ultimate test of a bulletproof vest. Have you ever wondered if a bulletproof vest could stop an arrow? If it can stop a bullet, an arrow shouldn’t be a problem, right? Well, wonder no more. These folks have tested one with both a compound bow and a crossbow. Watch the results and
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Want to maximize your time afield? The time to start planning is now! Almost every hunter has done it at some point. Life has happened and it has impeded your deer hunting season plans. Maybe it is a new job cutting into your time afield, the arrival of new child or simply lost access to
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This guy nearly got trampled in a feral hog stampede! Everyone knows that feral hogs are a huge problem, especially in Texas and other parts of the south. Large sounders of these animals can destroy a farmer’s entire field of crops in a single night. It is not wonder that the Texas Parks & Wildlife
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Do you ever wonder what it looks like to dry fire a compound bow in slow motion? Dry firing a bow almost never ends well and, unfortunately, bows are not cheap these days, so a dry fire can be a nice chunk out of your next paycheck. Many of us always wonder what it might
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This crazy footage shows why one bull elk didn’t make it far after being arrowed. Steve Isdahl has a pretty cool elk story to tell, and lucky for us, the video he shot does it more justice than any descriptive words. While recently on a hunt with his nephew in northern British Columbia, Canada, Isdahl arrowed a brute of a
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Here are the things you should look for in pre-season deer scouting. It may be the off-season and it may seem like the first archery deer hunting seasons are months away, but it will be here before you know it. Now is the time to start scouting for deer and selecting stand locations. Successful hunters
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The deer management program for Syracuse, New York reported that 159 deer were taken in the city over the past winter. March brought forth the conclusion of the 2019-20 deer management program in Syracuse, but also assumptions that the process will be on-going, perhaps for several more years. According to New York Upstate, “Venison from
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