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File this under, “I hate it when that happens.”

This archer decided to practice shooting his bow while standing inside his glass-enclosed porch. He came to full draw, took careful aim, and… WHOOPS! Blasted a big hole in the sliding glass door, which he had forgotten to open.

He speaks a foreign language afterward, but it’s not hard to guess what he’s saying… and a young boy comes into view to see the damage.

Perfect learning opportunity: “See son, this is how you’re NOT supposed to do it.”

Also: Did he hit the target?

This probably wouldn’t have happened at my house, as our glass is usually not that clean…

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When lures are used, beach anglers hold their rods and reels during the cast-and-retrieve sequence. But when natural bait is employed, rods can be set down until a fish takes.

Choosing broadheads is a uniquely personal decision among veteran bowhunters. And while there are several criteria for picking a ‘head, one of the most essential is “how it flies.”

Ok, I cannot imagine any company naming their line of boots “Billy Boots”, but I am sure they had a good reason for it. I would have just stuck with the nickname of The Cruiser, as this aptly defines this unique multi-use boot.

Seattle, WA – In yet another bonehead move by government officials, the city council of Seattle voted unanimously Monday in favor of a tax on all sales of guns and ammunition within city limits.

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin resident Ray Groff had been fishing on Lake Winnebago. When he pulled up his anchor, he found that it had snagged something. He thought it was driftwood at first – until he spotted the lock mechanism and knew he’d found an antique flintlock rifle.

Recently, declarations that “Gun Confiscation for Veterans Begins” have swept across the Web.

South Carolina has some of the best king mackerel fishing in the nation.  The season runs May to November, with peak action in August.  Excellent kingfishing is had along the entire South Carolina Coast.  But, naturally, the bulk of the fishing is done out of large coastal towns where access to the Atlantic is most convenient.  Much of the state’s kingfishing is done out of the towns of (listed from south to north) Hilton Head, Edisto Beach, Charleston, Georgetown, Murrells Inlet and Little River.

The white-tailed deer population continues to expand in America. In big part this expansion is taking place in urban areas and all over in spaces highly populated by humans. This continues to cause additional human-wildlife contact of which some is positive, but some is not.

When stuff hits the fan what are you going to do? One of the most natural biological functions of man is to have biological functions. If you are headed out to your escape venue from a SHTF event, what preparations have you made for containment of bodily functions?

You can get a little insight into the psyche of a person by the boat he owns and runs.  If he puts a name on the side or stern, you can learn even more about what he thinks of the world as a whole, life in general, and occasionally some specifics about fishing, fun, boating and family.

One obvious and negative part to night fishing for many anglers is they can’t see what they’re doing very well. So lines, leaders, hooks and other angling gear get fouled, and fishermen get frustrated quickly — often giving up in disgust even before giving after-hours fishing a fair chance. This is true for spin and plug fishermen, and especially for fly-rodders who get particularly disgruntled when slack line tangles their feet and seemingly everything else in a boat.

Carrying rimfire cartridges presents certain unique challenges. With detachable magazines, the question of carrying spare ammunition is easy to solve — just through extra pre-loaded mags in a bag or a pocket. But with revolvers, single-shot and fixed magazine guns, carrying loose ammunition can lead to the tiny cartridges getting lost in pocket lining, or getting damaged.

Hunting equipment accidents do happen. Many years ago on an elk hunt in Colorado I managed to damage a perfectly good set of Pentax binoculars. I was climbing down a pretty steep rock outcrop. As I bent over to reach below me for a rock hold, my neck strap let go and the 9x63s crashed against the rocks below me.

Wow.

By now, most of us gungy types know about TrackingPoint – the company that offers a high-tech, high-dollar technologically advanced long-range rifle system that pretty much aims itself. Find your target in the scope, “mark” it, and TrackingPoint does the rest.

There have been a series of FOIAs recently from various news orgs that have revealed the extent of the US military’s direct involvement in every aspect of Hollywood. First there was a series of documents revealing that the military has had direct input into a vast number of movies and TV shows, up to and including getting the scripts changed.

Simplicity is the order of the night, at least for fishing tackle used for catching bass, trout redfish, seatrout and other species. Use gear you’re most familiar with, and the best you own because you don’t need tackle problems at night, particularly with hard-fighting largemouths, striped bass, tarpon, snook and others.

Introduced at $20 in 1961 and sold until 1979, Ithaca M49 looks like a conventional lever action repeater with 18 inch barrel. A closer look reveals that it’s nothing of the sort — in fact, it’s a single-shot falling block with a dummy magazine tube! If that seems silly, just look at today’s 10-22 carbines disguised through the use of aftermarket stocks as G36 automatic rifles or MG42 machine guns.