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Photos: 15 Taxidermy Jobs That Will Haunt Your Dreams
Sometimes even bad taxidermy can be fun, as long as you're not the one paying for it. As we showed in our list of 15 taxidermy fails that deserve a refund, a botched mount can occasionally be downright hilarious. Sometimes, however, you don't want the thing anywhere in your house, and especially not at night. While not all of the examples below necessarily fall under the category of "bad taxidermy," they are certainly residents of the uncanny valley. We're not sure what it is that creeps us...
Give Snow Goose Hunting a Shot This Spring
If you’re a waterfowl hunter, you’re accustomed to a plug in your gun’s magazine that limits you to three shots at a time. You're also used to strict bag limits and possession limits. But a hunter pursuing snow geese in the spring has no such restrictions. From Arkansas to the Canadian border, snow geese make their way north each spring in numbers that are hard to fathom. Goose hunters lie in wait all along the way, hoping to make a dent in the incredibly high population.
It wasn’t always this way. Snow geese rebounded from very low populations and the middle part of the 1900s. But...
Video: Dog Saves Other Canines in Adrift Canoe
Dogs may be man's best friend, but there's nothing preventing them from working well with other canines. In what appears to be a training exercise, this dog is quick to rescue its stranded companions by towing their canoe back to shore. What we're unsure of is whether the other dogs were simply good actors, or if they were genuinely in a panic over the thought of being adrift.
Is this something you would be willing to teach your four-legged hunting buddy? It might just come in handy.
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Photographer Captures Images of Tribesmen Hunting with Cheetahs
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Post by Jack Somerville Photography.
Photographer Jack Somerville originally journeyed to the African coastal nation of Namibia in search of wildlife found nowhere else in the world, but he left with pictures of local hunters instead. The 26-year-old photographer and wildlife conservationist captured extraordinary images of San tribesmen hunting with bows and arrows alongside the...
Italian Angler’s Whale of a Catfish is Just Short of World Record
Italian angler Dino Ferrari is no stranger to large wels catfish, but the one he caught last Thursday was big enough to send his team scrambling to see if it broke any records. Unfortunately for Ferrari, his massive 280-pound catfish came just short of the current world record, which according to the International Game Fish Association, belongs to a 297-pound, nine-ounce wels taken by Attila Zsedely in 2010. Like Ferrari's catch, that fish also came from the Po Delta in Italy. A hasty measurement of the fish found it to be just under nine feet in length.
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Video: 28-point “Mean Gene” Buck Confirmed as New Minnesota Muzzleloader Record
Over the weekend, Boone and Crockett measurers set to work on scoring Stan Kreidermacher's massive 28-point buck, which he harvested late last year on the final day of Minnesota's muzzleloader season. To little surprise, the rack ended up measuring an impressive 248 and 5/8 inches, displacing the current state record for a non-typical muzzleloader buck.
"When I shot this deer I had no idea what it was," the 60-year-old hunter told Read more »
5 Guns You Should Buy with Your Tax Refund
For many Americans, a very special time of the year is right around the corner: tax refund season. Though millions will be putting their refund money into savings accounts, toward tropical vacations, or other boring pursuits, gun owners know that the best way to spend their free money is on more firepower.
As I look forward to my own refund, I’ve reached deep into my brain banks to figure out which guns I can blow it on---and which ones everyone else should spend their money on, too. Here are a few of my top picks. I tried to keep my selections limited to the “typical middle class...
Trail Cam Footage Shows Lee and Tiffany Lakosky Finding a Monster Buck’s Shed
The most famous hunting couple, Lee and Tiffany, stopped by to add some alfalfa to their feeder and it was all caught on camera by The Crush Live Deer Cam. While filling the feeder, their dog Tanker found a massive shed from a very well-known deer named Anvil. Watch the clip and see if you can guess the score of the monster buck this shed came from.
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Video: How to Cut Rope with Rope and 9 Other Survival Hacks
Have you ever tried cutting rope with more rope? How about opening canned food with your bare hands? YouTube personalities CrazyRussianHacker (real name Taras Kulakov) and KGB Survivalist know their stuff when it comes to survival tricks, and they show off some of them below. Regardless of whether or not they really do come from Russia---or where they got those accents---these two men are more than happy to share the more unorthodox side of wilderness...
Video: Endless Deer Migration in Hungary
Hungary has a respectable population of red stag, roe, and fallow deer, yet motorists aren't accustomed to traffic jams caused by huge roving herds like the one seen in this clip. According to the video's description, the footage was taken in Somogy County in southwestern Hungary, where a near-endless line of deer had motorists sitting in their cars.
Have you ever seen a larger deer herd?
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Alabama Launches Comprehensive Study as Turkey Population Declines
Earlier this month the Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division (WFF) announced that it will be launching the most comprehensive long-term wild turkey study in the state's history, alongside Auburn University. The five-year project is aimed at analyzing the reproduction, survival, and harvest rates of the species in Alabama, which is seeing a significant decline of wild turkeys over the past five years.
The Eastern wild turkey is by far the state's most popular game bird,...
Young Angler’s First Blue Marlin is a 1,058-pound Beast
A 16-year-old from New York City set a high bar for himself last week when he caught a 1,058-pound blue marlin off the coast of Hawaii.
Though it was Kai Rizzuto's first blue marlin, he is hardly a stranger to saltwater fishing. The teenager said he has been fishing since he could walk and apprenticed as a deckhand on another charter boat two years ago. In fact, Rizzuto was visiting with his grandfather, famed author and fisherman Jim Rizzuto, when he caught the huge fish.
"He has quite a bit of experience in big game fishing, but this was the first time that he has been the guy on...
New York Lawmaker Wants to Ban Machetes under “Deadly Weapons” Law
New York State Senator Tony Avella (D-Queens) caused a bit of controversy last week when he unveiled a bill that would add machetes, a common outdoor tool, to the list of "deadly weapons" in New York's penal code. That list already includes such things like switchblades, gravity knives, and firearms. The New York Daily News first reported last Thursday that Avella's bill would outright ban the possession of machetes in the state, with penalties including up to a year...
How to Camouflage Your Gun (and Almost Anything Else) with Mossy Oak Graphics
Over the course of my hunting career, I’ve gone back and forth on whether I should treat my firearms as works of art to or simple tools to get a job done. Truth be told, I own guns that fall into each category. But my field guns are all tools; part of a system meant to help me get as close to game as possible and ultimately make a clean, one-shot kill. In every case in which I’m trying to get the game to come to me, it’s imperative that the gun blends in with the background.
There are many ways to accomplish this. I’ve tried most, including taking the dull-finish duck boat spray...
9 Bizarre Fishing Laws That Are Actually Real
In a previous article, we outlined five popular US hunting "laws" that were actually myths. A same, if not greater, number of rumors persist for fishing, but this time we're going to cover the laws that actually exist. If you've ever tried reading through your state's game fish regulations---such as Utah's for example---you'll quickly find yourself confronted with pages upon pages of rules on what you can use for...
Video: Young Grizzly Fights 4 Gray Wolves over Dinner
When you have to eat, you have to eat. As two top predators that often share the same environment, clashes between grizzly bears and wolves are often inevitable. Most of the time, wolf packs and grizzlies leave each other alone. A fight between the two species can be brutal and short---bears have the sheer brawn, but wolves have the numbers. However, a young grizzly striking out its own has almost no chance against four grown wolves, yet this one seems intent on grabbing some dinner---the same dinner that the wolves are eating.
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Video: Goliath Grouper Handlined from Shore
Pulling in a 400-pound goliath grouper by hand is no easy feat. Goliath groupers are a massively powerful fish and they have been known to attack anglers, divers, and even small sharks that get in their way---or look like food. Like underwater bears, groupers are known for their curiosity and will attempt to eat about just everything, which in this case was a jack crevalle for bait.
The grouper was later caught and released, but not before giving the fisherman a scornful look for taking its dinner away.
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Mountain Lion Spotted on Michigan Hunter’s Trail Cam
Mountain lion sightings in Michigan's Upper Peninsula are rare events (there's no significant cougar population in the state), but one has been spotted prowling in Mackinac County recently. On Thursday, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirmed that the large cat recorded by a hunter's trail camera in December was indeed a mountain lion.
"This marks the 28th time that cougar evidence has been verified in the Upper Peninsula since 2008," the DNR stated on its Facebook page.
Two hunters from Remus placed the camera near a...
Frigid Temperatures Freeze Great Lakes, Could Beat Last Year’s Ice Coverage
Freezing Arctic temperatures may be good for ice fishermen and sightseers on the Great Lakes, but few expected this year's deep freeze to trump 2014's 92.5 percent ice coverage, which made last year the second iciest since 1973. Yet frigid temperatures have advanced ice cover across the lakes, which according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), reached 80.9 percent on Thursday.
Experts said that in recent days, 2015's ice coverage has been consistently outpacing last year's ice growth, leading many to expect that...
7 Horrible Handgun Designs That Somehow Made It into Production
Where it comes to firearm design, there are a lot of things that go wrong. This is especially true when an inventor gets it in their mind to improve upon the technology of their era, and what often results is a gun that is ugly as sin, boasts the ergonomics of a cantaloupe, and is probably not very safe to boot. For whatever reason, the guns in this list should have never made it off the drawing board, much less into production.
1. Type 94 Nambu
Although in some ways Japan was trailing its European and American counterparts during World War Two, the island nation was capable of producing...