What is it with all the celebrities these days becoming outdoor show hosts? Take, for instance, Wally Dallenbach, an accomplished NASCAR driver and current NBC commentator for the Nextel Cup Circuit. Makes perfect sense that he would use that expertise learned behind the wheel to add color to the weekly stock car races being broadcast…but [...]
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The past three or four days have been interesting, to say the least. On the final day of my most recent fishing trip I called home to learn that a storm inflicting damage on a portion of southern Minnesota indeed personally touched my life. The damage was due to hail, roughly the size of a [...]
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I’ve been on vacation this past week with great intentions of blogging remotely with my laptop…but a funny thing sometimes happens when you go on vacation. Suddenly exchanging the fishing pole for the computer doesn’t seem at all like a fair trade off. This is especially true when you blog for fun and their are [...]
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By now it’s been a few days since most of us have first learned of the incident involving Troy Gentry and the shooting of “Cubby.” While Gentry’s legal team has worked hard to put a positive spin on the negative news trying to mitigate the bad press…one indisputable fact remains. What Gentry did in rural [...]
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The behavior exhibited by some people never ceases to amaze me. Yet often this same behavior has a tendency to down-right disgust me. Especially because to the general public this sort of negative press is often attributed to being a “hunter” and the sport of hunting, not to some criminal act totally separate from our beloved [...]
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Let me begin first by saying this blog post will probably sound as though I am beating up on Ruger just a bit. To some extent that may be true. But my motivation for today’s writing is not to smear an otherwise reputable company…quite the contrary. I feel companies who perform stellar customer service deserve [...]
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Gather up as many good experiences as possible. It increases your chances of being a pleasant old person. Life is made up of moments. A reunion among friends. A first date. A birthday… We are in the lucky position to help you create these moments. Relish them because you will carry them with you forever. [...]
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Here in the Upper Midwest if you go to any local county fair you are apt to see politicians vying for the constituency vote. And sometimes they will do that in very humbling and often unusual ways. Take, for instance, the politician who will sit on a stool and milk a cow the old fashioned [...]
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Something exciting happened today but unfortunately I can’t talk much about it quite yet. Oh sure, some folks might retort…well, then why bring it up until it can be announced? Why not wait until you can actually blog about it before even teasing about it? I suppose that is a fair question…but realize I blog [...]
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Flip through the pages of any major hunting magazine and you will generally find it filled with page after page showing seasoned hunters displaying their fallen game animals. Likewise, go to any major sportsman’s show and you will generally find seminar speakers whose only real credibility is having shot several trophy critters with the mounts on [...]
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