The year was 2005 when my wife and her sister had made big plans. For months they had strategized a family trip to Colorado promising to rival all past trips we had known. Indeed, their enthusiasm created quite a stir within our families generating so much anticipation…Of course, the enthusiasm quickly waned once we arrived at the destination.
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I stopped by the Smith Abrasives booth and asked the company’s president, Richard Smith, for a quick knife sharpening tip. Here’s what Mr. Smith had to say:
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It’s been a week now since returning home from the 34th annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show and I’ve been ruminating on the experience ever since leaving. No doubt about it…the energy experienced at SHOT this year was very palpable and positive. To begin, we are three years into the Sands Convention Center experience and [...]
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My friend, Todd Rost, sent these photos along to me and they are just too great not to share. In the pictures it shows his father, Dick Rost, fishing with Dick’s granddaughter, Ashley, who is 8 y/o and a real outdoors woman. Great to see the older generation sharing a love of the outdoors with [...]
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He then looked at my simple little flip phone that I had placed on the bar and proclaimed… “you just wait…in a few years the phone you carry will be all the camera you’ll need.”
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As a public service to my fellow gastronomically challenged peers heading to the SHOT Show in one week, here’s a listing of some Las Vegas dining establishments you might want to check out.
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Back during the fall of 2009 my very first tweet consisted of announcing what I was cooking the family for supper on the grill. Yeah, I know, rather boring I agree. But then several months later, and still a newbie at this Twitter game, I tried to connect with people at the 2010 SHOT Show on a more professional level.
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Several months back I mailed a handwritten note to the Minnesota DNR’s Chris Niskanen, Communications Director, Office of Communication and Outreach requesting to be included in these annual roundtable meetings. Well, you probably guessed it…Niskanen took NO ACTION on my request.
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Ole & Lena lived by a lake in Nordern Minnesota. It vas early vinter and da lake had yust froze over. Ole asked Lena if she vould valk across da frozen lake to da yeneral store to get him some smokes. She asked him for some money, but he told her, “Nah, yust put it [...]
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The outdoors is not a competition to see who can have the nicest equipment or to bring home the most impressive jaw-dropping trophies. Sometimes it takes a bit of maturity to finally come to this realization.
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