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Offbeat Outdoors

Messin’ With Sasquatch There’s a popular television commercial for beef jerky that features the wild exploits of the mythical outdoors creature known as Sasquatch, but a woman in Michigan says the Bigfoot family that frequents

Retrievers Behind the Wheel

Here at the Offbeat Outdoors blog, we know how passionate retrievers are about the water. Here are three Labs that showed equal enthusiasm for driving. Lab Takes Spin Charlie the black Lab was so thrilled

The Categorical Bird Hunter

On a recent road trip, my hunting partner Rick Young described a buddy as “being in love with planning the hunt,” while Rick described himself as “loving the act of actually hunting.” That got me

Outdoors Products That (Somehow) Never Caught On

There are literally thousands of new and innovative products for the hunter, angler and shooting enthusiast being introduced to the market every year, but not all are destined to be sales and marketing success stories.

Gun (Un)Safety

This week we bring you some examples of how not to safely handle firearms and ammunition, brought to you by instructors in the Offbeat Outdoors blog’s Firearms and Shooting Safety for Dummies course. Half-Baked Gun

Unconventional Bear Defense Techniques

We’ve heard about using pepper spray, loud noise and aggressive posturing when confronted by bears in the wild, but here are some examples of unorthodox bruin defense. Black Belt Beats Brown Bear A Canadian man

Ringing in the Fish

This week we bring readers the tale of two fish, and two rings. Truth, Lies and Sailfish On December 28, 2002, Eric Bartos was fishing with two friends off the Florida coast near Ft. Lauderdale

I’m Just Dating my Shotgun

Recently, I posted the following request to the fans of Pheasants Forever on Facebook: “Tell us the Story of your First Shotgun.” As the lengthy comments extolling the virtues of their favorite scattergun stacked up,

Great Lab Work

This week we bring you three tales about everyday Labrador retrievers that performed heroic acts to save the lives of their fortunate-and grateful-owners. Junior Achievement You don’t have to tell most sportsmen that Labrador retrievers

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