Many nights in the backcountry are far from dark. A bright moon and
a sky full of stars can throw off enough light to allow for reading a
book, but add cloud cover, mountains or trees and it gets dark awfully
fast. When you need to see in the dark, you have two choices - you
either turn on a light, or use one of the many available night vision
devices (NVD). The NVD could be the ultimate b...
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HEADLINE ARTICLE
March 12, 2010
Last year it became obvious the price of lead was going up through the roof, and California and a couple more states were beginning to ban the use of lead projectiles. People who enjoy Flintlocks as a hobby normally shot them a lot and of course use patched round lead balls to do so. I average 40 range trips a year with 50 shots per session and knew my hobby would come to an end if lead balls either became unaffordable or unavailable...so I started playing the "what if" game...what if that happened, what would I do.I started researching possibilities that might exist to use alte
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Outdoor enthusiasts love to guess about all sorts of things. We
guess how many stars are in the Milky Way, we guess how fast a deer
runs or we might even guess about how long it will be until that big,
dark cloud dumps rain us. But there are times when guessing in the
backcountry just doesn\'t get the job done. Specialty gear is available
to help us determine how far we have hiked - and in...
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Binoculars are wonderful pieces of equipment that can enhance many
of our daily activities including, birding, action sports, hunting, and
even astronomy. Essentially binoculars take a distant image, enlarge it
through the use of lenses for viewing, all while remaining small and
light enough to be mobile.
The actual makeup of most binoculars is fairly straightforward and
simple. ...
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The only thing worse than setting up a tent in the rain is setting
up a tent in the rain in the dark. That is a lesson I learned all too
well while trying to set up camp in the middle of the night during a
cold New England thunderstorm. Having the right camping lantern can be
the difference between a camping trip you will never forget and one you
wish you could.
A good camping la...
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For years I wondered how big the bucks were that were roaming our
property in the dark of night. After all, I knew that monster bucks had
to be eluding me during the daylight hours only to roam the woods at
night. In an attempt to reveal these mysterious nocturnal monsters I
purchased a scouting camera in 1996.
After a couple of years of using the camera I was very disappointed.
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