Entries for August 2012

This week I received an intriguing knife called The Viscerator—designed for field dressing—from a company based out of Wisconsin. Watch the unboxing in the video below. Remember to always share your comments and spread the word to your friends about "Inside the Box." I'll choose my favorite comment each month and award the winner with one of the products that have been featured here.

I’ve never been labeled as a high roller, an aristocrat or a member of the country-club crowd. Living up to my redneck status takes up all of my time, including fixing the leaks on my 1950s-era Farmall tractor, patching fence and spreading manure. It also means I’ve been delegated to a life of camping via improvised means.

Super slow motion enables you to see things like never before, and this week I’m showcasing a video from someplace even hotter: California.

While it’s sad to see the tradition of small game hunting apparently fading from the American outdoors scene, there’s another consequence to the decrease in the number of squirrel hunters that is beginning to impact—surprisingly—one portion of the fishing tackle industry.

I'm a complete hunting addict. It was proven yet again by a whimsical purchase I made the other night, completely out of the blue. I was just about to leave work when "duck hunting" entered my head. I wasn't remembering a past hunt, dreaming of a future hunt, or even considering anything specific about duck hunting. It was just "duck hunting." Just that thought.

As I think back to my first season of bowhunting, I remember being unsure of myself. I let all of the negatives dominate my thoughts. Will I get a shot off? Will I miss? What if I just wound it? I was the rookie, and all of my hunting buddies wouldn’t let me forget it. I knew they were just messing with me, but they had no idea how unsure of myself I really was.

Bowhunters, is your bow fast enough? How about quiet enough? If you've bowhunted long enough, you know there's nothing more frustrating than when an animal "jumps the string."

Finally, we're ready to give away the gun that you've been hearing so much about. It's time for you to enter to win the custom DPMS/North American Hunter AR-15 and prize package.

There's a simple, two-part answer to the age-old question: “Is it safe to dry fire my gun?”

Raising a newly built tower stand into position can be dicey, especially for do-it-yourselfers with limited equipment. But as this week's "Killing Time" video shows, where there’s a will, there’s a way.