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The Sleeping Bag That Quit Three Winters Before It Was Thrown Away
The Quilt Had a Name Before It Had a Hole in It The first night the quilt kept me warm, I was twenty-three and…
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I Shot for Sixteen Years Before I Bought Ear Protection, and My Ears Sent Me the Bill in One Night
I shot a rifle for sixteen years before I bought my first pair of ear…
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I Carried a Nineteen-Dollar Foam Pad for Eleven Years and Froze Every Single Season
I carried the same folding foam pad for eleven years. It cost me nineteen dollars…
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I Froze My Own Kid in a Tent and Blamed the Weather
I froze my own kid on a Cub Scout camping trip last weekend and it took me three days to…
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I Trusted an Eleven Dollar Pair of Gloves to Keep My Hands Warm, and I Watched My Deer Walk Away
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I Saved Eighty Bucks on a Knockoff Scope and It Fogged Up on the Only Buck I Saw All Season
The scope on my rifle was old when I got it. I bought the rifle used from a man named…
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I Spent Two Grand on Scent-Proof Camo Before I Learned the Wind Was Free
The first rifle season I took seriously, I spent more on clothes than I did on the rifle. That is…
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Three Hours of Gas and an Unloaded Buck: Why You Check the Gun Before You Drive
My old man only ever said one thing about getting ready for a hunt, and he said it every single…
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The Rifle Cost Nine Hundred Dollars. The Scope on Top of It Cost Forty.
I saved for two years for that rifle. The whole time I did the math in my head the way…
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The Rifle Sling I Refused to Buy Cost Me the Only Buck I Saw All Season
The .308 That Felt Right in the Truck Two years ago I put together a .308 for deer and antelope…
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The Ninety-Dollar Boots That Cost a Man His Buck
The boots were ninety dollars. That should have been the whole story right there, but I was twenty-four and convinced…
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I Bought a $200 Release Because a Stranger Said It Would Fix Me. It Cost Me the Biggest Buck of My Life.
I spent two hundred dollars on a release aid because a guy on YouTube made it look like the only…