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A flashlight should be part of your Ten Essentials emergency gear and your deer hunting equipment. Here are several that do the job for me. by Leon Pantenburg Every deer hunter has been in the woods in the dark, either after dawn or dusk. Successful hunters have probably field dressed a deer solely by the …
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Can a novel change the world? Maybe this one will help. by Leon Pantenburg Disclaimer: “The Black Lens” author Christopher Stollar is a friend, and we both worked for The Bulletin newspaper in Bend, Oregon. For me, the first novel that changed my perception of the world was Huckleberry Finn. That was in the sixth …
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Rabbit meat is usually overlooked as a protein source. It shouldn’t be. Here’s why rabbit should be on your menu. by Leon Pantenburg My brother, Mike Pantenburg, and I were looking for unique main dish for a Dutch oven cookoff. But this wasn’t just any cookoff – we had qualified for the International Dutch Oven …
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What lessons from the Great Depression might apply today? Here’s how my family got by. by Leon Pantenburg The stock market crashed in 1929, the economy tanked, farm prices dropped and my grandfather, Peter Pantenburg, lost the family farm in central Iowa. My people have been in that area since my great-great-grandfather, James Hallowell got …
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by Leon Pantenburg Elk Lake, Oregon is one of the major re-supply places for through hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail. Every year, a handful of long-distance hikers will walk border-to-border on the trail. They generally start in Mexico in April, and start trickling in to the Elk Lake Resort about August, en route to …
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Us equipment users find good gear and use the hell out of it. That’s what happened to the Buck folder I bought 40 years ago this month. by Leon Pantenburg In the summer of 1976, I was a new Iowa State University graduate, completely broke and unemployed with no real prospects of landing a high-paying …
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Some scout troops and camps have a blanket ban of sheath knives. I think that’s a bad idea and here’s why. by Leon Pantenburg I get it when parents are concerned about their boys handling sharp objects that could cause great harm. And it makes sense that knives, axes and fire should be handled with …
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An irony of floods is that muddy, filthy water inundates everything, but there is generally a shortage of drinking water! People stranded by standing water may be able to adapt desert survival skills to gather potable water. by Leon Pantenburg Widespread flooding is ravaging Louisiana. BATON ROUGE, La. – An act of God is how …
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How do you learn the basic survival skills of marksmanship, stalking, concealment and skinning and processing game animals? Take up squirrel hunting. by Leon Pantenburg Many people don’t know how to get started hunting. But they may be thinking it’s time to learn. There could be a variety of reasons – to supplement your diet, …
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Some recipes, like this one, are old friends. by Leon Pantenburg Recipes trigger memories sometimes, and that’s what happened when I came across this mulligan recipe. The date on it is December 16, 1989, it has a 3.5 star rating out of a best possible four. I remember why I cooked it. My favorite hunting …
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