Just in time for turkey season I ran across this blog with a series of creepy, horrible rattlesnake pictures. I guess they are rattlers, but I am not for sure…I have never gotten that close to one, dead or alive, thank God. Plus, I think they are Mississippi snakes, and they have giant rattlers down there. The snakes standing up freaked me out. I envision those evil things seeing me down through the woods and charging forward, slithering and dancing, and if that happened I’d have the big one and for sure be done. I don’t know squat about snakes, and don’t want to, but I texted my buddy Sarge, who has done a lot of spring habitat work in the South and [...]

I thought this video was bad ass from the start, but from a deer hunting perspective it’s most impressive from :50 to 1:57 seconds. The guy lugging the bike up the rocky hillside—amazing how lightweight and portable. And with those tube tires, the darn thing floats. We’ve all crossed streams and plodded across muddy fields like that. I could see cross-slinging a rifle or bow across your back with a small pack and riding the bike deep into inaccessible deer country. (Can’t tell how loud the motor is though…pretty loud I would think.) Watch till the end and you’ll see the guy break the bike down, store it in 2 sacks and stuff it in the back of his tiny foreign [...]