Archive for January, 2010
McKenzie Gets Her Buck
January 29, 2010 DeerThere is nothing more endearing than the twinkle of a tear in a grown man’s eye as he admires the largest buck ever to cross his property on a day when his wife told him to get the kids out of the house….. That’s probably not quite how this went down and I’m sure McKenzie’s [...]
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Wreck In Turn Four
January 27, 2010 Sightings“We had ’nuff grip comin’ through th’backstretch but that ExxonMobilPuma had the better straightaway speed and we didn’t expect the pass in the grass to cut us off” Thanks to Cory Glauner for sharing this remarkable trailcam photo.
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Gear Review: Poop-n-Shoot
January 25, 2010 Gear ReviewYou don’t have to venture out of the big city to find industrious good ‘ol boys. Not far from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, Doubletough contributor Ceth Land found these new-fangled deer stands converted from port-a-johns. Note the fine craftsmanship: custom deer, deer head, duck and palm tree stencils, hinged shooter winders (aka [...]
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Boating A Bluefin
January 22, 2010 FishingWhen the weather cools, thoughts typically turn to whitetails but as soon as the rut passes here in the Carolinas, it’s time to break out the heavy tackle. The annual migration has been a real boom for local charter boats, a winter gold rush that until about fifteen years ago, was unheard of. That’s when [...]
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Lordy, Lordy….
January 20, 2010 Asides….I just turned 40. That’s me on the left with the snazzy red Vuarnet shades, sometime around 1986 I think. The other two studs are my brothers, Hal and Reid.
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HBM Reviews Trophy Score
January 18, 2010 After the Hunt, Asides, Gear ReviewDayne Shuda of Hunting Business Marketing recently reviewed Trophy Score, an iPhone application for scoring big game developed by Doubletough Ventures, the company behind DoubletoughOutdoors.com. Trophy Score was extremely simple to use. There are easy help directions for each section of the scoring procedure. It was easy to enter in my measurements. The 1/8 button [...]
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That Guy’s F*cking Tough
January 15, 2010 After the Hunt, Deer, FeaturedThis is a cell phone photo of Jake, a hand for Cevey Pennington in Parker, Colorado. I’ve never met Jake, or maybe I have but didn’t know who he was at the time. I sure didn’t know him way back in 2005 when we came up with the logo for Doubletough. Aaron Enget told the [...]
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Fishing 101: Look For Birds
January 13, 2010 FishingIf you’ve ever done any kind of fishing, you know that a surefire way to find your prize is to look for a potential food source. This could be checking the hatch to know what fly to use or the structure for what may bring up that bigmouth bass. When it comes to offshore fishing, [...]
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