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    Whatever happened to walking?

    Kids sitting in cars at the bus stop 500 yards from their house does bug me. I see that every single day. My son's bus stop will have more idling SUVs than kids standing on the sidewalk. And if it is a little bit wet or a little bit cold there will be 3 kids on the sidewalk and 15 sitting in...
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    Who says they're not dangerous...??

    Yeah, if you're in Maine walking a trail towards the water and suddenly start seeing rings of bark missing from trees, find another trail. The moose don't like you. Moose are pricks.
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    What to do if you encounter a hyena while hiking?

    Meh, I bet a hyena is a coyote that just didn't get any breaks early in life...
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    What to do if you encounter a hyena while hiking?

    I've been in a lot of deep woods, seen a lot of animals of various sizes and types, and never really been convinced I was in danger. Granted, this is the northeast, so I'm talking bears/moose/things that don't usually attack people. One time I was convinced I was 5 miles from the nearest house...
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    What to do if you encounter a hyena while hiking?

    Seriously, in Africa a hyena is a predator. In WV a hyena is something new to hunt that has no seasons or restrictions...
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    Preparing Deer Meat To Taste Like Beef

    Best point of view on this. Easily the best. I have had conversations with people who will take risks that could leave their family in serious financial straits. These folks pretty commonly say things like "I'm not afraid for my family to be hungry for a bit if it pays off in the end. No...
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    Re-Season Dutch Oven & pics

    I have always used whatever food oil I had on hand. I find I have to reseason more often due to cooking something that fouled it up like fish or tomatoes than I do for it going rancid.
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    Machine Converts Trash to Oil

    It's more than the money, though. If I don't have to recycle my plastics then the city doesn't have to send a truck to my house to pick up my recycling. That's a win. Given that both my furnace and water heater are diesel/heating oil fired this would be a major improvement to the way my house...
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    Machine Converts Trash to Oil

    It is possible... but the gov't and big oil don't want us to do it...
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    Machine Converts Trash to Oil

    I would pay more than the current cost of oil to be able to empty my recycling bin into a machine and get heating oil out of it. That would be solving a whole bunch of problems all at once for me personally as well as the world in general.
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    finding a good knife i mind boggling hard. suggestions?

    My main carry on hikes is a Sog Seal Pup Elite. Great knife... but like he said... most of the time when I need a knife out there I'm going to pull out the multitool instead.
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    finding a good knife i mind boggling hard. suggestions?

    I think you're overthinking. Buy some knives with a good reputation, use them, and discover for yourself which ones you prefer for which purposes. There is no simple tool that does everything well.
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    Machine Converts Trash to Oil

    I would pay a lot of money for one of those to turn plastics into heating oil (diesel). Feed it right into the 250gal tank in my basement. I put so much plastic into the recycling bin every week it ticks me off to think we could be doing something useful with it.
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    Canoe or kayak?

    I love all of the "I once saw some people who didn't know what they are doing so that proves an absolute" stories... :) Both boats can do just about anything the other can do. It's just a question of environment, experience, and needs of the day.
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    Survival Water Purification...

    He was talking about Fukushima, though, which means the only way that could spread to inland water would be through the air.
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