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    Inexpensive action cam: Polaroid Cube

    I love making videos of my outdoor adventures - hiking, diving, caving, hunting, and so on - and I recently discovered the Polaroid Cube action camera (http://amzn.to/1IT3f5Y). This little device records 1080p (HD) video, has superb battery life, and sells at a fraction of the cost of most...
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    Smartphone Addiction

    I read something similar - apparently nowadays people are better at knowing *where to get answers* (eg how to do a refined Google / Wikipedia / etc search), than *knowing the answers*. To some degree this is understandable - we have a lot more information to deal with than previous generations...
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    Smartphone Addiction

    I completely agree, and I think at some point in the future people may look back on us and our smartphone addictions as we look back on smokers and their cigarette addictions... There's a very insightful book about this that I read a while ago if anyone's interested in how gadgets are changing...
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    Unexpected dangers in the outdoors

    Hey guys I'm moving from South Africa to Ontario, Canada in a couple of months, and I wanted to find out about some general safety tips that I should be aware of? For example, here in SA we don't really have poisonous plants (like poison ivy), but you always need to check your boots for...
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    How long to wait after a shot

    I've been watching Bowhunt Or Die recently, and in one of the episodes they mentioned that you should give the deer enough time to "expire" after your shot, and not go looking for it immediately. When rifle hunting in the past, I've always gone looking for the animal immediately after the shot...
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    Some general questions about the hunting process

    Thanks, guys!
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    Some general questions about the hunting process

    Hey guys & gals I hope you can help me out with some information: I'm a South African who will be moving to Ontario, Canada in a couple of months, and I plan to hunt in Canada and the USA over the coming years. I'm used to how hunts, meat processing, etc are done here in Africa, and I'd like...
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