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Feezer’s full but fans have other ideas.

What started as a group of friends ripping moto bikes wide-open in Minnesota has grown into CboysTV, a motorsports media business with millions of viewers.

Co-founder Ben Roth and the crew have built their Cboy community on dirt bikes, sleds, trucks, and a talent for taking mechanical ideas well past the drawing board. From miniature trucks and a Lightning McQueen-inspired Porsche to wildly modified Subarus… their builds fully deliver in the imagination department and then some.

Why this update is pertinent programming: Roth recently posted photos from an elk hunt with a simple recap, a two-word caption: “Freezer Filler.”

Desptie the brevity, and no shame for a TLDR photo dump but one comment asking for more Cboys hunting videos drew over 800 likes in the first hour. Others subsequently called for an entire outdoors channel.

Could hunting be the next chapter for a crew that’s already turned its own horse-powered interests into a media business? The comments suggest there’s an audience for it but drop your knee-jerk hot takes before you overthink it. Better yet, what would you want to see from a @cboystv outdoor channel and if your answer is “who the hell are Cboys,” fair enough. ...

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She just hit the century mark.

In 1960, Joan Wulff sent a fly 161 feet using a bamboo rod, a silk shooting head, and monofilament running line. One backcast, one forward cast, and enough line in the air to make a modern graphite rod feel inadequate. She’d already won 17 national casting titles, including a 1951 distance championship against an all-male field. The woman knew a thing or two about turning over a loop.

Born Joan Salvato in 1926, Wulff picked up her father’s fly rod at 10 and won her first national title at 16. She later founded the Wulff School of Fly Fishing with her husband, Lee, in the Catskills, where generations of anglers learned that a good cast has considerably more to do with timing than brute strength.

Joan Wulff turned 100 this October. ...

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A Ford dealer’s buck of a lifetime.

In the 1930s, Roosevelt Luckey ran a Ford dealership and garage in western New York. Every fall, he traveled across the state to hunt the Adirondacks with his buddies. When a short deer season finally opened closer to home in Allegany County, Luckey gathered his brother and a few friends for a deer drive.

One November afternoon in 1939, a giant whitetail came bounding through the timber in 20 foot leaps. Luckey waited for an opening, and the buck disappeared into the woods. The hunting party followed its trail and eventually recovered a 195 pound dressed whitetail carrying 14 points.

The antlers spent years hanging in Luckey’s Ford dealership before being officially measured in 1955. At 198 3/8 inches, the rack became the world record typical whitetail, with main beams stretching nearly 30 inches apiece despite an inside spread of just 18 1/8 inches.

The story took another turn in 1978 when a pair of sheds believed to belong to the same buck disappeared from a fairground exhibit. Sixteen years later, an anonymous tip led conservation officers to the missing antlers.

Luckey’s buck eventually lost its world record title, but 87 years later, New York’s typical whitetail record still belongs to the Ford dealer from Allegany County on this Old School Sunday. ...

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Worth the wait.

Graham Smith first spotted this North Carolina whitetail in 2022. After passing on opportunities and coming up empty on previous encounters, he finally got his chance on the second day of the 2026 season.

At 9.5 years old, the 23-point non-typical grossed 203 3/8 inches on the Buckmasters Trophy Records scale, making it the No. 2 bow-killed irregular whitetail ever scored by Buckmasters in North Carolina.

Full story by Josh Honeycutt ...

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The Chief’s lake has a heavyweight division.

Eric Church has 1,600 acres, lakes, and four 10-pound largemouths to his name from the water he invited Randy Moss to fish, including an 11.2-pounder. That’s promising territory for the Pro Football Hall of Famer, whose “Chasing 10” series follows his pursuit of a double-digit bass. Between casts, the two swapped stories about football, country music, and the upcoming World Bass Enterprises Champions tournament.

We recently sat down with Moss and WBE’s Brian Bird at Eric Church’s Chief’s in Nashville to talk about Moss’s lifelong obsession with fishing and The Champions, coming to nearby Old Hickory Lake October 28 through November 2. The tournament will bring 60 anglers together to compete for a $3.25 million purse, with $1.25 million going to the winner. Moss, an ambassador for the tournament, knows a thing or two about competing at the highest level. Turns out, his appetite for big bass is every bit as serious.

The full episode featuring the Chief is out now on Chasing 10’s YT channel. Catch our Field & Stream interview with Moss and Bird: link in story. ...

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The Roadless Rule prohibits road building associated with large-scale commercial logging on some 45 million acres of US Forest Service lands.

The US Forest Service has announced its plan to repeal the rule, but conservation groups like Trout Unlimited say that would degrade some of the best public-land hunting and fishing destinations in the country. With the comment period now closed, USFS isn’t expected to make a final decision until early 2027.

Full story by @travishallmedia ...

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The most famous bass in America might also be its greatest fish story.

On June 2, 1932, George Perry and his fishing partner, Jack Page, took a homemade boat onto a little Georgia oxbow with one rod, one reel, and a single Creek Chub lure. By day’s end, Perry had reportedly landed a 22-pound, 4-ounce largemouth that would haunt bass fishermen for generations. The fish was weighed on certified scales, entered in a Field & Stream fishing contest, and eventually recognized as a world record.

Perry collected $75 worth of sporting goods. According to his account, his family ate the bass over two nights.
And that’s where the story gets interesting. The original contest paperwork disappeared. Photographs surfaced decades later, but none conclusively settled the mystery. Perry’s fishing partner largely vanished from the historical record. And the fish itself was long gone.

Nearly a century later, on this Old School Sunday Perry’s catch remains one of the great benchmarks in bass fishing. #OldSchoolSunday #BassFishing ...

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Absolute unit of a bull moose.

Caleb Lewis turned his shed hunting hobby in the Maine woods into Allagash Antlers, a business that makes dog chews from naturally shed antlers.

Bull moose grow a fresh rack every spring, carry it through the rut, and shed it come winter. Finding several years’ worth from one bull offers a rare look at how his rack changes over time. Check out @allagash.antlers for through the eyes of @caleb_lewis207. ...

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Ask your dad if he has scars from this thing.

The Baker climbing tree stand was one of the first commercially produced climbing stands, and it was a marvelous piece of equipment provided you had no particular attachment to your bones.

The idea was simple enough. You worked your way up a tree, a few inches at a time, trusting the stand to hold your weight. When it didn’t, gravity took over. The Baker eventually earned the nickname “Bone Breaker,” which tells you just about everything you need to know about its safety record. Robin Risher remembers hunting from one, although he admits he has no idea why anyone thought it was a good idea.

Anybody here survive a Baker?

(Robin Risher / @robinthebaptist) ...

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Chuck Crowell killed the record-breaking buck in eastern Indiana.

With 27 scorable points and 82 inches of non-typical growth, Crowell’s deer is one of the biggest Midwestern whitetails taken so far this season. He says he expects the Boone & Crockett and Pope & Young scores to net north of 250 inches. If they do, his buck would take the number two spot for an archery-killed deer in Indiana, edging out a 246 and 5/8-inch buck taken in Hamilton County in 2011. Crowell says that the mild case of poison ivy he picked up while hunting the buck was totally worth it.

Full story by @travishallmedia feat. @stephen_crowell ...

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This one’s seen some pockets.

Ken Onion built the Blur around a 3 3/8 inch recurved blade, 6061 T6 aluminum handles with Trac-Tec inserts, and the SpeedSafe assisted opening system in 2003. More than two decades later, that combination is still coming off the Kershaw production line.

Prime Day sent us digging and the Blur wasn’t the only one marked down. We found 10 more, including the Leek, Cryo, Shuffle, and Steppe.

Ken Onion imagery via “Ken Onion: The Untold Story” by Work Sharp Tools for their YT — the full video is worth a watch if you want to learn more about the mind of Onion. ...

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