Bowhunter Pulls Off the Impossible: Pins Two Rattlesnakes With a Single Arrow

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Bowhunter Pulls Off the Impossible: Pins Two Rattlesnakes With a Single Arrow

At a certain point, you just have to tip your cap… even when somebody is just flat-out showing off. In the hunting world, bagging a “double” with a single shot is the stuff of legends. We’ve all seen it in the movies—somebody goes full Robin Hood (or Princess Merida from Brave if you’ve got a little girl at home) and drops two targets at once. But out in the real world? It is incredibly rare. You might occasionally hear a […]

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Now & Then: Ryan Bingham & The Texas Gentlemen’s They Call Us The Lucky Ones and the reach of Doug Sahm and Band

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Texas music has always had a loose gate policy. Country can walk in with muddy boots, blues can grab the good chair, and somebody will eventually find an accordion. Ryan Bingham & The Texas Gentlemen’s They Call Us The Lucky Onesfits the house-party tradition: a road-worn singer stepping into a band that knows when to lean hard and when to let the dust hang in the air. Its clearest ancestor is Doug Sahm’s 1973 solo debut Doug Sahm and Band, the big-hearted Atlantic Records record that treated Texas roots music like a borderless language.