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Range tips, gear breakdowns, and stories from Iron City Outfitters.
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Rooted to the Dirt: Ground-Anchor Ballast, AR550 Upgrades, and Magnum-Rifle Standoff Tables
A half-ounce of copper-jacketed lead arrives at 2,700 feet per second and stops in under a millisecond. Kinetic energy converts instantly on contact: a sonic crack fused to a metallic…
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Water From Ash: Building a Field-Expedient Charcoal-Sand Filtration Cascade
A stagnant pool becomes a survival resource. Layer gravel, sand, and hardwood charcoal into a gravity filter that strips sediment and organic contaminants before the mandatory boil step.
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Rails Beneath Granite: The Rebuilt Splendor of Ogden Union Station
Granite peaks hem the valley in raw, unbroken stone, but two miles from the base of the Wasatch, brick and steel hold a different kind of geology — one poured,…
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Chronic Wasting Disease Concerns Persist as Utah Big Game Hunts Continue
Utah wildlife officials are renewing public reminders about chronic wasting disease (CWD) as big game hunts continue across the state, according to the latest Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR)…
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The White Rim Trail: A Hundred-Mile Shelf Between Two Canyons
Twelve hundred feet down, the Green and Colorado rivers carve a table of sandstone so vast that the rim disappears into heat shimmer before the eye finds an edge. This…
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Black Iron, Live Coal: Searing a Bone-In Ribeye in Charred Herb Tallow
A calibrated sous-vide circulator holds water at a fixed decimal point, stripping every variable out of protein until doneness collapses into a formality. Split hardwood burned down to a bed…
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Six Beats a Minute: The Uinta Ground Squirrel’s Race Against a Shrinking Summer
Active barely twelve weeks a year, the Uinta ground squirrel compresses an entire life cycle into a narrow high-altitude summer before dropping into near-death torpor beneath the meadows of the…
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Ten Times the Reach: The Streamlight Waypoint LED 550LM Under Review
A 550-lumen, 100,000-candela pistol-grip spotlight built for field-ready throw distance and one-handed control — the Streamlight Waypoint LED under review.
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Utah Wildlife Seminar This Weekend Highlights Motus Migration-Tracking Technology
Full bulletin: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UTDWR/bulletins/42c02d5 The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is opening its Wildlife Seminar Series this Saturday, Sept. 26, with a session on Motus, the international research network researchers use…
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Chain Slack and Pistol-Caliber Standoff: Dampening Harmonics on a Swinging AR500 Gong
A 230-grain slug meets 3/8-inch AR500 at 950 feet per second and the exchange is over in under half a millisecond. Kinetic energy that took a full powder burn to…
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Battery and Steel Wool: Igniting Fire From a ‘Dead’ Cell in Under Ten Seconds
A dead battery looks like trash. In a whiteout, a flash flood, or a sudden temperature crash after sunset, that same “dead” cell is the difference between a controlled camp…
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The Curved Wall: Salt Lake City’s Public Library as Urban Canyon
Snowmelt off the Wasatch cuts drainages that outdoor brands photograph at golden hour every October; four miles downhill, downtown Salt Lake City stages an equally deliberate collision of light and…
