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🙌 Riley Green, Cyber Week & Christmas Tunes + Cooking 🎄
INSIDE: Riley Green finds PEACE in the outdoors, updates to Christmas tunes, deer rifles, holiday cooking with Miranda Lambert, PLUS your last chance to save with our FLASH SALE!
WHAT’S INSIDE 👇
🦆 RILEY “DUCKMAN” GREEN IS RISING TO THE TOP OF COUNTRY MUSIC CHARTS & FINDING PEACE OUTDOORS
7-min read
Riley Green may have just snagged a Country Music Award (CMA) for best musical event of the year, but our guess is that you can find him outdoors, connecting with nature, chillin’ in a duck blind, barely making it back to stage before start time.
Catch more from our behind-the-scenes interview with Riley Green.
How did you score your trophy buck this season? |
LAST WEEK’S RESULTS: In the theme of Thanksgiving, what is the BEST turkey side?
Mashed Potatoes - 19%; Sweet Potatoes - 12%; Stuffing - 40%; Green Bean Casserole - 8%; Cranberry Sauce - 10%; PIE - 11%
🎄 CHRISTMAS TUNES ARE A-CHANGING
3-min read
Nobody’s quite sure how Mariah Carey took over Jesus’ birthday. Some like to point to a scene in the movie Love Actually, where a little girl sings the song to her grade school crush. Mariah’s rise to the Queen of Christmas isn’t all that unexpected, though. After all, pop stars have been taking over the Christmas music game for years.
🔫 GUNS FROM CHRISTMAS ACTION MOVIES
7-min read
It’s become the fun thing in recent years to be into unconventional Christmas movies: films that have stories set at Christmas, but have nothing to do with the holiday, Santa, or the rest of it — most of the time. Two movies in the action genre reign supreme in this extremely narrow sub-genre of Christmas action movies: Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. But what you might not know is that the first two films in both series are linked by a pair of Beretta handguns.
🎁 TOP CLASSIC-STYLE GIFTS
8-min read
If you have an outdoorsman in your life, we’ve got the list of classic items, all aimed to please.
🦌 A TRIO OF .30-06 DEER RIFLES
4-min read
Forget about the rumors you might have heard around the interweb forums. The .30-06 chambering is still, and will always be a tried-and-true deer caliber. Like world-class firearms and optics writer Wayne van Zwoll recently wrote at Springfield Armory’s thearmorylife.com, “The .30-06 went to Alaska when miners were still plodding the Chilkoot Trail. Without further ado, here are three great modern rigs to consider adding to your rifle collection.
💲CYBER WEEK + GUNS & GEAR
5-min read
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have morphed and created a new offering - it’s Cyber Week folks! And, truly, the deals will keep coming in on and offline through December. Yes, it can be overwhelming, but we’ve combed through the Cyber Week offerings you NEED to see.
🧁 HOLIDAY COOKING + MIRANDA LAMBERT
6-min read
“My mother was adamant that the holidays are family time,” Lambert says. “Every single holiday was something else—and something special. Every single adult in my life—my Nonny, my mom, my dad—was obsessed with how to make the most out of each and every moment. Each of them made sure that every holiday was something we’d treasure and remember forever.”