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The Essence of the TOC
April 29, 2009
The Essence of the TOC
Total Outdoorsman Challenge host T. Edward Nickens has earned himself an invite to the event crew’s annual shrimp-boil-and-inarticulate-grunt festival in September. Normally, a moniker like “T. Edward” would make a fella have to earn his way to the feast by performing completely asinine acts of recklessness, but Ol’ T. Eddie pulled it off with just a pen: His story, “The United States of Skills,” in the May 2009 issue of Field & Stream sent me straight back to Route 17, waiting by the mailbox for my monthly escape.
An article that covers everything from surf casting in Rhode Island to pig stickin’ in Hawaii is obviously meant for the Total Outdoorsman. Want the fundamental nature of the TOC summed up in a neat little package? Read the 50 tips, from Alabama to Wyoming, and mull over all the varying skills presented. Then go out and apply them.
The pride you feel when you do a decent job with your Connecticut turkey fan… The pure heart-pumping adrenaline you feel before you noodle your first flathead in Mississippi... The anxiety of searching for a lost hunter in Montana, but also the confidence you have in your tracking skills... These emotions are the essence of the Total Outdoorsman Challenge.
—John Davis
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Wait until ole T.Eddie gets a mouth full of cajun shrimp. Makes noodling seem easy.
Ed- Surely you could have found something better to represent outdoor skills or an outdoor tip from Texas other than "How to open a beer with a dollar bill". However, I really did enjoy the list of tips from all over the Country. It just made me laugh when I saw what Texas provided. Ed we forgive you and I hope to see you down here in Texas in June.
Brian, I thought this was a great tip...until I couldn't remember it.
Friday, the girls and I were on the way to test the new shooting set-up and they got their first coke in the bottle. You got it; no church key (bottle opener brand) in the truck and I had to use my teeth. Great.
Better idea than a dollar bill or teeth....cans.
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Wait until ole T.Eddie gets a mouth full of cajun shrimp. Makes noodling seem easy.
Ed- Surely you could have found something better to represent outdoor skills or an outdoor tip from Texas other than "How to open a beer with a dollar bill". However, I really did enjoy the list of tips from all over the Country. It just made me laugh when I saw what Texas provided. Ed we forgive you and I hope to see you down here in Texas in June.
Brian, I thought this was a great tip...until I couldn't remember it.
Friday, the girls and I were on the way to test the new shooting set-up and they got their first coke in the bottle. You got it; no church key (bottle opener brand) in the truck and I had to use my teeth. Great.
Better idea than a dollar bill or teeth....cans.
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