Our favorite bits of our favorite country (USA).
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It's Like Vietnam All Over Again - Part 1
Over the last 50 years war reenactment has gone from something guys at the Elks Club did on the weekend to get away from their wives to a full-blown obsession among history buffs with enough free time…
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Big Sandy
Thomas Morton gets an education in heavy artillery at the Big Sandy Shoot, where gun enthusiasts gather in Arizona's western desert to test their rifles, canons, and machine guns.
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Bares, Broncs and Bulls
We just got back from hanging out with a bunch of Navajo cowboy folks from Triple B Association—a bronc & bull riding league.
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Bares, Broncs, and Bulls - Trailer
Competing in rodeos, hanging on the rez, and trying to make ends meet in some of the most impoverished parts of the country.
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The Muscle Shoals Sound
VBS recently travelled to the internationally acclaimed recording town of Muscle Shoals, AL.
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The Muscle Shoals Sound: Trailer
Recently VBS travelled to Muscle Shoals, AL, the birth place of R&B and home to some of the most celebrated recording studios in the history of American music.
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The Oregon Fire Lines
We’re tagging along with wildland firefighters as they set up a controlled burn.
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The Oregon Fire Lines Teaser
Whenever someone at our office bitches about being overworked, our stock response is “Beats digging ditches.” While the express intention of the statement is usually not-so-supportiv…
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The Indy Mile
Open-throttled motorcycling lunatics tackle an oval Indianapolis racetrack at 100-plus miles-per-hour.
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Ride Fast. Live Young. 1 of 8
VBS meets Sturla Fagerhaug, Jacob Gagne, Hayden Gillim, and Benny Solis, a pack of teenage motorcycle racers competing for the coveted Rookies Cup.
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Norm's Militia Scrapbook
The founders of the Michigan Militia try to get things going again in the wilds of Nikiski, Alaska.
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Slab City
Welcome to Slab City, a desolate stretch of desert in Southern California known to its inhabitants as The Last Free Place in America.
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2nd Revolutionary War
VBS parses the rising tide of paranoid militia membership to gauge if the New World Order is past its sell-by date or arriving right on schedule.
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The Quest for Moonshine
Hunting for moonshine in South Carolina with the Black Lips.
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Frontsight
Tactical firearms training in the middle of the Nevada desert.
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In The Chutes With PBR
Professional bull-riding is the most intense and most intensely American sport we’ve ever been blown away by.
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Soapbox Derby
Chris Nieratko gets friendly with the competitors.
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The Firing Line
In this edition of Americana we take a little field trip out of the city to Pearl River, New York, home of our favorite shooting range/gun shop.
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Voguing
The world of underground drag queen voguing battles.
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The Taxidermist
Amy Ritchie is a hunter, a piano prodigy, and a nationally recognized champion taxidermist. We went to visit her in North Carolina and heard her life story as she expertly skinned us a fox.

Daytona Beach, 1999
Photos by Eli Reed
Bomb Blast Bajaur
Is Life Really Back to Normal in Khar?
BC Bud
Meeting Some Growers Out West
The Imaginary Republic of Molossia
Nevada's Sovereign Micronation
Fuck Him and His Library
George W. Bush Was the Worst
Cry-Baby of the Week
Uh Oh, Someone Downloaded Cartoon Porn