Charlie Benton

Writer at The Graham Star

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Articles

How To Make Red Stripe Taste Better

3 weeks ago | fieldethos.com | Charlie Benton

By Rob NovemberThe sun hung low over the Western Jamaican coast, casting a burnt-orange glow on the rolling swells as we bobbed two miles off the coast of Negril. The dive boat—if you could call it that—reeked of diesel and old fish. Its wooden hull was sun-faded and pocked with years of hard living. Captain Omar, a wiry Jamaican with a gold tooth and a cigarette burned down to the filter, gave us a crooked grin as he cut the engine.
Sort Of Hunting With Dad

3 weeks ago | fieldethos.com | Charlie Benton

By Harold Scott“What the hell were you gonna do, give him a fuckin’ hug?” The words flew out of my mouth after a beautiful 5×5 whitetail and four of his smallest friends bound down the hill and out of our lives forever, while my dad and I reconvened to piece together what went wrong.
Croissants of War

3 weeks ago | fieldethos.com | Charlie Benton

By Caleb McClainI was sitting in a cafe in a small village overlooking Lake Como, sipping a cappuccino with my wife and enjoying the cool morning breeze that rushed through the open door. She took a pinch from her pistachio croissant, popped it in her mouth, and melted back in her chair a bit. “You have to try a bite of this,” she exclaimed, “It is absolutely to die for.”To die for? Really? I have always been under the impression that God, country, and family are to die for, and food is for eating.
Del Rio Double Down

3 weeks ago | fieldethos.com | Charlie Benton

By Kevin Caffey I grew up in central Texas. It’s a place where the black land meets the post oak savannah. Not far enough west to get into the beauty of the hill country and not far enough east to get into the big thicket of the piney woods. Black, sticky farmland turns to sand hills as you move west to east through my stomping grounds, until you finally hit the Brazos River. I spent the first third of my life hunting the area I knew as home.
Blow Up The Van, Lose Your Deposit

4 weeks ago | fieldethos.com | Charlie Benton

By Scott LongmanHere are two truths: One, unlike the popular perception that most terrorists are masterminds, they are often blithering morons. Two, at least some special agents in the FBI actually have a wicked sense of humor. Those two notions came together in are-you-kidding-me comic fashion in the aftermath of the 1993 World Trade Center truck bombing. As a short refresher: eight years before 9/11, a brutal terrorist named Ramzi Yousef mounted an attack at one of the twin towers.
You Kill It, You Eat It?

4 weeks ago | fieldethos.com | Charlie Benton

By Gayne C. YoungBefore he was Major Nelson on I Dream of Jeannie or J.R. Ewing on Dallas, Larry Hagman was the son of divorced parents who was just trying to figure out the ways of the world. When he was 15, his father decided to help him in this endeavor by sharing some of life’s lessons with him via the hard scrabble world of Texas politics, hunting, and vice.
Browning X-Bolt 2 Pro McMillan

Mar 8, 2024 | fieldethos.com | Charlie Benton

By Joe Ferronato I’m sure even Tom Brady had a beef about some aspects of his chosen profession, and while I have little to complain about, the bullshit of being an outdoor writer, or if you are old and douchey “Outdoor Journalist,” is you never get to hunt with your favorite rifle—the one given to you by your father that was passed down through generations, or the one you saved every hard earned penny to buy after college. Nope, you get whatever a manufacturer wants you to test.
The Red Baron Could Hunt

Mar 5, 2024 | fieldethos.com | Charlie Benton

By Seth AhonenManfred Von Richthofen, more commonly known as the “Red Baron,” was a German fighter pilot who racked up 80 kills during WWI. Most know of his exploits in the air, but some of his greatest—and lesser known—hunts were on land. Growing up in what is now Poland, Richthofen spent his early years hunting boar, birds, elk and deer with his brothers. When the war first broke out he was a reconnaissance officer in the calvary, seeing action on both the Eastern and Western Front.
Leupold Freedom RDS Review

Feb 18, 2024 | fieldethos.com | Charlie Benton

By Jeff Johnston, FE Hunting and Shooting EditorThere’s a red-dot sight for long guns that doesn’t get enough attention, and that’s Leupold’s Freedom RDS. What’s so great about it? First, it’s the fully protected type of red-dot sight that’s more durable than the scores of open-paned mini-red dots out there. Like a traditional riflescope, a machined-aluminum tube houses its electronics and optics.
AI: Friend or Foe?

Feb 1, 2024 | medium.com | Charlie Benton

Hello everyone and welcome. My name is Charlie Benton and today, I want to discuss a topic that is growing in popularity with every given day, that being artificial intelligence. In my experience with AI, I have come to understand that it has its positives and negatives. AI can be used to harm others but if used in the right way, it can help humans accomplish things that they never could have imagined.