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Large beetle. Dark brown. Has six legs and large pinchers.
Urban Back Yard
Lovely! Some kind of stag beetle... best guess after a very quick google search is the Reddish-brown Stag Beetle (Lucanus capreolus), but I could be wrong!
Reddish-brown stag beetle: http://bugguide.net/node/view/3107