Within the suppressor world, one of the most popular use cases is for rifles, for a whole host of reasons. Reducing a rifle’s report not only helps prevent hearing loss, it can also create a more comfortable shooting environment for those around you. When hunting, the use of a suppressor can diminish a rifle’s report so drastically that it’s possible to take game without alerting other game animals in the surrounding area. Using a suppressor on a home-defense firearm can reduce the disorientation created by concussive muzzle blasts in confined spaces, ensuring that home defenders remain more alert and aware…

For as long as hunters have been hunting, they have been looking for ways to extend their reach. Maybe they wanted to be farther away from a dangerous animal they were trying to kill, or maybe they wanted to reach out farther to kill their dinner. Regardless, the desire for extended reach has always existed, and at first, it was probably a rock that could be thrown farther or maybe a longer spear. Today, it’s ammunition that will resist the wind better and shoot more flatly and accurately while still being lethal. Winchester’s latest solution to finding more reach is…

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00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hi, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation’s podcast, which is brought to you by first Light. I’m arouse Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about finding bachelor groups, watching them, learning about them, and eventually hunting them. It’s the time of year when a lot of us…

When I have conversations with friends and neighbors about Artificial Intelligence (AI), some of them  conclude that I’m an alarmist. I believe that this is because their experience has been limited to simplistic generative AI tools that crank out artwork in seconds, or that can create convincing term papers when given just a simple outline phrase. What they haven’t seen are agentic AIs that scheme, manipulate, and cheat to reach their programmed goals, and often go beyond those programmed goals. If a stated goal is open-ended, then these AIs often improvise in unexpected ways. Recently, for example, a test AI…

This Week in History: On August 18, 1877, the Martian Moon Phobos was discovered. One of the two natural satellites of Mars, Phobos, was discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall. Hall also discovered Deimos, the other Martian Moon. Named after the Greek God of fear, Phobos orbits only 3,700 miles from the surface of Mars. This makes it the Moon to orbit closest to its planet in the Solar System. Because of this odd orbit, Phobos completes each orbit around Mars in just 7 hours and 39 minutes. — August 19, 1895: American frontier murderer and outlaw John Wesley Hardin…

The nation’s two biggest suppressor dealers allowed customers to walk into their stores yesterday, purchase suppressors, and walk out with them. No fingerprints. No $200 tax. No wait time. They bought gun mufflers like they would firearms, passed instant background checks, and left.And they didn’t do it in secret. They posted about it on X. Here’s Silencer Central announcing they sold a suppressor over the counter to a South Dakota resident who came into their shop. Same thing for Texas-based Silencer Shop, though instead of a regular Joe, their customers were guntuber-turned-politician Brandon Herrera and a Texas state representative named…

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00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cal Callahan, presented by First Light. Here’s cal. If you’re going to criticize the conservation community for something, it might be nimbiism. We hunters and anglers can be quick to say no to a new energy development, or a mining project or condo expansion on our favorite piece of land. But no matter how oppositional we might be, another community has beat us by a mile. Across the Atlantic, activists defeated the routing of an electrical transmission line from England to…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to ONEX Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and on today’s episode, y’all are going to hear one of my favorite kinds of stories to tell. It’s a story of redemption. It’s a story of wildlife conservationists pulling up their sleeves, reaching down and pulling an entire species and hunting culture out of a deep, deep hole and literally saving it from becoming nothing more…