It takes more than a single bad decision to lose your hunting and fishing privileges for life. For Tennessee resident Jerry “Trey” Truitt III, it came after years of poaching violations across western Montana.Truitt was sentenced to a lifetime hunting and fishing ban in early April in Ravalli County after pleading no contest to five wildlife charges tied to incidents in 2024 and 2025, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks.Those charges included two counts of unlawful possession of wildlife (a turkey and a sandhill crane), hunting without a license, criminal trespass, and hunting during a closed season. Investigators say…

Making the Brine To prepare this recipe, you need a kitchen scale. Digital kitchen scales are cheap and well worth it to make a fantastic ham (especially when you figure all the time and effort you put into harvesting the meat).Curing Time The beauty of the equilibrium cure is that it’s almost impossible to mess this up assuming you did the math right above. The curing time is a function of the meat thickness, as it will take longer for the salt to penetrate a thick cut than a thin one.Too short curing time? You’ll end up with smoked meat,…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Cow’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cal longtime listeners know that I am no fan of wild pigs. They destroy habitat, out compete native species, spread like wildfire raid nests. The list goes on. So I was interested in a video that went viral last week of a humanoid robot chasing a pack of pigs through a parking lot in Poland. The sleek white robot jogs along after the pigs, who scurry through the parking lot, crossover grass lane dividers, and finally disappear…

Spartan Blades makes some really nice knives. Unfortunately, most of them are a little pricey for plebeians like me. But beginning in 2019, Spartan Blades was purchased by KA-BAR and expanded their product line to include the more affordable Field Grade models. Spartan Elite and Pro models are manufactured in the USA, but their Field Grade line is made in Taiwan. The intent is “to provide a dependable knife or tool for anyone regardless of budget.” The Talos Folding Knife is a good example of the Field Grade line. It has a 3.12 inch long, 0.12 inch thick, straight back…

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On April 27, 1667, at age 59, blind and impoverished, English poet John Milton sold his copyright to “Paradise Lost” for just £10 Sterling. — April 27, 1789: he crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific. — On this day in 1861, West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from Union. — The last day! We have been running a two-week-long sale on all of our pre-1899 antique shotguns at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sales ends at midnight tonight, Pacific Time.…

On April 26, 1777, it is claimed that 16-year-old Sybil Ludington rode all night in a rainstorm for 40 miles to warn her father’s New York militia of the approach of the British army. — April 26, 1937: The German Luftwaffe’s “Condor Legion” destroyed Basque town of Guernica, in Spain. — Just one day left! We are running a two-week-long sale on all of our pre-1899 antique shotguns at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sale will end on Monday, April 27th, 2026. Please note that some of these guns have been re-sleeved and re-proofed for modern shotshells! —…

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As the popularity of semi-automatic rifles for hunting and competition increases, many makers tend to overlook the importance of left-handed bolt-action rifles for southpaw operators. Ruger has not ignored 10 percent of the population, with left-handed versions of its Hawkeye and American Gen I bolt-action rifles. Now, the company is bringing out left-handed versions of the American Gen II rifles, starting with its Ranch lineup. Introduced with the Gen I American, Ranch models are compact rifles with a 16-inch barrel that are chambered in common Modern Sporting Rifle cartridges and feed from AR-pattern magazines (or Mini-30 magazines in the case…

For a good part of the 20th century, when militaries and law enforcement agencies needed something that could provide greater effective range, accuracy and capacity than a handgun, but in a package smaller than a rifle, submachine guns and pistol-caliber carbines did most of the heavy lifting. Likewise, when a similar need for some form of personal defense weapon (PDW) arises for everyday citizens today, it’s often fulfilled by some variation of a medium-size, pistol-caliber firearm. The reductions in weight, length, muzzle flash, blast and recoil, as compared to centerfire rifles, drive the continued popularity of this approach. However, there…