The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is prosecuting its first drone poaching case, the first since the recovery of game with drones was legalized in March of 2024. However, it is illegal to use drones to search for, scout, or detect deer during the hunting season or for 14 days prior.The DNR alleges that back in December, several hunters used a drone to scout for, pattern the movements of, and harvest a white-tailed buck. The agency received several complaints that a drone was following one especially well-antlered deer for several days in a row. Investigators began following this drone,…

Authorities in California have disrupted an overseas wildlife poaching operation after seizing hundreds of illegal animal parts.According to a press release, in the early weeks of 2026, an investigation began after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intercepted a falsely labeled package en route from Thailand to Fresno, California. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) confirmed that the shipment contained hundreds of products obtained from poached animals. Some named products include elephant trunks, bear gallbladders, saiga antelope, turtle shells, and ivory products, including walrus tusks and rhino horns.Many of these species are protected by the Convention on International…

(Continued from Part 1.) The following are the basic tools I use to harvest and butcher fowl: Large stainless steel bowl. I put several quarts of water in the pot (the amount of water varies on how many birds I am harvesting) to keep the meat from drying out and to help keep flies away if they are present. I also butcher where running water is easily accessible to wash my hands when necessary. Sharp knife. My preferred knife for cleaning and butchering is a medium-sized, antique, high-carbon steel butcher knife with a very thin blade. This knife is from…

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February 12, 1935: The 785-foot long rigid airship USS Macon (pictured above, at Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, California) was downed in a storm off Point Sur, California, with the loss of two lives, and 64 people rescued. — On February 12, 1873 US Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1873, abolishing bimetallism and placing the country on the gold standard — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 123 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three-Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one,…

00:00:11 Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance. Today, we are at Loophold did a little factory tour. We’re here with Bruce the CEO of Loophold, Tim Lester, the VP of product in Marketing, my good buddy Dirk Durham, and we’re gonna talk about some new product launches, what’s in the future for Loophold, kind of what your guys’ focus is, and some stuff for everybody to get excited about to hit the market. So, yeah, I got to hunt with Bruce this year, a little trip to Utah. Good buddy, Luke Combs and Bruce and…

00:00:02 Speaker 1: We still cut trees down by hand. We still handcut. It’s still work. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: But I mean what we do now it ain’t nothing like what it used to be. 00:00:13 Speaker 3: If you think about the industries that made America, it would be hard to argue that the login industry wasn’t among the most influential in making this country. Wood built this place. This episode is a fresh look at some modern loggers friends of mine, as a matter of fact, good friends. This is a story about the inherent danger in the…

00:00:02 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to The Houndation’s podcast. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about training during the off season and the tools we can all use to encourage better progress with our dogs, no matter how old they are. It’s pretty easy to let a good dog loaf around in the winter after a long hunting season, but a better approach is to just keep training while bird contacts and real world hunting experience can round a dog out in a way that no training ever will. There’s no denying that the time…

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In late 1929, when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began, the population of the United States was around 121.7 million people. All through the Great Depression, it was unheard of to leave roadkill on the side of the road left to rot. With high unemployment,  the hunting pressure was heavy. Small game, like rabbits and squirrels, nearly went extinct in large parts of the United States from being over-hunted, to feed desperate families. Today, in 2026, the estimated population of the US is 348.3 million. If animals were being hunted to near extinction when the population was…