Few things humble a man like public land elk hunting. You can spend all year shooting your bow, studying maps, watching videos, and convincing yourself you’ve got elk figured out. Then opening morning rolls around, and they make you look completely incompetent.The mountains are steep. Deadfall sucks. The weather changes by the hour, and elk are good at avoiding things that want to kill them. If you look at harvest statistics across the West, the story is pretty clear. A small percentage of hunters consistently punch tags while most head home with sore feet, empty coolers, and sad stories about…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Despite the political backlash against it, The Endangered Species Act, ensuring that other species have a basic right, the fundamental right to exist, is one of America’s very best ideas. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West. How the Endangered Species Act saved the West and America. Here’s an inconvenient truth. Climate change is not the first time humanity has participated in remaking the Earth. 00:00:55 Speaker 2: Are resorted to a hail Mary to save it. 00:00:58 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy three, more than half a century ago as I write this, the…

I have a love-hate relationship with Mel Gibson’s film, “The Patriot.” On the one hand, it’s a highly entertaining movie about a topic virtually untouched by Hollywood. On the other, the movie is so replete with historical inaccuracies that one viewing is enough to send even the moderately educated history enthusiast into violent, mouth-frothing convulsions. But, the simple fact is that “The Patriot” is likely representative of the general view of the American Revolution. Though Americans live, work and play in a nation that directly resulted from the events of 1776 and beyond, 250 years removed, the actual details of…

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00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to this bonus drop episode of Backwoods University. I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and on today’s episode, we’re going to take a sharp topic turn and discuss a place and a subject that we have yet to cover on this show, the anti poaching in the continent of Africa. Now, I will give you a little bit of foreshadowing. We’ll be taking a deeper dive into Africa and its wildlife and its wild places further down the line, because I am so fascinated by that continent and all the diverse wildlife that it has in it.…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cal The Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced a record hall of invasive pythons. Biologists from the conservation group removed one hundred and seventy seven pythons totaling eight thousand to eighty pounds of pure serpent mass during the previous breeding season of November twenty twenty five to April twenty twenty six, and they did it all in a two hundred square mile area in Collier County. The group says it’s quote the greatest biomass of invasive Burmese pythons…

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Armed Citizen® Today On June 7, a woman was walking with her two dogs through a wilderness area to gather mushrooms near Skilak Lake, Alaska, when she heard a warning yelp and then painful screeching, followed by a loud roar. She charged into the dense vegetation, screaming for her dogs, and suddenly saw a black bear only about 5 feet away with blood dripping from its face. The bear was coming toward her, so the woman drew her firearm—a Glock 43 (9 mm)—and fired. The bear dropped long enough for her to see that her dog was still alive but…

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This year at SHOT Show, accessory manufacturer U.S. Palm announced that it would be branching out to offer its own line of firearms and suppressors. Continuing with the company’s hurricane theme, the new line of suppressors are called “Eye of the Storm” (EOS) Series. The new suppressors are 3D-printed, low-back-pressure designs that are intended for serious use. This year, U.S. Palm introduced a line of AR-type rifles and handguns and a suppressor lineup. EOS suppressors are available in four different models, each tailored for a very specific purpose. The EOS-AK fits within the other accessories that U.S. Palm makes for…