00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan col Kalahan. Here’s Cal. Last week we brought you news of a coyote who swam to and from the Rock. Ah, that was a bad Sean Connery, let me give it to you this way, your best Losa’s only whine about doing that best The Rock is that better? It’s got to be better. Couldn’t finish that quote. Go watch The Rock, which if you listened last week you already have. It’s a wonderfully bad movie, but fantastic Nick Cage…

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To look into the future, we only have to visit the past, and how other cultures adapt to their circumstances. Long ago and far away, I lived just south of Copenhagen, Denmark for a while, and then on the oldest and once largest farm still standing on the Island of Bornholm that was first in Swedish territory, and then Danish territory. The farm had been established in the 1700s. In the end,  I was so immersed in the culture and language that locals did not believe I was an American.  More often than not, given my accent, they thought I…

May 31, 1930 was the birthday of actor/director/producer Clint Eastwood.  Happy 96th birthday! — On the 31st of May 1970, an earthquake off the coast of Peru caused a substantial section of the north slope of Mt. Huascaran to collapse. The avalanche moved downhill at a speed estimated at 175 to 210 mph. with a mass of roughly 80 million cubic meters of ice, mud, and rock. The avalanche traveled nearly 11 miles, burying the towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca in up to 300 feet of rock and debris. It is estimated that this earthquake and avalanche killed more than…

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The lever-action renaissance is not slowing down, with new models introduced that both celebrate the heritage and history of the design and those that attempt to take the lever gun to its most modern and tactical extremes. Derya Arms got its start importing firearms from its parent company in Turkey and now has a manufacturing base in the U.S. as well. The company’s latest entry in the lever-action market, the RAN series of rifles and pistols, seeks to “reimagine” the modern lever gun. Derya Arms new RAN series of lever-action rifles combine traditional and modern features. The basis of the…

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So, the Maryland “Glock ban” legislation’s  (SB 334) synopsis says: “Prohibiting, on or after January 1, 2027, a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, receiving, or transferring a certain machine gun convertible pistol, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the Department of State Police to adopt regulations to implement the requirements of the Act, including publishing a list of prohibited machine gun convertible pistols; etc.” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed the legislation into law. The “certain machine gun convertible pistol(s)” they are referring to are, essentially, Glocks; specifically, however, the Maryland statute excludes hammer-fired semiautomatic pistols and striker-fired…

In October of 2024, Dustin Kjersem drove into the mountains south of Bozeman, Montana, to prepare for a romantic weekend of camping.He was never seen alive again.When his girlfriend finally discovered his body, she thought he’d been attacked by a bear. But the truth, it turned out, was far more disturbing.To find Dustin’s killer, investigators followed a trail that led through a bloody campsite, a missing axe, two tequila glasses, and a pair of cell phones found by a man who claimed he saw them in a dream.This is a story about finding justice for a man who had never…

Without question, the most popular rifle platform in the United States is the AR-15, and for good reason. It offers a number of benefits and has a wide aftermarket parts and accessories available. But it isn’t a perfect design, and one man, Alex Robinson, took it upon himself to address what he saw as several shortcomings in the AR-15 design. He consulted with special forces operators and asked what they wanted in a rifle platform. The result was the Robinson Armament XCR design, and we took a look at the design in our latest “Gun of the Week” episode above.…