Earlier this year, we attended Range Ready’s “Plinkapalooza,” a celebration of all things rimfire. There were head-to-head shoot offs, challenges and incredible feats of marksmanship on display, with most firearms chambered in .22 LR, but also some .17…

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00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods 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, Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, I’m joined by Darren Durham, an avid deer hunter and a program manager at Moultrie Mobile, to discuss the fast evolving integration of AI into trail cameras and how we deer hunters can best take advantage of this new technology. All…

Every fall, the National Sporting Clays Association holds its national championship at The National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Texas, and thousands of sporting clays shooters from across the world come to compete for titles. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” feature segment above to see how the shoot comes together and how you can participate. “This is the culmination of our whole year. This is like our Super Bowl,” said Michael Hampton, executive director, National Sporting Clays & Skeet Shooting Association. “We’ve got shooters from all over. We’ve got 49 states here. We’ve got 17 countries. There’s just a ton…

On July 24, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) opened up a two-week-long public comment period as a request for information on the implementation of drain tile setbacks. Before I lose you with that very exciting opener, know that this is a crucial time for hunters and conservationists to raise our voices for waterfowl and more in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR).The PPR, affectionately known by hunters as “The Duck Factory,” spans North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Montana (it also reaches far into Canada). It’s critical breeding and nesting habitat for migrating waterfowl, but the wetlands also…

00:00:08 Speaker 1: Podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins and there is a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winner’s choosing. I’m your host, Spencer new Earth, and today we’re joined by Giannis Randall, Brody Seth Alex and Bobby Klassen. This is a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. Meat Eater Trivia is brought to you by one of my favorite beers, bush Light Head for the Mountains. Bobby,…

The VX-5HD Gen 2 is an updated and improved version of one of the most versatile lines of hunting scopes on the market. Built with an array of features, the line delivers everything required to fill tags and freezers during the magical hours of first and last light. While I chose the 3-15×44 mm option in the new lineup, there are a variety of others that are quite tempting, including a 4-20×52 mm, a 1-5×44 mm, a 2-10×42 mm and a 3-15×56 mm, just to name a few, most offered with a variety of reticle options. My test sample boasted…

Changes recently posted on the Federal Register by the Commerce Department and State Department on July 23 signal a major change for a growing segment of the firearm industry. The rules transfer export licensing of firearm suppressors from the State Department to the Commerce Department. They finish a U.S. Munitions List to Commerce Control List (USML to CCL) transition process launched by the Trump Administration in 2020. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) issued the coordinated rules. They remove suppressors from the USML and place them on the CCL. “Eight years…

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: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation’s podcast was brought to you by first Light. I’m heros Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about how we think about big deer and why that often doesn’t do us a whole lot of good. Metacognitive thinking is a way…