William English is back with another comprehensive survey on gun ownership and defensive gun use (DGUs). After his 2021 National Firearms Survey, for having the temerity to do a huge survey on defensive gun use in the U.S. that was not forced into the narrative of today’s gun-control activism, English, of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, was subpoenaed, attacked in The New York Times, ridiculed by many other “mainstream” outlets and, basically, pilloried in order to, as he put it in The Wall Street Journal, “warn off other academics thinking of doing similar research, and to influence courts where…

The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today announced Patriot Mobile as the official wireless connectivity partner of the 2026 NRA Gun Bus Battleground Tour. The partnership will put Patriot Mobile’s brand front and center on the tour under the designation “Connected by: Patriot Mobile,” reflecting both the company’s role as the NRA’s official wireless provider and the connectivity it will supply as the Gun Bus travels the country. The NRA bus Tour is designed to take NRA-ILA’s grassroots, legislative, and political work directly to gun owners, ranges, and communities nationwide. Throughout the tour, NRA-ILA will highlight key…

“The Bull” Rifle Rest by MTM Case-Gard provides a light, stable, sturdy, and inexpensive base for zeroing firearms and testing ammo. It is easy to assemble and easy to adjust to fit a wide variety of firearms. Over the course of six months of testing, I used the Bull with break-barrel air rifles, semi-automatic rimfire rifles, bolt-action centerfire rifles, semi-automatic centerfire rifles, muzzleloading rifles, and lever-action centerfire rifles. It adjusted well to provide a stable and sturdy rest for every firearm with which I used it. I have used other rests that have had difficulty accommodating rifles that use 30-round…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired2Hunt 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. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired2Hunt Foundations Podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about that last-minute bow prep we should all have buttoned up before the season starts. I truly envy people who, you know, just kind of geek…

In the 1980s, a funny, popular pseudo-AI computer program “Eliza” was a college joke magnet.  A few beers, and then dialed into a dialup Bulletin Board System (BBS) and ask all kinds of suggestive questions, just to see what “Eliza” said.  So, as a Coder, we expanded the Data File, many times over… and Eliza’s answers got more verbose and direct, like Grandma suddenly butting into your life!  That was about the start of the AI revolution, for me.  It was cool, funny, and a half-life of 30 minutes over a dialup system.  Querying a Data file, database of “information”…

This Week in History: On September 1, 1255, Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad) was founded by Teutonic Knights. It was named in honor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II. Pictured is Kaliningrad’s Brandenburg Gate. (Public domain photo by Jan Pešula.) — The 1859 Carrington Event — the largest geomagnetic storm in recorded history began on this day. Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson made the first observation of a large solar flare. — On September 2, 1666, the Great Fire of London began at 2 am in Pudding Lane. An estimated 80% of London was destroyed. — And on September 4, 1950:…

00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana, this is Cal’s Week in Review with Ryan Cal Callahan, presented by First Light. Here’s Cal. Florida finished its annual Python Challenge in July, and one fellow went absolutely berserk. Tom Rahill won this year’s challenge with a record-breaking 96 pythons. For those of you who are uninitiated in the ways of the Sunshine State’s invasive species management tactics, the Python Challenge is an annual 10-day event that provides incentives for both novices and professionals to find and remove as many invasive pythons from the Florida Everglades as possible.…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places, and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to Onyx Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle. And when we last talked, we were roughly 50 years into a story that started over 100 years ago, back in the early 1900s in the state of Mississippi. And that is the incredible story of the whitetail deer recovery after almost being wiped out due to habitat loss, market hunting, and a lot of other factors.…

00:00:08 Speaker 1: This is the meat-eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely bug-bitten, and in my case, underwear-less. 00:00:15 Speaker 2: We hunt the meat-eater podcast. 00:00:18 Speaker 1: You can’t predict anything. Brought to you by First Light. When I’m hunting, I need gear that won’t quit. First Light builds no-compromise gear that keeps me in the field longer. No shortcuts, just gear that works. Check it out at firstlight.com. That’s F-I-R-S-T.com. L-I-T-E dot com. All right. Hot damn, everybody. Joined today by John Allen, known as Mr. 00:00:46 Speaker 3: Ballin. 00:00:47 Speaker 1: And I finally…

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