00:00:01 Speaker 1: Hey everybody, this is Clay Newcomb. We’re going to be doing things just a little bit different the next couple of episodes of Bear Grease. Sometimes we move so fast that some of our best stuff gets kind of forgotten, kind of left in the past. And I want to go back to April 19th, 2023, to one of my favorite series of that time period. And it’s our series called Con Man. And it’s about a man named Asa Carter. who in 1976 published a book called The Education of Little Tree. He wrote the book…

One of the many opportunities offered to attendees at the National Sporting Clays Association’s National Championship is the Ladies Discover Sporting Clays Experience, a specially tailored clinic designed to help new female shooters become familiar with the basics of firearm safety, shotgun-handling and sporting-clays shooting. “Years ago, I noticed that there were a lot of ladies. They would come up to me, and they would tell me that they admired me being out on the grounds here shooting, and that they would love to do it, but they were too afraid,” said Anne Mauro, founder and lead instructor of Ladies…

The National Rifle Association of America today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to strike down bans on commonly owned semiautomatic rifles, including AR-15s, in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins. The cases challenge bans in Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut. The Court is considering whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to possess AR-platform and similar semiautomatic rifles that tens of millions of Americans already own for lawful purposes. “Tens of millions of law-abiding Americans own these rifles for self-defense, sport, and the same freedoms our Founders fought to…

Steiner Optics—a member of the Beretta Holding Group family of firms—has launched the Steiner Overwatch Program, a new individual-officer purchase initiative created to provide qualified military, law enforcement, first responders, corrections personnel and court officials with special pricing on select products. It is available exclusively through select, authorized brick-and-mortar Steiner dealers and applies to in-store purchases only. Participants must provide qualifying credentials to take advantage of the cash savings. Those who qualify include active and retired sworn law enforcement officers (federal, state, county and city) as well as active-duty military, reservists, National Guard members and retired military personnel. In addition,…

Editor’s Note: The following recipe for Survival Cookies is from fellow preparedness blogger Patrice Lewis. It was first published with many photos in her Rural Revolution blog. We highly recommend bookmarking her blog. – JWR When I put up the recent post on making strawberry preserves, a reader asked why I canned it up in quart jars instead of pints. Short answer: Just about the only thing we use strawberry preserves for is as a filling for so-called “survival cookies.” Back in our old home, these incredibly delicious filled oatmeal sandwich cookies made the rounds among our group of homeschooling…

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 is all about loss in life and in the deer woods. I know that last week I said I was going to write about early season buck sign this…

The two most iconic submachine muzzle profiles would have to be the Cutts Compensator on the Thompson submachine guns and the tri-lug mount of the Heckler & Koch MP5. It is the latter that Springfield Armory is incorporating into its popular and award-winning Kuna large-format pistol. Springfield Armory has taken its award-winning Kuna pistol and added a model with a tri-lug mount barrel. Image courtesy of Springfield Armory. The MP5 was born in an era when the use of suppressors was becoming more common among military and law enforcement users, and the tri-lug mount allowed a suppressor to quickly be…

I first heard about the Taurus RPC when I received an invitation to the product launch for the TX9 in September of 2025. The RPC was a teaser, listed only as “RPC platform” on the program, leading attendees to wonder if this was another handgun (as we were there for the TX9 launch), a carbine (the “PC” in “RPC” led to speculation about it being a pistol-caliber carbine) or something else. That event had to be canceled—something about major hurricanes in the area and not wanting attendees to be whisked away to Oz. So, we only found out what the…

It sometimes feels like being a successful fly angler comes down to having “the right stuff.” From waders and boots to lines and reels to the endless multitude of gadgets, gizmos, and fly patterns, every angler has an opinion about the fly fishing equipment that’s “absolutely necessary” to catch fish. Without a doubt, the greatest point of contention comes down to how many fly rods you actually need.Most fly anglers treat fly rods like golf clubs. They believe there’s a specific rod size, power, and flex designed for every fish species, and if you want to be successful—you need them…

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. 00:00:38 Speaker 2: L I T E.com. 00:00:42 Speaker 1: Holy smokes. Do we got a writer for you today? We’re joined today by Eric…