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This Week in History: On June 23, 1810, John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor) organized the Pacific Fur Company in Astoria, Oregon. — 1931:…

State and local wildlife officers do their best to monitor and enforce game and fish laws, but inadequate resources and manpower complicate those efforts. They often rely on anonymous tips from locals, which is what led to the arrest of Woodrow Snyder, 28, a southern Indiana man, who has been charged with more than 100 wildlife-related crimes.On the morning of December 18, 2025, Clark County Sheriff’s deputies and conservation officers set a roadblock after a complaint of shots fired. Snyder was stopped at the roadblock in a pickup, where officers discovered multiple dead deer. Apparently, Snyder decided to ditch the…

00:00:02 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. And I want to give a big shout out to Onyx Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pipple, and on today’s episode, it’s Part two and the final chapter of our time spent in the woods with Supreme Court Justice Antonine Scalia, and like I alluded to in Part one, what we’re gonna get into and discover today is, without a doubt, the best part of this entire story.…

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Armed Citizen® Today On June 19 in Blue Springs, Mo., a homeowner called police to report that someone had broken into their home early in the morning. The homeowner shot the intruder, and when police arrived, they pronounced the suspect dead. (fox4kc.com; Kansas City, Mo.; 6/19/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – February 1987 Seventy-year-old Eric Christian stepped onto the porch of his Louisville, Ky., home to check a bird feeder when he was attacked by an armed masked man. His 72-year-old wife tried to lock the door, but the man caught her and dragged the elderly couple into the…

It’s important to take firearms seriously, in the sense that they can be dangerous and should always be treated with the respect and care due to an object of that nature. Some people, however, well—they take gun stuff a little too seriously, if you catch my meaning. They don’t allow guns and joy to exist in the same room, sometimes not even in the same ZIP code. Let me file all the identifying information off this story, just in case, and describe to you a customer I once encountered who definitely fit the latter category. Up front, I need to…

It isn’t news to the patriotic members of the National Rifle Association that July 4, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States of America. As we approach this auspicious milestone, Americans across this great nation should embrace a renewed interest in U.S. history and tradition and an even greater appreciation for the fundamental rights that have helped make this country a beacon of freedom for the world. American history and tradition are of particular importance to gun owners and not just because we value curios and relics and our cultural…

Since the 1980s, Benelli’s inertia-operated M1 and M2 shotguns have formed the backbone of the company’s semi-automatic shotgun catalog. Over the years, the models have gotten subtle updates that have made their reliability and usability even better. New for 2026, Benelli’s M2 Field models are getting added features for better comfort and control. At the heart of the new M2 Field is the company’s proven Inertia Driven action. At their core, the new M2 is just like the old M2. It uses the company’s Inertia Driven action, that results in a clean, reliable and adjustment-free shotgun. The bolt’s Easy Locking…