Author: Gunner Quinn

In November 2022, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to permanently eliminate the state’s spring black-bear hunt by a 5-4 margin. Now, the Sportsmen’s Alliance is seeking to remove four of the five commissioners who voted against the hunt, claiming that they “demonstrated incompetence, misconduct, and malfeasance” in the events leading up to the vote.On May 16 of this year, the Sportsmen’s Alliance filed a petition with Governor Bob Ferguson, asking him to remove four commissioners: Barbara Baker, Lorna Smith, Melanie Rowland, and John Lehmkuhl. The fifth member who voted against the hunt, Tim Ragen, is no longer on…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to this Country Life. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: I’m your host, Brent Reeves from cone hunting to trot lining and just general country living. 00:00:12 Speaker 1: I want you to stay a. 00:00:13 Speaker 2: While as I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast. 00:00:25 Speaker 1: The airwaves have to offer. 00:00:27 Speaker 2: All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stories to share. The Dixie Mallard Duck cof. There’s…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Smell Us. 00:00:04 Speaker 2: Now, lady, welcome to Meet Eater Trivia podcast. 00:00:27 Speaker 3: Welcome to Meet Eater Radio Live. It’s eleven am Mountain Time. That’s ten am for our friends in Forks, Washington on Thursday, August seventh, and we’re live for Meat Eater, HQ and Bozeman. I’m your host, Spencer, joined today by cal And Randall. On today’s show, we’ll interview Brian Jones from the South Carolina Schriffers Association about seafood fraud. Then each of us will review a piece of gear. After that, we’ve got a hot tip off between Giannis Putellus and…

A few years back I was at an auction where a prepper had passed away. He had everything under the sun and appeared to be well stocked in the food department as well as many other areas. While looking over everything before the auction started, I noticed a Scrabble board game. I thought to myself, “Now here’s a guy who was really prepared for TEOTWAWKI.” It wasn’t the cheapie set with the board that folds in half and no bag to draw your tiles from. It was one of the deluxe editions with a swivel base which allows each player…

On August 8, 1786, Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard became the first men to climb to the top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe. — On August 8, 1911, Public Law 62-5 set the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives at 435. The law came into effect in 1913. — August 8th is the birthday of Terry Nation (August 8th, 1930 – March 9th, 1997), who was a Welsh television writer and novelist. Nation wrote two television series, Survivors and Blake’s 7, in the 1970s. Survivors was re-made in 2008 and 2010. — SurvivalBlog…

I can already see the skepticism in your scrunched face as you read this byline. It’s the same look I get when I tell anyone that I write poetry. Unless you read it in your spare time or pursued a degree in English literature, you probably have preconceived (and incorrect) notions about what exactly poetry is.Most folks immediately think of Shakespeare, hard end rhymes, and unrequited love, or the clichéd Pinterest poems that everyone from your grandmother to your melodramatic teenage sister shares online. But like music, poetry has many genres, themes, and subject matters—and that includes hunting. Some of…

A Canadian man who played fast and loose with wildlife laws for well over a decade just received his latest punishment—and it’s a severe one. On July 25, British Columbia Supreme Court judge David Crerar sentenced Scott Steer of Gabriola Island to six years of jail time and over $1 million Canadian dollars in fines for Fisheries Act violations. Image of Scott Steer via Nanaimo RCMP.The recent sentencing has to do with, among other violations, the illegal harvesting and selling of more than $1 million worth of sea cucumbers in 2019 and 2020; he reportedly continued to do so as…

Firearms and ammunition ballistics have changed greatly over the last half-century, but one of the biggest leaps in performance hit the scene five decades ago, when Burris Optics introduced its Fullfield line of riflesopes. Three Burris Fullfield scope models entered the market in 1975, boasting 53 percent more field of view (FOV) than conventional scopes and 23 percent greater FOV than wide-angle scopes of the time. The original trio was offered in 4X, 2-7X, and 3-9X magnification. Don Burris started his company in 1971 with a mission to improve riflescope performance. Early on, he recognized the importance of quality construction,…

00:00:11 Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance. Today, I’m here with Rich Browning former Fittest Man on Earth? Maybe still is how’s it going? Rich? 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Pretty good? Doing good? Yeah? 00:00:22 Speaker 3: Uh. The Fittest on Earth is more of a CrossFit or rebuk. 00:00:28 Speaker 2: Uh marketing title. 00:00:30 Speaker 3: I would say I competed at the CrossFit games and won a couple of times when when people ask I, you know, that’s that’s more. But to my kids is I’ll always be the fittest on Earth. You…

When it comes to the major firearm companies prolific in the 19th century, many of them still survive today and are highly recognizable. Companies like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, Marlin and more continue to survive and thrive more than 150 years after their founding. But in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was another giant in the firearm world, and little remains of their impact today: Hopkins & Allen. Brothers Charles W. and Samuel S. Hopkins of Norwich, Conn., were talented gunsmiths. The pair, along with Charles H. Allen, Charles A. Converse and Horace Briggs, pooled $1,000…