Author: Gunner Quinn

Anti-hunting organizations have launched a campaign to ruin Florida’s black bear hunt by flooding the lottery with entries in the hopes of winning a permit and sitting out the hunt. But state officials tell MeatEater that their efforts may well backfire: if this year’s harvest goals aren’t met, bear hunting opportunities may increase in future years.The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission decided to hold a black bear hunt this year for the first time since 2015. There are 187 bear permits available, and would-be hunters (or non-hunters) can enter to win one of the permits by purchasing a $5…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: How many times have we gone and we’re like this is not or even in a day, you know, like morning we’re optimistic. You know, you’re hearing bugles, you’re hearing but it’s just out but you’re like, it’s gonna happen, and then it doesn’t. Then you got the kind of the midday lull where some people go back to camp. We kind of die when we go back to camp. Why add is not good? So we either go if we’re by ourselves, we go push around bowls, you know, still and whatever. And then you have…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, I’m joined by Derek Dixon to discuss how his year long thermal drone study has helped him better understand white tail deer behavior and how it’s debunked some of the conventional white tail wisdom that he grew up with. All Right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by First Light and their Camo for Conservation Initiative. And today we have a very interesting different kind of conversation because we’re going to be looking at a number of you might call…

My first iteration of an improvised shower came about while stationed in Texas. Our unit was participating in a field training exercise and were allocated one trip to the shower point per week. As this exercise was more of a practice of our daily grind in field conditions rather than a battle simulation, our platoon of mechanics set up a minimal motor pool and for the most part spent time catching up on service work. One of the few actual repairs I was given over those days was replacing the power steering pump on a M1009 CUCV better known as…

In the midst of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648), on September 18, 1635, Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II declared war on France. Above: Carl Friedrich Lessing’s painting The Siege. — The 18th of September is Chilean Independence Day. On this day, in 1810, Chile declared independence from Spain. — And, on September 18, 1914, South African troops landed in German South West Africa. (Later renamed South West Africa and then again, to Namibia.) — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 120 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite…

For just about 16 years now, some variation of the Trijicon RMR red dot sight has set the durability and ruggedness standard for rifle and pistol optics. There are lots of red dot sights on the market — they’re nothing particularly new — but considering the greatest source of resistance to adopting the “new” way of sighting a handgun is the “it’ll just break at the worst possible moment” argument, there’s a lot to be said for one where the primary feature is not breaking. In fact, I’ve (deliberately) thrown, banged and smashed them. On one occasion, when challenged by…

The Taurus 66 is a medium-frame .357 Magnum revolver introduced in 1978. As one of the more popular revolvers in the company’s lineup, in 1999, Taurus updated the design to offer a version that held seven cartridges in the cylinder instead of the six. New for 2025, Taurus is again updating the revolver with the introduction of the 66 Combat, a handgun designed for modern optics and concealed carry. The Taurus 66 Combat is a modernized update of the medium-frame .357 Mag. revolver that Taurus introduced in 1978. The Taurus 66 Combat is a medium-frame revolver chambered in .357 Mag.…

00:00:07 Speaker 1: It’s Me Podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Hey, welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show of conservation always wins. I am your guest host, Phil Taylor, and today we are joined by Ryan Callahan, Spencer Newhart, Brody Henderson, Seth Morris, and Riva Hansen. This is normally a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. But what will it be today? Who’s to say, but there will still be a prize, with one of the players donating five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of their…

To produce its innovative PR57 handgun, KelTec not only developed a unique design, the company also invested in an entirely new manufacturing facility in Rock Springs, Wyo., specifically to produce the gun. “American Rifleman Television” traveled to this new facility to get an inside look at how they make these pistols and how affordability and manufacturing efficiency are at the top of the company’s priority list. Watch our feature segment above for a look at the PR57 and KelTec’s production process. “All the products we make in Florida and all the products we actually design for KelTec are designed primarily…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: There’s so much that one person can do. People discredit themselves and they minimize the value they have so much. One person can really change the course of things if they’re ambitious enough, if that’s their calling. 00:00:13 Speaker 2: If you will, welcome to Back forty. 00:00:15 Speaker 3: I’m J Koefer, and this week we are diving into a larger question about what can one single person do to make the next twenty five years of hunting better than the last. If you’re listening to this, obviously you want the world of white tal hunting…