Author: Gunner Quinn

First Lite just unveiled their brand new Forge Waders, and for the past four years, some of the MeatEater crew have been putting them through the ringer as part of testing measures. From setting beaver traps to bear hunting and, of course, good ole late-season duck hunting, the crew threw everything at these waders before landing on a finished product.These waders have been expert-tested and reviewed, and the feedback from die-hard duck hunters helped inform the thoughtful and intuitive design of First Lite’s Forge Waders. Here’s a look at some of those specs.Material: Nylon Weight: 9.5 lbs Boot: 14-in. LaCrosse…

Timothy Rawlings of Laveen, Arizona is facing a year in federal prison after getting busted for illegally outfitting hunts in Colorado—and a slew of other wildlife infractions. According to a Department of Justice press release, Rawlings was sentenced by United States District Judge S. Kato Crews on Tuesday, August 5, after he took a plea agreement.According to the court, Rawlings and his co-defendant, Howard Wayne Rodarmel, who had already been sentenced, conducted their crimes through Old West Guides and Outfitters, which Rawlings owned and operated. Rawlings booked paying clients hunts for big game animals, such as deer, elk, mountain lions,…

C&H Precision (CHPWS)—designer and manufacturer of precision optics, optics adapter plates and pistol slide milling upgrades—and Grounds & Rounds, a combination coffee bar and gun range, will officially host their Grand Opening Celebration and Chamber Business After Hours event on Thursday, September 18, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at 55 Mustang Ct. in Richmond Hill, Ga. The event, presented in partnership with the Bryan County Chamber of Commerce, invites fans of the company, local residents, Chamber members and the business community to tour the facility, meet the team and celebrate the launch. Although both businesses have been open and operational…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: In the eighteen thirties, two talented painters, George Catlan and Carl Bodmer, journeyed into the West and left the future a marvelous body of artwork time machine visuals that enable us now to form an evocative sense of the early West and its primary characters. I’m Dan Florey’s and this is the American West, brought to you by Velvet Buck. Still in barrel. Velvet Buck arrives this summer, just in time for the season that calls us home. A portion of every bottle supports backcountry hunters and anglers to protect public lands, waters and wildlife enjoy responsibly…

In August 2025 issue, we explored how several entirely different kinds of firearms, and a classic cartridge, possess the tried-and-true attributes that make them effective for self-protection or hunting—even though none is as popular as the modern sporting rifles, semi-automatic pistols and specialty chamberings that account for much of today’s gun coverage. To that point, in “Not Just An ‘Other’ Firearm: Mossberg 990 Aftershock” Field Editor Frank Melloni wrings out one of the few examples on today’s market of a semi-automatic, shotshell-chambered gun equipped with a bird’s head grip and a fore-end fitted with a strap. The aptly named Aftershock…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt 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. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation’s podcast, which has brought to you by first Light. I’m your host, Tony Peterson. In today’s episode is all about letting the deer be your teachers while you just sit back and absorb information from them. A lot of the hunting…

During the past few years, multiple new cartridges have been introduced as the be-all and end-all for the shooting sports. But experienced folks yawn at the hype and continue hunting and shooting as they have for years on end with their trusty .308 Win. rifles in hand—and the chambering remains one of the most popular centerfire rifle cartridges as a result. Every rifle shoots its best when paired with certain propellant and bullet combinations, and, for a handloader, finding an accurate recipe for the .308 is quite easy because of the balance of the cartridge’s bore diameter to case capacity.…

00:00:06 Speaker 1: Yo, what’s up? 00:00:06 Speaker 2: You’re off in God’s Country with your boys. Read and Dan is Well, also known as the Brother or Something. We take a weekly drive to the intersection of country music in the great outdoors gonna be fired up thing. They go together like man, just good dudes and the jinkin bros. 00:00:24 Speaker 3: Or a brother with brown hair and one with brown hair was slightly gray. They both have brown hair. Oh it’s kind of white gray, Josh brown gray like that. That’s what those things go together,…

00:00:30 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to a me Eater fwop episode. This is the second fop we’ve done out of Alaska. The first flop we talked to a bush pilot who claims he’s not a bush pilot, and those guys are all gone now, so but a pilot that one would call a bush pilot who says he’s not a bush pilot was fop one. Now we’re gonna talk to a genuine sea otter skinner, Heather Duvelle, a k mosy kind of the last of the dying breed, or not the last of a dying breed, the new specimen…

It was amazing to see St. Funogas’ article today (8/22/25) entitled “My Concerns With Artificial Intelligence.” Hopefully my thoughts below will add to his insights! Great minds think alike! 🙂 I deny being a Luddite, but I must confess I’m concerned about the rapidly growing utilization of A.I. in our lives. It’s kind of shocking how many devices are connecting to some A.I. flavor or the other, and I suppose – eventually – just one or two super-A.I.s, directly or indirectly. Smartphones (for all their utility, essentially a government eavesdropping device), home security systems, Alexa, cars, and even computers/laptops are…