Author: Gunner Quinn

For more than 60 years, Charter Arms has produced a lineup of innovative, simple, durable and affordable revolvers in New England’s historic “Gun Valley.” One of the company’s most successful models is its Pathfinder series of rimfire “kit guns” that is nearly as old as the company itself. New for 2025, the company is updating the model with the Pathfinder II. Like all Charter Arms revolvers, the Pathfinder II is a double-action/single-action handgun with a swing-out cylinder that uses a one-piece frame. In the Pathfinder II’s case, the frame is made of 7075 aluminum and given an anodized finish. The…

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00:00:05 Speaker 1: The story of Ishi, the last Yahee Indians showing up in Oraville, California, nineteen eleven has got to be one of America’s most fascinating stories. This episode is more redemptive in some ways than the first, but ultimately the scales tip toward it being even more tragic. These events took place between September fourth, nineteen eleven and March twenty fifth, nineteen sixteen, when Hi died, but it wouldn’t be into the nineteen nineties, when Ishi’s remains were put back into the dirt of his homeland that this story really ends. But if you’re a bowhunter, the ripples…

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Taurus has long been known for its extensive line of affordable handguns and revolvers, but last year, the company expanded into an entirely new realm: rifles. With its new Expedition bolt-action, Taurus now offers an affordable, versatile rifle that’s suitable for a range of tasks. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” Rifleman Review segment above to see the details of this modular, competition-style precision arm. “ Taurus has entered the bolt-action rifle market in a big way with its new Expedition rifle,” American Rifleman Editor In Chief Brian Sheetz said. “Now, immediately, you notice about this gun that the stock has a…

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00:00:02 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to The Houndation’s podcast. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about road trips in search of hunting adventure with our four legged counterparts. How to make them go smoothly because sometimes they don’t. Tis the season to load up the pups and point your truck somewhere wild and birdy. This month, all kinds of upland and waterfall seasons will open up, and a hell of a lot of us will head out somewhere for a little feathery adventure. Some of us won’t have a good time, though, and that might…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: Seth. 00:00:01 Speaker 2: Welcome back to Refresh. This is Jake Hoefer and this week we are doing this a little bit from a mobile studio. I’m just wrapping up a new Mexico ELK trip and we have a great episode with a variety of guests Ohio, Pennsylvania, Who’s going to New Jersey? And we have Mark Kenyon kicking off the episode. Before we get into all the guests and all the intel, I want to say that Refresh is brought to you by land dot com, the leading online real estate marketplace you find your perfect…

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00:00:07 Speaker 1: It’s Me podcast. Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer Newhart and today we’re joined by Jannis, Brody, Randall, Seth, Corey, Maggie and Jordan. This is a ten round quiz show with questions for meat Eater’s four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking, and there’s a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing Jordan, Welcome to the show. It’s been a minute since you’ve been here. 00:00:37 Speaker 2: It has Yeah, thank you. 00:00:38 Speaker…

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(Continued from Part 1.) CLASSES OF PREPPERS Truly prepared preppers – These preppers took things seriously, even if the chance of a SHTF event wasn’t highly probable. They weighed the probabilities against the consequences of not being prepared and chose to prepare. For many, the self-reliance skills learned, knowledge gained, and talents developed while prepping made it worth it, SHTF or not. The psychological benefit of being ready for anything is also a big plus. The most prepared preppers will have a written plan to employ as soon as they realize that today’s The Day. They’ve done simulations and practice…

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October 8, 1480: Great Stand on the Ugra River: A standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and Ivan III, Grand Prince of all Rus (pictured), ended with a Tatar-Mongol retreat, leading to the disintegration of the Horde. Ivan III, a.k.a. Ivan The Great, sometimes referred to as the “gatherer of the Russian lands”, tripled the territory of his state, ended the dominance of the Golden Horde over the Rus, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the Russian state. — October 8th, 1947 was the birthday of economist and libertarian commentator J.…

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Earlier this fall, a hunter shot his first archery bull elk deep in the northern Idaho backcountry—and then accidentally stabbed himself in the leg while processing his kill. It’s the kind of freak accident that could befall any hunter. Here’s how it went down and the lessons from the harrowing experience.Benjamin Wardell of Post Falls, Idaho, had been archery hunting for five or six years without accomplishing what many Western hunters consider to be the pinnacle of big game bowhunting: tagging a bull elk. On the second weekend of September, Wardell took his dirt bike up a ridge on rugged…

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The votes are in, and we have a winner! Wisconsin has officially been crowned the “Best Whitetail State” after beating out Minnesota with 54% of the votes.With an estimated deer population of 1.6 million and over 6.6 million acres of public land, it’s no wonder The Badger State is a whitetailer’s paradise. To see the full rundown of the October Madness, Best Whitetail State bracket, click here.Janis Putelis repped Wisconsin in this bracket and has a good reason why: “My favorite whitetail state is Wisconsin. It’s got the hardcore deer culture of Michigan AND big bucks. It’s also where I…

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