Author: Gunner Quinn

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods 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 Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: What is going on? Welcome to Wired to Hunt. This is Jake Hoefer and building off of the theme for the month of June talking about failures and shortcomings and mistakes that all hunters likely make somewhere along their journey. How do I address them now and fix them or identify them for…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: That afternoon, we had one pounds back, two seventy fives and three fifty, so we did a mock pack out where they had to get to the pin with this day, we kind of would help them, you know, like when they would start to kind of either make a mistake or you know, forget about something, we would kind of, hey, look at it from this perspective. 00:00:17 Speaker 2: Maybe you know, mess with your topos. 00:00:19 Speaker 1: If you can’t read topo, use the three D, which is huge from Onyx. 00:00:24 Speaker…

A few months after I was born in 1981, the late gun writer Gene Hill had a story titled “Why You Don’t Always Hit What You Shoot At—(Me Too!)” published in Gun Dog magazine. It was one of the first columns I recall reading when I decided to improve my shotgun skills as an adult. Hill was Harvard-educated but had an uncanny ability to connect with the common hunter, which is why his writing and instruction are so helpful to folks like you and me.Many of us don’t understand why we are good shots one day and bad the next.…

Taking a page from his own public land sale playbook, Mike Lee introduced an amendment late Tuesday night, June 9, to the Wildfire Prevention Act of 2025 (S.140) that will nullify the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and prohibit the implementation of a similar rule in the future.On Wednesday morning, the Senate Energy Natural Resources Committee voted 11-9 to adopt the amendment and to advance the bill. The bill will now proceed to the Senate for a full vote.The “Roadless Rule,” as it’s informally called, prohibits new road construction and development on nearly 59 million acres of Forest Service lands…

On June 2, Joelseph “Joe” Frank Jenkins, 48, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced to two years behind bars and received a lifetime hunting ban after he pleaded guilty to two felonies and two misdemeanors. The felony charges included possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and unlawfully killing or possessing wildlife, while the two misdemeanors were illegally baiting black bears and guiding without a license.Jenkins’s sentencing comes after years of undercover work from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, which started in 2022. Apparently, Jenkins was conducting illegal baiting and guiding for black bears in Idaho’s Unit 67. During…

A Montana man was recently sentenced for poaching a unique whitetail after attempting to claim it as a legitimate archery kill. According to a Facebook post by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), game wardens began investigating 23-year-old Tony Zimbleman in 2025 after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen.At first, Zimbelman denied wrongdoing, claiming to have shot the trophy whitetail with archery gear during archery season in Pondera County, which is in north-central Montana. Eventually, though, he admitted to having actually shot the deer with a rifle one day before archery season opened.Zimbelman’s case is particularly notable because of…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) just opened an investigation to “determine whether Philadelphia Police use a vague ‘good cause’ standard to cancel permits to carry legal firearms.” “I have directed the Civil Rights Division, through our Second Amendment Section, to defend law-abiding citizens from local authorities who infringe the right to safely carry legal firearms,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Law-abiding Americans, regardless of where they live, should not have to worry that their city will revoke their means of self-defense.”  In this case, the DOJ says its investigation is focusing on Philadelphia Police’s handgun…

I watched my buzzbait disappear in an explosion of water when one of the biggest largemouths I’d seen surged out from under a tangle of hyacinths. My heart skipped several beats as I set the hook, and the fish immediately made a run for deeper water. For a few seconds, that fish peeled line off my spinning reel before it turned back toward the boat.I remember thinking, “don’t screw this up.” That’s about the time my line snapped. The sudden loss of tension nearly pitched me overboard. The fish was gone. I said a few colorful words and spent the…

Walther Arms introduced its PDP line of striker-fired, polymer-framed handguns in 2021, and during the past five years, the company has expanded the line into every conceivable space, providing steel-framed, competition-oriented models, its female-focused F-Series and more. Recently, Walther has combined several PDP feature sets with a Parker Mountain Machine compensator to produce the Pro-X PMM. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: Rifleman Review” segment above to see the details of this unique, hybrid design. “Now, if you haven’t been paying attention, Walther has really flipped the script when it came out with its PDP series of guns. PDP standing for…

On Saturday, June 6, a spearfisherman identified as Daniel Turpin died from injuries sustained while diving off the Western Australian coast, about 250 miles southeast of Perth. The 35-year-old man reportedly had a run-in with a 15-foot great white while spearfishing with family members.Turpin was rushed to shore and intercepted by paramedics; however, resuscitation proved unsuccessful. The location of the bite remains unspecified at this time.Though details about this case continue to emerge, this is the third deadly shark attack within a three-week window in Australia–a statistically notable uptick in attacks compared to previous years. Unfortunately, all three events ended…