00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cal Callahan, presented by First Light. Here’s cal. If you’re going to criticize the conservation community for something, it might be nimbiism. We hunters and anglers can be quick to say no to a new energy development, or a mining project or condo expansion on our favorite piece of land. But no matter how oppositional we might be, another community has beat us by a mile. Across the Atlantic, activists defeated the routing of an electrical transmission line from England to…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to ONEX Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and on today’s episode, y’all are going to hear one of my favorite kinds of stories to tell. It’s a story of redemption. It’s a story of wildlife conservationists pulling up their sleeves, reaching down and pulling an entire species and hunting culture out of a deep, deep hole and literally saving it from becoming nothing more…

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Federal Ammunition was recently awarded contracts to supply two Canadian law-enforcement organizations with rifle and shotgun ammunition for duty and training purposes. The agreements will supply the Department of National Defense (DND) with .300 Blackout duty and training rounds, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) with 12-gauge slugs and buckshot duty loads. “We are pleased to provide these organizations with our product lines,” said Randall Watkins, sales director, law enforcement and government at Federal Ammunition. “We look forward to growing our trusted ammunition product lines within Canada’s DND for use both domestically and abroad.” Federal’s 110-grain Tactical Bonded .300…

Back in Ancient Rome, students used wax tablets to write lessons, solve problems and practice their work. When mistakes happened, the wax was simply smoothed flat so the student could begin again. The Romans called this tabula rasa, which translates to “blank slate.” No frustration. No emotional spiral. No dramatic announcement that they were “just not naturally gifted at Roman academia.” They simply reset the surface and kept learning. Shooters could use a little more of that sort of energy. Too many shooters step onto the range carrying the emotional residue of every missed shot, every bad stage and every…

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No stranger to rebirth, Colt has recently spun off an optics division to make sure that, in a world where optics are considered to be standard equipment, a fully kitted-out gun can be all-pony. To achieve this goal, in addition to introducing magnified optics, Colt is also offering a rifle red-dot and magnifier, along with a handgun red dot. The CSQ-1 is Colt’s new flagship rifle red-dot optic. The CSQ-1 uses the CSQ Multirole MRAD ranging and BDC reticle. The CSQ-1 is a closed emitter red-dot optic designed for rifles. It has a 7075-T6 aluminum housing with a 1.25 x…