This time of year might not seem relevant for deer hunting, but if you want to find consistent success like some of the best big buck hunters, you might want to change your offseason approach.But don’t just take it from me. I spoke with MeatEater’s Mark Kenyon, who knows a thing or two about chasing mature bucks. Mark has also interviewed the best deer hunters across the country, so he’s a bit of an encyclopedia when it comes to whitetail knowledge. Whether you hunt private or public lands, here are a few things he and the other experts do in…

If the gun-control Left is to be believed, then the murder rate in the U.S. should be going up, up, up; after all, gun sales and ownership rates have been rising for the last few decades and the anti-gun groups claim that gun ownership is the cause of violent crime. This, of course, is nonsense. No metric shows that more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens increases crime. But, as crime is a complex topic, for answers we reached out to John Lott for this episode of The Armed Citizen Podcast. Lott, of course, is the author of the…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Where the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, the Colorado Plateau, and the southwestern deserts converged to create New Mexico. There is more ecological variety than in any interior Western state. 00:00:15 Speaker 2: I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American. 00:00:18 Speaker 1: West, understanding nature in a southwestern state. In the first fifteen years of the two thousands, I spent part of my time in Montana, part in New Mexico. That experience drove home a fact of modern Western life I’d never considered, namely, how little inhabitants of any part of the West often know…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show. On this week, we talked to a former smoke jumper who wants your vote. Spencer Catches, I mean reports on a forty four thousand dollars Iowa walleye. Some weird old people are being weird about swans and other waterfowl in North Carolina. We’ve got a few grizzly tags here in Montana going down, including a fatality. Spear fishermen are coming for your walllwyse in Michigan and I’m joining them. And Doctor Randall reports on public lands transfers in Alaska, plus a whole lot more. Welcome, But first is always our news. 00:00:39…

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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 everyone, welcome to the wire to Hunt Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by first Light. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about the not so secret cheat code to life. It also happens to help us become much better hunters, which is curiosity.…

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On May 12, 1215, English barons served an ultimatum on King John. This eventually led to the creation and signing of the Magna Carta. –– May 12, 1942: A German U-boat sank a American cargo ship at the mouth of the Mississippi River. In 1942 and 1943, German submarines sank 56 ships in the Gulf region and damaged another 14. To prevent panic, the U.S. Office of Censorship limited press coverage of the sinkings. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. This is the final round of the contest.…

I believe I’m going into my sixth year raising dairy cattle on a very small scale.  Every time I think I’ve got this figured out, something surprises me.  I thought I would share an update, a general overview, of things I’ve learned so far.  Remember that I have a very small farm, and knew absolutely nothing when I started.  This is not a “How To”, as there are far more experienced folks than I am. My dad was an engineer and my mom was a school teacher, so I grew up in suburbia.  In my grandparents’ generation, the fathers were…

Armed Citizen® Today On the afternoon of May 3 in Philadelphia, a homeowner discovered a woman trying to break into his home through a back window. He warned her to stop but the woman continued inside anyway, causing the homeowner to fire shots at her. The homeowner then tried to render aid, but the woman was later pronounced dead at the hospital. “At some point, the occupants of the home did make themselves known that they were inside, and this person refused to, based on the information we have, refused to stop,” a police investigator told reporters. “It appears that…