Rawhide Walt Ostin Eddie Janis of Peacemaker Specialists introduced me to “Rawhide” Walt Ostin of Custom Gun Leather. Ostin is a sixgunner from Canada who specializes in turning out top-quality leather. Ostin’s Western leather is of three types: Old West, B-Western or TV Cowboy, any of which is fine for most cowboy shooting matches. Most shooters, Ostin said, prefer the authenticity of the Old West style. Variations of the Mexican Loop-style holster include the Cheyenne, Russell, Montanan, Kansas, Utah, Colorado and Texas. Each area had its custom leather workers who made slight changes in the original design by using one…

On the surface, spotting scopes have limited applications for most hunters. The whitetail crowd can put them to use for dialing in summertime bachelor groups munching away in the beans. The western crowd can employ them for on-the-job recon to locate bedded mulies, bands of early-season elk in the high country, and really any stalkable critter.That might be good enough, but it doesn’t have to be. There are ways to utilize long-range glassing to not only monitor critters, but figure out exactly how you can either ambush them, or crawl into range before you run out of daylight. One of…

Armed Citizen® Today A man was exiting his vehicle the morning of Jan. 27 in Chicago when two men ran up to him and allegedly attempted to rob him. Seeing the suspects’ guns, the man drew his own concealed-carry gun and fired, striking one of them multiple times in the legs. The two suspects face felony charges of armed robbery; no injuries or charges were indicated for the armed citizen. (cbsnews.com, Chicago, Ill., 1/29/26)   From the Armed Citizen® Archives – January 1983As he was locking his San Francisco, Calif., grocery for the night, Gene Hui saw four young men…

An Idaho man recently received his just desserts after a slew of wildlife infractions that authorities were able to identify because of his shockingly careless attempt to dispose of the evidence.According to an Idaho Fish & Game (IDFG) press release, the investigation began in early October 2024 when a local rancher came upon a cardboard box filled with deer hide, bones, hooves, and blood—well before the season opened. The rancher reported the box to a local IDFG officer, who soon realized that the box actually still had a shipping label affixed to it containing a local address. Seriously.The officer went…

The firearm world is entertaining, to say the least. Things that were once old-fashioned become cool again, but with new and interesting twists. Since the AR-15 platform hit its peak popularity toward the latter half of the Global War on Terror, enthusiasts have been chasing the next cool thing. The last several years have seen waves of interest in specific platforms, such as precision bolt-actions, 2011-style pistols and cutting-edge cartridges designed for long-range performance. At the 2024 SHOT Show, lever-action rifles were clearly due for their time back in the sun. They were everywhere on the show floor, even coming…

00:00:02 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 Onyx Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and we are officially in February now. Now, I don’t know about y’all, but for us here in Mississippi, February was always this kind of month where you would catch yourself looking around and wondering what to do. He can’t deer hunt, that’s over. He can’t duck hunt. That ended in January two. I suppose you could…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Cow’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calian. Here’s cal. You’ve heard of space lasers, but what do you know about space mirrors? Texas listener Maureene Frank wrote in to tell me about what she says is a major threat to the dark, starry skies we love to look at while we’re out in the field. An outfit called reflectl Orbital is selling a solution to one of the major flaws in the green energy ecosystem. Because the sun only shines during the day, solar panels…

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