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 Wired to Hunt Foundation’s podcast, which is brought to you by first Light. 00:00:24 Speaker 3: I’m your host, Tony Peterson. 00:00:25 Speaker 2: In today’s episode is all about our impact on the woods and why when you start to be mindful of it,…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Eroded barren formations called badlands avoided during Western settlement at the hands of scientists and artists, have evolved into classic Western landforms and sought out destinations in our time. I’m Dan Flores and this is the American West, brought to you by velvet Buck Wine, where the hunt. 00:00:24 Speaker 2: Meets the harvest. 00:00:25 Speaker 1: A portion of each bottle goes to support backcountry hunters and anglers. Limited supply available at Velvetbuck Vineyards dot com. Enjoy responsible, getting over the color green, and learning to love badlands Out on the Southern high Planes. Low down…

Barrier blind ammo is designed to pass through common obstacles like car doors, windows, drywall, plywood, or heavy clothing without significant change to its terminal performance. I recently tested G9 Defense Barrier Blind Hollow Point ammunition in 6.5 Creedmoor. I must admit that I was only secondarily interested in its barrier blind qualities. My primary interest was in the fact that the ammo is machine-turned out of solid copper. According to G9, this gives it greater consistency in density over traditional jacketed bullets. The lower standard deviation of ballistic coefficient, in turn, provides higher accuracy at extended ranges. During my…

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March 24th is the birthday of Dr. Art Robinson, who was born in 1942. He has done yeoman service to both the preparedness and the homeschooling communities.  He was the creator of the very inexpensive Robinson Self-Teaching Curriculum. — On March 24, 1964 the Kennedy half-dollar was first issued. Aside for a few that were specially made for Proof Sets is was only the 1964-dated Kennedy halves that were 90% silver. Starting in 1965, the composition of circulating Kennedy halves was reduced to 40% silver. And in 1970, they were fully debased to mere clad copper tokens. — Today’s feature…

Locals in a northern Minnesota community have reported more than 100 dead deer along a railway, where a cart apparently leaked corn along the tracks for miles. According to the Facebook page of Steve Porter, owner and operator of a deer farm in the area, he’s documented droves of deer and turkeys feeding along the tracks and fielded similar reports from other hunters and landowners.The corn spill spans from Thief River to the Canadian border, a more than 80-mile stretch that has lured the deer to their deaths. In a response to MeatEater, the Minnesota DNR said it is aware…

Armed Citizen® Today Around 2 a.m. on March 16 in Egelston Township, Mich., a man began banging on the window of an apartment attached to a main house. He broke into that apartment and assaulted the tenant, though reports do not specify the type of assault. He then began breaking into the main house, in which were a couple and two children. Reports did not specify who shot the intruder as he broke in, but he was killed and no others were harmed. (woodtv.com, Grand Rapids, Mich., 3/18/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – December 1986The owner of an Evergreen…

In the ultra-competitive and crowded market for polymer-frame, striker-fired 9 mm handguns, manufacturers seek to balance out their flagship model with an entry-level choice at an affordable price. Due to that competition, however, “entry-level” can’t mean lacking in features. Springfield Armory accomplishes this with its XD series of guns. Now nearly a quarter-century old, Springfield continues to evolve the XD platform to offer a reliable and feature-rich product at an affordable price. New for 2026, the company is introducing the XD Mod.4 OSP. The XD Mod.4 OSP is another evolution of Springfield Armory’s tried-and-true eXtreme Duty platform of handguns. The…

There are lines most hunters won’t cross, even without a game warden breathing down their neck. But one Washington man crossed those lines again and again, which recently landed him one of the stiffest sentences for poaching the Evergreen State has dealt in years.Ronald Livermore, 77, of Okanogan County, was sentenced to 43.5 months in prison after pleading guilty to seven felony charges tied to big game poaching and illegal firearm possession, according to the Washington Attorney General’s Office.State officials say it’s the longest agreed recommendation for a recreational poaching sentence in almost a decade. The sentence reflects what prosecutors…

The advent of tank warfare during World War I introduced a totally new battlefield threat to the infantryman. The first operational tank was fielded by the British during the Battle of the Somme in September 1916, and the French developed their own tanks in the spring of 1917. Although slow- moving and plagued by mechanical difficulties, the tanks were relatively safe from rifle and machine-gun fire and struck fear into the average German soldier. But, the Germans soon concluded that a large-bore rifle firing a high-velocity cartridge would be able to penetrate the armor of these early armored vehicles. The…