This Week in History: On August 25, 1537, The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed. Pictured is the Honourable Artillery Company Band at Balboa Park, while on a visit to San Diego, California. — August 25, 1898: 700 Greeks and 15 Englishmen were massacred by the Turks in Heraklion, Crete. — August 26, 1789: The National Constituent Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen at the beginning of the French Revolution. — August 26,1859: A geomagnetic storm caused the Aurora Borealis to…

Louisiana waterfowl hunters will have a new opportunity in the marsh this fall after the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approved the state’s first-ever experimental black-bellied whistling duck season. Announced by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the new nine-day season will run October 3 to 11 and give hunters an opportunity to pursue one of the state’s fastest-growing waterfowl species before the regular duck season opens in November.The experimental season will come with a few regulations that differ from Louisiana’s traditional duck seasons. Shooting hours will run from sunrise to sunset, rather than the standard one-half hour before…

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) just announced that they’ll be moving forward to revise the existing Travel Management Rule (36 CFR 212). According to the press release, the revision “simplifies the regulatory requirements to enhance quicker local decision-making and increase access, including for motorized vehicles, e-bikes, and other mobility devices.”Now to translate these rule changes into what that will actually mean, you have to understand what the Travel Management Rule does first.Travel Management Rule for the Forest ServiceLocal forest managers need a framework to determine where motorized vehicles can drive within national forests. This ruling is designed to maintain access…

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Armed Citizen® Today In Riverton, Utah, on Aug. 7, a 23-year-old man entered a gas station and attempted to purchase alcohol. He could not produce an ID, however, so he was denied the sale. He began arguing with the clerk, but two customers intervened and persuaded him to leave. The man, however, merely circled the store’s parking lot in his vehicle and then re-entered the gas station, this time wielding a shotgun. The two customers who had previously intervened were carrying concealed, however, and both shot the assailant, who died. (abc4.com; Salt Lake City, Utah; 8/13/26) From the Armed Citizen®…

My birthday falls at the beginning of September, which just so happens to coincide with the dove season opener in North Carolina. As a kid, I assumed dove season was just part of celebrating my birthday. As an adult, I have fully embraced the start of hunting season as a pretty good way to celebrate making another trip around the sun.There’s something special about dove season (even if your birthday doesn’t happen to fall in September). In most areas, it’s the first real hunting day on the calendar after a long summer and an even longer off-season. Deer season is…

The world was introduced to the idea of a Scout Rifle by Jeff Cooper in 1984. The appeal of Cooper’s idea was a lightweight rifle suitable for answering most any practical question one might ask of such a tool. Thus began the enigma the Scout Rifle remains to this day, making it one of the most misunderstood firearm systems ever imagined. We have never actually seen a factory rifle meeting all of Cooper’s Scout Rifle specifications, but there have been a lot of designs called “Scout Rifles” that fulfilled the same general-purpose niche. Franchi’s new MULE falls into this category.…

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00:00:09 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. 00:00:12 Speaker 2: This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan col Callahan, presented. 00:00:16 Speaker 1: By First Light. 00:00:18 Speaker 2: Here’s Col. 00:00:20 Speaker 1: Down in Alabama. They’ve been having some slow news these days, and by that I mean there’s been a whole lot of news, but just about a very slow subject. Big thanks to listener Jimmy Styles and Anthony Crow for sending this one in. It seems that an Iowa man named Aidan throns Him traveled down to Alabama to catch a…

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