00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired2Hunt 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. 00:00:21 Speaker 3: Welcome to the Wired2Hunt Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. I’m your host, Tony Peterson. And today’s episode is all about early season deer sign and how you can use it to fill your September buck tags. For a heck of a lot…

The Mingo Ultimate Firewood Marker enables someone who is processing firewood to buck logs into rounds of remarkably uniform length. It does this by placing a spot of inverting marking spray at precise intervals onto a log that is being prepared for bucking. This precision is especially helpful for those who heat with smaller wood stoves. The fireboxes of smaller stoves have less margin for error than the fireboxes of larger stoves. A piece of cordwood even one inch too long can make it impossible to shut the door on the firebox of a smaller stove. Variations of the Marker…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: What’s long been considered the very first gunfight of the old western frontier took place three months after Appomattox, that is, three months after the end of the Civil War, on July 21, 1865. It happened in the scraggly village of Springfield, Missouri, down toward the state’s southwest corner, just before 6 o’clock at the beginning of a warm Friday evening. Around the town square, a crowd had formed. As everyone watched, two men stepped out into the open Both were gamblers in town. They had argued over a pocket watch one of them seized from the…

We finally did it. We crossed 40 trillion dollars ($40,000,000,000,000) in national public debt on August 18, 2026. Congratulations to all the people who said we could get there if our politicians were just a little more irresponsible, foolish, short-sighted, careless, feckless, and every other way to describe our national march toward the cliff. We did it at even a faster pace than anticipated. Now, we can get to 80 trillion even faster. Forward, March over the Cliff into the Economic Collapse, Fellow Americans! As you are reading this, the United States has already crossed a critical milestone: The United…

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This Week in History: On September 15, 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara, (Sekigahara Kassen Byōbu『関ヶ原合戦屏風』) marked the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan. — September 15, 1774: Cossack pretender to the Russian throne Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev was captured. — On September 16, 1620 the Mayflower departed Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World. — September 17,1776: The fortress Presidio of San Francisco was founded in New Spain to gain a foothold in Alta California and secure the San Francisco Bay for Spain. — And on September 18, 1851, the first edition of The…

Armed Citizen® Today In Lehigh Acres, Fla., on Aug. 31, a man was told to leave the property of another man, but refused to comply. Instead, he reportedly followed the other man and shoved him down using a pickaxe, then threatened to strike him with it. The man on the ground responded by shooting the suspect. The suspect now faces one charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. (gulfcoastnewsnow.com; Ft. Myers, Fla.; 9/4/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – June 11, 1987 Hearing a noise in his Camden, N.J., home, Clinton Tabb decided to investigate. Arming himself, the homeowner…

The Sunshine State just opened its application period for its recently revived black bear season. Last year, after a decade’s long hiatus, Florida reopened its black bear season after the state’ Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) felt the population (approximately 4,000) supported limited hunting opportunities.That decision, however, was met with backlash by antihunters within the state, especially the Sierra Club’s Florida chapter. The anti-hunting organization concentrated efforts to “buy up all the tags to keep them out of hunters’ hands” in their “Spare a Bear, Bag A Tag!” campaign. This year, the anti-hunting organization looks to continue their cause.Results from…

In the world of precision rifle shooting and long-range hunting, Finnish-manufacturer Tikka has made quite the splash over the past decade with its T3x line of bolt-action rifles. Last year, the company released the T3x Ace, a chassis rifle set up in “Game” (hunting) and “Target” (PRS) versions, the Target version of which was American Rifleman’s 2026 Golden Bullseye winner for Rifle of the Year. Lefties of the world unite and rejoice, as the company has announced left-hand versions of its award-winning models. The left-handed Ace models follow the righty versions. At their core is the T3x action, an update…

This week the Jordan Buck was officially supplanted from atop the Boone and Crockett record books. The Aiuppa Buck, a 207 ⅞-inch Illinois typical whitetail with foot-long eye guards, takes its place by 1 6/8 inch. But it didn’t dethrone the Jordan Buck overnight. In fact, it might have gone unnoticed if it weren’t for an electrician who spotted the buck passing slowly into obscurity 32 years after Sam Aiuppa killed it.After a day of pheasant hunting in LaSalle County, Illinois, in 1991, Sam Aiuppa decided to spend the remainder of the evening in a deer stand, he told Rack…