Other than the rut, I can’t think of a more exciting time of deer season than opening day. Aspirations are high. Weather patterns start to turn. Those bucks you’ve cleverly nicknamed are still stuck on their patterns and sporting more headgear than your favorite football team.If opening day dreams always unfolded according to plan, there’d be a lot fewer mature bucks on the landscape. Unless you have a tightly manicured hunting situation, your odds of killing a mature buck on Oct 1 aren’t exactly in your favor. This is especially true if your opening day involves public land, where you’re…

SIG Sauer hosted its 9th Annual Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA) Charity Golf event early last month and raised more than $160,000 to support disabled veterans. The gathering was held at Pease Golf Course in Portsmouth, N.H., and hosted 192 golfers. The number of sponsors this year rose to 27. Governor Kelly Ayotte (R) made a proclamation recognizing SIG Sauer for its outstanding support of disabled veterans. “Now, Therefore, I, Kelly Ayotte, Governor of the state of New Hampshire, do hereby proclaim August 1, 2025 as the 9th Annual SIG Sauer Charity Golf Tournament in the State of New Hampshire,…

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 Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by first Sight. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about the early season and the mistakes that a lot of us are going to make and we don’t have to, and…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Yo, what’s up? 00:00:06 Speaker 2: You’re off in God’s Country with y’all boys reading Dan is Bull also known as The Brother’s Hunt, where we take a weekly jove to the intersection of country music and the great outdoors, two things that go together like I Forgot mine, sayers like three doors. 00:00:28 Speaker 1: Down and here without you baby. 00:00:32 Speaker 2: Like Dan and not knowing any answer to any citizenship question, Yeah I should, I’m already says, get deported, dog. 00:00:42 Speaker 1: I believe red, white, and blue. Were they going…

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This article will provide some thoughts on how to address a few common problems seen in the preparedness community. The first problem involves the difficulty finding like-minded people to form a community before the Stuff Hits The Fan (SHTF). The second problem is how to engage friends, family, and neighbors so that they take actions to prepare their families prior to SHTF. These problems are related and center on the realization that many people are bound by their current life circumstances and are unwilling or unable to consider that the current paradigm is in danger and, secondly, many of those…

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On September 16,  1782, the Great Seal of the United States of America was used for the first time. — September 16, 1919, the U.S. Congress granted a national charter to the American Legion. — And on September 16, 1940, US President FDR signed the Selective Training & Service Act. This was the nation’s first peacetime draft. — Mark your calendar for February 16, 2026, to order your 20th Anniversary Edition of the waterproof SurvivalBlog Archive USB stick. The 2005-2025 edition will have at least 12 more bonus books.  These will include the 4-volume Audel’s Carpenters and Builders Guide, as…

Armed Citizen® Today A legally armed citizen took action to stop a shooting at a house party in Harvey, Ill., possibly saving the lives of multiple people after two gunmen opened fire on partygoers. At 8 p.m. on Saturday, August 2, the party was underway when the two armed men began shooting. Five guests were injured in the opening volley, including a young boy. One of the partygoers, who possessed an Illinois concealed carry license and was armed, returned fire, killing one of the suspects and injuring the other. When officers and emergency medical personnel arrived on scene later, they…

There are several practical advantages that recommend the usage of a reflex sight that produces a green aiming point rather than the more conventional and prevalent red dot. The human eye is more sensitive to green color wavelengths than it is to red ones, making a green reticle appear brighter and easier to acquire (even during challenging lighting conditions like bright sunlight or fog). Green also causes less eye strain and will appear much more crisply for shooters who suffer from astigmatism and red-green color blindness than will red. Which is why Trijicon’s recent decision to introduce its new Green…