00:00:05 Speaker 1: To the deer hunter. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: The ebbs and flows of nature’s calendar become built into our lives. We’ve become fixated on small temperature changes, length of day, the changing visuals as summer shadows shift to the long shadows of autumn leaf color. The date is November the fifth, which is undoubtedly one of the top ten days from encountering a big buck on his feet in the daytime on a calendar with three hundred and fifty five other options. One of the first big bucks I killed with my bow was on November the fifth,…

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(Continued from part 1. This concludes the article.) As I wandered through my house trying to find the best place to create a second pantry I realized “I have way too much stuff.” I have been astounded at how much my life has improved by starting to declutter my house. I still have a way to go to get to where I want to be, but even the first step of acknowledging “Yes, there is such a thing as too many spare computers and spare monitors and spare cables” lifts a burden off of me. Opening up space in my…

November 5th, 1572: Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe observed a bright new object with the naked eye in the Cassiopeia constellation, which he believed to be a new star but is now known as a supernova, a massive explosion of a dying star. — November 5th, 1605: King James learned about the Gunpowder Plot. Hence we have Guy Fawkes Day. — On November 5th, 2009, Army Major Nidal Hassan killed 13 people at Fort Hood. He shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he opened fire.  But predictably, the mainstream media cited “no known motive” for the terror attack. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today…

Auto-Ordnance has introduced a special-edition, semi-automatic Thompson M1 carbine customized by Altered Arsenal to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States Marine Corps. The guns wear a Cerakote two-tone receiver, with a matte black upper and a contrasting white lower. The left side is emblazoned with the name “MARINES” applied in a durable and vibrant USMC Red Cerakote finish. On the right side they feature elegant engravings of “250TH ANNIVERSARY” and a commemorative crest. In a unique tribute, the top of the receiver is adorned with a custom design of red and gold that evokes the iconic Marine Corps…

Introduced overseas in 2021 and brought to our shores in 2024, Beretta’s BRX1 offers a fresh take on the century-old straight-pull rifle concept. While popular in Europe, this type of action has never really established a toehold in the American market—a fact that Beretta is seeking to challenge with the versatile and relatively economical BRX1. The BRX1 weighs 7 lbs., 5 ozs., unloaded, feeds from a detachable five-round magazine and is modular with chambering and stock changes requiring no more than an Allen wrench. Its barrel is bedded into a V-shaped channel in the 6082 aluminum-alloy receiver and secured with…

Steven Rinella returns to the Yturria Ranch in south Texas, this time, to hunt turkeys and pigs with country musician Luke Combs. Their plans to chase the spring thunder shifts as the weather has a different idea. Presented by Can-Am and RAM Read the full article here

The path to cracking the code on a mature whitetail buck is a convoluted, ever-changing riddle. It’s the cat-and-mouse puzzle that stokes our fires and keeps bruiser whitetails on our minds year-round. We can study moon phases, changing food sources, barometric pressure, alternating feed-to-bed patterns, and the effect of differing wind directions on whitetail movement. We have real-time trail camera data and even AI algorithms to aid in our decision-making process, and yet that antlered Houdini still evades us.Setting obscure environmental factors aside, there are undeniable and definitive factors that increase our odds of success. Think of them as odds…

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