On April 30, the House of Representatives passed an update to Farm Bill (HR 7567)—a package of conservation and agriculture programs renewed by Congress on an approximately five-year cycle—to send it to the Senate for consideration. The Farm Bill provides critical resources for multiple agricultural and conservation programs that conserve open spaces, restore habitat and environmental quality, and expand access to hunters and anglers.Soon, the bill will be sent to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee chaired by Senator John Boozman (Arkansas), where he and fellow committee members will have the opportunity to review, discuss, and amend the bill.…

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00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trotlining and just general country living. I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives from the store More Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stories to share. A father’s gift. Reeve Hanson, world famous meat eater, sound engineer and the brains behind the sound…

(Continued from Part 3.) Calving I have been very fortunate that all my cows have calved without assistance until this last one.  I’m praying that disaster does not happen again.  I could not have saved that calf by myself, and there was only one available Veterinarian on call at the time.  She also could not have done it by herself.  I am thankful for good friends who would drop everything to come over and assist.  While we saved the heifer, we lost the calf.  The heifer has recovered beautifully due to our intervention, and she’s doing well.  I have three…

On May 15, 1896 a tornado — now estimated as a F5 — killed 78 people in and near Sherman, Texas.  This was part of a multi-week tornado outbreak in the South and Midwest.  Pictured above is the first-ever photograph of a tornado, taken in 1884. — May 15, 1911: The U.S. Supreme Court dissolved Standard Oil and upheld the Sherman Antitrust Act. — And on May 15th, 1942, gasoline rationing began in 17 Eastern states as an attempt to help the American war effort during World War II. The main concern behind the rationing scheme was conserving scarce imported rubber,…

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) posted proposed changes to form 4473 on May 8. If approved the modifications would make the required paperwork high-speed, low-drag compared to the current version by shaving three pages from the paperwork. It would eliminate a lot of the previous form’s confusing redundancy­, trimming questions for both the purchaser/transferee and FFL. Readers can get a look at what the draft version looks like here. Enthusiasts will not see it in use at FFLs anytime soon, however. The public comment period ends on Aug. 6, and approved changes will reflect in the…

There’s something deeply satisfying about coming home from a hunt with more than just meat in your game bag. Historically, hunters in the French countryside paired wild game with foraged mushrooms in a rustic preparation known as “Chasseur sauce,” which literally translates to “hunter’s sauce.”Today it’s typically made with chicken simmered directly in the sauce, but I prefer to treat wild turkey breast a little differently. Pan-roasting the breast gives it a beautifully browned crust while keeping the meat tender and juicy, and it leaves just enough fond in the skillet to build a quick mushroom sauce with white wine,…

I was lying on my stomach in the damp grass with a stock in my shoulder and my eye to the scope. An old college-ruled notebook was in front of me with a page full of what appeared to be the scribbles of a mad scientist, full of equations, graphs and scratched-out mistakes. There was a slight breeze coming from my left that kept speeding up and slowing down with little hope of steadying out, so I had to get my timing right. If I waited too long, all of those notes I took would mean nothing. If I were…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the Whitetail Woods, 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 Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: What is going on? Welcome back to Wired to Hunt. This is Jake Hofer and this week we have Jake Ellinger with Habitat Solutions three sixty covering a wide cambit of conversation here today. Jake has been hunting for over fifty years. He’s been working on the same property for forty five years, and…