00:00:00 Speaker 1: I’m sitting there and he walks and he turns broadside and just like, all right, tank, whatever do you want to take the shot? And I’m like, I don’t like that branch, so I go even lower and wider do the same thing, and then he’s at two forty five. So we end up shooting. He does a little kick, slowly starts walking just like hit him again. So we hit him again and we were I’m like hey, I’m like, hey, I’m out of bullets. He’s like, I got one, so he hands me another one.…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: In November of twenty sixteen. Tommy Ballard was hunting for something more important than a deer or a turkey, and it’s that hunt that may have gotten him killed. That’s next on Blood Trails. It was the second Saturday of Kentucky’s deer season in twenty sixteen, and John Snow expected to spend it in his tree stand. The sergeant in charge of investigations at the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office, had gotten up before dawn with his son, and the pair were just settling into their perch in the tree when he heard a familiar ringing. 00:00:40 Speaker…

(Continued from Part 2.) Winter housing When I bought this farm, there was an existing small barn and a two car garage sized shed that the door had broken off of.  The property was completely fenced, and cross fenced, and there were even a couple of water troughs, which had to be replaced because they leaked.  But, all in all, there was some structure to start with.  Back then, I had no plans to obtain dairy cows, but I probably would not have gone with large livestock without adequate fencing and buildings.  There is no water or electricity to the…

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On May 14, 1787, delegates met in Philadelphia to draft the Constitution of the United States. — May 14th, 1686 was the birthday of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who invented the thermometer. — We are running a two-week-long sale in all of our percussion revolvers at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sale will end on Monday, May 18th, 2026. Please note that there are cartridge conversion cylinders available for many of these guns — particularly the Ruger Old Army revolvers and the Pietta and Uberti brand clones of the Remington Model 1858. This provides a great opportunity to acquire un-papered…

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The COVID pandemic brought a halt to many of the reproductions of classic American firearms made in Italy. One victim of the temporary factory shutdowns was Pietta’s Starr black powder revolvers. Late last year, Pietta announced it would be re-introducing their Starr revolver in both its double-action and single-action form, and now, the guns are finally arriving stateside. Late last year, Pietta announced that it would be re-introducing its Starr black powder revolvers. The double-action version is pictured. Designed by Ebenezer Starr of the Starr Arms company, the double-action Model 1858 used a unique design where the front “trigger” cocked…

We’re told artificial intelligence (AI) could eventually eliminate every job. The trades will be last to go, but a pair of experts dedicated to training gunsmiths we contacted have a different opinion on the fate of their graduates. They explained keeping firearms in repair, or customizing one, requires mechanical diagnostic skills that binary “brains” find difficult, perhaps impossible, to master. AI will indeed touch all trades to some extent, admits Jarred McNeely, vice president of academics at Sonoran Desert Institute (SDI)—a Distance Education Accrediting Commission online gunsmith and drone college. Those jobs won’t be displaced anytime soon, if at all,…

Located at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, Va., is steeped in Civil War history, changing hands between Union and Confederate armies no fewer than 72 times throughout the course of the conflict. Today, one group, the North-South Skirmish Association, keeps that history alive through competition shoots using Civil War-era arms at its Fort Shenandoah home base, as well as at regional shoots across the country. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” feature to see the details of the group’s National Skirmish, which occurs twice a year in Winchester. “Our nationals are big events. We have twice a year…

Spring might be the first chance to fish during the year, but I’ve always considered early summer to be the true start of fishing season. During spring, the water is still murky and cold from rains and snowmelt, and most fish are still a bit sluggish. But, when the temps start to rise in the early summer, so do the fish.There are five species of fish that can be found in relatively shallow water during the early part of summer that will eat almost anything you throw in front of them with all the enthusiasm of starving hyenas. These fish…