There’s accumulating guns—and then there’s collecting. The thing that distinguishes the latter from the former is that there’s generally a theme to a collection. It’s not that one’s better than the other, and there’s often a fair bit of overlap, but collectors generally have a running list in their head of desired acquisitions; the next “Grail gun” to add to the safe, if you will. This used to be more difficult in the olden times. However, along came the various web forums, whether brand-centric, themed around a certain type of shooting sport or hunting or specific to a state or…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Who gets to be a native resident of any place is always up for debate, But for the past half century, two movements, bioregionalism and rewilding have offered a new possibility. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West becoming natives of place in the American West. We’ve all seen them everywhere in the West, those bumper stickers on the nether end of a towering ram or ford one pickup proclaiming the driver is a native. As to where the attachment applies, it’s almost always to a state Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Idaho that’s barely existed much…

00:00:11 Speaker 1: I’m in the Ozarks today and tomorrow is the opening day of the Arkansas Bear season. It’s like a holiday to me. We’re gonna be competing against the white oak acrens to kill these bears. But the day before season today, we’re gonna be making molasses with my friend Willard Belines. Hey, everybody, my name’s Klay nukemb And what you just watched was the intro to our newest film called Ozark Bear Camp with Klay Neukam. It’s the latest and Meat Eaters twelve and twenty six series brought to you by Moultrie and Onyx, And that little…

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 Wire to Hunt Foundation’s podcast, which is brought to you by First Light. I’m rouse Tony Peterson, and this episode is all about hanging stands in the preseason and what we often get wrong. We are all experiencing some weird form of time compression where…

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The U.S. M1 bayonet is designed to fit the M1 Garand rifle which was the standard issue American infantry rifle during World War II and the Korean conflict. The M1 bayonet has a 10-inch spear-point blade that is 1 inch wide and has a tang that is around 0.25 inches thick. The blade is made of 1080 carbon steel. The grip panels are made out of black Durez or a similar plastic. The bayonet measures 14.25 inches overall. The 10-inch blade is long enough to make the bayonet somewhat awkward for everyday tasks like opening cans, prying open crates, or…

(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Some of the erroneous assumptions and operating principles that Western governments of today have been utilizing in their social planning schemes are these six stupid ideas: 1. The stupid idea that people and institutions can become perfect. The perfectibility of institutions and people is contrary to all natural law and historical precedent. People are imperfect by their nature and institutions which are composed of people are imperfect. 2. The stupid idea that economic output is everything which can be expressed as a regularly reported number which can be measured, and the number…

This Week in History: On  August 4, 1873, while protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the US 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (pictured), clashed for the first time with the Sioux Indian tribe near the Tongue River, killing one man on each side. — August 6, the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. It was described by Voltaire as “in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” Emperor Francis II renounced his title of Holy Roman Emperor, becoming instead the first Emperor of Austria. — August 4, 1900: An allied expeditionary force, made up of Japanese,…

Armed Citizen® Today A scheduled custody exchange in the parking lot of a Cleveland police station on July 22 apparently turned into a heated argument between the father of the child and two women, one of whom was the mother, but eventually the parties disengaged and drove away. However, when the father saw the women’s vehicle again on the road, he rammed into it, though his child was a passenger. The women returned to the police station, managing to enter the parking lot, but the father again rammed their vehicle there. The women and child left the vehicle and attempted…

Ask a half dozen hunters what makes the perfect UTV setup, and you’ll get six different answers. None of them are wrong.The UTV that hauled me around the Idaho mountains chasing bugling bull elk looked a lot different than the rig I use to hunt the soggy river bottoms back home in eastern North Carolina.Out west, a hunting rig needs to handle long climbs and steep terrain. At home, it’s more about mud, thick brush, and hauling deer. If it’s duck season, it might also end up loaded with decoys and an impatient retriever. And that’s the thing about building…