Researchers were capturing fish on a recently restored floodplain in Mississippi last month when they tangled with an absolute brute: a 7-foot 10-inch alligator gar with a whopping girth of 55 inches.Solomon R. David, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota and a highly regarded gar expert, was leading the scientific effort on October 20th with students and several staffers for The Nature Conservancy, including Scott Lemmons. His team had received guidance from US Fish & Wildlife Service Fisheries Biologist Kayla Kimmel. The researchers were capturing, measuring, and tagging gar on Loch Leven, a floodplain lake of the Mississippi…

The benefit of a lightweight rifle is lost the moment you top it with a clunky, overweight optic, particularly a lengthy one. To that end, we are starting to see an emphasis on riflescopes that are less cumbersome when mounted, such as Steiner’s Predator 4S. As the name suggests, the 4S is a line extension to the company’s hit Predator series, with the “S” indicating it is a shorter version of the series’s existing 4-16X scope. Unlike its longer brother, it features a smaller 44 mm objective lens and has a paltry overall length of just 10.9″. Moreover, the entire…

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 Foundation’s podcast, which is brought to you by first Light. 00:00:24 Speaker 3: I’m your host, Tony Peterson. 00:00:25 Speaker 2: And today’s episode is all about the lockdown phase and why it’s just so dang hard to kill a buck right…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Whether the Grizzly strikes us as the West’s most dangerous creature or as its wilderness avatar deity. The Great Bear’s fate has seen it reduced outside Alaska from fifty six thousand and eighteen hundred to fewer than two thousand today. But the Big Bears survive, and their presence distinguishes the West from every other region. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West, brought to you by Velvet Buck Wine, where the hunt meets the harvest. A portion of each bottle goes to support backcountry hunters and anglers. Limited supply available at Velvetbuck Vineyards dot com.…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: Yo, what’s up? This is God’s Country with your boy. Yeah, damn high energy Read is a little lamped up after that one, also known as the Brothers Hunt, where we take a weekly drive to the intersection of. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Country needs and the great outdoors. Do look at you old school. That’s a that’s the that’s the goat shirt. It’s great shirt brought to you by Meet You Too. 00:00:30 Speaker 1: And uh huh. You see we didn’t do two things you see’ll be yes, we didn’t. We’ll do it after this. 00:00:38…

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Too often, homesteading articles, blogs, websites, and videos (including this one – guilty!) show only the successful side of homesteading. The abundant harvest, the completed projects, the fresh eggs and baby chicks and overflowing milk, the healthy livestock … by golly, this lifestyle must be easy-peasy, right? Yes and no. Of course things go right. And of course things go wrong. But what is seldom shown is the nitty-gritty day-to-day dirty side of homesteading, including the daily chores that must be done for the comfort and welfare of animals. For that reason, I thought I’d show you something I do…

According to Swiss lore, on November 18, 1307, William Tell of the canton of Uri was forced by Habsburg invaders to shoot an apple off his son’s head, with a crossbow. The international gun rights organization ProTell was named in his honor. — On November 18, 1865, Mark Twain published the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in The New York Saturday Press. — On this day in 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of…