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. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about blood trailing deer and what it can teach us, not only about how to find you know, mortally hit, wounded deer,…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have another emergency episode of the Meat Eater podcast where something happens with such significance that you just have to go with it. 00:00:07 Speaker 2: Live now flop. 00:00:10 Speaker 1: Dear Dad, I got a text from my beloved friend, Ronald F. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: Bain. 00:00:16 Speaker 1: He says, is there a time a day or two of the week that we could have a conversation. I have a story. When I tell you the story, you will not believe it. But it’s going to take some time.…

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This article discusses some of the thoughts I’ve had about the different stages of post-SHTF life while writing my upcoming article, “A Realistic Top-10 Prepping List.” Consider this a preface to that article. Everything presented here is my opinion of course. As I’ve prepped and worked towards living a self-reliant lifestyle, I’ve thought a lot about things over the years. Many of my conclusions are based on history, ideas presented in some of the post-apocalyptic novels and movies, reading daily SurvivalBlog articles for the past seven years, and concerns about my current situation if the Schumer hits the fan next…

On October 7, 1826, the Granite Railway began operations. It was the first chartered railway in the United States. It was built to carry granite from a quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, to a dock on the Neponset River in Milton. From there, boats carried the heavy stone to Charlestown, for construction of the Bunker Hill Monument. The railway ran three miles (4.8 km) from quarries to the Neponset River. Its wagons had wheels 6 ft (1.83 m) in diameter and were pulled by horses. Pictured is the railway’s incline section, photographed in 1934. — On October 7, 1909, the British…

I stood up, swearing, as I watched the buck I’d been tracking all morning finally catch my wind and sprint for the private land downslope. The does that were with him scattered, bouncing downhill and out of reach. The buck bounded over the barbed wire and then, as if he understood the meaning of the property line he’d just crossed (he probably did), he stopped and looked back at me, smug and handsome. Eight tines gleaming in the sun.I was exhausted. It had been eight hours since I’d pulled into the trailhead at four o’clock that morning, and the heat…

Armed Citizen® Today An armed citizen in his 20s defended himself against what appeared to be an unprovoked attack on a Philadelphia SEPTA train, according to police. Officers say that video cameras recorded the entire event and show a suspect, who appeared to be about 18 years old, pacing up and down the train when, without any provocation, he began striking the victim. The man being beaten had a license to carry and had a firearm on him, and he drew his pistol and fired it into the attacker’s face. While it is unclear how many shots were fired, the…

This probably says more about me than I care to face, but I really want my daughters to be good deer hunters. I don’t want them to just love going hunting; I want them to love the process.The anxiety I feel around this probably has a lot to do with the fact that I have facilitated pretty much all of their success in the deer woods to date. Yet, I know that if you do everything for kids, they don’t learn to do anything for themselves. If you don’t believe this, spend an evening talking to a middle-school teacher sometime.The…

The future is shaping up to be a good one for fans of Smith & Wesson revolvers. The iconic American company had released 14 new models thus far in 2025 at the time this was written mid-year. And, with one exception, they have all shared a common feature—no internal lock. The internal lock was a feature added to the company’s revolvers after S&W leadership signed an agreement with Bill Clinton’s administration in 2000. At that time, S&W was owned by a British holding company that didn’t foresee the ramifications of its decision. As S&W was the only manufacturer in the…

Whitetail hunters love to argue about which state holds the biggest and baddest bucks. But which one is really the best?Well, a lot of what makes hunting ground “the best” depends on your personal preferences. Do you like big bucks, and you cannot lie? Maybe you just like to hunt around fewer people. Or maybe you like to feel like a kid in a candy shop, surrounded by opportunities for deer of all ages. Do you prefer to travel or are you more of a homebody? Maybe you like to manage a food plot and be able to set up…