00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Cow’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calaian. Here’s cal It’s a sharky summer. Scan the news headlines of the past couple of weeks and you’ll see reports of sharks popping up close to popular beaches across the East Coast. In Queens, a suburb of New York, Rockaway Beach has recorded sixteen sightings this month alone, and twenty three since late May, which officials say is a record for this time of year. Meanwhile, over in Rhode Island, a fifteen plus foot great white was filmed…

As we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, what better way to showcase it than with an example of America’s Rifle, the AR-15? While, certainly, semi-automatic rifles are available worldwide, the United States was the first nation to mass-issue semi-automatic rifles in wartime, namely the esteemed M1 Garand. Post World War II development brought us the M16, which has been in service since Vietnam, and has always been available in semi-automatic guise as the AR-15. The rifle we have today is an homage to specialized versions of the M16 used in Vietnam, like the Colt 607 or Commando XM177. I opted…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to onex Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle. Last week we dug into the topic of crayfish, crawfish and crawdads. I purposely inserted the crawdad terminology in there because some of y’all let me know loud and clear last time that I left that name out the first time around. Anyway, we found out a good bit. But like I said, and like we saw,…

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00:00:08 Speaker 1: If this is the me Eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely bug bitten. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: And in my case, underwear. Listening toast, you can’t predict anything. 00:00:20 Speaker 3: Brought to you by First Light. When I’m hunting, I need gear that won’t quit. First light build, no compromise, gear that keeps me in the field longer, no shortcuts, just gear that works. Check it out at first light dot com. That’s f I R S T l I t E dot com. 00:00:43 Speaker 1: You’re joining us from the Walleye grounds of Lake…

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There are few things more American than heading out to the back 40 or your nearest range with a rimfire rifle and a brick of .22 ammunition to just have fun. Really, there’s not much more that you need than that, though there are a whole bunch of products available that will turn your plinking experience up a notch or two. Here are five we really loved: 1. Dead Air/Ruger RXD22Ti .22 LR Suppressor The Dead Air RXD22Ti, made in collaboration with Ruger, is easier to use and to clean than many other .22 LR suppressors on the market. Rated…

The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) estimate of firearm sales nationwide for June 2026 was 1,123,006. The number reflects an increase of 11.7 percent compared to the organization’s June 2025 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,004,986. The improvement is welcome news for the industry. A significant portion of the double-digit growth was fueled by Virginia enthusiasts buying before July 1, when the state’s restrictive “assault weapons” and magazine-ban legislation was scheduled to become law and enforcement would begin.  Last month, 123,699 firearm purchases in Virginia resulted in a NICS background check, according to NSSF estimates. One year before, in June 2025,…

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