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 has brought to you by first Light. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about understanding not only what bucks eat this time of year, but why it’s all sort of tied to what those bucks…

Pre-1965 silver is kinda like buying a fire extinguisher. Whether you pay $14 or $40 for the fire extinguisher is not really relevant. If it prevents a $4,000 kitchen fire is the point. There is a saying in the stock market: A bull makes money, and a bear makes money but a pig never makes money — It gets slaughtered. Point being, you can make money by going long or going short, but if you try to catch the absolute top or bottom, then you are bound to mess up. So you just go get some Pre-1965 silver, just close…

This Week in History: On July 7, 1850 Scottish explorer Edward John Eyre (pictured above) reached Albany, Western Australia. — July 8,1731: Theologian Jonathan Edwards preached his sermon “God Glorified in Man’s Dependence” in Boston. This was later his first published sermon. — And on  July  10, 1553 Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, was proclaimed Queen of England, succeeding Edward VI,. In June, the dying Edward VI had written his will, nominating Jane and her male heirs as successors to the Crown, in part because his half-sister Mary was Catholic, whereas Jane was a committed Protestant…

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Mild steel, construction plate, an old shovel blade… these dent, crater, and pit. And a dented, cratered, pitted surface is exactly what sends fragments flying back in directions nobody planned for. Here’s a quick true story from an outdoor gun club years ago. Somebody was shooting, unknown to the rest of us at the time, a square steel plate about a hundred yards downrange. After the incident, when we looked at the thing, it was exceptionally thick and heavy steel. It just wasn’t hard enough because it was old scrap. Anyway, to make a long story short, amongst the scattered…

This Independence Day, you’ll probably hear fireworks from every direction. If you’re fortunate, you may also hear something else — a crisp three-volley salute or the measured boom of ceremonial artillery marking the nation’s birthday. The post The Mysterious 21-Gun Salute appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

Armed Citizen® Today On June 15, a woman in Winfield, Tenn., reportedly trespassed onto a property, assaulted a woman there and then began forcing her way into the home. An armed citizen there shot her. Police airlifted her to the hospital, but the next day, she was released from the hospital and taken into custody. She faces charges of especially aggravating burglary, prohibited weapons, aggravated assault, vandalism and interference with emergency communications. (wate.com; Knoxville, Tenn.; 6/16/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – February 1987 A man breaking into a Fernandina Beach, Fla., home was met by gunfire from an elderly…

Handguns chambered in full-size rifle cartridges have gone from a niche to commonplace. On the bolt-action end of things, what were once specialized guns for competition and hunting have now become powerful and precise, yet compact, everyday packages. Springfield Armory is jumping into this category, using its 2020 series of bolt-action rifles as the basis for the company’s new-for-2026 Heatseeker pistol. Springfield is using its 2020 bolt-action as the basis for the new Heatseeker pistol. Like the rifle version, the Heatseeker pistol takes Springfield’s 2020 bolt action and places it in a Sharps Bros. 1913 Heatseeker chassis. The chassis is…

This year, we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of our country, not only as a world bastion of freedom, but as a nation of riflemen. But unlike the flintlock, percussion rifle and many other firearm actions we inherited and then improved upon, the lever-action is a distinctly American innovation. The motivating force behind its creation was the need for more firepower, or more specifically, the need for more reliable firepower, superseding earlier multiple-barrel and swivel-breech attempts. An inkling of what was to come began in 1848, when New York innovator Walter Hunt (who also created the fountain pen and the…