00:00:01 Speaker 1: At two o’clock on a clear November afternoon, a single rifle shot cracked through the Big Woods of northern Maine. Shirley Smith thought her husband had just tagged a deer, but Bob Smith was gone. There was no storm, no cliff, no rushing river, just thick timber, a healthy search radius, and a man who seemed to evaporate between one gunshot and the next. Thirty years later, investigators and Bob’s family are still trying to piece together what happened, and none of the theories do much to ease their minds. That’s next on Blood Trails. Bob Smith…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, 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, Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, we are discussing an exciting project ongoing right now to save four thousand acres of prime hunting ground down in the southeastern United States and to make a public imperpetuity. All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: We talked to a lot of people across country and we get asked a lot like was it like hunting there or you know, people will take that, They’ll take videos that have historically been on like Outdoor Channel or whatever where dudes are rattling in the brush country. 00:00:13 Speaker 2: And I’m like, I can. I can hunt in Illinois and. 00:00:17 Speaker 1: Drive there faster than I can drive to that part of the state. Like, I mean, it’s not it’s not the same as where I live. You know, when I hunt…

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My maternal grandfather owned two shotguns. One was a rusty old 12 gauge with a cracked buttstock and a broken butt plate. The other was a nice little Savage Model 220A in 20 gauge. When I was in my teens, I said to Grandpa, “I would like to try to repair that 12 gauge for you. If you like the work, you can give me the 20 gauge in payment.” That was a foolish offer on my part. Why would Grandpa want to give up a dandy 20 gauge just to get a battered old 12 gauge repaired. But for…

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On April 23, 1014, the army of King Brian Boru of Ireland defeated Viking forces at the Battle of Clontarf, freeing Ireland from Viking control. (The imaginative painting above was rendered by Hugh Frazer, 1826.) — And on this day in 1940, a dance hall fire killed 198 people in Natchez, Mississippi. — Today’s feature article is by  SurvivalBlog staff writer Tom Christianson. — We are seeking entries for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $984,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest.  Round 124 ends on May 31st, so get…

The late 1950s TV Western series Wanted: Dead or Alive launched the careers of two stars. The first was actor Steve McQueen, and the second was McQueen’s character’s sidearm, a cut-down Winchester Model 1892 that was called “The Mare’s Leg.” Henry Repeating Firearms, a name synonymous with lever-action rifles, already makes its own rimfire and centerfire version of a Mare’s Leg lever-action pistol. Now the company is stepping up its lever-gun game with the Bear’s Leg. The Henry Bear’s Leg is an X model version of the company’s Mare’s Leg centerfire lever-action pistol. Think of the Bear’s Leg as an…

FIREARM: Fusil d’infanterie modèle 1777 corrigé an IXMANUFACTURER: Manufacture Imperial de TulleCALIBER: 17.5 mm (.69)MANUFACTURED: c. 1805CONDITION: Fine (NRA Antique Gun Standards)VALUE: $2,750 By the early 1700s, small arms began to take on increasingly uniform aspects. Circa 1727, the British introduced what would be the precursor to a line of fine flintlock infantry arms that, somewhere along the way, picked up the nickname “Brown Bess.” France, in 1717, fielded a standardized musket of its own, the progeny of which would later generically be referred to as “Charlevilles.” Origins of the cognomen of the British family of muskets are still unsettled,…

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