There’s something deeply satisfying about coming home from a hunt with more than just meat in your game bag. Historically, hunters in the French countryside paired wild game with foraged mushrooms in a rustic preparation known as “Chasseur sauce,” which literally translates to “hunter’s sauce.”Today it’s typically made with chicken simmered directly in the sauce, but I prefer to treat wild turkey breast a little differently. Pan-roasting the breast gives it a beautifully browned crust while keeping the meat tender and juicy, and it leaves just enough fond in the skillet to build a quick mushroom sauce with white wine,…

I was lying on my stomach in the damp grass with a stock in my shoulder and my eye to the scope. An old college-ruled notebook was in front of me with a page full of what appeared to be the scribbles of a mad scientist, full of equations, graphs and scratched-out mistakes. There was a slight breeze coming from my left that kept speeding up and slowing down with little hope of steadying out, so I had to get my timing right. If I waited too long, all of those notes I took would mean nothing. If I were…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the Whitetail 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: What is going on? Welcome back to Wired to Hunt. This is Jake Hofer and this week we have Jake Ellinger with Habitat Solutions three sixty covering a wide cambit of conversation here today. Jake has been hunting for over fifty years. He’s been working on the same property for forty five years, and…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: I’m sitting there and he walks and he turns broadside and just like, all right, tank, whatever do you want to take the shot? And I’m like, I don’t like that branch, so I go even lower and wider do the same thing, and then he’s at two forty five. So we end up shooting. He does a little kick, slowly starts walking just like hit him again. So we hit him again and we were I’m like hey, I’m like, hey, I’m out of bullets. He’s like, I got one, so he hands me another one.…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: In November of twenty sixteen. Tommy Ballard was hunting for something more important than a deer or a turkey, and it’s that hunt that may have gotten him killed. That’s next on Blood Trails. It was the second Saturday of Kentucky’s deer season in twenty sixteen, and John Snow expected to spend it in his tree stand. The sergeant in charge of investigations at the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office, had gotten up before dawn with his son, and the pair were just settling into their perch in the tree when he heard a familiar ringing. 00:00:40 Speaker…

(Continued from Part 2.) Winter housing When I bought this farm, there was an existing small barn and a two car garage sized shed that the door had broken off of.  The property was completely fenced, and cross fenced, and there were even a couple of water troughs, which had to be replaced because they leaked.  But, all in all, there was some structure to start with.  Back then, I had no plans to obtain dairy cows, but I probably would not have gone with large livestock without adequate fencing and buildings.  There is no water or electricity to the…

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On May 14, 1787, delegates met in Philadelphia to draft the Constitution of the United States. — May 14th, 1686 was the birthday of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who invented the thermometer. — We are running a two-week-long sale in all of our percussion revolvers at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sale will end on Monday, May 18th, 2026. Please note that there are cartridge conversion cylinders available for many of these guns — particularly the Ruger Old Army revolvers and the Pietta and Uberti brand clones of the Remington Model 1858. This provides a great opportunity to acquire un-papered…

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The COVID pandemic brought a halt to many of the reproductions of classic American firearms made in Italy. One victim of the temporary factory shutdowns was Pietta’s Starr black powder revolvers. Late last year, Pietta announced it would be re-introducing their Starr revolver in both its double-action and single-action form, and now, the guns are finally arriving stateside. Late last year, Pietta announced that it would be re-introducing its Starr black powder revolvers. The double-action version is pictured. Designed by Ebenezer Starr of the Starr Arms company, the double-action Model 1858 used a unique design where the front “trigger” cocked…