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. 00:00:18 Speaker 2: What is going on? 00:00:19 Speaker 3: Welcome to Wired to Hunt. I’m Jake Hofer. In this week we have Jack Houston with Midwest Deer Surveys. Jack has flown over five hundred farms and we talk about some of the observations he’s been able to make from habitat deer density where mature bucks…

Smith & Wesson recently launched a Military & Law Enforcement Rebate program. Originally named the American Guardians Rebate program, the legendary firm established it to show appreciation to military members and first responders, allowing them to receive up to $150 in physical or virtual prepaid cards with a qualifying purchase of a Smith & Wesson firearm or a Gemtech suppressor. “Smith & Wesson stands with law enforcement officers, military personnel and all first responders who defend our nation and uphold the freedoms we enjoy,” said Mark Smith, Smith & Wesson president and CEO. “Our Military & Law Enforcement Rebate program was developed…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: We walked six steps and birds is hammering the little bars. 00:00:03 Speaker 2: How about this? If you’re hunting, buddy, he packs nothing. Yeah, oh, and eat your food you want to. 00:00:12 Speaker 1: You’ve never eating your food. 00:00:13 Speaker 2: I’ve taken you have food. 00:00:15 Speaker 1: I’ve taken water and left the full water in my pack. That way, if we needed more, I’m the one carrying it. I’ve never borrowed food, not once. That’s true. I’ll give you that you got something. I don’t want to open up a whole…

Savage Arms introduced its first iteration of the Axis bolt-action hunting rifle platform back in 2010. Though the rifle has been available in various configurations over the years, the company has phased out most of the Axis and Axis II models at this point. But by late 2024, the company was ready to introduce the Axis 2 Pro lineup that was later updated in 2025 with the addition of 6 mm ARC caliber options and the new Forest SP camouflage stock finish. The Axis Savage Axis 2 Pro is available in a variety of calibers and stock finishes. Today, the…

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00:00:01 Speaker 1: When a hunter living on a remote Montana homestead went missing, authorities believed he’d just gotten lost in the woods, but when more facts emerged along with a gruesome discovery, it began to look less like a missing person and more like an execution. That’s next on blood Trails. On an overcast night in October of twenty eleven, a Montana sheriff named Leo Dutton stepped in front of local media cameras to deliver some troubling news. 00:00:34 Speaker 2: Nine one one received a phone call from Fort Service law enforcement that up in this area they…

Taurus introduced its GX2 pistol last year with the phrase “affordable doesn’t mean cheap.” It was a no-frills pistol designed for self-defense and concealed carry that had all the features that you needed and none of the extras that add cost. As handgun optics are becoming more of a must-have accessory, Taurus is adding that option to the GX2 with the GX2 T.O.R.O. (Taurus Optics Ready Option). The GX2 T.O.R.O. is optics-ready via a direct-mount slide cut with an RMSc footprint. The GX2 T.O.R.O. takes all of the features that made the original GX2 a value-laden option and adds red-dot…

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(Continued from Part 4.) Preparations for Sons After spiritual preparation, the number one thing a parent can do is to prepare their son for life is to teach him how to make and control money. Money and resources create options. Lack of money limits opportunities. I have a collateral or lineal relative in every conflict from the Revolutionary War to the present. If you go back far enough in history, you will find multiple great-grandfathers at a distant generational level. For instance in the time period of the American Civil War, I have multiple grandfathers and collateral relatives who served…

The Battle of Culloden was fought on April 16, 1746. Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart in the final battle of the Jacobite Rising on British soil. — April 16, 1866: Nitroglycerine exploded at a Wells Fargo & Company office in San Francisco. This reportedly shattered glass in a half a mile radius. — April 16th is the birthday of libertarian novelist J. Neil Schulman. He was best known as author of the novel Alongside Night. — I just heard that famed mountaineer Jim Whittaker passed away, at age 97. — Today’s…