Locals in a northern Minnesota community have reported more than 100 dead deer along a railway, where a cart apparently leaked corn along the tracks for miles. According to the Facebook page of Steve Porter, owner and operator of a deer farm in the area, he’s documented droves of deer and turkeys feeding along the tracks and fielded similar reports from other hunters and landowners.The corn spill spans from Thief River to the Canadian border, a more than 80-mile stretch that has lured the deer to their deaths. In a response to MeatEater, the Minnesota DNR said it is aware…

Armed Citizen® Today Around 2 a.m. on March 16 in Egelston Township, Mich., a man began banging on the window of an apartment attached to a main house. He broke into that apartment and assaulted the tenant, though reports do not specify the type of assault. He then began breaking into the main house, in which were a couple and two children. Reports did not specify who shot the intruder as he broke in, but he was killed and no others were harmed. (woodtv.com, Grand Rapids, Mich., 3/18/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – December 1986The owner of an Evergreen…

In the ultra-competitive and crowded market for polymer-frame, striker-fired 9 mm handguns, manufacturers seek to balance out their flagship model with an entry-level choice at an affordable price. Due to that competition, however, “entry-level” can’t mean lacking in features. Springfield Armory accomplishes this with its XD series of guns. Now nearly a quarter-century old, Springfield continues to evolve the XD platform to offer a reliable and feature-rich product at an affordable price. New for 2026, the company is introducing the XD Mod.4 OSP. The XD Mod.4 OSP is another evolution of Springfield Armory’s tried-and-true eXtreme Duty platform of handguns. The…

There are lines most hunters won’t cross, even without a game warden breathing down their neck. But one Washington man crossed those lines again and again, which recently landed him one of the stiffest sentences for poaching the Evergreen State has dealt in years.Ronald Livermore, 77, of Okanogan County, was sentenced to 43.5 months in prison after pleading guilty to seven felony charges tied to big game poaching and illegal firearm possession, according to the Washington Attorney General’s Office.State officials say it’s the longest agreed recommendation for a recreational poaching sentence in almost a decade. The sentence reflects what prosecutors…

The advent of tank warfare during World War I introduced a totally new battlefield threat to the infantryman. The first operational tank was fielded by the British during the Battle of the Somme in September 1916, and the French developed their own tanks in the spring of 1917. Although slow- moving and plagued by mechanical difficulties, the tanks were relatively safe from rifle and machine-gun fire and struck fear into the average German soldier. But, the Germans soon concluded that a large-bore rifle firing a high-velocity cartridge would be able to penetrate the armor of these early armored vehicles. The…

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In north-central Alaska, up to 2.1 million acres of federal land could be transferred to state ownership, opening the door for new mining and road development. On February 25, the Department of Interior announced the revocation of Public Land Orders 5150 and 5180 in Alaska’s Dalton Utility Corridor, which traces the Dalton Highway north to the Arctic Circle.The area, currently managed by the Bureau of Land Management, contains a portion of the proposed Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas pipeline, as well as the proposed Ambler Road—an industrial mining road that would be used to access rich copper, gold, and silver deposits…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: What you’re about to listen to is a conversation with Alison Fox, the CEO of American Prairie. For twenty five years, American Prairie has been executing on an ambitious and highly controversial plan to buy hundreds of thousands of acres of ranch land in the vicinity of the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in north central Montana in order to ultimately compile a contiguous block of private and public lands that are fifty percent larger than Yellowstone National Park, all open to the public. So far, they’ve managed to buy one hundred and sixty nine thousand…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Cow’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Klaian. Here’s cal Next month, Col’s Week in Review will turn seven years old. That means we’ve officially reviewed three hundred and sixty weeks and still going strong. A little bit more gray hair, a little softer in the middle, but you know, can still talk. Feels like a long time. Lots has changed since twenty nineteen, but one way of putting it in perspective is to consider that the show is still less than one tenth as old…

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