Winter-range elk feeding programs, like those near Jackson, Wyoming, are a double-edged sword for elk herds. On one hand, the hay and alfalfa handout stations can harbor and spread lethal diseases like CWD through the herds, but on the flip side, they’re also thought to prevent mass starvation and winter kill in heavy snow years. Ultimately, that means more elk for hunters to harvest—in theory, anyway.New research conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) casts doubt on the effectiveness of feeding programs, indicating that any increase in elk populations may be completely offset by wolf and grizzly predation. In a…

Here’s a nifty tool for you reloaders out there. The Lyman auto-prime allows you to separate the priming step from others in the reloading cycle, even if you are using a progressive reloading press. What, you say? Why would anyone want to add a step? There are good reasons to separate the priming process from the standard progressive reloading steps. For example, outside of a progressive press operation, you can control-by-feel the seating pressure and resulting depth of each primer. If there’s a problem with something like a crimped primer pocket, you’ll feel it right away, and you won’t foul…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to this Country Life. I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trot lighting and just in general country living. I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives from the store More Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast that airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stores to share. Taking the Hounds to Town. Taking a hound to town has in the circle of…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Kla. 00:00:18 Speaker 1: Here’s Cal, Hey, Cals, we can review. Fans. You are about to hear an interview with Julie Lucas of Mining Minnesota. Julie was a fantastic guest and as you’ll hear, she is the executive director the Face of Mining Minnesota as in the Face of Mining in Minnesota, the Trade Association for Mining as such. One of her clients is Twin Medals, the extractive interest that intends to operate on the boundary…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Smell us now, lady, Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the Metater Podcast. Welcome to me Eater Radio Live. It’s eleven a m. Mountain time. Phil’s giggling again because I missed the exact timing of this intro, but oh well, we’ll keep on going. Eleven am Mountain time. That’s eight pm for our friends in Latvia. What up, Linda, gasparskuts bars everybody else. It’s Thursday, August twenty eighth, and we’re live from me Eater headquarters in a fall like Bozeman, Montana. I’m your host, Yannis ptelis joined today by Randall Big, Randy Williams, and Brody of Care Are…

The Problem In the spring of 2009, a group of adventuresome whitewater kayakers dipped their boats into the meager headwaters of the North Fork of the Virgin River above Zion National Park. The weather was cold, but spirits were high. The paddlers had read about kayaking through the Zion Narrows in the preeminent whitewater guidebook for the southern Rockies. Confident their paddling abilities were more than up to the task, the group shrugged off having to frequently drag their boats through early shallow stretches. They knew the North Fork of the Virgin River picked up most of its flow from…

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August 29, 708: Copper coins were minted in Japan for the first time. (By the traditional Japanese calendar: August 10, 708.) Pictured are some later Edo Period Japanese copper coins. — August 29, 1708: A raid in Haverhill, Massachusetts by French, Algonquin, and Abenaki forces killed or captured 40 residents. — August 29, 1831: Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electric transformer. — August 29, 1862, the Second Battle of Bull Run in Virginia began. The same day marked the founding of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 120 of…

September is only a few days away, but we can already hear the bugles echoing off steep mountain slopes and the crash of antlers through the brush.To say we’re excited for elk season is an understatement. That’s why we want to see photos of the biggest and baddest bull elk you’ve captured on a trail camera.To enter your best bull elk shot, upload your photo right here in the comment section. To view the official rules of the contest, click here.The winning photo will be debated and ultimately chosen by judges Ryan Callaghan, Randall Williams, and Seth Morris on MeatEater…

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: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, I’m joined by Kip Adams of the National Dear Association for another episode of our what would You Do series, in which we are running him through some of the toughest hunting circumstances and situations I could throw at him. Really all…