On June 2, Joelseph “Joe” Frank Jenkins, 48, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced to two years behind bars and received a lifetime hunting ban after he pleaded guilty to two felonies and two misdemeanors. The felony charges included possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and unlawfully killing or possessing wildlife, while the two misdemeanors were illegally baiting black bears and guiding without a license.Jenkins’s sentencing comes after years of undercover work from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, which started in 2022. Apparently, Jenkins was conducting illegal baiting and guiding for black bears in Idaho’s Unit 67. During…

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A Montana man was recently sentenced for poaching a unique whitetail after attempting to claim it as a legitimate archery kill. According to a Facebook post by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), game wardens began investigating 23-year-old Tony Zimbleman in 2025 after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen.At first, Zimbelman denied wrongdoing, claiming to have shot the trophy whitetail with archery gear during archery season in Pondera County, which is in north-central Montana. Eventually, though, he admitted to having actually shot the deer with a rifle one day before archery season opened.Zimbelman’s case is particularly notable because of…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) just opened an investigation to “determine whether Philadelphia Police use a vague ‘good cause’ standard to cancel permits to carry legal firearms.” “I have directed the Civil Rights Division, through our Second Amendment Section, to defend law-abiding citizens from local authorities who infringe the right to safely carry legal firearms,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Law-abiding Americans, regardless of where they live, should not have to worry that their city will revoke their means of self-defense.”  In this case, the DOJ says its investigation is focusing on Philadelphia Police’s handgun…

I watched my buzzbait disappear in an explosion of water when one of the biggest largemouths I’d seen surged out from under a tangle of hyacinths. My heart skipped several beats as I set the hook, and the fish immediately made a run for deeper water. For a few seconds, that fish peeled line off my spinning reel before it turned back toward the boat.I remember thinking, “don’t screw this up.” That’s about the time my line snapped. The sudden loss of tension nearly pitched me overboard. The fish was gone. I said a few colorful words and spent the…

Walther Arms introduced its PDP line of striker-fired, polymer-framed handguns in 2021, and during the past five years, the company has expanded the line into every conceivable space, providing steel-framed, competition-oriented models, its female-focused F-Series and more. Recently, Walther has combined several PDP feature sets with a Parker Mountain Machine compensator to produce the Pro-X PMM. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: Rifleman Review” segment above to see the details of this unique, hybrid design. “Now, if you haven’t been paying attention, Walther has really flipped the script when it came out with its PDP series of guns. PDP standing for…

On Saturday, June 6, a spearfisherman identified as Daniel Turpin died from injuries sustained while diving off the Western Australian coast, about 250 miles southeast of Perth. The 35-year-old man reportedly had a run-in with a 15-foot great white while spearfishing with family members.Turpin was rushed to shore and intercepted by paramedics; however, resuscitation proved unsuccessful. The location of the bite remains unspecified at this time.Though details about this case continue to emerge, this is the third deadly shark attack within a three-week window in Australia–a statistically notable uptick in attacks compared to previous years. Unfortunately, all three events ended…

Say the words “Wilson Combat,” and the first image that comes to mind is probably a high-end, custom, competition-ready, single-stack 1911. Over the past few decades, the company has expanded into compact double-stack designs that remain high-end pistols in both quality and price point. That marks the Bulwark, its new handgun, as a departure for the company. The Bulwark is designed as a “hard-use service pistol” that combines the best features of a 1911 with those of a daily-carry duty gun, and Wilson Combat delivers it all at a price point below Wilson’s traditional handgun offerings. The Wilson Combat Bulwark…

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