Author: Braxton Taylor
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says a $1 trillion defense budget is coming soon, the Pentagon chief boasted on social media. If confirmed, it would mark a significant rise from the current $892 billion defense budget, and at a time when President Donald Trump has pledged to cut the size of government and reduce spending. After tanking global markets with his tariff war on nearly 60 countries last week, Trump floated the unprecedented number during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House Monday. “We’re going to be approving a budget, and I’m proud to say, actually, the biggest one…
Meprolight is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. The company’s first designs for defensive shooting and precision marksmanship included innovations in tritium and fiber-optics, which quickly gained favor among enthusiasts and professionals alike. Today the firm has expanded its line to include high-performance red-dot sights and variable optics that are trusted by military, law enforcement and civilian shooters around the world. Among its most iconic products is the Mepro M21, the firm’s first reflex sight to be fully self-illuminated, powered by fiber optics for daytime use and tritium for nighttime. Adopted by the Israel Defense Forces in 2002 and introduced…
Everyone knows that the quality of shotgun triggers is typically inferior to that of rifles. My personal data gleaned from years of trigger-pull-weight testing indicates that modern rifles average roughly 5 pounds of pull weight while shotguns average 6.5, though that 6.5 pounds often feels much heavier than it actually is due to the amount of creep found within. Long, stiff triggers—aka bad triggers—are especially notorious in inexpensive semi-automatic shotguns. Why is this? There are three primary reasons. Historically, shotguns were almost exclusively meant for wingshooting, a shooting sport that mandates the gun must be moving to hit the target.…
This week, Tony explains the one big lifestyle change he made that helped him kill more deer, and he makes the case for why all deer hunters should consider getting in a little better shape even if they don’t want to. Connect with Tony Peterson and MeatEater Tony Peterson on Instagram and Facebook MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Youtube Clips MeatEater Podcast Network on YouTube Shop MeatEater Merch Read the full article here
This week Reid and Dan host CMA Musician of the Year and critically acclaimed artist, Charlie Worsham out in God’s Country. Charlie is arguably the best acoustic guitar player in Nashville and has toured with some of the genres biggest names including Vince Gill, Dierks Bentley, Megan Maroney, and more. He shares the story of his journey, playing the Hall of Fame induction for his hero Marty Stuart and he hopes to get back into spending time outdoors to teach his kids the importance of getting out of the house. The Gravorite melody is a top GCP moment you won’t…
Experts worry that President Trump—having fired the director and deputy director of the National Security Agency—might appoint a partisan political figure to lead the nation’s principal signals-intelligence office.Gen. Timothy Haugh, a four-star general who had served in the role since early last year, was fired late Thursday at the recommendation of far-right activist Laura Loomer, who earlier that day had urged the president to fire a handful of National Security Council staffers. The NSA’s deputy director, Wendy Noble, was also fired, and reportedly reassigned to a role in the Pentagon.Loomer, in an X post, argued that Haugh was unfit to serve because he was appointed…
A South Dakota airman accused of killing a Native American woman at Ellsworth Air Force Base has now been charged with first-degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted.Airman Basic Quinterius Charles Chappelle, 24, was originally charged with second-degree murder last month after local authorities found the body of Sahela Toka Win Sangrait, a 21-year-old who had been missing since August.U.S. Attorney Alison Ramsdell said a federal grand jury returned an indictment elevating the charge to first-degree murder — which carries a maximum punishment of the death penalty.Read Next: Commander in Top Colorado Information Operations Post Sacked by…
Like a spring-loaded toy snake from a tube, the Sea Spear is intended to pop from a mother drone, expand to 50 times its length—and then hang around for months, silently listening for enemy submarines.The new sonar concept from dronemaker Anduril and Ultra Maritime, a Massachusetts-based company specializing in anti-submarine and electronic warfare, is meant to work with Anduril’s Dive XL or smaller Seabed Sentry underwater drones, drawing power from them and feeding its data to them for on-drone analysis. Sounds that require human notification get passed along via Anduril’s Lattice network.“You don’t need a ship or submarine that makes…
We’re thrilled to announce our newest addition to the MeatEater games universe: MeatEater Turtle! It’s like Wordle, but better.You’ll have six tries to solve a five-letter word from categories such as hunting, fishing, gear, animals, and nature. And there are color coded hints shown after each guess. Grey letters aren’t in the word. Yellow letters are in the word, but in the wrong spot. Green letters are in the word and in the right spot.Your goal is to solve the hidden word as quickly as possible, with as few tries as possible. (Your other goal is to beat Janis, whose…
Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield has been fired in what appears to be a growing purge of top-ranking military officials by the Trump administration, multiple officials confirmed to Military.com.Chatfield, who began her career as a helicopter pilot and was the first woman to be president of the Naval War College, had been serving as a senior official at NATO and was one of just a handful of women who occupied the highest ranks of the Navy.Her ouster comes only days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, possibly on orders from the White House, fired the four-star general who ran the National Security…