Author: Braxton Taylor
Spoiler Alert: This article’s discussion of the new season of “The Terminal List” references major plot points from the first season for context. If you haven’t seen the first season yet, bookmark this page and come back after you watch it! Ben Edwards is killed at the end of the first season of “The Terminal List.” That might have been the end of Edwards, played by Taylor Kitsch (“Lone Survivor”); however, “The Terminal List” book series author and former Navy SEAL Jack Carr thought he deserved a backstory.That is how “The Terminal List: Dark Wolf” came to fruition. The prequel series…
The Navy is waiting for Pentagon leaders to pick a company to build the service’s sixth-generation F/A-XX fighter jet, now that Congress moved to restore funding, according to the service’s air boss.“It’s going to be a very exciting aircraft. I’m looking forward to the downselect. I’ll leave it to the professional acquisition folks…but I’m looking forward to that because that sixth-generation means air superiority in that timeframe in the future, which means sea control. And as long as you have air superiority, you have sea control around the globe,” Vice Adm. Daniel Cheever, commander of Naval Air Forces, said today…
President Trump just vastly expanded the role of the military in U.S. law enforcement across the country. On Monday, he signed an executive order creating a “quick reaction force” of National Guard troops tasked with “quelling civil disturbances” and “ensuring the public safety and order.”The order calls upon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to ensure troops in the National Guard of every state “are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety” and directs the secretary to establish “a standing National Guard quick reaction force” for “nationwide…
Florida is giving enthusiasts a good reason to shop before the year ends. It is holding a sales-tax-free holiday on firearms, ammunition, optics, sights, stocks, cleaning kits, holsters, archery equipment and—with certain value caps—camping supplies and fishing equipment from Sept. 8 to Dec. 31. It’s likely the lengthiest gun-related sales-tax-free event ever offered by a state. Two others are conducting specific weekends with similar savings in 2025. In Mississippi this year it runs Aug. 29 to 31 and next door in Louisiana the savings are from Sept. 5 to Sept. 7. Florida’s extended dates were announced after the state’s annual…
Timothy Rawlings of Laveen, Arizona is facing a year in federal prison after getting busted for illegally outfitting hunts in Colorado—and a slew of other wildlife infractions. According to a Department of Justice press release, Rawlings was sentenced by United States District Judge S. Kato Crews on Tuesday, August 5, after he took a plea agreement.According to the court, Rawlings and his co-defendant, Howard Wayne Rodarmel, who had already been sentenced, conducted their crimes through Old West Guides and Outfitters, which Rawlings owned and operated. Rawlings booked paying clients hunts for big game animals, such as deer, elk, mountain lions,…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: In the eighteen thirties, two talented painters, George Catlan and Carl Bodmer, journeyed into the West and left the future a marvelous body of artwork time machine visuals that enable us now to form an evocative sense of the early West and its primary characters. I’m Dan Florey’s and this is the American West, brought to you by Velvet Buck. Still in barrel. Velvet Buck arrives this summer, just in time for the season that calls us home. A portion of every bottle supports backcountry hunters and anglers to protect public lands, waters and wildlife enjoy responsibly…
All of us at Shooting Illustrated are big advocates for an armed citizenry. We know that the very act of having a firearm on you when you need one can solve the problem better than four out of five times. However, not every problem we encounter has a lethal-force solution. We need to be able to deal with those who might do us the kind of harm that stops short of lethal force, and that’s where a less-lethal option like pepper spray comes in handy. This leads to another problem, though, as most pepper spray is designed for use by…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, 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 Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation’s podcast, which has brought to you by first Light. I’m your host, Tony Peterson. In today’s episode is all about letting the deer be your teachers while you just sit back and absorb information from them. A lot of the hunting…
00:00:06 Speaker 1: Yo, what’s up? 00:00:06 Speaker 2: You’re off in God’s Country with your boys. Read and Dan is Well, also known as the Brother or Something. We take a weekly drive to the intersection of country music in the great outdoors gonna be fired up thing. They go together like man, just good dudes and the jinkin bros. 00:00:24 Speaker 3: Or a brother with brown hair and one with brown hair was slightly gray. They both have brown hair. Oh it’s kind of white gray, Josh brown gray like that. That’s what those things go together,…
00:00:30 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to a me Eater fwop episode. This is the second fop we’ve done out of Alaska. The first flop we talked to a bush pilot who claims he’s not a bush pilot, and those guys are all gone now, so but a pilot that one would call a bush pilot who says he’s not a bush pilot was fop one. Now we’re gonna talk to a genuine sea otter skinner, Heather Duvelle, a k mosy kind of the last of the dying breed, or not the last of a dying breed, the new specimen…