Author: Braxton Taylor

Savage A22 Takedown (MSRP: $479) A .22LR rifle should be a part of practically every gun owner’s collection. They’re easy and inexpensive to shoot, and are a great way to introduce people to the shooting sports. A .22LR rifle is also a popular rifle for competition and a tool for taking care of small pests, and when loaded with the correct ammunition, can also be surprisingly effective on large, two-legged predators. With all these useful functions, having a .22LR rifle nearby makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, a .22LR rifle is, well, a rifle, and that means something that is…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to this country Life. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trotlining 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. 00:00:29 Speaker 1: All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stores to share here. Have an elk. 00:00:43 Speaker 2: Archery season is…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Smell us now, lady, Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia mea podcast. 00:00:27 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Radio Live. It’s eleven am Mountain Time. That’s one pm for our friends in beautiful Ashtabulah, Ohio, on this Thursday, September fourth, and we are live from media to HQ and Bozeman, Montana. I’m your host, Randall Williams, and I have the distinct pleasure today of being joined by my two friends, Ryan Callahan and Seth Morris. 00:00:50 Speaker 3: It’s good to be here. 00:00:51 Speaker 2: On today’s show, we’re talking to Ben Batton. 00:00:54 Speaker 1:…

Federal agencies have deployed nearly 33,000 employees to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement in its efforts to dramatically ramp up detention and deportation of undocumented individuals, according to a new report, significantly multiplying the number of employees working on enforcement efforts. About 20,000 of those employees came from outside ICE, the Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning think tank, found, including some agencies that have sent significant portions of their workforces to the deportation effort. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, which is responsible for investigating transnational crimes including drug and human trafficking, has sent more than 12,000 employees to the agency’s Enforcement and Removal Operations…

The Trump administration has restored the rank of retired Navy doctor Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, to rear admiral despite a government watchdog finding that he abused subordinates, drank on the job, and made sexual comments about a woman while serving as the top White House physician.Jackson revealed the Trump administration’s move on social media Wednesday afternoon about four hours after Military.com contacted his office to inquire about legislation a House colleague filed to authorize Jackson’s rank to be restored and provide him back pay for the time in which he was demoted to captain.“I was, and still am, a retired…

The next National Defense Strategy—which was due to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Aug. 31—could not come at a more critical time, as Pentagon leaders seek to manage foreign-policy challenges, a stretched defense industrial base, and rapid technological disruption.It would be fair to ask whether a lengthy document like the NDS still matters. After all, in just the first seven months of his second term, President Trump has ordered U.S. strikes against nuclear sites in Iran, engaged Russian President Vladimir Putin in high-stakes direct talks to seek an end to Moscow’s war in Ukraine, brandished sky-high tariffs against Beijing and dozens of other countries, sent thousands of U.S. troops to the…

A study of veterans who served after Sept. 11, 2001, shows that suicide rates have dropped significantly since 2020, a finding researchers say “gives some hope” that efforts to battle suicide among former service members are working.Scientists with the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Uniformed University of Health Sciences, and the Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System reviewed national mortality data from 2006 to 2022 and found that, while veteran suicide rates increased steadily from 2006 to 2020, they dropped from 2020 to 2022.According to the data, for vets with a history of traumatic brain injury,…

Autonomous cargo flights across the Pacific were a little-known highlight this summer at the Air Force’s massive Resolute Force Pacific exercise, designed to prepare for a potential conflict with China.The flights between multiple Hawaiian islands, operated by a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan powered by Joby Aviation’s Superpilot software, were remotely operated from Guam, which is about 4,000 miles away. The goal is to make logistics flights in the vast theater cheaper during wartime.  “A safety pilot was on board each flight to monitor the system and intervene, if necessary, though no manual inputs were required,” according to the command’s website. The Air…

China’s massive military parade this week featured a who’s who of well-dressed dictators, a fleet of laser-armed trucks, new hypersonic weapons, beach landing craft and, of course, thousands of uniformed troops marching in intricately coordinated unison. But it left out what might be China’s most important new military asset: a growing ecosystem of small and nimble dual-use AI companies partnering with the Chinese military. A new report from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology draws attention to China’s growing appetite for AI-related tech, not just from a handful of big, surveillable state-backed enterprises but from a growing cadre of relatively…

“Warning: there is the sound of a gunshot in this piece,” announced an NPR host last week, before diving into the story of a new scientific study, claiming to show that wolf hunting doesn’t help ranchers in any meaningful way. “According to their data, hunters would have to kill roughly 14 wolves to save one cow,” said the host, Nathan Rott. “There’s an estimated 1,100 wolves in Montana, so if the state theoretically killed every one—which it cannot legally do—it would save roughly 78 cows.”In the week since the study was published (and NRP released the radio episode one day…