Author: Braxton Taylor
Steven Rinella talks with Dan Flores, Randall Williams, Cory Calkins, Corinne Schneider, and Phil Taylor. Topics discussed: Dan’s brand new podcast on The MeatEater Network, “The American West With Dan Flores”; an unconventional telling of the West by an environmental historian; a pigeon catching controversy in New York; the International Order of St. Hubertus; invasive aoudad as detrimental to native desert bighorn sheep populations; hunting the University of Texas, El Paso’s Indio Mountain Research Station and donating to fund research for bighorn sheep conservation; reintroducing species; deep history and long time with Dan; and more. Subscribe to The American West with…
Gritr is introducing the Stealth, a new folding-blade knife built for people who need a dependable tool for everyday carry and backcountry trips. The Gritr Stealth features a sharp, partially serrated D2 steel blade engineered to easily slice through rope, branches and tough materials. Users can choose between two finishes to match your style: A stonewashed blade for the black and green models or a black titanium-coated blade for the gray version. Both blades are highly resistant to scratches and corrosion. Extended jimping along the blade’s spine enhances precision, while the secure liner lock mechanism ensures stability during use. The…
The new 8.6 BLK cartridge looks to be a step closer to the general-purpose role the .300 BLK was originally intended to fill. When Advanced Armament Corporation (AAC) introduced the .300 AAC Blackout (BLK) cartridge a decade and a half ago, it started something. Prior to the BLK, subsonic, centerfire-rifle shooting was mostly a handloading-only proposition with cartridges never intended to deliver subsonic performance. Shooters flocked to the subsonic and supersonic capabilities of the .300 BLK, and I think the cartridge is largely responsible for the elevated interest in suppressors and suppressed shooting. However, from a capability standpoint, it pales…
My wife and I have “his and hers” Ruger SP101s chambered in .357 Mag., although we only shoot .38 Spl. ammunition in them because of the recoil from the magnum loads. We are both retired fire department employees which, as you might imagine with our aging eyes, makes it difficult for us to differentiate the front sight from the rear notch when target shooting. We have come to suspect the little Rugers are way more accurate than we can shoot them. Recently, we took a low-light training class and realized that we could not see the sights at all in…
The opinions expressed in this op-ed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Military.com. If you would like to submit your own commentary, please send your article to [email protected] for consideration.It’s no surprise that a president who never served in the military — whose father never served, and whose two sons never served — would so misunderstand the veteran community that he would even consider renaming Veterans Day, as President Donald Trump suggested on Thursday that he would do. It’s the kind of move that reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what veterans value and…
The vast majority of potential threats that we perceive turn out to be no threat at all. So how do we determine of it is a threat or not? Well, since most situations occur under poor light conditions it might be a good idea to light it up for a closer look. One solution that has become popular is to attach tactical lights to the firearm. The problem with that is that we have now pointed a loaded gun at a person who is probably not a threat at all. More importantly, we are only a trigger press away from…
WASHINGTON—There were a lot of big vehicles—some amphibious, with fresh camo paint—on display at the Modern Day Marine conference this week. But the smaller ones with the ability to drive themselves around stole the show. “I think you’re gonna see the Army and Marine Corps try to automate more. So you’re going to see more remote operations, you’ll see more autonomous capabilities,” Chuck Bunton, Oshkosh Defense’s associate vice president for program management, told Defense One. That is especially true for the Indo-Pacific region, he said: “It’ll definitely help [with] distributed fires and expeditionary advanced base operations in the island chains with unmanned…
When Winston Churchill christened the clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) in 1940, Britain had spent the previous decade appeasing Nazi Germany. In the House of Commons, Churchill gave a fiery speech opposing Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s Munich Agreement, saying, “There can never be friendship between the British democracy and the Nazi power, that power which … uses, as we have seen, with pitiless brutality the threat of murderous force.”Among the regimented expectations in a fascist Germany was an obsession with strict gender binaries. Masculinity and femininity were prescribed and, in some cases, enforced by rule of law or extrajudicial “justice”…
A 28-year-old Army soldier has been accused of drug-related charges following a federal raid on an alleged illegal nightclub in Colorado on Sunday, where authorities claim he provided security and more than a dozen other troops were present.The charges against Staff Sgt. Juan Gabriel Orona-Rodriguez, who is assigned to Fort Carson, Colorado, were made public Thursday. He’s accused of one count each of distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, as well as conspiracy to distribute cocaine, according to federal court documents.Notably, the case against Orona-Rodriguez predated Sunday’s raid led by the Drug Enforcement Administration at a Colorado Springs…
The education policy portion of Republicans’ “big, beautiful” Trump administration agenda bill could incentivize for-profit colleges to take advantage of veterans again years after a loophole used by scam schools was closed, veterans advocates are warning.At issue is what’s called the 90/10 rule, which limits how much of a for-profit school’s revenue can come from federal student aid. In 2023, after years of lobbying from veterans advocates, a loophole in the rule that incentivized for-profit schools to target veterans was closed.Now, a sweeping bill being pushed through Congress by Republicans would repeal the 90/10 rule altogether and replace it with…