Author: Braxton Taylor
My friend was pastor of a small-town church and lived in a house on the church property. Late one night, he was awakened by loud music and went to investigate. He found a pickup full of drunks sitting on the church property with one of them out of the truck and urinating on the lawn. Arming himself with his six-shooter, but keeping it behind his leg out of sight, he went forth to correct the offensive behavior. At first the drunk outside the pickup just wanted to argue while the pastor tried to explain to him that what he was…
This probably says more about me than I care to face, but I really want my daughters to be good deer hunters. I don’t want them to just love going hunting; I want them to love the process.The anxiety I feel around this probably has a lot to do with the fact that I have facilitated pretty much all of their success in the deer woods to date. Yet, I know that if you do everything for kids, they don’t learn to do anything for themselves. If you don’t believe this, spend an evening talking to a middle-school teacher sometime.The…
Carrying a 1911 in Condition Two—half-cocked—is both impractical and far less safe to reach than either Condition One or Condition Three, both of which clearly provide greater readiness and safety. Several of my gun friends were having a discussion regarding the various safe ways to carry a 1911-style pistol. We all agreed that cocked and locked—Condition One—was the predominantly preferred method. However, where we disagreed was concerning Condition Two, which is where the pistol is carried with a loaded chamber and the hammer in the half-cock position. One side of the argument was that having the hammer in the half-cock…
I stood up, swearing, as I watched the buck I’d been tracking all morning finally catch my wind and sprint for the private land downslope. The does that were with him scattered, bouncing downhill and out of reach. The buck bounded over the barbed wire and then, as if he understood the meaning of the property line he’d just crossed (he probably did), he stopped and looked back at me, smug and handsome. Eight tines gleaming in the sun.I was exhausted. It had been eight hours since I’d pulled into the trailhead at four o’clock that morning, and the heat…
Whitetail hunters love to argue about which state holds the biggest and baddest bucks. But which one is really the best?Well, a lot of what makes hunting ground “the best” depends on your personal preferences. Do you like big bucks, and you cannot lie? Maybe you just like to hunt around fewer people. Or maybe you like to feel like a kid in a candy shop, surrounded by opportunities for deer of all ages. Do you prefer to travel or are you more of a homebody? Maybe you like to manage a food plot and be able to set up…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has increased its reliance on artificial intelligence to enhance services for veterans, including the anticipation of crisis situations and streamlining operations.Although the use of AI is not a new concept at the VA, lawmakers and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) have raised concerns over privacy and proper staffing to match the increasing reliance on AI.”Veterans deserve proven, safe care–not services driven by experimental AI tools that are deployed without oversight,” said Sydney Saubestre, senior policy analyst at New America’s Open Technology Institute, in response to heightened AI use at the VA.Between 2023 and 2024,…
AGM Global Vision has launched the new RattlerV3 series, the latest evolution in the Rattler thermal riflescope family. The RattlerV3 series features shutterless technology, enhanced thermal sensitivity, improved imaging algorithms and long-range precision to tactical professionals and outdoor enthusiasts across the globe. Models in the new RattlerV3 family include: RattlerV3 LRF 35-384 RattlerV3 LRF 35-640 RattlerV3 25-384 (the only model in the series without a built-in laser rangefinder) Also included in the V3 family is the RattlerV3 50-640, which was previously released in January 2025. Both the RattlerV3 LRF 35-384 and RattlerV3 LRF 35-640 integrate a 1,000-meter laser rangefinder and…
The report I read stated that the suspect was engaged in an argument with an unarmed individual. Although no threats were made, the suspect pulled a handgun. He was arrested, probably for assault, and told the arresting officer that he had produced the gun to de-escalate the problem. The other fellow and the police officer saw it the same way that you or I would: as an act of aggression. My guess would be the arrested party saw that they were losing the argument, didn’t have the verbal skills to support their end of the discussion and lost their temper.…