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:…

A mild winter and warm spring across much of the West have contributed to extremely below-average snowpacks and widespread drought conditions, prompting experts to use terms such as “historic” and “abysmal” when describing the current outlook. According to Climate Matters, the western U.S. snowpack was 65% below the 1991-2020 average…

General Atomics’ has paused all flight tests and opened an investigation after one of its drone wingmen crashed Monday after takeoff, the company said in a news release. One of General Atomics’ YFQ-42A “Dark Merlin” Collaborative Combat Aircraft “experienced a mishap” at its company-owned airport in California around 1 p.m. local…

It’s not clear whether Iran has put naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, but its longstanding ability to do so is part of the reason ships have all but stopped moving through the critical global chokepoint. The time may come for the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships to demonstrate their long-touted ability to…

A deception campaign launched by the CIA bought time for U.S. forces to rescue an airman who went down in Iran on Friday, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a White House news conference on Monday.The CIA deployed human assets and “exquisite technologies” to contribute to the rescue of the…

I’d been having a back-and-forth with a bird since he flew down from the roost. I would stroke a few whispered yelps on my pot call, and he’d thunder back a response that echoed off the hardwoods. He was working his way toward me, but it was slow going. It…

Most turkey hunters love to watch longbeards put on “the show.” There’s nothing quite like a tom gobbling his head off as he struts all the way to your gun barrel with iridescent feathers gleaming in the sun. Unfortunately, that’s not the case most of the time. Even though I’ll…

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