In Texas, we’ve got an interesting race in the works. We’ve got James Talarico, whom I’ve already talked about today, and Attorney General Ken Paxton.Talarico is…ugh.  However, while I’m clearly pulling for Paxton to win, let’s also be real here. This is a guy with more than enough baggage of his own. It’s really a matter of opinion as to whether his is better or worse than Graham Platner of Maine’s baggage. A Nazi tattoo or repeated allegations of corruption while in office? For some, this is a no-win race.In November, Texans will go to the…

The Winchester Model 70 Featherweight brings wood, blued steel, controlled round feed, and old-school hunting rifle swagger into a world obsessed with carbon fiber and plastic. We tested this 6.5 Creedmoor classic to see if the Rifleman’s Rifle still deserves a spot in the deer stand. Why the Winchester Model 70 Still Belongs on Every Hunter’s Short List The Winchester Model 70 is a serious hunting rifle and has been since it was introduced in 1936. Ask a group of seasoned hunters what their top-5 hunting rifles are, and I’m sure the Model 70 will be on that list. The…

The Coast Guard has eliminated race-based standards in its service, following a broader Trump administration trend being enforced throughout the military to adhere more to “merit” than diversity, equity or inclusion (DEI). On May 29, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the service eliminated race-based preferences for college students who wish to enlist and commission as Coast Guard officers. It focused on one particular program called the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative (CSPI), which includes a preference for students from educational institutions that meet certain quotas for specifically identified racial groups in their student bodies. Officials have correlated the…

Built on an AR15 upper and fed a mix of Nosler, Hornady, Federal, and ACC, this 6.5 Grendel setup shoots laser-flat, hits like it should on pigs and deer, and keeps recoil tame so you can watch impacts. Why 6.5 Grendel Keeps Winning For Hunters The 6.5 Grendel is an excellent caliber choice for deer, pig, and varmint hunting. Without sounding like too much of a ballistic nerd, the BC is slick, it retains velocity over distance, shoots flat, and its high sectional density puts the terminal in terminal ballistics. Added to caliber’s performance is that the 6.5 Grendel has…

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to dial back fighting after he held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with the Lebanon-militant group through mediators. Trump announced the development in a social media post following a call with Netanyahu, whose forces recently made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter-century. Trump said there would be no Israeli troops “going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back.” The president said Hezbollah had “agreed that all shooting will stop…

James Talarico won the Democratic nomination for the Texas Senate. He was up against Jasmine Crockett, though, so it’s not hard to see what Lone Star State Democrats saw in the man. He wasn’t Jasmine Crockett, for example. But that doesn’t mean the man is as anti-Texas as you could imagine, even making a thing about how his campaign was vegan. In Texas.Still, he’s not trying to mandate veganism on everyone. No, he’s more interested in doing that on universal background checks.U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (D) supports implementing a background check requirement for all gun…

Target panic can wreck confidence fast, but the right archery targets can calm your pin, rebuild your shot, and make practice fun again. These three targets helped me stay out of the target-panic ditch, and they can help you do the same. Target Panic Starts With the Target, So Fix That First I’m certain every tip in the world, some excellent and some awful, has been recommended regarding target panic. I’ve written many myself and will sprinkle some of those tips into this article. There have been equally as many articles highlighting different releases and sights, single-pin vs. multi-pin, that…

With characters in games, as with people in real life, I always like to know where I stand. Much as I believe in second chances, betrayal is something that it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible, to come back from. It’s always very emotionally effective, then, for developers to subvert those kinds of expectations. Sometimes, they’ll give us the whole length of a game’s story to bond with a protagonist, only to reveal at the end that they weren’t at all who you thought they were. There’s nothing quite like a game that completely betrays player expectations. Other titles allow you…

An Oregon initiative petition that could effectively criminalize hunting and fishing has cleared a major early hurdle. Initiative Petition 28, formally called the People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions Act, or PEACE Act, has submitted more raw signatures than it needs to qualify for Oregon’s 2026 ballot. That doesn’t (yet) mean voters will definitely see it in November. The Oregon Elections Division’s May 29 submission log lists IP28 with 126,115 signatures received. A statutory initiative needs 117,173 valid signatures to qualify. Those signatures still have to survive verification. If the petition qualifies and voters approve it, IP28 would…

If the last argument of kings is war, the best response from the citizenry is guns.Machiavelli wrote that “The chief foundations of all states… are good laws and good arms.” Those good arms must be in the hands of citizens, and the world is waking up to the need for guns for themselves to fight the tyrants who persecute them or seek their extermination. We Americans are not fools for holding onto our firearms. Corporate media stateside and around the world can laugh at us or condemn us for the high number of gun-related deaths,…

What started as a routine spring turkey hunt ended in tragedy last month after searchers found the body of a missing Ohio hunter deep in Colorado’s backcountry. According to reporting from CBS Colorado, 27-year-old Kaden Sites was found deceased after more than a week of intensive search efforts near Mount Shavano in Chaffee County. Sites, a resident of Toledo, Ohio, was reported missing after failing to return from a turkey hunting trip and missing a scheduled doctor’s appointment later that day. The disappearance immediately triggered a large-scale search operation. Over eight days, more than 100 volunteers, law enforcement personnel, search-and-rescue…

A three-panel court blocked the Trump administration from banning transgender troops from the United States military, though it did not alter precedent for new troops wanting to enlist. The 2-1 ruling, issued Monday by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, blocks the administration from removing currently enlisted transgender service members but continues to allow the policy to continue for new transgender recruits. On May 6, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court in a party-line decision granted the Trump administration’s request to enforce a Department of Defense policy banning transgender individuals from serving in…