Cowboy State Daily.

A Wyoming man is apologizing for tossing, kicking and stabbing a coyote in a controversial video that went viral last week.

Aron Snyder posted a video statement on social media over the weekend in which he says the coyote video was taken in Texas in 2019 or 2020.

He said that he finished off the wounded coyote with a knife because he didn’t have a firearm with him at the time. He also admits that the video is “a very bad optic.”

No. It’s not a “very bad optic.” Optics has nothing whatsoever to do with anything.

I don’t believe him. Here’s why. He apparently had enough gun to shoot the Coyote to begin with. Then he expects me to believe he suddenly lost his firearm?

A man who will do this to an animal will do it to a human.

Source.

Video captured the moments after Los Angeles police fatally shot a dog that was wearing a New York Knicks jersey as officers were responding to calls of a screaming woman — screaming which turned out to be a celebration of the Knicks winning the NBA championship.

Shortly after the Knicks won the NBA Finals on Saturday, the Los Angeles Police Department shot and killed the dog while responding to an unrelated incident, the LAPD said in a news release on Tuesday.

The LAPD said it was responding to a radio call about a “screaming woman” in Canoga Park, a Los Angeles neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

When the person reporting the screaming directed officers to an apartment unit, a resident opened the door to the responding officers, the LAPD said. Beside her was what the LAPD described as a “large dog” barking at officers.

“The officers asked her to secure the dog, and the resident closed her door momentarily. She re-opened the door, and the dog exited the apartment,” the release states. “Once outside of the apartment, the dog charged at one of the officers, resulting in an Officer-Involved Shooting (OIS).”

I don’t believe them. It was a Doodle.

Cops worldwide are the most cowardly, ignorant, and uneducated of any humans.

But what sort of moron screams over grown men playing little boy’s games?

Shooting News.

In the last 17 months, the Trump administration has delivered win after win for the nation’s most ardent gun-rights advocacy groups, chipping away at dozens of federal regulations. While many of these efforts target regulations from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — the law enforcement agency within the Justice Department tasked with regulating the nation’s millions of firearms — the administration’s work stretches across the executive branch.

Supporters of tighter gun restrictions have pilloried the Trump administration, saying officials are acting recklessly and could endanger the public with a wholesale rollback of regulations. But gun rights advocates who portrayed the Biden administration as trampling on the Second Amendment have praised the current administration’s actions as a needed corrective.

Trump vowed on the campaign trail to be a pro-Second Amendment president and pledged that, under his leadership, “no one will lay a finger on your firearms.” He said he would roll back Biden-era ATF regulations and received the backing of the big gun rights groups.

Right. That’s why we’re still fighting to get access to the SCOTUS on an AR ban case. Apparently, the DOJ hasn’t had the guts and fortitude to demand certiorari for any AR ban cases.

And this is why we got the big, ugly, awful bill without the hearing protection act. Because the administration is the most pro-2A administration in history.

Right.

I’m having trouble making comments show. I’m not sure why.

I have been absent from writing for a while. I have been trying to finish a paper for publication and presentation at a nuclear engineering conference. It has been time consuming. By the way, other than Joe and Wes, not many of you have asked about my status.

However, I wanted to mention a few things. I will be more frequent with deletion of comments in the future. This sidebar activity of the professional paper has been a good a welcome relief from what has become the burden of this web site.

Concerning the post Of Fools and Fudds, most of the comments are unthinking and conveyance of stupid memes (like “we’re not going to vote our way out of this”). Meanwhile, the SAF has to take up a legal fight with the U.S. Virgin Islands over possible new gun control, the Firearms Policy Coalition and Gun Owners of America have to take up all sorts of fights with virtually everyone in America over their new efforts at gun control – in the courts, no less, not where the fight should be, or at least not where the first line of defense should be. And in Virginia, the VCDL has to take up the fight in Virginia via the courts. But local prosecutors and some (not all) Sheriffs who refuse to enforce the new Virginia gun ban is incomplete. Sheriffs refusing the enforce confiscation can’t force FFLs to sell guns to anyone.

So while gun owners sit on comfortable couches and parrot stupid memes rather than vote, communists around the country become elected to office and make it more difficult to exercise God given rights. Apparently, only the communists understand politics. But it’s not about you. It’s about your progeny and those who come after you. While you may have the firearms and ammunition you want or think you need, the young ones who come behind us now must fight to procure them and the training to use them. Whether AR confiscations occur in Virginia or not, they cannot be purchased in light of the new laws. Neither can anyone procure them from adjacent states even under the current rules because no FFL will sell to Virginia residents.

I call it laziness, and I’m right. Leaving this to the courts is stupid and lethargic. I have never said that the ballot box was the last option. It’s the first option before the jury box and ammunition box. With the number of gun owners in America who do not vote (into the millions), we could be the most powerful lobby in the country. Rather, we have become a laughingstock while we circle the wagons and make it even worse for ourselves.

But Christ made His position plain. If you can’t be faithful in the small things, He will not even give you the opportunity to be faithful in the larger things (Luke 16:10-13). Quod erat demonstrandum.

I’m not stupid, and neither are you. I think through these things and I expect you to do the same. In the comments, don’t speak back to me like you think I’m stupid.

Alloutdoor.

The Henry Lever Action Supreme Rifle, Guns & Ammo’s Rifle of the Year, just got a new chambering. The LASR is now available in .450 Bushmaster, and for hunters in straight-wall cartridge states, this is the addition that makes the platform genuinely field-ready for big game. The .223 and .300 BLK variants were already out there, but .450 Bushmaster brings the kind of terminal performance that matters when you need to put something large and unpleasant on the ground at deer season distances.

The .450 Bushmaster LASR runs an 18-inch free-floated blued steel barrel and ships with a DuraMag Stainless Steel 10-round magazine. The platform is MSR-magazine compatible, so if you want to push capacity beyond 10 rounds you have options. The match-grade trigger breaks at 4 pounds out of the box and is user-adjustable within a 1-pound range using the included hex key, which is a legitimately useful feature for a hunting rifle that might need to be tuned for gloved hands in cold weather.

Okay, well, nice job, I guess. But I’m still waiting for a traditional non-box-magazine-fed 460 S&W and 500 S&W model. Why am I having to wait for so long?

Cowboy State Daily.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department confirmed to Cowboy State Daily that it’s investigating a graphic video of a man, allegedly a Wyoming resident, grabbing a seemingly wounded coyote by its tail, tossing the animal, then chasing it down to kick, stab and taunt it.

The video also was sent to Cowboy State Daily by a private investigator, Reece Soukoroff, who said he was the person who also sent it to Game and Fish.

Game and Fish Spokeswoman Amanda Fry said Friday that department is investigating the alleged incident.

Every ethical hunter knows that Coyotes are invasive in the East, and perhaps a nuisance in the West. But every ethical hunter also knows that when you make shots, you ensure ethical shots, not those to maim or cause unnecessary pain.

Those who inflict pain for the sake of pain are sociopaths and ungodly men. Avoid and report sociopaths.

Translated: “My friend has a small farm, but he’s dealing with a little problem: he’s constantly being chased by the wild boars that naturally roam around his farm. So he decided to bring in a dog to help him drive the boars away. The dog’s reaction to the first chase.”

I think my dog would do a lot better, but I’d still rather rely on a large bore sidearm.

Via: WiscoDave.

🗣️: صديقي لديه مزرعة صغيرة، ولكنه يعاني من مشكلة صغيرة، وهي أنه يتعرض دائما للمطاردة من الخنازير البرية التي تتواجد بشكل طبيعي حول مزرعته، فقرر إحضار كلب لمساعدته في طرد الخنازير

رد فعل الكلب مع أول مطاردة: pic.twitter.com/qLjbWpmeiL

— TAKTO (@Ne_zaha) April 30, 2026

David Codrea.

Per the Independent Voter Project, there are over 1.8 million registered Republicans in Virginia, and over 1million “Independents.”. And per Ammo.com’s “Gun Ownership by State,” 44.6% of households in Virginia own a gun.

 Clearly, had more Republicans and gun owners been engaged and voted, the results – and the resulting dangers they pose in terms of “gun laws,” would have been very different. Then again, had a Get Out the Vote effort, sufficient to the task, been seriously mounted instead of ignored, the election that put Abigail Spanberger in power could also have been turned around, and the referendum would never have been advanced.

Well, he has a point, but I’ll be even more direct and insulting (as if that’s bothered me before).

Several reliable sources now estimate that 10 million hunters and gun owners in the U.S. are not registered to vote. That figure comes from a Vote4America survey reported by American Hunter.

Digging deeper, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) highlights “critical swing states” where the numbers of unregistered hunters and shooters are especially high. For example:

• Pennsylvania: about 515,000 unregistered gun owners / hunters
• Michigan and North Carolina: around 370,000 each
• Georgia, Wisconsin, Missouri, Virginia: each with more than half a million unregistered hunters/gun owners
• Less so, but still significant: Arizona (~133,000), Nevada (~59,000), and Montana (~52,000)

Another critical point: since 2020, more than 22.3 million new first-time gun owners have entered the picture. Many of these are not yet registered to vote, but they represent a large potential voting bloc.

Let me be clear. While you older hunters may be making the calculation not to get involved if your ox isn’t gored and you get to keep your bolt action deer rifle, and upland bird hunters may be the same with your shotguns, there isn’t much of a divide between a scoped high powered bolt action rifle and a “sniper rifle” that the controllers want to ban. It’s the same with scatter guns which may be seen as assault “trench sweepers.” I like my bolt action rifles and shotguns too, but please, don’t be stupid and do try to think through this thing with your eyes open.

If you’re sitting this out and ignoring what’s going on around you in favor of being lazy, you’re a food or a Fudd, and maybe both. They’ll come for you too.

You’ve been warned.

Note: I’ve tried to speak directly to Virginian gun owners so many times over these pages that it would be tiresome to find all of the links.

Ammoland.

The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus sounded the alarm on social media on April 27. “ALERT: The Minnesota Senate is holding a hearing TOMORROW on an omnibus gun control bill that crams nearly every anti-gun wishlist item into one package,” the organization wrote. “What’s in it? Ban on future sales of semi-automatic rifles. ‘Ghost gun’ ban. Binary trigger ban. More funding for Red Flag (ERPO) enforcement. ‘School safety’ funding tied to gun control mandates. In other words: the usual ‘we swear this one will make you safer’ starter pack.”

Well, why not? States from Illinois to Maryland have theirs, who why not Minnesota? After all, the SCOTUS is too cowardly to stop it.

Yeah, it’s sad, believe me Missy
When you’re born to be a sissy
Without the vim and verve
But I could show my prowess
Be a lion, not a mowess
If I only had the nerve

The worst part is that they aren’t even embarrassed.