This is a great interview and one of the more interesting that I’ve had the pleasure to embed. I commend it to you.

If I wasn’t so jaded I wouldn’t hold the position that it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the DOJ harangued RBT into agreeing to retain all customer information (a change in policy) and then go after other manufacturers of this sort of device in court as a way of giving the next administration the ability to know who had them.

Cameron doesn’t seem to hold out much hope for RBT given the difference in design (lever versus cassette).

I’ve remarked before about the virtue and even necessity of controlled – managed – prescribed burns. It’s good for the environment. It’s good for other things too.

Adams says the location had a lot to do with the number of ticks swarming the deer carcass. The animal came from an area of Oklahoma with dense vegetation and no recent prescribed fire, which can create a perfect storm for ticks.

“This region tends to produce deer with heavier parasite loads,” Adams says. “But this was an extreme case, even for there.”

[ … ]

“Young fawns don’t move much. That’s their survival mechanism,” Adams says. “In areas that have lots of ticks, they will just cover the fawns. They’ll be all around their eyes, nose, and mouth. In those cases, ticks can actually kill fawns.”

[ … ]

Ongoing research from Craig Harper at the University of Tennessee is exploring how prescribed burning can impact tick populations. Early findings suggest that fire could be an effective tool for reducing ticks, in addition to its known benefits for habitat and forage.

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Like I said about cattle (and specifically bulls), you don’t mess with large animals. That wolf may have a broken jaw now and may not survive.

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First, the Army is intending to deploy tank rounds intended for drones. See here.

The U.S. military is thinking about drones. Doctrine usually doesn’t survive first contact, but at least it’s a start. I especially approve of the shot shells for tanks.https://t.co/HOGeDehsWE

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) July 13, 2025

Second, Big Country Expat has been doing some thinking about the more quick and easy to develop stuff.

Now, as far as (and I know this’s going to go over like the proverbial lead balloon,) but I have a COTS idea that could be implemented right here, and right now… As I discussed with Herschel last evening or the night before…

My Idea utilizes pre-existing stuff… In this case it’d be the M7/M243 LVOSS or Light Vehicle Obscuration Smoke System to dispense an anti-drone package. The anti-drone rounds would be new, but easily and cheaply made/manufatured.

I make my own ‘timed/fused’ fireworks legally here for holidays for my 37mm Launcher… If -I- can make them here, utilizing a glue gun, some black powder, and learning how to time my visco?

So easy, even an Airborne Infantryman can do it LOL.

As it is, currently, the LVOSS is/was used to ‘throw mad amounts of smoke’ in Iraq and Afghanistan during ‘negative crowd issues’ i.e. protests and/or riots. The launchers themselves individually look like this:

Each tube on a M7 launch tube is 66mm in diameter wide round, and about 5.75 inches (the round itself) in the pic above long… meaning the overall length is about 7.28 inches long, but the Boomy-Boom part of the round itself is about 5.75 inches by 66mm which is 2.6 inches wide. The round has the capacity in that picture of having a 19oz payload…

Remove that Red Phosphorous/Butyl Rubber Smoke Composition?

Replace that and Load the shell with #4 Turkey Shot?

Well the payload for the above-stated round is 19 ounces.

The math said a comparable 19-ounce load of #4 lead shot would contain approximately 2,584 pellets. #4 lead shot contains about 136 pellets per ounce. Therefore, 19 ounces * 136 pellets/ounce equals roughly 2584 pellets.

Finally, there is the extremely high tech.

🚨 Here’s What Leonidas, the U.S. Army’s New Microwave Defense System, Is Capable Of.

No bullets. No missiles. No sound.

The Leonidas system uses high-powered microwave bursts to instantly disable enemy drones mid-air by frying their electronics — not jamming, but physically… pic.twitter.com/rG2gT7KMJM

— Defence Index (@Defence_Index) July 15, 2025

So for microdrones, if you want to be capable of defense in a real-time big war, this has become a rich man’s game.

Cowboy State Daily.

Can Wyoming ranchers prevent grizzlies from killing their cattle? Possibly, if they go all-in on Charolais cattle.

That’s what happened last week when a herd of Charolais cattle on a ranch owned by DeBruycker Charolais in Dutton, Montana, decided that a pesky grizzly had to go.

Where most cattle might panic or run at the approach of the apex predator, this herd went on the offensive.

“They’re protective of their babies, as any good mother should be,” owner Brett DeBruycker told Cowboy State Daily.

Rather than running away from the grizzly, the cattle approached the pernicious predator. The grizzly was surrounded and sent running for its life, with dozens of Charolais hot on its tail to ensure it was evicted from the property.

“Charolais tough,” Kesler Martin, DeBruycker’s nephew and one of the owners of DeBruycker Charolais, posted on social media. “That bear didn’t stand a chance.”

This behavior is expected for bison, but uncommon for domestic cattle. Could Charolais cattle be the cure for grizzly predation in Wyoming?

Video at the link.

I’m no so sure about the statement that this would be “uncommon for domestic cattle.” Maybe for cows and steers, but if you’ve ever been around bulls, you know that they are some of the meanest animals God ever created.

Source.

A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a New York gun nuisance law that imposes liability for injuries stemming from misconduct in the sale or marketing of firearms.

In a July 10 opinion, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York affirmed dismissal of the lawsuit filed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and 14 of its members.

The 2021 state law is not preempted by federal law, it does not violate principles of interstate commerce, and it is not void for vagueness, the 2nd Circuit said in an opinion by Judge Eunice C. Lee, an appointee of former President Joe Biden.

Of course Eunice said that. Shutting down firearms manufacturers has always been the holy grail of gun control.

The solution, of course, is to refuse to sell firearms to anyone in the state of New York, including and most importantly, law enforcement.

That is, if firearms manufacturers had scruples and cared more about the second amendment than they do about making money.

Source.

Shutting down firearms manufacturers has always been the holy grail of gun control.

The solution, of course, is to secede from Canada.

Great work. I’m a bit surprised they responded to the FOIA request by transferring the full FBI document over to anyone.

With this done now, it’s hard to see how the Sig lawyers or designers move forward without a whole host of lawsuits and without an announcement and complete recall of the firearm.

For the record, I have nothing that says ‘Sig’ in my locker. I don’t do striker-fired guns and I don’t do Sig. I have heard that this pistol was originally intended to be a hammer-fired gun and then later redesigned to striker-fired. If that’s true, they should have left it hammer-fired.

KUIU has a very good article up on methods of water filtration and purification for backcountry hunting, with emphasis on weight and movement. I won’t post it all or even any of it, but they have a nice list of pros and cons on the various methods.

I have most of these methods, from life straw to force filtration through ceramic filters. I don’t have (and haven’t used) tablets. I don’t like the idea of loading my thyroid up with iodine. Some are light, some are bulky and weighty, and leak inside your backpack. Again, there are pros and cons to all of it.

Prior:

Water Filtration for the Hunter and Backpacker

The Best Backpacking Water Filters