Leonidas Clark

Leonidas Clark is the founder and editor of The 4×4 Life. A lifelong outdoorsman, hunter, and truck owner based in Texas, he writes and edits every article on the site. He focuses on clear, sourced explanations of the rules that govern outdoor recreation, including hunting and fishing regulations, public land access, trucks and off-road travel, and firearms law and safety. Every fact published here is his responsibility.

North Carolina adds early deer seasons in CWD counties

Earlier blackpowder and gun seasons in five northwestern counties, plus statewide carcass disposal rules replacing the…
Youth ATVs recalled over brake and speed faults

About 1,050 Yamazuki model XW-A19 machines sold on Amazon and Walmart.com fail three requirements of the…
GM: stop driving these 4WD trucks now

NHTSA campaign 26V289000 carries a park-it warning. A missing transfer case component can lock the front…
Pennsylvania raises trout size limit to nine inches

The Fish and Boat Commission voted unanimously to lift the minimum size from seven inches, the…
Ford recalls F-150 and Maverick over loose joints

NHTSA campaign 26V550000 covers loose bolted joints that Ford says can cause detached parts, degraded crash…
Missouri drops deer zone and antler-point rules

The state has removed its CWD Management Zone, dropped antler-point restrictions in 18 counties, and moved…
GVWR, GCWR and the sticker in your door jamb

Four acronyms govern how much a truck may legally weigh. They are not interchangeable, and one…
Hunting with dogs runs on its own set of rules

Which species may be pursued with dogs, when, and under what identification and trespass rules is…
What a background check actually checks

NICS searches three databases and returns one of three answers. The delays, the denials and the…
Trail right-of-way and why it is ordered that way

Uphill yields, bikes yield, everyone yields to stock — the conventions follow from physics and animal…