00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Cow’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cap there is a Cooper’s Hawk flying around the Los Angeles area that might have an untreated alcohol problem. In June of last year, a twenty five year old LA resident named Caesar Gustavo Diaz captured a juvenile Cooper’s Hawk at a park between La and Anaheim. All hawks are protected in America and it’s illegal to capture any species without the proper permits. But it’s what Diaz did next that had the media buzzing. In a…

(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Storage A big challenge when living in small homes is storage space. In a climate with dramatic temperature swings like ours, we have, for example, different mittens, boots, parkas and hats for +30, 0, and -30 degrees. All of these are bulky. We also have special clothing for hunting, fishing, and rain, and various accoutrements for outdoor activities. So, we built lots of storage shelves in various outbuildings to hold labeled totes of out-of-season clothes. In our cabin, I store things under, over, behind, and beside furniture. For example, my husband built…

(Continued from Part 1.) Power Most remote homes and lodges rely on generators. The problem with generators is that they are noisy and smelly. So many people build a ventilated shed around them to buffer the noise. I appreciate that! In our case, we built the power tower (for the wind turbine, solar panels, antennas, and satellite dish) and power shed on the highest point on our property, so the 120 foot tower rises above the tallest trees, 400 feet east of the cabin. When we use the small generator as supplemental power, on rainy, snowy, still days, I am…

After a multi-month restocking hiatus, we are again taking orders at Elk Creek Company. Here are our updated inventory counts: Pre-1899 Antique Rifles:  24 (We have deeply restocked 7×57 and 6.5×55 Mauser rifles.) Pre-1899 Antique Shotguns: 9 (Most are 12 gauge and most of them have fluid steel barrels!) Pre-1899 Antique Pistols and Revolvers: 21  (Mostly S&W top break revolvers.) Blackpowder Revolvers: 23 (Most are .44 caliber, with modern cartridge conversion cylinders available. We have deeply restocked the much-in-demand Ruger Old Army revolvers.) Blackpowder Rifles: 7 (Most of them are .50 Caliber deer/elk hunting rifles.) Knives and Bayonets:  24 (Edged…

Seekins Precision is known for modern sporting rifles and precision platforms, and the company’s latest product is in the latter category. Designed for a U.S. Special Operations Command contract, the Seekins Interchangeable Caliber (SIC) rifle is a modular, bolt-action precision design that allows for easy customization by the owner. The SIC is a brand-new design from Seekins Precision with a one-piece receiver that serves as the chassis for the rifle. The heart of the SIC is a one-piece, machined-steel receiver to which all other components attach. As the receiver does not sit in a separate stock or chassis, there are…

Most people who want to own a lever-action rifle are traditionalists. A lever action appeals to them because it is “the rifle that won the West” or the type of gun that grandpa carried to his deer stand. Part of that tradition is the tubular magazine underneath the barrel of that lever-action rifle. Though it might seem heretical, box magazines have been used on lever actions since the 1890s. As of late, the push to produce “tactical” lever-actions and rifles for the modern hunter has resulted in a resurgence of the the box-magazine-fed lever-action. One of the most recent examples…

If a red fox tunnels under suburban toolsheds or burrows beneath greens on nearby golf courses, no one can guarantee it a long, healthy life by hiring a trapper to move it to a nearby woodlot or even a rural wetland.That’s what researcher David Drake concluded during his recent talk at the annual meeting of Wisconsin’s Wildlife Society. Drake, a professor at UW-Madison, gave his talk a blunt title in the conference’s three-day seminar schedule: “Urban red fox translocation leads to dispersal and low survival.”As UW-Madison researchers repeatedly confirmed over the past 20 years, red foxes wreck stuff when living…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trotlining and. 00:00:11 Speaker 1: Just general country living. I want you to stay a. 00:00:13 Speaker 2: While as I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives from the store More Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast that airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stories to share. From Corner to Corner. It’s girl Week here…

Editor’s Introductory Note: I’ve had many e-mailed questions about buying, transporting, and storing gasoline and diesel fuel in recent days. I also had a question about the available blends of gasoline. So, I thought it would be apropos to re-post a few fuel-related articles from SurvivalBlog’s deep archives.  This article dates back 16 years, to April, 2010. It was written by an anonymous reader in the fuel refining industry. Background Fuel supplies are essential for many aspects of modern society. Complex supply chains rely on hydrocarbon-fueled trucks, trains, and planes to deliver food and other supplies in near real-time. Natural…

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