For the last six years, I have been supplementing my retirement income by working as a rideshare driver. At first, I was a little apprehensive about picking up complete strangers and all of the potential danger that might entail. After almost 20,000 rides, I can honestly say that there was only one experience where I thought my personal safety was at risk and it was relatively minor. Since those early days, rideshare companies have greatly improved their safety tools for both drivers and riders. Although I did not begin driving as an exercise in preparedness, it quickly became one. The…

So, the Maryland “Glock ban” legislation’s  (SB 334) synopsis says: “Prohibiting, on or after January 1, 2027, a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, purchasing, receiving, or transferring a certain machine gun convertible pistol, subject to certain exceptions; requiring the Department of State Police to adopt regulations to implement the requirements of the Act, including publishing a list of prohibited machine gun convertible pistols; etc.” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed the legislation into law. The “certain machine gun convertible pistol(s)” they are referring to are, essentially, Glocks; specifically, however, the Maryland statute excludes hammer-fired semiautomatic pistols and striker-fired…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to this country Life. I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trotlining and just in general country living. I want you to stay a 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 Brooklyn Bradford and Butterflies. For all you folks who thought old Brentley was done telling turkey…

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Water is essential to all life. The human body can go three weeks without food but only three days without water before completely shutting down. Yet most of us find it much easier to store a year’s worth of food than a month’s worth of water. I live in the suburbs and while I have my beans, bullets and band aids pretty squared away, water has always been an area of concern for me. There is no way to store enough water for a long term outage, and I haven’t found many good options. Recently I have spent more time…

On May 29, 1648, King Charles I of England attempted to escape captivity at Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight, for the second time, by hacksawing through a barred window but he was caught in the act. — On this day in 1780, the treatment of Patriot prisoners by British Colonel Banastre Tarleton and his Loyalist troops led to the coining of a phrase that defined British brutality for the rest of the War for Independence: “Tarleton’s Quarter.” Tarleton and his Torries proceeded to shoot any an all Patriots that had surrendered after the fall of Charleston. The Patriots lost 113…

Way back in the day, the three Rs of learning were colloquially known as “Readin’, Rightin’ and Rithmatic.” Fast-forward to modern performance shooting and the three Rs become Rise, Return and Realignment, the core mechanics of recoil control. The operative word here is control. How well you control each phase determines how well you control recoil. Either you control the firing recovery process, or it will control you. All three components—Rise, Return and Realignment—work as a single connected sequence resulting in preparation for the next shot as an integral part of the current shot. Each phase is a separate but…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: What is going on? 00:00:00 Speaker 2: Welcome back to a fresh episode of Back forty. This is Jake Hoefert and we have a fresh panel of four guests to talk about all the different things when it comes to managing whitetails. There’s no shortage of advice on what you should be doing, but sometimes the fastest way to improve your property is knowing what mistakes to avoid in the first place. In this episode of Back forty, we ask the question what are the biggest white tailand mistakes people make? And the answers cover a variety…

Federal Ammunition announced this week that it has entered into an agreement that allows the U.S. Army to utilize its patented Peak Alloy ammunition case technology for use in multiple cartridges and weapon systems. Terms specify certain conditions necessary prior to granting government purpose rights, such as the delivery of 40 million cases that feature the cutting-edge technology. Peak Alloy first appeared on the commercial market in 2025 when Federal Ammunition introduced it in the company’s all new 7 mm Backcountry cartridge. The material was used in the high-strength, proprietary steel alloy casing, which enables significantly higher chamber pressure than…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: There are days. There might be days where you’re gonna be it might be easier than you thought. There’s definitely gonna come a time where it’s gonna be either harder than you thought, or physically it’s gonna be so hard that mentally you start to shut down a little bit. So if you can hedge that fitness side of it to make it more enjoyable, here’s a good thing to think about. 00:00:17 Speaker 2: Have you, Rich Broning, ever been on a hunt you thought you were over prepared for and like you were like, ah,…