Author’s Introductory Note: Please help to spread this message by e-mailing links to this article including to people who are not regular SurvivalBlog readers. With more migration of conservatives to red states, you could help to turn the tide and restore our country to its greatness. Some article titles tell you immediately what you need to know and this is one of them. Even if you now live in the safest, most conservative area there are lessons contained within this article because you are very connected to every rotting liberal area in the country. You may think to yourself: “I…

Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. and Beretta Holding S.A. have announced a strategic cooperation agreement. This collaboration began last year as a contentious disagreement between the two companies—as of last March, Beretta Holding S.A., the Luxembourg-based parent of the iconic Italian gunmaker Beretta, had amassed a 9.95 percent stake in Ruger. To parry this, Ruger had adopted a one-year shareholder rights plan—commonly known as a “poison pill.” The poison pill, if Beretta or another stakeholder attained 10 percent or more of its stock, would basically have given options to others to purchase shares at a discounted rate, a defense strategy…

While it’s certainly a saturated marketplace these days, the AR-15 has never been more popular with American firearm enthusiasts, and many manufacturers are continuing to feed the need with new options loaded with new features. For the year 2026, the flow of new rifles hasn’t stopped, and there are a few notable examples worth examining. From the budget-priced to the fully loaded, here are seven new AR-style rifles out this year. Hi-Point | Model HP-15 Rifle M81Hi-Point’s HP-15 lineup has expanded to include hydro-dipped camo patterns (and a gold Cerakote, if you really want attention) with a few nice ergonomic…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan col Calahan. Here’s CAP. A new study looked at coked up Atlantic salmon. Yes you heard that right. Researchers in Sweden completed a research project that assessed the effects of cocaine and its metabolite benzil ech john in ech jonen benzelec jinen. Well, it’s a mouthful on fish. To do this, they fed hatchery Smoltz slow released drug capsules before releasing them into a lake, and then studied their behavior and survival rates. The high salmon swam about twenty percent…

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DA Targets produces an innovative line of polymer, self-healing, reactive targets. They have silhouette targets. They have gong targets. And they have knock down targets, too. Like other reactive targets, knock down targets make an excellent training aid. The marksman doesn’t need to wait to inspect a target following a series of shots in order to find out how well he is shooting. Instead, the target reacts immediately, providing instant feedback about the effectiveness of each shot. This provides more accurate and powerful reinforcement of marksmanship skills. It is also a lot more fun. One of DA Targets’ most innovative…

Editor’s Introductory Note: The recent spike in fuel prices prompted me to re-post this practical 2010 article from the SurvivalBlog archives. – JWR Although I live in a rural setting, my current employment depends on being able to reliably commute about 45 minutes each way to the state capital. Watching the shutdown and gradual restoration of the Colonial pipeline serving the southeast US in teh aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was a sobering experience. Fuel prices spiked to record levels and many stations were not able to re-supply for weeks because of the lack of sufficient movement in the pipeline. It…

On May 3, 1810, English poet Lord Byron swam across the dangerous Hellespont Strait in Turkey. (The modern day Dardanelles.) — May 3,1952:  The first airplane landed on the ice pack at the geographic North Pole. — And on May 3, 1999: A category F5 tornado hit parts of Oklahoma City and caused the record wind speed of about 301 mph (484 km/h). 45 people were killed, and 665 injured.  This was the highest tornado wind speed ever recorded. — Today’s feature article is a timely re-post from the SurvivalBlog archives. Read the full article here

There are many options on the market for off-body carry bags. Eberlestock recently released its “Fade Sling,” which looks very intuitive and promising. The Fade Sling is more of a large-format, everyday-carry-bag, though. It contains a quick-deploy area for your concealed firearm but is much different and larger than the bag we will be discussing in this article: the 945 Industries Q.A.P. Series off-body carry bag. I selected this particular bag after weeks of research and have been carrying in it for the last few months. Right off the bat, it should be understood that the 945 Industries bag is…

In 2026, CCI Ammunition—formally Cascade Cartridge, Inc.—marks its 75th anniversary with a fitting tribute to innovation and American ingenuity. Founded in 1951—or, actually, a few years before when Dick Speer and his brother Vernon moved to Idaho to start companies to manufacture components for the ammunition reloading market—this Lewiston, Idaho-based manufacturer evolved from a small primer operation in a converted chicken coop into a global leader in rimfire ammunition and reloading components. In this The Armed Citizen Podcast interview, CCI’s Product Manager Dan Compton, explains the product introductions and more CCI is bringing in celebration of this anniversary. “Let’s start…