On May 6, 1837, US blacksmith John Deere made the first steel plough, in Grand Detour, Illinois. —May 6, 1851: Linus Yale Jr. patented the Yale cylinder lock. — You may already own a SIEGE Stove or a SIEGE Belt from SIEGE Survival. (One of our loyal advertisers.)  I just heard that they’ve added the excellent American-made Fire-Fast firestarters to their product line. (At the SIEGE website, click on “Ferro Rod Fire Steels”.) You can see one of these being tested after four days of submersion, in a YouTube video. Tom Christianson will soon be reviewing one of the jumbo-size “Trekker”…

When I was growing up, springtime was always catfish time. Every year, as soon as the ice had melted off the water and I heard the calls of spring peepers in the air, I’d grab my gear and head down to the river for an evening of kitty hunting. I never caught many fish in those days, but it always felt like the first wriggling bullhead or channel cat I managed to pull onto the muddy bank was the start of something great and that the fishing was only going to get better from here.As I grew older, I refined…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast. I’m your host, Tony Peterson. I want to deviate from deer this week to talk about turkeys once more before we get out of this season, but specifically late season turkeys. What I want to talk about and how most…

You’ve probably heard the term “safe queen,” but for those who aren’t quite sure what it means, simply put, it refers to a firearm so pristine, valuable, historically significant or emotionally important to its owner, it seems unthinkable to shoot it. Thus, these cherished gems end up being permanently sequestered away in gun safes or comparably secure environments, never to see the light of day, or at best, to be reverently taken out on occasion and briefly admired before being carefully put back into the fortified safety of their sheltered environment. I think I can safely say that, in most…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Found almost exclusively in America in the western half of the continent. The West rock art remains an enigmatic record of thousands of years of the human presence. 00:00:12 Speaker 2: Here. 00:00:13 Speaker 1: I’m Dan Flores and this is the American West. Messages from the past, the rock art of the American West. For Europeans and Americans journeying into the West in the nineteenth century, the region passed the center line of the continent was plains and mountains, deserts and seacoasts, people and animals, And for them the whole stood as the purest, most distilled…

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…

Thompson/Center Arms is known for two things. One is establishing the American-made muzzleloading market starting in the early 1970s. The other is the Contender, a modular and barrel-switching single-shot system that could be configured as a rifle, handgun or shotgun, which was later expanded to the Encore line capable of accepting higher-pressure cartridges. The original company was sold to Smith & Wesson in 2007 and subsequently phased out. In 2024, former owner Gregg Ritz purchased the company back and returned it to its Rochester, N.H., birthplace. New for 2026, the company has introduced and expanded the modern take on the…

00:00:02 Speaker 1: Welcome to this special bonus drop of Backwoods University. We put out these bonus episodes on occasion when something on the extraordinary scale comes to our attention, and this is very well one of those times. If you remember, back in the fall, we published an episode called Pogy Boats where we dove into a long standing conflict between the commercial menhaden fishing industry and recreational fishermen, charter fishermen, and kind of the conservation community in that area. We talked about by catch concerns, which bycatch is non target fish or other aquatic wildlife that wind up…

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…