Editor’s Introductory Warning: The devices described in this article can cause great bodily injury. We live in a highly litigious society. Employing caltrops in any situation other than a “Without Rule of Law” societal collapse would invite a lawsuit that could potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or perhaps even more than a million dollars in assessed damages, attorney fees, and court costs. There is also the potential for these to be stepped on inadvertently by family members, friends, pets, or livestock.  So, ONLY use them in absolute extremis, and only in a fenced-off area that will prevent the…

My state boasts one of the longest rifle seasons in the country. While there are a few “primitive weapon” seasons scattered throughout on public lands, folks can gun hunt on private land from the weekend before Thanksgiving to the end of January. That’s two and a half months of gun season for you folks up North that complain about the orange armies flooding the woods for a whole week or two. With nearly a quarter of the year dedicated to gun season, you’d think most hunters could kill a deer from the hip, but that’s just not the case.After working…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to this country life. I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trot lighting and just in general country living. I want you to stay a while as I share. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: My experiences in life lessons. 00:00:17 Speaker 1: 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. 00:00:39 Speaker 2: The soundtrack of our lives. 00:00:43…

(Continued from Part 1.  This concludes the article.) During winter, even the U.S. Embassy monitored the grid closely. The possibility of a complete system failure was taken seriously enough that commercial flights were placed on twenty-four-hour standby for potential evacuation of official personnel. We were nongovernmental residents. Those plans did not include us. Our planning had to be personal. Cold changed how time felt. Days stretched and compressed unpredictably. Waiting became a skill. Movement slowed, not from laziness, but from necessity. Mistakes in cold were costly. Dropping something, misjudging exposure, forgetting a step could mean numb fingers, wasted effort, or…

On January 16, 1605, the first edition of “El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid. — January 16, 1668: The Infamous sword duel between George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and Francis Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury. They fought over Anna, Duchess of Shrewsbury and mistress of Buckingham. The Earl was mortally wounded. — The 20th Anniversary (2005-2025) SurvivalBlog archive waterproof USB sticks have arrived from the manufacturer!  Orders will be mailed out starting next week, in the order that they were received. We expect to sell out…

MeatEater is proud to introduce Mark Kenyonn as our new Director of Conservation.“As a lifelong hunter, angler, and father of two young boys, I view the future of wildlife and wild places as a very personal issue. So when Steve asked me to join MeatEater, back in 2017, the opportunity that excited me the most was the chance we might have, as a group of leaders in the hunting and fishing community, to make a positive difference on the future of conservation and the hunting and fishing way of life. I’ve looked at that as our ultimate goal ever since,…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, 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, Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. On this special one thousandth episode of the show, I’m joined by Randy Neuberg to discuss the future of hunting, wildlife and wild places and how all of this might impact our way of life in the months and years to come. All right, welcome back…

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We lived in Mongolia in the early 1990s, for a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, during a time when the system had officially ended but its habits had not yet loosened their grip on daily life. I was in my early thirties, married, with two young daughters, trying to build a life far from anything familiar. We were not passing through, and we were not insulated expatriates. We were attempting to function inside the local economy, under local conditions, with consequences that were immediate and personal. At the time, I did not think of what we…

On January 15, 1907, the first 3-element vacuum tube was patented by American inventor Lee DeForest. — This is the anniversary of the 2009 “Miracle On The Hudson” engines-out emergency water landing. — Today is the birthday of Dr. Edward Teller who co-invented the H-bomb and worked on the Manhattan Project. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 122 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three-Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one, two, or three-day course (a $1,095 value), A Peak…