00:00:12 Speaker 1: Rifle shots aren’t unusual during deer season in Borough, Minnesota, but in twenty sixteen, one of those shots wasn’t aimed at a white tail. It was aimed at a husband and father of four, shot with his own rifle by a perpetrator who might be a stranger or someone much closer to home. Now, nearly ten years later, a gun, a van, and whispers in a small Midwestern town, point in every direction and nowhere at all. That’s next on blood Trails. When fifteen year old Jonathan Briske got home from school on November seventh, twenty sixteen,…

JWR’s Introductory Note: The following is an update and expansion to a post that I made in SurvivalBlog back in November, 2005. It is part of a series of SurvivalBlog 20th Anniversary re-posts, in recognition of the fact that the majority of readers did not join us until recent years. — Many letters and e-mails I’ve received over the years have mentioned motor oil and chainsaw fuel mixing oil.  That reminded me about a subject that I’ve meant to address on the blog: the key considerations of oil and lubricant storage.  It is important to think through all of your…

If you take a peek inside the average hunter’s gun safe, you’ll find many of the same popular cartridges: .30-06 Springfield, .308 Win., .270 Win., .243 Win., .30-30 Win., .300 Win. Mag., and a few others.You don’t need me to sing the praises of those old-school cartridges. They’ve been hammering big game for decades, and the world doesn’t need another “10 Best” list that includes the 7mm Rem. Mag.Instead, I want to point your attention to a few options off the beaten path. These cartridges aren’t obscure or obsolete like those you’ll find in the Forgotten Cartridges series. But even…

The Benelli M4 set the standard for a combat-grade semi-automatic shotgun when it was adopted by the Marine Corps as the M1014. While it proved to be a popular shotgun, civilian users in this country have had to settle for a version missing some of the features of its Marine brethren. That all changed with Benelli’s introduction of the new-for-2025 M4 EXT.  With the new EXT model, Benelli is offering civilians the same features found on the law-enforcement and military versions of the M4. Black MultiCam finish shown. Imported shotguns and semi-automatic rifles must conform to the standards of 18…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: It’s mid November and the white tail rud is in full swing. You kind of just have to be there to understand. But a buck walking through timber a glow with fallen leaves is rare. It’s a fleeting moment and it impacts the hunter at a deep level. I don’t want to over romanticize it, but the experiences that we have in wild places are often significant highlights in our lives, and these stories on this episode celebrate these moments of engagement with wild places and the moments we have with our friends. A lot of these…

In recent years, Colt has revived its vaunted line of “snake guns,” a collection of double-action revolvers with serpent-inspired nomenclature, such as the Cobra, the Python and the Anaconda. One of the latest additions to the second-generation line of snake guns is the Viper, which stands out in the lineup for several reasons. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” Rifleman Review segment above to see the details and watch it in action on the range. “The original Vipers came out in 1977. They were an aluminum alloy-frame gun, and they were chambered in the .38 Special cartridge,” former American Rifleman Editor…

This article is about my experience using a shipping container as a mouse-proof cellar. A couple of important notes up front – shipping containers are not designed to have a load-bearing roof. I discovered that quickly while attempting to put a dirt cover over the top of the container. With a small load of dirt on top, the roof of the metal container began to bow. I shoveled the dirt back off of there, and revised my plan as explained below. So don’t do that. Also, it is essential that the container be installed above the groundwater table to prevent…

November 19, 1530: The final decree of the Diet of Augsburg, “The Recess,” is signed by Charles V and Catholic princes, reaffirming Catholic rites and principles after the departure of Protestant princes. — On November 19, 1619, the Dutch ship Nieuw Hoorn exploded in the Sunda Strait, near Sumatra, after a fire on board reached the gunpowder, killing more than 100 men. — Today is the anniversary of the Kyle Rittenhouse “Not Guilty” verdicts, in 2021. — On this day in 1863, U.S. President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, at the dedication service for the National Cemetery in Pennsylvania. —…

Old Glory Bank served as the presenting sponsor during the 2025 National Youth Shooting Sports Conference (NYSSC) in October, reaffirming the company’s support for the Second Amendment and the shooting sports. The gathering, the only conference in the nation focused on youth shooting sports, took place in Columbia, Mo. “We are strong supporters of our military, veterans and first responders, many of whom benefited from participation in youth shooting sports,” said Eric Ohlhausen, chief strategy officer at Old Glory Bank. “Partnering with MidwayUSA Foundation allows us to make a direct impact on thousands of young athletes who are learning the…

Already a fan of Ruger’s long-discontinued double-action Security-Six, Police Service-Six and Speed-Six revolvers, I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to acquire one of the latter in 9 mm Luger when an unfired, 42-year-old example turned up at a gun show. Having recently updated the magazine’s Exploded View coverage of the classic Six series (January 2025, p. 58), I knew that a 9 mm Luger Speed-Six was considered a collectible. Still, after studying up on the cartridge’s ballistics from short-barreled revolvers, and becoming convinced that loading rimless rounds via moon clips was likely to outpace loading a rimmed-cartridge revolver with…