Hodgdon Powder Company has released the 2026 Hodgdon Annual Manual. It features data for Hodgdon, Accurate Powder, IMR, Ramshot and Winchester Smokeless Propellants. In total, more than 12,000 loads are represented, with updates for more than 116 rifle and pistol cartridges and more than 1,000 shotshell loads. “This year’s Annual Manual reflects our continued commitment to both new and experienced reloaders,” said Aaron Oelger, vice president of marketing at Hodgdon. “For 2026, we expanded our educational focus with a series of Reloading 101 articles for beginners and advanced Reloading 301 features for seasoned handloaders. This edition also includes a memorial honoring…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody to the third and final flop from the Meat Eater Live Christmas Tour. Today finds us in Austin, Texas, at the esteemed restaurant Die do Way, owned and operated by Jesse Griffiths, who I argue, not only is America’s greatest chef. I mean, maybe I don’t know that’s a big claim. He is definitely America’s greatest wild game cook and chef. And we’re in his restaurant. What I used to like about this restaurant. 00:00:26 Speaker 2: But I used to like about it, I. 00:00:28 Speaker 1: Need you know. Last night some people…

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As practical, concealable handguns get smaller and smaller, we’ve had to start adding modifiers, like “sub” and “micro,” to describe “compact” pistols. The new Derya Arms DY9Z not only fits into the “micro” class, it adds another adjective: affordable.   The Derya DY9Z is a micro-compact version of the company’s compact DY9.   The term “micro-compact” loosely denotes a small handgun chambered in 9 mm Luger that still holds 10+ rounds in the magazine. The DY9Z fits the bill. It is a semi-automatic, polymer frame, striker-fired handgun based on the company’s compact-sized DY9. The pistol uses metal-bodied magazines that hold…

 Among American firearm manufacturers, Colt is an iconic name, and the company’s history stretches back into the 1830s. For the Union Army during the American Civil War, its officers and cavalry troopers relied on one of Colt’s most notable firearms: the 1860 Army revolver. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” I Have This Old Gun segment above to hear the history of this classic Colt wheelgun. “For the whole history of Colt’s Manufacturing Company, all the way from the Paterson guns in 1836, right up to the eve of the Civil War, Sam Colt is obsessed with getting a military contract,”…

00:00:07 Speaker 1: This podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer new Arthan. Today we’re joined by Jannis Brody Randall, Tresa Seth and Nate. This is a ten round quiz show with questions for meat eaters four verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking, and there’s a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. We have an I f a Q this week. If you have an I F a Q, send it to Trivia at…

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On December 24, 1651, Jan van Riebeeck departed for the Cape of Good Hope to˜to found the first permanent European settlement in South Africa. — And on December 24, 1818, the Christmas carol “Silent Night” composed by Franz Xaver Gruber was first sung at St. Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria. — 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…

A replacement pistol grip for AR-10/15-pattern rifles, the Kung Fu Grip from Die Free Co. utilizes a reduced (12 degree) grip angle that makes shooting a gun with a short length of pull much more comfortable on the wrist—making it an ideal choice for practitioners of modern, squared-up shooting stances. Read the full article here

In 2022, Savage Arms entered the polymer-frame, concealed-carry pistol marketplace with the release of a striker-fired subcompact semi-automatic named the Stance. This single-stack 9 mm Luger shipped with a seven-round flush-fit magazine and an extended eight-rounder. It proved to be slim, reliable and its design worked to tame the often-snappy recoil of 9 mm handguns of such small size. Savage reworked this pistol platform in 2025 to incorporate desirable features not available in the first iteration. Dubbed the Stance XR, these new features include a larger-capacity double-stack magazine, an integral trigger safety and an innovative approach to providing customers with…