Calling contests or video tutorials can help you learn how to make realistic turkey sounds. But, if you want to know why and when to make those calls, you should get it straight from the horse’s mouth. Especially if that horse is a turkey.A crisp, realistic calling ability is a great tool to have in your bag, but knowing how to use those tools makes the difference. The more you put yourself around turkeys, the more opportunities you can observe them acting and reacting in various situations. In fact, they can even bust a few calling or hunting myths that…

I recently had a chance to take the Bergara Stoke out to play. I stumbled upon it on the Bergara site while looking for a rifle recommendation for a friend. I got the rifle and was immediately impressed. I had requested it chambered in 7 mm-08. This is an outstanding round for the smaller statured shooter on many levels. There are several reasons for this that I’ll discuss shortly. I want to focus on the rifle itself for the moment. I’ve had a chance to enjoy a few Bergara rifles over the last couple of years. One thing that has…

On February 19, 2008, Fidel Castro finally stepped down as Cuba’s president. He was then 81 years old and had been in power for 49 years. His successor was his younger brother Raul, who was also a stiff-necked communist.  He held power until 2021. The nation is still mired in communist bureaucracy and central planning. — And on February 19, 1910, Typhoid Mary (Mary Mallon) was  freed from her first periods of forced isolation and went on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round…

Almost every outdoor activity has its own upper tier. A black belt level test that outdoorsfolk take up to challenge themselves in hopes of finding out how far they can push their passion. For hikers, it can be a particularly rough or long trail. For hunters, it can be pursuing a difficult species like Dall sheep or harvesting a trophy-sized specimen of their favorite species.Anglers try to master challenging fishing methods like Spey casting or pursue rare or difficult-to-catch species like permit. In fact, it seems like almost every outdoor pursuit has its own boss level, but there’s probably none…

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Long-known for making affordable guns, Hi-Point Firearms has branched out this year to make affordable suppressors. The company is starting with two models—the Hi-Point Hush-Point 22 and Hush-Point 45/9. Hi-Point is jumping into the suppressor market with two new designs, including the Hush-Point 22 pictured. Introduced in late 2025, the Hush-Point 22 is a suppressor rated for rimfire cartridges, including .17 Mach 2, .17 HMR, .17 WSM, .22 LR and .22 WMR. It is a symmetrical, four-piece design that is user-serviceable. The suppressor uses 7075 aluminum for its body, monolithic baffle and muzzle cap. It is a direct mount design,…

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Imagine that you were a weakling who kept his cash under his mattress, and you lived in a bad neighborhood that was dominated by the Mafia.  Every year or two, Mafia thugs would come by and threaten to beat you to death, and demand: “Half for us and half for you.”  That is a bit like what it is like to live in an era of mass inflation. But with inflation, the cash extractions are gradual, and almost invisible. No thugs. Just melting purchasing power. Perhaps I chose a poor analogy, but bear with me, while I explain: As a…

February 18, 1678: John Bunyan‘s Christian novel “The Pilgrim’s Progress” was published in London by Nathaniel Ponder.  Pictured is John Bunyan’s Tomb, at Bunhill Field, London. — Today is also the birthday of astronaut Theodore Cordy “Ted” Freeman (February 18, 1930 – October 31, 1964.) Ted Freeman and his wife Faith were friends of my mother and father.  Both my father and Ted Freeman were stationed at Bryan Air Force base in the early 1950s, and they rented houses three blocks apart, in College Station, Texas. (My father was a T-33 instructor pilot.) About ten years later, while training as…

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