Given time, nearly every piece of technology eventually shrinks in size. We’ve seen this across dozens of shooting-product genres, with optics being no exception. As long guns become more condensed and peripheral gear becomes more prevalent, these compact riflescopes are a welcome addition to the landscape. One of the latest is EOTech’s Vudu 3-9×32 mm SFP, a variable-power scope so small, it rivals many fixed-power prismatic optics in compactness. The package is built with perhaps the archetypal hunting magnification range of 3-9X. Its 32 mm objective lens widens the field-of-view compared with most low-power variable optics (LPVO), and, at roughly…

If you ever hunt overseas, you will undoubtedly encounter DIY shooting sticks. In places where there are few trees or rocks to brace a rifle on, like parts of Africa, a tripod shooting stick is standard issue. Simple, cheap, and effective, shooting sticks allow a foot-bound hunter to brace themselves for a shot just about anywhere. And while these tools have been eclipsed by more modern tripods in the U.S., I’d argue they are more versatile and easier to pack around.With practice, a rifle shooter can quickly pick off targets around 300 yards away with a set of sticks. When…

On April 8, 1796, the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss proved the quadratic reciprocity law (the ability to determine the solvability of any quadratic equation in modular arithmetic.) — Today’s feature piece is a guest post that was too short to qualify as an entry for the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $984,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running the contest.  Round 124 ends on May 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage…

Utah legislators are using the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to go after the management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Earlier this month, Senator Mike Lee and Utah’s congressional delegation introduced a joint resolution of approval seeking to overturn the 1.9 million-acre monument’s Resource Management Plan, which was instituted in January 2025.Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which is located in Southern Utah and encompasses striking red-rock canyons and Native American art and ruins, has long been a spark point in the debate over public land management. The monument was first designated by President Clinton in 1996 under the Antiquities Act of…

You can’t overlook Wisconsin’s No. 1 ranking when scrolling through the Boone and Crockett Club’s 17,465 record-book entries for white-tailed deer in the Lower 48.According to B&C’s “Big Game Records Live” online listings, hunters have entered 2,132 Wisconsin bucks (typicals and nontypicals combined) in “the book” since its origins in 1888. That’s 12% of all B&C whitetails for the Lower 48. Wisconsin also produced the legendary “Jordan Buck,” the No. 2 typical B&C whitetail killed in 1914 by Jim Jordan with a .25-20 Winchester in Burnett County.Four Wisconsin counties rank among the nation’s top 12 counties. Buffalo County is No.…

“I’d say we’re selling eight to ten times as many firearms each day as we were prior to this [legislative] session starting,” Mitchell Tyler, Stateside Tactical co-owner—located in Roanoke, Va.—told WDBJ television. “That is going to change, though, after July 1st, because many of the most popular firearms that are commonly in use in Virginia are becoming unavailable.” “Right now, our new governor is the best gun salesman that we have,” Lee Starr, an employee at Windy Valley Forge & Armory in Marion, Va., told News 5 TV. “I mean every time we get something new it flies off the shelf. We…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: The famous geographic dictum space plus culture equals place is nowhere more vivid than on the high plains of the West, where a succession of human cultures have repeatedly inhabited a setting already changed by previous inhabitants. I’m dan Flor’s and this is the American West, thinking about big history in one Western place. On a blessery gray day in March twenty years ago, Stephen Ranella and I spent an afternoon giving ourselves a tour of a piece of the West that ought to be as famous as Jamestown or Plymouth Rock. Stephen was then working on…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show everyone. This week we’re covering how Randall does not understand sports after all. We’re gonna talk about yet another Forest Service management controversy. We’re gonna get into what tracking collars can tell us about bobcats, some things about lost arrow etiquette, more on the Catalina Island mule deer eradication program. And Alaska announces a mountain lion season. Of all things, all they need now are mountain lions. Well that’s not true, because they’ve maybe got a couple mountain lions. But they got a mountain lion season, plus a whole lot more. But…

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So you are living in a societal collapse and something breaks. Let’s say that your generator dies. You’ve gotta fix it. The following describes what have I learned about fixing things: I used to go through the repair process in my mind a few hundred times. I would pull the cover by loosening two screws, then unbolt the coil with a socket wrench. Then pull the coil and inspect for a broken winding. But first of all, I must borrow my friend’s socket set. I have learned over the years that the most efficient route is often to just tear…