00:00:08 Speaker 1: This is the me Eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely, bug bitten, and in my case, underware. Listening toast, you can’t predict anything brought to you by first Light. When I’m hunting, I need gear that won’t quit. First Light builds, no compromise, gear that keeps me in the field longer, no shortcuts, just gear that works. Check it out at first light dot com. That’s f I R S T L I T E dot com. Join today by Caleb Hubbard, the veterinarian entomologist of the Hubbard Entomology Lab at New Mexico State University. We’re…

Most SurvivalBlog readers are familiar with Ready Made Resources – a reputable survival and self-reliance company serving the prepper community since 1996. They have been a SurvivalBlog advertiser for more than 20 years. With the recent cancer death of company Founder & CEO, Robert E. “Bob” Griswold, the company had lost its driving force. His widow is now looking for a buyer who can carry on the mission and the longstanding name of Ready Made Resources. Ready Made Resources has an amazing deep inventory, a large mailing list, and drop-shipment agreements that are still active with dozens of suppliers /…

90 years ago, today: The coldest day in North Dakota history. Minus 60 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale was recorded on February 15th, 1936, by a coal miner and volunteer National Weather Service weather observer in Parshall, North Dakota. This remains the lowest temperature ever recorded in the state. Pictured is the Broste Museum in Parshall, North Dakota. February 15th 1809: Birthday of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor of a mechanical reaper. Gun developer Richard “Dick” Casull was born on February 15, 1931. Casull passed away on May 6, 2018 after a long battle with cancer. Dick Casull is most famous…

Tennessee-based SDS Arms imports a line of classic firearms with equally classic names, like Military Armament Corporation, Tokarev, and Spandau. The Inglis Manufacturing brand includes handguns that follow John Browning’s iconic P-35 or High Power design. New for 2026, Inglis is bringing the High Power into the 21st century with the 2035, a handgun updated for modern self-defense, competition, and law enforcement users. The Inglis Mfg. 2035 takes the 90-year-old Browning High Power design and updates it for the modern shooter. At its core, the Inglis 2035 is a standard High Power—a locked-breech pistol with a hammer-fired, single-action mechanism. Its…

There are shooting sports enthusiasts in the community who have a bucket list. It includes those rifles, shotguns and handguns they would like to shoot someday, if they could just get their hands on one. The work I do has provided opportunities to test-drive a variety of models over the years. But there are still a few on my list that I’m hoping to work with. One of those guns has been the Czech vz. 61 Scorpion. Chambered in .32 ACP, the original military variant is a compact machine pistol, capable of semi-automatic or full-automatic fire, that was developed by…

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If you’re reading this, you obviously survived June 13, the only Friday the 13th we’ll see in 2025.But don’t get too cocky. We’ll face three such unlucky Fridays in 2026, the maximum possible in a calendar year, according to TimeAndDate.com, an astronomy website.If you’re like me, you won’t see any of them coming. More likely, your spouse or other loved one will casually mention the day’s arrival during breakfast, much as my wife did back in June. That’s when I predictably responded:“Whenever it’s Friday the 13th, I think of Cuz Strickland.”And then my wife nodded silently, hoping I wouldn’t tell…

That was quick. A Michigan ice fishing season opened at 8 a.m. on Saturday, February 7, only to close 48 minutes later after the harvest quota was met.The quick season—if you want to call it that—took place on Black Lake, which is situated in Cheboygan and Presque Isle Counties, and was for lake sturgeon, a relatively rare, slow-growing fish that first appeared in the fossil record 100 million to 150 million years ago, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR).Lake sturgeon population declines were recorded in Michigan and elsewhere throughout the Great Lakes, Mississippi, and Hudson River basins…

Warne announces the release of its new MaxLite MSR Scope Mount, a lightweight, budget-oriented optic-mounting solution designed specifically for modern sporting rifles. Properly mounting an optic to any firearm involves using quality gear, and Warne is one of the leading names in optic-mounting hardware. Most of the company’s mounts, because of the precise engineering that goes into Warne products, can be on the pricier side of the economic equation, which might tempt some firearm owners into looking at less expensive, lower-quality options. With the new MaxLite MSR Scope Mount, however, the same quality for which Warne is known is now…

Armed Citizen® Today A couple stopped in Arlington, Texas, for gas during the early morning hours of Feb. 9. As the man pumped the fuel, however, a woman armed with a knife approached and allegedly began attacking his vehicle with his wife still inside. The man withdrew toward another vehicle, but the woman followed and again began striking that vehicle. The man produced his firearm and warned the woman verbally not to approach, but she reportedly continued to move toward him, whereupon he shot her once in the leg. The 58-year-old suspect was taken to the hospital in serious condition;…