Author: Gunner Quinn
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has moved its popular auctions to GunBroker.com, an online firearm marketplace that launched in 1999. The collaboration is part of the website’s non-profit initiative, which provides CMP and other qualified organizations a free online store and hosts their charity auctions free of charge. Every dollar raised through these auctions goes directly to the organization. “The CMP’s intention in partnering with GunBroker.com was to reach a broader audience with our auction program, but we never could have anticipated just how popular our items would be on the site,” said Chris Hord, CMP chief product officer. “We’re greatly encouraged with the…
We’re so excited to announce the release of our latest original audiobook, MeatEater’s American History: The Hide Hunters (1865-1883). This is the third installment of MeatEater’s American History audiobook series, where we explain chunks of American history in great, lively, bloody detail.In this audiobook, Steven Rinella takes you deep into the blood-soaked world of the hide hunters who invaded the western frontier in the aftermath of the Civil War, killing and skinning millions of buffalo to supply a resource-hungry nation with an untapped source of leather.From the scorching plains of Texas to the frozen prairie of northern Montana, they lived…
The Robbins & Lawrence story began when gunmaker Richard Lawrence arrived in Windsor, Vt. Nicanor Kendall of Kendall & Company recognized the man’s mechanical abilities and hired him straight away at $200 per year. In 1843, Lawrence joined Kendall in the newly formed Kendall & Lawrence Company. The pair leased a modest shop within the confines of Windsor village, and began operating a small gun manufactory. During the winter the following year, East Coast businessman S.E. Robbins approached the pair with news that the U.S. government was looking to purchase 10,000 rifles for use in the approaching conflict with Mexico.…
00:00:00 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to our latest bonus drop of the Meat Eater podcast. What you’re about to hear is a chapter from our new audio original, Meat Eater’s American History, The Hide Hunters eighteen sixty five to eighteen eighty three. If you like what you’re hearing, you can go find the complete work anywhere that you get your audio books. Again, Meat Eater’s American History, The Hide Hunters eighteen sixty five to eighteen eighty three. 00:00:31 Speaker 2: And here’s a little taste called Ghosts. Chapter one. Ghosts. Let’s get something cleared up right away before we…
00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome to the wired to Hunt podcast. 00:00:03 Speaker 2: This week, on the show, we are doing a deep dive into the big buck lessons of one of the white tailed community’s greatest legends, Roger Rothar. He was the influencer of today’s whitetail influencers, and today we’re going to learn exactly why. All right, welcome back to the wired ton podcast, brought to you by First Light and their Camo for Conservation Initiative. And today we have got a unique episode, an episode that I think and I hope that you are really going to enjoy…
00:00:00 Speaker 1: As we always tell people, not necessarily a goal, but like an end, like an event to train for. Nate used hunting season as his first kind of thing, and then now he’s done some ultuers and but get out do hard things, have something to train for, not necessarily a goal of looking at the scale and saying, oh, I need to be x. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: You know. Wait, by then we’re not worried necessarily about that. 00:00:23 Speaker 1: Is. Hey, I’ve got this event that I’m training for, and I want to be…
(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Electrical I keep a variety of spare fuses on hand in the glovebox. Fuses are cheap and do not go bad if kept dry. I also keep a voltmeter in the glove box. Ensure the cigarette lighter works. Replacing a cigarette lighter plug is simple. Having an operable lighter plug can mean the difference of not only being able to pump up a flat tire, but also preventing hypothermia. If you are stuck in the backcountry, a cigarette lighter can be used to start a fire. The factory battery cables mounted to…
On October 16, 1846, dentist William T. G. Morton demonstrated the effectiveness of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic. — October 16, 1923: John Harwood patented the self-winding watch in Switzerland. — Mark your calendar for February 16, 2026, to order your 20th Anniversary Edition SurvivalBlog archive USB sticks. We might open pre-ordering as early as January 5th. – JWR SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 121 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…
A Quick Guided Tour The plates themselves are machined from aviation-grade 17-4 premium steel to the tightest tolerances possible to get a precise fit with the pistol manufacturer’s slide cuts. To survive the events the plates will be exposed to, Night Fision finished them in black nitride. Recoil bosses to prevent shearing are machined into each plate. Along with the plate, Night Fision has included a variety of mounting screws. What is nice is they aren’t going to make you guess about what screw is for what optic. One bag contains the screws for mounting the plate to the slide.…
How It Works The overly simplistic explanation for a ransom rest is this. It is a shooting vice for your handgun. While, in theory, you could simply bolt your gun to the bench, figuratively speaking, that whole “recoil” thing will be problematic. I imagine that uncompensated recoil, over and over again, will wreak havoc on your vise-like setup and your gun over time, if not during your first shooting session. Remember, part of the goal of using such a setup in the first place is to make sure the handgun maintains its precise point of aim after each and every…