Author: Gunner Quinn

The recent shutdown of Kee Firearms in New Lenox has created a notable gap in affordable concealed carry safety training, according to local gun owners. The store’s popular weekend classes, which attracted around 400 participants monthly for just a $30 fee, fostered a learning community where individuals, including those unable to afford traditional training, could gain essential skills and knowledge about gun safety. With owner Jeffery Regnier facing dismissed criminal charges and the store’s future uncertain, former attendees express concern over the lack of similar affordable resources in the area. Many now seek out alternatives that often cost hundreds of…

It was 2017 when the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) first launched the 31-day event now known as National Shooting Sports Month. “With so much going on in people’s lives today, the shooting sports offer an opportunity to tune out distractions, learn a new skill, socialize and share their experiences,” said Steve Sanetti, who was NSSF President and CEO at the time. “It’s important to remember to pass on our traditions and to reflect on our unique freedoms that make participating in them possible.” The celebration has grown since then, and so have the number of ranges, clubs and other…

It’s safe to say we are currently enjoying what may be called the golden age of polymer-frame, striker-fired, sub-compact 9 mm semi-automatics inspired by, if not unabashedly ripped off from, Gaston Glock’s pistol design. That being said, there is still a genuine interest among members of the shooting sports community in the pistols used by Allied forces during World War II. My father remembers when, during the 1960s and 1970s, casual collectors could wander into sporting goods stores and find surplus M1911A1 pistols chambered in .45 ACP with relative ease for $20 to $50, depending on their condition. Although not…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: So like I co founded under Armour, people could say that was a big success. I’ve been involved with some other things that you could say with success. I have never felt successful ever once until about two weeks ago, sitting in Alaska overlooking the mountains, looking at my team move a bunch of hunters in and out. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: We just had a bear hunter come in. 00:00:23 Speaker 3: Really cool outfit. 00:00:24 Speaker 1: It’s close to my heart, It’s where I want to be. It’s outdoors at its best. And I was…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light Go Farther, stay Longer, and now your host, Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, I am running Terry Drury through our what would you do? Gauntlet, in which I will be asking him to share with me exactly how he would handle a series of different hypothetical, challenging hunting scenarios and circumstances. All right, welcome…

Introduction This article is not a full review. It is just a cursory evaluation. Several weeks ago, I ordered a Multifunction Nuclear Radiation Detector from a eBay seller who imports these units from China. FNIRSI also sells several other electronic test equipment units, one of which I bought was the multi-function oscilloscope hoping that I could use it on the bench as well as for portable operations. Alas, I didn’t like the unit because the probe connections for the oscilloscope don’t fit well into the connector (BNC type) on the top of the case and because of that issue I…

90 years ago today, on August 14, 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, the poorly-conceived and undeniably socialistic Social Security Act was signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). The first Social Security numbers were issued in 1936, and the first Social Security taxes were collected in January, 1937. The first benefits were doled out in 1940. The following is from the SSA website: “On January 31, 1940, the first monthly retirement check was issued to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, in the amount of $22.54. Miss Fuller, a Legal Secretary, had retired in November 1939. She…

Practicing how I play has delivered great success in my life. It’s no different with archery. While flinging arrows at a target is fun just about any way you slice it, we like to make sure it serves our ultimate goal.You’re training for that one moment in the wild when you’re deep in the mountains, your legs are screaming, your heart’s pounding, and you’ve got one shot to make it count. Hunting isn’t just about marksmanship. It’s about being ready, physically and mentally, for whatever the backcountry throws at you.I’ll do my best here to outline how we combine fitness…

It’s official: After signaling their support for a black bear hunt, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) voted this morning to finalize a set of rules for the three-week December season.The 5-0 vote in favor of the hunt is a striking rebuke to anti-hunting groups that have lobbied for months to block it. Today’s meeting saw testimony from an equal number of supporters and opponents, according to the Tallahassee Democrat, but opponents came armed with cute pictures of bears and signs reading “I am not your trophy” and “Wounded, hunted, forgotten.”“This hunt is unnecessary and cruel unless you…

If Doug Duren placed historical markers on his family’s farm in southwestern Wisconsin, one would mark the car crash that killed his brother Matt in January 1995, and the other would show the log landing where a chainsaw nearly killed his father, Vince, in April 1991.Matt died near the farm’s driveway on State Highway 58 in the Driftless Area, and Vince dodged death across the road from there, just past the unnamed creek that flows north toward Cazenovia. Doug points out both sites from the farmhouse uphill. Heck, he could easily throw a baseball to Matt’s site, and in his…