Author: Gunner Quinn

NRA took a serious hit on December 29. It wasn’t from Chuck Schumer or Letitia James. It wasn’t from a billionaire oligarch trying to take your gun rights—those things still are real and out there—it was from AML. Acute Myeloid Leukemia. The Director of NRA Museums Phil Schreier did everything the doctors asked of him and then some. He had a bone marrow donor lined up, a hospital room reserved and a plan for a transplant. But it wasn’t enough. Leukemia won, and we all lost. If you didn’t know Phil Schreier personally, you probably knew of him. And frankly,…

Armed Citizen® Today A man began attempting to force entry into a home in Fort Smith, Ark., just before 9 p.m. on Dec. 21, 2025. The man, wearing all black, managed to get inside the door, but a resident was able to force him out and lock it; the intruder nevertheless continued trying to force entry while screaming at those inside. The resident called 911 but also retrieved his firearm from his safe, as he feared for the lives of himself, his girlfriend and three children in the home. When the persistent aggressor succeeded at breaking in through a window,…

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00:00:04 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to aax Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and Hey, Happy New Year twenty twenty six. Already, man, who could have seen this coming. With the new year comes all kinds of exciting possibilities and opportunities. It’s also around the start of a new year that you always hear folks making their so called New Year’s resolutions. Well, today I’m going to challenge all of…

The TriStar KR22 rifle has many excellent features. It is well-balanced and feeds smoothly. The synthetic stock is nicely weather resistant. It comes with two magazines. The comb can be adjusted for height, making it easy to get a good cheek weld while using optics. The receiver includes an integrated Picatinny rail. The stock comes with sling studs installed. The barrel is threaded to accept muzzle devices. The magazine-well accepts Ruger BX-series magazines. For me, the KR22 functioned most effectively with a red dot sight. To be useful for pest control, a rifle should be capable of consistently shooting two-inch…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cal Calahan. Here’s Cal. 00:00:21 Speaker 1: Hey uh special edition Cal’s wee can review. Here in the New Year, I got an interview episode with the one and only Mark Kenyon. Mark and I are here on the edge of the new year, as are all of you, and we’re staring into the future and we’re gonna make some predictions on what that brings or what we can see what’s gonna happen. Uh, Mark, how uh…

Each year, I only post one reminder, encouraging voluntary Ten Cent Challenge tip subscriptions, and this is it. Back in August, we celebrated our 20th blogiversary. Thanks for making SurvivalBlog such a success! There are now more than 41,400 archived articles and columns. SurvivalBlog is well-established as the world’s most widely-read daily blog on family preparedness. Hopefully, some readers appreciate the fact that I only post an appeal once a year. And I’m confident that most readers appreciate that SurvivalBlog is one of the last of the “Old School” blogs that is still posted with fresh content from blog readers…

On January 5, 1477, the Battle of Nancy (now in France) was won by the Lorraine-Swiss forces led by René II, Duke of Lorraine. More than 7,000 Burgundians were killed, including Duke Charles The Bold. Thus ended the Burgundian Wars and the Burgundian State. — On January 5, 1914, industrialist Henry Ford announced his $5 minimum per-day wage. This doubled most workers’ pay from $2.40 for a 9-hour workday to $5 for an 8-hour workday. — January 5th is the birthday of the late John Pugsley (born 1934, died April 8, 2011), libertarian and economics author. Pugsley was well known…

Gunmakers are often quiet when they discontinue a gun model. We’ve all felt the pain of suddenly discovering a firearm we’d love to own that is no longer available. Three major companies in the last 60 days have given consumers a bit of warning that they were discontinuing long-produced models of popular guns, but their disappearance occurs, nonetheless. GlockIn mid-October 2025, Glock’s list of discontinued models grew significantly. Nearly every Internet pundit claimed it was a kneejerk reaction to legal action mounted in a half-dozen jurisdictions. It turns out the changes were in the works long before paperwork was filed.…

2025 was a difficult year to get through.  By the end of the year, I was not enjoying any of it.  In fact, I wanted to quit (do I feel this way at the end of every year?).  You have to laugh and find your sense of humor or you won’t make it through anything that is slightly difficult.  There were so many things that went wrong, so I had to sit down and list accomplishments to remind myself that a lot of things went right.  And once reminded of all the good, I can face the next year in…