Author: Gunner Quinn

On October 20, 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara established the Tokugawa clan as Japan’s rulers (Shoguns.) — October 20, 1634: King of England Charles I levied the “Ship Money” tax on all English and Welsh counties. — October 20, 1906: Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube. (Soon commonly called a radio tube.) — Today is the birthday of the late Tom Petty. (Born October 20, 1950, died October 2, 2017). He was a great singer-songwriter and a passable actor. — Today is also the birthday of shootist Ed McGivern (born 1874, died December 12, 1957.) He was born…

Precipitation and humidity can render a standard paper target unusable in only seconds, which is what makes Rite In The Rain’s line of weatherproof targets such a godsend for outdoor shooters. Not only does the company’s patented moisture-shield coating hold up to rainy and muggy conditions and allow the targets to be written on when wet, but the paper has been designed to leave clean, easy-to-distinguish impacts when hit. Coming 100 to a pack, the double-sided 8½”x11″ 25 Meter M16A2/M4 Zeroing Targets were developed by the U.S. military to help riflemen zero their 5.56 NATO-chambered carbines and rifles at either…

Most Google searches now return with a series of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated snippets that allegedly summarize information provided by linked websites. How it determines which details to display and whether pro-Second Amendment websites get equal consideration in results is a closely guarded, Silicone Valley secret. The summaries, which began appearing in May 2024, are negatively impacting nearly every firearm-related website today and the pace is accelerating. Year-over-year firearm sales figures are on a similar tangent. Dangerous InformationMost people readily recognize how false-information snippets can appear in search results. Others are not as experienced. Hunters heading afield this fall, for example,…

The Benjamin M600 Airbow is an outstanding development in the world of archery. It is powerful, accurate, and easy to use. Using pre-charged pneumatic power, it delivers arrows downrange at up to 600 feet per second with 300 foot pounds of energy. With a weight of 6.8 pounds and a length of 33 inches, the M600 delivers these features in a reasonably light and compact package. The M600 is made in the USA with globally sourced components. At the time of this writing, it cost $829.90 at benjaminairguns.com. The only drawback to airbows at this time is that most state…

October 19, 1987: Black Monday. Stock market indices around the world crashed, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), which fell 508.32 points (22%). That was 4½ times the previous daily record. — October 19th also marks the anniversary of Operation Gatling; the famous “Green Leader” raid in 1978 in which Rhodesia attacked ZIPRA (Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army) in retaliation for ZIPRA shooting down a scheduled passenger flight, Rhodesia flight 825, during the Rhodesian Bush War. The Rhodesian military suffered only minor casualties in the raid, but claimed to have killed 1,500 ZIPRA personnel as well as some Cuban military…

The lever-action just might be the quintessential American rifle and has experienced a renaissance as of late with everything from the revival of classics to modern, tactical versions. Smith & Wesson made the public aware of its heritage as one of the first lever-action manufacturers when it introduced its 1854 series in 2024. New for 2025, and just in time for whitetail season, Smith & Wesson is adding the .30-30 Win. chambering to its Model 1854 lineup. Introduced in 2024, Smith & Wesson has expanded the chambering options for its Model 1854 rifles, with .30-30 Win. being the most recent…

October 18th 1356: The Basel Earthquake. This was the most significant historically recorded seismological event north of the Alps. It destroyed the city of Basel, Switzerland. It was rebuilt with many of the buildings that can still be seen today. — October 18th, 1662 was the birthday of Matthew Henry (died 22 June 1714). He was a Presbyterian minister who lived primarily in Chester, England. Matthew Henry’s six-volume Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (commonly called Matthew Henry’s Commentary) (1708–1710) is a must for the bookshelf of any serious Bible scholar. — Today’s feature article is short piece by…

Last week, the U.S. Senate voted to overturn three BLM resource management plans (RMPs), paving the way for increased energy development on select public lands. The congressional resolution targeted the Miles City Field Office in eastern Montana, the Alaska Office’s Central Yukon district, and the entirety of the North Dakota Field Office.The strategic selections single out regions with particularly dense natural resources. In Montana, the primary target is coal deposits in the Powder River Basin; in North Dakota, it’s the oil-rich “Bakken formation;” and in Alaska, the mineral-laden Brooks Range, which would require construction of the 200-mile-long “Ambler Road” to…

When mid-September hits, deer feeding patterns start to shift, and you can take this as one of the few nearly-true blanket statements in the whitetail world. So, no matter where you live, fall brings change. Whether you’re hunting deer in ag country or the big woods, once acorns start dropping, the deer will find them. If you want to punch a tag, you need to do the same.The term “feed tree” gets thrown around a lot. Loosely, it refers to a specific mast-producing tree (typically acorns) that seems to attract the local deer herd like a magnet. While targeting feed…

Armed Citizen® Today A neighbor and Good Samaritan intervened to help a threatened resident of an Elkton, Md., neighborhood when he was faced with an aggressive, threatening stranger late at night. Just after midnight on Saturday, August 9, a 23-year-old man allegedly began pounding on the door of a residence in the Upland Court complex while yelling and repeating threats to kill the resident inside. The resident called a longtime friend and neighbor and alerted him to the situation, then opened a second-floor window and looked outside to investigate. The suspect saw the resident in the window and shouted, “Come…