Author: Gunner Quinn

This probably says more about me than I care to face, but I really want my daughters to be good deer hunters. I don’t want them to just love going hunting; I want them to love the process.The anxiety I feel around this probably has a lot to do with the fact that I have facilitated pretty much all of their success in the deer woods to date. Yet, I know that if you do everything for kids, they don’t learn to do anything for themselves. If you don’t believe this, spend an evening talking to a middle-school teacher sometime.The…

The future is shaping up to be a good one for fans of Smith & Wesson revolvers. The iconic American company had released 14 new models thus far in 2025 at the time this was written mid-year. And, with one exception, they have all shared a common feature—no internal lock. The internal lock was a feature added to the company’s revolvers after S&W leadership signed an agreement with Bill Clinton’s administration in 2000. At that time, S&W was owned by a British holding company that didn’t foresee the ramifications of its decision. As S&W was the only manufacturer in the…

Whitetail hunters love to argue about which state holds the biggest and baddest bucks. But which one is really the best?Well, a lot of what makes hunting ground “the best” depends on your personal preferences. Do you like big bucks, and you cannot lie? Maybe you just like to hunt around fewer people. Or maybe you like to feel like a kid in a candy shop, surrounded by opportunities for deer of all ages. Do you prefer to travel or are you more of a homebody? Maybe you like to manage a food plot and be able to set up…

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The following brief recipe for End of Season Vegetable Broth is from SurvivalBlog reader Mrs Alaska. She writes:  “I make broth from end-of-season greens that aren’t great for fresh eating. The peas that burst.  The hairy squash and cucumber leaves.  The celery that is great now but will not winter well.   Avoid any leaves that you should NOT eat, like tomatoes, rhubarb, and (flowers: sweet peas). When the temperatures drop to the low 40s, I clean the gardens of vegetable leaves that will not overwinter and plop them in a 5-gallon pot of water, along with garlic and onion. The…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Klahan. Here’s cal there’s an attack squirrel on the loose in Lucas Valley, California, and local residents are going a little nuts. This clumped onto my leg and was just hanging on his tail, was flying up here, you know, and I was like, get off me, get off me, and I kind of didn’t want to touch it. 00:00:36 Speaker 2: Came out out of nowhere. 00:00:38 Speaker 1: I didn’t see him running up to me at…

Every gun cabinet should contain at least one rifle chambered in .22LR. The .22LR rimfire ammo is available in a wide variety of loads at reasonable prices. There is minimal recoil, minimal noise, and .22LR is a whole lot of fun to shoot. For training, for pest control, and for an all-around good time, there are few chamberings to match .22LR. Weighing in at just 5.1 pounds, the Christensen Arms Ranger in .22LR is an amazingly light and well-balanced bolt-action tack-driver with an excellent trigger. The threaded, 18-inch, hand-lapped, carbon-fiber-tension-over-stainless-steel-core barrel is well matched with a carbon-fiber stock with a…

On October 6, 1889: The first recorded ascent of the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, by German climber Hans Meyer and Austrian Ludwig Purtscheller. — October 6, 1890: The General Conference of the Latter-day Saints belatedly outlawed polygamy. Their foot-dragging delayed Utah’s admission as a state until 1896. — Today is the birthday of science fiction author David Brin (born, 1950.) He wrote The Postman, which was very loosely the foundation of a movie of the same name by Kevin Costner. — Today’s feature is a review by Field Gear Editor Tom Christainson.   Read the full article…

In May 2025, the U.S. Army’s Soldier Lethality Project at the Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey announced the official type classification of SIG Sauer’s M7 rifle and M250 automatic rifle, previously known as the XM7 and the XM250, respectively. Both platforms are currently being fielded across the Army’s Close Combat Force, replacing the M4A1 Carbine and M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. For the U.S. Army, type classification represents a major milestone, particularly when it comes to the adoption of small arms. This process changes what are initially classified as experimental arms and classifies them as standard arms for military use, confirming…

September will always be the National Preparedness Month and—despite the Federal Emergency Management Administration launching the annual observance in 2004—the message doesn’t seem to be resonating within local governments. This year, there’s even more reason they should heed the warning. August 29 was the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates claimed 1,833 lives in Louisiana and nearby states. In 2005 dollars, not adjusted for inflation, damage was estimated at $108 billion. There have been improvements since then, however. The levees that failed and flooded huge section of New Orleans have been rebuilt,…