Author: Gunner Quinn
We’ve announced the winners of Round 120 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. Note to the top three prize winners: Please contact me and let me know your UPS and USPS address(es), for your prizes. Thanks. – JWR The top three prize winners will each receive some great prize packages. The winners for Round 120 are… First Prize Winner: First Prize goes to AppComms, for Memoirs of a Disaster Survivor. (See: Part 1 and Part 2.) It was posted August 1-2, 2025. He will receive as prizes: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any…
Today is the 90th birthday of singer and actress Julie Andrews. She was born on October 1st, 1935. Her name will always be remembered for The Sound of Music. — On October 1, 1942, the Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, the first US jet, made its maiden flight. — The final day! Our big inventory reduction sale at Elk Creek Company — with nearly all of our guns, knives, bayonets, magazines, et cetera deeply discounted — ends at midnight tonight, Eastern Time. Get your order in today! — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest: Round 121 Begins Today, we present the first entry for…
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…
I spent quite a bit of my career as mostly an outdoor writer, before filming hunts and recording podcasts took over. That early role taught me how to use weasel words like a champion. Actually, it was reader responses that taught me to cover my ass with generalizations.What happens when you write hunting articles, even benign hunting articles you assume won’t piss people off, is that you end up pissing people off anyway. So, you start to think about how to say something you want to say, but also add in a qualifier or two to head off the rage.For…
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…
Vudoo Gun Works, manufacturer of precision rifles and firearms, has relocated its headquarters and all manufacturing to Prague, Okla. The company opened in 2017 and operated out of St. George, Utah, until this year. “We are delighted to establish our new headquarters in Prague,” said Jacob Herman, CEO of Vudoo Gun Works. “This move reflects our dedication to innovation, growth and customer service. Oklahoma is a pro-Second Amendment state where elected officials actively support the Second Amendment, making it an ideal location for Vudoo Gun Works.” Vudoo operations have moved into an existing facility in Prague that has a history…
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…
I’m thankful that we seldom witness the loss of an American Rifleman field editor, but, unfortunately for the entire shooting community, that occurred recently with the passing of combat handgun authority Wiley Clapp. And while I can personally attest to his kind nature, his skill with a pistol and his commitment to the ideal of the armed citizen, details of his life—which, by all accounts, was well-lived and an honor to our country—can be found in this month’s “In Memoriam.” Our coverage of new products this month includes an impressive example from Walther—a name synonymous with service-grade semi-automatic pistols for…
00:00:07 Speaker 1: Y’all. What’s up? You’re off in God’s Country with you boys. Dan and Red is also known as the Brothers Hunt. We take a weekly drive to the intersection of country music in the great outdoor kound of sound like that. Okay, two things, two things go together, like Mississippi and bottom Land or Creek Bank and an arrowhead. Brought to you by, brought to you by, Meet you, Tar and Chloe. Chloe got it, give it to it, Get out of here, right, you’re for get out of here. We got Chloe cent to cover us.…
The .32-20 Winchester Center Fire gained a fair following after it was introduced in 1882 in the Winchester Model 1873 rifle as a cartridge of modest power and good accuracy for small-game hunting and target shooting. Through the years, it has been chambered in a host of rifles and handguns, smoothly making the changeover from blackpowder to smokeless propellants. Its original factory load was 20 grains of blackpowder that fired a 115-grain lead bullet at about 1,170 f.p.s. An ancient box of Western .32-20 ammunition of mine loaded with 115-grain jacketed-soft-nose bullets turned in a velocity of 1,139 f.p.s. fired…