Author: Gunner Quinn

During the past few years, multiple new cartridges have been introduced as the be-all and end-all for the shooting sports. But experienced folks yawn at the hype and continue hunting and shooting as they have for years on end with their trusty .308 Win. rifles in hand—and the chambering remains one of the most popular centerfire rifle cartridges as a result. Every rifle shoots its best when paired with certain propellant and bullet combinations, and, for a handloader, finding an accurate recipe for the .308 is quite easy because of the balance of the cartridge’s bore diameter to case capacity.…

00:00:06 Speaker 1: Yo, what’s up? 00:00:06 Speaker 2: You’re off in God’s Country with your boys. Read and Dan is Well, also known as the Brother or Something. We take a weekly drive to the intersection of country music in the great outdoors gonna be fired up thing. They go together like man, just good dudes and the jinkin bros. 00:00:24 Speaker 3: Or a brother with brown hair and one with brown hair was slightly gray. They both have brown hair. Oh it’s kind of white gray, Josh brown gray like that. That’s what those things go together,…

00:00:30 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to a me Eater fwop episode. This is the second fop we’ve done out of Alaska. The first flop we talked to a bush pilot who claims he’s not a bush pilot, and those guys are all gone now, so but a pilot that one would call a bush pilot who says he’s not a bush pilot was fop one. Now we’re gonna talk to a genuine sea otter skinner, Heather Duvelle, a k mosy kind of the last of the dying breed, or not the last of a dying breed, the new specimen…

It was amazing to see St. Funogas’ article today (8/22/25) entitled “My Concerns With Artificial Intelligence.” Hopefully my thoughts below will add to his insights! Great minds think alike! 🙂 I deny being a Luddite, but I must confess I’m concerned about the rapidly growing utilization of A.I. in our lives. It’s kind of shocking how many devices are connecting to some A.I. flavor or the other, and I suppose – eventually – just one or two super-A.I.s, directly or indirectly. Smartphones (for all their utility, essentially a government eavesdropping device), home security systems, Alexa, cars, and even computers/laptops are…

On August 26, 1346: The Battle of Crécy. Edward III‘s English longbows defeated Philip VI’s army south of Calais in northern France. At Crecy, cannons were used for the first time in battle. — August 26, 1946 was the official release date of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” — Today’s feature piece was too short to qualify as an entry for the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. — More than $960,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running the contest.  Round 120 ends on September 30th, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is…

Most deer hunters aren’t living the dream of unlimited time in the woods. Tony Peterson recently pointed out in an earlier article how easy it can be to fall into the “must be nice” crowd. The reality for almost all deer hunters is a full-time job, kids, and obligations that thin our time in the field. Everyday life makes us weekend warriors with hunts squeezed into short vacations and a random day here or there.The simpler question is, if you’re that hunter, how can you find deer and find them fast with limited time?Choose High-Odds Hunting LocationsTo find a high-odds…

Armed Citizen® Today A homeowner in Fort Worth, Texas, defended himself from a trio of robbers in the early morning hours of Friday, July 25. Officers were called to the scene following reports of an attempted home invasion at 3 a.m. According to the caller, several men broke into the home wearing ski masks and were carrying guns. The armed homeowner opened fire, and the suspects fired back, prompting the homeowner to escape the property through an open window and then call 911. The suspects also fled the scene. Shortly after police arrived at the home, another 911 call came…

Hunters have been trying to devise more efficient and effective ways to load gunpowder since Daniel Boone used a hollow animal horn to dump black powder down his muzzleloader. We’ve come a long way since those days, but the goal is still the same: load the correct amount of powder behind a bullet and in front of the primer.Most reloaders of modern metallic cartridges use a powder dispenser (or “powder measure”) to achieve this goal. The original dispensers were mechanical. They require the user to operate a lever up and down, which rotates an internal drum that catches and dispenses…

In his book Remarks On Rifle Guns, an original copy of which is shown above, inventor Ezekiel Baker noted “There were barrels of French, German, Spanish, Dutch, American, and all nations, brought forward in competition: but mine beat them all, in a trial at Woolwich before the committee—the distance 300 yards.” During the past 20 years or so, Britain’s famed 19th century “Baker” rifle has achieved a good deal of renown resulting from its starring role in the “Sharpe” novels of Bernard Cornwell, as well as in a Sharpe spinoff television series. Interestingly, the cognomen “Baker rifle” was not used…

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