Author: Gunner Quinn
When it comes to the major firearm companies prolific in the 19th century, many of them still survive today and are highly recognizable. Companies like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, Marlin and more continue to survive and thrive more than 150 years after their founding. But in the late 19th and early 20th century, there was another giant in the firearm world, and little remains of their impact today: Hopkins & Allen. Brothers Charles W. and Samuel S. Hopkins of Norwich, Conn., were talented gunsmiths. The pair, along with Charles H. Allen, Charles A. Converse and Horace Briggs, pooled $1,000…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, stay Longer, and now your host, Mark Kenyon, Welcome to the Wired. 00:00:21 Speaker 2: To Hunt podcast. This week in the show we are starting are what would You Do? Series again, in which we walk a hunter through a series of hypothetical, challenging hunting scenarios to see exactly how they. 00:00:34 Speaker 3: Would handle them. 00:00:36 Speaker 2: And today’s guest…
00:00:01 Speaker 1: Nothing worth having comes easy in this life, and since falling in love with hunting, I recognize that success in the field is no different from success in sport. Preparation is Everything. In Pursuit is the latest show from the Meat Eater podcast network where we apply the lessons I’ve learned from two decades of training and ten gold medals across the games. We’re story. I’m your host, Rich Frohning, inviting you to listen in on my conversations with fitness and hunting experts, industry leaders, coaches, athletes, and even some of my mentors as we highlight the…
The Kershaw Link 1776BW is a rugged everyday-carry (EDC) knife. It weighs in at 4.3 ounces and has a 3.25 inch, drop-point, hollow-ground, blackwashed-finish blade made of 420HC steel that is 0.1 inches thick. The assisted-opening blade is reliably deployed via a flipper, and is held open by a liner lock. The glass-filled nylon (gfn) handle provides an excellent grip. Overall length is 7.6 inches. Best of all, the Kershaw Link is made in the USA. The particular model that I tested has been discontinued. A similar model with an olive aluminum handle and a stonewashed-finished, CPM-Magnacut blade is currently…
August 7, 1588: English sailors set alight eight fireships, with pitch, brimstone, gunpowder, and tar, and cast them downwind towards the closely anchored vessels of the Spanish Armada, scattering the armada. Pictured: English and Spanish fleets clash in the 1558 Battle of Gravelines in a painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg. — August 7th, 1933 was the birthday of the late Jerry Pournelle. He, along with Larry Niven, authored the survivalist classic Lucifer’s Hammer. — As part of the 20th Anniversary celebration for SurvivalBlog, we’ve launched our biggest sale ever on all of our percussion gun inventory at Elk Creek…
As one of the most competitive niches within the firearms world, the micro-compact handgun category is a crowded one. Smith & Wesson firmly staked its territory within this category when it released the M&P Shield in 2012. Over the years, the company has continually improved the design, with the updated 2.0 model and the Shield Plus. Lessons learned from both the Shield lineup and the Bodyguard 2.0 series introduced last year have been applied to the new-for-2025 Shield X. The new Shield X combines features from both the Shield Plus and the Bodyguard 2.0. A locked-breech, semi-automatic pistol chambered for…
00:00:07 Speaker 1: This podcast. Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer Newhart, and today we’re joined by Joannis Brody, Seth Roman, John Logan, Max and Alex Placta. Alex, this is your first time on the show. Tell folks what you do here at me Theater. I work with Roman and social media. Okay, and Brody just had a bone to pick with you before we turned the mics on. Brody, what was the problem. 00:00:35 Speaker 2: Oh well, it’s like a like a nature documentary screw up where…
In the 1970s, the German federal police sought a replacement for its existing stock of World War II-era sidearms, and it put out a request to firearm manufacturers to offer solutions. SIG Sauer, Walther and Heckler & Koch all developed contenders, and the design that ultimately won out was the Heckler & Koch P7, one of the most unique police sidearms ever made. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” I Have This Old Gun segment above to see how it works. “One of the hottest guns on the collector’s market today is the HK P7,” NRA Museum Director Philip Schreier said.…
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00:00:14 Speaker 1: My name is Clay Nukeleman. This is a production of the Bear Grease podcast called The Bear Grease Render, where we render down, dive deeper, and look behind the scenes of the actual bear Grease podcast, presented by f HF Gear, American Maid, purpose built hunting and fishing gear that’s designed to be as rugged as the place as we explore. Welcome to the Bear Grease Render. 00:00:49 Speaker 2: I knew I was here for some reason. 00:00:51 Speaker 1: Yeah, man, well it’s been a while since we’ve had Joe Wilson on the show. 00:00:56…