Author: Gunner Quinn

Weatherby, one of the most iconic names in firearms and ammunition, is celebrating its 80th anniversary in 2025 and celebrating with two special releases—a commemorative rifle and historic ammo boxes. The company was founded in 1945 by wildcatter Roy Weatherby and has remained family owned. Adam Weatherby is the third-generation at the helm today. The famed firm began not far from the bright lights of Hollywood. It was founded in a South Gate, Calif., garage just after World War II. It wasn’t long until the company moved to a 25’x70′ sporting goods store where the fast and flat-shooting cartridges and…

This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies located in the American Redoubt region that are of interest to preppers and survivalists. Today, a bit of branding iron history.  (See the Montana section.) Idaho Idaho construction jobs grow while Washington faces decline. o  o  o Moscow school district uses taxpayer money – to sue taxpayers. o  o  o Flying the NEW Turbo Carbon Cub “UL” In Idaho. o …

When I was a kid, deep water fascinated me. I was convinced that those dark, seemingly fathomless depths that stretched into blackness below my boat held fish of unimaginable size. I believed that all I had to do to catch them was to somehow get my lures and baits down into the 50, 80, 100-plus-foot depths and wait for a leviathan. Yet, no matter how hard I tried or how much weight I put on my line, every time I fished that dark abyss, I’d come up empty.Fishing in deep water is an incredible challenge. Unlike when you’re fishing the…

These days, the two most common defensive semi-automatic pistol cartridges still vying for civilian holster space tend to be the ubiquitous 9 mm Luger and the venerable .45 ACP. Yes, the 120-year old .45 ACP cartridge, developed by John Moses Browning, is currently a distant second place when compared to the popularity of the 123-year-old 9 mm round developed by Georg Luger. But considering just how many handgun calibers have fallen by the wayside in more than a century of ammunition development, these two have clearly withstood the test of time. The 9 mm vs. .45 ACP debate has been…

Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — Dan sent us this: Daily Wolf Attacks Are Pushing A Northern California Community to the Breaking Point. o  o  o Pete in California wrote, regarding the recent article on POTS telephones: “Remember too, that early telephones used much lower voltages than later equipment; 3VDC, to be exact.  Those big, wooden wall phones had…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Have a plan and be consistent. 00:00:01 Speaker 2: We can adjust the playbook, but when the playbook is different every single time, we have no idea of knowing what worked, what didn’t caused you to have the great day, terrible day, and so forth. So pit kind of a routine even prior to going out. Whether this is your training and nutrition, your recovery, all of it, be consistent and give it awack in the field and then come back and let’s make adjustments next time. 00:00:24 Speaker 1: But don’t program hot. 00:00:25 Speaker 2:…

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, More war rumblings in Eastern Europe. Russia’s ‘Greyzone’ Invasion Plan Russia’s ‘greyzone’ invasion plan to start WW3 before Christmas revealed by defector.  Here is a quote: “Moscow is…

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. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, I’m joined by doctor Grant Woods. We are discussing the greatest deer hunting lessons that Grant wished. 00:00:32 Speaker 3: He had learned when he was younger. 00:00:40 Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to the Wired Hunt podcast, brought to…

(Continued from Part 3.) Flashing I’ve covered a lot of details regarding how Meshtastic works, so let’s walk through an example of configuring an actual device to see how it all applies. Note that one of the results of Meshtastic currently being primarily a hobbyist activity is that there are multiple ways of doing things. For example, you can connect a Meshtastic device to a PC via serial (over USB) or Bluetooth, you can manage the device from a PC using an Internet-based web interface, a locally hosted web interface or a Command Line Interface (CLI), you can update the…

September 25, 1066: The Battle of Stamford Bridge: The English army under King Harold II defeated invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold’s brother Tostig, who were both killed. (Above is an undated painting of the event as imagined by Norwegian artist Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1831–1892.) — On September 25th, 1789, the first Congress of the United States approved 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. — This is also the birthday of Will Smith (born 1968), who in my opinion should be best known for his roles in I Am…