Author: Gunner Quinn
00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. 00:00:14 Speaker 2: This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cal Calahan. Here’s Cal. 00:00:21 Speaker 1: Hey uh special edition Cal’s wee can review. Here in the New Year, I got an interview episode with the one and only Mark Kenyon. Mark and I are here on the edge of the new year, as are all of you, and we’re staring into the future and we’re gonna make some predictions on what that brings or what we can see what’s gonna happen. Uh, Mark, how uh…
Each year, I only post one reminder, encouraging voluntary Ten Cent Challenge tip subscriptions, and this is it. Back in August, we celebrated our 20th blogiversary. Thanks for making SurvivalBlog such a success! There are now more than 41,400 archived articles and columns. SurvivalBlog is well-established as the world’s most widely-read daily blog on family preparedness. Hopefully, some readers appreciate the fact that I only post an appeal once a year. And I’m confident that most readers appreciate that SurvivalBlog is one of the last of the “Old School” blogs that is still posted with fresh content from blog readers…
On January 5, 1477, the Battle of Nancy (now in France) was won by the Lorraine-Swiss forces led by René II, Duke of Lorraine. More than 7,000 Burgundians were killed, including Duke Charles The Bold. Thus ended the Burgundian Wars and the Burgundian State. — On January 5, 1914, industrialist Henry Ford announced his $5 minimum per-day wage. This doubled most workers’ pay from $2.40 for a 9-hour workday to $5 for an 8-hour workday. — January 5th is the birthday of the late John Pugsley (born 1934, died April 8, 2011), libertarian and economics author. Pugsley was well known…
Gunmakers are often quiet when they discontinue a gun model. We’ve all felt the pain of suddenly discovering a firearm we’d love to own that is no longer available. Three major companies in the last 60 days have given consumers a bit of warning that they were discontinuing long-produced models of popular guns, but their disappearance occurs, nonetheless. GlockIn mid-October 2025, Glock’s list of discontinued models grew significantly. Nearly every Internet pundit claimed it was a kneejerk reaction to legal action mounted in a half-dozen jurisdictions. It turns out the changes were in the works long before paperwork was filed.…
2025 was a difficult year to get through. By the end of the year, I was not enjoying any of it. In fact, I wanted to quit (do I feel this way at the end of every year?). You have to laugh and find your sense of humor or you won’t make it through anything that is slightly difficult. There were so many things that went wrong, so I had to sit down and list accomplishments to remind myself that a lot of things went right. And once reminded of all the good, I can face the next year in…
On January 4, 871, the Viking Great Heathen Army defeated a Wessex force led by King Æthelred and his brother Alfred, in the First Battle of Reading. — January 4, 1896: Following Mormon abandonment of sanctioned polygamy, Utah was belatedly admitted as the 45th US state. Settlers had first petitioned Congress for statehood in 1849. Several of Utah’s less populous neighboring territories had been admitted to statehood years earlier than Utah. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 122 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy…
Sturm, Ruger & Co. has a knack for building modern firearms based on classic lines from decades ago, from the No. 1’s rendering of a modern Farquharson, to the Bearcat’s Remington New Model Pocket-esque profile. So it was no surprise that when the company decided to introduce its first shotgun in 1977, the gun took the form of the continental over-under shotgun. Called the “Red Label,” the shotgun has disappeared from the market two times, with Ruger recently announcing a third generation with its Red Label III. The Red Label III marks the third generation of Ruger’s classic over-under shotgun.…
(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Once you have cut, stripped, and made the proper ring terminal connections to the wires, then the next job is to solder them to the various locations as required; this will involve soldering the 6.0” wire and two other wires twisted together as one wire onto the variable capacitor of the kit. I used a dab of Kester 186 solder flux on the wires before I tinned them and then after I crimped the wires onto the terminals, I put a very small drop of the flux on the crimp connection and…
On January 3, 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church for failing to recant parts of his Ninety-Five Theses, which started the Protestant Reformation. — January 3, 1749: Benning Wentworth issued the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont. — On January 3, 1892, English author and scholar J.R.R. Tolkien, who was perhaps best known for his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), was born in South Africa. — January 3, 1944: Top US flying ace Major Pappy Boyington was shot down in his…
Armed Citizen® Today On the night of Dec. 15, 2025, a man reportedly kicked in the back door of a home in Waco, Texas. The homeowner, fearing for his life, shot the man as he entered the residence, striking him in the left forearm. Witnesses said they had seen a white Dodge Charger circling the area before the incident and saw a man fleeing to that vehicle after the shooting. A 32-year-old man with a facial tattoo showed up at the hospital within the hour for treatment of a matching gunshot wound; police also matched the pattern on his shoes…