Author: Gunner Quinn
On April 17, 1935: The first commercial flight from the mainland to Hawaii, as Pan Am’s Pioneer Clipper was flown from San Francisco to Honolulu. — April 17, 1964: The Ford Mustang was formally introduced, with a base price of $2,368. — We are running a two-week-long sale on all of our pre-1899 antique shotguns at Elk Creek Company, with many deep discounts. This sale will end on Monday, April 27th, 2026. Please note that some of these guns have been re-sleeved and re-proofed for modern shotshells! — Today’s feature article is a guest post from a long-time SurvivalBlog reader.…
It’s turkey hunting time, but Brent didn’t have a shotgun that was optic-ready. Fortunately, the problem was easy to solve via the UTG Remington 870 optic mount paired with a Riton Optics 3 Tactix PRD 3 red dot. The post Turkey Time: UTG Optic Mount & Riton 3 Tactix PRD 3 appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here
I got excited the second I heard the gobbler answer my pot call from his pine tree roost. I scraped a couple of soft yelps on my slate, and he hammered back a response that sounded like “Let’s meet up at sunrise.”He did everything you pray a gobbler will do. He flew down, cut the distance, and came in on a string. But he broke strut at 60 yards like he’d hit an invisible wall. He just stood there staring holes in my decoys before circling around and disappearing into the hardwoods like he’d never been interested.The way that bird…
The Henry Bear’s Leg Pistol is a compact, utility-minded platform that blends the unmistakable profile of the classic Mare’s Leg with features tailored to the way today’s firearm owners actually use their guns. The post Henry Bear’s Leg Pistol appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here
The Ruger Super Wrangler Optics Mount by Skinner Sights is pure genius, requiring no gunsmithing to convert an iron-sighted single-action revolver into a futuristic thumb-buster of a gun. The post Ruger Super Wrangler Optics Mount by Skinner Sights appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here
The United States Senate voted today on H.J. 140 to repeal the 20-year mining moratorium on federal land in the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Area. The vote, which was an unprecedented use of the Congressional Review Act, passed narrowly, with 50 Republican Senators voting in favor of the action; 49 Senators opposed it, including two Republican defectors, Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Thom Tillis of North Carolina. The decision paves the way for the Trump Administration to reinstate leases for a massive copper sulfide mine proposed by Twin Metals, a subsidiary Chilean mining colossus Antofagasta.The…
The upgraded Savage Arms 212/220 Harvester and Harvester Woodland slug guns feature the advanced AccuFit V2 stock system, providing shooters with unparalleled customization and performance enhancements. The post Savage 212/220 Harvester Slug Guns appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here
Mike Crites wanted to live alone in the Montana mountains. He built a cabin, managed his land for wildlife, and spent his days hunting elk and mule deer.But isolation didn’t mean peace.After years of escalating disputes with neighbors over access roads and property lines, Mike vanished in September 2011.What investigators eventually found was far worse than a missing person case—it was a dismemberment, with remains scattered across both sides of a mountain pass.Two neighbors emerged as key figures. One had a long history of conflict with Mike. The other showed up the day before he disappeared—and later changed his story.More…
A 34-year-old hunter mentoring a 3-year-old child helped the youngster aim at and shoot another man and a 7-year-old child after mistaking their movements for a turkey in western Racine County. The incident occurred on Sunday, April 12, during Wisconsin’s two-day youth-only turkey season.Pellets from the 12-gauge shotgun struck the 7-year-old’s head, along with the man’s left hand, shoulder, and backside as they hunted turkeys on state forest lands in the Rochester township. Lt. Renee Thok, the Department of Natural Resources’ hunter-education administrator, said the victims were likely facing away from the shooter when hit. DNR investigators do not believe…
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. 00:00:18 Speaker 2: What is going on? 00:00:19 Speaker 3: Welcome to Wired to Hunt. I’m Jake Hofer. In this week we have Jack Houston with Midwest Deer Surveys. Jack has flown over five hundred farms and we talk about some of the observations he’s been able to make from habitat deer density where mature bucks…