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Mild steel, construction plate, an old shovel blade… these dent, crater, and pit. And a dented, cratered, pitted surface is exactly what sends fragments flying back in directions nobody planned for. Here’s a quick true story from an outdoor gun club years ago. Somebody was shooting, unknown to the rest of us at the time, a square steel plate about a hundred yards downrange. After the incident, when we looked at the thing, it was exceptionally thick and heavy steel. It just wasn’t hard enough because it was old scrap. Anyway, to make a long story short, amongst the scattered…

This Independence Day, you’ll probably hear fireworks from every direction. If you’re fortunate, you may also hear something else — a crisp three-volley salute or the measured boom of ceremonial artillery marking the nation’s birthday. The post The Mysterious 21-Gun Salute appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

Armed Citizen® Today On June 15, a woman in Winfield, Tenn., reportedly trespassed onto a property, assaulted a woman there and then began forcing her way into the home. An armed citizen there shot her. Police airlifted her to the hospital, but the next day, she was released from the hospital and taken into custody. She faces charges of especially aggravating burglary, prohibited weapons, aggravated assault, vandalism and interference with emergency communications. (wate.com; Knoxville, Tenn.; 6/16/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – February 1987 A man breaking into a Fernandina Beach, Fla., home was met by gunfire from an elderly…

Handguns chambered in full-size rifle cartridges have gone from a niche to commonplace. On the bolt-action end of things, what were once specialized guns for competition and hunting have now become powerful and precise, yet compact, everyday packages. Springfield Armory is jumping into this category, using its 2020 series of bolt-action rifles as the basis for the company’s new-for-2026 Heatseeker pistol. Springfield is using its 2020 bolt-action as the basis for the new Heatseeker pistol. Like the rifle version, the Heatseeker pistol takes Springfield’s 2020 bolt action and places it in a Sharps Bros. 1913 Heatseeker chassis. The chassis is…

This year, we are celebrating the 250th anniversary of our country, not only as a world bastion of freedom, but as a nation of riflemen. But unlike the flintlock, percussion rifle and many other firearm actions we inherited and then improved upon, the lever-action is a distinctly American innovation. The motivating force behind its creation was the need for more firepower, or more specifically, the need for more reliable firepower, superseding earlier multiple-barrel and swivel-breech attempts. An inkling of what was to come began in 1848, when New York innovator Walter Hunt (who also created the fountain pen and the…

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00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News Headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan col Klai. Here’s cal we hear it, cals we can review. Know that it’s easier to pay attention to the segments about assaults on public land and federal spending bills when there’s an outlaw squirrel story in between. If you laugh at this comic relief, new research is showing that you are part of a grand tradition. Hominids have been laughing at each other for a very very long time. English anthropologists recently compared the vocalizations of all the great…

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00:00:04 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to aex Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and today, well fire up the boiler, cut up some onions, garlic and sausage, because it’s time for a crawfish boil. Well not, actually, I wish it was, but it is time for all of us to learn a little bit more about the most popular crustacean that has ever graced the North American fresh waters. And…