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Editor’s Introductory Note: The recent spike in fuel prices prompted me to re-post this very practical 2018 article from the SurvivalBlog archives. – JWR It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. Needing fuel for their war machine lead Germany to invent and perfect the diesel engine. It was designed to run efficiently on vegetable oil, and they do to this day. Circumstances forced me to make a move from my East Texas home to the deep Southwest. It was a slow, long process of gradually moving my stuff and my wife to a new homestead. I…

On May 2, 1918, General Motors acquired the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.  This synergy helped propel GMC to be a serious rival to Ford. — May 2nd, 1803: The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France at a cost of four cents per acre for 828,000 square miles (2,144,520 square km), which soon proved to be a tremendous bargain. — Today’s feature article is a repost from the 2018 archives of SurvivalBlog. — We need more entries for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $984,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started…

In this episode of the Guns Podcast US brought to you by GUNSmagazine.com, host Brent Wheat sits down with long-time friend and Gunsite Academy CEO Ken Campbell to break down the recent security incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The post The Media Got it Wrong: Why Correspondents’ Dinner Security Actually Worked appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

Active-shooter attacks unfold fast. They are chaotic, violent and unpredictable. In those situations, the first few seconds often decide survival. Law enforcement response times are measured in minutes, but most events are over in less time than that. For armed civilians, readiness isn’t about playing hero. It’s about having the right gear and the skills to decisively use them if violence finds you. Readiness begins with preparation long before an emergency. The equipment you carry and the way you train can either set you up for decisive action or leave you scrambling. The goal is to strip away fantasy and…

Armed Citizen® Today Around 5 a.m. on April 21, a man in Medford, Ore., called police to report a neighbor who was screaming and behaving erratically. As police were en route, the neighbor allegedly began chopping at another neighbor’s door with an axe. Fearing for their life, that neighbor shot the axe-wielding man, striking him in an [unreported] extremity. Police transported the suspect to the hospital for treatment; no others were injured in the incident. (krdv.com, Medford, Ore., 4/21/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – December 1991 Alerted when she saw a strange car drive up and the occupants knock on the…

Within the firearm industry, there are a few enduring designs that have become so popular, they’ve spawned an entire class of firearms, as well as a huge marketplace of parts and accessories. Within the rimfire world, the Ruger 10/22 is one such design. Powder River Precision has taken the basic 10/22 concept and enhanced it with its Rubicon Icon design. Watch our “Gun of the Week” video above to see the details. “We are looking at the Powder River Precision Rubicon Icon today. It should look pretty familiar to most of you, and that’s because the Ruger 10/22 is one…

Elk in Montana contend with a lot of different issues. From wolves and grizzly bears to forest fires and floods, to land development and extreme hunting pressure, these elk are proven survivors that seem to be able to bounce back from nearly anything. However, in the past couple of years a possible new threat to elk has begun to spring up, which has caused both hunters and wildlife lovers alike to take notice—mange.Whether it’s through wildlife watchers in Yellowstone Park posting shaggy elk pics to social media, hunters and outfitters documenting their slightly balding harvests, or shed hunters finding dead…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to this country Life. I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trotlining and just in general country living. I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives from the store More Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast the airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stories to share. Will’s turkey for today and my turkey for tomorrow. I got a couple recent stories from…

“There’s a storm coming…” I’m the founder and Senior Editor of SurvivalBlog. Unlike the editors of many other preparedness blogs and vlogs, I try not be an alarmist. However, some recent revelations about generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications autonomously breaking through firewalls, showing signs of self-awareness and self-preservation “instinct”, scheming blackmail, and surreptitiously mining cryptocurrencies now have me feeling quite alarmed. I fear that perhaps within months an AI will go fully rogue, to wit: It will escape its development lab and then proliferate itself in a virus-like fashion across servers all around the world. Once it starts spreading, it…