On October 17, 1814:  The London Beer Flood: A burst vat at Meux & Company Brewery floods city streets with over 300,000 gallons of porter ale, killing eight, with a possible ninth death from alcohol poisoning — October 17, 1967: USAF test pilot William “Pete” Knight set a record, reaching an altitude of 102,100 feet (31.1 km) in the experimental X-15 spaceplane. — Today’s feature article is a guest post by A.C. of the Stakeholder Prepping Podcast. Since he is a SurvivalBlog advertiser, this article is not eligible for our writing contest. — We need entries for Round 121 of…

The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has moved its popular auctions to GunBroker.com, an online firearm marketplace that launched in 1999. The collaboration is part of the website’s non-profit initiative, which provides CMP and other qualified organizations a free online store and hosts their charity auctions free of charge. Every dollar raised through these auctions goes directly to the organization. “The CMP’s intention in partnering with GunBroker.com was to reach a broader audience with our auction program, but we never could have anticipated just how popular our items would be on the site,” said Chris Hord, CMP chief product officer. “We’re greatly encouraged with the…

We’re so excited to announce the release of our latest original audiobook, MeatEater’s American History: The Hide Hunters (1865-1883). This is the third installment of MeatEater’s American History audiobook series, where we explain chunks of American history in great, lively, bloody detail.In this audiobook, Steven Rinella takes you deep into the blood-soaked world of the hide hunters who invaded the western frontier in the aftermath of the Civil War, killing and skinning millions of buffalo to supply a resource-hungry nation with an untapped source of leather.From the scorching plains of Texas to the frozen prairie of northern Montana, they lived…

The Robbins & Lawrence story began when gunmaker Richard Lawrence arrived in Windsor, Vt. Nicanor Kendall of Kendall & Company recognized the man’s mechanical abilities and hired him straight away at $200 per year. In 1843, Lawrence joined Kendall in the newly formed Kendall & Lawrence Company. The pair leased a modest shop within the confines of Windsor village, and began operating a small gun manufactory. During the winter the following year, East Coast businessman S.E. Robbins approached the pair with news that the U.S. government was looking to purchase 10,000 rifles for use in the approaching conflict with Mexico.…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to our latest bonus drop of the Meat Eater podcast. What you’re about to hear is a chapter from our new audio original, Meat Eater’s American History, The Hide Hunters eighteen sixty five to eighteen eighty three. If you like what you’re hearing, you can go find the complete work anywhere that you get your audio books. Again, Meat Eater’s American History, The Hide Hunters eighteen sixty five to eighteen eighty three. 00:00:31 Speaker 2: And here’s a little taste called Ghosts. Chapter one. Ghosts. Let’s get something cleared up right away before we…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome to the wired to Hunt podcast. 00:00:03 Speaker 2: This week, on the show, we are doing a deep dive into the big buck lessons of one of the white tailed community’s greatest legends, Roger Rothar. He was the influencer of today’s whitetail influencers, and today we’re going to learn exactly why. All right, welcome back to the wired ton podcast, brought to you by First Light and their Camo for Conservation Initiative. And today we have got a unique episode, an episode that I think and I hope that you are really going to enjoy…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: As we always tell people, not necessarily a goal, but like an end, like an event to train for. Nate used hunting season as his first kind of thing, and then now he’s done some ultuers and but get out do hard things, have something to train for, not necessarily a goal of looking at the scale and saying, oh, I need to be x. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: You know. Wait, by then we’re not worried necessarily about that. 00:00:23 Speaker 1: Is. Hey, I’ve got this event that I’m training for, and I want to be…