Smith & Wesson has launched special edition versions of the M&P 2.0 every year, for the past few years now Known as the Spec Series, these handguns come bundled with hard-sided cases, extra magazines, unique accessories and commemorative items such as knives and challenge coins. To keep things “fresh” and well, special, Smith & Wesson announced its latest upgrade to the series at SHOT Show 2025 and further increased its reach a few months later by celebrating the latest Spec Series gun at the 154th NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in Atlanta, Ga. Compared to previous years, Smith & Wesson…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, I’m joined by Mark Drury, or a masterclass on all things related to wind and its impact on hunting mature bucks. All right, welcome back to the Wired Hunt podcast, brought to you by First Light and their Camo for Conservation Initiative. Today we have an absolute gem of an episode. I’m joined by the one and only the mad Scientist himself, Mark Drury. Some of our very best episodes of this podcast ever over the long history of this show have been with Mark…

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: Find something that you really like with fitness, and then just like do that every day. 00:00:04 Speaker 2: Like if it’s it’s. 00:00:05 Speaker 1: Gonna be impossible for you to keep up with you behave if you’re like, oh I hate running, well, dude, guess what, You’re not gonna be running much like because you just won’t keep at it. Yeah, So I think like just finding something you like and then setting up your life around that, Like and I’m not saying like that the gym has to become your entire life, but I…

(Continued from Part 2.  This conclude4s teh article.) STAGE 2: SURVIVAL MODE The survival phase is the intermediate period between the very short-term emergency phase and the time when things finally settle down to the New Normal phase. Once everyone is finally gathered together at the homestead, defenses set up, the freezer contents are canned, freeze dried, smoked, or those blueberries made into cobbler as a comfort food during those first few stressful days, and once we’ve got meals back to some sort of a schedule, chores divvied out, watch times established, and water and propane conservation rules tacked to…

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On October 9th, 869: Charles the Bald (a.k.a. Charles II of West Francia) was crowned king of Lotharingen. — October 9, 1000: Leif Ericson discovers “Vinland” (possibly at what was later named L’Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming the first European to reach North America. — And on October 9, 1999, the last flight was made with a Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird”. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 121 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any…

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Magazines are the bane of any semiauto pistol, and even the best will eventually wear out. Due to the huge number of makers, it can be surprisingly hard to find good 1911 mags, especially in calibers that aren’t .45 ACP. Enter Ed Brown’s updated fixed-base magazine. Made from stainless steel, they come in 9mm, .38 Super, 10mm or .45 ACP and are drilled and tapped for slam pads. Helpfully, they also come with two pads in various sizes so you can choose a flat mag base or whatever size you need to clear your magwell without the expense of buying…

Much of the Wyoming rangeland could soon be inhospitable to deer, according to new research from ecologists at the University of Wyoming. The culprit: an invasive Eurasian prairie grass species called cheatgrass. The fast-growing, ever-thirsty species poses multiple problems for deer. Not only does it provide extremely low nutritional value, but it also siphons water away from native rangeland grasses, changing the composition of the prairies and pushing deer off their preferred habitat.The study, published in the Rangeland Ecology & Management journal, found that mule deer increasingly avoid rangelands as the density of cheatgrass increases above 10 to 14%. Once…