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With an overall length of 9.5″ and a 4.5″ cutting edge, the White River Knife & Tool Ursus 45 offers plenty of hand-filling area that is made all the more comfortable by way of well-shaped, replaceable burlap Micarta scales. The 0.16″-thick blade of CPM Magnacut steel is heat-treated to a hardness of RC 62-64, which, along with a high, flat grind, results in a tough, capable design adept at handling a variety of camp chores. The full-profile tang extends past the scales at the rear and features a lanyard hole. The knife weighs 8.3 ozs. and comes with a pancake-style…
Italian manufacturer Chiappa Firearms is known for making authentic reproductions of historic firearms and also giving these historic firearms a modern twist. In the latter category is its Wildlands series of Winchester 1886-style lever-actions that have been updated to meet the needs of the contemporary outdoorsman. New for 2025, Chiappa has introduced the latest model in its Wildlands family: the 86 Angle Ejection Takedown. The 86 Wildlands Angle Ejection Takedown is Chiappa Firearms’ take on a modernized 1886 lever-action. At its core, the new 86 Wildlands uses the John Browning-designed big-frame lever-action with twin locking blocks and a tubular underbarrel…
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Parkerizing is the trade name of a chemical reaction process that uses a mild acid solution to deliver manganese or zinc to a steel part and thereby coat that part with either manganese or zinc. The generic name for this process is “Phosphate Coating”, but most folks use the familiar name, Parkerizing, and often use a lower-case “p” when writing about it. The purpose of parkerizing is to provide a protective finish on steel parts. The resultant phosphate coating will hold lubricants and rust preventatives. One common use is to coat and protect steel firearms. Compared to bluing, it has…
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On October 11, 1923, the hyperinflated German Mark issued by the Weimar regime fell to 10 billion per British Pound and 4 billion per U.S. Dollar. — October 11, 1138: A massive earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, killed an estimated 230,000 people. — Today is the 75th birthday of novelist William R. Forstchen. He is best known for his survivalist novel One Second After. — 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…
