On January 9th, 1580, Francis Drake‘s ship the Golden Hind struck a reef off the Celebes islands. It fortuitously slipped off the reef at high tide the next day and sailed onward to Java, and then around the Cape of Good Hope and back to Plymouth, England. — January 9, 1839: Louis Daguerre demonstrated his ‘daguerreotype‘ photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. — The 20th Anniversary SurvivalBlog 2005-2025 Waterproof/EMP-Resistant Archive USB sticks are selling rapidly, in pre-ordering.  The limited number of them packaged in steel keepsake tins have nearly sold out.  Orders should start to be mailed in the…

Brent Wheat and Roy Huntington take a sharp left turn from their planned topic to address a growing frustration in the shooting community: the toxicity of internet gun forums. The post Why Gun Forums Push New Shooters Away appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

In this era, if you use the term “Heavy Browning,” many people will assume you are referring to the .50-cal. Browning M2 machine gun. While that is technically correct, Browning’s massive .50-cal. design is truly in a category of its own. Call it semantics, but in the first half of the 20th century, the term “Heavy Browning” referred to the .30 -cal. M1917 water-cooled machine gun.  In early 1918, there were two Browning machine gun designs being prepared for service: the Browning Automatic Rifle and the tripod-mounted M1917. While the nearly 20-pound M1918 BAR may have been heavy for a…

The victim of a New Year’s Day mountain lion attack on the Colorado Front Range has been identified as Kristen Marie Kovatch—a 46-year-old woman from Fort Collins.Kovatch was hiking by herself on Crosier Mountain Trail in Larimer County when the attack occurred sometime in the morning. Two other unrelated hikers found her lying dead in the trail around noon the same day, according to a Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) press release, and threw rocks at a mountain lion still hanging around the victim to scare it away.One of the attending hikers happened to be a physician, CPW public information…

Taurus has launched the TX9 polymer-frame, striker-fired 9 mm family of handguns. This series of full-size, compact and subcompact pistols represents the next evolution of Taurus’s TX platform, formerly only available as the TX22 rimfire, but now in centerfire variants. Taurus delivers this new pistol as a reliable, professional-grade firearm purpose-built to perform when it matters most and deliver ultimate reliability, regardless of intended use. Becoming more and more familiar in the handgun world, the TX9 uses a serialized chassis as the fire-control group which allows a wide range of customization and optimization for the individual shooter. In addition to…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast. This week on the show, I’m joined by Michael Easter. He is the author of The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain, and we’re discussing tangible ways we can add wildness back into our lives and the real impact that can have on our happiness, our outdoor…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: This is the one thousand dollars gym. We are going to do a one thousand dollars gym this week. Next week we will do a five thousand dollars gym. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: Yep. 00:00:07 Speaker 3: Should we do an intermediate like twenty five hundred or no? Now you’re either a thousand or you got you got some coin? 00:00:12 Speaker 2: Right? Five thousand and then ten thousand, ten thousand. 00:00:16 Speaker 4: That’s practically an unlimited budget. 00:00:17 Speaker 3: Ten thousands, ten thousand you can do for yourself. 00:00:21 Speaker 5: Yes, ten thousand.…

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On January 8, 1297, Monaco gained its independence. Pictured are Buffalo Bill Cody and Prince Albert I of Monaco, in 1913. He was the first reigning European monarch to visit the United States. — On January 8, 1610,  German astronomer Simon Marius independently discovered the first four moons of Jupiter, just one day after Galileo‘s lunar discovery. — The 20th Anniversary SurvivalBlog 2005-2025 Waterproof/EMP-Resistant Archive USB sticks are available for Pre-Ordering. This year, we are also offering a limited number of them in steel keepsake tins, with keychains.  Both types have been selling very rapidly. Orders should start to be…

Missouri-based VKTR (pronounced “vector”) Industries is known for its premium AR-15 components and piston-driven AR rifles and handguns. New for 2026, the company is jumping into the 2011 world with its Vanguard line, with the company’s initial model being the VKP Pro.   The VKP Pro is the first and flagship model in VKTR Industries’ new Vanguard line of 2011-style handguns.   VKTR calls the VKP Pro a “double stack 1911” and its design follows the 2011 pattern of a hybrid modular frame, where the mainframe and grip module are bolted together. In the VKP Pro’s case, the frame is…