(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) For now, the best thing to do for many is to “Get Out” escaping blue hives and get on productive land. I have been advocating that people move to lightly populated food producing rural areas in conservative states. I live in one and I am trying to increase the number of freedom loving people over here. There is safety in numbers. I realize how difficult it is to accomplish all of this. Whenever I talk with people who would like to live on a farm, the number one reason I hear is…

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On May 6, 1837, US blacksmith John Deere made the first steel plough, in Grand Detour, Illinois. —May 6, 1851: Linus Yale Jr. patented the Yale cylinder lock. — You may already own a SIEGE Stove or a SIEGE Belt from SIEGE Survival. (One of our loyal advertisers.)  I just heard that they’ve added the excellent American-made Fire-Fast firestarters to their product line. (At the SIEGE website, click on “Ferro Rod Fire Steels”.) You can see one of these being tested after four days of submersion, in a YouTube video. Tom Christianson will soon be reviewing one of the jumbo-size “Trekker”…

The Idaho State Legislator recently passed a bill that will shake up the state’s hunting regulations, particularly for big game and bird hunting. House Bill 939, which was signed into law on April 2, took aim at the use of technological aids for hunting.In particular, the bill, which was crafted with public input, outlaws the use of thermal imaging, night vision, and drones to hunt or scout for big game and game birds. It also forbids the use of cellular trail cameras on publicly accessible lands from August 30 through December 31 each year. The new regulations are intended to…

When I was growing up, springtime was always catfish time. Every year, as soon as the ice had melted off the water and I heard the calls of spring peepers in the air, I’d grab my gear and head down to the river for an evening of kitty hunting. I never caught many fish in those days, but it always felt like the first wriggling bullhead or channel cat I managed to pull onto the muddy bank was the start of something great and that the fishing was only going to get better from here.As I grew older, I refined…

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Armed Citizen® Today In Garland, Texas, around 3:30 p.m. on May 3, a man driving a green car collided with two other cars. When all the vehicles pulled into a gas station to assess the damage, the man started pulling on the other vehicles’ door handles, successfully accessing one but failing to drive away in that vehicle. He then crossed the street to a convenience-store parking lot, confronting another driver after he got out of his vehicle. That driver still had five children in his car and defended against the attempted carjacking, struggling with the would-be robber and then shooting…

Ground was ceremoniously broken on the Wyoming State Shooting Complex (WSSC) on April 25 in an event befitting The Cowboy State, although shovels didn’t get the headlines. It was the M1 Garand used by U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon (R) to deliver the first official shot on the 2,000-acre site that got the attention—rightfully so. “This is a day that Wyoming will remember,” said Patrick Giles, WSSC CEO. “The shots heard round Wyoming weren’t just symbolic—they were a declaration. Wyoming is open for business when it comes to shooting sports, and we are going to…

Some lucky deer hunter will eventually shoot a whitetail with antlers bigger than those atop the buck Milo Hanson killed Nov. 23, 1993, near his Saskatchewan farm.With a certified score of 213-5/8 inches, Hanson’s 14-point buck became the world-record “typical” whitetail during the Boone and Crockett Club’s 1995 awards ceremony. It bumped a 10-point buck from the top spot it held since its 1971 entry. That buck scored 206-1/8 inches, and was shot by Jim Jordan in 1914 near Danbury in northwestern Wisconsin.No hunter, however, will ever tell a better, more modest hunting story about a world-record buck than the…

One of the hottest segments of the handgun market over the past several years has been that of the 2011-style handgun, which retains 1911 controls and feature sets while adding a double-stack magazine with greater capacity. At the same time, John Browning’s venerable 1911 design continues to be popular with the American shooting public, even 115 years removed from its development. Consequently, there is a host of new 1911s and 2011s available to today’s handgun enthusiasts, with each design bringing a unique feature set to the table. EAA | CMXX Witness2311 Double StackThe next-generation CMXX pistol builds on the 1911…