In the mid-19th century, the French military had developed some new firearm designs to take advantage of what was then the novel concept of a self-contained cartridge. Initially, like many militaries, the French converted existing military muzzleloaders to…

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(Continued from Part 4.) Preparations for Sons After spiritual preparation, the number one thing a parent can do is to prepare their son for life is to teach him how to make and control money. Money and resources create options. Lack of money limits opportunities. I have a collateral or lineal relative in every conflict from the Revolutionary War to the present. If you go back far enough in history, you will find multiple great-grandfathers at a distant generational level. For instance in the time period of the American Civil War, I have multiple grandfathers and collateral relatives who served…

The Battle of Culloden was fought on April 16, 1746. Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart in the final battle of the Jacobite Rising on British soil. — April 16, 1866: Nitroglycerine exploded at a Wells Fargo & Company office in San Francisco. This reportedly shattered glass in a half a mile radius. — April 16th is the birthday of libertarian novelist J. Neil Schulman. He was best known as author of the novel Alongside Night. — I just heard that famed mountaineer Jim Whittaker passed away, at age 97. — Today’s…

In celebration of America’s 250th Anniversary, We The Free partnered with Fusion Firearms and Ranger Point Precision on two limited-edition firearms—its way of thanking you for supporting the NRA, Second Amendment and becoming a paid subscriber of We The Free. As an NRA member, you’ll receive a special discount when you subscribe to the unfiltered, uncompromised 2A content and community at the We The Free streaming network. For new subscribers, Fusion Firearms has produced a one-of-one Special Edition XP Pro pistol featuring a ported barrel, finished in NRA Blue, and fully laser-engraved with pivotal moments in American history—including the NRA…

If you’ve ever struggled to reassemble a Ruger Standard .22 pistol, MK I to MK III, the company with the solution was Hammer Strut Support, which offered an easy, patented solution for decades and was always advertised in the back of American Rifleman magazine. Now, company owner Tom Velez is hanging up his spurs, and Hammer Strut Support will be closing its doors by May 2026. For Ruger pistol owners who haven’t yet taken advantage of the company’s hammer-strut-support reassembly aid, prices have been reduced while inventory lasts, but the window is closing rapidly. For years, the price for this…

There is a moment in shooting where discipline either sharpens or quietly unravels. That moment is when the shooter looks for validation. Event Horizon is designed to pull attention away from consequence and return it to process by removing the shooter’s ability to visually reward or punish themselves shot-to-shot. This tendency is where many bad habits are born, and this drill deliberately challenges this behavior—for the better. Like a black hole’s event horizon, the black target absorbs what crosses it. Solid hits disappear. When success is invisible, emotional reaction fades and honest execution takes its place. Most shooters, new and…

For most of the Western world, World War II began in September 1939, with the German invasion of Poland. However, by 1939, the Japanese army had been in combat for years in China, and it learned some important lessons about its small arms during the conflict, leading to the development of its Type 97 machine gun. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” I Have This Old Gun segment above to see the Type 97 in action. “What the Japanese experience in combat in China is that they’re going up against Chinese troops who are fighting them with Mauser rifles in 8…

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00:00:07 Speaker 1: This podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer new Arth, and today we’re joined by Jannis Randall, Alec Cad, Eric Reva, Max and Nate. This is a ten round quiz show with questions from Meat Eater’s four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. There is a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winner’s choosing. We’ve got a mailbag question here from Leonard and Lizzie van Arden. My family and I are moving from…