This is an article hypothetically written to my younger self, as if I were just going to start on my path of preparation. These are lessons I spent a couple decades learning. So, this is for you, young man. Things I’ve learned, what I’d do if I were in your shoes: Social Skills Are the Primary Prepping Skills Not guns. Not gardening. Not bushcraft. Social skills. Social Skills are the single most important skill you need. It will affect your career and therefore your resources and your preps. It will affect your mate options. It will affect your children. It…

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On May 27, 1930 Richard G. Drew (pictured) invented cellophane tape. Five years earlier, he had also invented painter’s masking tape. — On May 27, 1941, the British Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck. — Also on this date, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland issued Ex parte Merryman, challenging the authority of President Abraham Lincoln and the U.S. military to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. This is the final round of the contest. There will not be…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Our world is changing. It always has, of course, but the pace of change today seems different, and for those of us whose lives revolve around the natural world hunters and anglers, campers and climbers, it’s impossible not to recognize that change is coming for the things that we love too. Open space is dwindling, wildlife populations are on decline, and government funding and staff levels for our public lands are being slashed. At the same time, passionate advocates of all types are working to steward our wild world in innovative and more promising ways than ever.…

Twelve-gauge pumps might still rule the turkey woods, but 20-gauge autoloaders dominate the current turkey gun trend. Thanks to potent TSS loads and custom turkey chokes, hunters can swap heavier, shoulder-pommeling big bores for lightweight sub-gauges without sacrificing effective range (in a lot of cases). If you’re in the market for such a rig, you should put the Beretta A300 Ultima Turkey 20 gauge at the top of your list.This spring I had the opportunity to test and hunt with a Beretta A300 Ultima Turkey, customized by Rob Roberts Gun Works. Aside from the lengthened forcing cone, you’ll find everything…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Cow’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Klahan. Here’s cal. 00:00:21 Speaker 2: A new development with a now famous Montana man just popped up. This is a little roundabout, so stick with me. John Edward Luten is a licensed big game outfitter here in the home state. According to our friends over at the Missoulian, his case dates back to an October twenty nineteen public land hunt for a Rocky Mountain big horn sheep in the famed Missouri Breaks. The hunter client in this case…

If you’re like me, your collection of shotguns is kind of like a set of golf clubs. Each is a different tool for a different purpose. I have a dainty, lightweight British 12-gauge for long walks and fast flushes. I have a smooth-shooting Remington 1100 for sitting still in the marsh. And I have a short-barreled 20-gauge for turkey hunting. But the most important gun in my safe is a beat-up Mossberg 500. I’ve used it to shoot deer, ducks, geese, turkeys, and pheasants.I’m not enough of a golfer to think of a club that would best describe my Mossberg,…

Most shooters obsess over optics, ballistic computers and gear selection while largely ignoring one of the simplest upgrades available for summer shooting comfort: treating clothing and equipment with permethrin. The post Permethrin: The “Chemical Weapon” Every Shooter Should Consider appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

While the AR-pattern design, in both AR-15 and AR-10 guises, continues to be the most popular and prolific semi-automatic rifle platform in America, don’t think that means that there aren’t other great, new options emerging on the market. For 2026, we saw a few new semi-automatic platforms, with some based on legacy designs like the AK, while other manufacturers brought new concepts to consumers. Check out the latest and greatest in semi-automatics with the six new models listed below: Arsenal Inc. | SAM7SF-56Featuring an anodized-aluminum right-side folding stock with an ergonomic cheek rest, this AK-pattern rifle includes four non-rotating QD…

As red-dot optics become more and more popular as a handgun accessory, the variety of models and mounting systems keep increasing. If the industry ends up coalescing around the “MIL-STD” of red-dot optics mounts, it may be Aimpoint’s A-Cut for their COA optic. One year after the COA’s introduction exclusive to a single manufacturer, the market has been opened up to all companies adding an A-Cut to their handguns. Springfield Armory isn’t letting the grass grow under their feet by adding A-Cut options to its 1911 Operator, 1911 TRP, and 1911 DS Prodigy models. The new COA-ready Springfield handguns have…