A rifle chambered in 5.56 NATO probably offers the most widely available and varied selection of ammunition in America today. A quick visit to cheaperthandirt.com revealed a total of 144 different ammo options in a variety of bullet weights available in 5.56 NATO or .223 Remington at the time of this writing. These options also tended to be more economically priced than ammunition for other center fire rifle chamberings. Rifles chambered in 5.56 NATO also tend to produce negligible recoil and are generally light and easy to carry. Factors like these make rifles chambered in 5.56 NATO attractive options for…

On April 6, 1652 Cape Colony, the first European settlement in South Africa, was established by the Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeec. — April 6, 1768: French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville’s expedition arrives in Tahiti, claiming it for France and naming it New Cythera. — This new Southwestern Oregon listing at SurvivalRealty.com caught my eye: Turnkey Off-Grid Survival Compound — Rogue Valley — Water, Power, Food, Multi-Family Ready. — Our feature piece for today is by Field Gear Editor Tom Christianson. — We now need entries for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than…

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As our country was celebrating its centennial 150 years ago, Oliver Winchester dominated the lever-action market with his Models 1866 and 1873 and was just introducing the Model 1876. But there were problems. The Winchesters 1866 and 1873 were only chambered for, respectively, .44 rimfire and .44-40 centerfire cartridges— mid-range, medium-game loadings at best—while the new Model 1876 still couldn’t handle some of the popular big-game chamberings of the day, most notably the coveted .45-70 Govt. To add to Oliver Winchester’s issues, in 1881, his neighbor in New Haven, Conn., the nascent Marlin Firearms Company—which previously made only rimfire derringers,…

A study conducted last year found some Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems would willingly sacrifice human life to avoid being taken offline. Add AI’s well-documented eagerness to dispense anti-Second Amendment propaganda, and it doesn’t take a fertile imagination, tinfoil hat or off-grid compound in the Mohave Desert to ask some frightening questions. Most notably: Does AI have ultimately have a desire to dismantle our right to keep and bear arms? Eroding Political SupportWhen America’s First Freedom writer Brian McCombie asked ChatGPT3.5, Claude, Gemini, Meta Llama2 and Writesonic if the NRA was a civil rights organization, all responded that the NRA didn’t…

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Along with all of the other items that a seasoned Prepper has, barter items are critical. You undoubtedly will need items that you forgot to stockpile during the good times. This area of prepping needs to be approached with the same meticulous logical order as all of your other prepping gear. Your trading partner, the one with those critical items that you need to survive must be satisfied. You’ve gotta have stuff that he really needs, not just stuff that fit into the category of general prepping items. He may have no need for ammo but desperately needs antibiotics. So…

On April 5, 1242, Russian Prince of Novgorod Alexander Nevsky defeated the Teutonic Knights on the frozen Lake Peipus between Estonia and Russia. This became known as the Battle on the Ice. — April 5, 1424 Scottish King James I returned to Scotland after 18 years of detention at the English court. During his captivity in England, James married Joan Beaufort, a cousin of Henry IV. On 28 March 1424, a ransom agreement amounting to £40,000 sterling, after deducting a dowry payment of 10,000 marks, was established in Durham, with James affixing his personal seal to the document. The king…

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