Some companies have miniaturized the famous M1911 semi-automatic platform in order to manufacture pistols intended for smaller calibers and more comfortable concealed carry. This is by no means a new practice, but it is a good one. Back in 1984, Colt’s Manufacturing offered the sleek, sub-compact, all-stainless steel Colt Government Model chambered in .380 ACP. My wife picked one up while we were dating in the 1990s just before they were discontinued. We both liked it for its size, the light, clean single-action trigger, and the fact that it’s still among the most accurate pocket-size pistols I’ve worked with over…

00:00:02 Speaker 1: The crime scene in the murder of Chung Wai Yang didn’t just look wrong. It looked intentional. No warning, no struggle, just a single shot to the back of the head, footprints leading nowhere, and the hunter’s gear stripped away like a trophy. For the Yang family, the question started immediately for investigators. The answers would point toward a pair of hunters who claimed it was all just a joke. That’s next on Blood Trails. When Maivu Yang got a text from her mother one evening in the fall of twenty eighteen, she wasn’t too concerned to…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: I mean, I was so focused on, like, I don’t care what anybody tells me to do. I don’t care what you want to do. This is what I’m doing every day until I get asked to go leave, Like you know, the Navy’s going to like, hey, you’re in now. But I ran so much and I swam so much that when I got in, I knew that my times were faster than what they expected. On the high end, I was like, I’m going to beat the fastest times that they want us to do…

The Benelli M4 is the civilian version of the M1014 semi-automatic combat shotgun that was developed for the United States military in 1998 and taken into service in 1999. The M4 or the M1014 is now used by military or law enforcement agencies in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Georgia, Ireland, Libya, Malaysia, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among others. Its unique “auto-regulating gas operated” (ARGO) system uses an elegantly simple arrangement of two pistons that push directly against the bolt. The system allows the shotgun to be used with intermixed rounds of different…

On December 18, 1888 Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discovered the ancient Anasazi ruins of Mesa Verde, Colorado. — December 18th is the birthday of Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788). He wrote more than 1,700 hymns. — Today is also the birthday of Jørgen Haagen Schmith (born December 18, 1910, died October 15, 1944). He was better known under the codename “Citron” and was a famous Danish resistance fighter in occupied Denmark. — Today’s feature piece is a review written by SurvivalBlog staffer Tom Christianson. — We need more entries for Round 122 of the…

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law in July of this year, included a provision that eliminated the $200 tax on suppressors and short-barreled rifles and shotguns. Manufacturers have responded by adding these types of items to their inventories in anticipation of increased customer interest once the law takes effect on Jan. 1 , 2026. One of these manufacturers is Tippmann Arms, who is offering integrally-suppressed versions of their popular M4-22 .22 LR modern sporting rifle.   Tippmann’s new integrally-suppressed firearms are based around the company’s M4-22 .22 LR platform. The Tippmann M4-22 is a blowback-operated, semi-automatic chambered in…

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One of the most revolutionary shoulder arms of the American Civil War, the Model 1860 Spencer carbine went from being an experimental design at the war’s beginning to ultimately becoming the official issue arm of the U.S. Cavalry by war’s end. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” I Have This Old Gun segment above to hear the story of the Spencer carbine and its inventor. “Christopher Miner Spencer is a really interesting guy. He had a highly inventive mind, and this was something that was evident very early on. There’s an anecdote of him working on his grandfather’s farm,” American Rifleman…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer Newhart, and today we’re joined by Jannis Brody, Chili, Randall, cal and Seth. Now, this is normally a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters for verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. But today’s show is a little bit different. This is our annual family Feud Christmas episode of Meat Eater Trivia. This is year four now that we’ve done this, real crowd pleaser, isn’t it well? For the stat of the week, I asked our…

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