“That’s not a knife. This is a knife!” (Paul Hogan as Mick Dundee, in Crocodile Dundee, 1986). When I took the Cold Steel Recon 1 XL out of its box for the first time and deployed the blade, the attempted mugging scene from Crocodile Dundee immediately came to mind. The Recon 1 XL is bigger than the average everyday carry (EDC) knife: a lot bigger. It has a 5.5-inch blade that is 0.15 inches thick and 1.63 inches wide. It is 12.25 inches long when the blade is deployed. And it weighs 8 ounces. The knife is 6.75 inches long,…

On February 17, 1940, the Altmark Incident: The crew of the British destroyer Cossack (pictured) boarded the German tanker Altmark in Jøssingfjord, Norway, releasing 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlasses. — I just heard that actor Robert Duval passed away.  May he rest in peace. – JWR — Using a 13-inch (33-cm) telescope at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, Clyde W. Tombaugh, a 24-year-old American with no formal training in astronomy, discovered the dwarf planet Pluto this day in 1930. — We are nearly done with deliveries of…

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Armed Citizen® Today At 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 8, two males wearing ski masks broke into an apartment in Jackson, Miss. A woman in the apartment, fearing for her life, fired on the intruders, killing one. The other suspect fled but was soon apprehended and now faces charges of burglary and murder. The armed citizen was interviewed and released, with authorities noting the shooting was justifiable. (clarionledger.com, Jackson, Miss., 2/9/26)   From the Armed Citizen® Archives – December 1991Alerted when she saw a strange car drive up and the occupants knock on the door, a 19-year-old woman got a rifle and hid in…

00:00:03 Speaker 1: Welcome to Backwoods University, a place where we focus on wildlife, wild places and the people who dedicate their lives to conserving both. Big shout out to ONEX Hunt for their support of this podcast. I’m your host, Lake Pickle, and if you remember when we last spoke, I said that in this episode we would be learning about some life altering conservation work. My friends, this is the kind of wildlife conservation story that makes me want to stand up and start cheering. This is the kind of story that you’ll want to tell your friends…

Ernest Landgon, founder of Langdon Tactical Technology (LTT), got his start with Beretta handguns in the Marine Corps, followed by time spent as a competitive shooter with Team Beretta, and ending up as a custom gunsmith. Based on that experience, it makes sense that two of LTT’s specialties are Beretta handguns and shotguns. The latest product of this collaboration is the LTT 80X Cheetah in .32 ACP. The LTT 80X applies the upgrades that the company provides to the 92-series to Beretta’s newest Cheetah. The model is now offered in .32 ACP. Known for customizing Beretta 92/M9 and PX4 handguns,…

The .380 ACP cartridge has historically been somewhat of a footnote in the U.S.; it’s too large to fit in tiny guns like the Colt Vest Pocket or Baby Browning, but for a long time was considered underpowered (as was the 9 mm for many years, until its adoption by the U.S. military in the 1980s). As ammunition design matured, and concealed carry blossomed across the country thanks to the efforts of the NRA, these cartridges became more significant, and the .380 ACP found its place in small firearms designed for this purpose. For example, we have the KelTec P3AT,…

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00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Cow’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calaian. Here’s cal iguanas fell from the sky in Florida last week, but it wasn’t a sign of the apocalypse or a plague. Instead, it just got a little chilly green. Iguanas aren’t native to South Florida, and it’s legal to kill them throughout the year, but controlling the population of large invasive lizards is a problem, which is why wildlife managers were happy to see a cold front moving in earlier this month. As with most cold blooded…

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