Survival & Emergency Preparedness

While checking out foreign MREs on eBay, I ran across the vendor "magnetic1" selling dehydrated beef bibim bap entrees, which are ...

Today I cast up about 10 pounds worth of bullets for .44-40, using my Accurate Molds 43-215C mold. I got at least a couple hundred usable pr...

Note/Disclaimer: This post contains loading data believed to be safe in my guns. It may not be safe in yours. Do your own research before yo...

Yesterday, Wayne LaPierre and Chris Cox issued a joint statement, which contained,  inter alia : In Las Vegas, reports indicate that cert...

HF propagation conditions currently suck , but I wanted to try out the Emtech ZM-2 anyway. My first use would be with a random length antenn...

Last Saturday I ordered a pre-built Emtech ZM-2 antenna tuner with UHF connectors and it arrived today.  I wanted something a bit smaller a...

Currently, HF propagation is terrible, largely due to solar activity. This NOAA Radio Propagation Dashboard helps explain why.

This afternoon I took a few minutes, field stripped the Kel-Tec RDB, and took some pictures. The rifle's design is different enough so t...

Yesterday I decided to move a scope I already owned over to the Kel-Tec RDB I bought Friday night. My Colt AR15 6721 has been relegated to b...

I did some trading last night at Surplus City and came home with a  Kel-Tec RDB 5.56mm bullpup rifle . (I actually went there with the inten...

BBC News published  this video , which I think is worth watching. It's only a few minutes long. (I couldn't figure out a way to embe...

My 13 year old daughter wants to come hunting with me this year and needed a suitable shotgun. Today, we went to the local Dick's Sporti...

My daughter and I hit the range yesterday and brought along "her" Ruger SR22. I put 20 CCI SV rounds through it.  She shot it unsu...

I've recently been considering acquiring a second compact .22 autoloading pistol. A few years ago I picked up an  Israeli surplus Berett...

I've been on a knife-buying binge lately. A few weeks ago I picked up is a carbon steel Terävä Skrama bush knife from Varusteleka. Pr...

Today for lunch I tried out some Kalakelle Fish Cock, from Finland's Varusteleka military surplus store. There's no way I could com...

Last year I got an Esbit CS985HA cookset which includes two anodized aluminum pots, a pot stand, a Trangia-style spirit burner with snuffer ...

Varusteleka is a military surplus store in Helsinki, Finland. I've ordered a few items from them, most notably a Jerven bag. Service fr...

Rob Ski of the AK Operator's Union did this video at the end of 2015 with guidance on what to look for when buying an AK rifle. If you...

I got one of these  USMC surplus grid fleece pullovers last month from the Sportsman's Guide and have worn it a lot since then.  SPG has...