Survival & Emergency Preparedness

If you have many electronics or flashlights around the house and have been using alkaline batteries in them, you no doubt have experienced l...

I tried a tin of Bumblebee smoked boneless, skinless trout today for lunch. More of these cans will be getting added to my larder. It...

Since I took an internal transfer about two years ago, I now work in the 'burbs rather than commuting into center city Philadelphia. My ...

This piece from last year is well worth reading . As gun policy discussions unfold in the wake of mass shooter incidents, they routinely...

 Last week I bought a  Holosun HS515C red dot sight  to replace the Bushnell TRS-25 that I used to have on my Beretta Cx4 Storm 9mm carbine....

(In this post, I used the word "balls" a lot. Huh, huh.) This past weekend I'd planned to shoot my Rogers & Spencer perc...

In my quest for self reliance, one category of things I've tried to acquire has been a variety of tools. On the top end are my mini-mill...

It is a USGI canteen cup made by Ingersoll Products sometime in the early 1970s. I got in around 1985 after I joined Civil Air Patrol....

This is a very good video on fire starting with flint and steel, including the use of a flintlock, from Jas. Townsend's & Son's ...

I bought this steel years ago at Dixon's Muzzleloading Shop but today was the first time I made fire with it. It was made from an old fi...

One rifle I've been shooting lately is my Cabela's Hawken, made in Italy by Investarms. At some point I'd like to take it huntin...

Earlier this week, I ordered a  Universal Sling from October Country , who caters to black powder shooters. I wanted a sling for my Cimarron...

In the pre-flintlock era, before the invention of paper cartridges, it became common for musketeers to carry pre-measured powder charges in ...

(Post has been edited for clarification.) Please be on the lookout for a stolen Winchester 1892 Sporting Rifle, serial number 100156, cali...

Today I took advantage of unusually warm weather for January 1st and got the Cabela's Hawken out to the range and got it zeroed with its...

Several years ago I bought a Cabela's Traditional Hawken rifle in .50 caliber. It isn't a faithful copy of the real Hawken rifles of...

Today I took a spin up to  Dixon's Muzzleloading Shop  and came home with these: The tomahawk is an  H&B Forge Medium Camp Ha...

This post by Dave Spaulding is from 2010 but I only saw it recently. In my opinion it's worth reading. ... Over the last 25 I ha...

A clothing item you see on a lot of bushcraft-oriented sites is a blanket shirt. Basically, they are hoodies made from old wool blankets. Th...