Survival

Unless you’re an avid outdoorsman who regularly makes hiking, backpacking, or skiing trips outdoors in wintertime, it’s likely that you haven’t given much thought to staying warm in winter. For…

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in classic older calibers, especially those that saw use as dangerous game cartridges. One of those is the 9.3x74R cartridge, an old…

Over the past two years, firearms sales have been growing at a record pace. More and more Americans have come to realize that they can’t rely on police to protect…

To those who study ammunition developments, it’s amazing how things tend to come full circle after a time. In recent years 6.5mm cartridges have become incredibly popular, as their high…

While everyone knows that the human body can’t survive without water, few probably realize that the body also can’t live without salt. We’ve been so propagandized by discussion of reduced…

Every now and then a new cartridge gets introduced that seems like it fills an unserved niche. But some little detail inevitably gets overlooked, and what could have been a…

When it comes to storing food for a survival scenario, many people focus on the big picture. We get our 50-pound sacks of grain, fill buckets full of rice, and…

The heightened interest in Cowboy Action Shooting that has occurred over the past several years has seen renewed interest in numerous older cartridges that were once thought obsolete or obsolescent.…

Inflation may have ticked downward ever so slightly in July, but it hasn’t reduced the effects of inflation on the budgets of millions of American households. Prices have been rising…

The 8x50R Mannlicher cartridge dates back to 1890, to the very early days of smokeless cartridges. It originally featured a 244-grain bullet traveling 1,950 feet per second, for 2,060 foot-pounds…

In the first part of this guide we examined the pros and cons of soft body armor. In this part of the guide we’re going to get into the various…

The venerable .30-06 Springfield cartridge has been the parent of numerous wildcat cartridges, some of which have gone on to become established cartridges in their own right. Among them is…