Survival

If you’re serious about being prepared, there are a number of items that you need to stock up on. Food and water generally come at the top of the list,…

With the popularity of the AR-15 platform, and the growing popularity of the AR-10/AR-308 platform, numerous gunsmiths, wildcatters, and tinkerers have developed new cartridges in an attempt to adapt these…

The first rule of surviving a gunfight is not to get into a gunfight in the first place. If you can do that, you’re golden, and you don’t need to…

Few cartridges from the blackpowder era have survived to the present day, and many that have were those that were originally designed with smokeless powder in mind. One of those…

While the .45-70 Government has risen from the depths of obsolescence to regain popularity as a hunting and target cartridge, the same cannot be said for its predecessor, the .50-70…

One thing that many preppers are good at is stocking up on gear. We can accumulate huge amounts of stuff, whether useful or not, and consider ourselves well prepared. But…

Unlike many other cartridges, the .45 Super doesn’t differ in dimensions from another popular handgun cartridge, the .45 ACP. But just because it’s identical dimensionally to the .45 ACP, it…

It seems crazy to think about it, but at one time rimfire cartridges were real competitors to centerfire cartridges. From large calibers to small, rimfire cartridges were available in numerous…

At some point most people who start getting serious about survival start thinking about how best to store food and water. Many of us fantasize about having huge stores of…

The desire to create the world’s most powerful handgun cartridge has motivated the creation of numerous cartridges that remain with us and popular to this day. And after the latest…

We’ve all experienced it. A big storm comes through, the lights flicker, and all of sudden we lose power. In most instances the power loss resolves itself within a few…

The .444 Marlin continues in an awkward existence, with its primary raison d’etre having long since disappeared. The .444 Marlin was first introduced in 1964 after Remington and Marlin partnered…