The Wilson Combat Lo-Profile base pads simply replace the existing plastics ones on your Wilson or McCormick magazines.Make your compact 1911 reloads a breeze with Wilson Combat’s Lo-Profile basepads.OK, I’ll admit this is a bit niche, but man … it’s cool.So, there you are carrying an Officer’s Model or other short-framed compact 1911. Using a full-sized magazine as a reload would be nice, but you can’t. If you slam that mag home with the slide locked back (and when else will you need a really fast reload?), the mag will ride up over the mag button and wedge against the…
Author: Tommy Grant
Three summers ago, a heat dome parked itself over my county for eleven days straight. Temperatures hit 104°F by noon and barely dropped below 85 at night. On day three, the grid buckled. No AC and no fans. Just dead, heavy air sitting inside the house like a wool blanket soaked in hot water. My wife looked at me. I looked at her. And I realized that for all the beans and rice stacked in the basement, for all the solar panels on the roof and the water barrels in the garage, I had done almost nothing to prepare for…
Do You Still Need Hearing Protection with a Suppressor? Of course, you do. At least, you do in most cases, with very few exceptions. When you first clamp a suppressor on your rifle and touch off a round, the difference can feel pretty drastic, and it can be easy to fool yourself into thinking that you’re doing zero damage to your hearing once a suppressor goes on. The sharp crack drops to a manageable thump, and you wonder if ear pro is truly optional. The honest answer from my own experience (and mistakes) is that while a lot of suppressors…
When disaster strikes, there is no room for guesswork when it comes to your food. You need to know what you have, how much, and how long it will last you. A well-prepared food supply addresses one of your most critical needs. When it comes to food prep, the bottom line is that if you run out, you and your family will find yourselves on a survival countdown. Food prepping is not about throwing random cans of food into a dark cabinet and hoping for the best. It is about building a layered, intentional system on top of a solid…
Summary: A Sunday night Axios report on a US-proposed 45-day ceasefire has, by Monday morning, been rejected by Iran: diplomatic talks are “absolutely incompatible with ultimatums, crimes, and threats to commit war crimes,” the Foreign Ministry said. Iran rejects apparent US fresh proposal as Israel strikes large petrochemical plant at South Pars. There’s been another extension of what had been a 10-day deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz – a deadline that was initially set to expire on Monday evening. Now Trump says Iran has until 8 pm on Tuesday. Trump warned Iran on Easter Sunday to ‘Open the Fuckin’…
Paul Ivnitskiy from Ammunition To Go makes a straightforward claim: most shooters think they have their rifle zeroed when they’ve really just copied popular advice. Generic 25-meter, 36-yard, or 100-yard zeros can work okay for general use, but they frequently fall short on modern setups once barrel length, velocity, and especially optic height enter the equation. Ammo To Go’s new Zero Tool should help you accomplish that much more easily now. In the video above and article (posted in full below), Ivnitskiy explains that a real zero should maximize Maximum Point Blank Range (MPBR) — the distance over which a…
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog under the title: “The Everything Meltdown”: Global Supply Chains Are Collapsing, And Most People Cannot Even Imagine The Pain That Is Coming When global supply chains collapse, the pain is not felt immediately. Tankers that left their destinations before the war with Iran began are still arriving at their destinations, products that were manufactured prior to the war still fill our shelves, and we are still eating food that was produced last year. So even though global supply chains are collapsing all around us, most people don’t…
Images by the author I recently took a mini-break to North Carolina to visit friends and was able to stop by Trailblazer Firearms (TF) in Fletcher. I wrote an introductory article on this innovative company… look for it here soon. I also reviewed their fold-up, single-shot .22 pistol, the breath-mint-box-sized LifeCard… again, look for that review here, as well. This third article on TF is a review of their other product, the Pivot. This is a truly unique folding 9mm pistol-caliber carbine (PCC). Folding Carbines… A Trend I am no stranger to PCCs, especially ones that fold. I’ve shot the…
On March 27, an Iranian missile scored a high-value hit on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, reducing an Air Force E-3 (AWACS) command center aircraft worth up to $500 million to splinters and shards. While the strike underscored Iran’s capabilities, it also reignited a longstanding conversation about the need for the U.S. to protect its aircraft and other high-value equipment with underground bunkers and hardened shelters — an area in which analysts say adversaries like China have invested far more extensively.“People are asking the valid question: What on earth was this half-billion dollar airplane doing sitting right out…
For gardeners with poor soil, hungry wildlife, poor sunlight, or all of the above, container gardening provides several answers. You can manipulate the soil in your container to be just what you need for the type of plants you are growing. Container gardens can be moved anywhere you like. They can be transferred to follow seasonal sunlight changes, and they can be placed in an enclosure, on a porch, or a protected location to deal with hungry pests like rabbit, deer, and squirrels. Want to save this post for later? Click Here to Pin It On Pinterest! Hay Bales Hay…