Category: General

I picked up a tent trailer (called a pop-up trailer or pop-up camper in the US) for hunting, Mapleseed, and family camping. It’s fairly new (2008) but I still found a few things I wanted to upgrade and I’ll include those upgrade ideas below. Want my packing checklist? Right here. Use case: I don’t go

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Note: I wrote this initially in late 2020 but didn’t publish because I didn’t finish. I wanted to publish in case anyone was looking at a SUPER basic retrofit to make a minivan more viable for camping/overnighting. More current updates at the end. 2021 Setup For 2021, I did a lot of range camping for

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The Zastava M57 is a semi-automatic 7.62x25TT pistol from Serbia/Yugoslavia that’s based on the Soviet Tokarev TT33. It uses a longer grip than a typical Tokarev and can fit 9 rounds in the longer magazine. While this is a 1957 variation on a 1930s design, they’re still in production! With a C-prefix on the serial,

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I thought I’d write a quick little article on some common mistakes that many new gun owners make so that I could prevent others from following the same path. I’m going to avoid the legal and safety issues that new gun owners need to learn, because that would be a whole article on its own.

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Glocks are expensive in Canada. A Gen5 Glock 17 will go for $850, and if you want the red dot ready MOS version, they’re $950! So I thought I’d put together a list of Glock alternatives, their current retail prices (Sep 2020, only guns that were in stock), and some thoughts on them. Right now,

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Man, I’m tired of hearing lazy arguments and this one is the laziest. It’s exclusively parroted by people who don’t know what they’re talking about. You’ve all heard it or seen a version: Handguns are ONLY designed for one purpose: murdering people. Rather than argue with a million lazy commenters on Reddit or CBC news

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