America’s Classic Deer Rifle With A Legacy That Won’t Die

Above, yours truly with the Winchester 94.

Regular readers know that my favorite gun is my Winchester 94 .30-30 made in 1962. That is why I post quite often about the rifle.

Well, here's another article that was posted yesterday at SOFREP (Military Content Group). They give a history of the Winchester 94, particularly ones in .30-30 caliber.

They begin it with:

Introduction: A Gun That Helped Settle the Dust and the Score

Before there were red dots, polymer frames, or tacticool rail systems, there was the click-clack of a lever-action rifle, and in the American wild, that sound usually meant business. Enter the Winchester .30-30, the rifle your granddad probably used to drop whitetails and bad attitudes in the same afternoon. First introduced in 1895, this was the first commercially available rifle chambered in a smokeless powder round, and it quickly became the deer-slaying, brush-busting sweetheart of North America.

And let’s be honest, boys and girls, it still is.

A Trip Through Cowboy Country: Where the .30-30 Belongs

I just got back from Angel Fire, New Mexico, this week, which is beautiful high country that still echoes with the spirit of the old frontier. The air smells like pine, the mountains loom like ancient guardians, and every third guy you see looks like he’s one cattle drive away from drawing iron.

Walking through those sun-bleached ridges and dusty backroads, I couldn’t help but think of the rifles that built this land, and none came to mind faster than the Winchester .30-30. It belongs out there. It feels right out there. Not in some glass display case, but slung across the back of a saddle or leaned against a porch railing while the coffee percolates.

The lever-action rifle is more than a tool, it’s part of the cultural DNA of the American West.

After soaking in Angel Fire’s ranchland history and riding an appropriately named horse called Trigger, I realized the .30-30 isn’t just still relevant. It’s still home.

The writer mentioned Angel Fire, New Mexico. It is a village in the Rocky Mountains and Philmont Scout Ranch is not too far from it.

To read more, go here.

Time For A "Civil War Clock"?

We heard about the "Doomsday Clock" that some atomic scientists concocted.

In case you haven't, in a nutshell:

The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe,

It is currently 90 seconds to midnight.

The way things are going in this country with former President Donald Trump convicted in a kangaroo court in New York and other things perpetrated by the Democrat radical left and Joe Biden, it might be time to have a "Civil War Clock". This clock would be an indicator of how things stand before an outbreak of a second civil war.

A survey of attendees at a recent National Rifle Association meeting indicates that people are expecting some sort of civil unrest following the November election. Some also expect to see an American Revolution in the coming years.

SOFREP reported:

We share the results of a wide-ranging survey conducted at the 2024 National Rifle Association Annual Meetings in Dallas.

In Short: National Rifle Association members expect unrest surrounding 2024’s elections and are buying ammo ahead of the fall, according to a recent survey conducted by AmmunitionToGo.com.

NRA Members on the Presidential Election

• About 84% of NRA members do not believe Joe Biden was the legitimate winner of the 2020 election. This held steady among all age groups surveyed. 84% of 18-30-year-olds do not believe Joe Biden was the legitimate winner. 80% of those 60 and older don’t believe Biden won the election legitimately.
• 75% of respondents anticipate some level of civil unrest surrounding the 2024 presidential election. Almost one-third of those surveyed believe there will be some kind of American Civil War in which armed citizens fight each other in the next decade.
• 70% of surveyed respondents indicated they will be stocking up on ammo ahead of the 2024 election.
• According to the survey responses, 39% of NRA members believe our country will see some sort of American Revolution in which citizens will have to arm themselves against a tyrannical government in the next decade. Generally, the younger the respondent, the more likely they were to believe a Revolution was imminent.

To read more, go here.