May 13th is the birthday of firearms engineer Theodor Koch (born 1905, died 1976.) Koch, along with Edmund Heckler and Alex Seidel salvaged tooling from the bombed-out Mauser factory at Oberndorf, and with it founded Heckler und Koch. — Today we present a weekly product review, by Pat Cascio, our Field Gear Editor.
I’ve followed the career of custom knife maker Pat Crawford for many years. And about 20 years ago – maybe longer, his son, Wes joined his dad making custom knives – and their custom knives are always in great demand. Today, we’ll look at the Crawford 1, designed by Wes Crawford, and produced by Cold Steel, in a very affordable version of one of Crawford’s custom folders. Its nice to see a son following in his father’s footsteps, you don’t see this very often these days, for some reason. Another thing that is getting to be a rarity are custom …
Reader Arlene X. kindly sent us one of her favorite recipes: Arlene’s Cornbread Crumble Turkey (Serves Four Adults) Ingredients: 1 C Buttermilk 1 Tbsp Dijon Mustard 4 Skinless turkey fillets (about 3 oz each) 4- by 4-inch square of cooked cornbread (about 1 C of cornbbread crumbs) 1 Egg white 1 C Chicken broth 1 Tbsp Cornstarch 1 lb Frozen baby carrots 1 Tbsp Fresh sage, rinsed, dried, and chopped (or 1 tsp of dried sage) 1 Tbsp Butter Directions: Preheat oven to 350 ºF. Combine buttermilk and Dijon mustard. Mix well. Add turkey fillets to buttermilk mixture to marinate …
Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. We also cover hedges, derivatives, and obscura. And it bears mention that most of these items are from the “tangibles heavy” contrarian perspective of SurvivalBlog’s Founder and Senior Editor, JWR. Today, we look at the importance of growing U.S. natural gas exports to European Union (EU) countries. (See the Commodities section.) Precious Metals: We’ll begin with: Seven Laws of Investing (as they relate to gold investing.) o o o David Lin: Finally, Silver Prices May Have Bottomed, But …
“Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.” – Aaron Swartz
