November 26th is the birthday of both gun inventor Eugene Reising [1] (born 1884, died February 21, 1967) and the late Barton Biggs (born 1932, died July 14, 2012). Biggs was a money manager known for his pro-preparedness stance. Pictured is a Reising submachinegun.
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Our George Patton’s Birthday sale is continuing, at Elk Creek Company [2]. Check out the reduced prices on all of our pre-1899 antique cartridge guns, percussion replicas, percussion conversion cylinders, bayonets, and knives. The sale ends on Saturday, December 11th, 2021.
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Several of our advertisers are running Black Friday sales. For example, ReadyMade Resources has a special on AN/PVS-14 night vision monocular/weapon scopes with L3 White Phosphor Filmless Tubes.
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Round 97 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [3] ends soon, so get busy writing and e-mail [4] us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging. More than $725,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest.