This Week in History:
On October 4, 1535, The Coverdale Bible — the first complete Bible to be published in English — was printed in Antwerp, Belgium, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale. Pictured above is a Coverdale Bible on display at the Museum of the Bible, in Washington, D.C.
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October 5, 1274: Around 1,000 soldiers of the Mongol army landed on the Japanese island of Tsushima in the first attack of Kublai Khan‘s Mongol invasion of Japan /
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October 5, 1908: Bulgaria declared independence from the Ottoman Empire, and Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria; born 26 February 1861 – died 10 September 1948) became Tsar.
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October 6 1900: Britain annexed the Orange Free State, naming it the Orange River Colony.
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And on October 7, 1737, a cyclone created 40-foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Calcutta, India.
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Take Note: To lighten the load for their upcoming move to Montana, the new owners of Ready Made Resources are offering some deeply-discounted food and gear packages. Take a look, and place your order soon. Quantities are limited.
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The one-week sale on all of our shotguns at Elk Creek Company ends tonight (Tuesday, October 6, 2026). Many of these guns have modern fluid steel barrel sleeves and therefore can shoot modern smokeless shotshells. The special sale pricing will end at midnight Eastern Time, so get your order in ASAP! Also, be advised that I recently added more than 250 rifle and pistol magazines to the Elk Creek Company inventory. Many of these came from Jim’s Amazing Secret Bunker of Redundant Redundancy (JASBORR). – JWR