"We are steadily asked about the age at which to teach young people to shoot. The answer to this obviously depends upon the particular ...

While casting about the 'Web over the last 20 years, I've noticed that finding what I'm looking for doesn't stop me -- often...

It's been the strangest of winters 'round here -- no snow to speak of, lots of rain and temps climbing past 50°F once or twice a wee...

Back in the warehouse at work, I keep my desktop radio tuned to a local all-talk station. I'm no one's disciple, mind you, nor have ...

Yesterday's noon kickoff had Mrs. KintlaLake and me arriving on the Ohio State campus around 9am. Once there we strolled north along Nei...

...I checked the weather conditions, as registered at a reporting station adjacent to a state DOT garage several miles away. Dig that craz...

Yesterday's post got me thinking about the dozens of metal cups that have accompanied me over the years. On a whim, I went rummaging th...

I'll conclude my peek at government comics with two on Civil Defense . The FCDA tapped cartoonist Al Capp to draw Mr. Civil Defe...

... this is not the answer: For $50,000 (per adult), an outfit known as Vivos will save you a place in one of its self-contained surv...

If someone were to ask me, "What happened in Japan?" I could default to simple explanation: a major earthquake off the northeast ...

I shared one of Kevin Estela's helpful PowerPoints back in 2009 ; his name also came up in " On 'false gods' " a week ...

If you were alive and awake during the 1950s and early 1960s you remember Civil Defense shelters, " Duck & Cover " and other ...

I've been contemplating this post for quite a while. My thought process originally was prompted by a brochure for a winter-camping cours...

Finding uses for empty Altoids tins has become, for some people, an obsession. I'll admit to having a mild case of tin-tin-adulation mys...

Here in the KintlaLake household, our arsenal of tools includes three snow shovels -- we have no snowblower and, unlike two years ago , we n...

Our holiday haul came with a gift card, which we split among us. I used my share to buy a saw for our family preparedness kit. The US-made ...

I'll admit to being hesitant about this installment of Urban Resources . I mean, just about every outdoorsman, farmer, biker, cop and fi...