Why Reload? There are dozens of reasons why shooters decide to take up the hobby of reloading. Here are a few of the most frequently referenced reasons: Cost Savings Accuracy & Velocity Customized Loads Personal Satisfaction Times have changed. With all of the challenges of today, both real and perceived, in many cases ammunition is not readily available. People must turn to reloading. Even those people who have been reloading for a long time now face challenges. Favorite powders are not always available. Traditional weight bullets are unavailable. One has to reload familiar cartridges with...

Perhaps you have prepared for WTSHTF or TEOTWAWKI with respect to food, water, self-defense and shelter. But what about communication? Whenever there is a disaster (hurricane, earthquake, economic collapse, nuclear war, EMF, solar eruption, etc.), the normal means of communication that we're all reliant upon (cell phone, land line phone, the Internet, etc.) will probably be, at best, sporadic and at worst, non-existent. As this author sees it, short of smoke signals and mirrors, there are three options for communication in "trying times" (1) GMRS or FRS radios; (2) CB radios; and (3) ham or...

Perhaps you have prepared for WTSHTF or TEOTWAWKI with respect to food, water, self-defense and shelter. But what about communication? Whenever there is a disaster (hurricane, earthquake, economic collapse, nuclear war, EMF, solar eruption, etc.), the normal means of communication that we're all reliant upon (cell phone, land line phone, the Internet, etc.) will probably be, at best, sporadic and at worst, non-existent. As this author sees it, short of smoke signals and mirrors, there are three options for communication in "trying times" (1) GMRS or FRS radios; (2) CB radios; and (3) ham or...

Perhaps you have prepared for WTSHTF or TEOTWAWKI with respect to food, water, self-defense and shelter. But what about communication? Whenever there is a disaster (hurricane, earthquake, economic collapse, nuclear war, EMF, solar eruption, etc.), the normal means of communication that we're all reliant upon (cell phone, land line phone, the Internet, etc.) will probably be, at best, sporadic and at worst, non-existent. As this author sees it, short of smoke signals and mirrors, there are three options for communication in "trying times" (1) GMRS or FRS radios; (2) CB radios; and (3) ham or...

Leba Wine on Her Novel,

Stitches in Time

ISBN 978-09773070-2-9 312 pages, $16.50

"I realized, in my middle years," says Leba Wine, "that I was of the last generation to hear first- hand Jewish Eastern European immigrant history from the lips of those who had made the trip to America. My head was full of tales told to me by my grandmother. I had my mother's diaries full of stories. Best of all, I had the quilt made by my grandmother and great-grandmother, made in the late 1800's in Pennsylvania. The imagery sewn on it would come to represent the stories of hope and...