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For 20 years, electricity was the most boring business in America, and our industry built its whole infrastructure strategy around the assumption that things would stay that way.
The numbers tell the story. From 2010 to 2020, U.S. electricity consumption fell by roughly 1%. LEDs, efficient motors and tightening appliance standards quietly cancelled out the electricity used by every new subdivision, factory and data hall, and then some. Demand was flat, and planners treated this as a permanent fact of life rather than as what it actually was: an intermission.
Losing the physical and intellectual capital to keep the grid running. This matters
The Illinois government has passed into law Senate Bill 2756. The bill reforms the limitations on what firearms may be legally used for hunting deer in Illinois. The previous limitations allow centerfire rifles to be used if they were limited to one shot. Bill SB2756 passed the Senate third reading on April 15, 2026. It passed the House at third reading on May 21, 2026. Democratic Governor Pritzker Approved of the bill on July 24, 2026, now known as public act 104-0627.
Centerfire rifles or handguns used to take deer are required to use either bottleneck cartridges of .30 caliber or more, with a case length of no more than 1.4 inches, or straight walled cartridges of .30 caliber or more. The cartridges must be available in a factory round with manufacturer published ballistics of 500 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle.
The .300 BLK case is 1.368 inches long. It meets the requirements. The .357 magnum, 10mm magnum, .41 magnum, .44 magnum and larger magnum calibers meet the requirements.
In addition to the the cartridge case and ballistic limitations, many rifles and handguns are not eligible because of the extreme restrictions on how they may be rendered incapable of holding more than three cartridges in the chamber and magazine combined. If they can use removable magazines, it is very difficult to meet the requirements. From the law:
If a centerfire handgun or centerfire rifle is capable of holding more than 3 rounds, it shall be fitted with a one-piece plug that is irremovable without dismantling the handgun or rifle or it shall be otherwise altered to render it incapable of holding more than 3 rounds in the magazine and chamber combined without dismantling the handgun or rifle.
This appears to require more than merely placing a block inside a removable magazine. People are ingenious about solving such problems, but some solutions are may cost more than purchasing a firearm which meets the legal requirements.
The three round limit does not apply to revolvers. A centerfire revolving rifle is still a revolver, the 3 round limit might not apply to a revolving rifle if it meets the cartridge requirements.
Firearms which use blind magazines could be fitted with a block if they meet the other requirements. It would not be too difficult of use a plug similar to a shot gun plug for firearms which use tubular magazines. It appears most lever action rifles which fire straight walled cartridges which meet the requirements, such as .357 magnum, .41 magnum, 10 mm, .44 magnum, or larger cartridges could be modified to meet the requirements with plugs to the tubular magazines. More powerful cartridges such as the .45-70, .444 Marlin, .405 Winchester, the .38-55 the new .360 Buckhammer, .350 Legend, .400 Legend meet the energy requirements, and appear to be legal if the firearm meets the magazine limitations.
Limitations on the number of shots held by hunting guns started being enacted with more restrictive game laws in the early 1900's. The most famous of the early restrictions were from the federal regulation of 1935 which limited migratory bird hunters to a three shot limit per shotgun. Some states put limits on the number of cartridges deer rifles could hold. Currently, according to battlbox.com, California has a ten round limit; Colorado, Florida, and New York, have five round limits for some species. Illinois will now have a three round limit for rifles.
Silencers/suppressors are not allowed in Illinois.
Analysis: removal of the single shot limit for centerfire rifles to be used in deer hunting in Illinois is a small, but significant step toward more sensible game regulations in the state.
©2026 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.
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“Upon going outside, (the first witness) stated that they got into a verbal argument with the group that arrived,” an arrest report states. “A Black male wearing all black and a black mask from the offending group then began to reach into his waistband. (The witness) stated she believed the offender was about to brandish a firearm and she began to run.”
The witness then heard multiple shots being fired and “found the victim screaming,” having been shot in the leg, police said.
Police said after reviewing videos, it turned out that the victim had been caught in the crossfire: They said the clips showed the man taking the gun out and pointing it at the group, but putting it back, turning his back and walking away before Penichet, whose stepdaughter had been involved in the altercation, began firing at him.
They said the victim was shot after the man fired eight shots back at Penichet.
DuBose, 54, suffered a gunshot wound during an altercation on Jarrett Road that investigators described as “road rage.” Investigators allege that DuBose pointed a gun at the back of the other driver, prompting the man’s girlfriend to fire two shots. They say DuBose fired back, striking the back window of the Honda.
The Sheriff’s Office said it is charging DuBose because investigators determined he was the aggressor.
Mayor Carletta Davis told FOX10 News that city policy prohibits non-police employees from carrying firearms while on the job. But she added that she does not have any other details about the incident – including DuBose’s license status.
Police said initial information indicated that a Loomis armored vehicle was making a delivery at an Ace Cash Express location when the driver noticed an idling truck nearby. Investigators said the driver was then approached by three suspects from the truck, who sprayed him with bear spray.
Authorities said the Loomis driver then fired multiple shots at the suspects before they fled the scene.
Two of the suspects were later found with injuries at a nearby urgent care facility, police said, adding that they are 15 and 16 years old and were taken to Texas Children's Hospital for surgery.
For anyone who came in late, we here at Backwoods Home magazine are big fans of the Appleseed Project.You can read all about it here.And here.If you haven’t had the pleasure yet, I can think of no better time for you to take part in an Appleseed event than now, in the 250th year of […]
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Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Irons vs Optics: Why Pistol Optics is the Clear Winner Justin’s thoughts on pistol mounted optics. He’s right. But I still run iron sights. I can still see them clearly and shoot well with […]
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It put yellow sticky notes with username and password on corporate laptops:
The company decided to take some old laptops and give them out to new users. To make life easy for the recipients, they put sticky notes – everyone’s favorite credential-sharing tool – on the laptops with the name of each employee and their initial login credentials on it.Angels and Ministers of Grace defend us. And remember - this was the IT Department that did this.
Let’s just stop for a moment to remark on how bad it is to put usernames and passwords on a piece of paper where the wrong person could see them. Even the IT department should not know your password, should someone in IT themselves turn rogue. So, even if the laptop stayed on a shelf in a closet that only the support staff had access to, having that sticky note would be bad.
However, our situation is even worse because the laptops in question were stored in a conference room while the facilities team finished readying the office for the move. During that time, anyone who had access to the conference room could go in and get multiple user account credentials.
And that's exactly what happened ...
Sigh.
This is why we can't have nice (security) things on the Internet.
Honey was her rescue name. A purebred puppy with bowed legs, left at a rescue as she wasn’t “perfect". After we brought her home, it hit me. What was I thinking? I’m 66; she’s a PUPPY, with no socialization, and the urgent energy of a furry Velociraptor. There were moments I wanted to say, "wait, I change my mind", but like that moment when that first labor pain starts, there's no calling it off.
Her first night was great; she cuddled with our senior rescue Lorelei, and she napped. As my younger husband left for another 5-day business trip, I waved goodbye and thought, "I can do this!"
It was the calm before the storm. I likened it to those long, late flights over the ocean when I was an airline captain - storms forecast but not yet visible, the engines humming in a drowsy sky, senses alert to what could be a sudden change in the weather. When the first spray of rain hit the windscreen as lightning flashed in the distance, you knew it was too late to turn back.
So, I well remember the first expression of small puppy teeth in my flank. Sunny had discovered that people have bottoms, and she could bite them. If I showed surprise, she thought it was a game. The next thing I knew, she was running and jumping off the recliner, launching herself at the couch like one of the Flying Wallendas, knocking over a plant in the process, while Lorelei looked on, taking notes.
The typhoon had arrived, and we renamed her "Sunny".
The coming months were marked by continued mayhem, including stolen tools and shoes, shredded rolls of paper towels taken from the counter, as well as one late-night trip to the Vet when a dew claw was torn in the Zoomie to end all Zoomies. There was laughter and later tears as we said goodbye to Lorelei. There were many days I would have gladly dispensed myself of the regrettable opportunity of "guess what I have in my mouth, Mom?"
In the mornings I’d approach her crate like it was the den of some wild beast, with bravery but some bluster. I'd open the door while singing the notes of "Ride of the Valkyries", and our day would commence, measured not in hours but by the kinetic energy of flying fur.
But, as with any storm, the skies clear, the winds calm, at least in the land of Puppy-Ville.
Even as storms occasionally blew through our lives, I took comfort as the shadows gathered again, with the little things of joy I had around me. I learned to appreciate the simple pleasure of a young dog. She did not know loss; she did not know the word "cancer". She was once as I was, living in advance of an end she will not fear coming, because she doesn't conceive of its existence, that beautiful continuity of joy that knows no limits and no introspection.
I wouldn't have traded this decision for anything.
Another relic pulled from the back of the gun safe, is the Ruger EC9s underrated? Well, no, but it's interesting!Rochester police responded to the scene on Avery Street at approximately 4:30 a.m. on Monday after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots. The resident then called 911 to report he had fired upon a man who entered his house.
Arriving officers discovered the suspect dead in the kitchen. The individual reportedly gained entry to the home through a rear door.
The investigation determined that the man was walking on Seale Street earlier in the evening when a person he did not know attempted to rob him at gunpoint.
The man then allegedly pulled out his gun, which is when the other person shot him before leaving the area.
By Dave Workman ANALYSIS—While a columnist at USA Today on Tuesday hailed the heroic actions of an armed private citizen and off-duty Idaho state trooper to stop the mass shooting at the newly-opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, there has been silence as usual from the nation’s gun prohibition lobby, save for remarks of sympathy […]
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Moon came by today. He's an old friend that we used to shoot Cowboy Fast Draw with. He's retired from cowboy shooting due to health problems, but he stays active. He had some things he wanted to sell, stuff that the club could use, so we made a deal.
He was carrying an old Colt, a US Army 1911AA1 that was in very nice condition with matching numbers. It had the half-moon front sight. Very nice piece with matching numbers that is now his EDC.
More importantly, we got to visit with an old friend. He and his wife live on the Ouachita River, about 20 minutes south of Monroe, LA. He spends part of each day running trot lines in the river, where he harvests catfish and gar. Last week, he took 40 pounds of filet catfish to the church for a fish fry. Last year we wanted to do a fish fry for the club, so we called Moon and he brought 30 pounds for the club. All he wanted for his trouble was to sit and eat with us.
We did agree that getting old ain't for sissies.
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When officials arrived on the scene, they said a man was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to the hospital and is last said to be in stable condition.
Preliminary information shows that the victim was shot while trying to rob another person.
A person was shot in the 80 block of Fallon Street at about 7:15 p.m., but was able to take the gun away and pistol-whip the shooter, police said. They were both then taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and detained, according to the Oakland Police Department.
I hope you remember College Girls Gone Wild! From The College Fix:
TRENDING: Libraries attach trigger warnings to historical resource catalogs
This may hurt to know but people in the past had no idea that some day, people who imagine themselves to be intellectuals would be so injured by language that today we consider hateful and offensive that even reading a description would be problematic.
A couple years ago, I used a small news clipping in an American History class that referred to a "Negro banker." I had at least one student who apparently thought the N-word was "Negro." I shudder to think what their reaction would be to the United Negro College Fund or the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
If you cannot read a catalog entry with some offensive antique words without blowing a gasket, maybe history or even academic study is not for you. Find a field more appropriate to you: unicorn breeding.
I love cast iron, cook on it every day. We have probably eight or nine skillets.
Several years ago I was at an auction and bought three cast iron skillets, simply because no one was bidding on them. One was a BSR one was a Lodge, and the one on the bottom was unmarked. I gave $20 for the stack. Got them home and understood why. That bottom skillet was a disaster. Rusty, warped and pitted. It looked like it was used as a dog bowl in someone's back yard.
I cleaned it up and seasoned it. Began using it on those occasions where I would not normally use good cast iron. Highly acidic food with lots of seasoning, stiff like that. And, like all my good cast iron, I treat it right. Clean it after every use, dry it over moderate heat, then re-season with good oil. It still has its pits, it is still warped, but I noticed a week or so ago that Belle made corn bread in it. Today I used it to sauté highly seasoned shrimp in butter.
Then I realized that old pitted, warped dog skillet gets more use than my highly seasoned "good" skillets. When I'm doing something sketchy, it's the skillet I grab, because I can't hurt it. And Belle's apt to grab it to make cornbread.
There is a metaphor for life in that skillet, if I can just figure it out.
Pro PRS shooter Dan Bertocchini takes us through what really matters when it comes to long range shooting! NRL: Hunter, PRS, hunting, or just on the range.Recently I made a major change to my home computing platforms with the addition of a PC running Windows 11.
My primary computer was and will remain a 2025 MacBook Air, which works splendidly, and it runs the OS with which I'm most productive. However, as I near retirement and may be taking on some consulting, I wanted access to a powerful PC that could run Windows 11 and an as-yet TBD Linux distribution for running local LLMs.
So, a few weeks ago I bought at MicroCenter a PowerSpec G732 gaming PC. It's a beefy rig that IMO gives you a lot for the money:
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (4.5GHz) Processor
- MSI PRO B850M-VC WiFi Motherboard
- 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Graphics Card
- 1TB NVMe SSD
- 5GbE LAN, WiFi 6E (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.3
- Windows 11 Home
My old monitor was a 27" LG from 2019 which was built to work with the then-new MacBooks that had only Thunderbolt ports. It acted as my docking station proving power, audio and video, Gig-E and a decent built-in webcam. Unfortunately, it only works with Macs, not PCs, so I needed to replace it.
Microcenter had an LG UltraGear 27G640A-B.AUSQ 27" 2K QHD (2560 x 1440) 300Hz Gaming Monitor with built-in speakers but no webcam on sale for $300. While the old unit was 4K-capable I ran it at only 2K because at 4K everything was too small for me to see.
The new monitor lacks a webcam so I added a Logitech Brio 100 1080p Webcam which include a microphone.
I'm using my old Dell keyboard and Logitech mouse, both connected via USB.
My impressions so far:
The PC's build quality is excellent with nice interior cable management. Performance seems very good although the closest thing I've done to taxing it is to run Skyrim at the highest resolution. If I run it faster than 60FPS, though, the video spins which is apparently a known Skyrim bug. Obviously, I need something more modern to really stretch out the graphics, and after I get it setup for local LLMs I expect to put the NVidea card to real work.
The Logitech webcam was only $40 but apparently the video quality is nicer than the one built into my old monitor. I didn't get any complaints about audio from its mic on a Google Meetings call or a Zoom call.
The new monitor is sharp, displaying either text or graphics well. The built-in speakers are inferior to those on my old monitor. I may replace them with USB speakers connected to the KVM.
Windows 11 is DOGSHIT. I had to do a lot of tweaking to disable unwanted features (e.g. Copilot) but it seems to be running OK for now. I did make a USB recovery stick in case a Microsoft update breaks it. (As far as I'm concerned the best version of Windows for end user computing was Windows 7.)
The biggest problem I had with the PC was trying to get a PowerA brand USB XBox controller working with it. This should have been plug and play. Fat chance. I spent HOURS trying to get it to be seen by any applications or the Windows joystick control app, which included a ton of Googling and even troubleshooting with the aid of Google Gemini to no avail. Eventually, I returned the PowerA controller and replaced it with a Bluetooth Microsoft XBox controller that installed and worked with minimal effort.
The PC has two empty slots on its motherboard for NVME SSDs. I plan to populate one in the near future and dual-boot with Linux for running local LLMs. I haven't decided which version. I'm debating between Fedora, Alma, Debian, or Ubuntu. Stay tuned.
However, the new setup left me without the ability to connect the MacBook Air to the new monitor and my mouse and keyboard, so today I went back to Microcenter and got a UGreen HDMI KVM Switch (2 Computers, 1 Monitor, 4K@60Hz) model #15707.
Yes, I have too much crap on my desk. My Xfinity gateway (in bridge mode) is the white tower back left. In front of that is a Yaesu FT-2800R 2M/70cm transceiver. On the right you can see my MacBook Air in a cradle I bought around 10 years ago to use in my old home office, and finally the new PC. The WiFi adapter is connected to the PC but not in use since wired Ethernet > WiFi. Behind the monitor is a three-tier wire rack shelf holding my WiFi router on top, and below that my desktop switch and Intel Nuc, and on the bottom shelf my power strip.
The KVM is behind the Mac, with its remote control below the monitor.
Because the MacBook Air only has the Magsafe power connector, A/V, and two Thunderbolt ports, I have it connected with an older Anker USB-C hub/dock that has an HDMI port, three USB-A ports, and a Gig-E port, which is then connected to my desktop switch. Power to the Mac is provided by the OEM Magsafe charger.
I chose the UGreen KVM switch because of the mostly positive reviews at Microcenter and Amazon, and because it's noted as being compatible with Mac, Linux, and Windows. A couple reviews noted instability when it was run off bus power, so I added a USB-A to USB-C cable for power, which I have plugged into my power strip.
A nice feature of the KVM is that it has a remote button for switching inputs. I need to stick it to the base of the monitor with some double-sided Velcro.
The KVM seems to work with both the Mac and the PC. I tested the webcam and it works on both machines in MS Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet.
The main downside to the new setup is that due to limited desk space I had to give up the ability to use the laptop with the screen open, but I can live with that.
This new setup will allow me to retain the use of my Mac for most productivity and Internet activities while enabling me to run Windows 11 or desktop Linux when needed.