Gone are the days of newspapers, magazines and network television. Social media is today’s top source for news, entertainment and information. But with the quick pace of trending topics and 140-character updates, unless you live online, you’re bound to miss something. Luckily for you, that’s my job. The Social Media Reload features the most popular, interesting, entertaining and controversial content in the firearms and outdoors industry from the past week and repackages it into a quick list with a bang. Read on and see what you missed this week.
CALLING ALL ZOMBIE HUNTERS
Earlier this week, Project Casting, an online bulletin of “upcoming feature film productions, ways to audition, open casting calls, movie news, TV series and everything entertainment,” announced that the Extras Casting Director of the hit AMC television series ‘The Walking Dead’ is looking for guys with firearms experience for the upcoming sixth season. Specifically, the horror drama show is looking for men in their mid-20s to 40s of any ethnicity with firearms experience (e.g., law enforcement, military, etc.) that live in the Atlanta area. A casting was held earlier this week with a possible second date set for Monday, June 29, 2015. Though the sixth season of ‘The Walking Dead’ is set to begin in October, Executive Director David Alpert recently told Indiewire he already has plans for season 11 and 12 if the show continues to gets green-lighted in the future.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCKkHqlx9dE] HOW TO SURVIVE WITH PRIMITIVE TECHNOLOGYIf you found yourself alone in the bush, would you survive? One new YouTube channel, appropriately titled Primitive Technology, is showing not only how to survive in such situations, but survive in reasonable comfort. In one video sweeping the Internet, the unnamed survival expert demonstrates how to turn a clear patch of earth in the forest to a wattle and daub hut, complete with walls, roof, fireplace and chimney, raised bed and ceramic pots, using nothing but naturally occurring materials and primitive tools. While the video is just over 11 minutes long, the construction is said to have taken about a month of actual work spread out over nearly a year’s time. Other videos on the channel detail how make a celt stone axe, fire sticks and a thatched dome hut with more content on the way. (via Outdoor Hub)
UBER BANS GUNS; DRIVER GETS ROBBED
In this week’s “we told you” news, an Uber driver in New York City was robbed of $60 by a rifle-wielding man on Thursday but was not harmed, according to the New York Daily News. The robbery comes just two weeks after the ride hailing service instituted a no-firearms policy for both drivers and riders in an effort to “ensure people are safe and comfortable.” Uber isn’t the only service with such a policy, though, competitor Lyft also bans both drivers and passengers from carrying weapons inside vehicles. But while both companies stand behind their policies, gun rights advocates point to an incident in Chicago earlier this year when an armed Uber driver with a concealed weapon permit shot and stopped a gunman’s attack on a group of pedestrians as reason to overturn the new policy. Have you carried in an Uber vehicle before?
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