A combat medic turned country doctor on how to build the group you’d actually want around you when help isn’t coming. Straight talk on forming yours — press play.

Decades of Army recruitment ads, from the fifties to today, watched back by somebody who actually served. His reactions say more about the country than the ads ever did.

A secret mission ordered against Iran, and a dictator reportedly rattled by it. Here’s the full breakdown of what’s being said and why it matters right now.

A Russian nuclear bomber gone, and missiles reportedly moved to launch status. Here’s the breakdown of how quickly this escalated and what’s being watched next.

Body armor squared up against a Barrett fifty. You already suspect how this ends, but watching it happen is a different experience entirely. Press play.

Something worth sharing, and the title isn’t spoiling a word of it. No setup needed here. Press play and hear it in his own words.

A Navy SEAL calls Iraq a war where they were pawns, then aims the same question at Iran. Hear the whole thing before you settle on an opinion.

Metal and meat. The name tells you most of it and the drill tells you the rest. Watch how Special Forces runs it, then go steal it for your own training.

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Being able to think like a hungry duck is an essential skill for successful waterfowl scouting and hunting. The ability to find key food sources is directly related to putting roast duck on the family dinner table. However, answering the question “What do ducks eat?” isn’t as easy as you might think. Ducks are a wildly diverse group of birds with vastly different feeding habits. Here’s a basic breakdown of what wild ducks eat and where to find it.  Divers vs. Dabblers At the most…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. This story, “Mystery of The Hinkley Deer,” appeared in the August 1969 issue of Outdoor Life. I saw the buck alive only the one time, and he was dead a minute after I caught sight of him. The last thing I suspected right then was that I’d never hear the end of him as long as I lived. But even in that first brief glimpse, with him coming through the brush like a runaway express train, I…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. There’s not much difference between a knowledgeable teal hunter and an opportunistic one. You actually have to be a bit of both when hunting blue-wings during the early September season. Once you find the teal and pound on them, they are going to seek refuge like any other duck. But if you do find them again, you’re almost assured a good hunt. Teal aren’t wary birds. They love spinning-wing decoys more than a country boy loves Hank Williams. Consistently locating teal is the key. Over…

If you’ve been hanging around gun shops recently and overhearing the conversations of the cognoscenti, you might well get the notion that someone turned the clock back a hundred years or so. After a century of determined design and development of speedier cartridges and racier rifles to fire them, there is now a resurgence of interest in cartridges that were, or might have been, right at home on the pages of an 1890 gun catalog.We shooters and hunters tend to be romantically inclined and give up our traditions at about the same pace as stones rolling uphill. This explains why…

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This could come in handy if you carry daily.