Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. During the peak of the rut, it’s often wise to pick a stand and wait it out. The randomness of deer activity requires patience from a deer hunter, and if you just wait long enough, that big buck will cruise by. Except, of course, if he never does.  It’s primarily that sense of the unknown that keeps OL’s hunting editor, Andrew McKean, from spending hours on end in a stand during whitetail season like the rest of…

This report contains discussion of suicide. Troops, veterans and family members experiencing suicidal thoughts can call the 24-hour Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 and dial 1, text 838255 or visit VeteransCrisisLine.net.The news of eight attempted suicides across the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group generated fresh heartache and outrage for U.S. Navy families of sailors assigned to Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, including Alicia Kelsey.Kelsey’s son, Thatcher Rupert, a 20-year-old sailor assigned to Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 3 — the “Ironmen” — struggled with depression and was hospitalized twice in the months leading to his death in December.…

The White House on Tuesday nominated Lt. Gen. David N. Miller Jr. to lead the U.S. Space Command as its general, according to a congressional notice.Miller is currently the deputy chief of Space Operations, Strategy, Plans, Programs and Requirements. He will, if confirmed, take over Space Command after his predecessor, Gen. Stephen Whiting, steps down from command toward the end of the year or the beginning of the next. “Congratulations to Lt. Gen. Miller on his nomination to serve as Commander, U.S. Space Command,” Chief of Space Operations Gen. Douglas Schiess said in a social media post. “He is an…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. There are a lot of different opinions about monolithic copper bullets — both in how they shoot, and how they perform on game. You’ll find both advocates and detractors, and debates can be heated at times. One of the most common things you’ll hear about all-copper bullets is that their accuracy can be finicky. Over many years, I’ve found that some rifles shoot copper bullets…

The U.S. Army on Tuesday signed agreements with Anduril, Castelion, Lockheed Martin, Mach Industries and RTX to create advanced long-range missile prototypes, Redstone Arsenal announced this week. Each company will develop capabilities for the Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) Increment 4 program, making missiles that can be launched from the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, and that can hit maritime and land targets in motion more than 621 miles away.According to the release, development in Fiscal Year 2027 will conclude in “a competitive fly-off and down-select.” In Fiscal Year 2028, companies will participate in a final fly-off and…

U.S. Marines participated in a “first-of-its-kind mission” in the remote Arctic this summer meant to test their ability to work with Norwegian and British troops in harsh conditions, the service said.The operation — on the far-flung and strategically valuable island of Jan Mayen, Norway — reflects NATO’s increasing focus on the Arctic, where the alliance is worried about Russia’s ability to project power and disrupt critical infrastructure. The exercise also gave Marines a chance to practice defending “key maritime terrain” with tactics they refined in the Pacific. Dubbed Operation Atlantic City, a reference to a WWII-era U.S. base on Jan…

Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. Earlier this month, I got the chance to hunt with Federal’s new 6.5 Creedmoor Plus Peak ammo. And I’ll be honest, I was pretty blown away by the results. We’ve covered this case technology in the past, but in case you missed it or need a refresher, here’s the deal: Federal has developed what it calls a Peak Alloy case material, which allows it to ramp up chamber pressure without putting undue stress on the rifle. More chamber pressure means more velocity. And when…

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is slated to undergo a massive overhaul designed to prepare the hulking vessel for the second half of its service life.The Pentagon on Tuesday announced a $5.1 billion fixed-ceiling incentive contract with HII to complete the carrier’s mid-life overhaul at Virginia’s Newport News Shipbuilding. The refueling and complex overhaul, or RCOH, comprises approximately one-third of the maintenance and modernization a carrier will undergo during its service life, according to the announcement. The RCOH process on Truman will “include refueling the ship’s reactors, as well as extensive modernization work in thousands of compartments and…

The rut is a phenomenal time of year to be a deer hunter. It’s when anything can happen at any time. Bucks are chasing does, and even those elusive mature bucks can be spotted on their feet during daylight. The drive to breed can push bucks to travel miles from their typical home range which gives hunters the opportunity to tag a giant buck that they’ve never seen before.However, the chaos of the rut can also make deciding where to hunt more challenging. If a big buck could show up anywhere at any time, it’s also true that he could…

Sprung on him cold. That’s the point.

A plot at a bomber base. Caught in time.

A Russian bomber gone. Hookstead has what’s known.

Being ripped may not be the advantage you think.

A walk through his armory. Nothing ordinary in it.

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukraine needs a “new Manhattan Project,” former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told a standing-room-only crowd of self-proclaimed tech nerds on Saturday at IT Arena here, the country’s biggest annual technology conference.Then he played an AI-generated clip of what he meant: a robopunk mix of humanoid and crab-like ground robots skittering across a barren front line, doing work that is still too complicated for the robots Ukraine fields today.The video laid out Fedorov’s vision for an Army of Robots, a force of two-legged upright and other ground robots that would take over many of the front line’s most…

Shooting standing. Most men do it wrong.

Grow enough to share. That’s his whole argument.

Not an operator’s kit. What a normal man carries.

Tanks moving in Iran. Hookstead takes questions live.

Fair question about who held the camera. Preview only.

The Trident was on the table. He tells Ritland why.

U.S. forces are set to depart from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a move celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies, who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war.Iraqi security experts say the withdrawal — agreed to in 2024 under U.S. President Joe Biden and carried out by Donald Trump’s administration even as it wages war against Iran — could give Tehran and its allies free rein, while also allowing other U.S. enemies, including the Islamic State, to stage a comeback.“Iran stands to benefit strategically…

A decommissioned U.S. guided-missile frigate was sent below the seas on Sept. 25 during a joint U.S.-U.K. naval exercise, the U.S. Navy recently announced.The recent SINKEX blended the firepower of U.S. Task Force 65, Task Force 67, Task Force 68, Task Force 69 and Task Force 1060 alongside the Royal Navy and the U.S. Air Force.The USS Klakring, an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate — laid up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since its decommissioning on March 22, 2013 — served as the target of the exercise.Named for Rear Adm. Thomas B. Klakring, who was awarded three Navy Crosses as the commander of…