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‘We Released It.’ Minnesota Angler Sets Largemouth Bass Record

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics It was late May on southern Minnesota’s 1,360-acre Lura Lake, and Andy Kilen was enjoying a spring morning of fishing with his two grandsons Gabriel and Elijah Schouten. They’d launched Andy’s 16-foot Ranger boat into the lake that morning and had caught a few fish. Soon they would make Minnesota bass fishing history.  “The lake is really weedy and has a nice population of northern pike and largemouth bass,” Kilen tells Outdoor Life. “We used 3/8-ounce spinnerbaits because it’s so weedy, and we caught a few…

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Behind the $1 million viral moment: The life of Navy veteran and ‘Beast Games’ standout

Harrison Schoen spent three months on the USS New Orleans staring at the ocean, watching for anyone who might fall overboard, when he decided his life needed to change. That decision eventually led him to a spotlight moment on national television, where he turned down $1 million rather than betray 60 strangers who had trusted him with the choice. Enlisting in January 2016, Schoen served four years as a logistics specialist aboard the USS New Orleans and the USS Theodore Roosevelt before separating in January 2020. It was during a deployment on the New Orleans, however, standing lookout watch for…

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‘Unlike Anything Our Biologists Have Witnessed.’ Bison Die-Off Causes Emergency Changes for Utah Hunt. Meanwhile, Drought Conditions Mean More Cow Elk Tags

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Eight months after a new bison hunt in Utah was approved for 2026, the opportunity is now off the table for 2027. That’s because pneumonia has ravaged the herd. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is reporting a significant bison die-off in late July; almost 40 percent of the wild, free-ranging adult bison are dead in one of two Book Cliffs bison hunting units.  “In 20 years of GPS collaring bison in the Book Cliffs area, this kind of die-off event has never occurred in…

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