Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. On their own, both chronic wasting disease and invasive feral hogs already pose massive threats to conservation and hunting in America. Emerging research shows that these two issues are actually more connected than wildlife managers previously realized: wild hogs can and do carry the CWD prions that are shed by infected deer. This is according to a landmark study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases last year, after researchers detected CWD prions in wild hog tissue. There aren’t any known instances of…

Congressional Republicans and Democrats included a short provision in proposed defense legislation on Tuesday that provides more clarification on what is needed for the construction of Trump-class battleships.Lawmakers in the House Armed Services Committee announced their $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, stipulating that the new battleship built in the president’s name will not begin construction until the munitions packages onboard are sound enough to deploy.The NDAA provides a foundational sum of money for the Trump administration’s proposed $1.5 trillion fiscal 2027 Defense Department budget.“The Secretary of the Navy may not enter into a contract or other…

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) probe has found that the Pentagon failed to evaluate the effects of recent civilian personnel reductions, leaving a substantial gap in understanding for key areas such as “readiness, workload, and lethality.”Roughly 78,000 civilian positions were eliminated in 2025 — about 10% of a workforce that originally exceeded 793,000. At the time, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth characterized the cuts as part of a broader effort to “streamline the Federal workforce and to make the Federal Government more efficient and responsive.”“Effective immediately and for the duration of this freeze, no vacant civilian position may be filled,…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Freshwater anglers, especially in Minnesota, are harvesting a lot more fish than state management agencies report, according to a new study. This new research has hit just as anglers and fisheries managers around the country are grappling with how to balance the explosion of forward-facing sonar with current harvest limits and fishing regulations. While many worry that the new technology could lead to ultra-efficient fisherman and devastated fisheries, there’s very little scientific data on how FFS affects fish populations. But that’s about to change.  The scientific…

Some service members and their families have been threatened by foreign adversaries both overseas and in the United States, according to information provided to Military Times. “For folks we’ve heard from, threats began a few weeks after the U.S. strikes against Iran began,” said Sarah Streyder, the wife of a Space Force guardian stationed overseas. People have received threats through email, social media and text messages, and they appear to be coming from individuals connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Streyder said. But in some cases, she said, members of the IRGC have showed up at hotels in a…

Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. This column, “How to Be a Shotgun Snob,” appeared in the January 1992 issue of Outdoor Life. Have you heard about defensive snobbery? It’s not a new art exactly, having  been practiced in certain elite circles for centuries. Snobbery is fairly new to gunning, however, and having found this new and fertile ground in which to flourish, it will surely become a major social force wherever shotgunners gather. That means that if you own a shotgun, and if you are liable to shoot it…

Construction is underway to transform 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into an Ultimate Fighting Championship arena where President Donald Trump will celebrate his 80th birthday — which also coincides with Flag Day.The unprecedented June 14 bout on the South Lawn of the White House will feature an octagonal cage, a towering patriotic arch that looms well above the presidential residence, a performance by the United States Marine Band and seating for more than 4,000 spectators. Weigh-ins are scheduled to take place at the Lincoln Memorial.Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman, told Military Times on Friday that the endeavor “will be one of…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) Chief has said he swears that the Ebola outbreak “can be stopped.” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo, proclaiming that the spread of this disease can be stopped, so long as warring faction lay down their weapons and commit to a ceasefire. Ghebreyesus added that no conflict is worth condemning people to death over a preventable disease, accoridng to a report by The Guardian. That means humanitarian efforts should be a first step toward containment.  He solidified his stance when writing on X on Wednesday, saying, “Stopping this Ebola transmission…

Some battlefield wounds are inherently deadly. Others, like tibia or ankle fractures, become deadly when a wounded soldier cannot send firepower downrange. The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command is looking to change that with its new Intrepid Battlefield EXoskeleton, or IBEX, system, a shoulder-to-foot brace that can be worn to allow injured troops to stand, walk and shoot when evacuation is impossible or delayed. The device was designed to make an injured soldier more self-sufficient, so they can move themselves to safety instead of relying on the two-to-four additional troops it takes to carry a victim on a…

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The U.S. Marine Corps has inked a $5.1 million contract with the virtual reality company XR Training (XRT) to develop a crew gunnery training prototype for the new amphibious combat vehicle that will simulate an all-out fight with an unpredictable adversary.The other transactional agreement, or OTA, contract award — used to fast-track prototyping and development — is the fourth such award for the company, which has assumed a significant role in the overhaul of Marine Corps amphibious vehicle training.While ACV is a more complex vehicle than its predecessor and fielded in multiple variants, the more rigorous approach to training is…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The Interior Department’s announcement earlier this week of new and expanded hunting and fishing opportunities on national wildlife refuges and other federal lands include more properties and acreages than any previous administration has proposed. In all, 107 national wildlife refuges and another four national fish hatcheries will have new or expanded hunting and/or sport fishing opportunities, if the draft proposal is finalized following a 30-day public comment period. The expanded opportunities apply to 76 National Park Service units — mainly national…

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Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter.I grew up in the house my great-grandparents built, a home where four generations shared laughter, loss, and celebrations. These same walls that once harbored the joy of my grandfather’s courtship were the ones that eventually held the pain of the day my grandmother learned he had been killed in action during World War II.While growing up in this same house, I always knew of a box of letters my grandfather, Otis Bryant, had written from…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics When I was a kid, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional bass fisherman. On Saturday mornings while the others were watching cartoons, I would wake up, pour myself a bowl of Lucky Charms, and turn on ESPN to watch the bass tournaments. It was an obsession, to the point where I had posters of Kevin VanDam on my bedroom wall and a couple Jimmy Houston action figures on my toy shelf (mint, still in the box). I also grew up in…

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With nations such as Iran protecting their arsenals by burying them deep underground, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is searching for new types of bunker-buster bombs. The goal is to go beyond the traditional brute-force approach of giant bombs that rely on the force of gravity to smash their way deep into the ground before exploding. During World War II, the Royal Air Force dropped 22,000-pound “Grand Slam” bombs. Eight decades later, the U.S. Air Force has used the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator in the campaign against Iran. Now, DARPA wants to pivot away from the traditional…

This article was originally published by Joshua Mawhorter at The Mises Institute.  In our modern, Western world, many justify the state and its policies because of the presupposition that the state—and the state uniquely—is an indispensable service-provider of essential services that could not or would not be provided by the free market or which would be underprovided were it not for the state’s collective provision. This is the public goods argument. It has become a cliche for defenders of the state to ask critics, especially libertarians, “But without the government, who would build the roads?” It is astounding that it has been…

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