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Patients and staff at Mann-Grandstaff Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, were evacuated Saturday because of wildfires that have encroached on the state’s second-largest city, burning at least 600 structures as of Monday.VA staff evacuated an unknown number of patients to local hospitals and are caring for 27 patients…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. My son has enjoyed shooting from a very young age and, as a 10-year-old, has budded into a fine young marksman. After shooting my M1 Garand for the first time on a trip to the…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a formal commission to address decades-old, persistent problems facing military spouses and families.“It’s an order that’s long overdue,” Trump said during a signing ceremony at the White House, flanked by more than a dozen military spouses who will be part of…
Seventy-six members of the U.S. Coast Guard died by suicide between 2014 and 2024, with 14 — or nearly a fifth — occurring in 2024, the most recent data available.In the decade from 2014 to 2024, the number of suicides among active personnel and activated reservists ebbed and rose each…
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Two YouTube personalities behind the Creek Kings Outdoors channel were convicted and sentenced this spring after a years-long poaching spree of bucks in the Columbus, Ohio, metropolitan area. The Ohio Division of Wildlife Resources released details of the investigation in late July, revealing insights into how the poachers exploited Ohio’s deer for commercial gain, and how they were ultimately apprehended. Columbus residents William Bethel, 28, and Justin A. Booth, 23, were charged in September with dozens of wildlife violations documented from 2019 through 2025. Many of those were published to their YouTube channel, Creek Kings Outdoors, which has since been removed.…
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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. This year’s bow test was by far the most competitive we’ve seen. After shooting seven flagship compound bows for three days, which included shooting 405 arrows for accuracy testing, we chose a definitive winner and concluded that we are indeed in the golden era of compound bows. We’ve consistently said that all the flagship bows are good, but this year, all of them are excellent. Bow buying is no longer a question sorting the best bows from the lemons. It’s now a matter of taste…
Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. The bowline is an ancient knot. It dates so far back historians can’t even pinpoint who tied it first, but what makes it so impressive is that it’s as important and useful today as it was to mariners, farmers, warriors, and hunters hundreds if not thousands of years ago. So, why should you learn how to tie a bowline knot? Because if you spend enough time in the outdoors it’s almost a guarantee that at some point, you’ll need it for some minor or major task.…
Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics There have been a lot of arguments on the perennial question of whether, inch for inch and pound for pound, the smallmouth bass or the speckled trout is the gamer fish. Some have been pretty fair arguments, too, but they’re puny affairs alongside the ones I’m about to promote. For sheer fighting ability, brawn, guts, and endurance I nominate a finny character you likely rate very inelegant indeed. He is big-scaled and unlovely. His color is that of the bottom where he dwells. His mug is…
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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. An animal-rights influencer in Texas has announced a bounty of $10,000 for the identities of any Wyoming hunters who might lawfully kill gray wolves that venture outside Yellowstone National Park. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department called the bounty an “outrageous” attempt to harass hunters. Jonas Black of Austin published the reward to Facebook Wednesday. In a post of an AI-generated graphic titled “Wildlife Outlaws,” he offered a $10,000 reward for “information regarding anyone who would harvest [wolf] 1090F or a member of her pack.” …
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Master the Art of Preparedness and Survival
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