Master the Art of
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Master the Art of Preparedness and Survival

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and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews, and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.

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Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics THE RIVER had us trapped in a rocky eye where it lunged and growled around the stern of our boat. I stood up on a slippery rock, breathing as if I’d just run a record marathon, and looked at the Old Guide. He sat on another rock, his shoulders bowed, as exhausted as I was. The first two days had been rough enough, but today we’d taken our worst beating. “You can’t convince me,” I said, “that you or anyone else ever floated through this canyon.”…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. Many hunters spend a lot of time obsessing about camo patterns without truly understanding how deer see. If you want to beat a buck’s vision, you first need some basic knowledge about how deer perceive the world around them. What colors can deer see best? Can deer see color at all?  Hunters and scientists still have some things to learn about deer vision, but thanks to a pile of ongoing research, we do know some things for…

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…

Master the Art of
Preparedness and Survival

Master the Art of Preparedness and Survival

Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews,
and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews, and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.