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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Call it the Year of the Hunting Scope. Between new family lines from Nightforce, Zeiss, Leupold, Vortex, and Bushnell and some standout product-line extensions from other brands, there’s a scope for every hunt and budget. We tested 25 new hunting scopes, from rimfire plinkers to big first focal-plane crossover hunt/competition scopes, over a week at my home range in eastern Montana, evaluating reticles, turrets, illumination, and optics. Submissions ranged in price from right around $100 to over $2,000, in MOA and MIL, and when the…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics It had been a tough and nearly fishless trip for Capt. Damon Sacco and his four anglers aboard his boat, the Castafari, on Wednesday. Long hours of trolling off the coast of Massachusetts had only produced one yellowfin tuna, which was the target species that day. “We had to make a move, so I ran east until I saw birds, bait, and tuna,” Sacco tells Outdoor Life. “We really got into the tuna. They were everywhere, and we started loading up on fish to 90 pounds.…

The U.S. Space Force Honor Guard donned the updated ceremonial service dress uniform in the nation’s capital over the weekend.On Sunday, the guard debuted the new ensemble at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, D.C., according to a Friday release.“The public will now be able to immediately recognize us as Guardians and key members of America’s warfighting capabilities,” Chief Master Sgt. Ross Koehler, Space Force Honor Guard senior enlisted leader, said in the release.The new uniform is meant to replace the modified Air Force service uniform guardians have worn since the branch was established seven years ago as the…

I wrote my first rub-line article for Outdoor Life more than 30 years ago. Back then, buck rubs were little more than curiosities and rarely played a part in anyone’s hunting strategy. Since then, I’ve spent a great deal of my time in the field trying to hone my mature buck hunting tactics as they relate to rub lines. For more than three decades, waiting in ambush along active rub-lines has become and will remain my No. 1 go-to tactic for killing big deer.Here are some things I thought I knew about rubs back then, and what I know for…

The United States canceled a joint amphibious landing drill scheduled for next month with South Korea, Seoul’s Marine Corps said on Monday, after Washington cited constraints on the availability of U.S. forces due to the war in Iran.The U.S. Marine Corps formally notified its South Korean counterpart in June that force availability would be constrained for the division-level exercise, known as Ssangyong, a South Korean Marine Corps spokesperson told a press briefing.The allies remain in close consultations on resuming the drills, the spokesperson said. He did not specify what measures might be taken to prevent future cancelations or to make…

The first time I remember seeing a dead animal, I was about seven years old. My father was butchering a deer in the barn. The split carcass of the whitetail buck spun slowly on the gambrel as my dad sharpened his knife and prepared to skin and quarter it. I was fascinated by the whole process. I knew that this deer would be turned into hotdogs and sausage that would feed our family.My reaction to butchering paralleled that of my five brothers, who never batted an eye. All three of my sisters, on the other hand, reacted poorly. When my…

When masked agents pounded on the windows of the family vehicle, Army Sgt. Hedar Leonel Turcios Juárez’s six-year-old daughter started crying. She sat, buckled into her car seat, as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials ordered the windows rolled down and announced they would be detaining Cristy Maryori Villafranca Trejo — the child’s mother and Turcios’s wife — for a missed court appearance. The child watched as the figures handcuffed her mother.“It took me a minute to realize what was going on — my heart just dropped,” Turcios told Military Times about the encounter. “It was very hard looking at…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. Imagine you’ve got two deer properties. Each has a mock scrape on it, which looks like most scrapes — except for one small difference. Instead of carefully breaking branches to create a licking branch, you hung a rope above each scrape. It dangles freely at the same height and position as a normal licking branch. You’ve also placed cameras at each scrape and discovered that a bunch of does and bucks are visiting the first one. Photos…

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New billboards have gone up around select military towns that connect the conflict in Iran with an economic impact on American families.VoteVets, a non-profit group and political action organization that largely supports Democrat veteran candidates, launched a 10-day billboard campaign Monday in 10 U.S. cities that features photos of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on a fiery background. “Trump & Hegseth’s Iran War means higher prices for you with no end in sight,” the signs declare.Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, senior adviser to VoteVets, told Military Times the effort is intended to connect “affordability with accountability,”…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. This story, “Sweet Dove of Youth,” appeared in the February 1979 issue of Outdoor Life. Col. Tom Kelly is best known for his classic 1973 book on turkey hunting, “The Tenth Legion.” He was also a diehard dove hunter. He bought the gun for the child a month before her 10th birthday and brought it home to a concerted gasp of outrage and indignation from every female relative on either side of the family. He bought it and delivered it early because the child had…

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