Master the Art of
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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.
Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics I’ve covered the rise of the weird urchin style bass bait multiple times and even discussed it on a recent podcast. In that time, I’ve gone from a non-believer, to skeptic, to a full believer in…
Our world has evolved over the last century to become reliant on energy. Energy has improved our standard of living globally and helped to extend the average lifespan of humans during that time. However, our reliance on energy can become a problem quickly during emergencies.Whether you need to power medical…
Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics WHEN a fellow goes a couple of hundred miles into Ontario on a fishing trip in October, something’s wrong. Either he’s an optimist, has his seasons mixed, or is just plain stubborn. My case was a…
Water storage containers are essential for emergency preparedness, and there is a range of types and use cases to consider. Water can be difficult to find during emergencies, so having containers to stockpile water for emergency use makes sense for most people. Gallon jugs can get it done in a…
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Shelter is a top priority for survival, and tents are the best all-in-one solution to cover it. A tent can be a highly personal choice that adjusts to your specific use case, whether you are pitching it for your family in an emergency or using it in a bushcraft setup in the woods.I’ve been using tents long before my time in the military, spanning from Cub Scouts and solo bushcraft excursions in the woods to family camping getaways.My main recommendation is the Combat One ICS, which is an affordable, battle-tested military surplus tent that works for a wide range of…
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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. One week after the closure of an unusually short comment period on drainage practices in the Prairie Pothole Region, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service acknowledged the sheer volume of public feedback around a decades-long policy that directly influences the health of critical duck breeding grounds. More than 219,000 comments were submitted to a Request for Information in just 14 days, prompting the USFWS to conclude in a Friday afternoon X post that “at this time, no further action is planned as we review the…
For veterans seeking treatment for PTSD, depression, anxiety or substance use disorders, the question sounds simple: If a treatment exists, why can’t I get it through the VA?The answer is more complicated than whether the Food and Drug Administration has approved it. Inside the Department of Veterans Affairs, a treatment can pass one scientific hurdle and still face others before it becomes routine care. VA says the process can involve research, clinical guidelines, medication reviews, patient-safety systems, ethics reviews and practical questions about whether the health system has the staff, space and equipment to deliver it.“VA moves new treatments into…
Airmen in two squadrons deployed to rescue five Navy personnel following an aircraft incident in California last week.Airmen from the 355th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, assigned to the 355th Wing but located at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, alongside the 88th Test and Evaluation Squadron, deployed two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters to rescue the Navy personnel near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California, according to a Monday release.The “aircraft mishap” occurred on Aug. 10, per the release. The 88th received initial notification regarding the Navy MH-60S Seahawk hard landing in mountainous terrain during a high-altitude training flight around 11:30…
Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Angler Tim Durheim was fishing with a bunch of law enforcement buddies aboard the “F/V Four Sea’Sons” on Aug. 15 when they landed a remarkable marlin — one that will likely break a 21-year-old record. Running the 50-foot charter boat were two captains, Capt. Robbie Norman and Capt. Danny Schenk, both from the town of Ilwaco, Washington. “We’d had a good morning trolling lures, with a couple of bluefin tuna and over a dozen albacore,” says Schenk, 59. “It was almost 1 p.m. when I saw…
Celebrities come and go in Middleburg, Virginia, a Piedmont hamlet of fewer than 1,000 people, where horses outnumber the residents ten to one and beagles and foxhounds abound.John and Jackie Kennedy, Sen. John Warner and his wife Elizabeth Taylor, Linda Tripp of Clinton-Lewinsky fame, and, as of last month, Vice President JD Vance and his family, all have resided without fanfare in this pastoral area an hour from Washington, D.C.But the region’s newest neighbors — the U.S. Army and 73 horses of the Old Guard’s Caisson Detachment — have divided a community that values the proper care of the horses…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. The Trump Administration today announced its intention to scrap a moratorium on road-building in remote, fire-prone backcountry areas. Rescinding the so-called Roadless Rule could result in road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting across more than 44 million acres of America’s richest fish and wildlife habitat. In today’s announcement, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which manages the U.S. Forest Service, cited “rising wildfire risk” as the primary reason for proposing to rescind the 2001 rule. But a peer-reviewed study of fire ecology published in January…
Newly released bodycam footage shows a bloody-faced U.S. Marine Corps pilot encountering local authorities after ejecting from a F/A-18 Hornet in Washington state two months ago.On June 13, a pilot assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, safely ejected from the aircraft after an aviation mishap while conducting a routine training exercise.The incident occurred on the south side of Rimrock Lake near Bear Cove in Yakima County, Washington, where the aircraft crashed into the mountainside, sparking a wildfire in the area shortly after.The pilot emerged from a wooded area and approached a law enforcement officer from the…
Master the Art of
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Master the Art of Preparedness and Survival
Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews,
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Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews, and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.
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