I never heard the term “harvest” used in reference to hunting until I was an adult. Growing up, the term we used for killing a deer was just that: “killing,” or maybe “shooting.” We kept our descriptions literal.  The first time I heard someone say they had “harvested” a deer, my brain immediately conjured images of cutting corn, picking vine-ripened tomatoes, and snapping green beans while cicadas whirred overhead. I had grown up gardening, and the term “harvest” was something I always connected to vegetables and farming, not critters and hunting. Times have changed, however, and using the word “harvest”…

A mud-caked buck appears out of nowhere, his legs stained from the bog. The deer scans its surroundings. He’s an old deer that knows just how perilous life can be outside the security of his swamp. This kind of buck is hesitant to leave his bedding area during daylight. Fortunately, he won’t have to. You get aggressive and set up just right for an afternoon hunt — a stand about 80 yards from his bed. When he appears broadside at 30 yards, you draw back, settle in, and send a good arrow straight through the vitals. The buck kicks his…

Everybody drills the trigger. Nobody drills the breathing.

Close range looks like the easy part.

Easiest isn’t a word preppers use much. Hear him out.

The cameras aren’t just watching. They’re writing the ticket.

Turned off isn’t off. That’s the part people miss.

An FJ40 off Marketplace. Even they didn’t believe it.

It’s no wonder that so many people are asking what is prepping and how it can help them to navigate life’s uncertainties with confidence and resilience. After all, in our ever-changing world filled with unexpected challenges, being prepared is an obvious and essential priority. The bottom line up front is that beyond the misconceptions and stereotypes, prepping is a lifestyle that embraces self-reliance, essential skills, and maximizing our chances of survival and success. Join us in this comprehensive guide, “What is Prepping,” as we delve into its goals, fundamentals, and purpose, equipping you with valuable insights and practical advice to…

Most training assumes you’re standing. This one doesn’t.

Most people think of awareness as a switch. On when something is wrong, off the rest of the time. It works more like a range with several settings, and you move through all of them every day without deciding to. The drive to work gets one setting. The walk through the parking lot gets another. The table at the restaurant, the checkout line, the couch at home, each one gets a different amount of your attention, and the amount you give it is rarely a choice you make on purpose. That is the problem. When you pay too little attention…

A permit is paperwork. This is the part that matters.

Bodycam footage. A Green Beret says what he’s seeing.

We gathered around a square of turf in the dark with a cold firepit in the center and small open-faced huts on two sides, their openings facing the middle. The other side of the square was a patch of dirt. This was where the trucks and vans that had ferried us to this spot in the Polish countryside were parked. The large field surrounding us had trees along its edge that showed ink-black against the outline of the still-dark sky. The hint of dawn in the east was muted by clouds. We were a polyglot band of hunters. English was…

Bolt against gas. The argument that never dies.

Mag placement looks like personal preference. It isn’t.

A Wyoming outfitter who started guiding in 1948 on the clients he’d rather forget — the braggart with five custom rifles who couldn’t hit anything, and the man who took a bull, a bear and a buck without ever cracking a smile.

A range on your own property. What that actually takes.

Recorded live, before anybody knew anything.

Loud headline. Watch before you decide what actually happened.

He was the king of Ithaca and a combat veteran of repute who was the anti-hero of Homer’s Odyssey and a con artist “insatiate of deceit” whose trials of the heart in coming home would mirror those of many veterans 3,000 years later.For Jonathan Shay, author of Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, the 10 years of wanderings on a perilous sea as Odysseus took the really, really long way home could be seen as an “allegory for the real problems of combat veterans returning to civilian society.”Shay, a psychiatrist at the Boston VA Medical Center,…

Anybody can shoot standing still. Moving is the hard part.

Turns out the cameras aren’t only watching cars.

An attack in New York. Then the mayor walked it back.