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.

When Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Strohmaier mails out the birth announcements for his son, Ethan, he’ll also be telling his friends, “By the way, the stamp in the corner is mine,” he said.A photo Strohmaier took on Feb. 29, 2024, while stationed aboard the USCGC Bertholf is…

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In the wake of Iranian attacks that devastated U.S. bases in the Middle East, the U.S. Air Force wants portable air-defense guns that can destroy drones and cruise missiles.The Ground-Based, Medium-Caliber Gun Weapon System project is aiming for a weapon “that fires affordable munitions, enables defense against air and missile threats with an initial focus on subsonic cruise missiles (CM) and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to provide persistent defense in support of United States Air Force assets,” according to the Air Force’s Request for Information published Thursday. The deadline is Oct. 9.Iran has unleashed retaliatory strikes at U.S. military installations…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Being able to think like a hungry duck is an essential skill for successful waterfowl scouting and hunting. The ability to find key food sources is directly related to putting roast duck on the family dinner table. However, answering the question “What do ducks eat?” isn’t as easy as you might think. Ducks are a wildly diverse group of birds with vastly different feeding habits. Here’s a basic breakdown of what wild ducks eat and where to find it.  Divers vs. Dabblers At the most…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. This story, “Mystery of The Hinkley Deer,” appeared in the August 1969 issue of Outdoor Life. I saw the buck alive only the one time, and he was dead a minute after I caught sight of him. The last thing I suspected right then was that I’d never hear the end of him as long as I lived. But even in that first brief glimpse, with him coming through the brush like a runaway express train, I…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. There’s not much difference between a knowledgeable teal hunter and an opportunistic one. You actually have to be a bit of both when hunting blue-wings during the early September season. Once you find the teal and pound on them, they are going to seek refuge like any other duck. But if you do find them again, you’re almost assured a good hunt. Teal aren’t wary birds. They love spinning-wing decoys more than a country boy loves Hank Williams. Consistently locating teal is the key. Over…

If you’ve been hanging around gun shops recently and overhearing the conversations of the cognoscenti, you might well get the notion that someone turned the clock back a hundred years or so. After a century of determined design and development of speedier cartridges and racier rifles to fire them, there is now a resurgence of interest in cartridges that were, or might have been, right at home on the pages of an 1890 gun catalog.We shooters and hunters tend to be romantically inclined and give up our traditions at about the same pace as stones rolling uphill. This explains why…

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.