Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. The days of hauling heavy, noisy climbing sticks through the woods are behind us. Modern climbing sticks are purpose built with the mobile hunter top of mind, resulting in climbing methods that are lighter, quieter, and far more mobile than their clunky predecessors. This means you have a lot of options when it comes to shopping for your next set of climbing sticks, so I spent time comparing the best of the best to create a guide to buying the best climbing sticks for you. …

The Navy may be making some investments in unmanned vessels, but it needs to get a lot more ruthless to bring the fleet into the future, a top leader of the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley-based Defense Innovation Unit said Wednesday.Testifying before the National Commission on the Future of the Navy Wednesday, DIU’s principal deputy director and chief commercial officer, Matthew Shortal, said dollars are not following rhetoric when it comes to building out the unmanned fleet.“I’ve seen reports that it’s 96% manned, 4% unmanned,” Shortal said. “My personal view is that it’s not even close, and we need to move quicker.”He…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. A buck tears into a cedar tree trunk, leaving shavings of bark all around its already scarred base. Another whitetail rips up the ground, sending leaves, sticks, and dirt flying from the community scrape. Both are laying down obvious deer sign that’d fire up even the most even-keeled deer hunters. According to the National Deer Association, one mature buck can make upward of 1,200 rubs in a single year. They make and revisit many scrapes throughout the…

Iran’s capture of a U.S. military underwater drone gives Tehran an opportunity to study and potentially reverse-engineer the vessel, delivering a setback for the Pentagon and drone maker Anduril.The U.S. military and Anduril have downplayed the significance of the drone falling into Iranian hands. The vessel, a Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle designed for long-range surveillance and other undersea missions, is among a new generation of military drones intended to operate for days with little human intervention. Washington has previously treated the loss of advanced drones to Iran as a serious matter.After Iran captured an RQ-170 Sentinel stealth reconnaissance drone in…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. Austin New, of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, had patterned a good buck from July of this year until the evening of the state’s opening bow deer season on Sept. 5. He’d located the buck in the same hayfield in Central Kentucky this summer as he had in 2025. “It grew 45 inches in antler mass from last year to this year,” the 37-year-old lineman told Outdoor Life. “I figured the buck was a 150-incher in 2025, and I decided…

Fire skills, taught in camp. Best classroom there is.

The crash nobody practices for.

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Transformers are the part above the waterline.

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Captain Phillips, and the details that never got out.

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Reloading before you’re empty. There’s a right way.

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Gunmen inside Iran, and nobody’s saying whose.

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The U.S. Air Force launched an initiative to increase the number of mission-capable B-52 Stratofortress and B-1 Lancer aircraft by accelerating parts delivery, engineering support and depot maintenance.The movement, dubbed the North Star Readiness Campaign, responds to the push to maintain the readiness and availability of the U.S. bomber force for global operations, according to a Tuesday release.Air Force Global Strike Command launched the campaign alongside Air Force Materiel Command and the Defense Logistics Agency to bring together operators, acquisition and sustainment experts and logistics partners.“The North Star Readiness Campaign is our commitment to ensuring the warfighter has the nation’s…

The two top officers of the U.S. Navy released a video Tuesday assuring sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt that their impending deployment would incorporate valuable lessons learned from the USS Abraham Lincoln’s historic deployment to the Middle East.Following the Lincolns’ nearly 10-month deployment that saw 264 days without a port visit, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Perryman said the Roosevelt will maximize its loadout of food and hygiene products before setting sail, among other improvements.“As one carrier returns home, we listen to its sailors and families,” Perryman said…

The dream team is collaborating once again.Buzz Bissinger, author of The New York Times bestselling book Friday Night Lights, and its subsequent film’s director, Peter Berg, are teaming up to deliver the true story of The Mosquito Bowl, which saw 65 Marines of the 4th and 29th regiments, 6th Marine Division, facing off on the “gridiron” of Guadalcanal before being shipped off to Okinawa.Based on Bissinger’s 2022 book The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II, the film follows four of America’s top college football stars, who traded a pigskin for an M1 Garand. Netflix…