Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. It was about 10 p.m. on July 18, the last night of the 2026 Florida Python Challenge, when two veteran snake catchers ended up wrestling the biggest snake of the competition. Rahm Levinson and Tom Rahill were cruising along on e-bikes down an old overgrown trail far back in Everglades National Park hoping to spot invasive pythons. “I was in the front on my bike, with lights on looking for snakes,” Levinson tells Outdoor Life. “Tom was behind me on his bike, and while going…

The United States is not disengaging from Asia and is instead “digging in” to maintain a favorable balance of power in the Indo-Pacific, but wants its partners to shoulder more responsibility for their defense, a senior Pentagon official said on Monday.Seeking to counter concerns about Washington’s reliability, Elbridge Colby, undersecretary of Defense for Policy, reiterated the U.S. interest in the region as he called for greater burden-sharing and “partnership, not dependency.”“America is definitely not disengaging from Asia,” Colby said in a speech in Manila. “We are not leaving; in fact, we are digging in, to ensure a favourable balance of…

After just over a year on the job, the Navy relieved Capt. Mathew Loe, the commanding officer of Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Lemoore, the service announced on Friday. Citing the pro forma “loss of confidence in his ability to command,” Loe was relieved of his command by Rear Adm. Kevin Brown, commander of Naval Medical Forces Pacific, per the release. Loe served as the NMRTC commanding officer beginning in July 2025 and has since been temporarily reassigned to NMFP. Capt. Robin Bennet will serve as the interim commanding officer. The Navy noted that the “relief of the CO…

A volatile month of July saw employers shed 23,000 jobs and lay off another 153,000, according to the monthly jobs report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. Amid the plunge, the unemployment rate for veterans appeared to stabilize at 4.2% despite the impact of artificial intelligence, tariffs and the war in Iran. The 4.2% jobless rate for all veterans was up a tick from the 4.1% recorded in June, while the rate for post-9/11 veterans dropped from 4.8% in June to 4.7% in July. The unemployment rate for women veterans, meanwhile, went up from 3.6% in June to…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. Headlamps are one of those unique pieces of gear that almost everyone needs: campers, hunters, hikers, climbers, backcountry skiers, and runners. Whether you’re getting up before the sun, setting up camp at night, or exploring a dark area, hands-free lighting is crucial.  While the headlamp market is oversaturated with bulky no-name models that die too quickly, if you’re relying on a headlamp to maneuver at night don’t risk your safety on something unreliable. I tested the best headlamps on the market to help you find a…

The Department of Defense launched a counter-unmanned aerial system, or C-UAS, marketplace last week designed to make it easier for military and government agencies to find and acquire vetted counter-drone technology.The marketplace was developed by the Joint Interagency Task Force 401, or JIATF 401, which leads the Defense Department’s effort to connect government agencies with companies developing counter-drone technology.U.S. Army Maj. Mike Hapner, the C-UAS marketplace lead for JIATF 401, said the marketplace is intended to deliver “the right counter-UAS capabilities to the right users at the right time.”Promotional materials make the marketplace look like a basic e-commerce website, but…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. All elk hunters dream of a screaming bull that charges across a meadow and into bow range, hot steam still flowing from his nostrils. After all, calling in a bugling bull (or even just getting a response from one) is what makes elk hunting so thrilling. But learning how to call elk is about more than just figuring out how to sound like an elk from watching YouTube videos (though this is a good idea for newbies).   To call elk effectively you’ve got to understand…

The Marine Corps has inked an $11 million contract with electronic warfare company Epirus for a vehicle-mounted weapon that can take down dozens of drones in a single zap. The contract, awarded through the Office of Naval Research, will result in the delivery early next year of a High-power Microwave Autonomous Vehicle Operational Capability (HAVOC) system that can autonomously identify drone targets to be dropped from the sky with an electromagnetic pulse.The award follows prototype testing of the similar Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS) weapon prototype that Epirus delivered to the Corps for testing last year under a $5.5 million…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. There are more than 600 species of oaks found growing around the world, and every one of them produces acorns. Acorns are different from other tree nuts because of their interesting two-part shell. The nuts have a smooth shell that is held inside a second cup-like shell called a “cupule.” This “shell and cap” structure is much different from other tree nuts like hickory and walnut, whose inner nut shells are surrounded by outer husks. Acorn cups (or caps) can have very different sizes, shapes,…

Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. You might say this story began 101 years ago when Paul Mauser gave birth to a cartridge that he christened the 6.5×57 and tagged with the family name. Or the story may have begun just one year ago when I stood on the firing line of the National High Power Rifle Championships at Camp Perry, Ohio, aligned the sights of my .308 rifle on a 200-yard target, applied pressure to the trigger—and flinched! That wasn’t the first time this ugly phenomenon had presented itself.…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. The quintessential private-land deer hunter plants his food plot, hangs his treestand, posts his trail camera, and waits for a daylight pattern on a shooter buck. Meanwhile, the typical public-land hunter scouts his way into a tract of open-to-all ground, finds a stand of productive oak trees, and makes it his go-to spot. These are what we’d call “orthodox” hunting tips and tactics. These are common approaches that no one really questions. But what about the unorthodox…

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