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.

The U.S. Army on Friday identified the two soldiers who died when an Apache crashed outside of a Texas base this week.Chief Warrant Officer 2 Deontre T. Huey and Warrant Officer Seth L. Olmstead were killed when their aircraft went down around 1:40 p.m. Central Standard Time on Wednesday near…

U.S. Central Command will stand up the inaugural task force focused on multi-domain, multinational attack drones.Task Force Falcon Strike will utilize one-way attack drones composed of unmanned systems from above, on and below the sea, managed by U.S. military support staff and regional partners, according to a Thursday release.The move…

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Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Where I live in the Northeast, crappie fishing is primarily a spring thing. Come April, coves will be ringed with anglers, but once summer rolls in, crappies take a back seat to a plethora of other species. In other parts of the country, however, crappie fishing is a year-round event. The South especially is steeped in crappie culture. It’s true that when crappies move shallow to spawn in spring, they’re pretty easy to locate, but according to my buddy and veteran outdoor writer, Jason Sealock, it’s…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. This year’s bow test was by far the most competitive we’ve seen. After shooting seven flagship compound bows for three days, which included shooting 405 arrows for accuracy testing, we chose a definitive winner and concluded that we are indeed in the golden era of compound bows.  We’ve consistently said that all the flagship bows are good, but this year, all of them are excellent. Bow buying is no longer a question sorting the best bows from the lemons. It’s now a matter of taste…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. The bowline is an ancient knot. It dates so far back historians can’t even pinpoint who tied it first, but what makes it so impressive is that it’s as important and useful today as it was to mariners, farmers, warriors, and hunters hundreds if not thousands of years ago.  So, why should you learn how to tie a bowline knot? Because if you spend enough time in the outdoors it’s almost a guarantee that at some point, you’ll need it for some minor or major task.…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics There have been a lot of arguments on the perennial question of whether, inch for inch and pound for pound, the smallmouth bass or the speckled trout is the gamer fish. Some have been pretty fair arguments, too, but they’re puny affairs alongside the ones I’m about to promote. For sheer fighting ability, brawn, guts, and endurance I nominate a finny character you likely rate very inelegant indeed. He is big-scaled and unlovely. His color is that of the bottom where he dwells. His mug is…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. An animal-rights influencer in Texas has announced a bounty of $10,000 for the identities of any Wyoming hunters who might lawfully kill gray wolves that venture outside Yellowstone National Park. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department called the bounty an “outrageous” attempt to harass hunters. Jonas Black of Austin published the reward to Facebook Wednesday. In a post of an AI-generated graphic titled “Wildlife Outlaws,” he offered a $10,000 reward for “information regarding anyone who would harvest [wolf] 1090F or a member of her pack.” …

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Fishing is supposed to be fun. That’s something I often have to remind myself of when I get too far down the tournament bass fishing rabbit hole and things aren’t going my way. It can be easy to just keep throwing the same old reliable baits, hoping for a bite on the same old reliable rod and reel. Sometimes, though, that’s a grind. When I find myself in this cycle, I break out of it by grabbing my bait finesse system, or BFS, gear. Now, at…

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.