Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. As someone who dedicates a good chunk of every fall to public-land whitetails in multiple states, I’ve come to two realizations about baiting. The first is that I love hunting in states that allow baiting on private land, but not on public. The second is that I’m much less fond of states that allow baiting on all land, regardless of who owns it. Where baiting is allowed, it becomes the predominant hunting technique. Many hunters downplay their…

A U.S. Air Force judge on Wednesday ordered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, and three co-defendants to go on trial before a military tribunal in June 2028.The trial-scheduling order entered by Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama marked the latest milestone in a military prosecution beset by two decades of legal deadlock surrounding the four detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Last year, a U.S. appeals court refused to allow Mohammed and two of his co-defendants to plead guilty under agreements that would have spared them the death penalty. The…

The housing installation at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton in Washington state has become the first of the Navy’s six major restoration and modernization projects funded through the Barracks Task Force to reach completion, according to a recent Navy Installations Command release. The project included a “full-scale interior renovation of the 10-story, 152-room building” following fire and water damage to the original structure in August 2025. The renovation includes 304 new beds and revitalizes “common areas with dedicated recreation and community lounges on every floor,” the release says.Across the floors, the amenities include “diverse spaces for service members to relax and connect,”…

After a long deployment in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln will dock in Thailand’s resort city of Pattaya this week, raising hopes of an economic boost, even as local authorities cracked down on parts of the sex tourism destination.The Abraham Lincoln is due to dock on Wednesday at nearby Laem Chabang, with two accompanying Navy vessels, to allow nearly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard to rest and recuperate after over 200 days at sea, according to Thai officials.Ahead of its arrival, police are preparing additional patrols around Pattaya’s main beachfront and nightlife district, in…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. This story, “Jaws That Are Real,” appeared in the February 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. The American alligator was delisted from its “threatened” status under the Endangered Species Act in 1987. It was nearly dark. Sixteen-year-old Sharon Holmes dug her toes into the smooth sand of the lake bottom and let the warm water buoy her up. She listened to the frogs peeping in the calm Florida evening. Her father relaxed on shore not far away, enjoying the peace of the cypress-ringed lake. Across the…

Congressional leaders are demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the independent office tasked with reviewing new military programs and weapons pulled all public reports from its website. “One of the most important functions of (the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation) is to provide transparency about the safety and effectiveness of major weapon systems,” wrote Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Donald Norcross (D-NJ) in a letter this month. Warren is a ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, and Norcross is a ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee’s Tactical Air and Land Forces…

If you ever practice with your firearm, this could be useful.

See in pitch black with this.

Watch full video on YouTube

Watch full video on YouTube

Brutal behavior from a deadly country.

Watch full video on YouTube

Watch full video on YouTube

Watch full video on YouTube

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 lean gray-haired man with the Cheshire-cat grin slid a snapshot across the tabletop to the man who sat next to him. The man’s eyes opened wide when he saw the picture. Soon the four other hunters and antler collectors seated around the table were straining to see the photo. As it passed from one person to the next, Dr. Charles Arnold, one of the country’s foremost antler collectors. grinned and waited for his usually guarded photograph…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Bass will take just about anything that suggests food to them, but it has to have a natural look, smell or move. If an angler can satisfy any of those requirements when a bass is hungry, he might get a strike. But that principle only goes so far. To some degree, bass are conditioned by instinct to expect their food to conform to certain natural laws. A frog, for instance, is not supposed to be bobbing in the waves of a New England lake a half-mile…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. It was 2011 the first time I tried to run in barefoot shoes. I was in my mid-20s, healthy and averaging about 20 miles a week. Born to Run was on my bookshelf (of course), and I had a brand-new pair of Vibram Fivefingers, ready for the city streets. I figured that first run, I’d keep it light, maybe go 2 miles and see how I felt.  It was awful. With each step I could feel my midfoot seizing up, a strange sharp pain that eventually…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. When people think about hunting in the big woods of the north, they envision hunters dressed in their classic wool clothing taking to the snow-covered forest in search of a buck track to follow. Many hunters from Maine to Minnesota would rather be on the track of a buck when there is snow on the ground, than to hunt any other way. We cannot control when and where the snow might fall, and in some states the…

These guys have a very important duty to carry out daily.

Watch full video on YouTube

Stock up and prepare before it’s too late.

Stay ahead of it now! This could be life saving info.

Watch full video on YouTube

Watch full video on YouTube