Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story originally ran in the Fall 2019 issue. THE BEST wild fish or game meal is usually a simple one: meat, fire, and maybe a little salt and pepper. Actually, the best wild-game meal isn’t really a meal at all. It’s a custom that you follow not because it tastes good (even though it does), but because it jolts you right back to the hunt—and all the hunts that came before.  You probably practice some of the following rituals yourself…

On Jan. 11, 2002, an 86-year-old World War II veteran on his way to speak at the National Rifle Association (NRA0 and the United States Military Academy (USMA) was detained at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, due to the metallic object he wore around his throat. The veteran was also wearing a pacemaker, but the matter was resolved by mailing the object to his home in Arizona — at his own expense. What made this an embarrassing incident was expressed afterward by the owner, Joe Foss: “I wasn’t upset for me….I was upset for the Medal of Honor, that they…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. This story was originally published on OutdoorLife.com in 2023. THE WOUNDS from his fight with a baboon weren’t fully healed when Bismark charged the Cape buffalo. We had spent the day trying to split two satellite bulls from the herd. I had been hired to photograph a plains- and dangerous-game safari in South Africa’s northernmost province of Limpopo, and I was shooting through my telephoto lens as one of the bulls broke from cover and charged. The hunter shot the buff at 40 yards, then again.…

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President Donald Trump fired rhetorical warning shots at several governments across the globe this week. Nations from Scandinavia to the Middle East found themselves in Trump’s crosshairs, as he also doubled down on his desire to assert U.S. dominance across the Western Hemisphere. Trump seems intent on remaking the global order in the wake of the U.S. military raid on Venezuela and his subsequent declaration that Washington would “run” the South American nation. RELATEDHours after Operation Absolute Resolve — a mission that saw U.S. forces capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their compound in Caracas…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The Oklahoma panhandle has an growing number of big elk, according to Erick Nelson, hunter from Guymon. And he’d been watching a good bull for several years on his private hunting lease before the morning of Oct. 8, 2023. “I got to the place I hunt a little later than I wanted to that morning,” Nelson tells Outdoor Life. “It was just breaking day, and I was settled into some tumbleweed cover. It was near a crossing deer and elk use…

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service, under the headline “A Veteran’s Search for Healing Led to an Ibogaine Trip and an Epiphany: ‘I’ve Got to Let It Go’.” Subscribe to their newsletter. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.Marc Dervaes sat straight-backed in a circle of 10 men at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico. The glass window behind him looked out on a pool deck and the Pacific Ocean beyond.Inside, sunglasses masked his eyes and a beard grew down to his chest. His blank…

This article was originally published by Joshua Mawhorter at The Mises Institute.  After the failures of socialism—economically, historically, and ethically—the Left-liberal intellectuals, not wanting to abandon socialism, employed several new strategies. It has been suggested that these several manifestations can be subsumed under one general category—postmodernism. After a review of postmodern philosophy and philosophical influences, Stephen Hicks explains his central argument in Explaining Postmodernism: “Postmodernism is the academic far Left’s epistemological strategy for responding to the crisis caused by the failures of socialism in theory and in practice.” In other words, once socialism was discredited theoretically, economically (in several ways), historically, and ethically, those who were still ideologically committed to…

The English and French had honored and laid to rest their unknown soldiers in 1920 — in Westminster Abbey and at the Arc de Triomphe, respectively. Then, in October 1921, it was the United States’ turn.The task of selecting a body to represent the thousands of still-unknown dead from the Great War was daunting. The United States still had not identified 1,237 dead soldiers, and, according to the U.S. Naval Institute, extraordinary care had to be taken to select a body that would not be identified later. Four bodies were exhumed from the U.S. cemeteries of Aisne-Marne, Meuse-Argonne, Somme and…

The Department of the Air Force has named five officials to lead some of its most critical programs as its first portfolio acquisition executives. The executives will have more authority to make important decisions and speed up the procurement process.The officials, who were formerly program executive officers, will oversee the Air Force’s command, control, communications and battle management; fighters and advanced aircraft; nuclear command, control and communications; propulsion; and weapons sectors, the department said in a Thursday announcement.These moves are the first of a slate of changes to the Air Force’s acquisition processes intended to get new weapons systems in…