Master the Art of
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Master the Art of Preparedness and Survival

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Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews, and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. There’s not much difference between a knowledgeable teal hunter and an opportunistic one. You actually have to be a bit of both when hunting blue-wings during the early September season. Once you find the teal…

If you’ve been hanging around gun shops recently and overhearing the conversations of the cognoscenti, you might well get the notion that someone turned the clock back a hundred years or so. After a century of determined design and development of speedier cartridges and racier rifles to fire them, there…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. STANDING ON a brushy knoll, looking meaner and madder by the minute, loomed the biggest black bear I’d ever seen in the Maine woods. He was searching for the rotting cow’s head he had hidden among some rocks, and he wasn’t pleased over its absence. When I walked into the area earlier in the day, armed with a 60-pound bow and a quiver of broadhead arrows, I noticed that the cow’s head had been moved from the pile of bait near my tree stand to…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Ask Sarah Parvin why she’s on a mission to grow the world’s biggest bluegill—and then catch it—and she’ll be happy to talk your ear off. The Alabama angler and self-dubbed “Slab Queen” says that bass have long been the stars of the freshwater fishing scene in the South, and these days, it seems like everyone with a private pond is trying to grow their own double-digit bigmouth. This puts warm water species like crappie, bream, and other panfish in the “child’s play” category—perfect for kids with…

This article was originally published by Garrison Vance at Natural News.  President Donald Trump announced support for Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russian territory and authorized the production of U.S. Patriot missile interceptors in Ukraine, delivering a major policy shift during the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on July 8, 2026. Trump appeared alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the bilateral meeting, praising Ukraine’s military efforts and promising fresh military cooperation, as reported by AFP and The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. president said that the deep strikes, which have targeted Russian oil refineries and defense facilities, represent an escalation that…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. FRED THORNE and I stood on a Newfoundland hillside glassing a pine and spruce-covered valley. Fred called the place The Lookout. A small bull moose was feeding below us in sparse cover. He was in plain sight 600 yards away, and I’d been watching him for five minutes through my Empire 7 x 50 binoculars. Fred knew I wasn’t interested in stalking the animal, but I was getting a kick out of watching the bull feed. That all changed with Fred’s startled whisper. You can…

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.