Fitness will not save you from altitude sickness, and neither will drinking water. The single thing that causes acute mountain sickness is gaining altitude too fast without acclimatization, and the most reliable way to prevent it is to climb slowly enough that your body can adjust. This matters f...
The U.S. buck harvest sits near record levels, and the share of mature bucks in that harvest is the highest it has been in more than a century. The part of deer management that keeps herds healthy, though, is antlerless harvest. Deer numbers are climbing across much of whitetail range, and while ...
I’ve been carrying the Surefire Stiletto Pro flashlight for the past five months now as my EDC flashlight. Taking it with me pretty much everywhere I go, from the woods, the store, across the pond, to 100 miles off the coast. It was carried with me every day. Anyone in the firearms space sh...
The mature buck that vanishes into a cattail marsh every day is not random about where he beds, and that predictability is the whole reason you can kill him. To hunt swamp bucks, you need to identify the dry, secure ground where an old deer feels safe, map the trails he uses to move between [R...
Our former hunting and shooting editors explain how they came by their favorite rifles, and why they made the cut The post Zumbo and Carmichel Each Make the Case for Their Favorite Deer Rifle appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Working breeds tolerate a hard season with little complaint, but that resilience masks the fact that most gun dog routines leave performance and years on the table. The changes that matter most are small ones: when you feed, how you hydrate, and how consistently you exercise your dog outside of h...
Most hunters who run a mapping app already lean on the core tools: studying habitat and terrain from home, marking food sources and deer sign, navigating unfamiliar ground in the dark, and finding the way out after a long sit. Those basics have earned their place among the genuine game-changers o...
Are you looking for consistent ammunition performance at all shooting distances, even if you’re really reaching out there? As rifles, optics and (most importantly) shooter skills all improve, letting hunters target game at long range, then ammunition with accuracy and reliable expansion is ...
TENET has been making noise, pun intended, in the suppressor world since the Limited series dropped, and now the company is going after hunters specifically with something called the VESPER. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because TENET has spent the last few months quietly letting a prot...
One of the biggest names in the outdoor speaker game, Turtlebox has been known for a few years now for making ultra-tough speakers. Capable of surviving water, mud, dirt, and even fires in a few cases for some unlucky outdoorsmen. Last year at ICAST, Turtlebox unveiled their newest model of outdo...