Your medical kit is only useful if you can get it when you need it. That requirement for rapid, logical access has helped shape MYSTERY RANCH medical packs for years. From individual first aid to more complex medical loadouts for frontline medics, these bags are built around access, organization,...
Most of the emergency gear I own usually plays double duty as part of my primary camping gear. Put simply, if it’s not likely to get used, I don’t really want to have it around. The WeatherX XPCW19B is one item that I’d normally file into the category of “survival” gear, but it’s turn...
When the mission extends beyond a patrol, carrying more is only part of the problem. The real challenge is carrying it farther. MYSTERY RANCH has spent decades focused on load carriage, developing packs and frame systems around the realities of moving heavy, awkward, and mission-specific equipmen...
Below the snow-cross on the shoulder of Mount Tallac lies a lake that never appeared on a California map. People who knew of it called it Lost Lake, and the trout living there put up a harder fight than any fish I had hooked before. How I reached it, recounted in the November 1951 issue […]...
The myth goes something like this: Use enough gun and you'll knock down game in its tracks. Here's why that's a total myth The post “Knockdown Power” Is the Biggest Myth in Big Game Hunting appeared first on Outdoor Life.
Ask a lifelong Montanan how they feel about the steady stream of newcomers, and you may get pointed to a sign hanging in a Bozeman bar. It reads that you should welcome yourself to Montana while remembering you are a refugee, not a missionary. The message is blunt, but it captures a tension that ...
SK Guns is back with another gorgeous, limited-edition 1911 handgun for us to drool over in the “ Charro Negro ,” or the legend of the Black Horseman . This limited run of only 200 Full Size Government Model Colt 1911s chambered in .38 Super blends traditional charro imagery wit...
MYSTERY RANCH has added a Black color option to several of its most established military packs, including the 3-DAY ASSAULT, GUNFIGHTER 14, GUNFIGHTER 24, and BLACKJACK 35.  Leading the addition is the 3-DAY ASSAULT, one of the most recognizable p...