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.
The oldest advice in bass fishing tells you to run to the backs of creeks when the leaves turn. A tracking study from Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists dismantled that idea. They followed bass at Lake Fork and Toledo Bend Reservoir, and none of the tracked fish moved into the back of a creek on...
Editor’s Note: This piece was crafting as a special retro-style “mini-magazine” within the Winter 2026 print issue of The Armory Life. We styled it to look as though it had been published back when the author was a young teenager poring over his collection of Springfield Armory catalogs. Yo...
The trees that feel best to sit in are rarely the ones that put a mature buck in front of you. Hunters gravitate toward straight, comfortable, easy-to-reach trees with open sightlines because those spots feel safe and pleasant. Deer, and especially older bucks, do not live where you feel most at ...
PSA cut the Ruger RXM 4" 9mm OD Green with a factory Aimpoint COA to $629.99 from $883.99. Closed-emitter 3.5 MOA dot, tritium co-witness sights, Magpul grip. In stock.
Pocket space is finite. Most EDC flashlights are tube-shaped, which means they roll around, print through fabric, and fight with your phone for the same real estate. NEBO built the SLIM MINI 500 flat instead, roughly the thickness of a smartphone, and put 500 lumens behind three LEDs. The body is...
Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Ramon Ramirez wades into the striker-fired vs. hammer-fired pistol debate. In the article, he uses two pistols to demonstrate the different systems: the Springfield Armory Echelon and the Springfield Armory 1911 DS Prodigy. Both guns were provided on loa...
Michael Skvarla of Port Matilda had planned a Maryland Sitka deer bowhunt for his 40th birthday. That changed when the Pennsylvania Game Commission notified him he’d drawn one of the state’s coveted elk bull tags. Just 15 were issued against 50,000 lottery applicants. “It was a ...
The Harrington & Richardson T48—the U.S. FAL that faced the M14 in the 1950s trials—is $3,299 at PSA. Limited run, 100% U.S.-made components, new U.S.-made walnut, chrome-lined 21" barrel. In stock. They won’t last long.