The Best Hunting Gear Management System: Organized & Protected

Ask my wife, and she’ll tell you I have too much hunting gear. I chase dove, whitetail, waterfowl, turkey, and other game animals whenever I can. Which means, yes, I have a lot of hunting gear (but definitely not too much) that I need to keep organized and protected. So over the last several ye...

By Wes Littlefield •

Field-Tested Deer Hunting Wisdom from the MeatEater Crew

The best deer hunting advice tends to be specific, hard-won, and born of time in the woods rather than a product catalog. What follows pulls together practical tips gathered from experienced hunters, organized around the decisions you actually make in the field: when to go, where to set up, how t...

By James Chen •

AO Review: The Tiny Double-Duty WeatherX Lantern Power Bank

Most of the emergency gear I own was bought under mild duress rather than preparedness, usually in a checkout line, usually on the theory that twenty-five dollars is a fair price to not be caught in the dark. The WeatherX XPCW19B started the same way. I was offered a review sample to test out, an...

By Luke Cuenco •

6 Shooting Tools That Have Made Us Better Riflemen

It’s not just new cartridges and high-B.C. bullets that allow us to be more effective rifle shooters The post 6 Shooting Tools That Have Made Us Better Riflemen appeared first on Outdoor Life.

By Tyler Freel •

Buck 110 & 112 Crossbar Elite: MagnaCut Meets a Crossbar Lock

Few folders are as instantly identifiable as the Buck 110 Folding Hunter, a design that has shaped what generations of buyers expect a Buck folder to look and feel like. For 2026, Buck rebuilt it and its slightly smaller sibling, the 112 Ranger, into the Crossbar Elite series, keeping the silhoue...

By James Chen •

How to Build a Shooting Barricade for Under $50

A great way to improve your range experience is to include barricades that can introduce movement and alternate positions to challenge your marksmanship abilities. Barricades can take many forms and the step-type barricade is probably the most versatile given the multiple shooting positions that ...

By Ian Kenney •

The 30 Year Search for the Army’s Squad Automatic Weapon

As the introduction of the SIG M250 potentially opens a new chapter in the U.S. Army's squad automatic weapon story, or more accurately, the GPMG role, it is worth looking back at the excitement around the M249 when it was adopted. The U.S. Army type-classified the M249 on February 1, 1982, ...

By Lynndon Schooler •

Blast from the Past: M1A-A1 Bush Rifle

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...

By Mike Humphries •
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