Bear & Son Cutlery has introduced their new Carbon Steel 2-Blade Folding Knife as well as the 4” Locking Piranha 2-Blade for hunters this fall. If anyone is searching for a knife to do field-dressing, quartering, or general field work this fall, both of these knives that we are about to cov...
The debate plays out around campfires and ranges across the West and Alaska: when a grizzly charges, do you reach for bear spray or a firearm? The stories that fuel that argument are rarely as vivid as what Bret and Glenn Bohn described. A Close-Range Fight Bret Bohn, a 35-year-old hunting guide ...
OL's former shooting editor maintains you don't have to pick a single favorite rifle for hunting deer. Here are his top picks, and the stories behind each The post Jim Carmichel’s ‘Favorite’ Deer Rifles appeared first on Outdoor Life.
The breakaway Confederate forces had a big problem at the start of the American Civil War—they needed guns. Many of the South’s top soldiers came out of the federal military and would spend the next years fighting their former comrades, now in the Union forces. The Confederates also s...
CAMP HIGASHI-CHITOSE, Japan, Sept. 15, 2026 — Gallatin AI deployed its AI/ML sustainment decision-support application, Navigator, in support of the U.S. Army’s 11th Airborne Division during Exercise Yama Sakura 91. Throughout the two-week exercise, Navigator’s AI-enabled predict...
In 1969, an armed citizen named Richard Davis shot it out with a trio of armed robbers and survived — but was hit a couple of times during the melee. Deciding that there had to be something better to stop bullets with than one’s own flesh, he conceived soft, concealable body armor and became ...
Two Southern California jurisdictions froze new firearms retailer approvals within two weeks of each other. The mechanism was not a gun law — it was land use, and it moves faster than anything most dealers track.
CAMP KISARAZU, Japan —    U.S. service members assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command and U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific, alongside the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, conducted a bilateral engagement at Camp Kisarazu, Japan, Aug. 24-28, 2026, reinforcing the e...
Straight-wall cartridges became Midwest deer-camp staples because regulations demanded them. Michigan, Indiana and Iowa are increasingly giving hunters more options. The post Michigan, Indiana and Iowa Are Opening the Door to More Deer Rifles appeared first on The Truth About Guns.
Between 1870 and 1900, railroads and repeating rifles opened the West to ordinary hunters — and pushed its game to the brink The post The Golden Age of Big-Game Hunting in America appeared first on Outdoor Life.