Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. A SOFT RUSTLING in the brush roused me from the state of semiconsciousness that I was trying to coax into a couple more hours of sleep. I lay still in my sleeping bag, just listening. Snap! That’s definitely a bear, I thought, as I reached for the 10mm pistol next to my head. My ears are well tuned to the sound of nearby bears from years of hunting in Alaska. I pulled my pistol from its holster and unzipped the tent. I’d left the zipper…
Author: Tommy Grant
You have seen the letters everywhere in prepper forums, survival blogs, and doomsday headlines. EMP. Three letters that get thrown around a lot, but rarely explained clearly. EMP stands for electromagnetic pulse, a short, intense burst of electromagnetic energy that can disrupt or permanently destroy unprotected electronics. It is not science fiction. It is a documented physical phenomenon that governments, militaries, and power utilities have been studying and preparing for since the 1960s. This guide breaks down exactly what EMP means, where the term comes from, the different types of EMP you need to know, what actually causes one, and…
I was at Walmart a few months back, restocking my pantry, when I noticed something. Half the cans on my own shelves at home had been sitting there expired for years. Nothing looked wrong with them, but the dates were long gone, and I stood there doing the math on how much money that actually was. That got me thinking. Could I feed them to my dogs? Would they work for the chickens? Could old canned food turn into fuel, or fertilizer for the garden? Or was I just supposed to toss the whole stack and eat the loss? That’s…
There’s a camera on a pole near your house that already knows your car better than most of your neighbors do. It doesn’t just catch you driving by. It reads your plate, timestamps it, tags which direction you were headed. And mostly, it files the whole thing into a database that police departments across the country can search without ever getting a warrant. Nobody asked your permission for any of this, and there’s a good chance you don’t even know the camera is there. Anyone Could Already Be Watching You What I’m about to tell you will keep you up…
When store shelves went empty in the 1930s, families couldn’t get expensive meat or specialty ingredients. They worked with what was cheap, what was available, and what would stretch the furthest. Out of that necessity came a technique that’s almost too simple to believe: turning a single piece of bone-in beef into frozen soup cubes that can sit in your freezer for more than two years and turn into a hot, hearty meal in about 60 seconds. This isn’t a trendy freezer-meal hack. It’s a real survival system, and it holds up just as well today as it did nearly…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. An animal that doesn’t scare you isn’t worth shooting. A hunting trip that doesn’t produce a few new gray hairs on your poll isn’t worth taking. Now, I’ll admit that this is only one man’s opinion. I’m not bigoted about it. I’m not raising the issue of “sportsmanship”—I have no qualms about shooting animals. I know that the game species must be kept in balance. My attitude is a selfish one—I’ve reached the point where I don’t think it is any fun to shoot an…
The Brief: A shooting near an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, resulted in three deaths and two injuries on Saturday. Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the scene, and survivors were transported to St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center for emergency care. Authorities lifted a shelter-in-place order after determining there was no ongoing threat to the community. Major transit routes, including the Perrine Bridge, remain closed for the investigation, though police are not searching for a suspect. Residents are advised to avoid the area and the hospital campus. This is a developing story. TWIN FALLS, ID — A bustling…
Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. The bowline is an ancient knot. It dates so far back historians can’t even pinpoint who tied it first, but what makes it so impressive is that it’s as important and useful today as it was to mariners, farmers, warriors, and hunters hundreds if not thousands of years ago. So, why should you learn how to tie a bowline knot? Because if you spend enough time in the outdoors it’s almost a guarantee that at some point, you’ll need it for some minor or major task.…
The Civilian Marksmanship Program has just announced that it will be selling true military surplus M14 rifles to the public.In a surprising but exciting twist, the Civilian Marksmanship Program has just announced that the organization has received special authorization to begin selling surplus military M14 rifles. Why is it surprising? Because the ATF has long held the position that any receiver that was once a machine gun is always a machine gun. Because original military M14s were built as select-fire rifles, most people never expected that they’d be able to be legally sold on the civilian market. Seemingly, at least…
Most of the U.S. Air Force’s efforts to modernize its B-52s are experiencing significant challenges, a government watchdog said in a Friday report.As the service projects to spend $21 billion in modernizations for 76 active long-range strategic bombers, the Government Accountability Office argues that advancing such efforts, such as new engines, with “little to no” developmental flight testing will increase the risk that the system will not function as desired.The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has been in service since 1955 and was originally given a life expectancy of 20 years. The Air Force now expects to utilize the aircraft, which can…