“Tag: survival”

Dealing with a serious injury in the field requires more than luck. Your skills and training could mean the difference between life and death.

Karen Mehall Phillips had the chance to train for a grueling backcountry hunt at Magpul's inaugural Backcountry Hunter's Course. One of the first things she learned was precisely what any backpacking hunter will want to have on hand at all times.

Some folks revel in the idea of summertime; the picnics, barbecues and time spent at the beach are simply the best experiences of the year. For us hunters, it can represent a lull in the action.

For 2016, Savage Arms is adding a takedown version to its popular Model 42 line. Here are five things you need to know.

Once freezers became a fixture in the modern household the old ways of preserving food started to fade. It’s so much easier to just wrap up our venison and put it in a freezer. The thing is, some of those old ways had a lot of good things going for them.

Can you cope amid disaster that breeds panic and perhaps dangerous situations? Most hunters possess the tools, gear, skills and intelligence to do so. Call us crazy, but we’ll be ready when our neighbors are not.

The irony of having smart phones, smart cars and smart everything is they can make us less smart. To put it bluntly, they can make us dumb. By using these gadgets at every turn, we become more and more dependent—to the point where we become clueless without them.

NRA Outdoors is proud to announce upcoming firearm training schools, ranging from defensive and tactical courses to hunting and survival courses.

The last thing you need is another writer telling you that dryer lint with a little candle wax can get an emergency fire going, or that pine pitch is a natural fire-starter.