Athletes To Watch Here are the men's and women's Olympic Mountain Biking athletes competing for gold. Men: Christopher BlevinsWomen: Haley Batten, Erin Huck (four-time national champion), Kate Courtney (2018 world champion, 2019 World Cup ...
How To Stream and Watch Tokyo 2020 Olympic Judo
Athletes To Watch Men: Colton Brown (No. 28 in the world)Women: Angelica Delgado (No. 20 in the world), Nefeli Papadakis (Pan American silver medalist), Nina Cutro-Kelly Olympic Judo Schedule, July 24-31 Day One Morning Session - ...
How To Stream and Watch Tokyo 2020 Olympic Karate
Athletes To Watch Men: Ariel Torres (No. 10 in the World Karate Federation rankings), Brian Irr (No. 9 in the WKF rankings), Tom Scott (No. 6 in the WKF rankings)Women: Sakura Kokumai (No. 7 in the WKF rankings) Olympic Karate Schedule, Aug. ...
How To Stream and Watch Tokyo 2020 Olympic Weightlifting
Athletes To Watch Men: C.J. Cummings, Wes Kitts, Harrison Maurus, Caine WilkesWomen: Jourdan Delacruz, Katherine Nye, Sarah Robles (Olympic bronze in 2016), Mattie Rogers Olympic Weightlifting Schedule, July 24-28, July 31 to Aug. 4 Women's ...
6% of Incorrect Americans Say They Could Beat a Grizzly Hand-to-Hand
I'll admit, after a beer or two, my perception of my own strength and toughness can get a bit inflated. But I can recall no time in my life when I’ve ever considered myself more than a would-be morsel to a 600-pound fur-covered battering ram with ...
10 Knives That Would Make Crocodile Dundee Proud
“That’s not a knife …” In 1986, Paul Hogan (no kin to Hulk Hogan) uttered quite possibly the most famous quote in the entire knife industry. Indeed, Crocodile Dundee was a man’s man (who was manlier than most men). From the Australian ...
You Know You Want the Nerf Boba Fett EE-3 Blaster
Boba Fett is one of the most iconic characters in the Star Wars universe. Despite having only four lines in the original trilogy, no backstory, and an almost slapstick death (but not really) scene, the Mandalorian bounty hunter and his ...
NSSF Releases Data on Highest-Selling Guns of the Pandemic
When COVID-19 reared its ugly head in March 2020, it had a pretty profound effect on the gun industry. We immediately named it “Gun Salesman of the Year” as gun sales surged. The FBI reports a 24.7 percent year-over-year increase in NICS checks for ...
Ammo Famine: How the Current Shortage Started and When It Will End
Ammo has become both scarce and very expensive over the last year. But how did our current ammo famine start? And, more importantly, when we will again be able to buy all the ammunition and components we want at a reasonable price again? As I ...
Confessions of a First-Time Mountain Hunter
I thought I’d trained and prepared enough for this hunt. I was very wrong. Like many outdoorsmen, I’ve long entertained aspirations of hunting big game—elk, bear, sheep—in the mountainous backcountry. I envisioned loading up my pack with a week’s ...
How The 1st American to Summit Everest Trained Special Forces and Grew REI
In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to reach the 29,029-foot summit of Mount Everest. The renowned mountain climber also helped launch the outdoor equipment company REI into the multibillion-dollar business it is today. But before ...
Straight Razor 101: Everything You Need to Know About Vintage Razors
Alfred Einstein once said he often got his best ideas while shaving. Whether a Nobel Prize winner or just a regular Joe, using an old-fashioned straight razor offers some extra time to ponder the world or even an excellent idea of your own. Men ...
Smokejumpers: The Airborne Elite of Wildland Firefighters
This summer in the western United States hundreds of wildfires will ignite. Some of these fires will be many miles from the nearest road. Others will grow rapidly and require immediate reinforcement of the firefighters already engaged. In some cases, ...
Human Extinction Event: 6 Events Likely To Cause the End of the World
Will there be a sixth human extinction event in the future that’s primed to end man’s reign on Earth? Scientists say most definitely yes. Volcanic events on a global scale oxidize sulfur dioxide to create acid rain; an asteroid strikes blacken out ...
Calcio Fiorentino: The Sport So Hardcore It’s Only Played 3 Times a Year
In 1530, the Italian city of Florence was under siege. Having become a republic just three years prior, the most powerful men in the world decided they would capture the city and restore it to its former rulers, the Medici family. For nearly a full ...
Snake Bite 101: The Effects of Venom & How To Treat a Snake Bite
Surviving a snake bite is all about knowing what you’re up against. Venomous snakes can be found in warmer climates all over the world. Of the more than 3,400 known species of snakes, about 600 of them are venomous, one-third of which pose a medical ...
The Many Guns of John Wayne on the Big Screen
Throughout an acting career that spanned more than 40 years, John Wayne wielded a lot of guns on the big screen. Known primarily for his “cowboy” and western roles, the Duke is commonly associated with the Winchester repeating rifles. However, it was ...
Why the Pipe Tomahawk Is Still One of the Coolest Weapons Ever
This might come as a surprise, but the amazing pipe tomahawk in these photos isn’t from a museum collection. It also wasn’t made 255 years ago. It was made this year, exactly like it would have been made 255 years ago, by three artists in ...
10 Outdoor Survival Skills That Everyone Should Master
The finest outdoor equipment in the world is of no value if you don’t know how to use it properly. Knowledge of key outdoor survival skills and when to pull them out of the bag trumps the best gear every time. Here are 10 indispensable outdoor ...
How to Make Moonshine: A Down-and-Dirty Guide to White Lightning
No matter how hard I try, I can never escape my redneck past. In fact, the older I get, the more I just embrace it. When you say the words “West Virginia,” three things come to mind: Marrying your sister, John Denver, and kick-ass moonshine. Let me ...
Roadkill for Dinner: Why Harvesting Roadkill Is Actually Ethical and Tasty
Roadkill for dinner? In a short time, it could drive you to madness. After a while, your standards related to what you will and will not consume dramatically lower. In normal circumstances, one would not order a freshly trampled raccoon from a ...
Buying the Right Sleeping Bag Made Simple
Perhaps no single piece of gear is more critical to comfort, and even survival, in the backcountry than a good sleeping bag. At first blush, you might think that choosing a sleeping bag would be a pretty simple endeavor. But fill material, ...
Back from the brink: The fall and resurgence of the American bison
The American West once had its own sea: A great, sweeping, endless ocean of waving grasslands, expanding across the western United States from Canada to Mexico. It was a vast land of pristine and fertile ground, stretching off from horizon to ...
The critical importance of being uncomfortable
For three days I averaged only a few miserable hours of sleep a night while camped out on the prairie. I alternated time between trying to get comfortable on my thin and far-too-narrow sleeping mat, scratching dozens of fresh mosquito bites, and ...
Going primal: The challenge of traditional bow hunting
I started bow hunting with an old wooden recurve bow that my grandfather gave me for Christmas when I was 12 years old. It didn’t have much draw weight, but I still couldn’t hold it at full draw for very long. It didn’t have any sights, so I had to ...
A Conversation with ‘Professional Caveman’ Donny Dust
This story originally ran on Oct. 15, 2020 on The Ultimate Predator. Even the most experienced, seasoned hunters get a chill when imagining themselves stripped of their gear, alone in the wilderness. It’s a pretty extraordinary thing, then, to ...
Watch the Latest BRCC Video Filmed at Bass Pro Shops
What happens when you unleash the crew from Black Rifle Coffee Company in a Bass Pro Shop with zero adult supervision? This epic video. BRCC teamed up with the visual effects wizards at Corridor Digital and were given the keys to a Bass Pro Shops ...
2020 FRA Holiday Gift Guide: The Adventure Travel Wish List
Shopping for traveling adventure seekers is tough. So much gear marketed at globe-trotters is straight junk, like outlet adapters we’ll never need, passport wallets, or goofy hats and vests. And a good adventure, if anything, helps us pare down on ...
2020 FRA Holiday Gift Guide: The Hunting Wish List
When we’re not making coffee or printing T-shirts, you can bet the crew here at Black Rifle Coffee Company and Free Range American are out hunting. How into hunting is this team? The HR department gives away hunts for filling out internal work ...
2020 FRA Holiday Gift Guide: The Fishing Wish List
The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and for outdoors enthusiasts that means one thing: new gear. New gear to gift our buddies who fish and hunt. New gear to put in our own letters to Santa. This year, FRA decided to go big and asked three ...
