When a frail, leathery man covered in grease from burned whale blubber staggered into a whaling station on the coast of Antarctica, the Norwegian workers couldn’t believe their eyes. The men who worked along the rugged coast knew as well as anyone ...
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New Knives From the 2023 SHOT Show
SHOT Show isn't just about guns and ammo, it's also one of the biggest venues for new knives and knife companies every year. Almost every major knifemaker shows up as do a whole lot of small bladesmith shops that always have something exciting and ...
Polar Bear Attacks Remote Alaskan Village — Kills Woman, Toddler
Update Jan. 19, 2023: The victims of the fatal polar bear mauling in the tiny village of Wales, Alaska have been identified by authorities as Summer Myomick of Saint Michael and her 1-year-old son, Clyde Ongtowasruk. In a rare and tragic animal ...
How to Start a Fire Without a Lighter
You’re cold and hungry, and you just pieced together a hasty shelter. You need to get a fire started to dry off and stay warm through the night, so you grab your trusty lighter out of your pack. You’ve used it for years and it’s never let you down — ...
Jeremy Renner Likely Saved by Tourniquet After Plowing Accident
UPDATE, Jan. 4: Since initial reports of the accident Renner posted a photo on his verified Instagram account Tuesday with the message: “Thank you all for your kind words. I’m too messed up now to type. But I send love to you all."Soon after, ...
Vehicle EDC And Recovery Gear: The Top Five Tools For Travel
Vehicle EDC and recovery gear are vast subjects. It is dependent on the capabilities of the vehicle as well as the environment that it will be operating in. There are some commonalities that we can address to increase our chances of getting home ...
How To Stay Warm Without Power: Forget the Indoor Trashcan Fire
As many Texans experienced firsthand in 2021, the loss of power during extreme weather can lead to some dire circumstances. More than 4.5 million people lost power for several days, leading to hundreds of deaths and $195 billion in property ...
Car Stuck in the Snow? 10 Tips for Survival
A relaxing drive up to the mountains to play in the snow seemed like a perfect way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Just a nice leisurely drive up the canyon road to visit Old Man Winter. While building snowmen and pelting your girlfriend with ...
Man Kills Kodiak Bear Inside Neighbor’s House with a 12-Gauge
For many serious big-game hunters, killing a Kodiak bear — the largest brown bear on Earth — is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Hunters often save for years and travel thousands of miles to check off this bucket-list experience. Retired ...
Nuclear Attack Survival Kit: Be Prepared for the Worst
“No nukes” was a cute catchphrase coined in the 1960s, but we’re not living in a nuke-free world. Russia’s weapons of mass destruction are constantly in the news again today. North Korea’s nukes are always a hot topic. And in 2018, Hawaii residents ...
Coyote Attack Roundup: 8 More Reasons to Hate On Yotes
Everybody loves to hate coyotes. Since Lewis and Clark first “discovered” Canis latrans on their trailblazing exploration of the frontier, Americans have had a high-key beef with the animal the explorers dubbed a “prairie wolf.” That beef continues ...
How Emergency Water Purification Tablets Work
Guaranteed access to clean water is not possible for most people around the world. Every human deserves clean drinking water, and with various methods available to neutralize pathogens possibly present in water, that’s certainly achievable. For ...
Survival Kit: How to Build and Organize One the Right Way
“Organization is correlated to efficiency, efficiency is correlated to productivity, and productivity is correlated to success,” I recall saying that as a teacher to my students over the years in both an academic classroom and an outdoor setting as a ...
Scouting an Area with Map Recon and Land Navigation
“Jesus, that’s Jason Bourne.” That quote from the popular Robert Ludlum series has become a derogatory smear online when someone makes a comment about “gray man,” “op sec,” or “non-permissive environments.” It seems like everyone is a secret agent ...
VSSL First Aid Stash and Stash Mini: Survival in a Can
Here’s the situation: You’re in the wilderness, and you’ve got a normal survival kit in a nylon pouch. You take a tumble — your flashlight gets crushed, your compass is cracked, and on your way down, all your matches, sensitive electronics, and ...
Hurricane Ian: Florida Sportsmen Answer Call for Help in Aftermath
In late September, Hurricane Ian slammed into the southwest coast of Florida as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds and cut a swath of devastation through the region. Weeks later, many are still without power or internet, flood waters have yet to ...
Grizzly Bear Attack: Wrestler Fights Grizzly to Save Teammate
Two college wrestlers had a “sudden, surprise encounter with a grizzly bear” while hunting for antler sheds on Saturday, Oct. 15. The young men were looking for horns in heavy cover west of the Bobcat/Houlihan trailhead in the Shoshone National ...
Rock Climber Wins Bear Fight Using Martial Arts
A lot of rock climbers love the sport for the adrenaline rush that comes with it — but most would say having to get into a literal bear fight during a descent is raising the thrill bar a little too high. A rock climber who was recently on Mount ...
Badass AK Hunters Kill Charging Moose, Shoot Massive Bull
When Tana Grenda and Alishia Zemlicka, two well-seasoned western hunters, were dropped into a remote area of the Alaskan backcountry, they were hoping for a chance to rest, recharge, and have fun. However, with hurricane-like weather, a near-death ...
Bear Proof Suit Documentary Clips From the ’90s Go Viral
The story is almost too good to be true: In the 1980s, a middle-aged Canadian man decided to spend his entire life savings on building an indestructible suit of armor that he could wear into battle against a wild grizzly bear. For about seven years, ...
Beat the Heat: How to Not Die in Extremely High Temperatures
There’s hot, and then there’s intolerably, dangerously hot. Knowing the difference when you’re headed outdoors for an early-season hot-weather hunt or even a hike can literally be a life-or-death matter. But sometimes, there’s nothing you can do to ...
Caribou Hunter Still Missing in Alaska; Sons Launch New Search
Missing hunter Steve Keel, 61, hasn't been seen for more than a week since he vanished while on a dream hunt for caribou in Alaska. Search efforts have turned up nothing, and now, his two adult sons are scouring the Alaskan wilderness in hopes of ...
SOF Medic on Wilderness Medicine Planning
Hunters spend hours e-scouting the backcountry in an effort to create a best-case scenario — a successful hunt. It’s high time they put an equal amount of time and effort into emergency planning and wilderness medicine training. According to ...
ATV Accident: How Rescuers Saved a Hunter Who Drove Off a Cliff
Los Padres National Forest sprawls across coastal California, with nearly 2 million acres of chaparral, Jeffrey pine, and white fir running up peaks that turn silver with sun or snow, but in the dark, it’s pretty black, which is probably why a hunter ...
The Best Tourniquets: Experts Discuss the Trauma Kit Essential
Tourniquets are the most important piece of equipment in your EDC or backcountry first aid kit, no matter which style you choose to carry. Period. But if you get two or more people from the SOF community talking about which is best — a ...
The 6 Deadliest Alaska Plane Crashes of All Time
While Alaska may be the closest thing to heaven on Earth, flying in the Land of the Midnight Sun can be absolute hell. Harsh, often unpredictable weather conditions and the rough, wild country make Alaska plane crashes part of everyday ...
Clerk, 80, Uses Hunting Skills and a Shotgun to Stop Armed Robbery
Eighty-year-old Craig Cope credits his childhood hunting experience for the quick-thinking and stellar shotgunning skills that saved his California liquor store and possibly his life from a group of would-be armed robbers, and he has become internet ...
Investigators: Bear Went for the Kill in Fatal Montana Grizzly Attack
Last year, a fatal Montana bear attack claimed the life of Leah Davis Lokan when a grizzly dragged her out of her tent and killed her. When the story broke, authorities said Lokan had food in her tent, and many on social media wrote her death off as ...
Bear Blood May Hold Key to Best Supplements for Muscle Growth
A study recently released by Japanese researchers reads like a superhero origin story: Scientists extract blood serum from a creature and use it to grow human cells like some kind of super brew of muscle-building supplements. Then, of course, Japan ...
Unknown if Wealthy Couple Died in Crash Before Being Eaten by Bears
It was recently revealed that a wealthy Russian power couple and a former biathlete were killed when their helicopter crashed in the Russian wilderness. They were then mauled and eaten in a gruesome brown bear attack. The former athlete, Igor ...
