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Winter fishing safety means defining hard limits, standardizing your procedures, and treating every winter outing as a cold-exposure operation. Operating principle: Abort criteria guardrails come first. Always assume worst-case. Standard definitions used throughout this article: Winter fishing: Any fishing activity when air temperatures are near or below freezing, ice is present, or water temperatures are...
Read More →The Labor Day weekend is an excellent time to squeeze in an end-of-summer camping trip before kids head back to school and the bustling fall begins. While packing for your trip, considering adding a few items to make sure your campsite doesn’t accidently attract bears or other curious wildlife. All of that stuff you saw…
Just a few days ago, we sponsored a lively discussion on North American predators and how to best manage them. Today, we have news from California that highlights the importance of that discussion. California has long shied away from allowing managed mountain lion hunting … and it shows in the number of attacks on humans…
Are you ready for your backcountry adventure? When you hear 5.11, you might be thinking “tactical,” and you wouldn’t be wrong … but did you know that 5.11’s roots are actually in mountaineering? The company’s founder, Royal Robbins, named the first pair of pants he designed after the Yosemite Decimal System, which is a way of…
Lions, tigers, and bears, oh yawn. It’s the moose you need to worry about. You are in the middle of a hike to your favorite waterfall. You come around a corner and notice a large moose in the middle of the trail. What should you do? Moose may actually be members of the deer family,…
Dear Wallet: Brace yourself (again), because there’s something I shouldn’t want…but do. Ever read World War Z (the book, not that awful Brad Pitt vehicle they released as a movie) or The Zombie Survival Guide? Both books, as well as The Walking Dead series, all make something very clear: Zombies may be slow and stupid,…
Spring forward? Spring back? Forget the alarm clock, it’s time for a self-defense guns and gear giveaway! March 2021 is roaring in like a lion this year with Popular Outdoorsman’s hottest giveaway yet. From now through March 31, we’re offering a self-defender’s dream prize package: the Self-Defense Spring $7K Guns & Gear Giveaway! What do…
Hi, City Folks! We’re your new country neighbors, and this is your welcome basket. If you live in the country, chances are quite good that you’ve noticed that land prices are shooting up and you’re seeing more and more people with “Coexist” stickers on their bumpers than ever before. If you live in the city,…
What’s in your vehicle survival kit? You’ve no doubt heard of Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong, will.” Munson’s Law, which I named for myself, is the corollary to Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong, will. And you will feel like a jackass because you knew better and you let it happen anyway.”…
This excellent training video from CrossBreed Holsters is much easier to watch than that Tarantino flick… Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” is a pretty good film (if you like Tarantino), but it’s three hours long and drops the “n-bomb” about 65 times, so it’s not the easiest movie to watch. This excellent training video from…
Because baby, it’s cold outside! If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent more of your life than you want to admit trying to put your Boy Scout fire-building badge to use. From the holiday hearth to the depths of the wilderness, a warm, cozy fire offers everything from comfort and joy to continued survival. Realtree…
I want to believe…but first, a little due diligence. A little while back we ran an article about the reasons why the legend of Bigfoot will never die. I did neglect to mention one reason why hunters and outdoorsmen still whisper about Sasquatch over their campfires: Because hunters and outdoorsmen still see Sasquatch. Fairly frequently,…
When tenderfeet get lost, nobody wonders. But how do experienced outdoorsmen just “disappear”? Every year, hundreds of thousands of hunters head into the woods, and the overwhelming majority of them come home a few hours later. But every so often, experienced outdoorsmen go missing…and we’re left wondering how it could possibly have happened. A few…
