Americans love camping, and an increasingly diverse crowd joins those millions yearly. Most campers’ first trip of the year is in early summer, with planning in April or May, especially when travelling with children. Whether luxury glamping or backcountry trekking, this handy bookazine shows how to get the most from the great outdoors, with over 100 of Outdoor Life’s best tips and tricks to help you pack for your ideal trip, pitch tents anywhere, build campfires in any weather, cook more than marshmallows, teach kids about nature, watch wildlife safely, handle basic first aid . . . and lots more! Please note that this product is an authorized edition published by the Meredith Corporation and sold by Amazon. This edition is printed using a high quality matte interior paper and printed on demand for immediate fulfillment.

Outdoor Life The Complete Guide to CAMPING

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Master the art and science of shooting with Outdoor Life Shooting Editor John B. Snow. No matter the skill level, the Ultimate Shooting Skills Manual: 212 Essential Range and Field Skills has everything the modern shooter needs to succeed. Whatever you’re shooting, be it a tricked-out MSR, a tight 1911, or a custom skeet gun, this book is the all-inclusive expert course you need to shoot faster and more accurately. You’ll have instant access to advanced drills and range techniques for handguns, rifles, and ARs, as well as how to safely apply those skills to hunting and home defense if you desire. Not to mention insider tips from renowned competitors and gun writers plus sensible, real-world advice you need to protect yourself and your family. For the recreational shooter, there is no better resource. With high-quality design, intricate detail, and a durable flexicover—this manual is the perfect gift! RANGE SKILLS This book is filled with tips and tricks that build solid shooting fundamentals, letting you shoot faster and more accurately. Detailed drills for advanced gun handling and manipulation complete an expert course in range accuracy. PERSONAL PROTECTION Fortune favors the prepared, whether you’re protecting your family while out on the streets or guarding your home. The sensible, real-world tips on concealed carry and personal protection in this book could save your life. COMPETITION Insider tips from top competitors guide you through hands-on pistol, revolver, precision rifle, AR, and action shotgun drills and techniques you can apply anywhere you shoot.

The Ultimate Shooting Skills Manual: 212 Essential Range and Field Skills (Outdoor Life)

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Now a New York Times best seller! When the tornado strikes, when the solar flares blaze, when the zombies rise . . . what are you going to do? So many possible disasters, so little time to prepare. The end could be coming any day now, and you’ve got to be ready for the everyday threats such as an earthquake or hurricane, as well as those “well I didn’t see that coming” eventualities like a meteor strike or a killer virus. This all-purpose, A to Z, best-selling guide lays out the survival situations we’re all likely to face . . . and a few you really probably won’t. With high-quality design, intricate detail, and a durable flexicover—this manual is the perfect gift! How to Survive Anything deftly balances the survival basics that you really do need to know with the wild and crazy eventualities that you probably don’t. But, on the other hand, who do you want in your bunker? The guy who read up killer robots or the one who didn’t? The Outdoor Life writers have you covered when it comes to combating, well anything. They’ve written about everything from disaster preparedness to subsistence hunting and fishing, to which guns to use against the undead (really!). After reading the expert advice in this manual, you’ll be prepared for whatever this world throws at you.

How to Survive Anything: From Animal Attacks to the End of the World (and everything in between) (Outdoor Life)

Tim MacWelch

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When the tornado strikes, when the solar flares blaze, when the zombies rise . . . what are you going to do? So many possible disasters, so little time to prepare. The end could be coming any day now, and you’ve got to be ready for the everyday threats such as an earthquake or hurricane, as well as those “well I didn’t see that coming” eventualities like a meteor strike or a killer virus. This all-purpose A to Z guide lays out the survival situations we’re all likely to face . . . and a few you really probably won’t. With high-quality design, intricate detail, and a durable flexicover—this manual is the perfect gift! How to Survive Anything deftly balances the survival basics that you really do need to know with the wild and crazy eventualities that you probably don’t. But, on the other hand, who do you want in your bunker? The guy who read up killer robots or the one who didn’t? The Outdoor Life writers have you covered when it comes to combating, well anything. They’ve written about everything from disaster preparedness to subsistence hunting and fishing, to which guns to use against the undead (really!). After reading the expert advice in this manual, you’ll be prepared for whatever this world throws at you.

How to Survive Anything: From Animal Attacks to the End of the World (Outdoorlife)

MacWelch, Tim

Extreme weather has the ability to leave us devastated, but with the easy-to-follow Extreme Weather Survival Manual you’ll be ready for anything Mother Nature throws at you. Dennis Mersereau and the editors of Outdoor Life magazine offer their life saving advice to help you survive blizzards, hurricanes, firestorms and much more. As a weather reporter, it’s only natural that Dennis Mersereau is a self-proclaimed weather freak. Slate.com said of him, “Don’t mess with the Mersereau. He will find your weather fables and he will crush them . . . We need more Dennises. In fact, the National Weather Service itself should be run by Dennis, with each local office headed by a Dennis-like weather blogger tasked with explaining the relevant weather news of the day, and entertaining us when the weather is boring.” Luckily for you, he’s partnered with the outdoor experts at Outdoor Life to bring you the foolproof guide to surviving extreme weather. From how to read the sky, to which of your grandma’s no-fail weather predicting tips actually work, to how to survive a Storm of the Century, this book has you covered. Filled with weird weather facts (what are those weird sounds under the snow and should you worry about them?) to hands-on survival hints (literally hands-on. Like, don’t lose your fingers to frostbite) to true tales of amazing survival, the Extreme Weather Survival Manual is the one book you need to weather any storm. With high-quality design, intricate detail, and a durable flexicover—this manual is the perfect gift!

Extreme Weather (Outdoor Life): 214 Tips for Surviving Nature's Worst

Mersereau, Dennis

DESIGNED FOR MODERN EMERGENCIES Travel bans. Quarantines. Global Pandemics. Wildfires. The modern world is beset by disasters that governments and emergency services are ill-equipped to handle. In 2020 the best defense against these threats is to prepare yourself and your family against the ever-increasing dangers of the modern world. Survival and preparedness expert Joseph Pred and the editors of Outdoor Life magazine share 294 tips and plans to deal with dangers and scenarios that can affect your and your family’s safety. Be prepared - in today’s America, your best defense is to be ready. <ul>
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Protect against viruses and pandemics. Learn about antibiotics, CPR, and the CORRECT way to wear a safety mask. </li> <li>
Everyday items to the rescue. Instructions on how superglue can treat wounds, how bleach can disinfect almost anything and how duct tape is one of the greatest survival tools in existence.</li> <li>
Self Defence. Expert tips on how to throw a power punch, defend against home invasion and how to exploit the brutal efficiency of Krav Maga</li> <li>
Prepare for when the grid goes down. Should the power, internet or phone system go down, learn how you can provide warmth, shelter and security to your family and friends.</li> <li>
Expert Advice. Joseph Pred is one of America’s leading safety and security experts and is fully certified by DEMO, OHSA and POST. Together with the expert editors of Outdoor Life magazine, Joseph has created the modern blueprint on how to protect your family and community in an increasingly dangerous modern world.</li> </ul>

The Emergency Survival Manual (Outdoor Life): 294 Life-Saving Skills | Pandemic and Virus Preparation | Decontamination | Protection | Family Safety

Pred, Joseph

The go-to-guide for living through the worst of winter from the New York Times best selling author, and survival expert, Tim MacWelch. The life-saving Winter Survival Handbook brings everything you need to survive the harsh winters and extreme emergencies directly to your frostbite-free fingers. Tim MacWelch is the go-to-guy for survival techniques and definitely someone you want next to you in your snow cave. With his fourth book, the Winter Survival Handbook, he’s going to help you survive the average and brutal winters. Practical Hints for Everyday Life Don’t want to spend 20 minutes sitting in driveway waiting for your car to defrost? Learn how to winterize your car, dress for the polar vortex, drive on black ice, keep your home safe and warm, and everything in between. Extreme When danger threatens you and your loved ones, you’ll be ready to combat any dire circumstance. Be prepared for the worst: a major power outage, a walk through a whiteout, a fall through ice into freezing water. Wilderness Survival Freezing and stranded in the middle of nowhere? Wilderness survival expert MacWelch knows what you need to stay warm, survive, and make it out alive. Learn how to build a snow cave, shoot a frozen rifle, make a fire in a snowstorm, and much more. Pick up a copy today for your house or glove box and stay safe this winter!

The Winter Survival Handbook: 157 Winter Tips and Tricks (1) (Outdoor Life)

How to survive a range of natural disasters, from extreme weather to earthquakes and tsunamis, to peril from outer space. Find all the lifesaving advice you need to combat all that Mother Nature can throw at you. The perfect size to fit in your home emergency kit (you do have a home emergency kit, right?), in your glove compartment, or your camping kit. The Natural Disaster Survival Handbook is a must-have for anyone concerned about protecting his or her home, family, and own life. Essential: Get ready to protect your home, with the right emergency kit and first aid supplies. Be ready for earthquakes, floods, blizzards, and other natural disasters wherever you may be. Learn simple tips and techniques for treating common injuries, assessing danger, and getting to safety fast. Extreme: When a tornado is bearing down on your car, the floodwaters have cut off your home, or you’re camping and the lightning strikes seem to be getting closer—what do you do? This book tells you, in simple steps with handy illustrations. Emergency: Mudslides, avalanche, falling boulders often start without warning, leaving little time to prepare – or even think. Be prepared for the worst so you can react quickly. The Natural Disaster Survival Handbook is essential no matter what you’re doing or where you live. Do you have weather? Then you need this book.

The Natural Disaster Survival Handbook

What if you were dropped in the woods with little more than a knife, your wits, and the (hopefully warm) shirt on your back? Could you survive? If you’d read this book, the answer is yes! Survival! It’s one of our most primal fears, most basic needs. What do you do when everything is stripped away except your will to prevail? In this book, survival expert Tim MacWelch examines how native peoples around the world and throughout history have made their own shelter, weapons, tools, and more, and well as clever MacGuyver-esque ideas for using anything you might find in your pockets or pack. Whether your goal is to test yourself against nature, be prepared for any catastrophe, or learn more about traditional ways of survival, this is the one book you need. CHAPTER ONE: Bare Necessities - The stuff you need to survive short term wilderness emergencies (72 hours to one week) The Survival Priorities (&amp; why you need them) Shelter, water, fire, food, first aid and signaling distress Tools of the Minimalist Knife, Axe and Saw - use and care; Clothing selection Shelters Pick a safe shelter location; How to build Leaf huts, lean-tos, jungle platforms, thatched roof, log huts, wicki-ups, pit houses, and more (different homes for varied climates) Water Gathering and Disinfection Finding springs, boiling w/ hot rocks, rain and precipitation collection, water storage, primitive filters, water from plants Fire Tinder, Kindling, Fire Lays, Flint &amp; Steel, Bow Drill, Hand Drill, Bamboo Fire Saw, Fire Plow, Pump Drill, and other friction methods Signaling for Help and Self-Rescue How to signal and communicate w/ old school techniques; How and when to fight your way out CHAPTER TWO: Finer Things - Skills and techniques to collect food, and live more comfortably in the wild (weeks to months) Foraging for Wild Edible Plants How to identify and use wild plant foods; Recipes like our ancestors would have eaten Trapping Ways to catch game with new and old school, low-tech traps Primitive Fishing How to catch fish with thorns and other improvised tackle Ancient Weapons Bow and arrow, spear, Spear thrower, Bola and sling, primitive forging of metal Hunting Skills and game processing; 10 things to never do on a hunt Primitive Tools How to make stone blades, knives, axes, stone drill bits, mallets and wedges for wood splitting, digging sticks Hygiene Keeping clean; Natural toilet paper; Soap from plants; DIY latrine CHAPTER THREE: Long Term Living - The skills of our ancestors and the things you'd need for long term primitive living (years) Food Storage Drying, smoking, Food Caches, Freezing Containers How to make several different basket styles; Bark containers; Wooden bowls; Soapstone bowls and pots; Primitive ceramics Hides and Furs DIY buckskin, fur, rawhide and leather; Making clothes and outerwear (moccasins, mittens, hats, etc.) Primitive Cooking Cook in the coals; Spits and skewers; Green stick grill; Rock for frying pan; Stone Ovens, Steam pit, Earth over (in-ground hearth system) Tracking Man tracking and animal tracking Natural Navigation How to find your way by using the stars, the landscape, the weather and many other methods Wild Medicine Teas, compresses and poultices to help you heal

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Outdoor Life Shooting Editor John B Snow teaches you all you need to skillfully exercise your Second Amendment rights with this comprehensive guide to sport, self defense, and target shooting. New for 2020, this Paperback edition of Outdoor Life's Ultimate Shooting Skills manual is the perfect guide to being a stronger sportsman and responsible gun owner. John B Snow, shooting editor of Outdoor Life magazine shares over 200 tips to improve your range and field shooting skills.

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