Lifestyle

Fitness
Hypoxic Training for Hunting: Perform at High Altitude
Exalt XP’s Roman Brady discusses low-oxygen training for mountain hunts and explains why, above all else, preparation matters most.

Food & Drink
Buckhorn Exchange Denver: Inside Denver’s Oldest Restaurant
Denver’s Buckhorn Exchange has served steak, wild game and Old West history since 1893. Inside the city’s oldest restaurant, historic artifacts, hundreds of taxidermy pieces and Colorado Liquor License No. 1 turn dinner into a trip through the American West.

Destinations
Flathead Lake Lodge: Inside Montana’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Retreat
A third-generation family legacy pairs Western hospitality, understated luxury and an endless menu of outdoor experiences in Big Sky Country.

Food & Drink
Chef Paul Wahlberg Relaunches Wahlburgers Wild at Bass Pro Shops’ Memphis Pyramid

Fitness
Frank Fumich Summits Mount Everest to Complete the Explorers Grand Slam
After decades of extreme endurance challenges, Frank Fumich had one mountain left to climb. His Mount Everest summit completed the Explorers Grand Slam and nearly cost him his life.

Destinations
Fly Fishing Taos: The Rio Grande Had a Bigger Story to Tell
A fly-fishing trip into New Mexico’s Rio Grande Gorge delivers rainbow and brown trout, but the water also reveals a much bigger Taos story shaped by Indigenous history, conservation, public access and a thousand years of people living alongside the river.

Lifestyle
F. A. Porsche: The Hunter Behind the Porsche 911
Before F. A. Porsche created the 911, he grew up hunting in the Austrian Alps. At Heuberg estate, nature, family and function shaped his life and design.

Lifestyle
Old West Saloons: Where Hollywood Gets It Wrong
Old West saloons weren’t quite the bullet-riddled dens Hollywood made them out to be. Here’s what really happened inside the frontier’s most important gathering places.

Fitness
Talon Smith Explains How Fitness Transforms the Outdoor Experience
Former Navy corpsman and FTX Hybrid Athletics co-owner Talon Smith explains how physical readiness gives people access to harder outdoor experiences—and enough reserve to remain present while living them.

Fitness
Whitney Johns on Why Fitness Culture Is Moving Outdoors
Whitney Johns believes the gym and the outdoors are converging around a shared goal: building the strength, endurance and resilience to become more capable in the field—and in life.

Lifestyle
Walk the Battlefields: Must-Visit Revolutionary War Sites
Explore Revolutionary War battlefields across the U.S. and abroad, from Lexington and Yorktown to Caribbean forts still standing today.

Fitness
Dave Castro’s CrossFit Fitness Tips for Outdoorsmen
Ahead of the 20th CrossFit Games, "The Architect of Suffering" Dave Castro tells Hook & Barrel what real fitness looks like for hunters, anglers, and anyone else trying to gain margins in the outdoors.

Lifestyle
WWII Pin-Up Bomber Jackets: A Collector’s Perspective
From "Little Pedro" to the "Dragon Lady," explore the raw history, gallows humor, and unique creativity behind authentic WWII painted pin-up bomber jackets.

Lifestyle
WWII Pin-Up Nose Art: The History of America’s Bombshells & Bombers
Pin-up nose art turned WWII bombers into flying canvases: part morale booster, part superstition, part rebellion. Here's the full story of the bombshells and the men who painted them.

Food & Drink
Why Wild Game Finally Went Mainstream
Wild game is popping up everywhere, from Joe Rogan to the diet plans of top athletes. But its emergence in American culture is more nuanced than celebrity exposure; it’s at the very heart of an American food revolution.

Destinations
5 Underrated National Parks Every Outdoorsman Should Visit
From Voyageurs to Bighorn Canyon, these underrated national parks deliver fishing, hunting, hiking, history and wild American scenery without the usual crowds.

Food & Drink
StarWalker Organic Farms Raises All-American Meat from the Ground Up
At StarWalker Organic Farms, Jason and Kristina Walker are building better meat from healthier soil, raising organic beef, pork and chicken outdoors and keeping control from pasture to package.

Fitness
7 Best Supplements for Outdoorsmen, According to Sports Dietitians
From creatine to magnesium, here are the seven supplements leading sports dietitians actually recommend for the Modern Outdoorsman.

Food & Drink
Rattle Battle: Inside America’s Wildest Rattlesnake Cookoff
Chef Grant Morgan shares what it takes to cook rattlesnake at Fort Worth’s Rattle Battle, where chefs, bull riders and adventurous eaters meet.

Food & Drink
Inside Jack Daniel’s: How America’s Oldest Distillery Is Celebrating America 250
As America marks its 250th birthday, few brands are as synonymous with the USA as Old No. 7 as we take a look at what makes JD so iconic.
