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Episode-768-Craig Cole from The Outdoor Podcast

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Modern Survival| 9 Comments
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Craig Cole from The Outdoor Podcast

Craig Cole from The Outdoor Podcast

Craig Cole is an avid outdoorsman and hunter who decided to start The Outdoor Podcast as a method of sharing his passion for the outdoors with other people.

Craig’s passions range from hunting to canoeing to wilderness self-reliance skills and just about anything and everything outdoors.

He is currently a student of Dave Canterbury’s Phase 1 Course and was published in Issue #3 of Self-Reliance Magazine.  He joins us today to discuss ways we can all find more adventure in our lives and add a sense of realism to our self reliance skills training.

Talking to Craig was great, sort of like chatting to an old friend you had never actually met, I think this will be a great podcast to kick off a fall weekend.

Craig Joins Us Today to Discuss…

  • Adding realism to self reliance
  • Finding Adventure in your life
  • The law of the lowest common denominator
  • Canoes vs. kayaks
  • Skills over stuff
  • Real scenarios that are the most likely to require self reliance skills
  • Practicing skills within your daily activities
  • EDC and day kits
  • Butchering big game
  • Finding an outdoors mentor
  • Small game hunting

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Episode-543- All About Deer Hunting

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
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So I am about to go away for the rest of the week up to the BOL in Arkansas.  Not another vacation but for pure work.  As you know we are getting ready to move in the winter to Arkansas permanently, something I have been working years to achieve.  I won’t be hunting but I will be doing some scouting, I may even take the bow and hell who knows but the truth is I will spend this trip laying flooring.  Yet just the thought of being in the woods in cool weather has me thinking of hunts past.

Additionally with the loss recently of my good friend Howell Dodd getting away could not come at a better time.  I won’t be doing any prerecorded shows, I wanted to and was going to over the weekend but the loss of my friend just took it all out of me.  What I will do though is rebroadcast some earlier shows on Wednesday and Thursday.  Two that will hopefully keep anyone from getting to hopeful after today’s so called “historic elections”.

But if I am going to leave you for the rest of the week let me do so on a truly happy and fun subject.  There are two times when I am absolutely fully happy, one is with gun or bow in hand in the mountains in pursuit of game, the other with rod in hand in pursuit of fish.   Let me share what deer hunting has meant to me, the lessons it has taught me about life and prepping and how it is different in different parts of the nation.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • The story of my first rack buck with a bow
  • Understanding your preys advantages
    • Sight
    • Hearing
    • Scent
    • Instinct
  • Understanding your prey’s weaknesses
    • Follows patterns
    • Can’t think like a human
    • Driven by primal urges
    • Territorial
    • Your understanding of its advantages and disadvantages
  • Methods of hunting
    • Stalking
    • Still Hunting
    • Tree stand hunting
    • Blind hunting
    • Driving
  • Tips and tricks
    • The real hunting is from Feb – Sept
    • Film container scent use (doe in rut is best)
    • A bag full of pine needles
    • Get dressed in the field
    • Always read the wind
    • Stay warm or cool
    • Be organized
    • Learn to “feel”
  • Dealing with your kill
    • Field dressing
    • Skinning
    • Quartering
    • Aging meat
    • Boning and primary cuts
  • Thoughts on being a predator as a natural state
    • It is about the harvest more then the kill
    • Sometimes you “let one walk”
    • Wise words from Robert Ruark

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Photo Credit for Photo Above to huntingdesigns under Creative Commons

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Episode-52- Basics of the Bow and Bow Hunting for Survival Living

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
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Note – Today’s podcast has some audio issues, it seems my mic was not properly plugged in and the external mic did all the recording.  I decided to post the show with the issues, rather then simply not post it at all.  Be assured that the audio quality going forward will return to what it has been recently.

Tune in today and get a primer on bow hunting and learn all about the great sport of archery hunting.  I first started bow hunting at 13 and after well over 20 years it is still the most exciting form of hunting I have ever done.  Tune in to hear…

  • Choosing between long, recurve and compound bows
  • The cross bow its real advantages and the myths about it as well
  • Why some states allow cross bows in archery season and others don’t and why both are right to do so
  • How I started bow hunting
  • Your responsibility as a bow hunter
  • What it is like to be “busted” while drawing the bow on a deer
  • Different broad heads – shoot what shoots best for your bow
  • Finding a good archery shop
  • Why most should start with a compound bow
  • My feeling about mechanical releases
  • The role of the bow in survival living
  • How bow hunting makes you a true predator
  • The spiritual side of bow hunting

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