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A First Time Colorado Backcountry Solo Hunt
Clint Casper of Petersen's Bowhunting recaps his most memorable hunt as a backcountry solo hunt above treeline in Colorado. Clint details the lasting impressions of experiencing wild, remote places while navigating a backcountry solo hunt in a collection of short stores from "Where 2 Hunt" Most Memorable series....read more
Basic Survival Lessons From Naked & Afraid Star, Laura Zerra
Learn survival skills from a Naked and Afraid all star. Laura Zerra is one of the most successful survivalists and bushcraft experts in Naked and Afraid history. Laura has conquered two 21 day Naked and Afraid challenges along with a 40 day Naked and Afraid XL challenge. Not to mention...a life full of honing primitive skills and becoming a survival expert. She broke down some simple survival principles for us in this episode about survival basics. Laura Zerra covered how to approach a survival situation by asking and addressing "What's gonna kill me first?", she explains her strategy for setting up a bushcraft camp and a bushcraft shelter, she shared her approach to starting fires in survival situations, and she explains why she uses the bushcraft knife that she does. ...read more
Fall Bear Hunting Tips | Spot & Stalk and Bait Hunting
Fall bear hunting is much different than whitetail hunting! This episode will give you tips for spot and stalk bear hunting, hunting over bait for bear and the essential bear hunting gear. Clay Newcomb, owner of Bear Hunting Magazine, gave advice for both of these bear hunting methods as well as the gear that is essential for executing a successful bear hunt in the Fall. Clay Newcomb covers his scouting efforts, how he approaches scent control, bears’ feeding habits, bears’ movement patterns as well as the bait combos that he claims “bears can’t turn down”....read more
Mike Larsen: Home Defense Lessons from a Navy Vet & Police Officer
Home defense and gun storage safety have become even more important now than they ever were before. Guns can be a great asset or a great liability, it all depends on the precautions you take. Mike Larsen, brings 26 years of gun safety and effectiveness training to this discussion. He has served in the United States Navy and is currently a Police officer. In this episode Mike highlights the need to prepare yourself without going overkill, he explains the importance of handling recoil, weight, as well as easy & safe retrieval. He covers his go to home defense firearm and home defense ammunition. He shares how to store guns that are for home defense and how to store guns that are for other purposes. Mike explains why his go to home defense firearm is a handgun and not a shotgun as well as the necessity to add a flashlight to your home defense setup. Lastly he gives his opinion on a fairly divided debate: Should you keep a round in the chamber?...read more
GoWild Expands Activity Tracking with Apple Watch & Android Watch Support
In addition to its robust Garmin integration, GoWild has added activity tracking support for Apple Watches, Google Wear OS Watches and an expansive list of other devices. With the integration, members can track and share their outdoor adventures on a dynamic timeline, highlighting information such as mileage, average heart rate, elevation changes, temperature and much more. Activities are shared on an anonymized map, hiding the actual location of the activity and limiting zoom so member’s secret spots are kept that way. ...read more
Otis Technology Partners with Outdoor Social Commerce Company, GoWild
Just as 2020 brought rapid growth to the outdoor industry, the social commerce company GoWild is trending upwards. Activity surged in March, and the platform is currently at its all-time high for monthly active users, ecommerce engagement and revenue. That momentum caught the attention of Otis Technology, a top manufacturer of premium, American-made gun cleaning systems. Otis Technology is integrating its full product line of cleaning kits, Ripcord®, hearing protection and more into GoWild’s marketplace, and is partnering with GoWild to reach a budding community of new and veteran firearms enthusiasts....read more
Beau Martonik: Whitetail Hunting Strategies
Hunting whitetail on public land has its share of challenges. Knowing where to go, how and when to call, and what tactics to use are the difference between a boring sit in the woods and filling your freezer. Beau Martonik, from East Meets West, shares what he's learned as an avid public land whitetail hunter in Northern Pennsylvania. The region he hunts is some of the most highly pressured public land for hunting whitetail deer. Beau explained his tactics for calling whitetail on public land, whitetail hunting around pressure, grunting, bleating, rattling, snort wheezing calling frequency, and more....read more