Suburban Outdoorsman

Its been a few months since we have started chronicling our our journey to improve our outdoor skills and knowledge an have covered a few different subjects in this time. Today we are looking at how things have changed or adapted for us since we started. 

As an example, looking at the benefits from having an Every Day Carry bag, and looking at the situations we have been able to use the items, or even times we could have and d...

Your Outdoor Skills wouldn't be complete if you didn't know how to cook your food! Today Sean & Kevin look at a couple of different methods of cooking  outdoors.  

First item of discussion; if you know you plan on being out in the woods and will want to be cooking some food up, what sort of items should you have planned ahead of time to be ready.  

Then as a follow up, what happens if you find yourself in more of...

What better way to put the outdoor skills you have been learning to the test than a camping trip? 

So this camping trip we did was more of a hanging out at the park and just sleeping in a tent type camping vs the out in woods testing our outdoor skills type camping trip, but it was still a lot of fun, and was great to get the kids outdoors and away from the electronic leashes. 

We look at some of the things that went well...

We are back to follow up on our last episode testing some of the items we discussed for trying to get a fire going. Starting off we make some char cloth, as this seems to be a great medium to use along with other tools to get a fire going.  We look at using some home made items to get a good flame going like cotton balls in vaseline,  dryer lint by itself as well as dryer lint soaked in wax, and steel wool and batteries (...

Firecraft skills are extremely important for many different scenarios and by many rated at the top of the list of outdoor skills you should master.  We can use fire for heat, both personal warmth as well as heat for cooking, signal fire if stranded, light for around the camp or if traveling at night without a flashlight, safety (warding off unwanted animals from camp) and many other uses. 

Today's focus is primarily on st...

Today's episode we discuss setting up food plots with the specific goal of game management targeting white tail.  We look into some details around soil testing and what types of seed to use. Are you able to use equipment to line up the seed holes and plant the crops like you would for corn or soybeans, or are you looking at something more than you can just throw out for spread coverage. 

We also look at locations of setti...

A little introduction to your hosts Sean and Kevin and a little bit about what you can expect from the show. Our primary goal is to learn a variety of outdoor skills that we can work on and apply ourselves, but also to pass down and teach our kids.  Of course the term "Outdoor skills" is a broad range. Some of the specific outdoor skills we will be working on include firecraft, emergency preparedness including EDC and Bug Out ...