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How to Install Wool String Silencers on a Recurve or Longbow
Placement, materials, and a step-by-step tie-in for wool string silencers, plus how much wool to leave on and how to care for them in the rain.
By Marisol Vance · · 6 min
Fall Turkey Hunting: How to Scatter a Flock and Call Them Back
Fall turkeys respond to flock separation, not breeding calls. Here is how to find the flock, scatter it properly, and use kee-kee runs and assembly yelps to bring birds back into range.
By Marisol Vance · · 8 min
Wilderness Jerky: Beating Moisture, Bugs, and Bad Bacteria
Making jerky in the wild isn't just about slicing and seasoning. It's a battle against humidity, a race against rot, and a defense against insects. We break down the science of safe, delicious backcountry jerky.
By Marisol Vance · · 10 min
Bushcraft
Knife Steel Types: A Field Guide to What Each Alloy Is Good For
From soft, tough carbon steels that spark a ferro rod to super-hard powder metallurgy blades that hold an edge for a week of processing. Here is what every common knife steel is actually good for.
By Marisol Vance · · 12 min
Bushcraft
Knife Steel Guide: 100+ Blade Steels Ranked by Edge Retention, Toughness and Corrosion Resistance
MagnaCut wins overall, MagnaMax leads edge retention, 14C28N wins value, 3V rules hard use, Vanax and LC200N own saltwater. A ranked, comparative guide to 100+ knife steels with T/E/C data.
By Marisol Vance · · 22 min
Hunting
Blood Trailing and Game Recovery: Slow Down, Mark Evidence, and Stay Legal
Game recovery is a disciplined investigation. The hunter should mark the shot location, last known position, animal reaction, direction of travel, and every reliable sign. Rushing can push a wounded animal farther, destroy evidence, and cre
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Alone TV Show
Why Fishing Is Alone’s Best Narrative Engine
Fishing gives *Alone* a nearly perfect narrative device. It combines skill, uncertainty, local knowledge, patience, and immediate consequence. A participant can do almost everything correctly and still catch nothing. Another can adjust dept
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Hunting
Bow Tuning Basics: What Tuning Can Fix and What It Cannot
Bow tuning aligns the bow, arrow, and release so arrows leave cleanly and group predictably. It cannot repair inconsistent form, incorrect draw length, damaged arrows, or wildly mismatched components. Tune in a logical order: safety inspect
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Hunting
Ethical Shot Selection: Range, Angle, Target ID, and the Decision Not to Shoot
An ethical hunting shot begins with absolute target identification, legal status, a safe background, an unobstructed path, a stable position, and a high probability of rapid recovery. Range is only one variable. Wind, angle, animal posture,
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Marine Weather for Anglers: A Go/No-Go Checklist
Marine weather decisions must consider wind direction and speed, gusts, wave height, period, swell direction, thunderstorms, visibility, temperature, currents, tides, and the vessel. A two-foot sea can be comfortable or punishing depending
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Hunting
How to Fit a Bow: Draw Length, Draw Weight, and Comfortable Setup
Bow fit determines posture, string clearance, anchor, aiming, and whether the archer can repeat good form without strain. Draw length that is too long encourages leaning and an unstable release; too short can crowd the front side. Excess dr
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Fly-Casting Accuracy Matters More Than Heroic Distance
Most fly-fishing opportunities are won by placing the fly in a useful lane with controlled slack, not by throwing the entire line into another postal code. Distance can help on lakes, salt water, and broad rivers, but accuracy, line managem
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Hunting
Backcountry Hunting Pack List: Safety, Recovery, and Meat-Haul Reality
A backcountry hunting pack must support travel, weather, navigation, overnight survival, legal hunting, recovery, and meat transport. The hunt can become physically harder after success, when daylight is fading and the load increases. Pack
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
How to Find Fish in a Lake Using Structure, Cover, and Temperature
Structure is the shape of the lake bottom; cover is the vegetation, wood, rock, docks, or other objects fish use; temperature and oxygen determine which parts of that habitat are comfortable. Productive locations often combine all three wit
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Fly Fishing in the Wind: Safer Casts and Better Presentations
Wind exposes inefficient casting and creates real hook hazards. The answer is not simply more force. Adjust stance, casting plane, loop shape, trajectory, leader, fly size, and position. When gusts become unpredictable or hooks cannot be ke
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Lake Trout Fishing: Temperature, Depth, and Responsible Release
Lake trout are cold-water fish that can move from shallow spring and fall habitat to deeper summer water as temperatures change. Finding them requires attention to temperature, structure, forage, and suspended depth. Releasing fish from dee
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
Saltwater Fishing for Beginners: Start Inshore and Learn the Water
Saltwater fishing adds tides, current, waves, corrosion, larger tackle, sharp-toothed species, and regulations that may change by season and zone. Beginners learn fastest by choosing one accessible inshore fishery, using a simple rig, check
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
How Tides and Current Affect Saltwater Fishing
Tides change water level; current is the movement produced by tides, wind, river discharge, and coastal shape. Fish respond to the resulting access, food movement, clarity, and habitat. A tide table predicts astronomical water levels at a r
By Marisol Vance · · 2 min
