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Learn to Hunt and Fish: Beginners Guide and Starter Gear Kits

How to Start Hunting: Beginner Guide and Starter Gear Kit

Dustin

Nov 19, 2020
15 min

How to Start Hunting: Beginner Guide and Starter Gear Kit

Every new hunter comes to the vital tradition of hunting for different reasons, but how do you start hunting as an adult?

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How to Start Fishing: Beginner Guide and Starter Gear Kit

Dustin

Oct 18, 2020
14 min

How to Start Fishing: Beginner Guide and Starter Gear Kit

Without any previous experience, I wanted to find out how to start fishing.

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Vital Tradition Podcast

Fishing

How to Become a Professional Tournament Bass Fisherman

How to Make Jerky at Home: Vital Jerky Recipe

Hunting

My Whitetail Deer Hunt During the 2020 Ohio Gun Season

How Long Do You Wait After Shooting a Deer?

Vital Tradition Founders and Contributors

Sam

Army Veteran and IT Specialist

Dustin

Clinical Anesthetist and Author/Illustrator

Alex

Environmental Scientist and CFO

Outdoor Stories and Adventures

Dustin

Dec 8, 2020

How to Become a Professional Tournament Bass Fisherman

So, you want to be the next Kevin Van Dam? Well as easy as it may appear on tv or the internet, that is far from the truth.

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Dustin

Nov 18, 2020

How to Silence a Tree Stand

3 Simple Ways to Silence a Tree Stand: Buckle strap covers. Silencing cloth tape around exposed metal. Paracord wrap to tree stand base.

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Simple Low-Cost Workout to Improve your Outdoor Fitness

Dustin

Oct 23, 2020

Simple Low-Cost Workout to Improve your Outdoor Fitness

Workout A Cardio for 10 minutes. Can be elliptical, treadmill, bike, running, jogging. Body Weight Exercises.

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How to Fish for Deep Water Bluegills in the Summer

Dustin

Oct 22, 2020

How to Fish for Deep Water Bluegills in the Summer

Bluegill fishing is a great way to get new people into fishing. There is a reason if the “tug” is a drug, then bluegills are the “gateway”.

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Dustin

Oct 21, 2020

How to Fly Fish for Muskies

What do you need to learn how to fly fish for muskies?

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Dustin

Oct 18, 2020

How to Start Fishing: Beginner Guide and Starter Gear Kit

Without any previous experience, I wanted to find out how to start fishing.

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Best Camera for Self Filming Hunts, Fishing, and Fly Fishing

Dustin

Oct 14, 2020

Best Camera for Self Filming Hunts, Fishing, and Fly Fishing

So how do you know what the best camera is for self filming hunts, fishing, and fly fishing?

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Dustin

Sep 23, 2020

How to Fish for Fun

No matter how serious of a fisherman or women you are, you need to allow yourself to experience some fun fishing periodically.

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Dustin

Sep 17, 2020

How to Catch Big Bass on Muskie Baits

Imagine throwing a giant top water lure on a cool, glass calm morning and breaking the distant loon sounds is an epic explosion of an angry

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Dustin

Sep 14, 2020

How to Build a Ground Blind Platform

Before I could think of all the crisp fall mornings, I needed to learn how to build a ground blind platform.

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Sam

Sep 12, 2020

How the Outdoors Brought Me Back Home

When fall came and duck season opened, my support group became my Uncle, Grandfather and Brother. We were smashing ducks four or five times

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Learn to Shoot – My First Time at the Rifle Range

Dustin

Sep 12, 2020

Learn to Shoot – My First Time at the Rifle Range

And despite ending the that season with a yearning for more adventure, my start on the range was anything but “gung ho”.

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Dustin

Sep 12, 2020

How to Cook your Catch – Fish Fry

The fish fry is a simple and timeless process that can be applied to almost anything. The best part about the process is that it is...

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Dustin

Sep 12, 2020

How to Garden – DIY Raised Garden Bed

After lining the boxes I filled in with soil and finished it with a 2” layer of mulch to prevent weed growth. For our first year we planted

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Dustin

Sep 8, 2020

How to Tent Camp

Some of the basic steps of tent camping are pretty easy to set up with a little practice. Here is a quick checklist to get you started.

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Dustin

Aug 29, 2020

How to DIY Saltwater Shore Fish

Some of the most fun DIY fishing I have had in saltwater have been right out my hotel back door without ever having to leave the property.

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Dustin

Aug 29, 2020