Monty Embrey is the Manager of NRA’s Youth Hunter Education Challenge. Monty says that each year kids go through hunter education courses across the country, but there is a void in the safety skills they’ve learned and the field exercises like marksmanship that still need to be mastered. Kids who come out of hunter education courses understand the safety precautions that need to be taken when handling a firearm but they have so much more to learn.

By Tim MacWelch

In the last post, we talked about your need for a “Go Bag” (aka survival kit) in the wilderness. Now, we’ll talk about the kissing cousin of that kit – Every Day Carry gear (or EDC, for short). And perhaps in a future post, we’ll discuss the phrase origin of “kissing cousin”. But for now, your EDC is your back-up and safety net, in the woods and wild places, and around town or during travel.

An excerpt from How To Survive Anything
By Tim MacWelch

A “Go Bag” (aka survival kit) can be your best friend in the wilderness – and in the event you really needed it - opening a well-stocked wilderness emergency kit should make you feel like it’s Christmas morning. Everything you’ve been dying to have (literally) is right there within your grasp. Here’s a minimum of what you should carry in your outdoor survival kit.

In an exclusive four-part series, Michael Waddell of Michael Waddell’s Bone Collector, Sundays at 10:30 p.m. ET and Realtree Road Trips with Michael Waddell on Outdoor Channel, will perhaps give the most candid interview of his career.