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Danielle started Wild + Whole as a way to share the things she loves about cooking with wild game, eating whole foods, and living a healthy mindful lifestyle. After a stint at MeatEater, you can now find her latest at daniellecooks.com
Getting ready for road trips is always a process for me. Lists lead to piles. Piles turn into containers filled with unorganized gear. Then I spend half the trip searching for things. The 5.11 Urban Utility Ruck 25L helped me change the game this year. I utilize a lot of electronics in the field, which…
I’m always making small adjustments to the items I consider Every Day Carry (EDC) in my bird vest based on the conditions and situations we run into in the field. Of course there are always shells, there’s always water, generally a snack though it may be from a previous hunting season. Most of the EDC…
Weight, weight, weight… no, seriously. I have carried a multi-tool in my bird vest for years. And the number of times I used that massive have-it-all tool with something for every eventuality over the course of those years…… zero. Because of the rigors of this season of Way Upland, I broke down all my gear…
I always have my keys on me; I feel lost without them. And now thanks to Real Avid I’ll always have a pin punch, choke wrench, cord cutter and bottle opener on my person as well. There is going to be a time in the field when I need to poke or prod something on…
When you’re headed into the backcountry bird hunting, it’s always a balancing act between how much gear you can carry yet still have enough legs left once camped to follow dogs in pursuit of birds. I was able to easily pack four days and three nights worth of gear and food in Eddie Bauer’s Alchemist….
For those of you who followed along (literally) during our early upland season, you were able to track all our hunts in real-time thanks to Garmin’s inReach Mini satellite communicator. What you didn’t get to see is regardless how far off the grid we were hiking or hunting, we were always able to send and…