The Nature Reliance Podcast: Where Wilderness and Human Nature Collide
The Nature Reliance Podcast explores real stories of wilderness survival, human decision-making under stress, awareness, and the lessons nature quietly teaches us all.
Hosted by Craig Caudill of Nature Reliance School, this podcast blends immersive storytelling, historical accounts, wilderness experience, modern psychology, and reflective analysis into a grounded exploration of what happens when people are tested by nature, uncertainty, fear, and consequence.
This is not fake survival nonsense.
These are thoughtful, psychologically realistic stories about awareness, humility, resilience, and the ways stress exposes human gaps.
From historical wilderness disasters to modern survival incidents, tracking stories, close calls, and lessons learned in the field, each episode examines not just what happened, but why.
Because awareness is trainable.
Nature rewards humility.
And the best classroom has no walls.
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The Nature Reliance Podcast: Where Wilderness and Human Nature Collide
#38 Intro to Hunting
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Hunting provides opportunities like nothing else. Great time afield gathering a 100% organic food source is one of many fantastic benefits. This podcast introduces ethics, how-to, moon phases, gear, and so...much....more.
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Essential Wilderness Navigation
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Timestamp
0:45 Introduction
1:47 Sponsors
2:03 Upcoming Knot Course
2:13 Podcast Begins
3:01 Mindset/Ethics
5:04 Mindset/Safety
6:44 Mindset/Stewardship/Conservation
8:16 Skills
9:00 skills/Terrain
10:18 Skills/Tree/Plant ID
11:58 Skills/Noise
16:15 Tactics
16:40 Tactics/Weather & Moon Phases
20:08 Tactics / Processing the Animal
22:05 Gear
22:26 Gear/Fred Bear
23:20 Gear/Knife
24:48 Gear/Guns
24:12 Gear/Camo
27:48 Gear/Scent Cover
29:44 Follow up!
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