All Day in a Tree
No pain, no gain.
Typically those words are used to remind athletes that victories are earned through tremendous self-sacrifice. But the same axiom can also be applied to deer hunters.
The folks who put meat in the freezer and racks on the wall, season...
Five Top Stand Sites for Pressured Public Land
Five Top Stand Sites for Pressured Public Land
The black veil of night slowly lifts from your forest surroundings. You exhale in the cold, morning air, sending a stream of frosty steam out into space. As the cloud dissipates, you survey the area around y...
Food Plots - Plot Journal
After 6 years of trial and error, I think I can share some good advice on how to improve your whitetail hunting property with food plots....
October Whitetails
You’re chomping at the bit. After months of dreaming about big bucks, and watching your favorite hunting videos repeatedly, the season is finally here. The temptation to dive right in and start hunting your best stands is like a moth’s attraction to fire....
Rut Guide
The rut is the one time each season when bucks leave their safe zones – the places where they know the curve of every branch and the smell of every turd. Suddenly they are in situations where they don’t always have the upper hand. Throw in a little testos...
Stand Placement
Past 30 yards, bowhunting for whitetail deer becomes much more a game of luck and guesswork. Bucks change their minds and their direction of travel on a whim. One second everything looks good, the buck is heading toward your shooting lane. Then the next s...
Treestand Safety
Treestand safety is something bowhunters don’t think about much unless they have a treestand accident. Almost all serious bowhunters know someone who has had a treestand accident. I know several individuals who have fallen from treestands. One gentleman I...
3D - How to shoot better scores
Most die hard bowhunters have shot an occasional 3D course, however we often hear questions about what it takes to get better than the average Joe. 3D archery can be shot for many reasons by different people, from preparing for the woods all the way to th...
A Plan to Handle Buck Fever
Navigating the last ten seconds of any encounter with game is an art form that only matures with practice. It is easy to be an armchair quarterback when someone else is telling you how the buck they were hunting gave them the slip at the last second. “Why...
Late Season Strategies
We all want the rut to last until the end of the season, to keep the excitement going as long as possible. For most deer hunters, the late season hunting is more like an experiment than a true hunt. They dream that maybe this year it will be just as good...
Ground Blind Strategies
There are two separate situations where ground blinds can be very productive even when trees are available. The first occurs when a buck is approaching a specific part of a feeding area regularly but using a variety of trails. The second opportunity occur...
20 Blood Trailing Tips
Finding wounded game is a responsibility of every hunter, but you learn some techniques only through experience and those lessons come at the cost of many hours spent on the trail. Rather than having to learn these important lessons the hard way, I’ve com...
Backyard Bucks
Even though we own more land, the best hunting on our farm in the past three seasons has occurred in the 40 acres right around our house. It is almost bizarre how many big deer we have seen and actually shot in that small area even though we live in the h...
Benefits of Arrow Speed
Some people say they prefer to shoot a slower arrow. I guess they feel a slow arrow is more accurate. That may have been true when using some of the rough-tuning bows and big-bladed broadheads of the 1990s, but it is not true today. Other than making the...
Hunting Big Woods Bucks
I love the challenge of hunting big woods bucks and I also love the peacefulness. There is nothing better than hiking a mile or two back into the middle of nowhere in the morning darkness and then waiting for the sun to rise. As you wait for the first mor...
3D - How to shoot better scores
Most die hard bowhunters have shot an occasional 3D course, however we often hear questions about what it takes to get better than the average Joe. 3D archery can be shot for many reasons by different people, from preparing for the woods all the way to t...
Bow and Accessory Silencers
Advances in bow silencing and vibration reducing technology have allowed the modern bowhunter to have the quietest bows in bowhunting history. Here are some helpful hints and products to help quiet your bow and accessories....
Bow Selection
Selecting the right bow for your body type and bowhunting conditions can dramatically affect the way you shoot. This article will help you pick the right bow for your budget, hunting sytle, and size....
Bowhunting Basics
If you are scratching your head trying to make sense of all the technical stuff we write about and the myriad of options available to you when setting up a bow, this article is for you....
Bowhunting Food Plots
If you turn on the T.V. any given Saturday morning and find a hunting show where they are hunting deer chances are you will see some guy hunting over a lush green food plot that is the size of a football field or even larger. You will also see a buck come...
