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Cody Altizer

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Humbling Beginning to My 2011 Bowhunting Season

Opening weekend in Virginia brought beautiful fall colors, shooter bucks captured on Stealth Cam, a shot opportunity at a doe, but unfortunately no deer recovered.

Bowhunting – The Game of Choices

How making the right choices when bowhunting is what ultimately decides whether or not you will have a successful hunt.

Final Food Plot Preparations and Whitetail Photography

With just a little over a month before opening day of the 2011 archery season, I am killing time by planting fall food plots and taking pictures of the local whitetails.

Gamehide Elimi Tick Clothing Review

As many serious bowhunters know, bowhunting for whitetails isn’t a sport that one can be consistently successful at by simply walking into the woods each fall and hoping for the best.  It takes a lot of time, effort and hard work.  This means spending time year round in the woods shed hunting, scouting, monitoring trail […]

Hanging Deer Stands and Glassing for Velvet Bucks

This coming fall will be my seventh season bowhunting for whitetails, and I have learned quite a bit about the sport during that time, and still have a lot to learn.  One thing I have learned is that there are no certainties in the whitetail woods.  That being said, however, I have come to expect […]

Lone Wolf Portable Treestands Best Treestand for Bowhunters

In this blog I describe and analyze the simplistic effectiveness of Lone Wolf Portable Treestands- the best treestands in the world!

Bowhunting.com Get Together Archery and Fun Shoot Update

The 3rd Annual Bowhunting.com Get Together Archery and Fun Shoot is officially underway and I can, without an ounce of doubt, state that this is by far our biggest and best event ever.  Well over 100 bowhunting enthusiasts from across the country showed up this morning in Garden Prairie, Illinois ready for a day of […]

2011 Hunting Network Sponsor’s Meeting

This blog highlights the new products from our sponsors including NAP, Lone Wolf Portable Treestands, Pine Ridge Archery, Tink's, and Monster Raxx.

Food Plot Strategies and Food Plot Maintenance

In this blog I make a bold prediction concerning the success of my opening day in Virginia as well as touching on some food plot maintenance tips and information.

Spring Forward Your Bowhunting Career

Spring is a great time to focus on several aspects of bowhunting, but this blog contains 4 topics rarely discussed that could positively affect your bowhunting success.

Habitat Management: Using a Chainsaw to Create Bedding Cover for Your Deer

This blog includes helpful tips and information on how the use of a chainsaw can increase the bedding cover on your property as well as how to manipulate deer movement this fall.

NAP Broadheads: Designed to Kill

Several positive experiences with NAP broadheads during the 2010 bowhunting season has given me full confidence using their broadheads.

Bowhunting Internship Is Over- Until Next Time Illinois!

The afternoon of September 17, 2010 found me sitting in a treestand in Northern Illinois, dripping with sweat from the late summer heat and fighting off nasty mosquitoes left and right.  I had just finished hanging a second treestand on a piece of property Todd Graf allowed to hunt, and remember watching an endless Midwestern […]

Jim Shockey- Meeting One of the Industry’s Most Genuine Bowhunters

A blog tribute to Jim Shockey.

2011 ATA Show Update- Day 2 Features New Bowhunting Gear

Day Two of the 2011 ATA Show was just as much fun as the first and I met a couple cool celebrities and learned about some new products as well.

Archery Trade Show Update- Day 1

  There were many things I was looking forward to when I decided to move to Northern Illinois and work at the bowhunting.com office during the fall.  For one, I was excited to be able to hunt big, Midwestern deer with my bow for an entire season.  Secondly, I was looking forward to filming Todd Graf […]

2011 ATA Show Begins!

The 2011 ATA Show in Indianapolis, Indiana officially kicked off this afternoon with the Outtech Innovations Party.  The ATA Show is one of the biggest and most inclusive hunting shows of the year and it really couldn’t come at a better time, as several of the hunters and manufacturers I ran into were still in […]

Bowhunting Insight; What Are You Giving Back?

 With the Christmas Holiday still fresh in our minds, we certainly feel a sense of gratitude and thankfulness for the time spent with family and the gifts we received.  Often times, however, we forget about what we gave and how those gifts impact other’s lives.  Unfortunately, this is often the case in the world of […]

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 10 Recap

 Twas the week before Christmas and all through the woods, not a whitetail was stirring because they knew not they should.  The Bowhunt or Die team sat high in a stand, waiting for a shooter buck to follow the plan.  There is nothing better than a little Christmas jingle, right?  Don’t’ worry, I’ll stick to […]

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 9 Recap

 As the cold, blustery days slowly inch towards the end of the calendar year, so the hunting gets tougher for whitetail enthusiasts across the country.  For the first time this season, Bowhunt or Die went live with an episode that did not feature one of our team members harvesting a deer.  Unfortunately, that is the way late […]