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Bowhunt or Die! Episode 8 Recap

 After taking a week off to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, Bowhunt or Die! returned for Episode 8 of its inaugural season.  While our team spent Thanksgiving being thankful for friends, family and good food, the whitetails across the country were thankful our hunters weren’t out hunting them!  With the type of season our team has […]

Thankful for Bowhunting Home, Time With Family

 If you have followed my blog throughout the 2010 hunting season, you certainly know how much I am enjoying my time in the upper Midwest.  Whether it be chasing these giant whitetails with bow in hand or behind the camera filming Justin Zarr and Todd Graf and their hunts, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every second I’ve […]

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 7 Recap

 While it may seem hard to believe, Bowhunt or Die has reached Episode 7 of the 2010 bowhunting season.  With the rut in full swing, our staff members flooded the woods and fields of Wisconsin and Illinois in hopes of harvesting a mature buck on film.  Two of our most persistent Pro Staffers, Mike Willand […]

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 6 Recap

 The 2010 bowhunting season has been very good to the Bowhunt or Die.

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 5 Recap

 The fifth episode of Bowhunt or Die was our best episode so far this season, hands down.  Halloween Weekend was good to the Bowhunting.com team as 4 bucks hit the ground totaling over 540 inches of bone.  Episode 5 is full of big buck action from Central Illinois and Wisconsin so read on and let’s […]

Illinois Buck Down! Living the Bowhunter’s Dream

    I’ve always said, “Everyone should get to live a dream come true.”  It’s a simple saying, but I truly believe that at some point, everyone in life should get to live out the dreams they had has a kid, regardless of how wild or seemingly unattainable they might be.  Fortunately for me, I have […]

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 4 Recap

 In the first three installments of Bowhunt or Die the bowhunting.com team put some awesome bucks on the ground while managing to capture it beautifully on film.  In Episode 4 we watched two more bucks, a doe and a turkey hit the ground, and we received updates from the rest of our Pro Staff guys […]

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 1 Recap

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 1 Recap

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 3 Recap

Episode 3 of “Bowhunt or Die!” was easily our best one yet!  Over 300 inches of antler hit the ground during this past week’s episode, and that’s just from two bucks!  If you are looking for blood pumping, monster buck hunts, and a couple doe harvests along the way, then look no further than Episode […]

Bowhunt or Die! Episode 2 Recap

 The second installment of “Bowhunt or Die!” provided just as much excitement and big buck action as the first.  The warm temperatures did their best to stall the efforts of our Pro Staffers, but they battled through the heat and came away with some great footage and exciting hunts.  Episode 2 featured doe harvests from Illinois […]

Bowhunt or Die: Bowhunting.Com’s New Semi-Live Hunting Show

 If you are a serious bowhunter you probably already know that bowhunting.com is the ultimate online resource for everything bowhunting.  Top notch gear review videos, information packed Pro Staff blogs, and of course the best bowhunting products for sale are what make bowhunting.com the premiere bowhunting website in the world.  For the 2010 fall hunting […]

Illinois Doe Down! Bowhunting Dream Come True

When Todd Graf offered me the opportunity to move to Northern Illinois and work at the bowhunting.com office, I jumped at the chance to live and breathe bowhunting in the Mecca of the whitetail world.  Growing up as a young boy in Virginia I dreamed of hunting giant Midwestern whitetails.  I watched with envy as […]

Bowhunting Success Requires Adaptability

   For the second straight weekend, Todd Graf and I headed north to Wisconsin in hopes of connecting on an early season whitetail on film.  For the second straight weekend, we worked our tails off to tip the odds in our favor of doing so.  Unlike last weekend, however, we came back to Illinois with […]

Archery Opener in Wisconsin; Bowhunting The Early Season

The morning of Saturday, September 18th, began a new chapter in my short hunting career; the role of camera man.  Bowhunting.Com founder, Todd Graf, and I left Huntley, Illinois Saturday morning around eight and headed north to Central Wisconsin for the archery opener.  I was experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions. The anticipation and excitement of sitting in […]

How To: Taking Quality Bowhunting Harvest Pictures

There is an old cliché amongst deer hunters that following the harvest of a whitetail, “the real work begins.”  This is undoubtedly true; first there is the emotional roller coaster of following a blood trail.  Once we’ve recovered fallen animal, then comes the field dressing, the sometimes rigorous drag out of the woods, then if […]

Early Season Whitetails and Food Plots

As the Dog Days of summer begin to dwindle down to the early stages of fall, so my excitement and enthusiasm for the opening day of bow season rises.  As if it could rise any higher!  Opening day for some is just weeks away, but for most of us we still have to wait until […]

Creating A Whitetail Highway

Let’s face it; the majority of us bowhunters live for hunting the rut, and for good reason.  Mature bucks are on their feet cruising for does during daylight hours making them extremely vulnerable and “easier”, if you will, to harvest.  Coinciding with their defenseless demeanor during the rut is a state of lunacy that, at […]

The John Feazell Buck – Virginia Archer Slams New State Record

When John Feazell stood in the hunting department at Wal-Mart prior to the 2009 hunting season, he was faced with perhaps the biggest decision of his life.  Okay, not really.  But he was faced with the decision of whether or not to buy a new grunt call, not just any grunt call, the new Flextone […]

The Quest for a Bottom Buck – Part 1

Stop me if you have heard this before, “We are currently living in the golden age of deer hunting.”  Yes, we certainly are.  Whitetail populations are in abundance and thriving thanks to conservation minded hunters while the species is the healthiest it has ever been.  Coinciding with this golden age is the drive to harvest […]

What a Weekend! Trip to Northern Illinois a Dream Come True

What a weekend!  When I left Virginia early Thursday morning, I don’t think it’s possible I could have imagined a more perfect trip to Northern Illinois.  I was looking forward to the trip west; driving through the mountains of West Virginia, across the Ohio River, through Indiana farmland and into the beauty and nostalgia that […]