This past weekend was full of great expectations and dreams of filling my Arizona fall Bear tag which would be my 100th animal with a bow. What made this hunt so special was to have the brand new Destroyer 350 LE that my friends at Bowtech made sure that it was in my hand. I […]
I looked at the forecast for Saturday morning: 100% chance of rain. Called Jake. We would play it by ear if it was fit to hunt in the morning we would. 4:30AM came early checked the radar there was light rain to the west but it looked like we had window of a few hours […]
Early! Early! Early! I can’t wait for opening weekend. I take the first chance I can to get out and hunt whitetails. I live for the openers; I like to use this time to hunt from a blind or a tree stand on the edge of a field, because one thing it does is allow […]
It was around 5AM I woke up to get ready for a hunt that was more about my nephew then it was me. My nephew, Logan, was still asleep when I got to moving around. My buddy Brad had already called and said he was on his way over to pick us up. He arrived and Logan was […]
It’s no secret that I love turkey hunting, spring and fall the same. In the past I haven’t hunted fall turkeys the traditional way, of busting up a flock and calling back. Instead I have just found the large fall groups and called them into range. In some cases I have even passed on taking a shot and just let […]
The Kansas Plan That Worked It’s not always that a plan works in the great outdoors but it worked for me during the Kansas muzzleloader season. I had set up several ground blinds along bean fields on my eastern Kansas farm prior to the opening of the season. Tagging along on my first hunt of […]
Being a dedicated archery hunter living in Iowa, one would think every second would be devoted to finding the best funnel or food plot to set on once the calendar hits the middle of September. Not to say I’m not still jazzed after 30 plus years of hitting the deer woods, however, new challenges are […]
The Midwest is in for a large cool down. This weekend lows in my area will hit mid to upper 20s. This will be the first hard frost for my area. Two things I hope it brings; 1. Deer movement & 2. Kills midge fly. The midge fly is the cause of a lot of […]
Even without much rain this year the “No-Plow” food plots worked just as I had hoped. Sure the plots that got more sunlight did better but I didn’t expect them to grow like “field” plots. For review the landowner had harvested a few trees this past winter and we now had some openings in the forest […]
As an avid turkey hunter, I’m a call freak!!! I seem to have a call of every kind or make, box calls, tube calls, mouth calls, pot calls with every kind of surface. I like my collection of calls. Some get hunted some are for show and some I run only in calling contests at […]
Changing from shooting practice field points to using broadheads for actual hunting is usually the only transition hunters make before hunting season. Unfortunately, most broadheads don’t make the transition very well. A hunting buddy of mine manages an archery pro shop, I spend a good deal of time in there before the season, I’m stunned […]
When it comes to being as scent free as I can get, it’s a big deal. For many of you it’s as important as remembering to bring your bow and for some “not so much”. Removing human scent from your clothing and equipment should go without saying, but many bowhunters are either not aware of […]
Okay it’s that time of the year to start putting together a Potential Hitlist of bucks we might like to shoot. Now I did say “potential” because trail cam pictures are great but they can be deceiving. Sometimes I just need to see that buck to know for sure if he is a shooter. Most of […]
Many hunters wonder why they flub easy shots at animals when they can stack arrows on top of each other, Robin Hood-style, on the practice course. Most times, the answer is simple: It’s all of that extra gear you carry into the woods that you don’t carry onto the practice course. If you’re like me, […]
