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Utilizing Deer Feeder Staging Areas for Bow Hunting Success
The use of staging areas in the whitetail hunting world has been really popular over the last decade. Conversely, hunting over deer feeders has been popular over several decades. While the latter is a polarizing topic, it’s a great way to bow hunt deer in states where...
The Therapeutic Value of Hunting
As my eyes opened, I felt that nervous pit in my stomach. In my groggy state, I realized that the alarm clock had gone off minutes earlier. I laid there in the dark just wanting to roll over and go back to sleep. Despite the early hour, I wasn't...
Sunflowers, Scatter Guns and Kicking off The Fall
Starting Labor Day weekend, thousands of dove hunters, both serious and passive, assemble around the sunflower fields and stock tanks of much of the American landscape. Whether successful or not, the September heat, sweat-drenched camo and...
Scouting and Preparing New Hunting Property
Finding new places to hunt can come about in many ways. Other than leasing or buying a new tract, I’ve experienced or heard of quite a few of them. I knew a guy whose brother married into a non-hunting family with rural property; A co-worker's...
The Delicious Truth About Why We Eat What We Kill
I recently found myself peering into the deep freeze for dinner alternatives. As has been the case summer after summer, I saw a familiar sight. Other than a couple of cartons of precooked meals from Costco, there was a multitude of venison and...
Young Guns: Introducing Kids to Hunting
When I was growing up, my outdoor experience entailed trekking around for hours at my grandparents farm with either a sling shot or BB gun. Though I enjoyed it immensely then, the memories have been proven to be priceless. Shooting squirrels...
Barnyard Bucks
It was mid-morning and I was returning to the house from a morning bow hunt. Like molasses, I putted along on my golf cart, stopping every few feet and surveying the heavy hardwood canopy to my right. I was sandwiched between a hay field and a...