Wait! Don’t Make a Deer Tag Sammich Just Yet!
You prepared for months, maybe even years, for your DIY hunt. You spent a week or more working hard and analyzing sign, wind currents, deer movements and any other clues you could. You hunted hard during the peak time of the year, but still came home with an unpunched tag in your pocket. All is […]
Arrow Impact videos: Bears
If you aren’t a hunter, you probably can’t appreciate this, but if you love to bowhunt bears, you will understand the amount of hard work, dedication and long hours on stand that went into getting these 13 shots. Enjoy.
Is chocolate in bear baits killing bears?
Chocolate and Bears Some states are considering outright bans on chocolate in bear baiting. That’s an overreaction and here’s why. It’s long been known that chocolate contains a chemical that can be harmful to many animals if consumed in large quantities. Theobromine is found in all forms of chocolate and it has proven to be […]
Electric Hunting Bikes: Game Changer
After hunting with a FatKat bike on two hunts, I cannot believe how much difference it made and how much more efficient I am in checking cameras, scouting, getting to and from the stand, hauling gear into the woods, among other things. I used the Crawler Game cart as a trailer and this combo is […]
Big snowfall for November
We got 14 inches of snow here in Brainerd, MN and the deer are struggling to adapt. My food plot is covered and the cameras were snowed in until I slogged my way out to them and cleaned them off. Too deep for ATV travel. Some areas got as much as 25 inches. Gonna be […]
DIY in Kansas: Heart Shot #2 Of the year
A cool north wind was blowing pretty strong when I stepped out of the motel room this morning. That’s perfect for where I was going. I got settled into the stand about 6:00 and watched the forest come alive over the next hour. Beautiful morning but I didn’t see a single deer for the first […]
Bear for Breakfast
I have been busy so it took a while but this week I pulled all the bear quarters and loins from both bears I shot in August out of the freezer. It took two days for it all to thaw out and then on Thursday afternoon it took me three hours to trim it all, […]
Success in Manitoba… Finally
November 3, 10:00 p.m. Well we just got done getting a buck out of the bush. It’s a crazy story but bear with me. First of all the wind was great for a sit at the hayfield. A west wind is good because most of the deer come out of a tractor trail at the […]
Manitoba Hunt is Underway
October 31, Noon I arrived here in Manitoba and settled into the farmhouse where I stay for bear hunting and where I stayed during my September deer hunt here. Of course Lucky is on my mind and Sure enough he is still around. Tom had four cameras out and I put four more out yesterday. […]