Make sure your next hunt is spent in comfort with a properly fitting backpack. To help you pick out your next hunting backpack, here are three tips to answer the question, "How to fit a backpack?" and find a perfect fit for your next hunting adventure. Torso Proper pack fitment begins with finding the correct torso length. You will likely need an assistant for this … [Read more...] about How to Fit a Backpack
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West Texas Deer Hunts: Affordable, Awesome, Thrilling
West Texas Deer: No tags to draw, reasonable cost, 100 percent success on free-range whitetails; what’s not to love? One frustrating thing about hunting the West has been my inability to consistently draw tags. So, I am always on the lookout for relatively inexpensive options that allow me to hunt annually. Enter Texas, this year, West Texas deer. Because whitetails are … [Read more...] about West Texas Deer Hunts: Affordable, Awesome, Thrilling
Is It Time for a Crossbow?
Is It Time for a Crossbow? | Stan Chiras Is It Time for a Crossbow? Bowhunting: I’ll Quit When I’m Dead! By Stan Chiras When I was younger, I remember thinking that I’d simply start hunting whitetails from a stick-built ground blind when I got older. Commercial blinds nor treestands were invented at the time. Assuming -- correctly -- I wouldn’t be able to draw my recurve … [Read more...] about Is It Time for a Crossbow?
Hunting Property Management Plan Tips
Hunting Property Management Plan Tips | Chris Rice Hunting Property Management Plan Tip By Chris Rice Many landowners seek to improve their hunting property. Their immediate property may consist of a limited supply of open area or a limited number of whitetail deer who venture within it, so they seek to make certain changes to improve the hunting experience for … [Read more...] about Hunting Property Management Plan Tips
Wireless Trail Cameras
Wireless Trail Cameras | Darron McDougal Wireless Trail Cameras The ins-and-outs of using cellular-enabled trail cameras to scout for whitetails. By Darron McDougal I still recall many heart-pounding trips to the drug store to retrieve developed prints from my 35mm relic trail camera. At the time, digital trail cameras were barely in the pipeline — the few … [Read more...] about Wireless Trail Cameras
Chasing 300 FPS, for the Little Guy
Chasing 300 FPS, for the Little Guy | Darren Choate Chasing 300 FPS, for the Little Guy Speed doesn’t have to be a big guy’s game. by Darren Choate Chasing 300 fps? I remember when I first started bowhunting; it was right around the time I became a teenager. During my teens, I spent countless hours with my dad in our "archery shop," building arrows, tuning bows, … [Read more...] about Chasing 300 FPS, for the Little Guy
Hunting the West for Big Game – Part 1
For guys like me, the idea of going on a hunt for an animal like elk, mule, deer or antelope isn’t that far of a stretch. Where I live you can load up after work and be out hunting any of these species within 20 minutes of home. For guys in the mid-west or even further east it is much more of a trip to plan. Over the next few months, I am going to detail the planning that goes … [Read more...] about Hunting the West for Big Game – Part 1
Bear Hunting Gear
Bear Hunting Gear | Josh Kirchner Bear Hunting Gear by Josh Kirchner Through my years of pursuing black bears in the West, it has become apparent to me that bear hunting is largely a mental game, both in terms of mental fortitude and knowledge of the species and its habitat. For instance, I’ve learned more about plants -- that bears consume -- chasing bears than I … [Read more...] about Bear Hunting Gear
Bear Hunting: the Best Methods for the Highest Reward
On a late August evening, I found myself sitting at a water tank in hopes of a big black bear walking in for a swim. Never had I bear hunted before, but it was always something that I wanted to do. It may have been because bears represented everything that was wild in my eyes. They were the symbol of true wilderness as far as I was concerned. As much as I’d admired their … [Read more...] about Bear Hunting: the Best Methods for the Highest Reward
Best Fixed Blade Broadheads – 2019
Best Fixed Blade Broadheads – 2019 | Bob Robb Best Fixed-Blade Broadheads – 2019 by Bob Robb While mechanical broadheads have become the rage these days, tried-and-true fixed-blade broadheads (replaceable-blade) remain extremely popular for good reason – they’ve been cleanly killing everything from groundhogs to grizzly bears for more than half a century. So, … [Read more...] about Best Fixed Blade Broadheads – 2019