Purchasing Private Ground: Not Just for the Wealthy
Many of us dream of owning private ground. That sweet little patch of land with the potential to reward year after year with abundant hunting or fishing opportunities. Many consider [...]
Early Season Whitetail Scenarios: What Would You Do?
Situation #1: The Curveball - A group of bucks changes their trail routine just as the season opens. Early season scouting has shown a group of three bucks that bed [...]
A Bowhunters’ Backpack
By Shawn and Kristi O’Connor Louis Pasteur, the brilliant 19th century French chemist and inventor of pasteurization, coined the phrase, "fortune favors the prepared mind.” What does that have to [...]
Deadly Rut Stand Strategies
By Ben Leal and Patrick Mckinney For much of the deer season, hunter efforts revolve around the rut. We quiz other hunters, watch our favorite hunting shows, and follow online [...]
Food Plot Failures: Common Mistakes To Avoid
The world of deer hunting has changed drastically in the last decade, not so much in the way we harvest deer, but more specifically all the work and effort that [...]
The Concept of Hunt Plots
Three years ago I stumbled across an article in a hunting and fishing magazine that was talking about “Hunt Plots”. I immediately asked myself what the heck was a hunt [...]
Trail Cameras: Things you should be doing but probably aren’t
By Shawn and Kristi O'Connor The trail camera is the single most important advancement in hunting whitetails in the last 20 years. No other item in your hunting tool chest [...]
To Lease or not to Lease
By Earl Taylor I had parked at the gate and walked across the picked corn field in the dark. I set up my stand and was ready for first light. [...]
It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
Little did 14-year old Dalton Christoffer, a freshman at Estherville Lincoln Central in northwest Iowa, know when he headed for northeast Iowa to participate in the youth dear season that [...]
Back to the Basics: New Gear Gives You No Guarantees
It seems like only yesterday my father and I were making a trip to Cabela’s in Owatonna, Minnesota to check out hunting gear. I was twelve or thirteen and had [...]
