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Bowhunting Blunders: 10 Bowhunting Mistakes to Avoid
Bowhunting Blunders: 10 Bowhunting Mistakes to Avoid By Ryan Graden So you think you know how to make it happen, huh? You are going to march right out there on October 1st and fill your 2015 archery tag? Well, it’s a possibility, but for most guys and gals it’s going to take a bit more […]
READ MOREHunting the Bedroom: Readers Weigh in on Hunting Bedding Areas
Hunting the Bedroom: Readers Weigh in on Hunting Bedding Areas By Ricky Kinder If you’ve been bowhunting whitetails for any considerable period of time, odds are that you’ve made up your mind about whether or not to hunt buck bedding areas, or even doe bedding areas for that matter. The logic seems pretty sound, we […]
READ MOREHunting Pressured Whitetails
Hunting Pressured Whitetails By Noel Gandy The mistake was made! I saw a good buck on his feet during daylight and made the mistake of telling my buddies. Due to the sheer excitement that I had experienced in seeing a shooter on this particular tract I let on that I practically had the buck in […]
READ MOREFall Channel Cat Madness
Fall Channel Cat Madness By Brad Durick The leaves are changing colors or might even be starting to fall depending on where you live. The mornings are cool and the sun is setting earlier than it did just a couple months ago. While we are raking leaves and getting the yard ready for winter, channel […]
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Introducing Youth to Shooting Sports
I can still remember the day my mom told me we had to watch the next episode of “Buckmasters TV.” Being an oblivious five-year-old, you can only imagine how excited I was to see my picture pop up as their weekly winner of a FREE Buckmasters Daisy Model 840 BB gun. Bubba and Shotgun Red announced my name, and I was the proud new owner of my very first firearm.
I ran to meet the mail carrier every day to check for that long cardboard box. Watching “Buckmasters” with my parents fed my enthusiasm for the outdoors, but I was already obsessed with all things related to shooting at an early age. That BB gun gave me so much more than a tool to shoot targets with. It gave my parents an opportunity to teach me about gun safety. It gave me my first memories of being in the woods, tagging along with my dad and his .22 chasing squirrels and rabbits. It gave me another way to spend time with my younger sisters when they began to learn about gun safety. Most importantly, it sparked a lifelong love for hunting and target shooting.
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