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A Bowhunters’ Backpack

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 do with a bowhunters backpack? Well, lets just say I spent a good number of years ignoring that advice before I […]

Improve your 3D Shooting Skills

Improve your 3D Shooting Skills By Jeremy Adams Binoculars Make sure you have a good set binoculars. By having a good pair of binoculars, with good light transmission, it will help you see the scoring rings on the target, especially if it is a black target like a bear or javalina. Seeing the target can […]

A Bowhunters’ Backpack: Don’t Leave Home Without These Items!

A Bowhunters’ Backpack: Don’t Leave Home Without These Items! 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 do with a bowhunters backpack?   Well, lets just say I spent a good number […]

Archery Accuracy Tips You May Not Know About

Archery Accuracy Tips You May Not Know About By Aaron McKinney We have all read the articles on accuracy tips discussing paper tuning, broadhead tuning, sight adjusting, and just flat out tinkering with your bows set up for hours. These are all fine and will help you but let’s step back for a moment and […]

Tips on Shooting a Buck Without all the Extra Gear

Tips on Shooting a Buck Without all the Extra Gear I have rattled in bucks during the rut, I have decoyed bucks during the rut, and I have used scents and lures to bring bucks in close during the rut. I have had good success with those tactics and use them quite regularly during the […]

Best Archery Sets: Part 1

Best Archery Sets: Part 1 By Tim Peplinksi The lion share of my scouting, scheming, and planning takes place each year in late winter or spring. My mind is always thinking about my hunting grounds and how I can improve them. With each idea though it requires an in person approach (out on the land) […]

The art of hunting afoot

Let’s not kid ourselves. Hunting a whitetail deer on foot is a major challenge. In Iowa, some hunters might even think it a little…hmmm…crazy. Yes, that’s the word, crazy. Oh yeah, and trying to do it with a bow? Ha, you’ve gotta be joking, right?! You’ll be up against the following: extremely good hearing, extremely […]

Early Season Bow Hunting Mistakes

Bow season rolls around the same time every year, but it still catches many sportsmen under and ill prepared. It seems like if mistakes are going to be made, they’re more likely to happen early, than at any other point during the season. Getting busted, missing a duffed shot, not seeing deer, or coming down […]

Compound Bow 101: What are the parts of your bow?

By: Nick Jedlicka Okay, count me as one of the guilty! I was not always totally up to speed on what the various parts and functions of my compound bow were. Maybe this was not such a big deal. For a beginner, it may not be essential to know every tidbit of info – but […]

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