Eat Wild Game and Never Buy Meat Again

Eating nothing but wild game year-round is realistic, but you must work hard and hunt often to keep your freezer full. Wild-game animals provide lean, organic, hormone-free meat. Hunters who…

  Cassie Gasaway   FeaturedBowhuntingWild Meat   April 23, 2020

Wild Turkeys: A Conservation Success Story

Many wildlife species face a gauntlet of threats to their survival, including habitat loss, climate change, rebounding predator populations, and other factors. That makes the wild turkey’s recovery in North…

  Joe Shead   FeaturedBowhunting   April 14, 2020

Turkey Hunting Playbook

Picture this: It’s the evening before your turkey hunt. You’re atop a ridge, listening for gobbles. You soon hear one a few hundred yards away in a swamp. The next…

  Scott Einsmann   FeaturedBowhunting   April 7, 2020

What’s Fair Chase?

The natural world is built upon prey-and-predator relationships. In the bowhunting world, bowhunters are the predators and their prey includes elk, deer, bears and turkeys. Bowhunters use their senses, skills…

  Cassie Gasaway   FeaturedBowhunting   April 2, 2020

Tricky Business: Shot Placement on Turkeys

  Shot placement is everything in bowhunting, and bowhunters must always aim for quick and ethical kills. That usually means hitting what hunters call “the vitals,” an animal’s heart-and-lung region. A…

  Jackie Holbrook   FeaturedBowhunting   March 26, 2020

The 7-Month Plan: Beginner to Bowhunter by Fall

Bowhunting is fun, challenging, and great for conservation. If you’re leaning toward becoming a bowhunter, consider these 10 reasons to get started, and then determine opening day in your state,…

  Cassie Gasaway   FeaturedBowhunting   March 19, 2020

Meet Your North American Wild Turkeys

Spring is near, and turkey season will soon open for bowhunters. Turkeys cover most of North America, ranging from parts of Canada to as far south as Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula….

  Erik Barber   FeaturedBowhunting   March 12, 2020

Start Competing in 3D Archery

Everyone welcomes the sight of buds blooming each spring. Bowhunters, however, would rather skip ahead to autumn when the leaves fall off those trees. Yes, some bowhunters get out for…

  Jackie Holbrook   FeaturedBowhunting   March 5, 2020

5 Steps for Bagging Your First Gobbler

Your heart races as a nearby tom gobbles just before strutting into your decoys. As you grab your bow, you hear the gobbler’s unmistakable drumming and its wing tips dragging….

  Erik Barber   BowhuntingFeaturedHow To   March 3, 2020

Winter Deer Scouting

Diehard bowhunters have no offseason. Year-round archery practice is fun and keeps your shooting form in top shape. And whether you’re seeking redemption for the bruiser buck that got away…

  Joe Shead   FeaturedBowhunting   February 20, 2020