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

S3DA: Helping Young Archers Prepare to Bowhunt

Scholastic 3D Archery promotes the sport, offers scholarships, and teaches conservation to youths. S3DA also hosts tournaments that use 3D lifelike animal targets, which offer a great way for youths…

  Taylor Walston   FeaturedLifestyle   April 21, 2020

Your Game Plan for Scouting Public Land

Finding public land, scouting it, and filling your freezer with lean protein is a fun process that’s challenging and rewarding. Whether you’re new to hunting public land or simply want…

  Erik Barber   FeaturedHow To   April 16, 2020

Wild Turkey Jalapeno Popper Recipe

Any recipe that celebrates the purity and flavor of wild-game meat is usually the right choice. But sometimes you just want something undeniably delicious. This recipe for wild turkey jalapeno…

  Scott Einsmann   FeaturedVideoWild Meat   April 15, 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

How to Clean a Wild Turkey in 7 Steps

All your practice paid off and you (finally) arrowed a wild turkey! Congratulations! The “fun” now begins. It’s time to butcher your turkey for its 8- to 10-plus pounds of…

  Cassie Gasaway   FeaturedHow ToWild Meat   April 9, 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

How to Find Turkeys to Hunt

Before you can call a strutting tom into bow range, you have to find turkeys to hunt. Here are the three steps to finding turkeys. Step 1: Find a Place…

  Scott Einsmann   FeaturedHow ToVideo   March 25, 2020