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…
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
Tips for Cooking Wild Turkey
Shooting a wild turkey with a bow is challenging. But preparing it so it’s moist and delicious might be even more difficult for many hunters. Wild turkey meat is not…
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…
Female Bowhunting Mentors are Rare and Valuable, so Be One!
Female bowhunting mentors are a niche group with an important job. They’re tasked with – and held accountable for – introducing girls and women to bowhunting. Why are these volunteers,…
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
S3DA Promotes Lifelong Archery and Bowhunting Participation
Increasing the hunting population is a priority for hunter-based organizations, and few groups offer a better pipeline for license-buying conservationists than the Scholastic 3-D Archery program. Dirk Dieterich, S3DA president,…
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
