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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
