Rut Spots Might Change: Don’t Get Discouraged
They call it bowhunting, not bowkilling. Most days in the woods don’t end with a filled tag. Even during the rut, when hormone-crazed bucks are supposed to be running around…
Joe Shead BowhuntingHow To October 28, 2025
How to Hunt the Wind
Have you ever caught a whiff of something delicious while walking around town? Wind currents carried that scent from its source to your nose. If you headed into the wind,…
How to Find a Property and Ask Permission
Hunting opportunities exist closer to home than you might realize, maybe in your neighborhood or even your backyard. Many urban areas provide convenient bowhunting access, and some offer liberal seasons…
Fresh Deer Sign Pinpoints Where to Bowhunt
Few things compare to the satisfaction bowhunters feel after reading deer sign, picking a stand site, and arrowing a doe or buck. To consistently put venison in your freezer, you…
Harvest Your First Deer in 9 Steps
So, you want to shoot your first deer with archery equipment. That’s a great goal, because all 50 states have at least one deer species. White-tailed deer are hunted more…
Advanced Shot Placement
Many factors contribute to ethical bow-kills, including arrow weight, broadhead design, draw weight, draw length and shot placement. Of those, the most important is shot placement. In Shot Placement 101,…
How Much Draw Weight Do Bowhunters Need?
Draw weight, or poundage, is a measurement of the force needed to draw a bow. You might hear someone say, “I shoot a 40-pound bow.” That means their bow’s draw…
How to Calculate Arrow Weight and Why
How much should your arrow weigh? That’s a loaded question. An arrow’s weight helps determines how it flies. An arrow’s path from bow to target seems simple, but arrow weight…
Jackie Holbrook BowhuntingHow To May 20, 2025
Adapting Your Compound Bow for Bowhunting, Competitions and More
If you love bowhunting, you might also love bowfishing and competitive or recreational target archery. And vice versa. But you won’t know without trying each activity. Don’t worry about not…
Scoring a Whitetail’s Rack
Hunters have been keeping records of trophy big-game animals for more than a century. Scoring animals as we know it today became popular after the Boone and Crockett Club created…
