Woodsmanship Skills: How to Use a Map and Compass
GPS units and navigation apps are fantastic aids until their batteries die. If you get stuck in the woods with no hand-held power, you’ll be fine if you can navigate…
How to Tune Your Broadheads
A broadhead is a point with two or more blades; these blades create the necessary blood loss to harvest animals with a bow. Just as you can choose from different…
Making Lethal Shots on Turkeys
Once you’ve coaxed a big tom into bow range, your next big challenge is making the shot. It’s the last thing standing between you and a delicious dinner. If you’re…
How to Call Turkeys
What comes to mind when you think of spring? Is it blooming flowers or robins greeting you at dawn? For turkey hunters, spring means magic. It’s the wild turkey’s breeding…
How To Repair Arrows
Your arrows went through the gauntlet of bow season, so after being pulled up and lowered from trees, carried through brush and shot through animals, they could use some attention….
Find Edges and You’ll Find Deer
White-tailed deer prefer diverse habitats, especially sites where different habitat types come together, which is called an “edge.” Any habitat change can create edges, but an obvious example is where…
Staff Writer FeaturedBowhuntingVideo December 3, 2025
Blood Trailing Step by Step
Broadhead-tipped arrows kill through massive blood loss, which can happen just seconds after impact. During those few seconds, however, a deer can disappear into thick brush and run 100 yards…
Staff Writer BowhuntingFeaturedVideo November 17, 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,…
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,…
Have Fun by Foraging for Morel Mushrooms!
Those who love mushrooms usually consider morels their favorite. And if you know someone unsure about mushrooms, they’ll probably like morels. Morels have a distinct look and unique taste. Some…
Staff Writer FeaturedConservationVideo April 29, 2025
