Recent Tips and Tactics
Now’s The Time To Sweeten Fall Stand Sites
By Mark Melotik
Got a day or two over the coming weeks to roam your favorite deer hunting area? Searching for sheds and marking last fall’s still-visible deer sign are winding down, but another wise project looms: Creating new and better treestand sites.
What follows are a few prov... READ MORE
Tinker Season Treestand Prep
By Mark Melotik
What’s your favorite off-season whitetail project? For many it begins and ends with rigging and tuning bows, but an often-overlooked chore is treestand (and similar) gear prep.
Fact is, treestands, climbing sticks and other tree-hunting gear eventually wears o... READ MORE
Whitetails & Waterways
By Mark Melotik
Have you seen them? Of course you have. Each year avid deer hunters are inundated with new-gear innovations and improvements touted to lead you to your next big buck. Now, there’s no denying that some of the “latest and greatest” can help make you a more ef... READ MORE
Build A Digital ‘Trapline’ For Bucks
By Mark Melotik
Still on the fence about investing in a hunting app? Late winter into spring is one of the best times to lean on this technology, which can help lead the way to tagging your next mature buck this fall.
It all starts with a spring scouting mission or two. Whether you choose ... READ MORE
Tag Team For Turkeys
By Ken Piper
When I first started editing hunting articles, one of the first stories I had the pleasure of working on was about a father and son who teamed up to take a stubborn old gobbler on the last day of the West Virginia turkey season.
Both had hunted the bird independently over ... READ MORE
Sunshine Can Make You Cry
By Ken Piper
With turkey season just around the corner or already started in some states, deer hunters can look to their spring brethren for some tips. It's not a coincidence that most turkey guns today come already coated in camouflage. And turkey chasers who use blued shotg... READ MORE
A Clean Rifle is a Good Rifle
By Ken Piper
Most deer hunters know how important it is to thoroughly clean their guns following rough weather, multiple shots, or just at the end of a long season. Copper fouling and powder residue will cause even the best guns to shoot poorly, and rust can ruin it for good.
Wh... READ MORE