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Entries for March 2020
A Place for Crossbows
By Russell Thornberry
Horizontal bows make great tools for recruiting and keeping hunters. It is interesting to observe hunter reaction to crossbows from back in the day when they were demonized by some. I am gratified to see crossbows finally gaining respect and coming into their own. The oldest argument against crossbows was they are too effective and hunters would de... READ MORE
Going Solo
By P.J. Reilly
Hunting with friends is great, but there are benefits to going alone. The forecast was a bowhunter’s dream: clear, cold, high-pressure system firmly settled in, and no wind. I’d recently seen a marked uptick in scrape and rub activity, so there was nothing that was going to keep me out of my Pennsylvania treestand that morning. The nigh... READ MORE
Food Plots with a Purpose
By David Hart
Do you want to grow bigger deer or attract them for hunting? When Ray Scott started the Whitetail Institute in 1988, he sold a single product: white clover. Although Scott, better-known as the founder of BASS at the time, was interested in the nutritional value of clover, few hunters gave it much thought. They just wanted something that would draw ... READ MORE
Rainy Days and Mondays ...
By Rick Balzer
Don’t always have to get you down. My father introduced me to hunting when I was 10. He put an Ithaca single-shot 20 gauge (which I still own) in my hands and showed me the proper way to handle, respect and shoot a gun. He started my brothers and me on rabbits, and it didn’t take long for us to share his love of hunting. I took to the c... READ MORE
The Outside-In Approach
By Steve Bartylla
How to hunt the entire season without burning out your best stands. My bow was still hanging from the pull-up rope when I spotted a 151-inch 12-pointer trotting down the ridge. When the buck paused at a mock scrape I had created for just that purpose, it gave me the few precious extra seconds I needed. I unhooked the rope as fast as I could, draped... READ MORE