Trapping animals of all sorts have always been a real fascination of mine. Like anything you do in life long enough, you begin to streamline or find ways to “Do it Better”. There was a time in my life that I...
With the first day of the season in the site, a review of the basics on scents & lures seems appropriate for this month’s pro tip article. Throughout the numerous shows and seminars, I attend, I see a real hunger among...
In nearly every hunting magazine on the market today, there are articles giving details on how to take a deer, but few lend any advice on how to find the deer once the shot has been made. Most sportsmen today have...
Prologue Because of poor hearing in my left ear, I was startled as the heavily panting doe strode by only 10 feet below. Given that the peak of the rut was right around the corner and of her exhausted look, I...
Which ARE you? I’ll never forget that voice, the voice of Curt Gowdy, host of ABC’s The American Sportsman during the early years of the program in the late ’60s and early ’70s. No other personality on television could present the adventure, excitement, thrill, and...
Cautiously, he meandered through the brush along the woods edge, pausing every few steps to test the cool, damp air, his nose held high, trying to verify that no dangers were imminent. Although he was only 1 1/2 years old, this...
While hunting the rut is a great time to take a good whitetail buck, it isn’t a no-brainer. Here are some common mistakes that can cost you big when the bucks are chasing. The Wisconsin rut was on, and I was...
It didn’t take long for me to be convinced of the effectiveness of using deer decoys. Many bowhunters have yet to discover how exciting using a decoy can be. Much like rattling, decoys can provide you with action that would have...
Ask a hundred deer hunters if they think the tactic of calling deer works or not and you’ll get a variety of responses. Some say it will, some say it won’t, and while others say it works, but only in certain...
There has been a ton of material written about the use of breeding scents during the rut to help fill an unused tag. Some of those stories get so into telling a story about a successful hunt that they forget to give...
