Hunting From A Ground Blind by Patrick Meitin Notes from inside a pop-up ground blind. Returning to western Oklahoma last October felt like a homecoming, getting together again with old friends like Gary Sefton, Mike Jordan, Jason Pickerill and a handful of outdoor writers I’ve come to know well. I also looked forward to seeing Scott and Joni Sanderford, owners/operators of … [Read more...] about Hunting From A Ground Blind
Archery
Off-Season Opportunities, Improve Deer Season
Off-Season Opportunities, Improve Deer Season by Kevin Reese Few moments are more spiritually troublesome for an avid hunter than the weighty cloak of darkness on the last day of deer season. Memories made, good or bad, goals achieved and for some, dreams become a future score to settle. No matter the outcome, hundreds of thousands of deer hunters agree, the end came too … [Read more...] about Off-Season Opportunities, Improve Deer Season
The Whitetail Ideal
The Whitetail Ideal by Patrick Meitin It’s that time of year again, manufacturers unveiling their newest wares, the latest and greatest technologies conceived to make you a better bowhunter. Bowhunting writers flock to industry shows like ATA (Arrow Trade Association) to bring you news of the newest innovations and gewgaws you simply can’t live without. But, this isn’t what … [Read more...] about The Whitetail Ideal
Time for Midwest Whitetail Adventure, Gigantic Bucks are Looming
The Midwest whitetail inhabits the central regions of the US from Colorado to Minnesota. For a reasonable chance at a trophy-class Midwest whitetail buck, there are few secrets. Midwestern states like Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, and the like dominate the conversation. Then there are the outliers such as eastern Colorado or northern Oklahoma. Of course, you can't … [Read more...] about Time for Midwest Whitetail Adventure, Gigantic Bucks are Looming
Family, Sports, School, & Hunting
Family, Sports, School, & Hunting by Zane Graham When I first started hunting, at the age of nine, it was not hard for me to incorporate hunting with other activities: school, sports, and family. At the time, the biggest obstacle to work around was my school schedule, which was fairly easy to do. Homework was really not much of an issue being in elementary school and … [Read more...] about Family, Sports, School, & Hunting
Whitetail Chess
Whitetail Chess by Mario Guisto I like to take on new challenges, whether it’s filming a hunt, achieving new fitness goals, hunting new species or guiding in new places. Last spring, Matt Woodward, from Borderland Adventures told me about some private ground in Kansas that he was going to try outfitting for White-tailed deer. When I get a lead on a new place to guide, you can … [Read more...] about Whitetail Chess
Wife, Mother, Hunter
Wife, Mother, Hunter by Virginia Hawthorne There I laid flat on my back with my jeans soaked through from the icy snow. I had slipped getting out of my truck and I felt a stabbing pain radiating from my now extremely swollen left hand. As my husband, Daniel, came around to help me to my feet he could see from the look on my face his usual calm and rational wife was nowhere to … [Read more...] about Wife, Mother, Hunter
High Country Coues
High Country Coues by Darren Choate Archery hunting velvet Coues bucks in the high country is quite the challenge! A few years back, I was perched in a large ponderosa pine, overlooking a hub of well-used game trails that I knew Coues deer frequented. It was opening morning of the Arizona archery deer hunt, and across the canyon, not too far away, my friends Geoff Lloyd and … [Read more...] about High Country Coues
Early Season Whitetail Strategies
Early Season Whitetail Strategies by Patrick Meitin In much of "whitetaildom," October represents the launch of bowhunting festivities, “early season” from the perspective of the average eastern deer hunter. Early, within a western reference, means something else altogether, normally indicating the still-blazing months of a fledgling fall, beginning with the final days of … [Read more...] about Early Season Whitetail Strategies
Shooting On High
Shooting On High by Patrick Meitin Pope and Young records tell us the average “book” whitetail is taken at something like 21 yards. This is a range even the most indifferent archer or novice bowhunter would fail to find daunting. Nearly all such shots today come as a direct result of an elevated tree-stand vantage. Serious bowhunters spend long summers standing flat footed … [Read more...] about Shooting On High