iHUNT by Ruger The Ultimate Hunting Call System There's a very good reason iHunt remains the best-selling hunting app for smartphone users. Featuring high-quality animal and hunting calls with no audio noise, iHunt brings the ultimate hunting call system right to a user's mobile device. A thoughtful design and presentation of feature options makes the iHunt … [Read more...] about iHUNT by Ruger
Early Season Whitetails
Slumberjack Rail Hauler 2500
Slumberjack Rail Hauler 2500 by Darren Choate You just got a clean kill – now the real work begins. With a supportive external frame and removable pack, the Rail Hauler 2500 can comfortably carry the heaviest loads. The Rail Hauler’s lightweight aluminum frame is designed to handle up to 200 pounds, giving you the perfect platform for hauling anything from overnight gear to … [Read more...] about Slumberjack Rail Hauler 2500
Versatile Hunting with Tree Stand Buddy
Versatile Hunting with Tree Stand Buddy ® Is there anything more frustrating than watching the buck of a lifetime stroll past your fixed stand just out of bow range? Or maybe the buck you've been hunting switched from food plots to acorns. Good hunters change with the deer. Tree Stand Buddy ® allows every hunter to become a versatile hunter, thanks to an innovative bracket … [Read more...] about Versatile Hunting with Tree Stand Buddy
Bear’n Down for Coues Deer, Part Two
Bear'n Down for Coues Deer, Part Two by Colton Choate As my early Coues whitetail hunt was quickly approaching, I knew I would be scouting to find a shooter buck. As bears live in similar country as Coues deer, I wasn’t too surprised one afternoon, while scouting for deer, that I had an encounter with a black bear. A bear was something I have wanted to harvest since I was … [Read more...] about Bear’n Down for Coues Deer, Part Two
Raising A Coues Hunter
Raising A Coues Hunter by Darren Choate Like many, my father introduced me to hunting. To date, I have gone afield in several Western states; hunting with archery gear, a rifle slung over my shoulder or as a guide on another hunter’s hunt. I have successfully harvested elk, mule deer, Texas Whitetail, Carmen Mountain Whitetail, and my favorite, the Coues White-tailed … [Read more...] about Raising A Coues Hunter
A Guide to Wounded Deer
A Guide to Wounded Deer By Mark Kayser It occurs repeatedly every year across the wide whitetail range in North America. It doesn’t matter if you hunt with a bow or firearm. If you hunt long enough you’ll likely have to track a wounded whitetail. Wounding may occur from a hasty decision you make in the fog of buck fever, but it’s just as likely to occur from a spooky … [Read more...] about A Guide to Wounded Deer
Early Season Whitetails
Early Season Whitetails by Scott Haugen, Editor Whether scouting or hunting, late summer is one of the best months to locate a Western whitetail buck. Here’s what to look for in your pre-season scouting missions, and early season hunts! A wild flush at my feet, and instinctively the shotgun was shouldered. I have no idea where my first payload of #6 shot went, but my second … [Read more...] about Early Season Whitetails
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
ThermaCell
ThermaCell by Scott Haugen It was September, I’d just dropped a buck in a river bottom and temperatures were hot. Frost had not yet hit the country I was hunting, and the bugs were thick. In the moist surroundings where I was left to skin, cape and bone-out the buck, mosquitoes were particularly bad. I knew right away they’d make my time miserable, so I grabbed my ThermaCell, … [Read more...] about ThermaCell
Get Fit for Western Whitetails
Get Fit for Western Whitetails by Scott Haugen One of the biggest challenges hunters face out West is being in shape. To me it’s amazing how many camps I’ve been to throughout the West where tags go unfilled for the simple reason hunters aren’t in good enough physical or mental shape. Not all whitetail hunts out West take place on private farmlands or amid gentle river … [Read more...] about Get Fit for Western Whitetails