Washington Whitetail, A Focused Pursuit, Part I by D. B. Hawthorne November 29, 2011 marked five years since I had last killed a buck. I was hunting the buck of a lifetime, this was my second season hunting this giant, the season was ending in 16 days and I hadn’t got a trail cam photo of the buck in the past two weeks. It suffices to say, things weren’t looking promising. … [Read more...] about Washington Whitetail, A Focused Pursuit, Part I
Trail Cameras
Scouting for Drought-Stricken Bucks
Scouting for Drought-Stricken Bucks by Mark Kayser It occurs every year somewhere across the wide whitetail range in North America. It occurs even more in the arid West, causing some whitetail sub-species to evolve or find a new home. The “it” in reference is drought. It’s a phenomenon induced by worldwide weather patterns and nearly inescapable, occurs every year. Ignore … [Read more...] about Scouting for Drought-Stricken Bucks
Trail-camera Pictures
Trail-camera Pictures - Enough snow melted so that I was finally able to get into the woods to check a couple of trail-cameras. I set this camera (Primos Truth 35) back in October, and I was surprised to find it still operating some five months later. Not only had several months passed, but we experienced two weeks of sub-freezing temperatures, including two weeks where the low … [Read more...] about Trail-camera Pictures
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