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Strut Report: Deep South Birds Holding Steady, Mid-South Longbeards Heating Up

April 28, 2022   |  From Articles

Last week, I forecast the action to be the best of the season . In some places, it was. In others, the next seven days might be even better. Of course, some areas in the southernmost regions are now closed, or nearly so. That said, most states in the region...

Strut Report: Midwest Seasons Start Strong, Northeast Season Openers Look Promising

April 28, 2022   |  From Articles

Last week, I mentioned that I’d be bowhunting during Wisconsin’s time-period A over hen and jake decoys and calling loudly. On opening morning, I hunted 200 yards from a roost and heard only three gobbles. A lone tom flew down and gobbled twice at my calls. He didn’t see my...

CWD in Alabama and the Cheapest States for Deer Hunting

April 18, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

How Long Do Deer Live? Researchers in Pennsylvania looked back at their 20 years of data from capturing, collaring, and tracking wild deer, and found that if a buck survives to his first birthday, on average he will live another one to two years. If a doe survives her first...

Strut Report: Southern Turkeys are Red Hot

April 7, 2022   |  From Articles

Though season is still a few weeks away in some parts of the country, down south the woods are firing up with strutting and gobbling. From Texas to Tennessee, southern turkey hunters have turned in glowing reports this week. In Alabama, where the hunting recently kicked off, Spring Thunder and...

5 Awesome North American Combo Hunts

March 31, 2022   |  From Articles

North American hunters are fortunate. We get access to many different game species within our 50 states and 10 provinces. From gobbling turkeys to snarling grizzly bears, tons of potential hunting adventures exist. If you’re willing and able to travel and have a hunting budget, there’s enough opportunity right here...

Strut Report: The Gobbling and Strutting Action Is Picking Up

March 30, 2022   |  From Articles

We're a week deeper into the spring and with that comes more news from the turkey woods. At the beginning of last week, we talked about how the Deep South seasons were off to a slow gobbling start . That’s changing, though, and in the past five days, the hunting...

Are Southern Turkeys Harder to Kill?

March 10, 2022   |  From Articles

Many traveling turkey hunters will tell you: The toughest turkeys to hunt are in the South. In fact, I reached out to more than three dozen veteran hunters, and more than half of them confirmed it. Southern turkeys are simply the toughest to kill. They point to a plethora of...

2020 Season Had Highest Buck Harvest in 21 Years

March 3, 2022   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

We’re killing older bucks and more bucks than ever in America. That’s the overpowering message of the 2022 Deer Report compiled by the National Deer Association (NDA). The NDA reports that hunters across the United States killed an estimated 3,041,544 bucks in the 2020-21 season, the most in 21 years...

10 Takeaways from the 2021 Deer Season

January 28, 2022   |  From Articles

Hanback’s Lessons Crafty and insanely unpredictable, a whitetail buck that has roamed this Earth for 4 or 5 years is the ultimate teacher. No matter how long you’ve been hunting, no matter good you think you are, no matter how much you think you know, a big deer will throw...

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41 Pieces of Sweet Bowhunting Gear for 2022

January 25, 2022   |  From Galleries

Most bowhunters are gear junkies. Maybe the stuff we already have works just fine, but with so much cool stuff hitting the market every year, it’s hard not to daydream about new gear that might make filling a tag a little easier, or at least make the time afield more...

Bowhunter Bitten By Bear in Treestand and Vagabond Buck Swims Mississippi River

December 28, 2021   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

Best Kill of the 2021 Season Some mega bucks have been harvested across the country, but to me this kill near Torrey, Virginia, is hands down the best . Virginia Dunning, 94 years young, went out one day in September and shot a fat doe for the freezer. Virginia’s daughter,...

Why You Should Snoop Around in Your Buck's Gut Pile

December 21, 2021   |  Brow Tines and Backstrap

Phil Anderson has a job only a whitetail freak like you and me could love. “I snoop around in gut piles,” says the animal nutrition consultant from Pennsylvania. “The cool thing about rooting around in guts is that you get the most recent information as to what that deer ate...

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