Scrapes
• Look for: bare spots on the ground, and broken, low-hanging branches• Hunt over: lines of scrapes or large scrapesScrapes: Bucks young and old make scrapes by pawing away leaves, exposing…
James Heddon was just killing time that day in the late Nineteenth Century, whiling away the hours as he carved on a piece of wood. Taking a break, he tossed it into the swirling waters of Dowagiac…
Article by Gerry Bethge.
Phase: Pre-RutPreferred Decoys: Feeding subdominant buckWhy it Works: Early-season bucks are social and may approach this nonthreatening fake for company. Later in the pre-…
Year after year, I’ve sat in my deer stand for hours on end, inevitably wondering what draws me to the woods each fall. The answer’s always the same: Something in nature happens that only a hunter…
Hundreds of thousands of wingshooters across the country are anxiously looking forward to the first hunting season of the year, namely dove season. However, some hunters do not properly prepare…
Venison with mushroom sauce. Photo by Holly A. Heyse
When I was a teenager, longer ago than I care to remember, I hunted deer each fall with a group of 12 or so men who camped in the vast…
People associate fly fishing with wading and river floats in pontoon boats or larger craft, but they are often surprised to learn that many of us use canoes too.
Canoes, in fact, are a perfect tool…
9,500 feet above sea level, short on oxygen, praying to the Lord God Almighty!
“PLEASE, let that bull expire; don’t let him get up!”
This was the fourth Rocky Mountain elk hunt of my career, and I…
I was onboard a silvery 737 bound for Belize's newest "offshore" flats fishing operation, Long Caye Island Resort. This venue was the most recent offering of the venerable Belize River Lodge, which…
A guide to helping your little lady learn about archery huntingSugar and spice and everything nice—that's what little girls are made of. Well, that and field points, caliper releases, and blazer…
By Tom Keer for Take Me Fishing
Dropper rigs are standard operating procedures for trout bums, but they are relatively uncommon in the salt. That fact always surprises me, particularly because there…
The biggest bucks are never pushovers—even Now. Let a Mississippi expert teach you How to tag a breeding- season giant.Article by Scott Bestul. Photo of whitetail courtesy of Bass Pro Shops…
