Seeing a bear while hunting is always thrilling. Sometimes it's a good thrill like seeing your first bald eagle. Other times it's a scary thrill, like seeing a rattlesnake coiled near your feet.…
The Delta region of southeast Missouri is home to thousands of acres of rice fields, many of which are flooded for waterfowl season.
Scott Downing blew a truly southern style highball call to a…
Ask a half dozen duck hunting veterans to set decoys for the same spot and conditions, and chances are the result would be six different layouts. Setting decoys is a very subjective "art." Each…
Every bird hunter dreams of the perfect day afield with crisp, cool fall mornings and antsy dogs anxious to wind that first bird of the new season. Picture perfect points, flushes, shots and…
Adjustments in tube length vary the tone and pitch of a deer mouth call.
Most hunters would never dream of heading afield for waterfowl or turkeys, or even big game such as moose or elk, without…
Many thousands of words have been written about basic squirrel hunting techniques, and it's not my intention to rehash this information in great detail. My goals are, first, to share some basic…
In my last blog titled "Stay on the Ground to Bag a Buck" I offered five reasons to stay on the ground to bag a deer this fall. They focused on the versatility of this option when it comes to…
How many deer are in an your hunting area?
In areas where the buck-to doe ratio is around 1 to 1, it makes hunting a lot easier as the season progresses. Where there is competition for does, bucks…
If you enjoy challenges then I’ve got one for you. Try taking a turkey with a bow this fall. Turkeys are programmed to look up because that’s where hawks and owls come from so forget the hunting tree…
If you’re new to bowhunting, remember a bow hunter’s range is much shorter than a firearms hunter. So as a result, you must be especially skilled in knowing deer patterns and tendencies; then set…
Two hunting seasons ago, I found myself doing a desperate and unexpected chin-up to pull myself back into the climber portion of my climbing tree stand — the platform had just slipped out from under…
The key to growing, and for that matter, hunting mature bucks, can be boiled down to two words: "low" and "impact." Alone they mean little; together they are the Rosetta Stone of big buck hunting. If…
