Being a die-hard predator hunter for the last few years, I have discovered one piece of equipment that I very rarely go to the field without, a rangefinder. I have spent a lot of time at the gun…
If you’re like 99 percent of whitetail hunters, you probably own a grunt call or two. But chances are good those calls spend most of the time buried in a pocket or dangling unused around your neck.…
Deer hunting in the November rut and the bow hunting action heats up! Watch the hunts where two mature bucks slip into bow range investigating the sounds from the Messenger grunt call. One…
One of the most sought after pieces of equipment in a deer hunters arsenal is a grunt call, most hunters will have one within reach every time they're in the field. Other hunters, however, may have…
One of the most common problems deer hunters face is when bucks feel pressure on the usual feeding sites such as agricultural fields, food plots, and oak flats. Almost overnight, they can seem to…
The care you take with a deer you’ve bagged, whether it’s your first animal or a once-in-a-lifetime wildlife trophy, can determine the quality of the mount you end up hanging on your wall. To get the…
All furred game – big or small – should be opened up to begin cooling as soon as possible after it’s taken. In the case of hunting small game, like squirrels, it makes sense to skin and gut the…
Last October a good friend of mine invited me to hunt with him on his family farm in southern Missouri. They had witnessed several coyotes in their hayfield and were concerned for their livestock. My…
Bears like to travel lake shores, river edges, and tidal inlets near oceans. All of these habitats offer food in the form of grasses, insects, flowers, crabs, fish, and animal carcasses.
That makes…
It was bear season and we were heaving ourselves to the ground after a 1,000 foot vertical climb up northwest Montana’s Cabinet Mountains. As we struggled to catch our breath we immediately grabbed…
Share the spring woods with a World Champion turkey caller and you’ll likely hear a lavish, complex symphony of turkey talk. Right?
Wrong.
When I joined Eddie Salter, host of the Sportsman’s Channel…
Easing slowly through the hardwood river bottom, I froze mid-step. The bark of a scolding squirrel rang out from the treetops. Scanning the woods around me, I finally spotted him—halfway up a…
