American black bears live only in North America. These familiar bruins are primarily woodland animals, occupying forests as far north as forests grow in Alaska and Canada and as far south as Florida…
It's dawn and the eastern sun hauls up a "Japanese" sunrise with bars of blue, yellow and orange into the darker gray sky aloft. A gentle breeze picks up and sends a welcome surge of cool air around…
Moose are the largest member of the deer family, and a big bull is one of the most impressive trophies in the hunting world. As with most big game animals, field judging moose is very difficult,…
Whether you are an octogenarian duck hunter or planning your very first waterfowl hunting trip, selecting a duck call from the hordes of fine instruments on the market today can be a daunting task.…
Article by Gerald Almy. We all know what happens during the whitetail rut, right? Bucks become less cautious. They spend more time on their feet. They stick their necks out to court does.?But hold…
Most anglers are tinkerers. In this blog I want to discuss one of the easiest ways to customize jerkbaits and spoons to tease-out more bites from fish. Truthfully the method is dead simple and will…
by John Paul Morris
A gunshot on September 1st, 1877 silenced the bugling of the last Eastern elk in the world, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service declared the sub-species extinct in…
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…
