The biggest reason why many animals are not recovered is that bowhunters take up the trail too soon simply bumping the animal. The second reason, the animal is not mortality wounded...

I received my new Lonewolf climbing treestand in the mail last week and was very anxious to try out this new piece of engineering. I decided to come down to St. Cloud and hunt some of the old stompin' ground for the weekend. Since I moved to Bemidji a friend of mine has been nice enough to hunt my area for me. They got a nice 7 pt. basket and a very nice 8 pt. with a 19 inch spread out of the stands I hunt. The latter was 230 lbs dressed by the way...

Tips for a successful Turkey hunt...

An intriguing short story of deer camp in 1947. Dedicated to the memory of my father, Russ (the Swede) Anderson and his lifetime hunting partner Ben Lahti (5 parts)

Every now and then you have an experience that you talk about for a long time, well just last Sunday I was fortunate enough to have a perfect hunt. I had spent most of the morning cutting and splitting wood ( getting ready for old man winter ). After spending most of my day working - I decided to spend a little quality time in the woods looking for grouse...

Always ask permission before entering private land. A simple rule of thumb is don't if you don't know who owns the property. Any entry onto private land without permission is considered trespassing...

Once you fire, if you don't immediately hear the smack of the bullet entering the buck's body, watch its reaction. If it doesn't fall down right away (which, if you're using the proper caliber and are a decent shot, should happen) see how it runs away. If it hunches up, odds are you shot it in the stomach. If its front half drops toward the ground, you probably just missed hitting the heart, hitting him somewhere else in the front portion of the body. If it jumps and charges forward, though, you probably just obliterated its heart with the perfect shot and shouldn't have to go far to retrieve your trophy...

The grouse hunting season has started and most numbers indicate the population is on the rise!...

The extreme commercialization of bow hunting has, in my opinion, resulted instances where hunters have been duped. In fact, I can think of several products that are down right gimmicks and obviously seek to play upon consumer ignorance and slob hunters looking for success shortcuts...

A deer camp-ought to allow you to forget whatever you had to leave to get there.  It should not be equipped with a bell that any person in the world with a similar device can ring at any time of the day or night...