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...

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)

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 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...