It didn’t begin well. Any hunter can empathize with our situation. Our luggage made the plane transfer during the hour and a half layover in Chicago but the rifle case did not. The airline agents in Rapid City located our rifle case in Chicago. It would not arrive at our location in Alzada, Montana until the second day of our hunt. No hunter likes to miss opening day of deer season.
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The story of “Tuner” began back in mid-July when I filmed a buck behind my house that I quickly nick-named “Tuner” because of the inside “forks” on it G-4’s. At the time, I figured he was a shooter, but it’s always difficult to tell when they are in velvet.
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Most of you who know me personally are aware of the fact that I have been legally blind in my left eye since birth. Light and some larger shapes are discernible, but I am unable to tell you which direction the legs point on the monstrous "E" that tops the official medical eye chart. I have learned to live my life normally, in spite of the handicap, but accurately judging ...
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I have met some neat people while elk hunting over the years. Most of them are from the West. If you have ever traveled West, you know that things operate differently than they do in the East. Most people are not in a rush and seem to be very friendly. Western hunters do pick up the pace when they need to – especially when chasing elk. While I was elk hunting in New Mexico, I met two elk hunters ...
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If you are a bowhunter, you probably regularly shoot your bow in your backyard. Almost all of us own a foam target or two that we regularly shoot at to hone our archery skills. If you are serious about honing your archery skills, consider shooting at foam targets in your backyard and 3D targets with a few friends. There are several advantages to shooting at 3D targets, especially if you sh ...
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I constantly talk to hunters who want to give elk hunting a try. Most hunters get to hunt whitetails and that’s about it. I think the one big game animal every American hunter should hunt before he dies is elk. Elk are amazing animals and they live in breathtaking wilderness that most Midwestern deer hunters rarely, if ever, get to see unless we are hunting elk. I often speak about elk hunting at ...
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Hunting requires a lot of patience, especially if you are bowhunting. If you’re a bowhunter, you understand what I am saying. In the last five years, with both a bow and gun, I have harvested several big game animals on the last day of my hunt.... many of them mere moments before dark. A lot of my hunts begin the same way. Months before leaving for a hunt, I shoot my bow until I am consist ...
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Africa for many of us is still an unfulfilled dream that simmers in our mind overpowering our nostrils with the heavy aroma of mystery and adventure. It is my fondest hope to travel there someday before my stay on this magnificent earth is ended by that final punching of life’s daily time clock. I do not feel compelled to harvest a kaleidoscope of the unique and exotic animals ...
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A storm front pushing down from western Canada looked ominous as we crossed the
Colorado state line into Wyoming. It's also one of the things I love about
being at elevation - you can see rain storms from 20 miles away. By
the time we reached Wheatland, forty miles north of Cheyenne, the line of clouds had passed and the sun was shining
again in places. It was forecasted to be perfect antel ...
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It was fourth down and inches to go and I had vowed, in blood, to score.
In the still morning, just as the first shafts of sunlight began to filter through the heavy canopy of the thick forest, I sensed a sneeze coming on. I tried to fight it, and then muffle it, but still the release of the building pressure shattered the silence ...
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My broad heads seek early season whitetail like a man. The forest’s canopy is choked with heavy green foliage wrapping around limbs, while the floor is scattered with gold nuggets of prized acorns. There’s no better time to hunt Buffalo County, Wisconsin than right now!
The Wisconsin archery season is underway. The weather has been unseasonably warm, which burns much opportunity of spot ...
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Legendary mountain man Jeremiah Johnson roamed throughout Colorado and other mountainous regions. He must have listened to the elk bugle just as we did on our recent hunting trip. He probably caught trout from the same streams we fished. We can never be sure, but imagining my footsteps tracing over his certainly adds a mysterious romance to the overall experience of my elk hunt.
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By noon on our fifth day in South Africa, we were on the third leg of our African adventure. This time we were heading to the Baviaans River Valley in the Eastern Cape and Andrew Pringle’s huge family ranch.
Following our arrival and a light snack, Beth, Paul, and I along with our ph Scott de Villiers negotiated ...
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While I’ve yet to even start hunting here in Iowa , many bowhunters in several states are already hard at it on some dandy bucks! Here in Iowa , our season opens on October 1 st ; thank goodness! The life of a hunting entrepreneur is not one of spending all one’s time in the field. In fact, I’m a desk jockey most of the time, writing emails, doing design work and living what ...
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If you have ever been on an elk hunt, you know how much work it can be. Hiking for miles up and down the steep mountains at high elevations can be a lot of work, especially if you have a disability like I do. Elk hunting tests your physical and mental strength. They are smart animals that don’t always respond to calls the way you would like them to. When you put all of that together, the result is ...
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ATHENS ACCOMPLICE There were several new bow companies that popped up this year. One of them that got a lot of attention at the annual ATA Show was Athens Archery. They have a nice bow called the Accomplice that offers bowhunters everything they are looking for in a bow. Company President Jason Hudkins told me he wanted to build a bow that was smooth-shooting and made of the best components ava ...
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The only thing that should be important to the hunters of North America is doing everything that they can to bring ALL hunters together in one unified force. We cannot do that by attacking our hunting brethren because they may like to bait deer, or they like to run bears with hounds or any other of the stupid things that hunters beat up other hunters for. In the last decad ...
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I settled into my treestand making final preparations for my evening hunt excitedly thinking that this was going to be the night. I always think that at the onset of an outing, whether it be in the morning or at night. If I did not believe that, I would not be there, right? And every once in a while, I am right on the mark with my thinking when a whitetail deer falls victim to a we ...
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Crossbows, for the very first time, are a legal option during the entire archery season in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas and the lower two thirds of Michigan. Since the legislation was passed and made public, there has been a mad dash by hunters to their local sporting goods stores to gear up. Fortunately, once a crossbow and arrows have been purchased, the accessories required for cro ...
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By now, I’d taken a long-horned old
female gemsbok and a crazy looking black wildebeest bull after chasing a herd
of ‘em around in a big circle on the plains all afternoon. It’s day seven of my
eight day safari and I’ve got two animals left on my wish list: a springbuck
and a warthog. Today, we’re going after the springbuck.
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