Hesitation ruins everything. That applies a lot of things in life — from relationships to job opportunities and everything else in between. It also applies to deer hunting. How many times have you been deer hunting and a shot opportunity presented itself, yet for one reason or another you botched the opportunity by not actingContinue Reading Seize the Moment When Deer Hunting
I will be 71 years old this coming winter, and I thought I would share some old man, million-adventure-miles observations with my fellow deerhunting brethren. So much has changed since I was born in 1948, yet so much has remained the same. I just made a very emotional return trip to my old birth neighborhoodContinue Reading Live the Spirit of the Wild Lifestyle
Where do the years go? It will soon be 19 years since the late, great Deer & Deer Hunting contributor Charles Alsheimer penned the following paragraph: “Our time on God’s green earth is but a vapor. Make no mistake; the day will come when all of our cycles are complete. The material things we passContinue Reading Leave a Legacy
Have I mentioned recently how the ultimate compliment that you can possibly bestow upon someone is that they are down-to-earth? Well in case I haven’t, it is. The terms grounded and down-to-earth ultimately define a person’s reliability, honesty, trustworthiness, conscientiousness and overall integrity. Since the modernization tsunami of the industrial revolution, as societies migrated enContinue Reading Down-To-Earth Food Plot Work
“When I was young, I had the time but not the means. Now that I’m older, I have the means but not the time.” That famous quote could apply to just about everything in life. For a moment, let’s dare to apply it just to deer hunting, and let’s dream that impossible dream of theContinue Reading Ultimate Dream: To Hunt Year-Round
Thank God I was born into a hunting, shooting, outdoor-celebrating family way back when! I’ve always said if Elvis Presley and Jim Hendrix et al. were raised with a bow and arrow in the Great Outdoors, they would still be alive today! Believe me when I tell you how thrilling, challenging and consuming is theContinue Reading Ted Nugent Kamp for Kids 30 Years Later
It was a sticky Sunday evening in July, and I was bored. So, like most 1980s teenagers did, I relied on my imagination for entertainment. Not sure what drew me to that long-abandoned PSE Citation compound bow in the corner of Pa’s garage, but I’m sure it had something to do with the rabbits thatContinue Reading The Pursuit of Bowhunting Perfection
As powerful a healing force that nature provides us outdoor families in America, now is not the time to let her often intoxicating healing powers deter us from critical, cultural life-and-death concerns, and inherent duties that are all around us. Our sacred outdoor recreation time does not only re-create our energies and spirit, but shouldContinue Reading We Can’t Give Up Our Hunting Lifestyle
Here is a list of five commonly used terms in the crossbow world that will help every new archer learn about and understand crossbows. 1. Arrow vs. Bolt Do you shoot crossbow “arrows” or crossbow “bolts”? These days, people use these two names for a crossbow’s projectile interchangeably – but which one is correct? ThereContinue Reading Five Key Crossbow Terms to Understand
Growing up and hunting in Michigan throughout the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, there were no wild turkeys to be had. My first encounter with the mighty Thunderchicken was in the Manistee National Forest up in the northeast area of the lower peninsula around 1975. Trekking mile after mile of wonderful rugged wildground habitat pursuing theContinue Reading Deer Hunting Turkeys
