Success From The Stand!

12 Steps to Filling Your Tag from Your Treestand This Fall Hunting from treestands is one of the most time proven strategies for ambushing wary whitetails. Whether you’re hunting from a manufactured or homemade stand, 10 feet or 20 feet above the ground, there are certain preparations to be made and precautions that should be…

ByMark RaycroftJanuary 25, 20220Comments

Bowhunting

Bowhunting Spring Gobbler: Tips & Tactics

Spring gobbler season is one of my favorite times of the year. After months of domestic blissfulness with no hunting activity, spring gobbler season kicks off the start of the new hunting year. It’s also the first opportunity to field test many of the new bowhunting products on the market. Each year more and more…

ByTodd BromleyJanuary 25, 20220Comments

How to Bow Hunt Hunting

No Peeping

Bowhunters are always looking for tips and tricks to make their arrow groups tighter. When buying a bow for the first time it is pretty much standard that pro shops recommend and install a peep sight. A peep sight is a simple concept of looking straight through the string to see your pins and place…

ByGord NuttallJanuary 25, 20220Comments

Whitetail

A Generalist’s Approach To Canadian Whitetail Hunting

It’s 0 – dark thirty as you climb out of your nice warm blankets and begin to prepare for your days hunt. The weather reads a crisp -5C (23F) with a promise of snow in the afternoon as you eat a big breakfast at camp and prepare your gear for the day. 5 giant bucks…

ByNoel LinseyJanuary 25, 20220Comments

Hunting Stories

Late Season Bowhunting Success

Temperatures drop, winds howl, and snow falls, transforming many hunters into football tans. Remember, every seven-year-old Boone & Crocket buck had to survive its hunting season as a six-year-old. We all dream of that once-in-a-lifetime deer and sometimes it happens in the fourth quarter. With greatly reduced hunting pressure in late season, deer return to…

ByNA Bow Hunter StaffJanuary 25, 20220Comments

Bowhunting Hunting

Crossbow Reality: Why Not Crossbow?

The first two years I hunted with a crossbow, I chased white-tailed deer, turkey, and black bear and never had the opportunity to pull the trigger. It was conclusive evidence that hunting with a crossbow is not an unfair advantage. Just because you hold a bow horizontally does not mean the animals will run or…

ByBrad FensonJanuary 25, 20220Comments

Gear Reviews

Review – Black Mamba 31

At the time of this writing, we are in the middle of a polar vortex here on the Canadian Prairies. With temperatures averaging around -35 Celsius (-31 Fahrenheit) it has been hard to find reasons to venture outside these last few weeks. I have been a little stir crazy so when the opportunity came up…

ByNA Bow Hunter StaffJanuary 1, 20220Comments

Gear Gear Reviews

Not All Bullets Are Made Equal

The simple definition of a bullet in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is a small piece of metal or another material that is shot out of a gun. The full definition listed is: a round or elongated missile (as of lead) to be fired from a firearm; broadly: cartridge. Most hunters understand the pretense of a bullet…

ByBrad FensonJanuary 1, 20220Comments

How to Bow Hunt Hunting Whitetail

7 Tips To Hunting Dense Cover For Nocturnal Bucks

Here is your Plan of Attack! Wall know they’re out there. We capture nighttime photos of them on our trail cameras, or spot them feeding during an August evening, before they sneak back to the woods and seemingly vanish for the autumn months. Maybe they’ve been spotted as they crossed a road at night. These…

ByMark RaycroftJanuary 1, 20220Comments

Hunting Stories Whitetail

The New Season

The sun was setting in the western sky when I decided to climb down from my treestand and call it a season. I had spent 70 hours perched in various stands over the past 15 days, but for the past hour I found it difficult to focus my thoughts. My fingers gently caressed the crossbow…

ByNA Bow Hunter StaffDecember 30, 20210Comments

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