I have accumulated a lot of special memories over the course of my twenty years of hunting. I can still vividly remember the details of my first successful deer hunt, my first turkey, and my first good buck with a bow. But all of these events pale in comparison to watching my eight year-old son [...]

Most of us were taught growing up that practice makes perfect. For most things in life that is pretty sound advice, but when it comes to bowhunting, not all practice is equal.
There was a time, not too long ago, when archery practice consisted of a couple of square bales of straw and a paper plate [...]

by Mike O’Bryan
Opening morning 2008 was not spent hunting a lush food plot. Nor was it spent sitting over a hot bait site. In fact opening morning was spent hunting a tree no farther than 45 yards from the truck. Not only was I just 45 yards from the truck, I was also perched on [...]

The first rays of the morning sun had just cleared the trees and began to cast a glow on the field of native warm-season grass as we quickly set up on our second turkey of the morning. Our first attempt had been foiled when our decoys were out-competed by a group of eight hens and [...]

Most of us, at one time or another, have flipped through the pages of our favorite hunting magazines or browsed the pages of our favorite hunting websites and commented to ourselves on how “lucky” some of the featured hunters were to have harvested such tremendous animals. And for some of those hunters, lady luck was [...]

For deer hunters, late winter can be a bleak time of year. Deer season has closed across much of the country, and the cold weather makes the spring turkey season seem like an eternity away. For the diehard hunter, this is no time to kick back in the recliner and watch reruns on the Outdoor [...]