Campfire Stories
A collection of stories about hunting with traditional bows.
Some are new stories, and some were published in past issues of Traditional Bowhunter® Magazine.
The Bowhiking Chronicles #051519: Bear Shafted
Raise your hand if you consider yourself a diehard, through-and-through traditional bowhunter. Also raise your hand, if you’ve found that any time you try to deviate from the creed…things have a way of[...]
The Speed of the Longbow
Jake Hamilton belted it out on the radio as I drove into the fading darkness. There was something electric and alive that day that seemed to super charge the air and, as if[...]
Dupe ’em with Decoys
Using decoys to help lure animals into range goes back almost as far as our hunting history does. In fact, early man and Native Americans were the first to employ many of the[...]
Adventures on the Martin
The whine of the diesel pushed us down the rain-soaked asphalt, green moss popping up through the cracks in the shoulder. The trees lining the highway from the airport drip with tendrils of[...]
I Married a Bowhunter
Sometimes we find the lifestyle and sometimes the lifestyle finds us. A brief survey of our contributors (and our readership) would confirm just that. Fortunate is the archer born into a bowhunting family[...]