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.
Lawyers, Bows and Pronghorns
As your attorney, I advise you to take the deal.” In any normal circumstance, those are words I prefer not to hear. But then, this was no normal circumstance. My attorney was none[...]
Coming Home
We all enter the woods for a myriad of reasons. Necessity for sustenance, the thrill of an adventure, camaraderie with friends and family, or merely the solace of complete and utter lonesomeness. For[...]
Turkey Fooling Whitetails
In the early 1970s, when I started hunting whitetails in Nebraska (we didn’t have them in Colorado then), I was hunting them on the ground as I did mule deer here in the[...]
Prairie Faith—Bowhunting Antelope in Wyoming
I love the high desert of the West with its sage- and rabbit-brush blanketed prairies. The smell of the prairie and the abundant wildlife there have a fond place in my heart, bringing[...]
Jack Coates-Archery’s Everyman
You won’t read about him in any “Who’s Who in Archery” books. He’d be far down on any official list of bowhunter luminaries, but nonetheless he’s notable in that he was among the[...]