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.
A Day Out of Lockdown
It was just going to be “filling the freezer” to help us get through the rest of the New Zealand COVID-19 lockdown, which prohibited leaving your house except for limited grocery shopping and[...]
First Dance with the Desert Ghost
Desert is not wasteland. Desert is a space of light where cactus gardens grow on the expansive slopes and the horizon flows into the sky. Deeply incised gulches wander amid stands of juniper[...]
How to Can a Mule Deer
My good buddy John lives just over the hill in Rapid City, South Dakota, and let me tell you, he makes the best canned venison I've ever tried. One of these days I'm[...]
Traditional Archives—Hunting Moose and Caribou in the 1950s
In 1955, Roy Hoff, the editor of Archery Magazine, took a trip to the Alaska tundra. It was the kind of expedition every bowhunter dreams of—pursuing big game in Alaska, a place which[...]
Call Me Ishmael
Call me Ishmael is the first line of the iconic writing of Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick. The story of my search for big fish began when I was but nine or ten years[...]