Throwback Thursday takes us way back to one of the pioneers of bowhunting in the United States. Amazing footage from Art Young's 1926 grizzly bear hunt fueled the fire for many others who desired adventure and challenge in bowhunting with a simple traditional bow. See Next: 3 Yards Away from [...]
I have been dancing with the wind most of my life. My mother told me that when I was a kid, I loved to chase bubbles floating on the breeze and run with a kite weaving back and forth as I giggled. I ran high school and college track, and had a love-hate [...]
The second day of the archery season brought clouds and a threat of rain. As I eased up the trail along a high mountain lake a shower caused me to seek shelter under an immense fir. Waiting out the rain, I began to have some real doubts about this season. Yesterday morning a [...]
There are so many things about hunting that I truly love. The preparation long before the hunt that includes figuring out the new regulations, which can be as complicated as writing a term paper on a subject that you think you have knowledge about and find out that you actually know nothing. Making [...]
It’s my goal to become as familiar as possible with the lives of the flora and fauna in my eco-region. There is an excess of 3,500 plants in the California Floristic Province, so it is unlikely I will know them all in my lifetime. Likewise, the kingdom Fungi holds a great diversity and [...]
The polar bear’s head bobbed in and out of sight as it moved through the slabs of broken ice. I leapt off of the dog sled, threw my mittens to the ground, and wrestled out of my heavy down jacket. Grabbing my bow and quiver, I ran forward in my clunky boots to [...]
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 was enforced by police stops along roadways. Hunting was banned on public land because of the fear that the virus [...]
If you ever have a chance to see one of the great collections of vintage broadheads that travel around the country, do it. One might think that putting a point on an arrow shaft to make it more lethal to deer and other game animals might be a simple matter, but the amount [...]
Many bowhunters make their own bowstrings and there is one major name in bowstring materials that comes to mind: BCY. BCY offers so many different bowstring making materials for all of archery, and they pride themselves in their exceptional customer service. That being said, a specific product line they have carried is being discontinued. [...]
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 and around solid pillows of granite. Raptors soar with proficiency and grace, their eyes searching for elusive cottontails hidden in [...]
