“I can’t see it!” That was the normal cry heard from a few of us boys who, shielding our eyes against the sun, were looking straight up trying to see a twenty-two-cent arrow just shot from one of their little fiberglass bows. It was a test of how powerful our bows were. If [...]
During the brief interim that I hunted with a compound, my good friend Tim Endsley was selling his version of the bow sling, under his Bad Medicine Archery label. I loved this little sling so much that I asked him to design and produce a counterpart for trad bows. With him being too [...]
We've followed Beka Garris for years on social media, and recently she's started writing articles for Traditional Bowhunter. T. J. and Kerri had a chance to chat with her about hunting, cooking wild game and balancing life with time in the outdoors.
What to do when forced to stay home. When Michael Rennie and his alien spacecraft fell out of the sky in The Day The Earth Stood Still, it was duly noted that it caused severe pandemonium and fright to the earth’s inhabitants. And how about when Kenny Rodgers sang “I just dropped in [...]
Stone Glacier started out as a company who made ultralight backpacks, but has grown exponentially, and now offers high quality hunting apparel as well. I was fortunate enough to score both the De Havilland jacket and pant, shortly after visiting the Stone Glacier booth while attending the Western Hunting Expo, back in March. [...]
Who doesn’t like the looks and nostalgia of vintage archery gear? When it comes to any dyed-in-the-wool traditional archer, there can’t be many who don’t appreciate what the classic Bear Archery logo stands for, or the pride and wanderlust that it evokes. Well, if you’ve been paying attention to the folks at 3Rivers [...]
As deer season faded away and winter settled in, I started to get excited about wild pigs. I live in an area with a large population of feral pigs, but there is little public land that offers a good chance of hunting success. So, it is best to know someone with a hog [...]
Hoffman Boots is a fourth-generation business located in Kellogg, Idaho. Their mode of operation has always been to offer “high quality, functional products at a fair price.” The Hoffman name had been familiar to me for years, since they produce top notch logging and lineman boots. But they’ve only been offering hunting-specific boots [...]
I’ve spent a lot of time bowhunting mountain goats but my most memorable hunt was in 2018 when I flew into a remote lake using a friend’s floatplane service. I’ve done many solo fly-in hunts and I find that the stresses of the world melt away when the floats [...]
With Summer in full swing and the temperatures blazing, thinking about gear for use in colder conditions may not be at the top of your agenda. But now is the perfect time to be finalizing your mid-to-late season gear lists and taking care of business. Time waits for no man (or woman) and [...]
