The blacktail doe appeared from below and behind my stand, a new approach. It was the last day of the season and does are legal in the deer de-emphasis unit where I live in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. I dropped the string! Such was the season a year earlier. By the end of August [...]
Experience will tell that you that something as simple as a good cup of coffee, can be the difference between “surviving” and thriving while battling the elements. And just because you choose to hunt with simple equipment, enjoy getting away from the trailhead and roughing it, doesn’t mean that you have to suffer [...]
He stared at me, straight through me it seemed, as I crouched in the soft undergrowth, nearly in fetal position gripping my longbow behind a primitive blind made of dead sticks and pine bough tips. The odd mesh of sticks and pine needles may have seemed a bit strange to him, but more [...]
I heard the moist-sounding “thunk” and knew what would come next. Yep, there it was, the frustrated exclamation, “Poppa, I missed again!” I was trying to teach my grandson, Jake, how to shoot carp with a bow. He was a pretty good shot with his Bear Super Mag, but the carp were getting [...]
Kifaru International continues to keep the market on its toes by consistently releasing new, and innovative backpack models. Case in point: the new for 2020, Stryker Cargo Panel. According to Kifaru’s President, Aron Snyder: “As of now, the Stryker backpack is the most versatile offering we’ve ever brought to market. It can be [...]
I usually hunt alone, so I often do things along the way that I barely give a second thought to. This often means that something that may constitute as a "good time" for me may not even register on another's fun meter. In fact, bringing someone new along with me, often is a good [...]
It was a hot, humid, early July morning in 1981. I was 13 years old and spending the week with my grandparents on their farm in southern Maine, and had just returned from the stock pond with several large bull frogs. I was cleaning my game on the front lawn, which still was [...]
It was opening morning of archery season. My daughter, Kerri, and I headed out of camp to hunt downhill to an ancient elk wallowing area in the bottom of a bowl of fir, pine, and quaking aspen. We hadn’t gone a hundred yards from camp when a blue grouse flushed off the trail [...]
The sun had only been up for about an hour as I hiked to the second set of mountains. As I hiked, I thought about the past year and how I was eagerly awaiting this opportunity. I knew I was meant to be up in these mountains. I knew I was going to [...]
Introducing children to archery can be a fun and rewarding experience. You can also get them involved in target construction prior to actual shooting. I recently enjoyed an opportunity to get youngsters building targets and shooting arrows on the big island of Hawaii. Compton Traditional Bowhunters generously sponsored shooting equipment for the kids. [...]
