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Skip to contentThe nearly lost art of getting close. For clarification’s sake, I’d like to talk about what stalking is versus still-hunting. Sometimes hunters will refer to stand hunting as still-hunting, as I will on occasion. But when I say still-hunting, I’ll be referring to moving very slowly and deliberately through the woods trying to [...]
Nancy Doran is a wildlife biologist for the State of Maryland. She and her late husband, Dave Doran, owned Archery Past for many years, and Nancy is also very active with the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program.
Matt Davis, Kevin Merrow, and Mark Kephart head to Matt's home state of Utah in 2018 for a four day elk hunt with two tags and their tradbows. "The highs and lows will always make the most vivid memories, and this hunt did not disappoint. There are so many reasons we [...]
On a crisp October day, the approach is stealthy. Like stalking deer or turkey, a flash of a stray shadow during an impatient glance, imperceptible ground vibration, or a broken branch can make the fish dash instantly in all directions. Finally at the edge, peering through polarized sunglasses over a steep bank into [...]
T. J.'s guest in this episode is A. Preston Taylor. He's written some great articles for Traditional Bowhunter Magazine, and he's dedicated a lot of his time to tracking wild animals and hunting the North Coastal area of California.
Where the deer and the antelope play… As the words from Home on the Range suggest, the American pronghorn, familiarly known as antelope, practically defined the prairie wilderness settlers encountered as they pushed west across the Great Plains. There's still something uniquely western about the species, and the very thought of hunting them [...]
This article was published in the Aug/Sep 2019 issue of Traditional Bowhunter® Magazine. Image by David Mark from Pixabay Selling Our Soul
Grizzly tracks paved the dusty mule trails, in places erasing all sign of the heavy camp traffic. As dusk pulled shadows from the forest, I saw my first elk print. We’d been more than 20 miles in the saddle when we dismounted and tugged panniers, then pack-saddles, into the tack tent. To find [...]
The alarm had been going off for some time when I finally reached around to hit the snooze button. I should have been bouncing out of bed. It was the second week of November, and for a bowhunter, this is the time of year dreamt about during those other 50 weeks. The whitetail [...]
I have had the immense pleasure of hunting with T. J. Conrads the past two elk seasons. Not only because of his campfire stories and bowhunting expertise, but the food can’t be beat. For those who follow his Instagram posts, you’ll know when it comes to food, he cuts exactly zero corners. Fortunately [...]
