Building Accuracy and Confidence This video from Clay Hayes will show you a few techniques that will help you tighten your arrow groups and improve both your accuracy and confidence in shooting. This is a little more advance shooting video so if you need instructions on the fundamentals of archery, including [...]
Traditional archery has always been a part of my heart. Memories as a toddler playing Cowboys and Indians with my older brothers still flow through my adventurous mind encouraging me to continue my path of traditional archery. As young children we would build forts out of sticks and pretend to be far away from [...]
Like most bowhunters, I started out small; a hand-me-down recurve, a few scattered arrows, and limited knowledge passed down from my dad and an uncle. My dad was a traditional bowhunter, but back in the early '70s it seemed that everyone was. Although he wasn't a great hunter, he gave me a good [...]
There has been a controversy in bowhunting history circles since 1989 when Bill Negley published Archer in Africa. Two questions were central to Negley’s claims in the book, and there was a chapter dedicated to each: Would it Really be the First? What about Howard Hill? and What about Bob Swinehart? respectively. Who was [...]
In the fall of 1994, I received a phone call out of the blue from a man who identified himself as Dick in a rich Texas drawl that reminded me of my own parents, who had deep roots in the Lone Star State. He explained that he was in the area with family [...]
So, what does a traditional bowhunter do at the end of the bow season for big game when the cottontail rabbit numbers crash? Hunt ducks! What else? No, I don't recommend using archery tackle if you want to eat duck, but if you want to shoot and laugh a bunch... fletch up some [...]
Growing up as one of four daughters in a family dedicated to traditional longbows, I have been shooting a bow since I was able to pull one back and have been an avid hunter since age thirteen. Most thirteen-year-old girls spent their fall weekends with friends at football games, but I spent mine [...]
If you've been around these parts for a while, you may have seen or even tried this recipe before, either in Traditional Bowhunter or the book A Man Made of Elk; but give it a second try anyhow, as the version below reflects several subtle improvements and makes the best game jerky I've [...]
All I can hear is my heart pounding in my chest, resonating into my head. My breathing is deep and shaky as I watch this huge figure emerge from the thick, wet scrub not ten yards away. Front on and roaring hard, the giant 14 point New Zealand wild red stag belts his [...]
