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Skip to contentWith mosquitoes swarming my face and neck, I poised myself and held steady for the shot. My target tensed as it grew nervous, ready to jump into the swampy green depths. With a kill zone no more than an inch in diameter there was little room for error. As my arrow released, I [...]
Bowhunting to me has always been, in its truest form, a reason to dive into the natural world. I feel the act of hiking through the mountains comes with greater satisfaction when the purpose of the hunt is at the root of the adventure. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy other forms of [...]
Heather and Meghan practice casting on the fly rod. Fishing, especially while backpacking, is another easy avenue to introduce people to consumptive outdoor activities. I was a quarter-mile from the trailhead when I remembered I had left the most important piece of gear at the truck. I turned back to retrieve a pair [...]
Clay Hayes, through his books, self-bow building workshops, and YouTube channel, is well-known in the traditional bowhunting community. But since his recent appearance on the History Channel program, Alone, Clay is casting a much wider net these days by outlasting Season Eight’s other participants and surviving 74 days on the shores of Chilko [...]
“Early on, bowhunting to most of us simply meant a ‘walk in the woods’ in search of a game animal.” Glenn St. Charles Bows on the Little Delta, 1997 There have been many archers through time who have helped promote the sport of archery and worked to help show bowhunting as a healthy, [...]
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 [...]
On the Run or Stationary Ambush As a bowhunter, its arguable that at the moment of the release, the crux of the shot, that our digits affixed to the end of our hands are most influential to our success. The fingers play an important role, from the obvious task of hooking the string [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
