Knife Sharpening Tips for Beginners
A quick, helpful video from Outdoor55 with tips for sharpening a knife. This could also apply to broadhead sharpening, too!
Campfire Chat with Nick Mathews
T.J. and Robin went to visit Nick and Brenda Mathews in Roanoke, Indiana for a few days after the 2019 Compton Traditional Bowhunters Rendezvous. T.J. sat down with Nick to chat about his passion for traditional archery, their past and future hunts, and what they see for the future of bowhunting. [...]
How to Make a Bowstring for Beginners
Here's a different twist on making a Flemish bowstring. There are some benefits to using this method. Let us know what you think.
Clickers—The Nuclear Option for Target Panic
Target panic is one of those topics sure to elicit a wide range of responses. Some people will perk to attention, while others will run like a little girl being chased by a spider. There are people who know it exists—usually because they suffer from it—and others who consider it a fairy tale. [...]
Binocular Basics – What to Know Before You Buy
I’ve always been told “you get what you pay for” and that point was sure driven home for me when it came to buying my first pair of binoculars. I suppose I should qualify that by saying my first pair of GOOD binoculars. My first ever pair of binoculars cost $99 and I [...]
Build a Better Venison Burger
An entire article on making a hamburger? I’m kidding, right? Wrong, and I’ll tell you why. First, I feel strongly that eating what we shoot doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves nowadays. Too many hunting magazines have devolved to endless streams of “grab-and-grin” hero photos separated by breathless prose descriptions of G-2s [...]
How to Use a Compass
Navigation is one of the Ten Essentials and most outdoors people take a compass with them on every adventure. But how do you use them? In this REI Expert Advice Video, they teach you what you need to know to navigate easily, safely and with confidence. Watch to learn the parts [...]
Traditional Bowhunting Turkey
In this video, Clay Hayes is bow hunting wild turkeys in the Idaho mountains with Matt Schuster, the current President of the Professional Bowhunter's Society (PBS). Although turkey hunting is a challenge no matter what weapon or method you choose, hunting turkeys with a traditional bow and without a blind is [...]
Why We Miss
A successful competitive archer I know once commented that the task of shooting a bow accurately is more mental than physical. She contended that most people can quickly learn the physical processes of shooting, but that training one’s mind to perform those functions with a high level of consistency is the true challenge. [...]
A Shot From the Past—Chet Stevenson
This article was written in 1990 by the late Dave Doran of Bend, Oregon. I first met Chet in 1975. I had heard about him from Larry D. Jones. We were mostly interested in making and hunting with yew bows, so Larry said I should meet him since Chet had taken quite a [...]