I've been asked by a friend (the guy who shot the deer with the broadhead in the brain) To outfit him with a arrow and broadhead combination for a February Buffalo hunt out West. He is using his current whitetail bow but wants more than the 350 grain arrow/broadhead set up he uses for deer. I agree with that. Everything I have heard and read about Bison is that you should be shooting for the h...
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I am going to show the steps in making a bow for my son. I am not an expert by any stretch. This will be a build along sort of thread but I must warn you that this will be slow going. I have many projects in the works with much stricter time lines than finishing this bow for my son so there will be periods of inactivity. Thats just real life.This bow will be a reflex/deflex Long bow. It is a hybrid combination of a longbow and a recurve. Longbows are typically straight when unstrung and recurves are still curved even when unstrung. This bow will look sort of like a recurve whil
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Well, first off I'll take some time to introduce myself. My name is
Jeff Sturgis and I'm from MI. I LOVE hunting mature bucks so although I
still have a passion for hunting my home state of MI, my "real" hunting
is often done in Vernon County WI. I also am in the whitetail business
a bit as the owner of www.whitetailhabitatsol...
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I got a
little excited when a good friend, Dave, showed me a picture of a
monster bear that was coming into a friend's brother's backyard deer
feeder near Wausau, Wisconsin. The feeder was an antique bathtub filled
with corn. The bear in the picture had two legs on each side of the
feeder, it looked like a big black bus parked over the top of the tub.
The next picture was of a big old be...
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A deep voice over the phone asked if I had placed an ad in the Florida newspaper looking for bow hunting clients for my guiding service. I said, "Yes Sir, I placed that ad."The voice then asked every conceivable question about hunting Wisconsin's whitetails. At the end of the conversation he asked the usual question, "How much is this going to cost me?" I told hi...
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It was a hot, Saturday evening in
mid-July. All of my buddies were getting ready to go out. They asked me
to go with them for a fun night of drinking and card playing. "Go with
them?" I thought. "What a silly question!" This late in the summer and
I still did not have a solid lead on a shooter buck. Partying would
have to wait.As the sun set on the summer sky, I sat with my
back to a...
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I hear allot of talk about hunters waiting for the cold weather to go hunting... Apparently a lot of folks think in winter you need to hunt in the bitter cold to get movement... But here it is last day and its pretty warm... I have always felt that there are advantages as to why to hunt every day, and that if hunters get out of certain routines of always hunting the same way, they can ...
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It looks as though WI might have crossbow hunting for all ages and all
abilities sooner than even I thought it might. This push is not coming
from the crossbow manufacturers as is typically claimed. It is coming
from hunters who want to use the weapon but it not coming from deer
hunters. Back in spring, both the WI NWTF and the WI bear hunters voted
to seek a rules change that would allow tho...
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Nothing strikes fear in the heart of a bowhunter like the sound of hoof
steps behind him. It can paralyze you with terror unless youre ready
for it.
I
heard that petrifying sound one November morning in North Dakota, just
as the day filtered into the trees. It stunned me because I fully
expected approaching deer to come from any other point on the compass
except north....
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In the South almost all of the deer hunters are hunting from the
tree stands. Hunting from above gives you several advantages,
such as remaining above a deer's field of view,
keeping your scent above the deers nose, as well as often increasing
our visibility of the woods. Unfortunately, as
the use of tree stands increases, so has the number of hunters injuring
themselves through th...
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As October fades into November, for many people thoughts of ducks are
replaced by visions of bucks. As we head into another season my mind is
full of thoughts of buck fever.
In
essence, the fever is an adrenaline rush, triggered by a deer, that
sometimes causes hunters to do something that may be out of the
ordinary â€" like miss an otherwise easy shot. While most ...
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While butchering a bow kill, I took some pictures of two other parts of
the deer that you would encounter while doing your own processing.
These are the tenderloins and the front shoulders. The tenderloins are
the two small cuts of meat on the inside of the deer's rib cage. (the
loins are on the outside and run along either side of the spine) These
are the most tender of all the cuts of meat ...
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