Besides listening for pre-season gobbling and practicing your diaphragm call, patterning your turkey gun is one of the best activities you can do to prepare for the upcoming turkey season. If you change anything about your gun setup year to year, from chokes to shells, patterning is a must. Even if you’re still on the same box of turkey loads...

  The 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic cleared store shelves of lots of things we all took for granted. Liquor distilleries were getting into the hand sanitizer business and your Aunt Linda spent a full afternoon going from store to store to max out their toilet paper-per-customer allotments. When times were uncertain and bread and milk were flying off the shelves, people...

Some people may scoff at the notion of hunting gray and fox squirrels. Moreover, talking about eating squirrels may invite weird looks. I personally have heard the term "tree rat" or "rats with bushy tails" shot my way regularly when bringing up the topic.  Truth be told, squirrels may be a rodent, but they taste great, and a squirrel is honestly...

Longbows and recurves have been used for a long time and they are both very effective weapons. Both weapons also look fairly similar, especially to a beginner. Are there really any major differences between the two that makes one of them better than the other? Let’s dive into the construction of these bows and see how that affects their performance....

While much of today’s focus in the hunting world is on the significance of protecting our public lands for hunting and access, a reality for millions of hunters is that they live nowhere near readily accessible public land for hunting. Private land provides the sole habitat for a large percentage of game animals in the United States for all or...

Duck hunting is one of the best sports in the world. As an avid whitetail hunter, I have never been able to quite decide which I love more. Duck hunting is super exciting and a bit faster pace than most types of hunting. Thankfully duck hunting is a bit easier to pick up than most types of hunting. All you...