Recent Hunting Tips Articles

A few years ago I sat in a perfectly placed stand over a green soybean field in Kansas for the entire opening week of season. The field had browsing scars everywhere — the kind that make you feel good about yourself when you're hanging a stand the week before. I was convinced I'd found the spot. I

Ditch the Treestand and Hunt Deer on the Ground Let's be real — most of us grew up thinking that if you weren't up in a tree, you were doing it wrong. The treestand became the gold standard of whitetail hunting somewhere along the way, and a whole lot of guys never looked back. Hang your stand, st

The Art of the Ask: How Smart Hunters Are Winning Private Land Access Through Relationships, Not Luck There is a piece of ground in nearly every county in America — a stretch of creek bottom thick with whitetails, a slough that pulls in mallards like a magnet, a CRP field that hums with roosters a

Squirrel Hunting Tricks Your Grandpa Knew There's a good chance the first animal you ever hunted wasn't a trophy whitetail or a bugling bull elk. For a whole lot of us, it was a gray squirrel — spotted from the edge of a hardwood thicket on a cool October morning, the kind of morning where the fro

Buck Rubs vs. Scrapes: What the Woods Are Telling You You've been out there. You're pushing through the timber on a late September morning, frost still clinging to the leaves, coffee long gone cold in the truck. And then you see it — a sapling shredded down to bare white wood, or a patch of freshl

Your Deer Is Down. Now What? The First 30 Minutes You squeezed the trigger. Or you let that arrow fly. Your heart is slamming against your ribs, your hands are shaking, and every part of you wants to jump down from that stand and go find your deer right now. I get it. I've been there more times th