Quick Answer: Successful ground blind bowhunting requires setting up your blind at least two weeks before you hunt it, dressing head-to-toe in black inside the blind to avoid silhouetting yourself through shooting windows, and cutting those windows just wide enough for your bow to clear — not wide open. Shot execution in the confined space […]
Quick Answer: For bowhunting deer, the broadside shot is the most reliable angle — aim 3–5 inches behind the front leg crease at one-third of the body’s height from the belly. The quartering-away angle is nearly as effective and gives the arrow a longer path through vital tissue. Head-on and straight-back shots should never be […]
Quick Answer: To set up a tree stand for bowhunting, choose a straight tree 15–20 inches in diameter and hang your stand 15–20 feet high on the downwind side. Secure all straps, trim two to three shooting lanes 50 yards out, and wear a full-body safety harness from the moment you leave the ground until […]
Quick Answer: For bowhunting, always target the heart-lung vital zone in the lower chest cavity just behind the front shoulder. A broadside or quartering-away shot gives you the largest margin for error — aim 4 inches behind the front leg crease, one-third up from the belly line. Avoid frontal and quartering-toward shots; shoulder bone blocks […]
A step-by-step guide to sharpening fixed-blade and single-bevel broadheads with files, stones, and a strop — plus the rubber-band test that proves an edge is hunt-ready.
Quick Answer: Fixed-blade broadheads have no moving parts, penetrate heavy bone better, and hold up on big game and low-poundage setups. Mechanical (expandable) broadheads fly closer to your field points and open a wider wound channel, which is why most whitetail hunters shooting 60+ pounds prefer them. Choose fixed for elk, heavy bone, and bows […]
How much draw weight you really need for deer and elk — legal minimums, the kinetic energy that matters, and how to pick a poundage you can actually shoot.
A deer grunt call is the cheapest piece of gear in your pack that can flip a hunt from boring to filled tag in under thirty seconds. Used right, it pulls cruising bucks off the line they were already walking and bends them toward a treestand inside 25 yards — bow range. Used wrong, it […]
A mock scrape is a deliberately created scrape that imitates the bare-ground signposts whitetail bucks paw out under an overhanging branch — and when it’s built right, bucks usually start working it within 48 hours. The trick is not the dirt. It’s the licking branch above it. Get that branch at the wrong height, hang […]
Trail camera placement rules that turn an empty SD card into a daylight buck inventory. 45-degree angle, height by terrain, summer scouting spots that work.