Category: Hunting Tips

  • Ten Ways To Improve Your Land for Deer

    Ten Ways To Improve Your Land for Deer

    Now, though, mature bucks are common, some sporting big, heavy racks. The rut is intense, and the deer herd is better balanced and healthy. What changed? Our land and deer management plans. Many hunters think you need a large spread to make any meaningful changes to a deer herd, but this just isn’t so. Small…

  • Penalties For Trail Cam Theft Could Increase in PA

    Penalties For Trail Cam Theft Could Increase in PA

    In more recent years, trail cameras have been the target gear that thieves tend to be honing in on. These situations continue to happen because very few regulations are in place to punish such thieves. For the most part, a verbal confrontation, finger pointing, or a slap on the wrist is about all one would…

  • How To Use A Full Strut Turkey Decoy

    How To Use A Full Strut Turkey Decoy

    Using a Full Strut Decoy in Mid to Late Season I’ve heard of hunters swearing off the use of full-strut turkey decoys as the season progresses. One too many encounters with gobblers that walked away instead of coming in can often lead you to think these decoys are useless in the late season. But that’s…

  • Time to Recharge If Your Deer Hunting Isn’t Enjoyable

    Time to Recharge If Your Deer Hunting Isn’t Enjoyable

    It’s hardly a news flash that deer subjected to hunting pressure are declining in number. Hunters can persist to blame game-governing agencies, insurance companies, dwindling habitat, coyotes, bears and other competing animals. We can blame vehicles, winters, poaching and on and on until we’ve covered the bases. But none of it changes declining numbers. Are…

  • Best Tips for Scent Control and Tree Stand Placement

    Best Tips for Scent Control and Tree Stand Placement

    Ever wonder how some successful hunters seem to find the perfect location for a treestand or blind and always see or kill deer? It’s not just luck. Smart hunters know how to study the terrain, wind conditions and deer movements, and then plan accordingly. They’re also careful about scent control, which has a specific role…

  • The Best New Gear from the Great American Outdoor Show

    The Best New Gear from the Great American Outdoor Show

    The Great American Outdoor show in Harrisburg, PA has been a staple for outdoorsmen in the region for a very long time. The National Rifle Association became the show’s sponsor 3 years ago and has revitalized this show and its impact on the deep roots of America’s outdoor traditions. While the show has a large…

  • 3 Reasons You’re Not Finding Shed Antlers

    3 Reasons You’re Not Finding Shed Antlers

    Well! Shed hunting has become the biggest pre-turkey season springtime fad for hunters in recent years. The “white gold” of a buck’s shed antlers has become something to keep our desire to hunt at bay while nothing is in season. But what if you’re not finding any bone? You see all your friends flooding Instagram with…

  • Can Indoor Archery Make You a Better Bowhunter?

    Can Indoor Archery Make You a Better Bowhunter?

    So, can indoor archery competition make you a bowhunter?  Absolutely it can! In the simplest terms, shooting your bow is always better than not shooting your bow. So much of making a good archery shot – especially when it comes to that critical, heart-pounding, knee-knocking moment of truth in the woods – depends on repetition…

  • Montana Legalizes Lighted Nocks

    Montana Legalizes Lighted Nocks

    Regardless of what side you’re on, lighted nocks will now find their way onto the arrow shafts of bowhunters across the Treasure State in 2017. Montana is a beautiful state with ample opportunity for bowhunting big game. But along with nature’s bounty, you’ll also find Montana to have some of the quirkiest wildlife rules and…

  • Federal Premium Adds New 209 Primer

    Federal Premium Adds New 209 Primer

    Federal Premium Ammunition is glad to introduce the new 209 Muzzleloading Primer to complement its line of B.O.R. Lock MZ bullets, which ensure a deadly combination of accuracy and Federal Premium 209 Muzzleloading Primerdownrange devastation. Shipments of the new primers are currently being delivered to dealers. The primer formulation provides superior resistance to moisture and…