Guest Author: BRANDON STUART As I ran up to my wife, Sharla, she was crying and telling me she had just, “ruined the hunt.”  I told her, “Babe, you just saved the day!”  It had been 11 hours since I had first hit the bull, and we were back in the …

Guest Author: ALEX MILLWARD Ding, ding, ding…. At 3 am, an alarm wasn’t necessarily what I was wanting to hear. At that moment, the internal debate began. You’ve already hunted pretty hard this season, you’re sick and you have to be to work at 9; is it really worth it? Followed …

Guest Author: Thomas Austin As the bull’s body was no longer obscured by the grass I quickly judged the distance and chose a pin I drew back my bow and settled in on his vitals as he continued to walk towards to calls of my hunting partner as he reached …

Guest Author: Alex Kurz Ryan and I whispered to one another as the bull walked in, “This is gonna happen”.  As the bull crested the final null where we knew Alex could see him, time stood still.  The bull took a few final steps toward the spring, and put his …

Guest Author: Ernest Chavez I had no cover, so I just stood there, nocked an arrow and tried to catch my breath and compose myself. The bull continued to bugle and started raking the ground with his antlers. To my surprise, he started walking right at me, at 30 yards …

Guest Author: Lindsay McQuaid  After the shot, I heard the bull break a few branches, but didn’t think he went very far. About two minutes later I heard breaking of branches one more time. The forest was then quiet. A couple of texts to family and friends helped to pass the …

Guest Author:  Russ Carlson It was a foggy Saturday morning, September 9th, 2017. Walking in the dark, I was hoping to get to my spot ahead of where the deer tend to cross on my favorite ridge. I found about six nice deer as the sun came up that were on …

Guest Author: Marty Hamel My brother, Mike, and I went on our first DIY archery elk hunt in Colorado in September of 2009. It was an amazing experience and one that ignited a desire to continue to hunt elk in the mountains. Since that hunt, life happened, and things got busy. …

Public land bowhunter Jordan Breshears covers country to arrow a herd bull in Montana. This DIY hunt is packed with ups and downs, literally, as Breshears uses elevation to his advantage to locate elk and avoid other hunters. Elk hunting public land takes persistence and grit to get the job …

Anyone who has spent time around kids knows how quickly they can get “bored”. In today’s world of instant gratification, touch screen, on demand, have it your way, more choices than you can shake a stick at entertainment, which is almost all tech based and electronically driven, therefore meaning it’s …