Bowhunter education is often synonymous with safety. When we think of bowhunting education, it’s easy to imagine an instructor...

Note: Although I wrote this piece almost three years ago, the research data and information are still very relevant. As you know, hunter...

Something happened in southeast Ohio in the early 1980s, something that will likely never happen again in this generation or the next....

There’s little doubt that whitetails are number one in the hunting world, but it could be argued that wild turkeys are a close second....

Last fall, as I was getting ready to walk in to hunt, a truck pulled up beside me in the parking lot and a guy rolled down the...

Date Killed: September 26, 2020 Public or Private: Public Land P&Y Gross Score: 152 6/8 inches Recently I had the opportunity to talk...

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Following the rut, most bucks find that their fat reserves have evaporated to almost nothing and they’re just plain worn out from chasing...

I have this framed and hanging on the wall at camp. Last week I was looking at it and it dawned on me...this price list is 100 years old....

I love old hunting photographs. I found this one in a gunsmith's shop near Oil City, PA. He had a bunch of old photos tacked to the...

After hunting season, a deer’s primary focus shifts from evading hunters to simply surviving Mother Nature. One of the ways they do this...

Grandma's Camp Chili Yep, this one's straight from my grandma's cookbook. It was always delicious when I was growing up, and it's just as...

Nothing lifts your spirits like getting daytime trail camera photos of the number one buck on your hit list. I’m not talking one or two...

The late legendary trapper Johnny Thorpe probably described bobcats best when he wrote: "He's a lazy, worthless, weed-smokin' sort, who...

I often complain about black bears toying with my trail cameras. Many times, I find cameras tilted, twisted, dangling, or hanging where I...

If hunting a highly-pressured parcel of public land, instinct tells us to walk farther than the competition. That can put you into fresh...

Shortly after daylight on opening day of archery season, I glimpsed an antler moving through the brush behind me. The buck was on me...

Few things get me more excited than finding huge buck rubs. The rub at the top of this post is a prime example. Not only is the main tree...

– By Tyler Frantz “On the twelfth day of Rut-mas, my true love gave to me, a broadside buck 10-yards from my tree...” While this musical...

When it comes to hunting, Steve Sherk couldn’t give a hoot about those corn-fed Midwestern whitetails. What gets his adrenaline pumping...