Archive for tag: archery
Got Hunts? Bet Your Boar He Does.
April 23, 2009 Featured, Hog & BoarThank you to Dayne Shuda of Hunting Business Marketing for naming this post one of the Top 50 Hunting Blog Posts of 2009! Spring can be a slow time for hunters: turkey season is winding down, tag applications are due and guns & bows are being put aside for fishing rods. They’re shaking off winter’s [...]
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Bison With A Bow
March 21, 2009 HuntingThis is a great story that comes from my good friend and Doubletough hunting camp founding member Aaron Enget of Colorado. This hunt occurred a year after he backed me up on a rifle hunt for a buffalo near this same area. A rancher friend of Aaron’s who does rifle hunts on the side had [...]
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Nice Kitty
March 6, 2009 Mountain LionHere’s one making the rounds, forwarded by Doubletough’r Aaron Enget of Colorado: this cat was taken with a bow outside La Cross, Wisconsin in Caledonia. The hunter was in a stand waiting on a northwoods buck to stroll by when he caught a glimpse of this puma upwind of his location. When it reappeared [...]
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Perfect Shot
January 23, 2009 DeerFollowing on the heels of the last post, check out this trailcam photo capturing an archer’s moment of truth. No details beyond the time stamp, it was shot in September, but it’s a good bet that it was in a state that allowed baiting.
Read More »Move Along, Nothing To See Here
January 6, 2009 MooseFollowing up our Thursday post of a bowhunter’s remarkable experience with an elk, check out the moose that takes an interest in the “tree branch” in this clip. Have you had a close encounter? Tell us about it in the Comments!
Read More »Hunting With Stick And String
January 1, 2009 Elk, VideoBeyond the Tred Barta appeal of bowhunting, getting up close & personal to game ranks at the top for folks who choose to leave their rifle in the gun cabinet. Some bowhunters refuse to take shots at distances greater than 40 yards, for fear of something unexpected happening resulting in an injured animal instead of [...]
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The Blizzard Buck
December 17, 2008 Deer, FeaturedAs most folks settled in for the big white blowdown that swept the midwest, leave it to a Doubletough regular to hit the woods. Billy “Bearpaw” Groom of Minnesota settled into a ground blind near Ely, MN with temperatures around the -8 mark and got ‘er done with a bow. “I was watching an [...]
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Jackson Hole Bull From Six Yards
September 24, 2008 ElkThis report came in from Bill “Bearpaw / Bathgate” Groom of Minnesota: while booking a snowmobile trip at Togwotee Lodge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he asked about elk activity. The guy on the other end of the phone told him the story of this bull he had arrowed just a few days earlier. After a [...]
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