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So, you want to bowhunt. Welcome. It’s a rewarding — and in many ways a life-changing — pursuit. There is, however, a learning curve. There are several learning curves, actually, the first of which is gear. When I walked into a pro shop to purchase my first bow, I was overwhelmed by all of the equipment options, additional gear required,
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An elk is a bucket-list animal for most any bowhunter. Huge creatures in big country close enough that you can watch them piss on themselves running in at your call, hear leaves and twigs snap as they walk, see their nostrils flare smelling the air as their breath rises in a cloud — it’s easy to see the draw, literally
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If you’ve spent any time with old-guard archery hunters at the local greasy spoon or in the garage after a day in the field, you’ve heard the words “there was a time when” on more than one occasion. Those words are faithfully followed by stories of big-game-filled seasons when every animal was more of a wall-hanger than the last. And
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Correy Hawk is more than a renaissance man — he’s a renaissance badass. A Marine veteran, student of the natural world, and teacher of how to live in it, he can spend weeks in quiet solitude deep in the backcountry with the most minimal gear. He can build durable shelter to hold off will-crushing weather, catch fish in a gill
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Sitting in the cab of Miles Fedinec’s pickup, beside a dirt road on a high sage flat in western Colorado, I can see through binoculars a pronghorn buck. He’s a half-mile away, standing in the 94-degree heat, and my arrow is pinned through both scapulae — 2 inches forward of fatal. In the blind an hour before, I had the
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I’m a self-taught bow hunter with a passion for elk hunting. The first time I heard the bugle of a bull elk echo out of my computer speakers, I knew I had to go and experience it in person. So that’s exactly what I did. In 2017, my first season, I made just about every mistake a new hunter could
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