preseason

Are You Actually Ready to Hunt? | Making Sure You're On Target

Are You Actually Ready to Hunt? | Making Sure You're On Target

But, I find the online research and shopping is the easy part…it’s fun for a gear-junky like me to spend hours on a laptop researching the minute details of every piece of hunting gear. The hard part is having the discipline to spend the time making sure you and your gear are as prepared as possible for the hunt. I’m talking range time, target practice, testing your gear before you’re out in the field trying to beat an incoming hailstorm…this is the stuff that’s harder to do. The temptation is to leave your rifle in the safe or bow in the closet, pull it out a couple weeks before season to check the zero, and then hit the hills. Honestly, I think that’s a recipe for disaster, and that’s because I’m smack-dab in the middle of that disaster right now…

Making the Most of the Off-Season | How to Hunt All Year Long

Making the Most of the Off-Season | How to Hunt All Year Long

If you’re a standard big game hunter, the early spring is probably a down time for you…at least it is for me. Fall gets so much if our time, energy, and day dreaming. Then February rolls around, and compared to the anticipation and general awesomeness of the past five months, there’s just not much going on. So we have a choice: slip into a depressive coma until Fall rolls around again, or find ways to make the most of this down time and set ourselves up for an even better Fall this upcoming year. Personally, I’ve done both in the past, and this year I’m committed to going guns blazing like never before during the Spring and Summer months.