“Tag: Know-How”

Frank Miniter offers a few tips that should help you tag that bear you've been dreaming of this spring.

A cabin is a lot like a boat or a horse in that it robs both time and money. So much time and money I haven’t bought or built my own cabin. Maybe you haven’t either. Well then, here’s how to get your own cabin in the Appalachians or the Rockies or Alaska for as little as $20 a night.

If you live in a rural setting that doesn’t include a no-shooting covenant, you may have the makings for a home-based shooting range. Survey your surroundings for safe backstops and consider building your own range that can include options for rifle, handgun and shotgun shooting activities.

Field Editor Frank Miniter offers a few tips for scouting that big buck during the summer months.

Mature bucks are different, but the places they look for on public land can be found.

Shooting at—and hitting—running game is a lost art in many American hunting circles, but not in Europe, where hunters across the continent swing on feral swine during game drives. Here’s how they do it.

This is the deer hunter’s calculation. You ask yourself if there are low-impact entry and exit routes that will take you to and from a stand. Can you get a true wind in/near the buck’s likely bedding area? If you’re bowhunting, will you have to cut shooting lanes? Can you afford to risk making this buck even more nocturnal in October?

Maybe you have a sure-thing rut stand, a place of your own where pleasant memories of big bucks tagged play in your head like a deer-hunting show marathon. Good for you. Now go away; this is for the rest of us who must constantly scout, look for new properties and put in the time for our dream bucks.

Opening day has come and gone. What now? Frank Miniter offers a few pointers.