Mapping routes to hunting spots can be accomplished in the palm of your hand with modern cell phones. However, what most of those images don’t show—topographic lines—may prove to be the most useful information at your disposal.
Public land can offer some of the best hunting, but you wouldn’t know it without doing some research. Look for these four features to find your new hotspot.
The irony of having smart phones, smart cars and smart everything is they can make us less smart. To put it bluntly, they can make us dumb. By using these gadgets at every turn, we become more and more dependent—to the point where we become clueless without them.
Having a hard time getting on the trail of a big buck? Field Editor Bill Winke is here to help. Just in time for "Whitetail Week," Bill discusses the ins and outs of finding buck sign.
These tips and techniques may help you the next time you need to follow up on a shot that didn't go exactly as planned. Stick with it, use your brain as well as your eyes and feet, and maybe you can avoid the heartbreak of a wounding loss.
Mature bucks know where to run when the shooting starts, places where they’ll pass the time while hunters linger over scrapes the bucks won’t refresh until midnight.