“Tag: hunting tactics”

The frosty white-tipped tom of the West lures many turkey hunters from other regions. But the bird that roams the Rockies can’t necessarily be hunted the same ways as birds in Eastern forests.

Start your spring early by hitting the turkey woods with a bow.

Understanding how pressured deer react is the first step in figuring out where they go once hunters begin trudging afield.

Contributor Aram von Benedikt dives into the why and how of public-land antlerless elk hunting—a more-accessible, yet similarly rewarding sister activity to pursuing backcountry bulls.

It’s the bottom of the ninth, you’re down by one and you’ve got runners on base. Step up to the late-season plate with these tactics in hand to give yourself a fighting chance at bringing home a buck.

Here are 15 ways to slip in undetected and kill that buck of a lifetime.

Here’s a game plan for each phase of the whitetail rut.

By this time of year, toms have regrouped into bachelor bands and hens have gathered with their poults, which means turkeys enjoy the security of large flocks. Here’s how to outfox all those eyes and ears and take home a bird for Thanksgiving.

Some spots are better than others, but most of these should be avoided.