“Tag: Tactics”

If you slog through just one frustrating morning of hunting off the “X,” you’ll learn the biggest spreads and best calling this time of year won’t do a thing to pull ducks toward you.

Any DIY elk hunter must learn to sort fact from fiction. Read on for tips straight from the field.

Curious about summertime scouting? Read on for why this is the perfect time to find bucks and bulls where they live.

Scout, mind the weather, carry the right decoys, remain mobile—there’s a lot a duck hunter must do to be successful. With the right tools and the wisdom to make them all work, you can meet changing conditions all season long.

Stealthily gliding down a slow stream in a canoe is a fabulous way for two duck hunters to spend a morning. It doesn’t take too many turns of a river to figure out which way the shooter in the bow wants to be facing when the ducks rise.

Shooting a bull as it comes stomping to your calls is an adrenaline rush, surely, but you need to be ready for silence. Here’s how to work your calls on low or mute.

Over the years the author has rattled bucks into point-blank distance many times. He’s here to tell you the practice works.

Public-land elk hunting challenges even the best hunters. Success requires an understanding of the unit and property owners within, plus all the terrain throughout that might support a herd.

Here’s a basic three-step turkey hunting plan devised to put the odds in your favor this spring.