When rangefinders first came out, they were considered a luxury product, but have since earned their keep as essential pieces of equipment, especially for archers.
This year Nikon has expanded its line of sport optics with the addition of the new Prostaff 3 and the Prostaff 5 Laser Rangefinders. Here’s a sneak peek on each …
Archery equipment has come a long way since the days when longbows and recurves dominated the market. And as equipment has improves so has the ability for bowhunters to make long-range shots, but does that mean we should take these shots?
There are a lot of bowhunters who practice daily and train at triple-digit distances. I personally think long range shooting is both fun and challenging. It’s incredible to watch the arch of an arrow and it’s seemingly sudden drop once it reaches its long distance target.
Suburban developments have long been home to whitetail deer, but a growing deer population has pushed deer out of the woods and into backyards in Avon Lake, Ohio.
The Avon Lake Council is looking into a deer hunting recommendation that would permit bowhunting whitetail deer (with an estimated population of 225 to 250 deer) in designated parts of the city. However, this isn’t sitting well with the city’s 4th Ward councilman David Kos, reports the Chronicle-Telegram.
Kos was “stunned” at some of the areas deemed sufficient for hunting grounds and says some areas “are no more than 100 feet from occupied structures.”
The undercover sting went off without a hitch, and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) caught their suspect in the act of making an illegal sale. We’re not talking cocaine, moonshine or illegal weapons; the TWRA was after this man’s jerky. That’s right, jerky.
It wasn’t long ago when women’s apparel was non-existent in the hunting industry. Now you can watch husband and wife teams like Lee and Tiffany on T.V. You can be sure to see a story in just about any hunting magazine about a woman’s giant whitetail or a young girl’s first turkey. It’s great to see companies dedicated to women’s apparel. After all, hunters spend time in bad weather, long hours on the stand and cramped up in a ground blind – shouldn’t women also be dressed in comfortable, high-tech clothes?
Black Hole targets have put their block-shaped target through a total redesign down to its very core. The versions now offer four-sided shooting and the company claims that the targets won't eat your arrows.
The target features an open-face layered design on the front and back for shooting both fixed broadheads and expandable broadheads, while the sides of the target are wrapped with woven polyurethane for shooting field points.
As much as I hate to admit it, hunting and fishing video games are big business and there are a countless number of games available for game consoles, computers and mobile devices.
The makers of the popular game Deer Hunter, which is allegedly one of the most popular and realistic hunting games, will soon be releasing their latest title – Deer Hunter Reloaded.
Deer Hunter lets gamers track their prey through the woods, use a GPS to map out terrain and hunt with a variety of weapons, but that’s about where the similarities to a real hunting situation end.
Stealth Cam and Jim Shockey teamed up to develop the new Shadow trail camera. The Shadow is a compact camera that incorporates video, still imagery and time lapse, and features TRIAD technology.
The video setting is capable of recording 5 - 240 second video clips with audio. There are three photo resolution settings: 8MP, 3MP or 1.3MP. To top it off, the camera features Time Lapse, which allows hunters to take pictures at regular intervals to monitor open fields and food plots. The 54 black infrared emitters give this camera a 50-foot range, and make the Shadow a camera that won’t spook game or let other hunters know you’re scouting the area.
One of the quietest fabrics for hunting is fleece, but the downside is that wind will cut right through the fabric and leave you cold. And once you get cold, you will start focusing on how to get warm, instead of concentrating on scanning your surroundings and looking for game.
Scent-Lok's new Rampage fleece system aims to solve this problem by using an ultra-quiet inner shell fused within the fabric to block the wind and keep hunters warm, while maintaining quiet performance. Deep, built in hand warmer side ports offer a large space to keep your hands warm, and with a total of six pockets, you can keep essential gear close at hand.
Cuddeback recently introduced the Ambush IR trail camera. The new Ambush IR features an extremely fast quarter-second trigger speed and Cuddeback’s Centered Subject Technology, which ensures the camera is triggered when the animal is in the center of the picture, rather than just by entering or exiting the frame.
The Ambush IR is a five-megapixel compact trail camera that operates on eight “AA” batteries, and can last up to six months (or 10,000 photos) on a single set of batteries. This is important for trail cam users because the less time you spend in the woods replacing batteries, the less scent you leave behind to educate the deer.
Some infrared cameras can have a tendency to wash out night images, leaving you with blurry images. Cuddeback’s Ambush IR combats this problem by reducing infrared flash washout while providing consistently even IR illumination for crisp IR images.
