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Bowhunting Editor Todd Kuhn rounds up 42 new bowhunting products that you need to have on your radar for 2012.
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Tyler Freel is on 10-day brown bear hunt on the Alaskan peninsula. He's battling tough weather conditions and rugged terrain while trying to take a bear with his recurve bow. Freel will be calling in regularly on a satellite phone to give updates on his hunt. Here's his first report from day 1 in the bush.
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After absorbing more than 1,000 close range shots, this buck was still on its feet.
Pound a few dozen broadheads into most life-size 3-D archery targets and they start blowing foam chunks. In our search for the perfect target, we put a Rinehart Broadhead Buck through the wringer, pummeling it with more than 1,000 shots at 10 yards. We used a PSE Axe (342 fps, 97.42 ft.-lb. of kinetic energy) to deliver arrows tipped with scary-sharp Tru-Fire T1-100 fixed-blade broadheads. We limited our shooting to just one side of the vitals. Shooting a foam target at 10 yards with an arrow delivering 97.42 ft.-lb. of kinetic energy would not be considered “normal use.” But, hey—this is a torture test. [ Read Full Post ]
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. [ Read Full Post ]
Hey it’s Friday the 13th, Strut Zoners.
Not to jinx any one of us, but sometime this spring turkey season, one of us is going to miss a gobbler. Hunt turkeys long enough and that’s part of the deal. We shotgun hunters might whiff on a longbeard standing right in front of us. Or, like this guy, pull a couple of nice toms into range and wing an arrow harmlessly in their direction. [ Read Full Post ]
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. [ Read Full Post ]
Now in its fifth year, our annual “Best Towns for Sportsmen” feature is an OL institution. Readers love to argue the merits of their burgs based on our rankings; local newspapers crow about the inclusion of their town; and realtors call to ask for extra copies of the issue.
This year we’re forgetting all the socio-economic data and focusing on what matters most: hunting and fishing. In the next few pages, you’ll find the 35 towns in the U.S. where we would live right now, based solely on the outdoor opportunities there. Some boast bass and deer, others elk and trout or ducks and redfish. Regardless, each of these towns is an outdoors mecca in its own right, and from sea to shining sea, they offer the best hunting and fishing in America. [ Read Full Post ]
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