ShadowCamo Story: Finally… The Big One

ShadowCamo story Finally…the big one By Nate Jacobson As I think back about my first years with a bow, I reflect on those fun days with my Bear recurve and my dad’s old, woodshafted arrows with Bear razor points. I practiced hours on end with that bow. My brothers, James and Russ, would throw boxes [...]

Mule Deer Watch: Bowhunting Big Mulies

Mule Deer Watch Here’s Something to Chew On… By Michael Burrell I was belly-crawling towards a high basin where a buck had bedded just minutes earlier. I usually prefer to hunt alone, but a friend who sought to harvest this respectable buck was in tow. My friend would be the first to tell you, he’s [...]

Worlds Biggest Typical: 205 1/8 Archert Velvet Buck

Worlds Biggest Typical: 205 1/8 Archery Velvet Buck By Tim Roberts At the start of the hunting season, I remember telling my wife that I hoped it would finally be my turn this year to shoot a large buck. What an understatement that turned out to be. My yearly Colorado hunting trip was fast approaching [...]

New Wyoming State Record: Record Archery Proghorn scoring 86 4/8 P&Y

New Wyoming State Record Record Pronghorn Scored 86 4/8 P&Y and sports 16 1/8-inch tall By Jordan Hypes The 2006 season started out just like all of my previous hunting seasons, with a little pre-season scouting. It was the last day of August, and I had a few days off from college. The Wyoming archery [...]

The Promise: Huge Nevada 386 6/8 gross 5×6 Archery Bull

The Promise By Eric Merrit I want to go elk hunting with you, Daddy.” Yeah, sure, I thought as I held a coveted Nevada archery elk tag for one of the hottest public elk hunting areas in the West. I had waited twenty years for this opportunity and I wanted nothing more than to share [...]

Sticks for Bows…: Monster Whitetail taken With a Long Bow

Sticks for bows Monster Whitetail taken with a longbow By Todd Huddle About five years ago, I made a decision to change over to traditional bowhunting equipment. I made this decision not from being dissatisfied by hunting with a compound bow, but rather from a renewed interest in the weapon that I had started out [...]

Franklin Bull

Behind the Recreation “Franklin Bull” World Record Archery Bull Elk One of the greatest challenges in hunting Arizona’s monster bulls is to draw a tag. Nick Franklin did just that in 2003. He actually drew his second choice hunt. Nick’s brother Charlie had also drawn a tag in the same unit and the two of [...]

Ulmer Buck

Behind The Recreation “Ulmer Buck.” Robert King The hunt for the Ulmer Buck actually started two years earlier, when Randy Ulmer was hunting elk in Nevada and ended up finding a world class typical mule deer. Randy shared this discovery with his long-time hunting companion, Greg Krogh. The following year they both put in for [...]

Hardcore Fitness First: Fitness for the Extreme Bowhunter

Hardcore Fitness First By Dan Staton Hardcore bowhunting is hard to define. It necessitates disciplined thought and disciplined action. It requires attention to detail, drive, motivation and perhaps a little O.C.D. (obsessive compulsive disorder). If you can relate, then read on how new school bowhunting is making fitness an off-season protocol. My personal philosophy regarding [...]

ATV Test: Suzuki King Quad 450 EFI

ATV Test Suzuki King Quad By David King Back in 2004, when Suzuki decided to awake from their deep sleep, they released the King Quad 700 EFI. Wow, where did that come from! That machine paved the way for a big-bore sport utility with electronic fuel injection (EFI) and threw in some goodies like rear [...]