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I don’t know about you, but if I see one more video on how to make elk-like sounds from a bugle tube - I may lose it. There’s no shortage of “how to” videos out there teaching folks how to make basic elk calls. Many of these demonstrations (although useful for...
The 2021 Western Hunting Summit featured a variety of presenters focused on elk hunting. Each had a unique and effective approach which proves the fact that there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to elk hunting. Whether you're looking for any legal bull or the...
Debunking Shooting Myths: The Truth Behind Why You’ve Been Shooting the Wrong Way Your Whole Life5 Lessons from Joel Turner’s Shot IQJoel Turner, a police officer, firearms instructor, and diehard hunter attended the 2021 Western Hunting Summit outside of Bozeman,...
In a social media enriched world full of endless stories of success, epic adventures, and grandeur - it is my pleasure to bring to you one of the rarest adventure stories of its kind: an unsuccessful Ryan Lampers hunt. Yes - you read that correctly. If you...
It’s no secret that both social media and larger mainstream media sources play major roles in influencing behavior. That’s how so many people have made careers out of being “influencers” after all. Well what comes along with this influence are some negative...
One of my favorite times of year is late-winter/early-spring when the weather starts to turn. Usually by this time, I’m itching to get back outside and a warm March day is just what I’m looking for. Whether it's wandering the woods, scouting, working out, or spring...
If you are like me, your mind thinks about gardening all year long. I do my best to continue growing in different ways throughout the entire year, but nothing quite compares to the feeling that I get when the weather breaks in the early spring and I can envision my...
Depending on what part of the country you live in, the winter months can be a tricky time for managing the health and well-being of farm animals, especially chickens. Here in western Pennsylvania where I live, our winters are typically in the moderate range, with...
Are you excited for spring bear season in 2021? Spring bear hunting has become one of the most anticipated hunts of the year for me. A few short years ago, there was nothing to hunt in the spring time for me except for spring gobblers. Now don’t get me wrong, we LOVE...
Big game tag sales have increased across the country in 2020 at an unprecedented and unanticipated rate. Idaho sold out of elk tags at a record pace for the second year in a row. Eastern whitetail hunting and deer camp tradition saw a strong resurgence and there was...
Yes, you read that title correctly. That line left my lips one evening as I held one of my chickens in my arms as her breathing became more labored and I fed her from a syringe because she was unable to feed herself any longer. She had been attacked the day before and...
“I couldn’t just sit in a treestand all day. I just don’t have the patience for it.”I’ve been hearing some version of this statement more and more lately in conversation with western hunters and I have to say - I agree. I don’t have the patience for it either. That...
If you weren’t able to attend the Western Hunting Summit the weekend of June 29th in Bozeman, Montana, you missed a conglomeration of wisdom and information from some of the best hunters in the west. Led by Ryan and Hillary Lampers of Hunt, Harvest, Health, a number...
Okay, I get it. This has to be one of the cheesiest titles ever, but being cheesy is kinda my thing.Anyways… Time to get serious. The art of gardening should not be made light of - it is truly an art, after all. Although starting a garden is totally attainable for...
We knew we had a slim chance of seeing that bear again. Nick had caught a glimpse of him at more than 800 yards on the adjacent side of the basin in a patch of young pines just below the snow line. Like most of the bears we’d seen on this trip, he was moving quickly...
To date, raising chickens has been one of the most amazing and unpredictable endeavors that I have chosen to pursue. To understand an ornery and interesting creature as the chicken is extremely eye-opening and initiates a perceptual shift in what most of people view...
I don’t think that I can truly say that I have ever felt bored in my entire life. Whenever I have been presented with any amount of free time, I have always filled it with something else on my to-do list. For as long as I can remember, I have dedicated this free time...
In our world of archery hunting whitetails, it’s not often that we get to share the final moments when one of us decides to let an arrow fly. Yes, we plan and strategize together, hang tree stands together, cut trails & plant food plots together, check trail...
The funny thing about this trip to Wyoming was that it had been one that was a long time coming for Joe and I. Several years had gone by that had given me plenty of time to envision how a trip like this would be with him. We would discuss on plenty occasions what it...
If you are a whitetail hunter, you know that there are a list of strategies that are religiously followed in an effort to harvest this species. Some of these strategies include factors such as temperature, time of year, wind direction, scent control, bedding areas,...
Viktor E. Frankl, the Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, stated in Man’s Search for Meaning: “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather a striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not a...