Closing the distance on a whitetail buck, hunt after hunt, demands strong skills in scouting, reading terrain, understanding deer behavior, and picking ambush locations. The bow itself is the easy part. You do not need the newest flagship or a shelf full of accessories to kill deer at the ranges ...
Recurve crossbows keep a loyal following for reasons that have nothing to do with speed charts. You can change a string in the field without a bow press, and there’s less to break. Excalibur’s newest Micro Series bow leans on that and adds a noise reduction package on top. The Suppres...
Michael Skvarla of Port Matilda had planned a Maryland Sitka deer bowhunt for his 40th birthday. That changed when the Pennsylvania Game Commission notified him he’d drawn one of the state’s coveted elk bull tags. Just 15 were issued against 50,000 lottery applicants. “It was a ...
There are plenty of crossbows on the market today that can be called compact or streamlined. However, when it comes to taking the top prize in this category, the BAT crossbow from Ballista (Ballista.co) is the ultimate winner. This pistol-style crossbow is ingenuity at its best. From it’s backp...
Can you smell it? That crisp scent of fall is in the air, the temps are beginning to drop, and that can mean only one thing to us archers: archery season is upon us! When it comes to archery hunting, whether you are a newbie or a veteran to the hunt, there is a lot […] The post The Definiti...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a percussion pistol built for an emperor. This is a 20 bore over/under by Bernhard Wilhelm Ohligs of Vienna, made around 1862 for Franz Joseph I of Austria. Ohligs held the title of armourer to the Imperial Royal Court, and he showed his wor...
Barnett is adding the Demun STORM to the break-action handheld crossbow lineup at $349.99, and the first thing worth knowing is what this is. A recreational and target shooting crossbow built for backyard sessions, range practice, and small game. Not a deer hunting platform. The 130 to 135-grain ...
Athlon Optics pushed a major update to the Athlon Ballistics app for Rangecraft Velocity PRO users, and if you do any serious load development the session velocity graph addition is reason enough to install it before your next range session. The headline feature is Live View, which sends velocity...
Chronographs are an interesting piece of technology. Either shooters use them religiously for developing reloads, collecting data to create D.O.P.E. cards (data on previous engagement), or they avoid them entirely thinking it is too much work for what they are worth. I might be an outlier in that...
Buck Commander is bringing two crossbow scopes to market under the BUK OPS line, both at $699.99, and each is built around a different problem that crossbow hunters deal with in the field. The Cycloptic-X is built for low-light performance and solo recording. The X-Factor is built for precise dis...