Alright folks poll time!! ✅ We are closing out our big game season shortly and the kid and I will be at it for two weeks now. 🦌 We are going for our annual pheasant bowhunt soon and then rabbit season kicks into gear! 🐇 What small game do you hunt with your traditional bow? 🏹 We will be having our first “group” rabbit hunt for everyone here! 🐇 More to follow in January!! ✅ Hit the poll up below!

Grant Richardson has written many articles in Traditional Bowhunting Magazines and I had the opportunity to speak to him about the "One Instinctive Aiming Drill Almost No One Practices (But Should)"... You don’t need your bow for this. You don’t need a range. All you need is two quiet minutes. The Drill ⬇️ Minute 1: Sit down. Pick ONE spot across the room.Lock in. No movement. No drifting. Minute 2: Raise your bow arm and visualize: Draw → anchor → release → hold. Visualize whatever you shoot - target, 3D, or an animal. The brain doesn’t know the difference between real reps and focused visualization. Why This Works ✅ - Trains focus and concentration - Builds instinctive aiming pathways - Exposes weakness under pressure - Sharpen skills even when you can’t shoot Instinctive shooting is a perishable skill. If you don’t train it, you lose it. This drill keeps you sharp - even off the range. 👇 Question for the group: What breaks your focus the fastest when you’re shooting - movement, noise, or pressure? Let’s talk.

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My first deer- I was 16 years old, taken after two years of hunting hard, misses and mistakes made. Back then I hunted off the ground as I still do today almost exclusively. I would find a spot to sit and stay still for hours. Nothing fancy just find a good spot and sit with my recurve and wait. Share your first deer! 🦌 tell us a bit about the process and experience. Below is an excerpt from the end of Chapter 4 “Connecting to the Hunter” from my first book - The Code Of Traditional Archery talking about the end of that very evening. - It dawned on me that I should get my father to share this experience. It was close to dark when we returned together to the fallen buck. We sat for several minutes in silence. After saying a word of thanks and dressing the deer, we began the drag out of the woods. My father and I spoke few words that night on the drag out. I insisted on doing all the work while my father accompanied me through the tangled fortress of brush and trees surrounding the opening where I had killed the buck. After a three-kilometre slog, which seemed to take hours, we finally arrived at the fence line and loaded the buck into the back of his pickup. Catching my breath, I looked up at the shining stars. The wind had picked up a bit, and in the ambient light, I could see lines on my father's face that I hadn't noticed before. It was a moment of reflection that I will never forget. Something changed in me that day. After following him for years in the woods and waterways of my youth, something new had broken through; I was now walking beside, not behind, him. I had reached a new connection with my father to our ancestors. I now realize that in this connection of living and pursuing to hunt to live, I felt the resilience and self-reliance that has guided our species' survival over the time we have walked this earth.

Whenever I walk this trail I wonder how many times I walked it before I noticed this stand. I can't help but wonder who built this, sat in it, and how many animals were harvested from it. It's practically on top of a strong trail, so I like to think it was a bowhunter. Some young man or woman in a plaid coat with with a recurve or longbow, back when I was just a child. What were they hunting? There's bear here, deer here, maybe they took both from this stand. Maybe moose. As a Carpenter I hate looking at it, but as a working class guy,looking at a home made stand, i can appreciate the do it yourself and save some money aspect. I can respect the person who makes it themselves. I've made enough of my own gear, that's part of the beauty. Have any of you found a stand from the past? Share if you have!