Do you have your own Traditional Workbench area where you build arrows or hang your bow? Let’s share a photo or video in the comments below! I am sure we will get ideas on how we can make our own shop or workbench or TradBowhunting space even better!

Last night marked a milestone for TradBowhunter - Ethical Predator. This was our very first community GIVEAWAY, and it unlocked because we hit our goal of 45 supporters together.That matters. 🔥 And the winner is…👉 @Colton Deline - congratulations! (and yes, Colton we will want a photo of you posted in the Community holding the quiver!) Thank you to everyone who entered - whether you entered for free or chose to support the community. This was truly a community effort. 📣 About our giveaways going forward We plan to run a giveaway every month. So if you didn’t win this time - all good. You’ll have another chance next month. Down the road, we may decide that you need to be on the live call to claim the giveaway… but that’s a conversation for another day. For now, we’re focused on building something meaningful together. 🧱 SUPPORT WEEK RESULTS & WHY THIS MATTERS Head over to the Classroom → Support Wall to see: - The full Support Week results - The updated Wall of Support - The members who are showing up consistently, month after month Consistency matters.These members have shown up repeatedly, not for attention - but because they believe in what we’re building. 🛡 The Wall of Support - What it Represents The Wall of Support recognizes members who choose to support TradBowhunter - Ethical Predator beyond participation. No dollar amounts are ever shown, and recognition is always optional.This wall exists simply to say thank you to those who help keep this community independent, ad-free, and rooted in ethical traditional bowhunting. Whether you support financially, through knowledge, or by helping others live The Code, your presence here matters. Support Streaks (from the Classroom)

Hey everyone, I’ve been slowly working through my collection of older prose-style & narrative poems—most centred around life in the outdoors and the ethical questions that naturally come with that. These pieces often explore the tension between taking and honouring, and the lessons learned from being close to wild places. Recently, I wrote a newer piece (earlier this year) that’s pretty personal—most of them are in their own way—but this one feels especially tied to my life and raising my young children in the hunting community. It speaks more directly to some of the issues we see in modern hunting culture: how quickly ethics can get lost when ego, tech, or detachment enter the picture. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot, and this poem tries to put some of that into words. I’ll share below—hoping you ethical predators out there enjoy it, and can maybe even relate in some way. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 —𝑨 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚’𝒔 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝑻𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑬𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝑳𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒄𝒚 I see it now, too clearly to pretend otherwise. The way the world presses in—through screens, through stories, through voices that echo around my children louder than my own. It's not just the noise, it’s the boasting. The friends who come over in lifted trucks, caked in mud and pride, talking about kills like conquests, like trophies won from a battlefield. They slap backs and share photos—grins stretched wide beside bloodied animals; guns held high like flags of victory. And my boys listen. They lean in. I see the way their eyes spark—not with reverence, but with hunger. For the shot. For the kill. For the story they’ll get to tell after. They ask how soon they can shoot; how big the rack must be before it’s “worth it.” They talk about deer like targets, not lives. They talk about rifles and gear, not patience or thanks. They want it all now—the buck, the moment, the glory. And the friends feed it. They mean no harm, maybe. But they have forgotten something sacred. Or maybe they never knew it at all.

Also here's some of the elk that's on my property in Kentucky there's so many different types of animals to hunt now that they finally got the cut through open in Pikeville Kentucky now black Bear Turkey Bobcats the list goes on I also have been making knives for over 25 years now here's a few that I sold last year before hunting season I'm really excited about being in this group also hunt jensain red root yellow root

Finished all my deliveries and snuck otta work early. 1st 3 shots on a beautiful sunny N Michigan February day. Weather says it’s 27° F, but the snow is melting off my roof. Forecast calling for upper 30’s-low 40’s for a bit. I know there’s more snow coming, but I savor these days after the sub 0 temps we’ve had! Blessed!