How to Use a Knife in Self Defense

Defense with a blade is often bloody and violent business. Contrary to Hollywood portrayals, stopping an attacker with just one strike is unlikely. Before using a knife to defend yourself, it’s essential that you understand its inner workings and features. Doing this will enable you to select an optimal knife that suits your needs. Defending […]

How Far Can a Muzzleloader Shoot?

With proper instruction, muzzleloaders can shoot at long range. To start with, it is recommended that they are used within close range with consistent performance. By taking these steps, many variables associated with shooting can be reduced allowing for you to focus solely on proper sight placement and technique. Muzzleloaders produce less muzzle energy than […]

How to Keep Hot Dog on Hook

Hot dogs make an effective bait for many species of fish, yet can be difficult to keep on your hook when fishing fast-moving water. Their buoyancy may easily get taken by current currents. To combat this issue, try coating them in garlic powder or soaking them in garlic oil or Kool-Aid before use – this […]

Hoyt Bows – What Cam Was Hoyt Most Known For?

Hoyt Bows are widely respected bow manufacturers within the archery industry, used by Olympic medalists and even featured prominently in major motion pictures like Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games movies and Hawkeye (Clint Barton) from Avengers films. Hoyt has introduced innovations to their cam and limb system that are well received by competitors, including […]

What Does a Buck Look Like?

Estimating an accurate age estimate on whitetail bucks can be challenging at any time of year, but summer poses special difficulties due to many body characteristics that indicate maturity (such as a swollen neck and chest or stained tarsal glands) not appearing until fall. A button buck has several knots where his antlers will eventually […]

How to Hunt Turkeys in the Evening

By knowing where turkeys roost and where they head off first thing in the morning, it becomes much easier to devise a strategy to intercept them later on during hunting season. That strategy could involve hunting along their travel routes or preferred food sources. Breakneck topography such as draws, gullies, swales and ridges can draw […]

How Much is a Banded Goose Worth?

Banded geese are treasured mementos that signify success to waterfowl hunters – treasured objects of mementoes as well as invaluable data points. Biologists gain incredible insights by fitting ducks and geese with bands during their molting period; biologists collect all sorts of data regarding their movements and habitat usage – the results can be truly […]

How to Build a Tent Platform

Camping on terrain with pebbly and rocky surfaces or swampy conditions requires an added level of protection – a tent platform. It keeps your tent clean and dry no matter what conditions arise. Before beginning work on the platform, locate an area large enough for it. Next, dig four square holes that measure 2 feet […]

How to Adjust Bow Sight If Shooting Low

Windage adjustments on a bow sight are relatively straightforward, while horizontal adjustments require only minor tweaking to get right. Most sights provide easy methods for you to loosen a bolt, make adjustments and then tighten them back down for tightness adjustments. Most bow shooters own an Allen wrench set that they can use to make […]

What is an ARP Gun?

AR pistols have become increasingly popular, particularly among law enforcement departments. One disabled veteran created a brace which attaches to the buffer tube and further back for support; SIG Sauer has taken notice and made this into a fully functioning buttstock. Pistols are shorter than rifles, requiring less storage space in a squad car and […]