For the beginner, hunting can be an overwhelming experience. Nevermind that one may not know much about firearms, understand the gear needed or how to use the right call. By removing all that you are left with a more fundamental set of skills which can be described by a solitary, single word: Woodsmanship. Nevermind the traditional sex roles that term might conjur up, Woodsmanship cares not about gender, race or wealth. Woodsmanship is being able to decipher what feels like sensory overload to the novice. The sounds, tracks, expansive terrain, shifting weather and seasonal changes in your quarry. Woodsmanship...
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How to Stop the Hunting Tradition
Hunting is an archaic activity that does nothing other than give its participants an excuse to bear arms and hurt nature’s creatures. Stopping these senseless traditions is as easy as exposing these people as the brutal, animal hating, gun toting rednecks they are. How do we do this? Start Small – Before trying to destroy hunting in a large country like the United States which is deep with outdoor traditions, start with a smaller country such as the United Kingdom. Using the Scientific Method, establish it as your control and try out a number of ideas you feel can...
DNR Safe Hunting Commercial
Here's the second commercials featuring yours truly.
Bibbs Family Featured in Iowa DNR Commercial
This is Maia, Lauryn and myself in a DNR video featuring safety as the Iowa Pheasant season gets started:
Spring Outdoors
The nation's mid-section and much of this great country is experiencing a cooler than normal spring. Don't worry, even for those of you on our border with Canada, you will soon be outdoors (I hear ice out is about 10 days behind last year). That said, spring activities are in full swing in most of the rest of the country and now is the time to get out. What should you do? After reading this list I think you'll agree it will be hard to pick one!
Float a small river or stream
Don’t Get Tick(ed) Off!
Let's face it, now is the time to be outdoors. Whether you be chasing wild turkey, planting food plots or taking the family on a hunt for the delicious morel mushroom which is just coming into season in many parts of the country you are going to expose yourself to ticks. In fact this time of year I expect to see ticks doing their best to catch a free ride and, worst yet, a free lunch. Ticks, generally, are fairly harmless insects but left unchecked they can introduce some very nasty illnesses...some...
Never Too Young To Hunt!
Every hunting season is an adventure where memories are made regardless of the outcome of the hunt. This past week was the epitome of that as I learned that just three hours of hunting can help build the kind of memories that resonate for a lifetime. Sure, sounds sappy but until you've walked in those boots you simply can't appreciate the truth in these words. Saturday I was joined by long time friend and hunting buddy Kevin Kronfeld. Kevin and I are childhood schoolmates who've bonded through our love for the outdoors....
Spring Turkey Checklist
Each spring I find myself dusting off the turkey gear and each year that list becomes more and more complete to where now I finally feel I've got my spring turkey checklist figured out.
- Confirm permission to hunt on private land. Many hunters are lazy...too lazy to give the landowner a courtesy phone call to not only confirm you can still hunt their land but to also tell them just how much you appreciate them letting you hunt. I even go so far as to send thank-you cards with pictures of hunts or, if they...