2 Enormous Bucks, 2 Enormous Stories!
By Bernie Barringer Get ready for two of the most bizarre deer hunting stories involving gigantic whitetail bucks. You really can’t make this stuff up, and the fact that they both happened basically at the same time, early in the 2021 deer seasons, with a lot of similarities, created a lot of confusion. Listen carefully […]
Five Important Keys to Opening Day Success
By Bernie Barringer Every bowhunter can relate to this scenario: You have watched a particular buck off and on all summer. He’s been quite visible in the fields feeding in the evenings and he’s even somewhat predictable in his habits. This could be the year you actually pattern a buck in the pre-season and shoot […]
How to Get Fast Action on the Bear Baits
In some areas, you have a short time to get your baits working. Here are some strategies for firing them up fast and keeping the bears coming. By Bernie Barringer Here in Minnesota, the date you can bait bears is the Friday two weeks before opening day. Through the years 2000 until about 2013, I […]
Do These 5 Things this summer to help you shoot a buck this fall
You can increase your chances of shooting a nice buck this fall by doing some preliminary work in the summer. By Bernie Barringer Like most deer hunters, I think about whitetails year ‘round, but most of my preparation activity is done just before the season opens and most years I hunt from opening day right […]
Bear Hunters and their Questionable Judgment
The darkness had settled over the Canadian wilderness. Light rain began to fall. We were following the blood trail of a bear I had just shot. It was my first time ever hunting bears. What did I know about tracking a bear in the dark? Wait, what did I know about bears at all? Most […]
Take a Whitetail Hunting Road Trip
Ever have a hankering to see new country and hunt deer where the big ones live? Heed this advice to fill your thirst for a DIY public land adventure. By Bernie Barringer Imagine it’s the 1990’s and you’re sitting in front of your TV in North Carolina, Michigan or Pennsylvania, watching a young Michael Waddell […]
2021 Spring Subscriber drawing underway
We’re giving away a custom built Mathews V3 and you could be the one customizing and owning it! A Mathews V3 bow could be yours and all you have to do is enter the drawing!You will customize the bow yourself! ENTER HERE 1) Choose right or left handed2) Choose 27-inch or 31-inch axle to axle3) […]
Sometimes big bucks are just lucky
In the fall of 2020, a 230-inch whitetail was taken at Illinois Connection Outfitters that was likely one of the largest if not the largest buck taken in the state of Illinois during the 2020 deer season. Doug Benefield, the owner of Illinois Connection, said they had been chasing the buck for 3 years. “We […]
Top 10 YouTube hunting channels you need to subscribe to
Cable TV and then satellite TV changed everything in the 1990’s and then exploded in the 2000’s. Now it’s run its course and YouTube has taken over the hunting video scene. If you have been living under a rock, you maybe don’t realize that there are a LOT of people making a LOT of money […]
For the fun of it: Shed Hunting for the Sake of Shed Hunting
By Bernie Barringer I found my first shed antler–a six-point right side–in 1979 while setting raccoon traps on a public hunting area in Northern Iowa. I was fascinated by what I found, partly because I had never seen a giant buck like that in person, and partly because I had just been introduced to the […]