My deer season has officially come to an end in Iowa. I tried and tried some more, but could not pull out a Tebow win like America’s most interesting quarterback recently did against the intimidating Steelers. I guess all the Tebowing was used up in that game, despite my own requests to the Big Man.

You’re busy, so I’ll be brief: In this weekly blog I have one goal—to entertain you for a minute or two with killer video footage.

Well, my feet are screaming, I'm slightly chafed and it's not at all my style to be offering so many courtesy smiles while some clueless fool holds up isle traffic so he can snap a cell photo to send home to Mama. But day No. 2 of the ATA show is officially rocking.

After years of deer hunting while using the latest and most modern bows, rifles and accessories, many of today’s sportsmen often feel a natural inclination to head afield with something more traditional in nature, like a flintlock rifle or longbow.
 

I had a front-row seat (literally, inches) at the Archery Trade Association (ATA) Show this morning when BowTech unveiled their 2012 king, the Insanity CPX.

Over the weekend I attended my first ever Dallas Safari Club Convention and was I ever blown away.

Here are three super-late-season whitetail hunting strategies I use to help fill my tags.

If you hunt in North American timber long enough, you're bound to run across a "quill pig" at some point. Porcupines are intriguing creatures to say the least, but do you consider them to be docile forest friends or harmful pricks?

My kids were still on Christmas break earlier this week and Cole wanted to shoot a coyote, so we headed out for one last try before he had to hit the books. We hooked up with a good friend of mine, and set up before sunrise to call along a creek overlooking a frozen reservoir. Cole and I sat on one side of a hill with my dog, Sage, and my buddy set up on the opposite side.

Even with a few days left in December, the FBI reported the number of background checks on firearms purchasers had already exceeded the previous 1-month record—set only weeks earlier—of 1,534,414 inquiries by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).