Traditional Bowhunter Magazine

02/07/2025

Check this week's tip on a DIY rest!

The brush rest, in my opinion, is the most durable and aesthetically pleasing method I have seen for shooting a traditional bow with an elevated rest. I used to shoot my recurve off the shelf, but after experimenting with the brush rest and settling on a style/method of attaching it to my bow, I

27/06/2025

Sheyk-doun; verb A shakedown is a period of testing or a trial journey undergone by a ship, aircraft or other craft and its crew before being declared operational. Statistically, a proportion of the components will fail after a relatively short period of use, and those that survive this period can b...

25/06/2025

Check out this week's tip!

From The Traditional Bowhunter's Handbook If you want to take high quality, life-like images of your trophy in the field, you ought to keep a set of taxidermy glass eyes in your hunting pack. When you get ready to shoot your photos, simply slip the glass eyes over the animal's eyes and under the eye...

20/06/2025

I could hear the screaming of bull elk so loud in my ear it almost hurt. I crept in slowly, with the wind in my face and my bow at my side. I could smell the elk before I could see them. The bedding area was thick juniper and had many rubs on the small

18/06/2025

Check out this week's tip on fixing a 3-D target on a budget!

My local archery range had replaced all its 3-D targets, and left the old shot up targets in the parking area. I chose a pig target that had a 10" hole blown through the center; it looked as though it had been blasted with a shotgun…numerous times. Rather

13/06/2025

The man on the Yukon trail wasn’t worried. “Fifty degrees below zero was to him nothing more than 50 degrees below zero.” He would be at camp, with friends and a fire, by evening. Winter’s sun was elsewhere, the whiteness oddly dark. Morning wore on without marking time. The man’s spit cra...

11/06/2025

Check out this week's tip on making your own blind!

I enjoy hunting with traditional longbows, but the same issues arise every year with my usual hunting methods: tree stands, ground blinds and stalking. I don't have enough patience to sit for long hours in a tree stand; most ground blinds are not tall enough for shooting longbows; and with stalking,...

14/05/2025

Check out this week's tip on eliminating skunk essence!

Springtime in the Rockies means the critters are out and about. Tired of marauding raccoons, I'd been live-trapping and relocating them. I was surprised and less than delighted one morning to find a young skunk in the trap. I knew how to handle this situation: Toss a rug, blanket or even a bath towe...

12/05/2025

The Bowhiking Chronicles #091716: Nothing Ventured

Everybody has that one hunting spot that, regardless of how productive it has been, it’s just special. It’s your favorite place to hunt and you will stubbornly return nine times out of ten. It makes you happy! I had just a spot for elk. I knew it like the back of my hand and

07/05/2025

Check out this week's tip on tagging your cast iron!

I clearly remember the purchase of my first Dutch oven. I didn't borrow Dad's; he didn't loan his unless he was there to oversee its use. After he passed I inherited one of his favorite 12-inchers, but I'm still a little miffed at my uncle for getting to the patio closet ahead of me.

02/05/2025

Enjoy this blast from the past! This article was from our Oct/Nov 1994 issue!

Here's a blast from the past! This article was published in the Oct/Nov 1994 issue of Traditional Bowhunter. A reader recently asked me to post it here for those of you who may have taken up traditional archery after that date. John Schulz is an amazing man, and Gene Wensel did a great job

30/04/2025

Check out this week's tip on arrow grip adjustment.

Arrow shafts can vary in diameter, but the grippers on most quivers are the same. I have found that some of my quivers do not hold the shafts tightly enough, and the arrows slip out or rattle around. I'd rather not risk damage to any of the grippers by screwing, pop-riveting or dismantling them,