By Mark Kenyon It’s one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make as a hunter, shoot or don’t shoot? Making the choice to send an arrow or bullet into a living, breathing creature’s vitals is no small thing, and as the great writer Thomas McGuane once said, “I was blood from the elbows down … […]

By Mark Kenyon The last decade of whitetail hunting has been an interesting one. We’ve seen some of the highest of highs over recent years, but most recently the discussion has been more about the lowest of lows. Over the first ten years of the new millenium we experienced record populations and harvests, and unthinkable […]

By Mark Kenyon I’d just been gone on vacation for 10 days and now here I sat at my desk, knowing I had to get some serious work done. But I just couldn’t. Something was gnawing at me from the inside out. I wanted to know. I had to know. I needed to know. What was […]

By Mark Kenyon Two years ago I hunted Iowa whitetails for the first time, and in preparation for that hunt I visited the Land of Giants several times during the spring and summer to get various projects done. On one of those trips I had one of the most incredible whitetail encounters of my life, […]

By Mark Kenyon It’s time for another installment of our favorite hypothetical trigger pulling game, Shoot or Don’t Shoot! The rules of the game? Simple. Just take a look at the photos and information below, then vote in the poll telling us whether or not you’d shoot this deer if a shot opportunity was presented […]