Category: <span>treestand</span>

Seeing this after releasing arrows at 40 yards with a 20-30 mph crosswind was encouraging! My thoughts had been on bowhunting all week. Every day was filled with more than enough to do, but come Friday at 5:00 PM I needed some arrow therapy. Once it arrived, I knew it…

Product Review: Hunter Safety System Ultra Lite Safety Harness Treestand safety is something I constantly promote. Far too many hunters have fallen out of their stands and injured themselves because they didn’t wear a safety harness. Some have been paralyzed and some have died. I have known a few guys…

Recap: 2010 New York Whitetail Deer Bowhunting Trip It has taken me a long time (in my eyes) to get this post written up. Between a lot of work, helping out friends with some graphic design projects, family time and my brain just needing a break from hunting I have…

Product Review: Insane Archery Camera Mount You draw your bow. You release an arrow. You watch it hit home on the animal you are hunting. Now you have a great story to tell. It’s just too bad you didn’t have the shot on video to share with the world. Well,…

Safety Comes First And Foremost – HSS Issues A Voluntary Recall Of Carabineer On Ultra Lite Harness Danville, Alabama (September 28, 2010) Hunter Safety System is committed to providing treestand hunters with the highest quality safety products on the market. In keeping with those commitments to safety, HSS announced an…

Time For Some SoCal Mule Deer Hunting Archery bear season is now closed and the general season (for D-14) doesn’t open back up until October 9, so I am headed out to do some spot-and-stalk mule deer hunting this weekend. I have an AO tag that is begging me to…

Back From A Day In The Forest Saturday was a long, but incredibly fun-filled day. Sure, hiking up steep hills, putting up treestands in 90+ degree weather and sitting out in the hot sun glassing for three hours may not be everyone’s cup-of-tea, but I loved it. I left my…

Team DIYbowhunter Scouting For Bear With the black bear archery opener just two days away, I had to share our latest scouting adventure. Eric Welsh, DIYbowhunter.com owner, and I went scouting for a black bear here in Southern California this past Sunday. The video is almost 9 minutes long, but…

Bass Pro Fall Hunt Classic and Bear Scouting We had another successful black bear hunting seminar at Bass Pro Shops on Saturday. We had 20-25 people in the crowd at any given time and it was a great experience being up on the stage sharing about hunting. Eric gave an…

Whitetail Fever – A Bit Too Early? I know it’s only March, but I am already getting excited about my annual whitetail hunt with my brother, BJ,  and my dad in western NY. I grew up hunting the farms and woods of central and western NY and it is more…