Hunting Season tagged posts

Gander Mountain has just completed a nationwide survey of avid hunters and they found some interesting trends for the upcoming season among avid hunters, including:

• Only 28% of hunters are fully prepared for the season. 
• Most hunters agree that hunting is more than getting big game (76%); it’s an ethical thing to do (58%). 
• Deer is the overwhelming favorite game to hunt (60%). 
• Older hunters want to help with conservation this season and younger hunters want to learn new skills and set personal records. 
• Almost half of all hunters follow a ritual or superstition for the best hunt including starting the hunt at exactly 4:48AM every time, kissing the first bullet, doing the anti-rain dance, or not shaving the entire season. 
• Behind a firearm and ammunition, quality boots and camo gear are t...

By Heather Ballek

Originally published on Adirondack Bowhunters and reposted here with permission from the author.

You see it all the time – photos of half-dressed women posing with a fully drawn compound bow, rifle or shotgun on any given social media platform. Sometimes the season is fitting, but other times there is snow on the ground and all you can think is – How are you not freezing?! They are normally the ones who have 5 separate accounts because all of their friend limits are capped. Now, this could easily go in the direction of bashing these sort of women, but I’m going to give this article a twist. I am not a hateful person, nor do I intend to sound like one. After all, don’t the half-dressed already get enough attention? Lets support the real meat takers of the hunting world...