Photo courtesy The Independent UK

What were you doing at three years old?  Were you setting national archery records?  Dolly Shivani Cherukuri of India is the real deal.  Dolly comes from a family of professional archers and archery instructors.  And according to The Times of India, special lightweight arrows were built for her use and she practices on small bows a few hours a day to hone her skills.

Is this little girl the real Katniss Everdeen from Hunger Games?

Want to see Dolly in action?  Check out this video from SportsGuerilla!

By Rachel Voss

STINKY DITCH WEED? Why Not?

It’s a bird, it’s a plane….NOPE it’s a Prois Girl killin’ time until spring turkey and the mighty mushroom season!!! Most of us in the outdoors look forward to the months of May and June not just for spring turkey, but for Morel mushroom season.

Me, myself, and I? I look forward to asparagus hunting! The day I see that first massive- fatty piece of what I call “Stinky-Pee Ditch Weed” AKA Wild Asparagus. I’m like a goofy kid on Christmas morning!! It helps pass time until shrooms and gobblers, and it’s pretty fun! I’d like to say I am just so dang smart that I knew our orchard not only fulfilled our bellies with apples, cherries, peaches AND wild asparagus….but not so much!!

Taking my dogs for their daily run one spring day la...

One of the best things about living in Saskatchewan is the lakes.  There are plenty of lakes to fish in and one of my favorites is Lac Des Isles.  Both me and my husband have got some nice sized wall hangers there.

We typically fish for Jacks, since that’s what I’m good at catching!  I have a wonderful husband who will take care of the kids hooks, baits our hooks when needed and then will start fishing.  ( I do my own hooks, just not the bait!)  We do make a great team fishing, but I have taught the kids to say “Mommy’s the master fisherman”...

By Britt Lamotte

Of all the things you can go crazy over – name anything – I am a sucker for dirt. I have to dig it up, mix it up, push it around and cover it up with plants, and then make sure I don’t spend all my money in the process. The plants are expensive, but the dirt much more so. In fact, I don’t even have a square foot of dirt to my name yet – it’s rented. Blame the economy, blame my love for expensive organic coffee but we are still renting, and our rented home is packed full with bikes, dog vests, fishing rods and reels, guns, ammo boxes, archery bows, pheasant feathers, boats, tents and backpacks. Everything we could want for adventure. Everything but the dirt.

We’ve started looking at available properties and weighing the pros and cons of building our own house o...

Recently, Southwick Associates released a study about women in the outdoors, their activities, perceptions, purchases and related media consumption.  What’s telling about this study is that although there has been an increase in women who hunt and fish, we’re not more likely to take children hunting or fishing.  In fact men are 20% more likely to take children hunting than women and women are 43% less likely to take children fishing.  What is stopping us from introducing children to fishing and hunting?  How do we make ourselves more confident to do so?  I come to the Camo is the New Black community to ask this question but also challenge us as women to do better.  Keep spreading the word, camo truly is the new black!!

* Click here for access to the full Women in the Outdoors report.