https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh4L66YqvQU&feature=youtu.be Are you calling off work this week or next week to spend your days in the stand? ITS GO TIME! We are announcing RUT ON next week, with the rut meter sitting around 75% this week. Doe are coming into estrus this week, and the bucks know it. Bucks are moving all day, waiting…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dc1AqfL62Y&t=3s Rut Tracker 2023 - Our Rut Meter is on the move, so things must be heating up in the whitetail woods. The whitetail heat is coming from whitetail bucks, which are beginning to cover ground. They are moving across ridges and marching from one social area to another. Are they looking for estrus does?…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiObJJdBUuo Rut Tracker 2023 – Tracking The Whitetail Rut Episode 2 - Inside Archery's rut tracking team is in the field and the reports are streaming in, plenty of scrapes and rubs but no rut behavior just yet, the rut meter is still reading a puny 2%. We have a long way to go before…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ6XSAlJKqY Rut Tracker 2023 is here! Track the whitetail rut again with us in 2023 with constant content from StealthCams across the US. With the arrival of fall, comes the arrival of the Rut Tracker Powered by Inside Archery. Testosterone begins rising in bucks right around mid September amping up weekly as we press on…
E-Bike Bowhunting - When I discovered electric-powered mountain bikes, a.k.a. e-bikes, I knew I had discovered the solution to many of my bowhunting problems. From accessing big woods or farmland whitetail stands to cruising locked-gate logging roads while seeking bugling elk, e-bikes offer dead-silent access to sensitive areas. Silent electric motors, lightweight alloy frames, high-torque…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DshU7dlVQw0 Carter Releases Whisper 2 Release Until recently I shot nothing but hand-held/thumb-activated release aids. As a long-time finger-shooter, the transition just felt more natural, without the disconnect experienced while using a typical wrist-strap/index-finger triggered release. A major injury to my left hand that left me with an inoperable thumb, minus an index finger, and unable…
3 Reasons To Hunt Hogs This Summer - Not only are feral hogs a hoot to hunt, offering a near ideal half-blind, devil-may-care attitude toward the world around them, but they generally have fewer rules attached. They are now found in more states than ever, too. Most states—California, unsurprisingly, being the only exception to come…
Arrow F.O.C. Why Should I Care? - Arrow F.O.C. (Front of Center) is the percentage of an arrow’s weight found in front of its balance point. This is discovered by finding an arrow’s balance point, with the point you will be shooting installed, and marking it. Then measure the arrow’s overall length from the bottom…
Preseason Broadhead Tuning - by Patrick Meitin Preseason Broadhead Tuning - It is generally accepted that broadheads will impact differently than field points when shot from the same bow, especially fixed-blade heads. In general, this is true, as arrows flex dramatically during launch, going from zero to 330-plus fps in the blink of an eye…
6 Tips for Traditional Archery Success - by Patrick Meitin 6 Tips for Traditional Archery Success - I’ve never understood the friction between traditional and compound shooters, even if some of it is little more than virtue signaling. On one side the hardest of the hard core traditionalist crowd says compounds aren’t real archery, that…
Top 5 Bow Upgrades That Make Your Old Bow New - By Patrick Meitin Top 5 Bow Upgrades That Make Your Old Bow New - Here are five financially palatable ways you can make the bow you already own shoot better for the 2023 season. 5. New Arrows Carbon arrow technology continues to…
Beating Target Panic During The Off Season - By Patrick Meitin Beating Target Panic During The Off Season - I have written a lot about target panic over the years because I believe it to be one of the most important issue any archer or bowhunter faces. Having suffered severe target panic on several occasions…
