Archery

If you spend enough time around bowhunters you are going to hear stories. At some point, many of them will contain the phrase “I will never forget it.”  Well, let me follow suit and relive a trip I will never forget. It was back in August 2012. The weather was beautiful, and we had finally...

Have you done long range archery? Trophy State of Mind TV video shows an archer attempting some long distance shooting at 100, 200 and 300 yards with his bow. Some great comments on this video: A lot of people couldn’t make that shot with a rifle, let alone a bow. Now do it with a recurve, 😛...

Are you a smoker and a hunter? Remember that time you were itching for a cigarette but thought the smell would chase the deers away? Well, check out the below video of a hunter that decided to light up while hunting for a buck from a tree stand. Several does come up right under him…as he’s...

It’s important to practice and hone your skills before you go out on the hunt for deer or any other game for that matter. We spend a lot of time telling our kids that practice makes perfect, but are we practicing what we preach? Steve Bartylla gives some interesting insights into his hints and tips...

Bowhunter Cody Kraut had a good feeling as he and his father hung their treestand in the pouring rain near a clearing where their trailcams had revealed a massive buck which they nicknamed “Alien” repeatedly emerge from the treeline. A week later, they climbed up their stand and waited patiently for “Alien” or one of...

While resting on some rocks early in their hunt in the hills of Montana, two bowhunters and the Hunting Unlimited camera crew heard an elk bull bugle nearby and decided they’d better investigate. They put out a few calls and heard a couple of cows call back. Once they tracked down the cows, the bull...

Have you ever wondered why your arrows seem to bend or wobble in flight? Turns out there is a very simple explanation to be had for this natural occurrence and it’s all physics. When the arrow is loosed, all of the initial force is transferred to the tail of the arrow. As that wave of...

Ballistic armor manufacturer AR500’s Level 4 Plate armor is built to with stand the full force of a 30.06 armor-piercing round. The Scorpyd RD 165 crossbow is the world’s current most powerful production crossbow, with 165-pound draw limbs which can propel a standard carbon fiber arrow at more that 425 feet per second. But will...

Hunter Galloway took his first buck with a bow at age 17 and he captured the whole hunt on video. A pair of good sized bucks enter the frame feasting on early fall acorns when Hunter lines up his shot. Unfortunately the shot is a little high and a bit too close to the shoulder....

Even the most seasoned hunter misses his quarry every now and again. Sometimes the wind sneaks up on you or some other wildlife startles your target and there’s little you can do about it. It certainly doesn’t feel good to know you missed or to let good quarry go, but to have a second chance...

These guys went for a different kind of fishing trip. You’ve probably seen this sort of thing before in videos. Bow Hunting for fish is a whole new way to fish with a twist on the average Rod and Reel. Call it bow hunting, or call it fishing with a bow; either way, it’s so...

The stabilizer mounted to your bow is your best friend. It absorbs so much of the force generated by loosing the bow string and keeps your bow from wobbling around in your grip while you’re shooting. Even for us hunters, most stabilizers you’ll see aren’t nearly as long and large as the ones you see...

At a medieval reenactment, with attendees wearing period garb and armor, archers and armorers got together to put one man’s steel plate to the test against the real deal: a 130-lb British longbow. From a distance of only a few meters, an archer drew up a 4 ounce solid ash arrow with a diamond-shaped arrowhead–perfect...

The frontal chest shot is considered too risky for many hunters. So many things can go wrong, but if done correctly this shot can drop a full grown bull elk in seconds. The shooter in this video felt confident in his marksmanship and let the arrow fly. The bull elk went down just a few...

One of the world’s fastest archers thrilled the crowd at this archery competition while dominating his opponent. While crossing over to the left side of the bow isn’t the fastest method in the world, he punches through is quiver in breathtaking speed. In no time flat, his hands are empty and all those arrows are...

Byron Ferguson is a master archer who travels the world for exhibition shows. He’s even capable of shooting something as small as an aspirin out of the air. If you slow down his shots you can see the arrows bending as it travels. This is required for accurate firing BECAUSE of the Archer’s Paradox. Put...

Outdoorsman and primitive weapon enthusiast Shawn Woods found an antique Jim Beam bottle in the junkyard and decided it be a great opportunity to make another glass arrowhead. While inspecting the bottle, Shawn noticed something odd written in the glass. The message reads “Federal Law Forbids Re-Use Of This Bottle.” Technically turning the bottle into...