By Dave Hurteau

Bestul and I just returned from the Archery Trade Association show in Louisville, Kentucky. In the hubbub of these events—with all the meetings, and press luncheons, and bumping into friends and colleagues—the only way to get anything done is to narrow your focus. So for the most part we honed in on the new flagship bows for 2013 and will be posting a full report soon.

By Dave Hurteau

Bestul and I are writing a book on deer hunting. Want to help? In an attempt the prevent readers from tiring of us too quickly, we figured we’d mix in someone else’s opinions. Namely, yours.

Right now, we are writing about the phases of the rut. While chatting about this yesterday, we wondered: If you could hunt any phase of the rut all the time, which would it be? We both picked the same phase but agreed that certain biases might play into that.

By Scott Bestul

I live in southeastern Minnesota and do most of my deer hunting here. For the last three seasons, hunters in this corner of the state have been under an Antler-Point Restriction (APR) that requires us to identify four points on one side of a buck’s rack before shooting that buck. I was initially skeptical of APRs, but after living with them for three years I’ve come to like them and hope they continue. Here’s why:

By Dave Hurteau

Many of you savvy farmland hunters already know this tip, but for anyone who doesn’t, it’s an oldie and a goodie: Because farmland whitetails are accustomed to seeing pickup trucks in fields, they don’t freak out at the sight of one.