Thirty-seven years ago, in the Pennsylvania deer woods, Mark and Dan Witt lost their father, Walter, in a hunting accident. After years of grief, anger, and pain, they found peace. And this summer, for the first time, they went to find their father's place in the woods.
We found some enormous bucks in the center of America's whitetail range, and a family of whitetail hunters who cherish the land, its bounty, and how it holds them all together.
The dream: an unguided canoe trip down Alaska’s Kipchuk and Aniak rivers to some of the best salmon fishing in the world. The reality: a white-knuckled survival story, a near drowning, and some of the best salmon fishing in the world
With everything that has changed, a few things haven’t: The fact that hunters can walk the woods. The fact that we can walk out of those woods with a harvest and rejoice with our families. Worthy of thanks, all of that.
While we're not suggesting hunting with it, here's how you make a slingshot using tubing and, yes, a forked branch