Watch Your Downwind With Coyotes
by BGH Staff
When calling coyotes, more often than not they will circle on a target they are coming into and approach from the downwind side. Presumably they do this in order to align what they smell, with what they are hearing. This means that you should always have your downwind side camouflaged and have an open shooting lane. If the area is heavily covered the coyote could come in take a look and b...[Read More]

Tactical Locker Room
by Jeff Filler
Use that 'locker room' scent you are wearing tactfully. Sometimes hunting down wind can't be avoided. Sometimes it can become part of your plan. We hunt rugged, hilly terrain ... and after an hour or two - we take on our natural 'locker room' scent. It can be used to advantage - to bump game at our timing. You can guess-timate the arrival of your 'smell' into that draw, or patch of timber - a...[Read More]

Make a Sneak: Use Folds in Terrain
by Jeff Filler
What may look like a bare open field, or hillside, may have just enough 'folds' (unevenness) to make a sneak. Elk manage to get in and out of farmers' fields, undetected, using folds in terrain - and they are big creatures! Ducks and geese lounge away the day unharrassed in shallow indentations in fields 'just off the road' ...undetected by passersby and hunters alike. So if they can do it ...[Read More]

Stay in Touch
by Jim Boyd
I hunt in a large hunting club (4000 acres and 30 members) with a sign in board. We have club rules that state that you do not leave anyone in the woods when you sign out... you are required to wait for the last man or woman to sign out before you leave. This is done to make sure that all people on the club are safe and do not need assistance. With hectic schedules and the coming and going of...[Read More]

Climbing Stand Safety Tip
by Jim Boyd
Here is the scenario... you sit in your 2 piece climbing stand and your foot inadvertently bumps the lower section while there is no weight on it - and it slides down the tree, out of reach! OK, you are safe - you have a string tied from the upper section that you are sitting on and the foot portion that slid 4-5 feet down the tree. All you have to do it pull the other section up, reposition ...[Read More]

What Time is it?
by Jim Boyd
Are you sitting in your stand and moving your arm to see what time it is? Bad idea! This is just another distraction - that averts your attention - and the movement may well cause deer to see you! Outfit all of your stands - climbing, ladder and loc-on models, with an inexpensive analog watch like the one shown in the photos below! Get one with a Velcro band - the smaller version for yout...[Read More]

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