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Hunting Season is upon us once again and the members of Team Outdoorsmen Adventures wishes you the best season of all!

North Carolina Archery Season has begun with many other states opening soon. A bow hunter is someone who gets to know his prey up close and personal. He is of the land and knows the patterns and movements of the game he intends to harvest.

This is what makes a great hunter out in the woods. “Make No Mistake About It!” That is exactly the key element in a bow hunters mindset he must be mentally ready and prepared for the shot.

The hunt starts before season when he picks his bow up each year. It makes sense to not take the shot if you have not completed your homework.

The first task to cover is to inspect our bow for damages. Inspect it anyway, even if it has been locked in your case for the past year. If your string looks worn, it’s time to replace it. I like to replace my bowstring every two years regardless of the wear and tear on it. Strings will stretch over time. Inspect your arrows and anything else on the bow. Look for cracks, a bent arrow, torn or bad fletching or anything than could cause an arrow to fly incorrectly.

Make sure you oil movable parts of your bow with scentless oil. Wax your string each time you practice. Proper care of all bow hunting equipment is essential to success in the field.

Once all this has been accomplished you are ready to shoot again. Practice everyday no less than a month before season. I feel if you’ve put in shooting time every night till the opener you’ll be prepared physically and mentally for you shot at a game animal.

By this time your shot should become a repetition of steps that you do automatically without thinking.

Even at this point, here in North Carolina with a longbow season practice should be performed periodically during season to ensure your form and shot have not went south.

When the game animal is in front of you the less thinking you do the better. This brings me to a point on the many sights that are on the market.… Continue reading

The 2nd Annual 3 D Adult/Youth Team Archery Tournament will be held Sunday August 23rd at the Hartington Outdoor Archery Range located 1 1/2 mile East of the Hartington,  just east of the Hartington Recycling Center.

The event starts at 8 a.m. and goes until 2 p.m..  The Range will have 40 targets, 1 arrow per target.

1st Division Adult with youth 8 thru 12

2nd division Adult with youth 13 thru 15.

Medals and prizes for the top four winners in each division.  Concessions on Grounds.

For more information contact Kevin Millikan at 402-373-2713 in Bloomfield after 6 p.m. or email kmillikan@gpcom.net .

This Archery Tournament is sponsored by the Shannon Trail Promoters and Northeast Nebraska Archers  and the  Cedar County Tourism… Continue reading

Growing up in Watertown, S.D. was great as we didn’t have to go far for an outdoor experience as it was right out our back door. Living just a block from the Sioux River, it made it easy for my younger brother A.J. and me to spend a lot of time running exploring the Sioux River.

It was a great place to explore, build forts, rafts, shoot our BB guns, fish and spear carp. Back then, it seemed that the river offered everything a youngster wanted to do in the outdoors.

It wasn’t that we didn’t know about the outdoors as our father, Cal did some fishing and hunting and our Grandma and Grandpa Menkveld were really into the outdoors, so you might say we had a good upbringing when it came to the outdoors.

We were at that age where we were always looking for a new experience and wanted to learn everything about the outdoors.

Our first introduction to the sport of bow hunting was when our neighbor, let us look at his bow and arrow and this really intrigued us.  After seeing his bow we wanted to learn as much as we could about using a bow, and since we were on a very limited budget a dollar week allowance, we decided we’d make our own and get into bow hunting and fishing “big time”.… Continue reading