Entries Tagged Public Land

Unless you hunt out West, you’re probably not familiar with the corner-crossing debate. But you should be.

Ready to spend more time in places mature bucks feel secure? Here’s how to use water and other difficult access routes to find more-productive whitetail hotspots.

Sometimes a particular wild turkey finds a way to escape day after day by zigging every time a hunter zags.

With all due respect to those bowhunters who have killed giant bucks this deer season, my No. 1 whitetail story for 2023 is a public land doe.

Our public hunting lands are more crowded than ever. Here’s how to avoid trouble if you run into competition in the field.

Here are several tools you’ll want to consider before hiking miles from the nearest road for elk.

Bowhunting is inherently challenging, but the degree of difficulty increases on public land.

Not wanting to wait at public land water sources, the author jogs, walks and crawls his way within bow range of on-the-move pronghorns.

Combat public-land party goers through research, assessment, scouting and purposeful hunt execution — using an approach that might be polar to theirs.

Success rates are notoriously low for general unit archery elk. Here’s how the author punched his tag on four recent DIY bowhunts.

An out-of-state DIY whitetail bowhunt might mean a lot of work, but the rewards can be great.

Kansas recently became the first Midwest state to ban trail cams on public and Walk-In land.

Many states work with landowners to open their private property to public hunting. Here’s how to take advantage of these amazing opportunities.