We as bowhunters are always researching the latest and greatest equipment. Anything we can do or buy that could potentially increase our odds at harvesting the trophy of our dreams gets evaluated each off-season. There are many ways to decrease your group size however one of the often overlooked variables
After having a successful weekend hunting down in North Carolina, it was time to head back home to Ohio to prepare for the opener of the 2016 turkey season. I had been running several trail cameras on the property I hunt, and had started moving my Covert Code Black camera
With spring turkey season well underway in many parts of the country, most social media feeds are blowing-up with pictures of big birds, long beards and lengthy spurs. How do these folks manage to get such magnificent birds? While there are no magic recipes for bagging a wary old tom,
It had been a couple of years since I had made the trip back to North Carolina to hunt. To say I was a little excited when I got the call from my good friend Forrest to come on down and spend the weekend chasing gobblers would be an understatement.
As winter gives way to spring, and the emergence of fresh new life dominates the countryside, I find it impossible to keep my mind off the upcoming turkey season. My thoughts are constantly drifting back and forth between successful hunts, and others that, let’s just say, didn’t go so well
UPDATE: Congrats to BRETT MATHEWS, winner of the 2016 DSD Jake Decoy Giveaway! Spring has sprung and it is time for another Dave Smith Decoy giveaway! Big thanks to Dave Smith Decoys! Click here to enter! Want to stay up-to-date on what’s happening on the SELFILMED Blog and be the first to
As mother nature slowly but surely loosens its grip on us here in the Midwest, there is no better time to be out scouting for whitetails to help increase your odds of success this coming fall. I’ve found some of the best times to be out scouting begins immediately after
Let me bring light to probably one of the clearest cut and understandable struggles of selfilming, packing all your gear in! We as SELFILMers take pride in capturing top-notch footage of each hunt, not just for the fact of producing good Hunt Vids but creating a digital copy of the
A 4 1/2 hour drive home to Ohio from Nashville, TN, that turned into a 12+ hour drive thanks to the afternoon snow storm, gave me plenty of time to reflect on my experiences at the 2016 NWTF Convention. If you’ve read my NWTF Overview articles in the past (2014 or
Dave Smith Decoys are widely regarded as the embodiment of perfection in a hunting decoy. No other company comes even close to producing decoys that are as realistic, let alone as durable as those bearing the DSD name. A reputation DSD is proud to have, but also a reputation that
I’m sure it has happened to you a time or two before. You are walking down the aisle at your favorite store and something just happens to catch your eye. That is exactly what happened to me as I walked down the aisles of the NWTF Convention in Nashville last
The 2016 ATA show has come and gone, and once again the SELFILMED crew had a great time checking out some of the new products to hit the market for the upcoming hunting season. Some years, the new releases are more jaw dropping than others, but there is always something