HSS renews marketing agreement for 6th straight year and gets official endorsement from TV hosts. Hahira, GA (June 22, 2010) – Backwoods Life Television, beginning its 6th action-packed television season, announced today it has renewed its marketing agreement with hunting industry safety innovator Hunter Safety System (HSS). Under the disclosed terms of the agreement, HSS [...]

QAD Ultra Rest named official arrow rest of popular Pursuit Channel and ICTV outdoors program. Hahira, GA (July 28, 2010) – Backwoods Life Television, the “in your face” reality hunting program that airs 5 times a week on Pursuit Channel and ICTV, announced today it has renewed is marketing agreement with leading archery industry manufacturer [...]

July is usually the dip in my website traffic counts.  Looks like we are beginning to climb out of the rut as summer moves closer to the start of some hunting seasons and I start having more interesting things to post about. Right now I’m tossing around the idea of doing a hunt-by-hunt video diary [...]

I’ve mentioned a couple times that there is a work-in-progress going up in my backyard.  Totally framed out now.  Just need to get some siding up this weekend and then it will be on to the roof. Dimensions are 10×14 with 8 foot walls and two 4 foot lofts – one in front and one [...]

Backcountry.com Athlete Matt Hart just ran the 484-mile Colorado Trail in 9 days, 7 hours, 48 minutes. He covered over 75,000 feet of vert and logged the third fastest time ever. He filed a post on his blog, Tales of Endurance that included the above video of having fun with mosquitoes.
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Finally assembled all the pieces to the puzzle on Friday and spent the weekend getting my “new” (to me) bow firing bulls-eyes with my top pin. Snapped some pictures of my set-up with the Kodak digital this morning, so I’ll let the pictures do the talking. 60 pound limbs maxed at 63 pounds.  Don’t know [...]

In 1845 a team of explorers struck out in search of the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic. Unfortunately, it did not exist. They spent three years on the ice, slowly dying off and resorting to cannibalism by the end. In retrospect, naming one of their ships HMS Terror could have been a bit [...]

A 22-year-old with a decision-making problem landed in jail for six months after blowing up an outhouse at a federal recreation area near Gillette, Wyoming. The man plead guilty two months ago to the crime he masterminded last summer. This guy is one of four who acted in blowing up the outhouse – they [...]

Went fishing yesterday with my buddy Pete.  Threw a spinnerbait and Texas rigged plastic worm most of the day.  Started off slow but as the sun burned off the cloud cover, the fish really picked up and we ended up boating 20 bass. 3 really solid fish in the 4-5 pound range. I put this [...]

Iowa River Wildlife Control 641-485-2049 Meet Adam Utterback, of Iowa River Wildlife Control providing a host of wildlife removal related services such as dead animal carcass removal, fecal or poop removal, odor removal. Adam has been trapping for several years and has become the local name to trust for getting the job done right . [...]

The Outdoor Smorgasbord will rear its ugly head again soon, so don’t tap out on me.  I know it’s incredibly aggravating to go back to a website and see the same thing at the top time after time.  But never fear…fall is near. Well late summer anyways.  And so will start the beginning of deer [...]

Hollywood has gone to great lengths to make the pump totally macho. One shuck from the good guy, and the bad boys run for cover. Well, what happens when the pump gun goes female? That’s we wanted to find out with the first review of the Ithaca Model 37 With Ladies Stock. Ithaca went to [...]

Shooting in Sensitive Environments Workshop August 3-5, 2010 Lincoln, NE University of Nebraska – Lincoln University of Nebraska – Lincoln Dr. Anthony DeNicola of White Buffalo, Inc. – Lead Instructor The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is an equal opportunity educator and employer with a comprehensive plan for diversity. 402-472-3471 http://icwdm.org/credits/ShootingWorkshop.aspx MC/Visa accepted Holiday Inn Express-Lincoln South [...]

I had the privilege of testing a Smart Shield sunscreen product over the past couple of weeks.  I always like to use a new product several times before forming my opinion – so now that that has been accomplished, here’s what I thought. I used the product pictured on left which is rated at 30 [...]

Shotgun Life kicked off July with a new monthly column by veteran writer, Lisa Metheny, called “Lisa Metheney’s Women Afield©.” In her first piece, Lisa writes about the NRAs’ Women on Target (WOT) program. Lisa and the group of women are pheasant hunting at the Granite Springs Lodge in South Dakota, accompanied this time by [...]

Peregrine falcons who’d resorted to building their nest 41 floors up Rhodes Tower spread their wings and took their first flight lesson. Or at least one of them did. Five-week-old Swoop hit the sidewalk just east of the building, abruptly ending his first flying lesson and life. Fortunately, Swoop timed his death to coincide [...]

More and more magazines are going this style of interactive, online content. Wend has done a remarkable job embracing the online format, and the style opens a lot of doors for advertisers and editors alike. Photographers for Skiing will have to work a little harder with their DSLR video to get winning shots, and [...]

A remote mountain village in New Zealand is for sale for about $1 million. You get the hotel, post office, pub and all of the houses. Forty-four people live there now, so you’ll have to put up with a bit of company, but you should win the mayoral race in a landslide. And if [...]

I purchased a 2009 Elite z28 on Friday.  Will arrive on Wednesday, but I am excited to have a new weapon in my hunting arsenal.  Will post pics when it arrives.  Time to dress it up for hunting season.  Of course, I’ll document the process and report on all the accessories I add to the [...]

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I did make it out to the swamplands on Wednesday of last week.  Unfortunately, all we killed were mosquitoes and a big moccasin.  Hog sign was everywhere and I’d say a conservative estimate is that 4 or 5 different sounders were using different parts of the property, but with daytime temps in the 100s – [...]

Ralph Brendle’s South Carolina hunting resort has declined with China’s rise as a textile kingpin in the U.S. South Carolina has shed textile jobs since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Can River Bend now succeed as a private club? The bigger question is whether or not Mr. Brendle’s decision to privatize River [...]

Google updated their popular Earth program to include the ability to recreate a trail you biked or ran using geo-data from your GPS. You can get your elevation and speed as well as overlay your heart rate or any other data you can collect from the workout. It’s another nice way to brag to [...]

Even with 3 million annual visitors the incidence of assaults in Rocky Mountain National Park can be counted on one hand over the course of a year. Last year there were two such attacks – people getting into slappy fights over who had dibs on a campsite. So when a 20-year-old woman said she [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, I spent several hours shooting new model bows in a couple different pro shops Thursday before last. I love my bow and it will be hard to set down, but there are so many improvements that I can make to my equipment and with my bow being harder [...]

…through the summer. Been getting plenty of office work done between the end of the spring semester and the start of the second summer mini-semester when I’ll be taking a class on Habitat Occupancy and Modeling. I did make it up to Alexander City, AL, last week with a buddy to shoot some bows.  I [...]