Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
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The best magazine and web site for friends who hunt with traditional archery equipment. Great stories, interviews and how-to articles since 1989. We aim to preserve the heritage of the bow and arrow by being the premier source for inspiration, motivation and education for the trad bow community!
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
3w ago
Featured Articles Lucky by Matt Schuster Opportunities Come at the Strangest Times by G. Fred Asbell Getting the Big Buck by Nathan L. Andersohn Traditional Wisdom by Bill Carman Bowhunting in the Heat Good and Perfect by Malachi Noletti Perseverance by Kirby Kohler Whitetail Wisdom by Jim Barnhart Hunt the Transition Zones ..read more
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
1M ago
I was thirteen years old and had just finished crawling through knee-deep Wisconsin snow in December to position myself within bow range of a deer feeding in a cut corn field. In addition to the numbingly cold temperature, I recall feeling heat pounding in my ear drums and slight trembling throughout my body ..read more
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
1M ago
Jake Hamilton belted it out on the radio as I drove into the fading darkness. There was something electric and alive that day that seemed to super charge the air and, as if solar powered, the intensity grew even stronger with the rising sun. My thumbs drummed vigorously to the beat on my ..read more
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
2M ago
Dutch oven cooking is fun and easy! Do you ever wish you had a hot meal waiting when you got back to camp from a long day in the field? Here's a video showing how to do it. Burying a Dutch oven is one of those things you often hear about ..read more
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
2M ago
Using decoys to help lure animals into range goes back almost as far as our hunting history does. In fact, early man and Native Americans were the first to employ many of the same strategies we still use today to kill animals. I am sure our forefathers learned a lot of their hunting ..read more
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
2M ago
Many people are upping the excitement and challenge of bowhunting by electing to use traditional bows. As a reader of TBM, you likely need little help deciding on a traditional bow, yet most often hunters considering the switch turn to those already involved for advice. Bowhunters who have five or more decades of ..read more
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
3M ago
Over twenty years ago, a friend of mine was giving me an impromptu lesson on coon hound training along a familiar creek on our farm. When his pup finally treed, we started into the woods at the creek crossing and three hundred yards later, turned left, away from the creek, and walked fifty ..read more
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
3M ago
Featured Articles Longbow Dall Ram by Adam Brennan Muskox Madness by Tom Vanasche Straight as an Arrow by Jeff Stonehouse Bears Behaving Badly by E. Donnall Thomas, Jr. TBM Interview-Chris Parrino by David Tetzlaff Adventures on the Martin by David Hoff Traditional Wisdom by Tim L. Lewis Choosing a Traditional Bow I ..read more
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
3M ago
The whine of the diesel pushed us down the rain-soaked asphalt, green moss popping up through the cracks in the shoulder. The trees lining the highway from the airport drip with tendrils of olive and gray, a moss that resembles Hagrid’s beard. The sharp peaks push up straight from the Copper River Delta ..read more
Traditional Bowhunter Magazine
3M ago
When you do a lot of stalking on the ground, you can cover a few miles in no time. The quickest way to make a hunt uncomfortable is to develop blisters while you are hiking. Here is a quick video with a few tips on how to avoid blisters. Is there ..read more