Tips & Tactics

Entries for April 2015

Homemade Fan Mount

Homemade Fan Mount

By Bob Humphrey & Yamaha Outdoors

One of the more popular ways to preserve a memorable turkey hunt is with the fan and beard mounted on a plaque. You can take it to a taxidermist, but if you want to save some money, doing it yourself is a fairly simple process. First, remove the beard by cutting it away from the breast. Be sure to leave just enough flesh at the base to keep th... READ MORE

Cheap Cleanup Tips

Cheap Cleanup Tips

By Justin Miller

Deer hunters often need water for cleanup after field dressing a deer, but have to figure out what to do if there isn’t a convenient water source nearby. Like most hunters, I carry a little drinking water, but nothing more since all my gear and gadgets take up precious backpack space. I’ve found a great free item to keep in my pack a... READ MORE

Your Built-in Sandbag

Your Built-in Sandbag

By Tim H. Martin

In an earlier Buckmasters Tip of the Week, we discussed how using sandbags on shooting rails helps increase accuracy and steadies your firearm at the moment of truth. Another tip discussed using an old sock filled with dirt as a makeshift sandbag to hang on shooting rails. There are times when you won’t have access to sandbags or socks, but... READ MORE

Kitchen Gadget Arrow Puller

Kitchen Gadget Arrow Puller

By Jim Kotsones

Have you ever had trouble pulling wet arrows from targets, or buried your arrows so deeply into a new target that you struggled to remove them with bare fingers? I certainly have. Slick aluminum or graphite arrows with small-diameter shafts can also be incredibly hard to pull from targets. You can actually develop shoulder and elbow injuries if yo... READ MORE

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