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10 Pre-Season Crossbow Maintenance Tips
By Bryan Zabitski, TenPoint Crossbow Technologies
With white-tailed deer archery season quickly approaching in most states, now is a good time to take your crossbow out of storage and ready it for hunting this fall. Here are 10 maintenance tips that will help ensure that your crossbow is in peak shooting condition for the upcoming crossbow hunting season: 1) Check your crossbow for dirt or grit. I... READ MORE
Shooting Angles Made Easy
By Joshua Clifton
I was reintroduced to archery about five years ago, and since then I’ve learned a lot about the sport, but not without some difficulties with proper shot placement. Early on, I had several opportunities to harvest a deer; however, the anatomy of a white-tailed deer was a mystery. If I aimed behind the shoulder, as is standard, sometimes the ... READ MORE
Gut Shot Prevention
By Lorelei Menist
I believe one of the most common fundamental errors made by hunters is shooting at moving animals. Whether hunting with guns or archery gear, knowing how and when to properly stop a whitetail will help you make a lethal shot and save a lot of long blood trails. Better shot placement starts with learning to be patient when a deer appears, and resist... READ MORE
Trail Cam Tip for Streetwise Bucks
By James Howell
Photo: This tactic helps you decide if a change in treestand sites is in order once mature bucks seem to vanish. Placing trail cameras to overlook a pile of corn or some type of feeder is probably the most common method of buck surveillance used by whitetail hunters. While you can have success capturing images of bucks in your area in the summer, p... READ MORE
Shoot-Tuning Crossbow Arrows for Greater Field Accuracy
By Bryan Zabitski, Marketing Coordinator, TenPoint Crossbow Technologies
When you purchase a new six-pack of arrows, how do you determine which of the arrows you will use for hunting? While manufacturers take great care in building arrows as consistently as possible, small variations from one arrow to the next may have a large impact on whether the arrows will group with each other. If you really wish to shoot as accura... READ MORE
Off-season Small Engine Care
By Ken Piper
Photo: It might cost more at the pump, but ethanol-free gasoline will likely prevent a visit to the mechanic. As a hunter, you likely own an ATV or UTV, as well as operate several smaller engines such as chainsaws, generators or trimmers. You’ve also probably heard conflicting opinions on what type of fuel to use in those vehicles and tools.... READ MORE
America’s Outdoor Youth ‘Tip Manual’
By Buckmasters Tip Editor Tim H. Martin
Photo: With its humor, life lessons, adventure and brilliant prose, Robert Ruark’s “The Old Man and the Boy” should be required reading. – Photo Courtesy Luke Noffsinger The Buckmasters staff places a lot of emphasis on taking kids hunting and bringing them up in an outdoors lifestyle that instills values, virtues and proper... READ MORE
What’s the Rush?
By Anthony Smith
Photo: You’ll never know if your buck of a lifetime was on its way if you shoot the doe it was chasing. My tip is a bit of advice that could help deer hunters whether they are inexperienced or have been hunting whitetails for years. It’s something I learned by chance one morning while in a treestand, but I plan to practice this from now... READ MORE
Blades Up!
By Tim H. Martin
I learned a lot about skinning animals from hanging with world-class taxidermists most of my life. Several of my best friends are award-winning “taxis” who have created mounts any sportsman would drool over. In 1974, when I was 11 years old, my best friend’s father, Dan Rhymer, was a taxidermist for The Smithsonian Institution. On... READ MORE
Ladder Lover’s Leg Tip
By John Waldron
I’m a big fan of hunting from metal ladder stands, and I bet a lot of other Buckmasters fans are as well. There are a lot of advantages to these fixed position stands. The deer get used to them quickly, they are easily accessible, and ladders are probably the quietest of all types of treestands when it comes to climbing up and down and gettin... READ MORE
Do You Have a Record in the Attic?
By Tim H. Martin
I think we'd be amazed if we knew just how many record book antlers are gathering dust in attics and garages across the country, yet never get any recognition. As the art director for Rack Magazine, I’ve designed dozens of stories about state and world record bucks that surfaced after decades of going undiscovered in closets, hardware stores ... READ MORE
Binoculars Stabilizer Trick
By Roger Bouch
Photo: This method of stabilizing binoculars becomes second nature after using it a few times. Here's a tip many hunters from the western part of the country use a lot, but those of us east of the Mississippi might not know about. I'm from Oregon, and I've noticed other hunters from the western United States use this trick frequently because long r... READ MORE
Time to Reduce Movement
By Tim H. Martin
Photo: A tiny stick-on digital timepiece helps hunters avoid unnecessary movement when checking the time. Rolling up your jacket sleeve to look at your watch or having to dig around in your pockets for a phone adds unwanted movement. Sometimes checking the time comes at a time when you should be totally still and focused on what is going on in the ... READ MORE
Nighttime Trail Keeper
By Glenn Russell
Photo: Marking blood trails with fisherman’s glow stick capsules can help you find your deer in the dark. Recently, I read a Buckmasters Tip of the Week titled Illuminated Nock Trick. It described using the illuminated nocks on your arrows to keep your bearings while tracking a wounded deer. The glowing nocks are easy to see at night and allo... READ MORE
Rack’s Pattern for GIANT KILLERS
By Tim H. Martin | Buckmasters Tip Editor
Photo: Rack Magazine producers have observed a noticeable spike in the use of trail cams in story submissions. I’d like to share an important observation about hunting gear made by Rack Magazine Editor Mike Handley and myself. Since I serve as Rack’s art director as well as the editor of Buckmasters Tip of the Week, I thought it only fi... READ MORE