By Mark Kenyon Happy Friday folks! We’ve made it through another week and that means we’re seven days closer to the 2015 hunting season. In my humble opinion, that’s pretty darn good news. That said, there’s plenty of deer hunting goodies…
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Deer Sleigh’r Game Sled helps you transport your trophies quickly and easily. Congratulations! You just bagged the buck of a lifetime! Now how are you going to get it back to the lodge? Transporting your trophies has never been easier than with the Deer Sleigh’r. The slick, tough-tested polymer construction of the Sleigh’r offers clean, simple movement of both animals and gear over nearly ANY terrain. Just strap the game to the surface, thread the included 6′ rope through the grommets, and go! You’ll be back at camp before you know it! Two sizes available. Smart sled: Slides easily over snow, gravel and light brush; Compact and lightweight; Protects meat and hide ; Goes places trucks, carts and ATVs can’t. Hauling game doesn’t have to be a “drag.” Measures 3 x 6′ h, 5 lbs. Fits large deer, bear, elk. Order your Sleigh’r today! Magnum Deer Sleigh’r Game Sled
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The Buck Commander Rut Hunter allows you to produce desperate doe estrus bleats, dominant buck grunts and commanding growls with ease. The large ported bell gives this call volume and natural sound to lure pre rut, rutting and post rut bucks into range. This call is simple to use and produces a more natural sound by accurately mimicking the soft flexible tissue of a deer’s neck, mouth and tongue.
List price: $9.75
Easily drag out your trophy with Dead Sled! Lightweight, compact, easy to shoulder! OK, so you bagged Mr. Big Antlers in the boonies. Now you can transport your animal out with little effort. Rolls up like an archery quiver; Unrolls in a jiffy to form a 24 x 72″ pull Sled; Made of tough, easy to clean plastic; 3 tie-down straps and self-locking buckles; Has hunter orange tether for pulling / dragging or use as a waist harness for hands-free transport; Weighs 3 1/2 lbs., comes with carry bag and shoulder strap. Act Now! Dead Sled
List price: $39.99
The Big Game The Ravage 72″ x 72″ x 64″ Blind features quick set maintenance free hubs, large reinforced stake loops on all four corners, four tie down ropes off center hubs to secure against wind, easy access door with full length zipper, bottom wind flap and two interior gear pockets. Additional features include nine steel stakes with interior stake pocket, and brush strips (lower and upper). Made of 300 x 500 denier black backed and water resistant. The different window configuration on two sides allows quick release shot through the mesh window. Has a completely blacked out interior.
List price: $149.99
Today on the show, we’re discussing a slightly different topic than usual. In this episode we’re joined by Outdoor Life Magazine Editor-in-Chief Andrew McKean and we’re discussing how to make a living in the outdoor industry. If you’ve ever dreamed…
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The amount of technology infiltrating the hunting industry is ever expanding. What once was different sized fletching or unique radioactive pin sights now has given way to full fledged computer technology in our hunting equipment. Everywhere I turn, there is some new gadget or device touted as the next big “game changer” that will help me “improve” my abilities.
As a newbie, I don’t often fall for the hype since I’m still learning the basics, and aside from scent control or clothing, my interest in the latest and greatest is pretty slim. But it does make me wonder how the advancements in technology affect hunting, especially with future generations becoming inspired to pick up a bow or rifle and give it a try themselves.
Take the new precision-guided firearms, for example. This type of firearm is not your basic handheld rifle. Instead, they are long-range rifle systems that integrate technology that will supposedly improve the accuracy of your shots taken at extended ranges through a system that incorporates target tracking, wi-fi monitoring and advanced fire control. Fire control is a type of lock-and-launch technology that means that the round will not shoot unless the target is locked and engaged. This type of rifle also gives the shooter that ability to hit targets moving 10 to 20 mph, depending on the model.
Although bowhunters have yet to contend with complete computer controlled sights we are seeing peep sights with optical advancement to provide clarity to our pin sight in low light conditions and the ability to turn iPhones into bow sights. Obviously, it’s a personal decision as to how much technology you want to incorporate into your archery experience.
Maybe this is where my beginner status toward all things hunting is more of a blessing than I thought. I think that skill and accuracy cannot be created even with the built-in bells and whistles that technology brings to the table. For me, skill will only come with practice. And more practice means better accuracy, confidence, and ability.
I mentioned in my last post how interesting it is to see my progression in just one year. While I am not using a longbow or recurve, the technology that I’m incorporating into my hunting abilities are still fairly basic: a compound bow, wrist release, and basic sight. I realize the argument could go both ways and those who utilize the constantly evolving technology may see it as an asset. For me, for now, I plan to improve my bowhunting abilities the old-fashioned way: with practice.
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Primos introduced its first deer grunt call in 1984. Made from a select hardwood, this call was an instant winner. Now the quality and rich tones of old have been combined with a few twists of new technology. We have combined the durability, flexibility, and convenience of an extendible grunt tube with the rich tones of a high quality hardwood barrel to bring you the Hardwood Grunter.
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All the advantages an electronic call can offer are yours with the e-DEER. Place the e-DEER speaker set where you need the deer to go and set-up where you are concealed. The e-DEER remote works from as far as 60 yards (180 feet) away. Other electronic calls produce sounds that pale in comparison to the realism of the sounds of the e-DEER. When you want an electronic call that actually -InchSpeaks The Language-Inch, you want the e-DEER. The e-DEER includes wireless remote and tree strap. The e-DEER produces the sound of Estrus Bleats, grunts, snort-wheezes, and rattling horns.
List price: $54.99
Uncle Ted and Kid Rock hanging with their bows and enjoying the mystical flight of the arrow.
Super Detroit Rocker (son of MotorCity Madman?!) Kid Rock called awhile back and asked if I would teach him the fine art of bowhunting. He said Jerry Lee Lewis taught him to play piano so why not the old MotorCity WhackMaster StrapAssassin1 baptize him into the stimulating world of the mystical flight of the backstrap arrow.
By Ted Nugent
Why not, indeed.
As a couple of gungho Michiganiac rockers born and raised in the land of Fred Bear, the world’s #1 bowhunting epicenter, he made it clear that he refused to wait any longer to try his hand at what was clearly bringing his old Motown rock-n-roll buddy Uncle Ted so much fun and happiness and sacred protein.
He also mentioned that constantly hearing the Fred Bear song on Michigan radio had more than a little bit to do with the contagious passion he felt and wanted to be a part of.
So young Bob and his stunning girlfriend Audrey arrived at the Nugent hunting grounds in Jackson County, Michigan that fine October day, and we broke out the bows and arrows and unleashed the thrilling Michigan ritual.
Unfortunately, the bows they both brought with them, procured from reputable archery shops mind you, could not have been more wrong for them.
Bob’s bow was set at crazy 82# draw weight and little petite Audrey’s at 45#. Both struggled hopelessly to draw them back with anything that could remotely be described as grace or stealth or archery for that matter.
Here we go again.
Kid Rock, Shemane, Ted and Audrey
Good friend and country icon Toby Keith told me years ago how badly he wanted to bowhunt. He showed me how he struggled to draw back his 80-plus# bow.
The phenomenal media professional Dana Loesh joined us at our Texas home for some interviews and family time, gushing how she couldn’t wait to start bowhunting. Then she said the dreaded words we hear so often it makes us sick.
The great American hero Sarah Palin from Alaska visited us for some fun family time together and expressed how she can’t wait to start bowhunting, then uttered the exact same thing.
We sat at the campfire on my annual birthday hunting bash in Texas, and four different gals said the exact same thing again this past December.
One of our hunters invited his wife for a meal at our annual SpiritWild Ranch hunt and she also said the exact same thing.
Shemane and I had dinner with a lifetime professional bowhunting guide and outfitter in Florida recently and his pretty young wife said the exact same thing.
The gal at the airport counter the other day said how much she loved our Spirit of the Wild TV show, especially Shemane’s Queen of the Forest segments, then said the exact same thing.
And it goes on and on and on and on ad nauseum, ad infinitum and I think I’m gonna puke.
I think and desperately hope you are getting the picture here that Shemane and I are approached by more people wanting to talk bowhunting than probably anybody that ever lived, and the constant statement we hear continues to break our hearts.
“I would love to bowhunt but I can’t pull back the bow!”
Kid Rock, Ted and Bryan Schupbach with some bow madness.
Are you kidding me? What is going on here? We’re not talking a person here and a person there. We are talking people pretty much every day, everywhere we go saying the exact same thing. So this 1st person feedback cannot represent an anomaly, but dreadfully, an epidemic created by the very industry that claims it wants to promote the sport and continue this amazing bowhunting legacy.
The universal truism remains unchanged, that a bowhunter should shoot as much weight with which we can be most accurate and effective.
NOT as much weight as we can to meet the counterproductive, and I believe downright foolish, industry standards for hyper velocity.
I know I’ve written about this horror numerous times in the past, but since it still runs rampant and it appears nobody gives a damn, I am going to continue to beg for help in fixing it until we end this self-inflicted suicidal scourge, intentionally blockading the most desirable demographic from our beloved sport of bowhunting; new hunters, kids and women.
(Check out Kid Rock and Hank Jr. with their duet, “Redneck Paradise.”)
Kid Rock fell in love with his 50# bow. Audrey has become addicted to bowhunting once she became proficient with her 30# bow.
In every instance that we introduced these new archers to lightweight bows they could easily draw smoothly and gracefully, they became gungho, unstoppable bowhunters and archers.
I’m sure there are many bowhunting shops across America that do it right and equip their customers with the proper draw weight bow, all set up perfectly, and to all of you, thank you and SALUTE!
Joe Mussachio and his gang at Cinnamon Creek Archery in Ft. Worth, Texas, Allen and the guys at The Outhouse in Waco, Texas, Bryan Schupbach in Jackson, Michigan and George Britton at Britton’s Archery in Tarpon Springs, Florida, Bruce and Scott at Dakota Archery in Yankton, SD, are just a few that I know of that will set up a newcomer perfectly. But God knows we need every archery shop in America to dedicate themselves to do it right, and I beg of thee with all my heart and soul, quit with the velocity crap.
Tragically, it remains painfully obvious that way too many archery shops are selling much too heavy bows to way too many people that virtually guarantees these new shooters will give up and not bowhunt.
I am hoping that many of my fellow gungho bowhunters will join me in this fight to recruit the many new archers who passionately want to bowhunt by getting our friends at archery shops to be sure to have Genesis bows and lightweight recurve bows on hand for the introduction to archery for those less than super strong.
The phenomenal National Archery In Schools Program is just what the Dr. ordered, but if these kids can’t find a shooter-friendly bow out there in the real world where they live, this brainchild of Matt McPhearson will be for naught.
Help me out here my BloodBrothers. We can do this. We must do this.
Ted Nugent is an award-winning musician and writer, with numerous best-seller books including “Ted, White and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto,” “God, Guns and Rock ‘n Roll,” and “Kill It and Grill It: A Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish” with his wife, Shemane, among other books. Be sure to check out his website here for more news on his latest music, thoughts and upcoming shows in 2015, and also at World News Daily, Newsmax and Daily Caller for more insights.
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