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Product Hunting Reviews | Shooting Hearing Protection

Preserving your hearing is obviously very important for everyday life, but it’s often overlooked by hunters and shooters. Why? Oftentimes a hunter’s pride gets in the way of good judgment. You either don’t want to look stupid wearing shooting ear muffs at the shooting range, or you don’t want to potentially impede your hearing when hunting. This choice consequently sacrifices …

What is the Best Knife for Western and DIY Hunting?

Outdoor Edge RazorBlaze and Flip n’ Blaze Knife Review A knife is as useful as it is sharp, a dull blade is utterly useless. Nowhere have I believed this statement to be truer than in the rugged western country. Hundreds of miles from home, miles from transportation, and a great span of rough terrain and elevation creates a very surreal …

Product Hunting Reviews | Lighted Nock Review

For this product review, I review Nock Out® lighted nocks. If you’ve bow hunted a fair amount, you’ve been in a situation where an animal steps out right before dark. If not, it will eventually. Most animals are just more active right at dawn and dusk. Unfortunately, these low-light scenarios can make it really hard to see where your arrow …

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Pure Hunting Product Reviews | Browning X-Bolt Review

In this Browning X-Bolt review video, I’m excited to show you the X-Bolt rifle series. First, it is a phenomenal hunting rifle to bring along for several different trips across the country and can be used on many different species depending on what caliber it’s chambered in. You can find one of these rifles in current production that’s chambered for …

Hunting Workouts | Getting in Shape for Western Hunting

Hunting is hard…but western hunting is just plain difficult! It strains your gear, your emotions and your body all at the same time.  Hunting, regardless of the technologies we bring to the field will always remain a primal grudge match between predator and prey.  The only thing we can improve upon as hunters is our fitness level.  The frustration we …

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Mastering a “Do It Yourself” Pronghorn Hunting Trip

The American pronghorn or antelope as they are typically referred to by hunters are plentiful across the plains of the West stretching from northern Mexico all the way up through the plains of Canada. Their unique orange and white hides mesh well into the sun-bleached grasses and sage flats they call home.  Tags for pronghorn hunting are plentiful and those …

Tips and Tactics | Bow Hunting Elk in September 

Hunting elk in September is considered by many to be the holy grail of DIY bow hunting. Like hunting turkeys on steroids, the grandeur of the mountains mixed with animals weighing over 800 lbs. makes for an adventure you cannot have by just stepping out the back door. With the increase in social media exposure, elk hunting has become more …

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Tips and Tactics for Bow Hunting Turkeys

Turkey season has arrived in many states and is just around the corner for others. This might be the year you have considered doing things a bit different in the way you approach hunting turkeys. For many, this is swapping out the old Browning 12 gauge for a stick and string. Bow hunting turkeys is often restricted to ground blind …

Pure Hunting Product Reviews | Spot Hogg Fast Eddie XL

  Spot Hogg Fast Eddie XL Review On this product review, I take you through a quick run-down of the new Spot Hogg Fast Eddie XL. This bow sight is the latest addition to the Hogg Mobb Series. I’m ecstatic to get this bow sight setup on my new Hoyt Carbon Defiant. Perhaps the most attractive aspect of Spot Hogg …

Hunting Elk In The Early Rifle Season

Depending on the state and the season dates, early season rifle hunting for elk can give hunters the chance to experience the later part of the rut and capitalize on opportunities by using some extra firepower.  Much like archery season across the West, temperatures during the day may be mild and the animals are still in herds dominated by one or …