ThierOutdoors » bow http://thieroutdoors.com Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:38:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Broken Arrow, Broken Dream: The Vanishing Bear http://thieroutdoors.com/broken-arrow-broken-dream-the-vanishing-bear/ http://thieroutdoors.com/broken-arrow-broken-dream-the-vanishing-bear/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:16:15 +0000 Patrick Thier http://thieroutdoors.com/?p=338 I had a feeling from the beginning of July, 2012, that the upcoming hunting season was going to be special. By the end of the bear opener, which only resulted in the discovery of a virtually fruitless huckleberry crop, I was convinced this intuition had to be referring to ...READ MORE: http://ThierOutdoors.com

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]]> http://thieroutdoors.com/broken-arrow-broken-dream-the-vanishing-bear/feed/ 0 5 MORE Big Challenges with Bowhunting, and how to overcome them. http://thieroutdoors.com/5-more-big-challenges-with-bowhunting-and-how-to-overcome-them/ http://thieroutdoors.com/5-more-big-challenges-with-bowhunting-and-how-to-overcome-them/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:08:29 +0000 Patrick Thier http://thieroutdoors.com/?p=309 6. Scouting. When you only have to get to within 200 or 300 yards of an animal, your scouting can be substantially more lackadaisical. When you need to be within 20 or 30 yards, your scouting has to be as pinpointed as the shot itself...READ MORE: http://ThierOutdoors.com

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]]> http://thieroutdoors.com/5-more-big-challenges-with-bowhunting-and-how-to-overcome-them/feed/ 0 5 Big Challenges of Bowhunting…and how to overcome them. http://thieroutdoors.com/5-big-challenges-of-bowhunting-and-how-to-win-them/ http://thieroutdoors.com/5-big-challenges-of-bowhunting-and-how-to-win-them/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:41:41 +0000 Patrick Thier http://thieroutdoors.com/?p=304 When I entered the world of bowhunting as a 40 year-old, I thought it was going to be easier than it was. I admit, part of my challenge is where I hunt, how I hunt, and what I hunt. Although I have a decent resume of animals I have taken with a bow, READ MORE: http://ThierOutdoors.com

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]]> http://thieroutdoors.com/5-big-challenges-of-bowhunting-and-how-to-win-them/feed/ 0 Hunting Bear: The Downside of DIY http://thieroutdoors.com/hunting-bear-the-downside-of-diy/ http://thieroutdoors.com/hunting-bear-the-downside-of-diy/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:44:38 +0000 Patrick Thier http://thieroutdoors.com/?p=294 Every fall, one cannot help but find stories of elk camps, deer camps and duck camps in the shiny pages of hunting magazines all over the country. And for good reason. Sharing the excitement is part of the excitement itself. How does that old adage go? Sorrow shared is half the sorrow; joy shared is twice the joy. Never is that sentiment more in-your-face than in hunting camps everywhere. Our first organized bear camp, in the mountains of ...READ MORE http://ThierOutdoors.com

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]]> http://thieroutdoors.com/hunting-bear-the-downside-of-diy/feed/ 0 The Redemption Bull: Elk Hunting in the National Forest http://thieroutdoors.com/the-redemption-bull-elk-hunting-in-the-national-forest/ http://thieroutdoors.com/the-redemption-bull-elk-hunting-in-the-national-forest/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:43:39 +0000 Patrick Thier http://thieroutdoors.com/?p=283 Opening day of archery elk in western Washington, September 8, 2008, found me sneaking through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in search of the wily wapiti. To be quite honest, it didn’t matter very much to me if my broadhead found its mark on the side of a world-class bull, or a small cow. Sure, most hunters have a yearning for a trophy in some capacity, but for me it was... READ MORE http://ThierOutdoors.com.

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