ThierOutdoors » forest http://thieroutdoors.com Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:38:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 Black Bears: Please stop charging me! http://thieroutdoors.com/black-bears-please-stop-charging-me/ http://thieroutdoors.com/black-bears-please-stop-charging-me/#comments Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:12:27 +0000 Patrick Thier http://thieroutdoors.com/?p=391 Close encounter with black bear #3… in less than a year! I don’t make this stuff up. Honestly. Yes, it happened again. When I was bear hunting on August 16, 2013 near Mt. Adams in Washington state, I had yet another very close, hair-raising and heart-pounding encounter with a black bear... READ MORE:

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]]> http://thieroutdoors.com/why-i-hunt/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 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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