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Eddie Claypool provides tips on bowhunting, with an emphasis on whitetails. Claypool has harvested 63 Pope ...

Eddie Claypool provides tips on bowhunting, with an emphasis on whitetails. Claypool has harvested 63 Pope & Young-class recordbook animals including 35 whitetails (Coues included), 16 elk and eight mule deer. All the animals were taken on do-it-yourself hunts.

Tips For Taking Turkeys All Day Long

Here are some strategies to nail a gobbler in the morning, midday or in the evening!

Hunting All Day — Let’s Do Lunch

Done properly, all-day hunting can lift your success rate on mature bucks by a healthy measure. Over the years, 25- to 30 percent of the mature bucks I’ve harvested were taken during midday times. Is there anything that you can buy, or anything else you can do, that will up your odds of success much better than this?

Tips For Bowhunting Turkeys

To be consistently successful bowhunting gobblers — especially on short hunts — pre-scout the location!

Sleeping With The Enemy

For better than a quarter of a century, I’ve been bowhunting elk and mule deer on the public lands of our Western states. All my outings are of the do-it-yourself variety, and because of this, I’ve gleaned a vast storehouse of memories and savvy. Please allow me to tell you about a particular hunting strategy that has proven invaluable to me over the years.

Pre-Hunt Preparation — 3-D Shooting

Did you put in a lot of time shooting your bow in your backyard, but still miss when it came to the moment of truth in the woods? There is a way to be more prepared next season — practice shooting on an unmarked distance course with three-dimensional targets.

A Scent Elimination Program

Total scent elimination is a never-ending process for the meticulous whitetail bowhunter. Over the years, I’ve managed to adopt an approach that has done wonders for my ability to keep from being scented by deer.

Stay Sharp In The Offseason

A few springs ago, I introduced my bride to archery. With the progression of time and experience she began to show a marked interest in participating in the bowhunting side of archery. Shockingly, by early summer she also told me that she’d like to go with me on my yearly trek to the high country in search of elk.