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The Confluence: Identifying Key Funnels for Whitetails

The primary needs for a whitetail: food, water, shelter, and communication - often come together in places that are commonly referred to as funnels. Funnels are also known as transition areas, travel corridors, bottlenecks, and pinch points. By using maps and applying real-world experience through scouting, you can pinpoint these funnels by identifying the following terrain.

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Should You Take a Frontal Shot on an Elk?

Corey Jacobsen with Elk 101 walks us through the pros and cons of the frontal shot.

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7 Tips For Arrowing More Bull Elk

"Through a decade’s worth of lessons, I’ve found the following tactics have special merit in the elk woods and, when I have remembered to implement them, increased my chances at arrowing a bull." - Steven Drake

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The Hard Way

It was on a trail in Colorado, years ago, that he encountered the older gentleman with an elk on his back and a simple traditional bow in his hand. Nick had marvelled at the bow in disbelief, not certain how something so simple could kill an animal as big as an elk.

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Planet Florida

If you are up for the effort, you can chase a whitetail into some of the roughest and most rugged and unforgiving country imaginable — places where humans have seldom tread and with good reason. The dense and swampy wilderness of South Florida is just such a place.

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Layering 101 with SITKA Gear Founder, Jonathan Hart

As humans, we are at a genetic and physiological disadvantage to survive in wild places. Yet we’re instinctively drawn to test our mettle against species who have adapted for millennia to thrive in these challenging environments. At SITKA, we build systems to level the playing field with wild animals in their domain; giving hunters the ability to adapt to the rapidly-changing conditions encountered in the wild.

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Knocking on Doors

Gaining access to private land can be an intimidating hurdle for most hunters, but it doesn’t have to be. In fact, knowing how to ask permission can be a hunter’s secret weapon, especially when it comes to accessing public land drainages only reachable via private land or, even, opening up a door to private land access for years to come.

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Carne Asada Antelope Street Tacos

To Lyle Hebel, hunting is about filling the freezer, and his favorite big game species to eat is antelope. However, he cautions, it’s essential to keep the meat clean when breaking it down in the field and to “put it on ice immediately.”

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The Sage of Sagebrush

Cruising along the backroads of Montana, Lyle Hebel spots the outline of antelope, grazing deep within the sagebrush landscape. He’s about a mile away, but knows that getting close is a game of cat and mouse.

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Tajikistan

Hunting Marco Polo sheep in Tajikistan has a reputation — not just for its high-altitude, unforgiving terrain and daunting travel in an unknown world — but also for corrupt outfitters, shady hunting practices and poachers.

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Mental Toughness Challenge: How To Avoid the “Quit Moment”

Dustin Diefenderfer, founder of MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab, shares a straightforward Mental Toughness Challenge to boost your ability to endure anything the backcountry will throw at you this fall.

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Top 5 Questions We Get On Each Layer In Your System

The Confluence: Identifying Key Funnels for Whitetails

Should You Take a Frontal Shot on an Elk?

Top 5 Questions We Get On Each Layer In Your System

7 Tips For Arrowing More Bull Elk

The Hard Way

Planet Florida

Layering 101 with SITKA Gear Founder, Jonathan Hart

Knocking on Doors

Carne Asada Antelope Street Tacos

The Sage of Sagebrush

Tajikistan

Mental Toughness Challenge: How To Avoid the “Quit Moment”

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