When I was 14, I made a red oak board bow in my parent’s garage. The bow cost about $10 to make, and it had jarring handshock. Even though that cheap bow wasn’t a great shooter, it got me in the door ...

Watch as I experiment with making takedown recurve bow limbs. Mild steel didn’t work, but repurposing old skis created a ...

When the box arrived, I opened it immediately. Enclosed was a soft, vintage-style carrying case with leather handles. Even though I knew what I would find when I unzipped the case, it didn’t lessen ...

CENTER, N.D. — For the past 25 years, Dale and Rita McKnight have been making custom furniture and cabinets out of their shop in rural Oliver County. Growing up in the Turtle Mountain area, Dale ...

I still remember the first compound bow I ever saw. My dad and I belonged to an archery club in Wisconsin in the early 1970s, and everyone there shot recurves. But my dad’s cousin Howard was visiting ...

I’ve always been a bow hunter wanna-be. My first bow “kill” was a very unlucky quail that Eddie Wolfe and I cornered next to our garage when I was in the fourth grade. We shot it with an arrow that ...

PERU — As I look back on the spring of 1995, I can't help but remember how excited and thrilled I was to be returning to northeast Quebec to hunt for black bear. Two of my good friends, Scott and Matt ...