INSIDE ARCHERY

Sep 5, 2024 | insidearchery.com | Patrick Meitin

When discussing bowhunting whitetails, the conversation often centers around the rut—the time when monster bucks come out of hiding, travel more extensively, and make more frequent daylight appearances. The belief is that the rut is when the largest, most elusive bucks are at their most vulnerable. This idea holds true in areas with minimal hunting pressure, optimal buck-to-doe ratios, and a healthy deer population where mature bucks are more common. However, the rut has its drawbacks.

Aug 29, 2024 | insidearchery.com | Patrick Meitin

Get Hunt Ready By Putting The Finishing Touches On Your Shooting Skills – By Patrick Meitin – With archery-only seasons fast approaching you’ve no doubt practiced smart and practiced hard. Your shooting form is whetted to a fine edge, your bow super tuned and arrows flying true. Now is the time to put the finishing touches on your shooting approach to boost hunting success this season. It’s time to “Get Hunt Ready”.

Jul 26, 2024 | insidearchery.com | Patrick Meitin

Odin’s Innovations Pear Liquid Scent – By Patrick Meitin – It’s no secret that the game we covet and passionately pursue live by their noses. The great efforts bowhunters invest in to conceal negative human odors is testament enough. But in hunting there are also positive scents that do just the opposite of repelling game, helping bring them closer or into the open for higher-odds shot opportunities. This is what Odin’s Innovations is all about—creating scents to improve our bowhunting efforts.

Jun 20, 2024 | insidearchery.com | Patrick Meitin

APA Archery 2024 Black Mamba Pro Series – From December 2023 Inside Archery, By Patrick Meitin – APA Archery bows stand out through several trademark features designed to create more efficient and independent archers. Shooting several APA models to date has also revealed some of the fastest arrow velocities in the industry. The company achieves this with the only remaining two-cam system made, an infinitely adjustable design that solves any of the inherent difficulties that approach once posed.

May 31, 2024 | insidearchery.com | Patrick Meitin

By Patrick Meitin There was a time, while attending university in Texas, when pretty much every summer weekend was dedicated to bowhunting wild boars. “Heat-stroke hog hunts” we called them, because temperatures generally topped out at 100 degrees F and humidity 80-90 percent down in the creek bottoms where hogs hung out—not to mention all the lovely ticks and chiggers to be endured. So why did we do it? Because it was uncommonly productive.