Pro Bow Vise

By Axis Pro

For the last several years, for one reason or another, I’ve began doing more of the maintenance on my bow myself. As such, I have either borrowed the tools/equipment needed to do it myself or I’ve purchased the equipment as I could afford it.

I’ve borrowed couple different bow vises, which allowed me to get the work done, but I wasn’t impressed with the vises themselves. These would only allow the bow to be positioned on one or, if it was a good vise, maybe two planes.

This is part 1 of a 3 part article. The 2^nd and 3^rd part of this article will be posted over the next several weeks.

Learning and Scouting New Properties

Part 1 of 3

Newly acquired properties that give new and additional hunting opportunities can bring some excitement to a hunter. Time in a new woodlot that a hunter is not familiar with will require a lot of time and hard work to prepare for the upcoming hunting seasons. These properties can come as additions to your local refuge/management area or property leased through a hunting club that the hunter has become a member of and hunting for the first time.

A hunter who has become a member of a hunting club, has an advantage, in that a lot of the work has been done for him. In most cases, the club will have a good map (satellite or topo) of the property indicating the roads, property lines, atv trails, stand locations, food plot locations, and wooded verses cutover plantations. If the information on the map is not enough, then the membership and club officers are there to point the new member in the right direction and provide assistance as needed. The hunter can then set off to scout the area for his/her prime stand location.

If the hunter is planning to hunt public land, whether it be a National Wildlife Refuge or a state owned Wildlife Management Area, he is at a disadvantage as he must learn much of the information listed above himself. Chances are that the agencies will provide map for these properties, but the information found on those maps is minimal at best. As such, this hunter has a lot of work to do in order to find that prime stand location.

U-Slide Bow Holder by JBI Partners with Team SBH

and Sponsors the SBH Monthly Giveaways

Southern Bowhunting is happy to announce a new partnership with the folks at JBI, the makers of the U-Slide Bow Holder. U-Slide will provide their products for some of the Southern Bowhunting Monthly Giveaways and the Team SBH Prostaff has agreed to become members of the U-Slide Field Staff.

Madison Deer Calls Custom Made Grunts

Gear Review

In late August or early September of 2009, I was approached about the Southern Bowhunting staff and asked to do some field testing with a deer grunt for a new and small deer call company. As I was somewhat dissatisfied with the grunts I used during the 2008-09 deer season, I was anxious to give these grunts a try. A short time later, I recieved two grunts in the mail. Upon opening the box and looking at these calls, still in their package, I was immediately impressed.