Archery and Bow Hunting
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3/3/2014 2:55:00 PMWhale-Tales prostaffJenna Heil The 2014 indoor season is wrapping up for me. With hundreds of hours of practice getting ready for the NFAA Wisconsin State Shoot, and all of the hours paid off. This year I had moved up an age group from cub to youth and had to move up to 20 yards. The week before I had shot my personal best, 292...
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12/11/2013 8:45:00 PMSparta, Wisconsin – Zebra®, the industry leader in bowstring technology, raises the bar for premium bowstrings with the announcement of the all new Trophy™ Bowstring & Cable. Over 20 years of experience in building and testing strings for the world’s top bow manufacturers & champion, professional archers has led t...
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12/11/2013 8:15:00 PMSparta, Wisconsin – The new ArrowWeb® CT™ is Mathews®’ lightest, most compact quiver to date. The CT™, which stands for “compact,” features a reduced profile that improves bow balance while shaving excess weight. At a glance, the first thing you’ll likely notice is the new GridLock™...
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11/21/2013 9:55:00 AMA couple years ago I started archery. I never thought I would turn out to be a hunter. Well guess what time has come? It all started one day when my dad said “You should just try to go out to the woods.” I really didn’t want to do it but I said ok because I wanted to try. But when we walked in our woods there was two doe ...
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9/11/2013 1:20:00 PMBy: Jenna Heil Whale-Tails Archery Prostaff As summer is winding down and fall is approaching, hunting season is right around the corner. Many archers are gearing up and starting to practice more, for the start of the 2013 hunting season. This weekend at Whale-Tales there was a pre-season big buck party. They had a trail cam picture contest, to ...
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6/3/2013 2:10:00 PMBy: Jenna Heil Whale-Tales Prostaff Now that it’s summer and warm out, you don’t have to go to your local archery shop or club all the time to shoot. You can shoot outside and still have lots of fun . With everybody’s busy schedules you sometimes cannot cram in time to shoot. Shooting outside is a fun and easy thing to do! I sh...
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7/10/2012 3:40:00 PMBy Zack Seitz, Nic Gerhartz and Matt Nelson The Schwackers…Matt Nelson, Zack Seitz and Nic Gerhartz. Bowfishing (or, as we call it, schwacking) has been one of my favorite pastimes for several years. I started about 3 years ago when my friends Nic Gerhartz and Matt Nelson introduced me to it. After shooting my first few carp, I was hooke...
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6/8/2012 12:35:00 PMBy Dick Ellis The day was playing out like any other challenge that hunters surely face with enough time in the field. Not much was moving; it had been almost two hours since Rob Schaffhauser, Scott Heitman or I had drawn back our bow in the 17th West Town Archery Green Bay Carp Shoot and only one fish lay in the red canister purposely selec...
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5/29/2012 1:55:00 PMPig Roast, Entertainment, Open 3-D Shoot, Refreshments, Door Prizes, Raffle, Kids’ Games & More! Contact Rick at 414-351-0951 for more information.
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1/17/2012 8:55:00 PMby Dick Ellis Just what are the odds? That is the mental question that should drive every hunter’s decision before he elects to squeeze a trigger or release an arrow on a deer or turkey in the fields of Wisconsin. What are the odds of a hit to the vitals and a quick kill? If the hunter is confident that he is proficient at the distance cont...
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1/17/2012 8:35:00 PMby Dick Ellis During the rut or whitetail mating season that moves into high gear from late October though mid-November, bow hunting stories abound across Wisconsin. Now is the time for excruciating, close encounters with monster bucks and success stories of tagging once-in-a-lifetime deer. 2009 has its share of stories, north and sout...