S1-E18: How LEVI MORGAN Archery Practices Each Phase of the Year

What's the Future of Archery Airguns?

Is it a bow? Is it a gun? In 2016, Benjamin Airguns said, “Why not both?” The company’s Pioneer Airbow made a splash at the Archery Trade Association (ATA) Show that year, and MeatEater’s Spencer Neuharth recalls getting to test drive the first-of-its kind hunting implement. “I shot one at ATA the first year they came out. The person before me shot two arrows and got a Robin Hood. Then, I shot two arrows and got a Robin Hood. They're crazy...

2018: The Year of Record Breaking Bucks

On Jan. 5, a small group of men gathered around an exceptional whitetail rack in Illinois. With measuring tape in hand, they spent the next three hours tallying up the inches of antler. Luke Brewster, the hunter responsible for arrowing the deer, sat impatiently, waiting for the results. It had been two months since he tagged the whitetail, but these final moments were weighing heavily on his mind. “It was pretty nerve wracking,” Brewster said in...

2021: MeatEater's Year of the Whitetail

Somewhere between 8 and 10 million folks across the United States hunt whitetail deer. That’s well over three quarters of the nation’s entire hunting population. The whitetail is our nation’s most ubiquitous big game animal, the most highly managed, and arguably the most coveted. What does this mean? It means that whitetails, whitetail hunting, and whitetail hunters are a big deal. Far more whitetail nuts like myself are preparing year-round for...