Week 17 of our Shot Challenge and it's getting closer to deer seasons! 🦌 🏹 🌲🪾 This is a pressure test drill to get that heart rate up a bit and make the shot count! 🏹 🥇 Be sure to join in our Scouting Contest! 🙌 Video for the contest is pinned! 🦌

Scouting contest! 🐾🐾🦌🦌🏹 For the next 4 weeks we are having a find that deer rub contest! 🏹 This could be whitetails muleys or even elk and moose! 🫎 🦌 Ensure you follow the posting rules and keep tally of your scores! 🎯 Lest go!! 🏃 3 Prizes to win! 1- 🤫 Secret!! To be announced! 2- Signed copy of my first book! 3- Tradbowhunter Decal!

My name is Jenn Richardson, my husband, Grant Richardson and I created this group, TradBowhunter - Ethical Predator. We are from Ontario, Canada, I have had a love for the outdoors since I was little. My grandfather being a conservation officer in the United States and my other grandfather a trapper here in Ontario. I have been in Law Enforcement for over 26yrs, love the outdoors, marketing and business so decided to put all three together! This is a passion piece for Grant and I...My hubby being the subject matter expert with Traditional Bowhunting as well as an author, podcast host and 3rd generation traditional bowhunter. We wanted to bring like minded people together and create a place to share their experiences with traditional bowhunting. ----------------- Hey folks! Grant Richardson here - about myself... I was raised in a hunting family. I have Bowhunted with traditional gear all my life and started shooting bows when I was 3. I've been able to hunt all over North America and along the way this past 40 plus years hunting with trad gear I have learned that success is born not from tech or the latest camo but from long cold days in the woods and often- failure. Bows and arrows were always a part of my life and I was lucky to have an upbringing that emphasized time in the woods. I was able to see both the rise of Bowhunting in Ontario and the laws and regulations based on ethics & conservation formed- But - also to see them fall apart to an Industry that focused on the latest and newest tech or gadgets to bring wild game home and not the skillsets I was raised to respect and follow. The very fabric of those primitive weapon/Bowhunting seasons was based on the fact that it was harder to take game with a bow and arrow- simply that it was difficult- but there is the truth that many forgot or perhaps never learned. The Ethical Predator was created from those lessons learned all my life. I helped create this community seeing a need to bring folks from all over the world into a community that supported the old ways, from scouting, tracking & the heritage of Bowhunting I grew up with.

Spent part of the afternoon getting feet on the ground in an area I hadn't stepped in for over 2 years. Setup a fake licking branch by hanging a cut wild grape vine with a rope and made a scrape under it. Added a camera and we'll see what lurks in these woods this year. I never caught up with his old giant pictured here in December 2023 believed to be 8.5 years old since having photos of him from 2019 and possibly earlier. I doubt he's still around but you never know. Ever snap of a stick or glimpe of movement for years I thought it was him coming in. Always outsmarted by him.

I shoot right handed my right eye is open following the center of the arrow shaft to the target the left eye is squinted to the point where it is almost closed but still allows some visual through it. I see a lot of people and most of my friends shoot with both eyes open. I have tried it and I get double vision seeing two targets. Years ago when shooting a compound bow I tried it. I was using sight pins and a peep in the string. I could shoot very well this way but the lighting had to be good. If the lighting would dim I was shooting twelve inches to the left. But to get back on target all I had to do was squint my left eye and I was back on. But I have read that for the subconscious to help with your aiming you have to shoot with both eyes open. I would appreciate any thoughts on this.