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Creative Stand Access Routes Produce Big Results

  • February 12, 2022
  • Bill Winke
  • Hunt Blog
  • 3 Comments
  • 12 likes
By sleeping out along a river, this hunter did what had to be done to keep the deer from knowing he was hunting them.View post →

Four Lessons: Hunting Bedding Areas

  • January 19, 2022
  • Bill Winke
  • Hunt Blog
  • 3 Comments
  • 10 likes
Because my strategy was so unique this past season, I learned more in 2021 than during most any year I can remember.View post →

My 2021 Buck – Part Three – Tagging the Buck

  • December 13, 2021
  • Bill Winke
  • Hunt Blog
  • 76 Comments
  • 29 likes
Finally, on November 12, the pieces came together and I was able to tag the buck. Interestingly, I shot him from the same stand where I had spooked him two weeks earlier.View post →

My 2021 Buck – Part Two – The Action Starts

  • December 12, 2021
  • Bill Winke
  • Hunt Blog
  • 8 Comments
  • 13 likes
After sighting the buck on only my second day, I started hunting him as carefully as possible.  That involved sleeping on the ground near my stands to keep from spooking deer coming and going.View post →

My 2021 Buck – Part One – Solving the Big Riddle

  • December 10, 2021
  • Bill Winke
  • Hunt Blog
  • 11 Comments
  • 17 likes
Despite a lack of trail cam photos going into the season, I was able to tag my top target buck. Here's how it all came together.View post →

Three Weeks in British Columbia – Part One

  • November 30, 2021
  • Bill Winke
  • Hunt Blog
  • 2 Comments
  • 7 likes
My friend Ron Nemetchek runs a sheep camp deep in the heart of British Columbia's wilderness. I spent three weeks there in September.  This is my diary of the epic adventure.View post →

Three Weeks in British Columbia – Part Two – Bull Trout Fishing

  • November 29, 2021
  • Bill Winke
  • Hunt Blog
  • 6 Comments
  • 5 likes
This is the kind of place where you could say every trip to the region is the adventure of a lifetime - no matter how many times you go!View post →

How to Hunt Ridges

  • February 15, 2021
  • Bill Winke
  • Hunt Blog
  • 9 Comments
  • 14 likes
How to Hunt Ridges
The buck I shot this past season offers a good example of the challenges and opportunities of hunting ridges in bluff country. Mentally it's easy; physically it's hard.View post →

My 2020 Buck

  • February 13, 2021
  • Bill Winke
  • Hunt Blog
  • 31 Comments
  • 21 likes
2020 Winke Buck
The buck I shot on October 29, 2020 was a real dandy. It was rewarding to shoot him in one of the areas I grew up hunting many years ago.View post →

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