At the age of ten, my father took me to a father-son-banquet hosted by none other than Fred Bear. I watched the video of this hunting giant as he shot targets out of the air as they were tossed skyward. I then sat motionless, as I watched him shoot a huge brown bear from behind a rock in Wide Bay, Alaska with a Bear Kodiak. From that moment, I became hooked on hunting with a bow.

The sound of pounding rain and howling wind awakened me at 2:00 AM in the small fishing town of Deep Creek, Alaska. Our tent was pitched in an open gravel beach area with no trees or brush as a windbreak, or cover from rain. Previous camping experience in the wild Alaskan wilderness had left me worried and anxious about the worsening weather conditions.

It was the peak of the rut in southwestern Ohio. The temperatures had been unseasonably warm, and the doe movement had been at a minimum to say the least.

I remember thinking, “You have got to be kidding me,” when my string became tangled on some briars at the base of my tree...

Do you remember how it felt as a child to see your presents under the Christmas tree and know that you had to wait until Christmas to open them? It drove me nuts then, and it still does today. The present waiting for me at my home was my new....

I was crouched down in the soggy, spongy tundra of the Illiamna mountain range stalking a herd of caribou. It was late August, the ground was completely saturated and it had been raining for days.

I left the house about 5:40 AM, giving me plenty of time to reach my portable tree climber I’d left hooked around the tree from the night before. I wanted my predawn setup to be as quiet and scentless as possible...

As the African sun rose above the horizon, so did my eyes as they scanned the tree I was in, some 25 feet high for a potential problem. No, not a rotting trunk or weak branches...

Brent puts PolarMAXXGO to the test!

In God's Country Director Brent Henderson performs a field test of Grim Reaper's mechanical broadhead while hunting in Africa.