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In the first few years of my bowhunting career, which began in 2004, I had already worked out what kind of sight I could use to compensate for that unusual, almost defiant, deeply masochistic peculiarity of being "right-handed with the bow, left-eye dominant" that I’ve simply had to live with, since switching over to a…

Two locations, two occupations. In the upper photo, ( an old bowhunter’s feeder ) the pig found the corn hidden in a bucket-sized buried pit. That can keep it busy for hours. In the other photo, the soaked, clayey forest soil on the creek bank makes for a perfect wallow, drawing in the pig population.

A Zeiss Secacam 7 is now set up on this feeder, and I’m getting to know, test, and fine-tune its functions. I’d been basically satisfied with the earlier Spypoint "flagship" models, but I wanted to see for myself what Zeiss could do. My idea was to get videos synced to the feeder automat’s timer, but…

Already on my very first walk through the area, it hit me at once that this place is a real gem! Around the wallow, in the mud, fresh tracks everywhere, small and large, by the hundreds, beds, hair, and a very heavy, fresh game scent. And these photos don’t just confirm my initial hunch, they…

1. Ecological Camouflage and Anthropogenic Structural Adaptation The design of the hunting stand is based on the principle of the “dynamic concealed interface,” which achieves optical, acoustic and olfactory integration with the local vegetation (e.g. as can be seen in the images included as illustrations: a hawthorn bush, Crataegus monogyna, growing beside an alder tree…

The intense snowfall that arrived overnight cast a dramatic backdrop over the landscape: the winter forest now rests beneath a blanket of at least twenty centimeters of virgin snow. It’s a rare and striking sight, one that even we humans have only rarely experienced during the mild winters of recent years. But just imagine what…