April Coker, Author

Tag: hunting

  • Thrifty Hunter Thursday: Practice, practice, practice. . .

    )   My husband keeps telling me that I need to practice if I am ever going to get a deer with my bow.  I have been resisting because of the incessant Texas heat, or because I’m not dressed, or because it’s the wrong time of day, or because I’m not in the mood, etc.,…

  • BACK TO THRIFTY HUNTER THURSDAY!

    We arrived home last night weary but refreshed from our short little vacation, but I was way too tired from all that driving to even think about looking at a computer screen.  We put in about eight hours driving from Marble Falls through Burnet, Llano, San Saba, Goldthwaite, then up toward Hillsboro, Ennis, to Canton,…

  • THRIFTY HUNTER THURSDAY: On Friday! Deer, deer everywhere!

    Ladies and gentlement, it’s time for the Weekly Redneck Shopper Report.  Today’s post is for the thrifty hunter, but there is no need to be thrifty in our neck of the woods where this evening on the way home from the local Walmart, we saw 18 deer!  18 whitetail within 12 miles, along a busy…

  • Thrifty Hunter Thursday: Zebra Arrows!

    Nothing speaks to a reluctant female archer like a pink camouflage compound bow.  I began shooting a bow a couple of years ago but wasn’t really serious about it until my husband bought me my Mathews Mission Craze bow.  (See earlier post for a photo of me with my new bow.)  But what really sealed…

  • Thrifty Hunter Thursday: Practice Time!

    I was thrilled last summer when my husband bought me a new Mathews Mission Craze pink camouflage bow.  I had been practicing with an ancient PSE.  The Craze was a whole new experience.  This fall will be my second archery season with my beautiful bow, and I intend to be much stronger and more accurate…