‘Hunting small game with the bow can turn out to be a frustrating instead of an exciting experience. Providing a chance to sharpen your powers of observation and to test your marksmanship with the bow, small game hunting quickly loses its appeal when a two hour tramp fails to produce a single piece of game. Many of us can remember when the same or a similar area of land contained a plentiful supply of small game. Many theories have been advanced, for the diminishing numbers of small game encountered in the hunting field; drought, increased hunting pressure, maturity of the second growth forests in the Eastern United States, shorter working hours in industry, improved highways and rapid means of transportation have all had to bear at least a portion of the blame. Changes in agricultural practices including: the intro duction of the electric fence with its single strand of barbed wire, the high speed mowing machine, and intensive cultivation of every foot of land have made serious inroads on the wildlife population.

In the Prairie States vast acreages of grass lands were turned under with the plow; and marshes and swamps were drained. The gradual lowering of the water table and erosion of the soil has forced abandonment of these farms by their owners. The good top soil has either been blown or washed away and there no longer remains sufficient food and cover to support wildlife once abundant in the area. Archery Equipment - Read More.