Recent content by The Hunt Doctors

Dark Continent Preparations Part 1 With a trip to Zimbabwe for dangerous game fast approaching us we were reflecting on the amount of preparation it takes to get ready. We thought we would share with you our experience and thinking on the matter. Between us, this is going to be our eighth...

Truth Behind Human Scent & Human Odor Here we go delving into a richly and hotly debated topic that has been written about more times then the proverbial “Stand Placement for Whitetails”. Our intention is not to offend any company, manufacturer or pro-hunter that has a stake in this field but...

Hunting At High Altitude After Paul had arranged for my first wilderness hunt, he informed me that when (not if, but when) I shot a Caribou, I had better be prepared to hike it out on my back. “Let’s get started training” he said with a grin. We worked out a schedule of weights and stairs...

Tree Stand Safety Everybody reading this has personally known or knows of someone that has fallen from a tree stand. It is a real danger that we need not forget. Putting up a stand on a nice warm, dry, well lit day in late summer here in the South; when we are in shorts and a tee shirt makes...

Vaccinations Last time, we concluded with the thought that we would look at the syndrome of hypothermia but since the African summer hunting season is upon us, we decided to look at vaccinations and their importance instead. Africa is well, Africa and my first trip was everything I could...

Preventative Care If life teaches anything, it is that you really never know what to expect. I was buried in basically a coffin three feet under the snow with the temperature 55 degrees Fahrenheit below zero outside. Accompanying me in my grave like accommodations were two Inuit guides and...

Recoil & Your Retina Although, we have never had a retinal detachment, we have seen many of them and they can be annoying to an absolute tragedy. The treatments very but are usually inconvenient to say the least and usually requires one to lay flat face down for 18 hours a day for at least...

Nutrition & Hunting While many hunters start young, I did not. Though I grew up in a southern (well formerly southern town, Atlanta), I did not start hunting until well into my adult life. Because of that misfortune, when I did start, I had a lot of catching up to do. Acquiring the gear was...

Lacy Act This time, we are going to deviate from the normal physical ailments and focus on a serious subject that can affect every one of us every time you step out of your home to go out on a hunt be it in your back yard or thousands of miles away. This situation can and will cause you...

Hymenoptera We hunters find ourselves in a unique position in terms of our risks of encountering all manner of crawling and flying pests. We are “big game” when it comes to these critters. We are fortunate that arthropods do not have a SCI like organization teaching them hunting ethics for...

Hearing Loss Turning the corner on what passes as a trail in the great swamps of South Carolina, I spot a Bobcat. The feline is walking away and the wind favors a life size mount. I discreetly rack one in, shoulder the muzzle-braked rifle and boom. Well, not boom to me, I didn’t hear it go...

GERD - Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease One of the adventures and complications of traveling to all ends of the earth in pursuit of big game, is exposing our digestive tracks to a multitude of different types of foods. With this exposure, travel and novelty comes an increased incidence of...

Zimbabwe Dangerous Game Hunting Safari A huge amount of preparation went into planning this trip. It was booked a full two years in advance to ensure we had the best area and PH’s. Since I had taken numerous buffalo with a rifle in the past, I decided to try to take a Cape buffalo with a bow...

Do You have a Sleeping Problem? The few times I have experienced insomnia, it certainly wasn’t fun at all and left me drained the following day. On a Brown bear hunt on the peninsula of Alaska a good while ago, I had the fortunate blessing to be able to harvest a true 9’10’’ behemoth. After...

Depression It wasn’t bad enough that between the three of us we filled only 5 of 17 tags in two weeks of wilderness hunting in BC. No, we tolerated the leaking tents, lack of equipment, terrible weather and an over abundance of horses as well. Even the horseback swimming experienced in a...