If you devour outdoor magazines and follow hunting sites religiously, the motivation to step beyond your local hunting areas is irresistible. A guided hunt is a good way to start, yet if you have family and job responsibilities, justifying the expense of a fully guided hunt can be difficult to justify. Luckily, Americans are blessed with a multitude of game animals that can be inexpensive to hunt. This Bowhunting.com article shows you exactly how it can be done.

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Every serious bowhunter eventually desires to venture away from home to explore new country or to pursue new game species. The bug bit me at age 13. My first bowhunt outside Wisconsin landed me in Upper Michigan chasing whitetails with my grandpa. I hadn’t the slightest clue what I was doing and, of course, I went home empty-handed. You tend to learn quickly that “affordable DIY bowhunts” don’t come easy. The very next year, my older brother, Brad, and I put together a public-land pronghorn hunt in South Dakota. It was a family trip, with our parents driving us and our younger siblings simply tagging along for the ride. Brad and I both launched arrows at goats during our five-day hunt, but neither of us connected. Still, the hunt was a hoot, and it taught us that greener pastures do in fact exist… [continued]

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