Haley-Way Outdoors

06/01/2026

It's been quite a party! Kena nailed her speech after getting back with me from the state meet after 3 a.m. Super proud! 😎 🎓

06/01/2026

Challengers place fourth for boys team trophy with 12 podium finishes

05/24/2026

Two days, two district championships!! 🏆🏆 Kena clutched-up again this year for her girls team with a pair of 4th place podium finishes, barely missing State. Senior year getting gone....♥️ I'll be coaching a district champ highjumper another week. 🇺🇸

05/17/2026

Who is the true father of modern bowhunting?

Most people would say it is a combination of Saxton Pope and Art Young. But both of those men admitted the real teacher was a Native American named Ishi.

Known as the last surviving member of the Yahi people of California, Ishi emerged from the wilderness in 1911 after years of hiding from a world that had nearly wiped out his tribe. When Pope and Young met him at the University of California museum, they were amazed by what he could do with a simple bow and arrow.

Ishi taught them how to make bows from natural materials, build arrows by hand, stalk game, and shoot instinctively without sights or modern equipment. Pope and Young would later become legends who helped ignite the modern bowhunting movement in America, but both credited Ishi as the man who showed them the true art of archery hunting.

Without Ishi, modern bowhunting in America may have taken a very different path. The traditions, skills, and hunting knowledge carried by Native Americans for thousands of years became the foundation of modern traditional archery through one man who survived one of the darkest chapters in American history.

Every bowhunter carrying a recurve, longbow, or compound today is part of a legacy Ishi helped preserve.

Aaron B. Futrell, Author|Owner, Delong Lures

05/14/2026

With Gary Yamamoto in at the 2018 😎 🇺🇸

05/12/2026

Got Jake out Sunday. No luck. I scouted all week in street clothes before practice and was drowning in gobblers! 🤣 🦃 That's hunting. He has no more days off and I won't shoot another bird. Grass is tall and turning yellow and it feels like summer. Turning the page to big game apps which are due Friday 🤔 God is good!

05/11/2026

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Yes, turkey populations are declining in parts of the country. But there’s no evidence that reaping turkeys has anything to do with it: https://trib.al/rz4Hfwl

05/10/2026

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As turkey populations decline around the country, it’s time for more responsible regulations around how we hunt and harvest spring gobblers: https://trib.al/HVCWVAH

05/10/2026

What he said.....

05/07/2026

Tuesday's 🦃 Called this guy and two other big toms across a creek canyon and up the other side to 20 yards without a . Thought they were jakes so I let 'em walk the first time through 🤠🤦‍♂️ 🇺🇸