Kevin Kezar paddled this canoe under some low-hanging branches on the Republican River in northeast Kansas, where he and his brother, photographer Mitch Kezar, were bowhunting early-spring Easterns. “We like to spot-and-stalk or chase after turkeys,” says Mitch. “I’ve killed 18 birds that way. It’s challenging. I’ve gone to Texas, called in 39 birds, and never pulled a string on one of them. Without a blind, that’s too many eyes.
“I went into the Air Force when Kevin was only 4, so we didn’t get to hunt together much growing up in Minnesota,” Mitch adds. Now, they pursue deer, antelope, pigs, or turkeys together at least once a year. “A lot has changed. We used to shoot any deer that moved during our brief gun season, but all my nephews…