2010 A Hunting Year in Retrospect

I took my boys on our last hunt of the season yesterday afternoon, and as we sat in our blind and watched it snow for 5 hours, I thought back over the past year’s hunts and looked forward to 2011.
Highlights were many for me…I started in January with a B&C caliber Coue’s deer. That was [...]

Christmas Gift…

I reported a week or so that I was a little burned out on deer hunting. That was definitely true. One of my sons has just had a terrible time killing a turkey. We have tried for 4 years, and something always goes wrong. His twin brother has had pretty good luck with turkeys, so [...]

Heartbreak in the deer woods…

We all know deer hunting is a game of ups and downs. I freely admit that I sometimes hate hunting whitetails. After days or weeks of hard hunting with no success, I feel like I hate going out there, but if you give me 1-2 days off (or a week), I’m ready to go again [...]

Super Cold Good Time To Harvest Deer

Much of the country has been hit by a severe cold spell as of late, and this is a great time to get that trophy that has eluded you, or fill the freezer. For the most part the rut is over in most of the country, and with bitter temps and in many locations, snow, [...]

Final Kansas report…from The Zone

Finally back from western Kansas hunting with Back Rhoads Outfitters (www.backrhoads.com). Let me say that I have never ever seen so many big deer on a hunt in my life. The number of 150-170’s bucks was just unreal. I didn’t hunt a day and not see at least one buck of this size, and many [...]

Another Report from Nebraska – from The Zone…

I am still snakebit and only have 3 sits left in NE. This morning about 10 minutes after  daylight, I had a big mature buck headed my way. We had 8 does feeding in front of us, and he was coming to check them when all the does spooked and the field cleared.
GREAT…5 minutes later, [...]

NE Report from The Zone…

On my 3rd morning in NE, I watched a lot of bucks and a huge bodied 8 pointer (with broken brow) chased does, grunted, ran small bucks, etc. for the first 1.5 hours of the morning and then disappeared into a thicket. We knew the deer as James Brion (owner of Gobble N Grunt Outfitters) [...]

Report From Nebraska…from The Zone

I arrived in north NE at Gobble N Grunt Outfitters. It was the 3rd day of rifle season, and by this morning, all the guys who were on the first hunt had tagged their bucks. James’ son Grant also killed a great 145″ 4×4 that weighed around 300 lbs.

I hunted last night and saw a [...]

AZ Monster Mule Deer…for The Zone

Last fall, Mark Young , of Adam Clements Safari Trackers, told me about a really unique mule deer hunt that he had sent some guys on in the desert of Arizona. The kicker was that an hour west of Phoenix there is a huge amount of agriculture that is being irrigated including alfalfa, sorghum, barley, [...]

WY Whitetail Success for The Zone…

I had planned on doing daily updates from WY, but we didn’t have any internet access. Both James Brion and I were hunting close to Sheridan in northern WY. James was at Crandall Creek and I was with Big Buck Outfitters.
James scored early, and after finding a huge old buck on his first morning he [...]

What a weekend!

In my last post I talked about harvesting does in October. I am writing this from 30,000 feet above North Dakota on my way to far northern British Columbia where I will be moose hunting for the next week or so, and I am reflecting on a 26 hour period from Friday evening about 5:30pm [...]

The right time of year…

Now JT and his Monster OH buck have proved me wrong from the start here, but generally late Sept and early Oct. can be tough times to kill deer. Many times they stay in the woods eating oaks, are hard to pattern, etc. I find that this is a great time to practice management.
Today is [...]

Choosing a new GPS…Garmin Oregon 200

Last September I spent the night under a bush in the middle of grizzly country because my group couldn’t find camp in the dark after a 6 mile hike back through the mountains. We were in the vicinity of where we had regularly seen a big sow grizzly with two 100 pound cubs. Needless to [...]

A Different kind of Deer Hunt!

I just returned from a fantastic hunt for an out of the ordinary whitetail. The small Coue’s whitetail lives in AZ, NM and Mexico, and weighs roughly 90 pounds. Though small in size, this deer is a real challenge, and a 110” B&C class Coue’s looks like he has lots of headgear.
My first two days [...]

2010 ATA Show – My Favorite New Product

 
OK…here is my favorite new product I found at ATA in Columbus – The Carbon Express Covert XB-3.5 Crossbow. Some of you may remember that my 9 year old son Drew killed a really nice buck this year with a crossbow. It was an older, recurve that was about 30+ inches across the front. Well, [...]

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