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, [...]

2010 ATA Show Highlights Cool New Products…

I am just in from the Annual Archery Trade Association (ATA) trade show in Columbus, Ohio. While there, I got to see all the new and exciting products that were introduced to the hunting world, and especially those designed for folks that enjoy bow hunting.
I saw lots of new gear and gadgets that I will [...]

Holiday Season is a Great Time to Hunt Texas…

When most of the deer seasons are shutting down, the whitetails in the Hill Country and south Texas are still very active and seasons are open. Most years I schedule a hunt somewhere in Texas for the timeframe between Christmas and New Years as a closeout to my whitetail hunting. 
This year I will be hunting [...]

Look to Spring for a great Christmas Gift…ThermaCell

If you have a turkey hunter ir fisherman in the family, you need to check out this very useful and inexpensive item, that I have become completely dependent on over the years. The ThermaCell products absolutely eliminate biting insects without sprays, etc.
 
I don’t ever go in the turkey woods or fishing without mine, and I [...]

Why Not a Muzzleloader for Christmas?

Having just finished a late season muzzleloader hunt, I was thinking what a great Christmas gift a TC Endeavor muzzleloader can be. Now let me say that I am a TC Prostaffer, so they send me their newest muzzleloader every year, so I get to try a lot of them. Over the years, I have [...]

IOWA Part II…

Here is the rest of my story…After taking the big 150″ 8 pointer, I went back to the same stand to shoot a doe.
A few does came out about 200 yards out, and then I looked up and saw tines in the same spot where I spotted my buck the evening before. When he stepped [...]

IA Hunt Report – Big Buck Down!!!

Hola from southern Iowa…This was one hunt I was really looking forward to. I drew an Iowa first shotgun/muzzleloader season tag this year, and I was going to hunt with one of the deer hunters I respect most in the world, Bill Winke.
Now Bill doesn’t do anything but hunt with his Hoyt bow anymore, but he [...]

Is the Midwest Rut over???

I would like to know your thoughts. Since a few days before Thanksgiving, I have been getting reports from all over the Midwest that buck activity has really tapered off and in some cases become virtually nonexistant.
Here in central KY, our rifle season ended Sunday the 29th. We had an extremely warm season, and most [...]

BIG OKLAHOMA BUCK DOWN – FINALLY

I have been having a nightmare of a November. I have been sick with Swine Flu, hunted hard in Nebraska, and then hunted for almost a week in Kentucky, and did not score. That is whitetail hunting, right? It is the great equalizer. You can do it all right for a week or two when [...]

LONG OVER DUE REPORT – NE, SASK, KS, TX

Sorry it has been so long since I checked in…I got back from Sask, and my wife and I got SWINE FLU!!! It was bad. Then I went to Nebraska for a 6 day bow hunt, but I was still sick with terrible viral bronchitis. The temps started out as record highs (82 degrees in [...]

BIG BUCK DOWN IN SASKATCHEWAN!!!

I am in Meadow Lake Sask hunting with my good friend Barry Samson at Safari River Outdoors (www.huntcanada.com). I killed a 178″ monster last year on the first day of my hunt, and this year I sure can’t complain.
The first day, it was in the 40’s and I saw about 8 does through the day, [...]

Son Scores on Nice KY Buck with Crossbow!!!

My twin boys’ birthday is Oct 17…On the 16th, I took my son Drew out to a local farm the Steve Hartley Outdoors (www.stevehartleyoutdoors.com ) operates on to try his hand at crossbow hunting for whitetail. Steve had been seeing some quality bucks there. We hunted from a ground blind at the edge of a field, and the [...]

2nd TX Pronghorn Down – End to a great trip…

Yesterday I got to hunt pronghorn with my good friend Jason Gilbertson from Winchester Ammo. I had taken the big wide buck the day before, and we went looking for a beautiful buck we had seen that was nicknamed “Flair” because of his horn configuration.
We found him and made multiple stalks. If things weren’t just [...]

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