BA River Mesa

It was opening week of Oklahoma bow and the BuckCommander boys were in town. I filmed ex- St. Louis Cardinal’s pitcher Matt Duff for the first ten days of the season with several unlucky encounters. Jeffery filmed John Tate with similar success. We bounced back from the Wallahachie and River Mesa but the week ended unsuccessful without a kill but the number of buck we were seeing was unbelievable.

After a short stay at home with the family we headed back up to the River Mesa and after a short phone call Matt Duff left his Arkansas hunting grounds to return to camp with us. This hunt started in the same fashion , with big bucks close but just not close enough to kill em.

On the second evening we had a weird wind so I talked Jeff into going to a place we’ve never hunted that’s only about 300 yards from the bunk house. Jeff was frustrated already with all the encounters with no kills so when we arrived to the stand to find we couldn’t see ANYTHING past 10 yards he was somewhat mad.

We were trying to learn something during the evening, so we spotted a good tree just 30 yards from the stand we intended on hunting to begin with. With no tree steps or tree stands we shimmied up it and set on limbs, which believe it or not was very uncomfortable. We were surrounded by deer but still Jeff didn’t feel like we were going to see anything decent let alone kill a good buck.

About 45 minutes before dark I spot a 4 year old 135 at about 30 yards to my left and film him and turn it back on Jeff and try to convince him to shoot it, but he wouldn’t budge and wasn’t going to shoot him. I thought about it and asked him if I could shoot it, Jeff being a gracious man said lets do it. We tried to switch spots on the limbs but that wasn’t going to work so I handed him the camera and he handed me the bow. After all this chaos and a little wait we figured there was no way in the world this was going to work but he finally showed up at 30 yards at last light and I put the Muzzy tipped Easton right in the heart and he traveled 20 yards and was done.

After we killed we had to go pick up Matt and his cameraman Jep Robertson, we told them that Jeff passed a 135 and left it at that until we got back to camp. At camp with cameras rolling we asked if they wanted to go help us find the buck. Hugs, laughs and handshakes were rolling around all night with the story finally getting a good kill in it. They even talked me into singing a song that I wrote about Jeff after we got back to camp, so this will be a show that has a bunch of laughs and shouldn’t be missed.