Hunting Journal

With a dry 2008 year behind me last year due to an extreme need to grow my business I was itching to kill somethingthis 2009 season. My partner Darryl Jackson and I acquired this ground late in the summer and we spent every availableweekend out there hanging stands and checking trail cams to try and get on Mr. big early in the year...

This story begins in August 2008 when I was first introduced to Buckventures Outdoors @ the TWF Wildlife Extravaganza in Franklin, TN. I was volunteering at the TWRA (Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency) booth that weekend checking in deer for the “Big Buck” contest....

At the beginning of August I was in high hopes of putting my tag on a Kansas monster then on august 8th my hopes were shattered. I was out checking pastures for my dad when the horse I was riding decides he wanted to throw a little fit! In the process of his fit he flipped over backwards with me still on his back and landed with my leg pinned under his side....

Consistency finally pays off, at least thats the moral to this story. Our season started out great with Seth taking a beautiful 140 with Aaron Bayse of Kansas whitetail madness......

The trail camera pics said it all. There was a giant whitetail roaming the woods at KSBUCKS! While I studied the pictures, I realized the deer had a “wicked” looking drop tine skirting the side of his face. Thus, the name “Wicked”.....

story to come.....

The last three weeks have been full of close encounters with some VERY solid deer, including a 165”+ deer we call Bull Buck (BB for short)......

This story actually starts in a truck ride coming back from Canada. Jeff was on the phone with one of our Pro Staff members, Cody Nickels, talking about a specific 190+ inch deer.....

Well our season had been off to a slow start, however, James Roberts bagged a trophy 173" whitetail in Kansas. With our backs against the wall, James made a call to Omar Velazquez with Texas Quality Hunts. Omar said he had still been seeing a lot of activity...

Well guys this is one hunt that I am glad the camera was rolling because most would not believe that a 7 yr old little girl rattled up her own buck....

My Dad and I scheduled our first hunt together this year for NW Oklahoma. He's not much of the deer hunter, but he enjoys going to film me. So for sentimental reasons...

The bad luck streak had just been laid to rest when Jeff pulled the trigger on "Tip". Now with a new sense of optimism I set out that night with cameraman James Blue (our lucky charm), in hopes of killing a big...

I have been keeping in touch with Bill and Chris Purdun known as B&CPurdun on the forum. I had filmed James Roberts for early season bow in October in Missouri at their place. Chris had been telling me she had been seeing bucks in the 30s and 40s chasing does. So, pro-staffer Michael Harrell and I made spur of the moment plans...

Let's just say it was Awesome! We got there Friday afternoon sighted in our bows and hit the woods. I drug a code blue drag...

Two days before my hunt I sat a blind up in a field under an oak tree overlooking a small grove of oaks in a corner of a pasture. The plan was to hunt my son Mason there because we were seeing lots of 100” deer there and this would be a golden opportunity....