The other day my wife asked me what I was looking forward to the most about this coming hunting season. Good question. Normally, my answer would have had to do with the challenge of the hunt and successfully outsmarting the elusive whitetail deer but not this year… this year things are a little different. I have felt the anticipation of the…
OK, I look pretty goofy in this picture but that’s not the point…The point is I learned a couple crucial lessons about hunting on that cold day, and not just because I was successful, because I almost wasn't. It was an extremely cold morning with the temperature still hovering right around zero at 8 am. I was standing with Dad…
I shot this doe when I was 17 and was late to school as a result... The night before I was sitting in my tree and she came trotting up the hardwood ridge about 30 mins before legal shooting light was over. I was about 25 feet up in a tree and she was probably 45 feet below me on…
A hunter's first deer will always hold a special place in his/her heart and Christian's first deer is no exception. Here is the story of how it all happened in his own words... "It was opening day of my first season hunting alone after the passing of the gentleman who had taken me under his wing to teach me the ways…
It’s not the biggest bear I admit, but it was the first one I had ever seen in the woods. It was a warm, calm afternoon and I was dozing off in my treestand with thanks to a little sun on my face. The classic sounds of an animal walking in the thick bed of dry leaves caused me to snap…