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whitetails

Smoke In Nebraska

December 20, 2010

I’ve landed at my desk again after two frustrating-filled weeks in Nebraska and Kansas. The plan was to get two more shows for Extreme Pursuits to add into the 2011 lineup, but I only was able to accomplish 50 percent of my goal.
Hunting for mature bucks was as difficult as listening to congressional members explain [...]

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Hunting For TV

December 14, 2010

Believe it or not, most of the hunting I do is business related so sometimes I have to make decisions based on business and expenses. For instance, when I hunted on my own I routinely went home with unfilled tags. I was perfectly happy to hunt for the biggest buck and go home empty handed [...]

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Hunting For Papa Whitetail

December 9, 2010

I love big antlers and if you ever visit my house you’ll immediately see my antler fascination. Still, during hunting season you can’t always find the buck with the biggest antlers. If I can’t find a giant (and I’m often in that circumstance) I try and hunt for mature deer.
That was the case while hunting [...]

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Hunting At The Speed Of NASCAR

December 6, 2010

It’s hard to imagine how crazy November can be when you’re trying to get as many hunts filmed as possible in the narrow window of the rut. This year was one of the craziest ever and oftentimes we only had three or four days to film an entire episode for Extreme Pursuits.
One of the craziest [...]

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Flower Power

November 17, 2010

Here’s another update from the road. I just wrapped an adrenaline week of bowhunting whitetails in central South Dakota’s grain country. Instead of hunting big blocks of timber I opted to hunt standing sunflowers and believe me, it was truly flower power!
My good friend Cody Warne operates Warne Ranches for pheasant and whitetail hunts. His [...]

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The Sweet Smell of Success

November 15, 2010

Neither unusually hot temperatures, cactus nor dumb decisions could stop me from tagging my first whitetail of the season. Yes it was hot last week. Yes I had to crawl several hundred yards to make the shot. Yes I made a dumb decision and actually thought too much about this buck.
Despite temperatures at nearly 80 [...]

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I’m Hot

November 11, 2010

It’s the rut. Get out and get after those whitetails. I am. You already know about calls, decoys and scents, but here’s a hunting location you might overlook. Hunt near water.
During the rut bucks are star athletes and while celebrity athletes guzzle Gatorade, wilderness athletes need water to keep going and going.
If I’m in a [...]

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Who Are You?

November 9, 2010

I just decoyed in my first buck of the year and what a good feeling it was! I teamed up with my good friend Cody Warne at Warne Ranches. I was hunting a standing sunflower field and situated near a small reservoir in the middle of the field. At dusk a young buck sauntered in [...]

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Corn, Sunflowers and Sloughs

November 4, 2010

This week I’m back in my old stomping grounds of South Dakota archery hunting rutting whitetails. One of my good friends from Wyoming was over here the week prior and had a close encounter with a giant that he figured would come close to the state archery record. I’m wishing for that, but hoping for [...]

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While I’m Away the Family Will Play

October 25, 2010

When I got back to the lodge in Colorado I immediately called home to share the great news about my elk hunt. Little did I know there was some great news happening there as well.
Before I left I told my son Cole to ask Sharon if she would go with him to go deer hunting. [...]

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Hunting Can Be Frustrating

October 13, 2010

It’s day five of our tribal hunt for whitetails and archery muleys. So far the bow has sat idle as I tried to put a muzzleloader deer show in the can.
It’s been frustrating! The hunt started out fine with some deer sightings, but abundant browse had scattered the deer from one end of the reservation [...]

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October Lull Whitetails

October 10, 2010

I admit that October whitetails are some of the hardest to hunt. You may catch a bachelor group pattern early and some rutting late, but in midmonth mature bucks go undercover more than the chipmunk that was sharing my sleeping bag at elk camp (true story!).
 
I’ll be hunting whitetails the first full week of the [...]

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Hunting Camp Reunion

September 20, 2010

I always enjoy turning my truck to the northeast and winding down the Powder River to Gardner Ranch Outfitters (www.groutfitters.com) near Broadus, Montana. My plan was to bowhunt whitetails at dawn and dusk, and mule deer during the midday. As always, the hunting was great and I began passing on bucks at the first whitetail [...]

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Taking a Break from Elk

September 17, 2010

I’ve been bowhunting elk almost solid for the first two weeks of September, but it’s time to take a break. Ya, right! I’m actually switching gears to deer for a few days and I’m heading toward Montana.
Starting on September 12 I’ll be hunting with my good friend Doug Gardner at Gardner Ranch Outfitters (www.groutfitters.com) in [...]

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What’s Your Favorite Whitetail Caliber?

July 14, 2010

Hunters are a contentious bunch. They love to debate, argue and downright fight over the best gear and tactics. A favorite topic that comes up time and time again is the debate over the “best whitetail caliber.”
Here’s the short version. It’s the caliber you shoot best with deadly results. In most states legal calibers begin [...]

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