Archive for July, 2010

Continuing with the theme of scouting out your top bucks in the summer, I’ve now gotten an exciting look at some of the dandy’s I’ll be chasing in Illinois this fall! I’m hunting this fall with Oak Tree Outfitters in Illinois and the owner, Josh, recently sent me a batch of trailcam pics from the [...]

It’s July and bucks are finally sporting some substantial headgear. This is the beginning of a great period of time for hunters to start taking inventory of the bucks in their hunting areas. As you’ve seen in some of my previous posts, this is something I’ve started to do pretty frequently the last couple weeks. [...]

Last night a buddy of mine tipped me off on an area near my home where he had seen some nice looking bucks a couple weeks back. He recommended I check it out myself and then look into getting access to farms in the area. So I jumped in the truck with my binocs and [...]

I am finally back from a long, exciting and exhausting vacation! My girlfriend and I headed south for the past 9 days to explore the great state of Tennessee from Nashville to Knoxville and all the way down to the Great Smoky Mountains. We began our journey in Nashville where we sampled, err, sampled quite [...]

Just days from now, deer hunting’s finest will be congregating in Louisville, Kentucky to celebrate and discuss the future of deer hunting. The Quality Deer Management Association National Convention will be taking place this July 9-11 and I’m excited to say that I’ll be joining the party too! As the event website so eloquently puts [...]

Three More Months…

1, Jul 2010

Walking out into the cool crisp air this morning, I was suddenly transported forward through time to an early fall dawn. The dark, starry skies and the silence of my surroundings overwhelmed me and I felt a chill run down my spine. I could  feel it inching closer and closer, it’s now only three months [...]


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