North Dakota Bucks!

Success in North Dakota at Double B Outfitters - Ralph and Vicki with their beautiful bucks!

Double B Outfitters - North Dakota Ducks & Bucks!!

Wow! What a fantasic hunt we are having here at Double B Outfitters, here in North Dakota! We arrived on Tuesday, We are up here with Tom Gallagher from Cabela's and Jon Allen from Nikon!
The very first afternoon in our Ameristep blind, 45 minutes into my (Vicki) hunt, I had a beautiful 10 point buck come from across the food plot! He look majestic! He gave me a 20 yard shot and my Shockwave double lunged him!! My new Hoyt Vicxen has striked again!!

Thursday morning we went waterfowl hunting with Carly & Joel from Delta Waterfowl. David & John Brandt from Double B were a little nervous because they haven't been seeing many ducks or geese. we got out that morning and limited on Pintails and on geese!! We shot a blue, speckled, snow and a pile of Canada geese! It was a blast, no pun intended! No one shot any deer on Thursday night.

This morning (Fri 10-24) we didn't get as many birds, but we did get 9 geese and 1 duck!

This afternoon, Ralph shot a beautiful 13 point whitetail buck with his new Hoyt Maxxis! It's bigger then mine, but I guess he has too win every once in a while!! Of course, all of this is on film so far!

Jon had to go back to NY, but Tom is still here and hopefully he will be filling his tag tomorrow!!

Double B Outfitters!! Wow! David and John Brandt are th best!! Thanks guys!

Don't yell at me!! Catching up since caribou camp!!

Yes, once again I am running late with everything!! Hey, it's that time of the year when we are supposed to be out hunting & filming, right?

We were up at Mirage Outfitters for our caribou hunt and unfortunately we didn't do so good this year up there. :-( We lost a couple days to weather and the caribou bulls didn't read the script!! :-) Mirage did everything they could to get us into the caribou, heck they flew us over 160 miles northeast trying to get the whole camp into them!! Some of the hunters were able to get the bulls, but not everyone. We were up there with the winners from a Nikon/Odel Rep Group contest, Mark and Stu!! It was their first caribou hunt and they were able to each get a bull! We had sooooooo much fun with those guys! What a riot!! Thanks guys for the great friendship & laughter!!

We flew into O'Hare on Oct. 10th and had our luggage not show up! It was still in Montreal! We ended up waiting 4 hours for it, because we live 3 hours from O'Hare and we were supposed to be down in Pike County already for the Ladies hunt!!

We left home on the morning of the 11th for Pike! RJ and Nani came with us too!! When we got down there, there were a pile of lady hunters!! How cool!! They were all really nice!! We also had some of the Posse Girls down there as well, and most of the guys from the office filming it all!! Unfortunately once again, the weather didn't want to play nice and it rained most of the week!! Oh, and the deer didn't read the script on that hunt either!! I do hope it isn't like this the whole season!! LOL!!

We are getting ready to leave out for North Dakota to Double B Outfitters and the guys are not patiently waiting for me to finish this blog!! LOL!! We will be up there deer & waterfowl hunting with David & John Brandt!! You Betcha Ya!

Oh, and a GREAT note.... Freddy & Robert North (Posse) each shot a bull moose with a TC 300 Win Mag up at Kashabowie Outposts with Fern Duquette in Ontario!! They each shot a great bull!! CONGRATS!!!!

I promise I will do my best to keep posting more often!! Vicki & Ralph!!

Heading up to Quebec to Mirage Outfitters for Caribou!!

Last time we blogged we were up in Whitehorse, Yukon and time has flown since then! We stayed in Whitehorse for a couple of days and then flew home a day early and surprised our son, RJ! Thursday last week, as we were unpacking from our moose hunt, Ralph accidently sliced open his left thumb with his pocketknife!! Yes, he had just got finished sharpening it and was opening up a package with it and the knife slipped!! Well, he managed to cut the inside of his left thumb pretty good, including an artery & possibly a nerve!! I rushed him to the hospital - 4 stitches, and IV (because of all of the blood loss) and a tetanus shot later, we were able to go back home!! He cut his index finger pretty good too while we were up in the Yukon, so the tetanus shot was probably a good thing!! He was in a bunch of pain for the next couple of days.

We did managed to finish putting in our Hunter's Specialties VitaRack Fall Mix plots here by the house! So that's a good thing!! We are expected to get like 2 inches of rain today though, so hopefully it won't flood it!!

Joe and Zendal returned from Renfro's Alsakan Adventures up in Alaska! They each shot a really nice bull moose on a do-it-yourself hunt!! They said it was hard work and a lot of sweat, but they would go back in a heartbeat!! Thanks Wade for having them up there!! The moose footage is awesome!! We are getting some great moose footage and MOOSE MANIA 2 is going to be awesome next year!!!

Freddy and Robery North (Posse) are going to be heading up to Kashabowie Outposts with Fern in Ontario for a moose hunt too!! Scott Wolfe & Bill Ball (both Posse) are up there right now trying for the big swamp donkeys!! :-)

Ralph and I are trying to get everything caught up here, seeing as how we were home for about 12 hours between our Colorado and Yukon hunts! Don't worry, we are not complaining!! We are geting a few things done in the office this miornng and then a packing we will go!! Ralph talked with Peter Palmer, from Mirage Outfitters up in Quebec, yesterday and he told Ralph that there was snow all week in Kuujjuaq and that some of the hunters couldn't fly out of town due to the weather!! They are keeping their eyes on the situation and hopefully the weather will break a little and allow us to fly into a camp on Saturday!! I am thinking I better bring my SHE Outdoor C4 suit!! (Ralph is laughing at me!!) Oh well, better warm, dry and maybe over packed then cold & wet!! :-)

I did call our cell phone company to find out why my data service doesn't work in Canada and that I was going to change companies. They swear up and down that if we take our battery out of our phone for 5 minutes and then turn it back on that it should work. Hmmm... well I guess we will give it a try this weekend, if not maybe we need to make a change.

OK, I think I have rambled on long enough!! Better get to work!! Have a great week!! Vicki & Ralph