Heading to Ohio - Northern OH SCI Banquet this weekend! (3/13/10)

Hey! Here we go again, trying to get caught up with everything!! :) We had a great time in Arizona at the Glendale Cabela's!! It was warm and it didn't snow! Finally, the snow stopped following us!! We returned home on Monday (3/1) and headed right back to work!! We had photo shoots and meeting Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday!

On Friday (3/5), we loaded up the trailer and tried to head to Missouri! First we had Vicki's Expedition hooked up to the trailer, then we decided we needed to hook up Ralph's F250 instead. We (Ralph and I) drove for about an hour and I realized we left the keys to the trailer in my vehicle!! We had to call the office and Jamie ended up meeting us half way back to the office to give us the keys!! Then the GPS that ralph had in his truck is older and it continued to take us off of the main roads!! It took us forever to get to the MO Deer Classic!! :) But it was funny!! :) We met up with some Posse there, Lonnie, Joel, Jessica, Chet, Brady, Bucky & Kevin! They were all there helping out in the booth all weekend!! We had a great show and really enjoyed meeting all of the people!!

Now we have been filming and getting ready to leave out tomorrow for Ohio! We will be speaking at the Northern Ohio Chapter of Safari Club International Banquet in Akron, OH!! We will be there all day Saturday!! (3/13) so come on out and see Ralph and I!! :)

The 'show' season is almost done!! We will be heading to Florida next weekend to Uncle Hoppy's at Osceola Outfitters!! Turkeys beware!! :) We will also have to stop by Dr. Chris' in Alabama on the way home from the trip, as it will be 6 weeks since Ralph's knee surgery and Dr. Chris needs to check out his work!! :)

We hope everyone has a Great day!!

God bless,

Ralph & Vicki

Heading to Glendale, AZ Cabela's for the Spring Great Outdoors Days (2/27-28)

Once again it seems that we need to get caught up! It seems that time is getting faster and faster! We were at the first weekend of the Eastern Outdoor SHow, yes in the first big snow storm, but we were lucky enough to fly out during the beginning of the second big snow storm! We made it out of Harrisburg, just in time!!

We flew into Dothan, AL for Ralph's ACL/meniscus surgery. The surgery went great, and like everyone told him..... rehab, rehab, rehab!! He is going to physical therapy 3 times a week and doing more here at home!! Dr. Chris Robinson, a good friend of ours, did the surgery and he told Ralph that ice is his friend! LOL!! Thanks Dr. Chris, Lisa Christopher, Jeffrey and Beth Ann for hosting us in your house and having to deal with us.

We did figure something out on that trip... Everywhere we went in the month of February, the snow followed us!! FIrst it was Maryland, then Harrisburg and then Dothan, AL!! It hasn't snowed there for like 15 years or something, but it did when we went there!! We really hope that it doesn't follow us to Arizona this weekend!!

We are heading to Glendale, Arizona this weekend (2/27-28)for the Cabela's Spring Great Outdoors Days!! We will be in the store Saturday and Sunday!! if you go to www.cabelas.com and go to the Glendale, AZ store page, you will see all of the details!! Randy Ulmer and Chuck Adams will be there too!! That sounds like a great place to be this weekend..... a bunch of hunters and warm temps!! :-)

We will be at the Missouri Deer Classic, in Columbia, MO next weekend!! We will have our booth there and we will be speaking too!! So come on out and see us there, if Arizona is a little too far!! :)

Have a Great day!!

God bless, Ralph & Vicki

On our way to to the Eastern Sports & Outdoors Show in Harrisburg, PA!!

We are finally doing more things on the east coast!! We just spent the past weekend in Maryland at the NRA Great American Hunting & Outdoor Show and now we are getting packed up for the Eastern Sports and Outdoors Show in Harrisburg, PA!!

We had a blast in Maryland, even if the weatherman said we were only going to get a dusting of snow, and we got 5 or 6 inches of the white stuff!! LOL!! It wasn't too bad, except that we had a compact rental car with no four wheel drive!! We are used to driving in the snow, heck, we leave in Northwestern Illinois and still have a good 10 inches of the stuff on the ground right now, but we have 4WD trucks here!! LOL!! :-) It really wasn't too bad, well maybe a little bad when Ralph did that donut in the 7-11 parking lot!! :-)

We flew home Sunday evening ad have been in the office since! :-) We are busy building TV shows and our new release DVD's!! We have three new DVD's coming out this year, SEVERE WHITETAIL DISORDER 6, BEAR'N DOWN 9 and MOOSE MANIA 2!! Yes, our second moose hunting DVD is being produced right now with a whole bunch of moose hunting on it!!! We have some awesome moose footage again and cannot wait to get this out!! All of the DVD's should be out by the end of April!! I think BEAR'N DOWN 9 may be out a hair earlier...... :-)

So, now we are packing up for Harrisburg, PA!! We will be at the Eastern Sports & Outdoors Show this weekend!! We will be in the Realtree Booth for most of the weekend!

Here is what our schedule is looking like....

Sat., Feb. 6 - REALTREE Booth - 10am to 2pm

OUTDOOR CHANNEL Booth - 2pm-3pm

Panel Seminar - 3:30pm-4:30pm

REALTREE Booth - 4:30pm-7pm

Sun., Feb 7 - REALTREE Booth - 10am-2pm

Panel Seminar - 2pm-3pm

REALTREE Booth - 3pm-5pm

Mon., Feb 8 - REALTREE Booth - 10am-2pm

Panel Seminar - 2pm-3pm

REALTREE BOOTH - 3pm-7pm

Just remember, if we aren't in the REALTREE Booth, maybe nature called!! LOL!! :) (Ralph will kill me for that one!)

We hope to see a bunch of you at the show!! We are really looking forward to this weekend!! We do fly out on Tuesday, as Ralph is having knee surgery on the 11th!! He messed up his ACL and meniscus back in July and is finally going to get it fixed! :-)

Take care and hope to see you soon!! Vicki & Ralph!!

Hunting Season Ends and Show Season Begins!

It is already the end of January 2010!! Where did it go?? We started out finishing up deer season here in Illinois and then off to the ATA Archery Trade Show! We had a great time there in Columbus, OH! We met a pile of new people, it was great! Hoyt aired the new Hoyt Vicxen commercial at Innovations the night before the show opened!! We gave away 300 UNRESTRICTED DVD's there right after it aired!! The dealers rushed the tables at the Hoyt booth and almost knocked over the cake!! :) Ralph and I we very busy during the show at the Hoyt, Beman, SHE Outdoor Apparel, New Archery Products, and Rocky booths!!

We were home for a day after the ATA Show and headed to the SHOT Show in Vegas! Again we met a bunch of new people and had a lot of fun! We had some great meetings and it is always a good time seeing some of our extended families from the Outdoor Chanel!! The Golden Moose Awards was on Thursday night, we were up for best turkey footage, but didn't win. Duck Commander TV show swept the Golden Moose Awards, and they deserve every single one of them!! We love that show!! Congrats guys!! Great show!! :)

We are home this week, well until Thursday when we fly out to Westminster, Maryland for the NRA Show for this weekend!! :) We hope we will run into some of you out there!! The following weekend we will be at the Eastern Sportsman's Show in Harrisburg, PA!! We will be there the 5th-9th!!

On the 11th, Ralph is supposed to be having knee surgery!!! He blew out his ACL & miniscus!! (sp?) So, we won't be able to attend the NWTF convention like we had planned! But at least he should be ready for turkey season!! :)

Take care and God Bless!!

Ralph & Vicki

It's 'Show' Season!!

Wow!! Where did hunting season go? It seems to go by faster and faster every year!! We had a great fall hunting season and met many new friends along the way!! Thanks to everyone that made this hunting season a success!!

Now it is the beginning of 'show season'!! For some reason show season is not as fun as hunting season!! :-}

We are heading to Columbus, OH for the ATA (Archery Trade Assoc.) Show right now!! It is a dealer only show, so it is not open to the general public. We will be attending Innovations this evening, which is kind of a Kick Off for the show! We will get to see some new products from a bunch of different manufacturers!! We will be at the show all day Wednesday and Thursday!! Wednesday afternoon we will be filming some spot for Outdoor Channel that will be airing in the local hotels all week! That will be interesting!! :-)

Friday we will be driving home, Saturday is RJ's 9th Birthday!! We will be celebrating and doing laundry all at the same time, as we fly out of O'Hare Sunday morning to Vegas for the SHOT Show!!

SHOT is another industry only show, and just about any manufacturer that makes firearms, crossbows, and almost any type of hunting equipment will be displaying there!! We will be in Vegas the whole week attending the Show as well as the Golden Moose Awards!!

We will do our best to keep you all updated as the shows go, if we find some cool new products, we will let you know!!

Take care, be safe and God Bless!!

Ralph & Vicki

Happy New Year's!!

Wow! Where does the time go? Have you ever noticed that the older we get, the faster the time goes by? 2009 seems like it just got here, and now it is over and 2010 is here!

We have been busy here at Archer's Choice Media, hunting & filming and trying to get the new shows and DVD's produced! In 2010 is a huge Anniversary for us here! It is the 10th Anniversary of Archer's Choice TV Show and the 5th Anniversary of The Choice TV Show!! Wow, once again, time has flown by!! Here is what we are doing for the 2010 TV show year....

First Quarter (Jan-Mar) is THE CHOICE The Vault - the best of the past 5 years on The Choice!

Second Quarter (April-June) is ARCHER'S CHOICE The Vault - the best of the past 10 years of ARCHER'S CHOICE!

Third Quarter (July-Sept) is All New ARCHER'S CHOICE TV shows!

Fourth Quarter (Oct-Dec) is All New THE CHOICE TV Shows!!

So we will all be very busy getting all of these shows done and out to the Outdoor Channel and WIld TV! We hope you all enjoy the shows, we are having a lot of fun reminiscing over the older shows!! (and laughing at my (Vicki) hair styles change!! LOL!) We went thru the archives and found some of the most memorable hunts from over the past 10 years!!

One of the great things about 2010, is that our Manufacturers have agreed to 52 weeks of LUCKY LOGO!! Wow!! So you have a chance to win all year!! Wahoo!!

TEXAS - Ralph and Zendal went down to TX on December 29 to try for some more whitetails, this time they took their TenPoint Crossbow with them!! Well, on New Year's Eve, Ralph shot a old mature buck and then on New Year's Day, Zendal shot a big old 8point!! Congrats guys!! They are coming home today (1/3) and leaving out again on Tuesday to try filling their Iowa tags!! I think I will stay back and help out in the editing department!! :-)

We wish you all a Very Happy, Healthy and Blessed New Year!! God bless!!

Ralph & Vicki and all of here at Archer's Choice Media!!

From Quebec to Mexico!!

Once again, we seem to just keep on running!! :-) And, once again I am playing catch up on our blogs!! :-)

We had a great trip up on Anticosti Island in Quebec!! We were hunting with Sepaq Anticosti, with Gilles and Stephan!! Ralph and Freddy each took a nice buck, and Joe was able to take two!! I (Vicki) once again, didn't get a deer! The weather was pretty cold and the bucks seemed to be locked down up there with does or something! Go figure!! :-) Ralph and Joe each shot one on the first day of the hunt, then Freddy & Joe shot one on the third day of the hunt!! The fourth day was looking really promising, we saw a lot of deer early in the morning, then Gilles was radioed by the office!! They told him that we had to go back to Port Meinier and fly off the island by mid-afternoon, instead of after hunting that day!! There was a big storm coming and they wanted to leave early!! So, Ralph, Gilles and I had to go find the other guys and let them know!! We made it back to Sept Illes, before the storm hit!! The next morning we had a 6am flight out, and we didn't think we were going to be flying out because of the snow & wind..... but they took off!!! We couldn't believe it!! I know they wouldn't have done that in Chicago!! Kind of makes you think about how safe it really was!! LOL! :-)

We had our AC Media Christmas Party last Friday night, that was fun!! We did a little dancing, well the girls did!! LOL!! :-)

We had ROCKY Gear here on Monday, taking photos for the catalog!! Now we are filming some more show spines/opens and trying to get pack for Mexico!! We need to leave here today (12/16) by 1pm for our flight to Texas and then tomorrow to Mexico!!

We are going hunting with MC Outdoor Adventures, Mike & Cathy Wheatley!! They are going to meet us at Eagle Pass, TX and then we will ride with them to the ranch where we will be hunting whitetails, hogs and maybe some javelina!! :-) It's Ralph, Zendal, Freddy and me going on this one!! We get back on the 23rd, just in time for Christmas!!

Speaking of Christmas.......

All of us here at Archer's Choice Media, Inc. would like to wish every single one of you a

Very Merry and Blessed Christmas!!

God Bless!!

Catching up again!! Anticosti Island.... Here we come!!

Hey Everyone!!

Here it is December already!! Ralph and I have been back and forth from Iowa, with Tales of the Hunt Outfitters and in Illinois with Eagle Lakes Outfitters, without much luck!! We headed back to Iowa a week before Thanksgiving and about all we saw was corn, does and a flat tire!! LOL!! The big guys just don't want to show their faces during legal hunting hours!!!! :( Ralph and I have filled our does tags in Iowa and donated the meat to the the Iowa HUSH program, so we had buck tags left! Well, those tags don't taste so well, even with a little salt and pepper!! LOL!! :)

We drove to Pike County, Illinois right from Iowa and met up with our son RJ and Ralph's Ma! We were down at Eagle Lakes Outfitters with Ted & Tina Sprague! Once again, the big boys just don't want to show their faces when Ralph and I are out hunting & filming!! LOL!! Tina saw a MONSTER Buck, but he was at 52 yards and she is not comfortable taking that far of a shot on a deer! Tina is so cute right now, she is about to pop with a new baby, due just about any day now! She was able to take a nice buck earlier in the season with her Hoyt Vicxen!!

Ralph, Joe, Freddy and I are getting ready to head out to Quebec for our Anticosti Island deer hunt!! Zendal and Gary were there last week and Zendal shot a nice 8 point! Congrats Z!! They said it was chilly, but no snow. I just checked the weather and it is supposed to snow today and tomorrow on the island, we arrive on Saturday!! :-) That's a good thing!! :-) We will be hunting with Sepaq Anticosti with Gilles again!! We can't wait, it is so much fun up there, and relaxing!! Maybe this year, Ralph's deer antlers won't fall off!!

We wish you all continued luck and best wishes!!

God Bless,

Vicki & Ralph!

Iowa Report and then some....

We had a great trip to Iowa this past week. All said and done we took 3 bucks and 3 doee, all on film! Lots of encounters with a bunch of deer! The corn still standing did make it hard to see everything out there, but it was still great!

Chris Griffen from Realtree took a great 9 point buck and a doe. Cameron Hanes took a cool buck and a doe. Brad Schor tried hard, but no luck! Joe Rush from ACMedia took a nice 9 point! Ralph and I each took a doe too! We all donated our does the to Iowa HUSH program. HUSH stands for Help Us Stop Hunger! Great program!! A dollar from the deer tags goes towards the cost of the processing of deer for the hungry! You just drop your deer off at one of the participating locations and they will skin, de-bone and grind up the deer for the program!

Now we are driving home to Illinois! We need to get some filming done for the 2010 TV shows! Don't worry, we will fit the filming in between hunting by our house! :-)
We saw some great deer in Iowa, hopefully we will get back so that Ralph & I can fill our buck tags too!!

Good luck to everyone! God Bless!
Ralph & Vicki

Heading to Iowa- Tales of the Hunt Outfitters

We are on the road again and a lot has happened since our last post!

Let's see...

A couple of our Posse were up at Efford's Hunting in New Foundland. Lonnie took a black bear and a monster woodland caribou! Bucky was with him and he took a huge moose as well!! Congrats guys!!

Bill & Scott went to Eagle Lakes Outfitters in Pike Co IL and Bill shot a nice 9 point buck there!! Then the rains came & I think they had to swim home!! LOL!

While we were home, Ralph shot a big 8 point buck on Nov. 1st! He is beautiful and the footage is awesome!! I will work on getting some pictures posted up here!

We are on our way to Iowa now. We will be hunting with Tales of The Hunt Outfitters with Aaron Volkmeyer. We will be sharing camp with Cameron Haines and a couple of our friends from Realtree, Chris Griffin & Brad Schor! We are hoping for some great weather, but it looks like it might get warm! We will keep our fingers crossed! If our phone service works there at camp, we will keep you posted!

Be Safe & God Bless!!

Ralph & Vicki