Hunting Diary

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  End of the Line

  It’s late May and for us here at ACM that can only mean one thing, Bear’N Down Baby! I was lucky enough to get invited, along with POSSE member Scott Wolfe, to go back up to Northwest Alberta with Jason Packer and Steve Overguard at Big Bear Country Outfitters. Last season was a barnburner and my anticipation was high for this year. Our week up at Big Bear turned out to be better than last… read more »

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  Monkey off my back!!!

  When I got word that I would be heading to Big Bear Country Outfitters in Alberta for a spring bear hunt with Freddy, not a day passed without thoughts of finally going on a bear hunt where things would go right.  Plus, after watching Bear’N Down 10 and seeing the experiences Freddy and Tim had up there last year…I couldn’t help but get a smile on my face as I counted down the… read more »

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  I Broke My “I” Jinx—Finally!!

  We hunt a lot and are truly blessed to be able to do so. We hunt deer all over the U.S. and we live in Illinois. When it’s deer season, we are on the road a bunch and when we get home, I don’t spend much time hunting…I’m usually catching up with RJ and work. With that being said, I haven’t filled an Illinois buck tag since 1999. Yikes!! I have tried, but it just wouldn’t… read more »

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  Long Spurred Osceola

  It seems like I’ve been on the lucky end of surprises this season. First, Ralph and Vicki surprised me with a Javelina hunt down in Texas in December 2010. Now they surprised me with the opportunity at my first Osceola turkey down in Florida with Uncle Hoppy at Osceola Outfitters.   The day started off slow. Ralph, Vicki, Hoppy, and I had roosted a gobbler the night before on the edge of… read more »

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  Javelina Surprise

  It was the last morning of our hunt with our good friends on The Covenant Ranch in the south Texas brush country. After a great week of deer hunting, we decided to spend the last day hunting hogs, javelina’s, and predators. Vicki and I got into our blind and I began setting up the camera gear for the morning hunt. When Vicki looked over and said, “Hey bud, I just wanted to let you know… read more »

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  Three Days at Hoppy’s

  It was January 2011 and we were on our Florida trip at Hoppy’s (Osceola Outfitters), ready to shoot something big.  We stayed up late the first night talking. The next morning we woke up and had breakfast – it was a delicious breakfast.  We went outside and practiced with the Ten Point and then we went scouting for a good place to sit in the evening.  While we were scouting,… read more »