Double Team!!

I had a great spring turkey season with many close encounters with some big toms. Guided a few friends to some nice turkey kills and even manged to kill my largest eastern tom to date and he had double beards. Just a ton of fun with good friends and gods creations in the outdoors.

Stoner Out!!

 

 

Love the Ladies

Been really going hard at the turkeys here in Southern MD the last two days. Running and gunning from different properties with my buddy Mike and his 75 year old dad Dwayne in tow. Man did we get on birds and hunted hard but just couldn't get any toms to close the deal and really wanted to get Dwayne his firts spring gobbler but most of the time the birds win. No matter what we had fun and this isn't the last end of our chase for a big tom. Mike and his dad had to leave at around 11 so that gave me another hour to hunt and man am I glad I did. Not more than 10 min after they left I got a hen to answer me and for the next 30 min we were going back and forth untill finally she couldn't take anymore and decided to see what this new hen was all about. Well as she started to get closer I noticed at about 50 yards she had a beard and then it was game on. I am in no way going to give a bearded lady a reprieve from some smackdown!! and when she got into 30 yards my 12 gauge Remington 870 sent some thunder No 5 shot into her head and stone cold knocked her out. Talk about the last minute, killed her at 11:41 am and goes to show you never know when it can happen in the turkey woods. Bautiful hen with a 5 inch beard and going to do a great mount of the fan and beard for my man cave.

Youth Day Smackdown!!

Today was a great day in the turkey woods as I had the pleasure to take Catfish Cam and his dad Brandon Criddle hunting for tom turkeys on youth day here in MD. What an awesome day it was and to keep a long story short lets just say that Ca...tfish Cam aka the terminator, devastator and turkey eliminator got it done on a beautiful love sick jake with an absolute SMACKDOWN!! shot at 15 yards. Just an absolute AWESOME!! hunt with great friends and very proud of this young man. If your not taking a kid hunting than you are mssing out on so much about what makes hunting fun and a great sport for our youth. To all the adults who took time to take a kid hunting, a big shout out of THANKS!!!

Stoner Out!!

 

 

 

 

Shed Hunting

Went out this weekend to do some shed hunting and with the beautiful weather it was a awesome time to be back in the woods. I managed to find 1 dead head and 5 sheds. Looking forward to the start of spring turkey season in another two months.

Been Awhile but Big Bucks Down!!

I haven't posted here in quite awhile but I have been Hunting hard!! and have had some great success with some Big Bucks Down and a few nice doe's. Here is both write ups for the bucks and a few pictures.

Today was the last day of the Maryland Firearms season and got into my stand early (5:30am) and the weather was cold but clear so I decided to do an all day sit. Of course the weather as predicted changed but I hung tough and at around 4:15...pm (didn't have my cell on for the time as it was raining that hard) this big boy steps out chasing about a 60lb yearling doe and was running around crazy after her. Finally mouth grunted him to a stop at 50 yards and he was facing me directly so he got a .50 cal muzzy round dead center in the bread basket. Tough but rewarding hunt today and goes to show you never know when it can happen in the deer woods. Hunting hard in any weather condition can pay off big time. Sorry about the quality of the pictures but it was still raining hard and didn't want to mess my camera up.

Stoner

Well another great day in the woods today and a very special hunt for me as this is Veterans Day and being a 21 year USAF Security Police Vet made this one memorable hunt. Got this great buck literally in my back yard less than 150 yards fr...om my house in the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia. He came in with 10 minutes of shooting light , grunting and looking for a fight. Only shot I had was a neck shot at 80 yards but I felt confident of the shot and what my smoke pole can do. Got him good with the first shot in the neck and then finished him of with a quick reload and center mass second shot. I have learned big mature bucks don't usually give you allot of time so you got to make it count and sometimes fast. Just a great big bodied mature buck and not my biggest buck by far but a great buck for this neck of the woods.

Got Lucky!!

It's been a good 2013 deer season so far for me as I have been seeing allot of deer and getting allot of time in the woods to hunt. Moastly been seeing allot of doe's, fawns and small bucks. I have managed to put the smackdown on two nice fat doe's and this great 8 point buck during the 3 day early muzzlelaoder season. Maryland truly has some great deer hunting and I am blessed to be able to hunt as much as I do and harvest a big mature buck. Deer hunting is never easy but if you hunt hard sometimes you do get a bit lucky.

Big Atlantic Salmon

Got back from my fishing trip in New Brunswick Canada and what a great trip it was. I was fishing with my dad on the Miramichi river and we were fishing as part of the 2013 Salmon Classic put on by the Miramichi Salmon Association. I caught a big Atlantic Salmon on a Shady Lady salmon fly and it was a beautiful salmon with an estimated weight of 12lbs and we had to release it quick due to the hot water temperatures and the 10 min plus fight on the rod. I did get the entire catch on video and got some still pictures off the video. Just another great trip with my father, an amazing fish and another memory to last a lifetime