January 2009

Happy New Year one and all! Welcome to the first RTO Newsletter of the New Year.  Can you believe another year has flown by?  It seems that every year passes faster than the one before it -- all the more reason to make every minute count.

Homecoming Deer Hunt

In November 2008, I made a nostalgic trip to the 30,000-acre Majestic Ranch in southeastern Alberta to hunt whitetails and film a show for Buckmasters.  I spent years outfitting on the Majestic Ranch back in the 80s but hadn’t been back for almost 20 years.  I was amazed at how little it had changed.  The deer still followed the same trails as they did all those years ago.  It was déjà vu when I found the remains of an old wooden treestand I made and attached to an ancient cottonwood tree more than 20 years ago, back in the infancy of the trophy whitetail craze.  Who could have guessed what was about to happen?

I hunted from a box blind out in the cornfield and watched the whitetails streaming out of the timber in the evening.  A buck caught my eye right at the edge of the timber. He looked good, but he was engrossed in grinding his antler against a fence post.

As deer after deer filtered into the cut corn, the object of my attention continued rubbing the fence post.  After 45 minutes he finally abandoned the post and headed into the cornfield.  The sun was dropping fast and it looked like he would pass in front of me at about 150 yards – and he did with the setting sun directly behind him. The sun blazed through my scope so brightly that I was virtually blinded by the glare.  As the buck continued south, two other bucks joined him. Although the glare was subsiding, I couldn’t keep track of which buck was which. I was exasperated to think this plan was not going to come together after all that.  Heck, I could have shot him when he was rubbing the fence post, but I wanted to let him get closer.  As the last rays of evening light dwindled, I asked cameraman Chris Chastain, “Which one is he?” 

“The one on the right,” he said. I pulled the trigger and the buck folded.  It was a grand finale for my homecoming trip to the Majestic Ranch.  Look for the complete hunt to be televised in 2009 on Buckmasters TV.

Hunting with Ivy

My travel and hunting/filming year ended in mid December with a trip to southwest Texas to the Live Oak Hunting Lodge www.liveoakhuntinglodge.com with my 9-year-old granddaughter, Ivy Patterson.  It was her first deer hunt and we had a wonderful time.  I had a little Remington .22-250 cut down to just her size and considering she had never shot anything larger than a BB gun, she was an amazing shot.  She put 3 shots into 1 inch at 100 yards! I doubt that I could improve on that.

In addition to being a crack shot, she set records for sitting still for hours in a blind without a complaint. That trait might have been handed down from her Gramps. When a doe presented herself about 60 yards in front of our ground blind, Ivy sat steady as a rock and made a perfect shot. To say I was proud of her would be an understatement. Meanwhile, back at the lodge, she turned out to be a pretty fair hand at the pool table as well. It was a wonderful end to my hunting season – deer hunting with my granddaughter. As the cliché goes, “It just doesn’t get any better than that.”

Changing Horses

After 24 years as the Editor in Chief of Buckmasters, Rack and GunHunter magazines, it is retirement time for me. Don’t get me wrong; the word “retirement” really just means switching horses.  It also means that Sharleen and I will spend the winters in Woodland Park, Colo., near my daughter Michelle and her family, and summers in central Alberta, Canada, west of Rocky Mountain House, where the brown trout rise to dry flies and make my heart leap for joy! Sharleen and I will be involved in ministry on a full time basis after our move, which we plan for early March. I will continue to organize men’s retreats and outings as well as hunting and fishing opportunities, all of which I will be posting in this newsletter.  So, while our mailing address will change, we’ll still be easy to find.  My website will remain the same.

Sprint B.C. Bear Hunt (May 2010)

If a huge black bear rug is an itch you have not yet scratched, and you’re, well, itchy, take note of the trip I have planned for May of 2010 with Fawnie Mountain Outfitters, operated by my old friend John Blackwell, who has been in the area for 39 years.  John has a great bear area in the Chilcotin region.  In fact, it was there that I killed the British Columbia No. 1 black bear taken by bow and arrow a few years back.  It was chocolate brown, 8 feet from nose to tail, and weighed an estimated 650-700 pounds.  It truly was a giant.

Blackwell’s area has a very good reputation for large black bears, and his hunts are similar to the Vancouver Island black bear hunts, producing similar sized bears with excellent coats due to colder winter and a variety of colors including black, brown, and blond.

Guides drive 4x4 pickup trucks to feeding areas, glassing, spotting and stalking bears that are just emerging from hibernation where they feed intensely on green shoots, clover and dandelions. Some hunts are located on fly-in lakes, but with float lanes on hand, hides are flown out to freezers to ensure that they do not spoil.

Rainbow trout are plentiful at camps and at the lodge. Blackwell also offers fishing packages for trout, steelhead and salmon in the summer months.

2009 prices for 7-day hunts are $3,800 U.S. per person for a 2x1guided hunt and $4,950 for a 1x1 guided hunt. Should you choose to shoot a second bear (you can be licensed for 2 bears), there is an $800 trophy fee charged for the second bear.  No trophy fee is charged for the first bear. The prices include the floatplane flight from Anahim Lake B.C. and the delivery of your bear trophies to a local taxidermist.  Hunting licenses cost $180 Canadian, plus a black bear tag price of $180 each. You can purchase 1 or 2 bear tags. Blackwell’s guides all have from 10-12 years of experience, and they have a keen sense of competition between them to produce the best bears, which serves their hunters well.

I have hunted with and guided for John Blackwell. I know his territory and his character and would gladly take my mother hunting with him, but she’s not into bears!  I’m planning about a year ahead here so we have plenty of time to get organized.  Let me know if this hunt is for you and I’ll save you a spot.  Bookings are available on a first-come-first serve basis.

I have hunted with John Blackwell, and on occasions, and I have guided for him, as well. I know his territory and his character and would gladly take my mother hunting with him, but she’s not into bears!  I’m planning about a year ahead here so we have plenty of time to get organized.  Let me know if this hunt is for you and I’ll save you a spot.  Booking are available on a first-come-first serve basis.  There are 6 places available in total for this hunt

Arrival date in Anahim Lake B.C. (accessed from Vancouver B.C.) is May 21,

Departure Date is May 28, 2010

The deposit for a 2x1 hunt is $1,900 US per person

Call for information and availability: (334) 409-0574

This Month’s Feature: “A British Columbia Bear and a Half” chronicles the hunt in which I took the B.C. record black bear while hunting with John Blackwell in the Fawnie Mountain region.

Coming in the February Newsletter: Highlights of the 2009 Archery Trade Association Show in Indianapolis covering what's new in archery for 09, as well as field test of some of the hottest new bows!

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