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December 2010

December 30 - Brandy Hampton

Animal: 125" 10 Point Whitetail
Location: Arkansas
Weapon: Thompson Center .50 Cal Muzzleloader

When your wife asks you where you want to go for your eleventh anniversary, you're walking on eggshells when you answer, "I figured we'd just go hunting." I was ducking and trying to cover my head...

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December 29 - Brittney Sims

Animal: 8 Point Whitetail (First Deer)
Location: Virginia
Weapon: Thompson Center .50 Cal Pro Hunter Muzzleloader

This story begins several years back as Jason and I met Drew Brown from Jackson, Ohio. We met Drew one summer through a mutual friend who he was visiting in Virginia at the time. What we didn�t...

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December 29 - Jacob Huff & Brandon Popham

Animal: 9 Point Whitetail & 6 Point Whitetail
Location: Alabama
Weapon: Thompson Center Venture .308

This past August, Blair and I were fortunate enough to meet Jacob Huff from Hamilton, Alabama in our local outdoor store. We were putting up flyers for our Catch-A-Dream Banquet for Dream Season...

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December 27 - Chade Shorten

Animal: 4 1/2 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center Dream Season Omega Muzzleloader

Late December is a magical time for hunting deer in Missouri. If you can be lucky enough to have some really bad weather, a good wind, and a big Biologic Maximum food plot, you're set. When I...

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December 26 - Mark Dittmer

Animal: 10 Point Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center Triumph Muzzleloader

Finally...SNOW! The perfect Christmas present. We�d been waiting all year for cold weather and snow. Finally it was here! It was Christmas Day, the temperature was 75 degrees with no wind at...

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December 26 - Tim Sylvia

Animal: 148" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter

On dec 26th I set out with my Thompson Center Pro Hunter in hopes to get a crack at a good buck. The weather was a perfect 18 degrees with fresh snow and it was probably the last day I could hunt...

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December 21 - Barb Brace

Animal: 7 Point 4 1/2 Year Old Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center

At 2:00 on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 Jim (my husband,) Adam Keith (excellent cameraman) and myself headed out for our 4th night of hunting at Mark�s �Missouri Farm. We had such a fun-filled weekend...

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December 21 - Ernie DeSantis

Animal: 120" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Thompson Center Dream Season Omega Muzzleloader

Jose� and I had both drawn late muzzleloader licenses for the Hawkeye state, and could barely contain our excitement. Not owning any land in Iowa we knew we had to lock down a solid piece pretty...

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December 20 - Ben Maki

Animal: 163" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Thompson Center Encore

We had been planning this hunt for over a year and when the much coveted Iowa Tags were posted let�s just say Ben Maki was a Happy Camper to see his name on the list. This story takes a trip east...

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December 20 - Joe Shults

Animal: 140" Iowa Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Thompson Center Encore

When I got the call from Mark telling me that I had won the 2009 hunt points at Drury Outdoors I could not wait for my prize! It was a hunt with Mark on his Iowa farm. I had preference points and...

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December 20 - Linda Lurk

Animal: 120" Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center

What a whirlwind trip! I have enjoyed sharing meals, sing-a-longs, and the excitement of meeting a very fun loving Gary Levox. I also laughed too many times to count with Mark, Tracy, Taylor, and...

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December 19 - Chuck Weldon

Animal: 130" 9 Point Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE Dream Season EVO

December 19, 2010 was a first for me. I was acting as a guide for the first time. Jason Bowers and Matt Bullins had made the long journey from Virginia to Missouri to join their fellow Team Reconyx...

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December 19 - John Williams

Animal: 142" Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center Dream Season Omega Muzzleloader

Zach and I have had a good year filming and hunting. I usually film Zach, but since he was out of buck tags, I was up to bat. We sat in the same field where Zach harvested Thriller a few years ago....

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December 18 - Brandon Jennings

Animal: 133 5/8" Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center .50 Cal Pro Hunter Encore

I have to be honest, I have never worked so hard for a deer in my life, but in that same breath I can tell you that I have never been more proud of a kill and the fact that I got to share it with...

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December 18 - Gary LeVox

Animal: 148 7/8" Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: Thompson Center Encore

This hunt started out last November when Gary took his first deer in MO during general rifle season. As he was departing we talked about making the MO rifle season an annual hunt. During the...

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December 18 - James Adkins (Joe Shults Good Friend)

Animal: 125" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: PSE Dream Season X-Force

After 3 years of scheduling conflicts this year it all finally lined up and my good friend James Adkins drew an IL archery tag and we where able to hook up for a last season archery hunt. We knew...

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December 18 - Tom Ware

Animal: 139 5/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter

Filming yourself is a challenge, but during the late season in a box blind it becomes a little bit easier. These bucks come out to the food and instantly put their heads down to eat and recover...

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December 17 - Jeff & David Lindsey

Animal: 2 8 Point Whitetails
Location: Mississippi
Weapon: PSE Axe & Vendetta

It was approaching mid December and Jeff and I had hunted hard all year. We had spent a lot of time this year hanging in trees doing the thing we love and now we were headed south to Tara,Wildlife....

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December 15 - Candice Woods

Animal: 166 4/8" Whitetail
Location: Ohio
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Tim has been trying to convince me for years that we should move somewhere with some better hunting. I never thought that we would actually do it. However, this year my husband got an offer to...

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December 12 - Dave Reisner

Animal: 141 2/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Thompson Center Pro Hunter

With the Iowa Gun Season in full swing I knew there were a couple of deer that I would like to get and couldn�t wait to get my hands on my TC so I could reach out and touch one. I knew I had the...

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December 12 - John Lurk

Animal: 146 6/8" Whitetail
Location: Iowa
Weapon: Thompson Center Omega

It feels like just yesterday when Dad would take me and my brothers (Justin & Jason) rabbit, squirrel, turkey and deer hunting on our family ground. I have very found memories of each and every one...

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December 10 - Ben Rising

Animal: 176" Whitetail
Location: Ohio
Weapon: PSE AXE

The story of Brute began in early spring 2009 when Tim, Jarod and I were shed hunting a new farm we had gained permision to hunt on. Tim found a real nice shed from a 3 1/2yr old buck. Later in...

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December 9 - Terry Drury

Animal: 150" Whitetail
Location: Missouri
Weapon: PSE X-Force

Returning to the farm on December the ninth left us with several decisions to make. We have switched from bitter cold high pressure days to southerly winds and warmer temperatures. This evening we...

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December 8 - Tim Woods

Animal: 151 5/8" Whitetail
Location: Ohio
Weapon: PSE

As most of you know from my previous blog entry, I am just finishing up my first year of working for Joel and Lisa Snow (Hunt Masters). We�ve been successful (in the sense that we�ve put a lot of...

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December 5 - Keith Kuehn

Animal: 180 2/8" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: Thompson Center Dream Season Omega Muzzleloader

The opening weekend of Illinois muzzleloader season is one that i soon will not forget. After spending the first gun season filming my partner Rod shoot a giant buck it was now my turn to try my...

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December 5 - Zach Playle

Animal: 136 2/8" Whitetail
Location: Illinois
Weapon: Thompson Center Dream Season Omega Muzzleloader

This year my grandpa and I won a hunt to Hadley Creek Outfitters in Pike Count Illinois. Grandpa talked with Stacey Ward, the owner of Hadley Creek, and he offered for us to hunt there twice if we...

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