Yep, how many of you guys have the chance to hunt areas that have been heavily scouted for several years (often by an outfitter), and managed for trophy racks?

And how often do you get a call to come down and shoot a vidoe on that property to promote the property and its hunts, or endores products?

Although these might be free-range deer, they are basicaly canned hunts, where someone knows where there is big buck or two, and when the conditions are right for deer hunting, you call a professional hunter, and they fly in, go where they are told to go, sit in a stand that has alredy been placed for this hunt, and the deer walk by - possibly the big one someone has been patterning for three weeks - for this hunt and
TV show.

I'd rather learn from Mike Weaver and Myles Keller, the current #1 and #2 P&Y whitetail buck hunters (nubers of trophy racks), and both long-time friends. They hunt public land, or private land, usually without the aid of an outfitter, by understanding deer and knowing when and where to go under most conditions to hunt trophy whitetails. Beteween the two of them they have over 30 bucks that will score over 120. Or how about my friend Roger Raglin ...

I don't hunt the way most TV personalities do, and I don't write that way. I hope I write and talk about techniques you guys (who may not have a lot of time to scout, or hunt) can use, and provide you with some of my shortcuts to reading sign, and choosing the right place to set up, at the right time of day - by patterning deer with as little amount of time and effort as you can spend on it.

That is my goal, to help you get it done faster and easier.

Or you can spend a lot of time on scouting because I'll give you a ton of information on the biology and bahavior/habits of deer. Once you understand deer, it is a heck of a lot easier to hunt them.

God bless,

T.R.