Since the new hunting shows started this past week I’ve been getting a few inquiries as to where they can see my work on TV. The following is a schedule of Shows to keep up with.

Bass Pro Next Generation - The Outdoor Channel - This week Ben’s Hog Hunt

                                             Sat.  1:30 p.m.    -      Sun.   1:00 p.m.

Muzzy Bad To The Bone Bowhunting TV - The Outdoor Channel - Yukon Moose (PART 1 of 2) Had loads of fun on this trip!!!                              Today 1:30 p.m.

Prohunter Journal - ESPN Outdoors        Saturday  8:00 a.m.

Whitetail Country - ESPN Outdoors         Sunday  8:00 a.m.

Tom Miranda’s Territories Wild   - ESPN Outdoors  Sunday 8:30 a.m.

Watch these shows and tell me what you think!!!!!

Your input is always welcomed!!!

Kenneth

Rebecca, from Bass Pro’s Next Generation, and I went to Winchester, Virginia last Saturday morning for a turkey hunt. Our host was Mr. Jim Clay, the founder of Perfection Turkey Calls.  Rebecca and I went hunting with Mr. Clay last year, but we didn’t have any luck. We saw some birds,  but we just couldn’t get them close enough for a shot.This year Jim wanted to take Rebecca to his “Honey Hole”! He set up a ground blind 3 weeks prior to our arrival and had been keeping an eye on their movement. He had been seeing and hearing plenty of Gobblers and had high hopes of Rebecca being able to get her first turkey.We met him before light last Saturday and headed to the blind. He said he had seen 4 different gobblers around the blind the afternoon before.  We snuck up the mountain in the dark and settled into our blind. Jim put some decoys out and Rebecca and I got settled into the blind. Once Jim finished setting up the decoys he joined us in the blind. We started hearing some gobbles at 5:50. In all we counted 7 different birds that we heard. As the sun started to rise we could see the birds flying off the roost down below us. We had a gobbler close in on the blind, but we never could see him because of the thick brush.We had 3 hens come into the blind, but we never  could get a gobbler to come check out the decoys. Due to Virginia law we had to quit hunting at 12:00. We are planning to get her back in the woods and try to get her a bird this spring! Rebecca and I have had some terrible luck the past 3 years. Hopefully we can get rid of our curse and have some luck in the field thisspring!   This picture below is about the only luck Rebecca and I have had together!  This fish was caught in the Albemarle Sound in Eastern North Carolina.  

For the past two years I’ve been deer hunting with Rebecca from the Bass Pro Next Generation Team and we seem to have a problem. We have yet to put a deer on the ground! We are not trophy hunting either. We are going into the field with the “If it’s brown, it’s down” theory.

If we are bow hunting we can’t get a deer within 50 yards of us and if we are rifle hunting we can’t seem to get a deer within 600 yards! The bad thing about it is I’ve been on a roll this year. It seems that everywhere I’ve been, we’ve been having good luck with harvesting an animal.

Well this past week I went to Roanoke, VA to do a deer hunt with Rebecca. They were calling for rain, but I didn’t know we were going to need an Ark to hunt out of. The first morning we sat in a double ladder stand and did not see any deer. We got out of the stand about 10:30 a.m. and shortly afterwards it began to rain. I don’t mean a drizzle. It poured. It rained 15″ the first 2 days. We didn’t let the rain slow us down, we hunted out of ground blinds, but we just didn’t see any deer.

Rebecca and I joked that we have a black cloud hanging over our heads and need to get rid of it. We both have success when we are not with each other, but you put both of us together with a video  camera and you can forget getting any deer close.

Maybe we need to try our luck in Texas!

Now if you put a rod in her hands, we have no problem getting the fish on tape!!!!!

I left this past Wednesday to go to Kit Carson, Colorado for an antelope hunt with Ben of Bass Pro’s Next Generation. It’s fall break for college and he scheduled a quick 2 day hunt.  This would be Ben’s first time hunting Antelope.

I met up with Ben Wednesday afternoon in the Atlanta airport and we flew into Denver.  We arrived in Denver at 7:30 p.m. and then rented a car and took the 2 1/2 hour drive east.

Once we arrived in camp we met up with Chris, the owner of Adventures Wild Outfitters. He told us that there were plenty of Antelope and being we were hunting with a rifle we should be finished no later than the first afternoon.

Well I have been to plenty of camps and I have heard that story before, but I kept my mouth shut and listened to him talk. He said they had been 100% with their rifle hunts and that did sound encouraging.  We talked a little more and being it was 1:00 a.m. we went to bed because we had to drive into Kit Carson to get a hunting license.

The next morning we got up and made the 45 minute ride to town to get the hunting license. Once the license was in had we drove back to the farm house we were staying in to get Ben’s rifle so he could make a few shots and make sure his scope was still zeroed!

Once Ben shot his rifle and made sure it was shooting true we headed out to look for some antelope. The first pastrue we came to, we didn’t spot any antelope. Chris said he had seen some on the other side of the property so we headed to the main road and made the 30 minute ride to the other side of the property.

We started glassing and Chris spotted 2 does and a buck several hundred yards away. Due to the heat waves, Chris could not tell how good the buck was so we decided to do a stalk. We started walking behind the hill so they couldn’t see us. Once we crested the hill we crouched down and walked as far as we could and then we had to belly crawl the last 70 yards to our position at the top of the hill.

Chris glassed the antelope and said he was OK, but we were going to pass on him because we could do better. I filmed him for several minutes and then the does spotted us. They could not tell what we were so they started circling us and came even closer. They eventually trotted off and I looked at Chris and said, “We have our encounter, we can’t let the next one go since we only have 2 days to hunt!” Chris told me not to worry, Ben would get his antelope. We head back to the truck and head further into the property to do some more glassing.

We crest a hill and see several antelope out on the flats between a couple of hills. Chris glasses them and says there are 3 shooters in the group, but there was no way to get close for a shot. It was 1:30. He said we would run into town and get a bite to eat and then come back to see if they had moved.

Once we ate lunch we headed back to where we had spoted the antelope. Great News! They had moved to where we could attempt a stalk. We drove the truck down a fence line and parked it where the antelope could not see us. We had about a 1/2 mile walk to the hill we were using for cover. Once we got to the hill we crouched down and made our way to the top. Once we could not crawl anymore, we once again belly crawled about 100 yards to the top of the hill. Chris raised up and glassed and all he could see is a group of does. He told us we needed to back down the hill and go about another 300 yards and check again and see if we could spot the buck. 

We belly crawl to the top of the hill. Chris spots the buck. Ben moves into position for a shot and I set my camera and tripod up to get some footage of the buck. When I first get the camera set up I can see the buck good. He is standing in the middle of a group of about 14 does. I get a few minutes of footage and then he drops down into a low spot where I can not see him. Ben is ready to shoot, but I have to hold him off. Chris is asking can I see him and I say, “NO!” Chris is getting impatient with me and once again asks can I see the buck. My reply is NO!  There are 5 does looking at us and I ask Chris would they take off running if I moved the camera towards the top of the hill because I could not see the buck because of the sage in front of me.

Chris said he would help me move the camera! I grab once side of the tripod and he grabed the other and we crawled closer to the top of the hill and reposition the camera. I look through the viewfinder to see if I could see the buck! BINGO! I can see the buck, but I’m going to have to coordinate the shot with Ben because there are still sage bushes in the way.

I give Ben the green light and then have to quickly call him off. Then I give Ben the green light and once again call him off. This happens about 5 times. I can see the buck for a few seconds and then he walks behind a bush. Then the moment of truth, the buck walks into view. I tell Ben to shoot and he drops him in his tracks. It was a few tense moments, but Ben stayed calm and we got our antelope.  Not only did we get our antelope, but he was just 2 1/2 inches short of making Boone & Crockett!

After the shot I looked at Chris and told him that plenty of Outfitters had promised hunts this good, but he was the first one to prove it! It was truely and awesome hunt and one that we will not soon forget!

No better way to end the hunt than with a breath taking Sunset!