Mike

MIKE

O.K. I admit it. At times I find myself envious, even jealous of the pro-hunters and fisher folk that made the big time. They get to hunt or own expansive tracts of private ground and hunt the big name ranches. Basically do the things that I dream about doing.

Trapped in a workaday world, an average outdoorsman has to squeeze a busy schedule just to find time to slug it out on the public lands and small tracts of private property that one has been lucky enough to garner permission to enter. I`m sure that many of you out there can relate to this.

That`s one of my reasons for this project. I want to give some insight into the other side of outdoor adventures, the side not often seen in the hunting and fishing shows on the T.V. While we may scrimp and save to charter a boat, or take a guided hunt, we're basically trying to enjoy the outdoors on layman's terms, sharing those adventures with you!

One of Mikes more memorable turkey hunts took place a few years ago. He had already taken a bird earlier in the season, and was looking to use his second and last tag on a bird that was giving quite a few folks fits. Living very close to the road on a public hunting area, you could hear this bird gobbling from the parking lot. The pressure on this particular bird was intense. Many times, you couldn't hunt there because you'd find that several trucks were already parked at this spot to hunt him when you arrived. But the season had been open for three weeks on this hunt, and others had run out of vacation time or simply given up on this one. Surprisingly enough, on this morning, sneaking in without a flashlight before it got light, Mike jumped a deer that started blowing as it ran off. Figuring the hunt was probably over, but continuing to where he wanted to set up anyways, the turkey started gobbling from the tree at that deer, in the dark! The hunt that unfolded was amazing! Click below to join him!