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Dr. Ed Nighbert took a great old 10 point that was in hot pursuit of a doe late on Saturday afternoon in Eastern Montana. During the week that Ed and I spent hunting the river bottoms rut activity appeared to...

It's been a terrific first two days hunting in Eastern Montana with Bill Perkins of Perkins Outfitting out of Miles City Montana. And the bucks here are off and running. Dr. Ed Nighbert and I are sharing camp for four...

After 5 days of rough hunting in Wyoming. David Morris was finally had some luck! Posted by Tecomate Wildlife Systems

In South Texas last week I observed only limited rut activity. Small bucks were occasionally observed sparring. Only a few mature bucks were seen pursuing does during six full days hunting. I've heard reports all over the brush country from...

As I have said many times in the past the Mississippi Rut is the craziest in the country. This year being no different. For the extreme northern parts of the state the peak rut period has already pasted, along with...

Saw and filmed some fantastic bucks, two over 170. Amazing country. No cell service! Posted by Jason Snavely

Day 1: Morning HuntVideographer Matthew Carman and I arrived at the LBV Ranch headquarters yesterday in preparation for our Bucks of Tecomate hunt that started this morning. The 14,500-acre LBV Ranch is in Webb County, about 30 miles from the...

12/27/2011Can you imagine a more barren place to hunt whitetails than the plains of Eastern Colorado? I could not. Not until David Morris and I arrived in the Sand Hills of Nebraska this past season with expert Tecomate Videographer Matthew...

Dec. 1-4, 2011, Sandhills of Nebraska: The Bucks of Tecomate TV HuntA stranger place to hunt whitetails I’ve never seen. But they are there … in a place with virtually NO trees, only grass. And, right alongside them you can find their...

Nov. 12-15, 2011, Oshkosh, NE: The Bucks of Tecomate TV Hunt on Nebraska’s North Platt RiverI have heard about the giant bucks of Nebraska’s North Platte River for years. This fabled place has always been on my hunting wish list. When Steve...

Nov. 17-20, 2011, Miles City, MT: The Bucks of Tecomate TV Hunt on Montana’s Powder RiverOver the years, I’ve come to have a few favorite places to hunt whitetails. They are not all based on deer size, though some like...

Priest River, ID Hunt – Travel Day 11/13/11I left Corpus Christi at 7:00 this morning, flew to Dallas, then to Seattle, then to Spokane. My rifle and baggage made it!I met videographer JJ Slater in Spokane. We then drove across...

(Nov. 5th – 9th, 2011)Day 1 - November 5thNoemi and I left Corpus Christi before 6:00 this morning to meet David Morris and videographer Matthew Carmen at David's house outside San Antonio.After a quick tour of David's jaw dropping collection...

The whitetail rut in is definitely heating up. Plenty of action was taking place in the wide open prairie country and river bottoms of this region October 22nd through October 26th. David Morris and I just concluded our third consecutive...

Location: Black Hills of WyomingDateline: 11/10/09 – Back when I was 12 years old, my mother and daddy took my cousin, Newt, and me on a two-week driving tour through the West that included a visit to South Dakota’s Mount...

Dateline: 1/12/10 – Wow!!! What a season we have just completed in South Texas. The Bucks of Tecomate cameras covered hunts on El Cazador, El Tecomate, La Perla and Campos Veijos ranches, all managed under the Tecomate Management System! And on those...

Location: Eastern ColoradoDateline: 11/7/09 – After a slow start in Idaho, the next stop in the West put The Bucks of Tecomate in the winning column. On October 23th, I flew into Denver and was joined by my old hunting buddy of...

Well, our first trip of 2009 is behind us. Debbie and I traveled to beautiful north-central Idaho and hunted with Chuck, Lana and Anderson Melgin on their South Fork River Ranch near Grangeville. What a wonderful week we had with...

A first glimpse into the what kind of bucks are on my EL Cazador Ranch this year. You can watch the videos on our YouTube account. Posted by David Morris

A 24-Point Finale To An Awesome Season!Every now and then I see a young buck on my ranch that I know is going to be very special when he grows up. Such was the case with a buck we came...

Foxworthy’s Hog and BullI love hunting with Jeff Foxworthy! He has fun and sees to it that everybody around him does too. This year was no exception. Jeff’s hunt really had its beginning a few days before his arrival, when...