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Last week I was hunting mule deer on a 15,000-acre ranch northwest of Medicine Bow, WY, with my good friend Jadee Kroeger of Kroeger Country Outfitters out of Casper, WY. I shot a 190-class mule deer with 6 and 7-inch...

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...

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...

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...

A True American Hero Scores BigOn our next hunt, I had the pleasure of sharing my ranch with a true American hero, Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL who was sole survivor of a SEAL mission in Afghanistan to kill or...

My Best Buck Ever!Starting on December 15th, I began an epic hunt for what I thought might be one of the biggest bucks I had ever killed and one of the biggest I’ve ever had on El Cazador Ranch. My...

The Girls Keep On "Racking" Up!Spurred on by Jen’s success, my youngest daughter, Kristin Morris, set her sights on two, yes, two, big basic 8-pointers. One was a clean 8-pointer we had photos of on StealthCam. This buck promised to...

Jen Shoots Our First Boone & Crocket Non-TypicalMy daughter, Jennifer Duplissey, was next in front of the camera. A couple of weeks earlier one of my guides had videoed a monster mystery buck we had never seen during the management...

Thank God for Texas!Finally, in early December, The Bucks of Tecomate headed to Texas ... ah, Texas! I was very happy to be back on my El Cazador Ranch. Wow, did it look good! I knew there were giants afoot...

The Midwest Is A CHALLENGE!In late November, Gary Schwarz and I headed to Pike County, Illinois, the heart of Midwest big buck hunting. Gary and I were there for two purposes – hunting for The Bucks of Tecomate TV show by day...

The Bucks of Tecomate 2009 Season HuntsWell, it has been a long hunting (and TV) season with plenty of ups and downs. In the end, we "got 'er done" but it wasn’t easy. Lots of no-kill hunts, which is to be...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from sunny South Texas. It’s a great time of the year, when we celebrate the day that God became man in the form of Baby Jesus to save us from our sins and give...

Day 4 - Again, overcast, light winds and about 28 degrees.Back to the new area. Got around behind a bunch of deer out in the fields in hopes of having them pass by on the way back to cover. Worked...

Day 3 - Overcast and light winds. About 30 degrees.Went to a new area of the river in the morning and walked and rattled.Rattled in two bucks and saw about 10 whitetail bucks ... along with about 15 mule deer...

Day 2 - Wind let up. Only 15-12 mph. Very cold - 16 degrees and clear. Walked riverbottoms and rattled.On one session, rattled in 8 bucks, including 3 mature bucks to within 20 yards. Some of the best rattling video...

Day 1 - Miles City, MT - Bill Perkins Outfitter.50 mph winds and blizzard conditions. In morning, had to get in cover with deer to see anything.Afternoon, hunted fields. Saw about 30 bucks all day and walked 10 miles.Biggest was...

On November 13, 2008, I start an almost non-stop marathon of hunts until December 21. (Believe me, I am not complaining – I’ve been waiting for this all year!) I start off in Miles City, Montana, hunting the Powder River...

A sampling of Stealth Cam photos so far from my El Cazador Ranch this year. Overall, the year looks pretty good, despite a very dry spring and early summer.PIC0167 is an ancient old buck, appears 9.5 to 10.5 years old,...

Tecomate’s Gary Schwarz and wife Marlee joined my wife, Debbie, and me on a recent trip to Finland, where we were hosted by a wonderful group of guys with Sako Arms and Chip Klass with Beretta, USA, the parent company...

2008 Tecomate HuntsThis fall on The Bucks of Tecomate, we are airing the most incredible big buck season ever for a TV series – hunts that see an amazing 10 bucks over 170 being taken. As we go into this season,...

My Next HuntI bet you never thought you’d read this – my next hunt is in Finland … for whitetails and moose! At the invitation of Sako, our rifle sponsor, Gary Schwarz and I, along with our wives, are headed...