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 days. Right now it's Ed's turn. We are hoping that Ed bags his big Montana buck sometime during the next 48 hours.Yesterday I took a great old Montana river bottom 10-point that was likely 7 years old plus. My buck...

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 Farris called and asked me to join him in mid-November to hunt one of the ranches he owns in the Panhandle, my answer was swift and sure … “YES!” One of the great things about Nebraska is that you can...

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 South Texas and Eastern Colorado do produce giants. Others have good deer, but even more importantly, they are delightful places to hunt and places where old friendships are fostered. One such place is a wild and beautiful chunk of country...

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 brow tines. Thoseare the longest brow tines of any mule deer I’ve ever killed. My .270 WSM Sako A7 Tecomate proved to be accurate at 300 yards.After that, we had an antelope tag, but did not have a ranch to...

Sentinel Limpopo Safari Chronicle, Zimbabwe Africa August/September 2011Days 1 & 2 | Days 3 & 4 | Days 5 & 6 | Days 7 & 8 | Days 9 & 10Day 9 - September 8th, 2011For us it was back to the riverine after daylight in search of the heavy horned bushbuck of the nyala berry tree. And that’s right where we found him. Moffat spotted the ram first in the thicket just beyond the berry tree’s far reaching branches. A duiker moved into the clear first and...

Sentinel Limpopo Safari Chronicle, Zimbabwe Africa August/September 2011Days 1 & 2 | Days 3 & 4 | Days 5 & 6 | Days 7 & 8 | Days 9 & 10Day 5- September 4th, 2011More of the same today - searching, searching, searching for a trophy elephant bull. Today we ran into scores of buffalo that appeared to be anesthetized, seemingly unaffected by our presence, as we traveled the dusty two tracks of Sentinel. We observe one buffalo bull worthy of a return trip to Sentinel in 2012....

Sentinel Limpopo Safari Chronicle, Zimbabwe Africa August/September 2011Days 1 & 2 | Days 3 & 4 | Days 5 & 6 | Days 7 & 8 | Days 9 & 10Day 3 - September 2nd, 2011Our hunting party of five returned to cut the tracks of more buffalo this morning. In short order we were back on fresh tracks. Most of the day we met with similar frustrating results as the day before. But late in the day Richard`s persistence along with the talent of our trackers and...

Bucks of Tecomate - African EditionDays 1 & 2 | Days 3 & 4 | Days 5 & 6 | Days 7 & 8 | Days 9 & 10Date: August 28-Sept. 9, 2011Where: Sentinel Limpopo Safaris in southern ZimbabweBooking agent: Burnt Pine Travel, Marietta, GAGame: African antelope most like whitetails – bushbuck, nyala, kudu and eland – the spiral hornsBasic Gear:Rifle – Sako A7 Tecomate in .300 WSM.Ammo – Winchester Elite 180-grain XP3Scope – Leupold VX-3L 4.5-14x50mm CDS (Custom Dial System)Binoculars – Leupold 10x42 MojaveRangefinder – Leupold RX-1000...