On the 22nd day of October, hunting conditions were a little less than ideal.  Ryan Miller and myself had decided to sit at the Old Car stand.  Ryan was a second year hunter at East Fork from North Carolina.  The year before, Ryan had a successful spot and stalk hunt on an awesome 163” six by five.  Had this big mature buck not have broken off his G-4, he would have been over 170”!  I thought that hunt would have been hard to beat, but on this rainy day in October, I would have a new favorite hunt with Ryan Miller. Read the rest of this entry »

It was October 9th and I was hunting with Cyndi Herrin from Dallas, Texas. We had seen several deer from the blind that day including some good bucks, but we didn’t see the one we were looking for.  The next day we hunted a different location called the “Hole”.  It was one of the longer shots on the ranch at 168 yards, but I was confident that Cyndi could make the shot.  We were watching the deer in field hoping for a mature buck to show up, when movement caught our eye.  It was a great buck that we had not seen since the 2007 season.  Both excited and nervous, due to the elusiveness of the buck, I told Cyndi that this was the deer we were looking for.  She got her rifle up and pulled the trigger, dropping him in his tracks. Read the rest of this entry »

Some bucks that reside in the oaks and hills of East Fork Ranch become somewhat notorious as the days of the season unfold, that is where the story of the “Big nine” begins. It was unseasonably warm in mid October, hunting buddy Jimmy Sills and I were found ourselves relaxing in the pot belly blind at the top field where the story of the big nine had just been told. Waiting in anticipation that this big deer would appear like it had just days before when hunting with good friend Rodney Passow. Rodney and I had been hunting this location the first day of his hunt when three great bucks appeared. We discussed taking any of the deer including the nine point which sported unusually long brow tines. Being the first day of his hunt we regrettably decided to pass, only to hunt this buck the rest of the week with no luck. Read the rest of this entry »