Thank you Mr. Bestul! Glad to see Oklahoma finally get a little recognition, as there are plenty of big bucks taken here every year. View my profile photos for a glimpse of two nice Okie bucks taken this rifle season.

I don't believe any one of the T.V. show "hunters" really "hunt" anywhere other than a high fence facility. I don't care who you pretend to be on T.V. Nobody kills big bucks everytime they go afield, especially on ground they've "never hunted" before. What you don't see is the high fence, the game drivers, and the money changing hands. What you do see is the product promotion, the fake white smile and the glow of a car salesman.

It was a breader buck, that was reportedly purchased for 20-40 thousand dollars. I have personally seen the rack and the deer, but there seems to be a lot mistery around this local famous deer.

Here's my quick scouting tip for those of you who don't think you can hunt a new area successfully -- make a couple phone calls. If you're going to an area with any timber, contact the closest appropriate FORESTRY office. Note that I didn't say wildlife biologist. Especially if it's federal land you're looking at, the foresters are more likely to have actually put boots on the ground where you intend to go. And I think we're at a point where more foresters are hunters than wildlife biologists. I'm assuming that Oklahoma would have rangeland or prairie specialists -- check with them.

I have felt the same as Walt since seeing my first hunting show on Outdoor Channel. I hunt private land in a great deer state and huge bucks do not come easy here either. Certainly not like they show on TV.

We get some big bucks in ontario, maybe not whopping antlers, but body size wise. And lets face it, you can't eat antler.

Here in Indiana, the hunting has been slow but has paid off. Due to a late corn harvest this year, we did not really see very many deer. But I was able to tag a NICE 8-pointer. My trail cam has also collected lots of pictures of GOOD bucks in the past month or so. I have an old neighbor who seems to tag a big buck every year, and has always hunted in Indiana. If you have been watching this sigt lately, you will notice that quite a few nice bucks have been taken here this year, not to mention some real monsters. I really like the hunting here and probably will never go anywhere else for whitetails.

Please shut your piehole about Oklahoma.

It would be appreciated!

:)

Nolan, no you can't eat the horns but you can stir the stew with them.

Jeeze, people get so jealous. Being a professional hunter grants you certain privileges. Just like working in a restaurant can earn you free lunches, those guys get to go great places because it's their business. Get over it. Would you throw a couple logos in your pictures if it was what put food on your family's table? Remember please, it is your passion/pastime, and it is their JOB. You will never measure up, so quit being jealous.

Hey if it make their living I don't care. If I were younger I would try to get one of those gigs.

One must wonder if the "tall brush" in the distant background of the picture is actually a tall fence.

I wouldn't be surprised if the giant buck in the picture had been little more than a handfed pet for years on someone's tall fence private game ranch.

The buck is too big, too fat and too clean to be a wild buck in wintertime snow-and-ice USA. Likewise, the "hunter" looks far too pretty, far too clean, far too not-tired-at-all (and his advertising slogans are also nauseating) and just too-plain-fake for me to believe his "hunt" was anything more than a "farce."
Have any of us who ever spent time in the wilds getting cold, getting dirty, getting sleep deprived, getting tired, and finally getting--if we're lucky--our game-- ever looked like the guy in the picture? Come on.

Contrast the picture above with the genuine no-sh*t hunting picture of F&S's David E. Petzal and his (realistic sized) buck in Kanasas. (Btw, I don't know Petzal and I'm not a F&S writer or advertiser.) Petzal looks frozen, tired, dirty, happy, but also nearly wiped out. His buck looks like a genuine wild animal that met its end because of Petzal's skill and marksmanship. None of this is the way things look in the the picture above at all.

I think the only "hunt" that took place here was when the walking billboard advertisement in the picture looked for his baggage and his rental car keys at the airport when he arrived in-state. I suspect everything else about his so-called "hunt" was staged from beginning to end.

TWD

Absolutely, TW. Anyone that kills a bigger deer than you cheated.

It amazes me that when a great is killed anyware but up in the norhtern states how it gets belittled. I just completed a trip to Louisiana and took a great sothern whitetail. Seen many BC scoreable bucks harvested. This is all on a 1200 acre pulp wood track surrounded bu thousands more acres of pines.I grew up in Iowa and hunted feedlot deer that roamed around grain feilds. I moved to Oklahoma and had to learn how to hunt all over. The hunting in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas is real in the woods experiance. Rough terrian and nature feed whitetail. In my area bucks with BC/PY class are more common every season. Follow up on the ODWC website and see how many 150"+ buck are harvested on public land. 200" class have came off pulic land NOT high fence. Congrats on the deer. P.S. Any one up to the challange of packing in 1-2 miles to a deer stand on 54K of public land Kiamichi Mtns let me know.

Hello, I love hunting too.