My buddy Vandy Collins is a turkey hunting nut, so it only makes since he is a big supporter of the NWTF. Every year Vandy has a banquet in Fausdale, AL and for the last three years I have offered to auction a hunt of with me in North FL. This year’s Angie Cogland bought the hunt for her girlfriend Rita Collins to help raise some funds for NWTF.

Right off the roost Rita proved that not only that women look way better than us dudes in the woods, she proved that girls get r done by laying down a big 3yr old FL eastern!

Way to go ladies.. Totally showing up the men on this one.

Celebrating the culture of hunting is always fun and inspirational for me and this past weekend we did just that in Raleigh, NC, at the Dixie Deer Classic which is one show that knows how to entertain fellow Bone Collectors like us.

While there, our whole crew was blown away at the hospitality and attitude of all the people that came to the show. We met so many great people and it was a pleasure to look across the building and see Lee and Tiffany Lakosky enjoying the same treatment.

While at the show I met, Joey Davenport, a 17-year-old young man, that is battling cancer with a very grim outlook of winning the war with it. Despite having a weak immune system and being very weak from his chemo treatments, he and his dad came to the show to meet us and the Crush crew and partake in the annual festivities that the Classic provides.

His attendance touched me and our whole crew very deeply. I just wanted to let everyone out there to make sure to keep young Joey in your prayers and thoughts, and remind everyone to never take for granted what tomorrow brings.

Every new dawn is a blessing, and as we draw near to turkey season and hard gobblin’ toms across this nation, please remember to share the experience with someone you love.

Though the past few weeks have been more than crazy as far as travel goes, the final stop made me forget about the fact that I hadn’t slept in nearly two weeks. What a sweet feeling it was for the Bone Collector Crew to take home Best Big Game and Best New Series at the 2009 Golden Moose Awards.

From the entire Bone Collector family, I just want to say thanks for all your support in 2009. We can’t say how much it means to us for you to watch the show and believe in the hunting culture. We love what we do and look forward to rockin’ again in 2010!

This past spring I had a chance to hunt with rocker Aaron Lewis from the mega hit making band Staind. It was a pleasant surprise to hear that Aaron was a hard-core hunter, but seeing is believing.

It didn’t take Aaron long to convince me he was indeed used to playing string music on a bow and not always the guitar. With the cameras rolling, Aaron put on a bow-hunting clinic in Albany, TX where we hunted hogs at the Vinson Ranch.

The camp was filled with family and friends as well as Nick and T-bone. Even Gonzo Rocker, Ted Nugent himself, even showed up before the killing was done. My boy Mason Waddell scored on his first porker too! Also joining us in camp was my wife Ashley and good friend from Illinois, Jim Schiefielbien, and his boy, Matt, who is around the same age of by son Mason. Jim has been a guest on several episodes of the Bone Collector TV show and is always a blast to have around to help lay the smack down on some skillet meat.

Needless to say this hunt was full of blood trails laid down by a variety of guest and equipment. I will say the youngsters Matt and Mason topped the entertainment by breaking in the new R-15, on some hogs. The R-15 is Remington’s brand new gun to just come out.

I’m pumped about sharing this episode of Bone Collector in 2010. Lots of rock n roll and the other white meat here! Pork Chops!

By the way, Aaron was the first rocker outside of Nuge to be sworn into the brotherhood. Thanks for standing up and celebrating the hunt Aaron.

All my life I have dreamed of owning a farm or some land. I think it is fair to say that is most all country boys and girls dream.

Well finally, I bit the bullet a jumped in and bought me my first track of land! I chose KS for so many reasons to buy me a place, but to keep it simple, giants live there and I’m not talking about Eli Manning and Flexico Burres, I’m talking about huge whitetails, not counting the off the hook amount of waterfowl and turkey that inhabit this state.

I wanted to share my joy in this blog and admit to being in debt, but at least I know where I’ll be hunting next fall unless the bank tells me otherwise. T-bone has already has broke this piece of ground in by anchoring a nice 145 this November on Bone Collector and some of you guys might remember Blake Shelton putting the molly hock of super nice deer on Bone Collectors first ever episode from this track of land.

It was only my second time to hunt MX and I can say it definitely won’t be my last! This trip had been on the books for over a year. Jackie Bushman had invited me and the Bone Collector production crew to be part of a sweepstakes hunt he had been doing annually, where a lucky hunter would have a chance to hunt MX with MX outfitters unlimited by entering at buckmasters.com.

There has been a lot of controversy on the news about crossing the border and a lot of press on the hassle with hunting MX. I can say that this was not the case. We flew into Del Rio, TX and Clay Young and his crew escorted us across the border in Acuna, MX without any problems what so ever, as a matter of fact we stopped and did a quick tour of Acuna which is where the movie Desperado was shot.

The Ranch we hunted had great accommodations and the deer were high in numbers and every sit we saw at least 10 to 15. Due to the drought this past spring the antler growth was off a little but we were seeing plenty of 140 to 150 class deer and mature deer every hunt.

When it was all said and done the whole hunting party filled their tags, Jackie, myself and the sweepstakes hunters went home with trophies!

I used my Hoyt to anchor my management buck, which was an 130 inch 8 pt and I broke out my Remington 300 ultra mag to smoke down a really nice 155 inch 12 pt.

MX was laid back and had plenty of blood trails! I can’t wait to go back!

For more info on hunting Mexico call Clay Young at 830-778-1531

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN! And Michael thinks he knows just how to catch him doing his thing.