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Old school!
26/11/2024

Old school!

They outdid themselves this year! Me and Kristi ate waaay too much delicious German food!
25/11/2024

They outdid themselves this year! Me and Kristi ate waaay too much delicious German food!

Got in another delivery of books in hardback and paperback for anyone who would like to buy locally! Also, Kristi met so...
24/11/2024

Got in another delivery of books in hardback and paperback for anyone who would like to buy locally! Also, Kristi met someone today who was able to put me together a handful of hats to sell. Thank you American Grit Outfitters! I’m working on putting together a big order on several different styles and colors in the near future. Thank y’all so much for the support, I couldn’t ask for better friends to share this life with!

Getting the Missouri and Kansas bucks scored for Buckmasters with
20/11/2024

Getting the Missouri and Kansas bucks scored for Buckmasters with

These are the good ol’ days
17/11/2024

These are the good ol’ days

It was a good day on a Missouri mountain
11/11/2024

It was a good day on a Missouri mountain

We in the deer now
08/11/2024

We in the deer now

This little guy almost let me step on him this morning
04/11/2024

This little guy almost let me step on him this morning

“The Dark Web of Deer Hunting” I was brought up being taught that deer hunting was that one thing that I could always...
02/11/2024

“The Dark Web of Deer Hunting”

I was brought up being taught that deer hunting was that one thing that I could always count on. Just being there; away from school and rules, away from work and finances, away from politics, news, and the pain and problems of the world. I was taught that a man could recenter himself by climbing a tree and thinking of nothing in anticipation of everything. My entire life the greatest conversation I could have was with a fellow outdoorsman.

I made plans this morning to do some scouting for the upcoming week’s hunt. As usual, I shared my pins and threw around some strategy with some of my most trusted friends then sat down to eat breakfast and scroll some social media. It didn’t take but a couple seconds and I had read more cursing, hatred, and belittling than I could have found on pages that celebrated racism or spousal abuse, if they were to ever exist. What cut deep was that these were hunting pages. Every one of them.

I don’t want to come across as a prude, because I’m far from it, but at some point there needs to be some accountability for preserving our hunting heritage and what it should represent. There are kids reading and we’re sitting here acting no different than the peer pressure and criticism they try to get away from AND WE ARE ADULTS. Even now someone is reading this wanting to comment some snide remark about folks needing to have a tougher skin. Why? To enjoy deer hunting? Or I should stay off social media, right? No! I want to see and share in everyone’s success! Why is that so difficult?

For all of you channel owners, admins, and moderators: I myself try and grow on social media. It builds brands, generates income, and allows us to do what few ever have the opportunity to do; but read your comments and take some action. You think I’m a hypocrite? Please, read the comments I allow on ANY of my social media. If we do not block and filter out the garbage, it’s all we’ll be left with because the folks that ENJOY the peacefulness of the deer woods won’t be there to support us. Don’t believe me? Go through and see how many times the same people spew the same nonsense in the comments on every post. Why are they still on there? Because you allow it for “growth” while in the meantime your most genuine members and supporters slowly disengage and begin mumbling their disapproval to one another as they unlike, unsubscribe, and unfollow to try and remember why they started hunting in the first place. Allowing this to go on to grow a brand is absolutely no different than sticking your wife in a thong and displaying her on your thumbnail to bump that click percentage. Does it work? Dang right it does! But at what cost? Go to one of those videos with the half naked women and read the comments and you’ll find out.

I’ll give an example of the useless need to have to defend ourselves and our opinions. Read this and try to keep your mind from jumping straight to criticism: I myself have a Summit Mini Viper, a Cruzr Archon, a JX3 Hybrid, and am in the market for a XOP Retrograde. I have a Tethrd predator XL platform as well as the Predator 5 XL. I have Hawk sticks, Skeletors, and Ones, and uses for it all. That is all my favorite equipment and I will probably NEVER buy what you use that is any different. While sharing a video about a great buck last year my skeletors were in the vid as well as my Sitka gear. I got dozens of congratulations and camaraderie and shared the experience as if around the skinning shed back in my childhood hunting camp. Then there were 2. A man child that decided to rant about Sitka as if they kicked his dog, blasting me about it being too hot in Alabama to wear it, cussing all the way. Another attempted to abuse me about shot placement because I took multiple shots as well as the uselessness of using sticks rather than one-sticking. You won’t find those 2 men now or ever on my channel, because they are blocked. Simple. Now everyone can enjoy the platform without some troll sitting in his sweatpants telling us how to hunt.

Everyone is at a different point in their lives as a deer hunter. Everyone has different experiences, equipment, abilities, opportunities, and expectations. Some were raised as deer hunters alongside their fathers and grandfathers while others are trying to learn in REAL TIME, TODAY, from y’all…..from all of us! Don’t make them have to w**d through the B.S. to get from A to B, especially when YOU are in charge of the page or channel. It isn’t fair to those who are trying, those who are the future of the tradition, or to all of us who have to see the slow degradation of the greatest part of our lives. We ALL have an opinion based on our unique experiences and believe it or not, we can ALL help.

There are thousands watching and waiting to engage, to teach, and to share in the congratulations. Stop allowing those comments to be pushed to the end while “crossbows are embarrassments to deer hunting”, “you lost me at nocturnal”, and “why don’t you”, “why should you”, and “why would you ever” horse crap sits atop the comment list as it gets pushed in the algorithm for argument sake. I invite everyone to share in the change and participate in cleaning the pages up if you own them, or leaving them if you disapprove. Let’s do better. Hunting is fun y’all. Try and remember that.

This 11 point is as beautiful now as the first day I saw him 😍
31/10/2024

This 11 point is as beautiful now as the first day I saw him 😍

I have got to give a shout out to for this slow pitch reel I bought a few months ago. I wanted to try slow pitch, so I ...
31/10/2024

I have got to give a shout out to for this slow pitch reel I bought a few months ago. I wanted to try slow pitch, so I built a rod but just didn’t want to spend a fortune on a reel (some of them are reeeaally high!) I found this Penn Fathom 2 on their website and after comparing stats with many others ordered one to see what would happen. It was incredible! Did everything I hoped it would and surprised me at what a reel so small is capable of, even landing a 40lb amberjack. Y’all keep in mind that if y’all want to put together a combo for this upcoming spring, Christmas is right around the corner so get your significant other to jump on the website and grab one! Afterwards, give me a call and we’ll design you a custom rod! https://beachbumoutdoors.com/?rstr=CRC4BBO

I can’t be the only person that wakes up at 3am and thinks “wonder what that spot looks like?” ….. then stares at to...
31/10/2024

I can’t be the only person that wakes up at 3am and thinks “wonder what that spot looks like?”
….. then stares at topography for 4 hours.

30/10/2024

My book "Raised in the Alabama Swamp" is now available!

We just crushed some Mexican food I tell ya!
30/10/2024

We just crushed some Mexican food I tell ya!

That is one beautiful cape on this buck!
29/10/2024

That is one beautiful cape on this buck!

Got it done a little late tonight due to some bbq and Brunswick stew, but the next vid in the series is up!
29/10/2024

Got it done a little late tonight due to some bbq and Brunswick stew, but the next vid in the series is up!

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This is what friends are for #deer #hunting #southerntinestaxidermy

That’s a little different #nontypical #deer

What an absolutely beautiful morning!! #deer #hunting #reels

Walked up on one today. Maybe he’ll do the same thing in the morning 🤞

When deer scouting alligator habitat, at least bring a paddle 😂 #deer #hunting #reels #alligator

How does this sound? #turkey #hunter #turkeycalls #reel #reels

I love a big rub! #deer #hunting #reelsvideo #reels #reel

Don’t turn your back on a buck deer #deer #hunting #taxidermy #reels #reelsvideo

My book "Raised in the Alabama Swamp" is now available!
My book "Raised in the Alabama Swamp" is now available!

My book "Raised in the Alabama Swamp" is now available!

Bowhunting October
Bowhunting October

Bowhunting October #deer #deerseason #deerhunter #deerhunting #deerseason2024 #tethrd #eberlestockx2 #mathews

Right now is one of the best times of the year to target fish from the surf on the Alabama gulf coast! If y’all get a chance or already have plans to go, let @beachbumoutdoors help ya’ll with your gear! Tight lines! #bumbassador

Have ya'll ever had to worry about ALLIGATORS when scouting?
Have ya'll ever had to worry about ALLIGATORS when scouting?

Have ya'll ever had to worry about ALLIGATORS when scouting?

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