David's Blog
Hi, welcome to my BLOG. Since I don’t know a whole lot about what’s supposed to be on a BLOG, I’m just going to talk to you in plain terms … like I would if we were sharing a hunting camp. Of course, we’ll mostly be talking hunting, and I’ll try to keep up you updated on what’s going on with The Bucks of Tecomate TV show.
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Monday, March 02, 2009
The Bucks of Tecomate 2009 Season Hunts - VIII
A 24-Point Finale To An Awesome Season!
Every now and then I see a young buck on my ranch that I know is going to be very special when he grows up. Such was the case with a buck we came to call “Stickers.” I first saw him two years ago when he was 4½ years old and made a mental note that I would go after him when he reached huntable age (that meant 6½ on my ranch). I didn’t see him at all in the field when he was 5½ but did get photos of him on StealthCam. When this season rolled around, he was one of the bucks we targeted ... if we could find him. In October, I once again got StealthCam photos of him and what a buck he was! As near as I could tell, he was a basic 13-pointer with at least 11 non-typical points.
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Posted by David Morris on 03/02 at 11:08 PM
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
The Bucks of Tecomate 2009 Season Hunts - VII
Foxworthy’s Hog and Bull
I love hunting with Jeff Foxworthy! He has fun and sees to it that everybody around him does too. This year was no exception. Jeff’s hunt really had its beginning a few days before his arrival, when Gary Schwarz took his wife, Marlee, hunting for a giant buck called Flatliner on Tecomate Ranch. As luck would have it, the buck, which Gary had not seen all year, showed up on the food plot they were hunting. But because of a shift in wind direction, they had moved from the permanent blind they wanted to hunt and had set up an impromptu ground blind. Marlee didn’t have a good rest and wisely held off the shot. They tried again the next day, but the buck came into the plot too late for a shot. Marlee had to end her hunt and couldn’t return for a week. The next day, Jeff arrived to hunt El Tecomate Ranch with the greenlight from Gary to shoot any buck on the ranch ... except Flatliner, now Marlee’s deer.
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Posted by David Morris on 02/28 at 11:07 PM
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
The Bucks of Tecomate 2009 Season Hunts - V
My Best Buck Ever!
Starting on December 15th, I began an epic hunt for what I thought might be one of the biggest bucks I had ever killed and one of the biggest I’ve ever had on El Cazador Ranch. My head guide, Pete Gunderson, had videoed a remarkable buck very late one afternoon in early December. Though the video was dark and brief, I could tell he was a monster. I was pretty sure he was a buck I had seen two years earlier, when he was 4½, on a late-season Max-Attract food plot and then again the next August at dusk on a lablab food plot when he was in velvet. If it was that deer, he would now be 6½ years old (our minimum age to shoot as a trophy). And even though Pete’s video was dark, I knew he was even bigger than he was when I saw him in velvet the previous year on the lablab plot ... and he was a Boone & Crockett then! This was the buck I was going after.
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Posted by David Morris on 02/22 at 11:05 PM
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Bucks of Tecomate 2009 Season Hunts - IV
The Girls Keep On “Racking” Up!
Spurred on by Jen’s success, my youngest daughter, Kristin Morris, set her sights on two, yes, two, big basic 8-pointers. One was a clean 8-pointer we had photos of on StealthCam. This buck promised to be one of the most beautiful 8-pointers we had ever seen. The other buck was an ancient old 9-pointer with a drop tine. The problem with this deer was that Kristin had already been after this buck for four years. She figured she had hunted him for over 50 days already. I held out little hope she would kill this deer. Kristin is tenacious to the extreme. I shouldn’t have underestimated her. She killed them both! She just plain outlasted them. I had the pleasure of being with (and filming) her when she shot the clean 162 gross B&C 8-pointer, a dream buck. She worried the Big 9 into submission on her own. He scored an amazing 172. This show will prove what determination can do.
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Posted by David Morris on 02/19 at 11:04 PM
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Monday, February 16, 2009
The Bucks of Tecomate 2009 Season Hunts - III
Jen Shoots Our First Boone & Crocket Non-Typical
My daughter, Jennifer Duplissey, was next in front of the camera. A couple of weeks earlier one of my guides had videoed a monster mystery buck we had never seen during the management buck hunts. He was a huge non-typical with a cluster of extra points around his base and brow tines. As my wife and girls so often do, they set about claiming the deer for their own. Jennifer somehow won. Jennifer is one of the best hunters I know, and when Jennifer gets after a buck, he has been seriously “gotten after.” We didn’t know much about this deer’s habitats or range, but I figured I would see him soon on the hanging pole.
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Posted by David Morris on 02/16 at 11:03 PM
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