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Pro Staff Big into whitetail hunting when I was about nine years old.

Bruce: Five, four, three, two, one. Welcome to another episode of Whitetail Rendezvous. Today we’re going to introduce and welcome to the show Kagney Brown. He’s on pro staff with Elusion Camo and he’s partnering up with Eddie Macfarlane at Buck Nuts, which can be seen on the Pursuit Town. Kagney, say hello.

Kagney: Hey everyone.

Bruce: Well, Kagney, you just shared some really neat information with me, so why don’t we just go back to what you’ve been doing in the outdoor world, out door experiences, how they’ve focused on whitetails over the last couple of years.

Kagney: Okay. [inaudible 00:00:59] I got really big into whitetail hunting when I was about nine years old. Always been big into the outdoors, hunting and fishing. I killed my first deer when I was nine years old. I was actually basically tied to a ladder stand with a 35 and my Dad killed a really big buck and there was a small six pointer that come running down in front of me. And just from the hunting shows and everything, I kind of clicked, and it stopped. And that was pretty much my first deer and ever since then I’ve been hooked.

And I was about 18, I submitted a bunch of deer pics to Bass Pro and places that, trying to, you know, basically become part of a pro staff team and everybody kept telling me, you know, that I needed more diversity. So I tried on both sides, the hunting and the fishing world, for about four years. Sort of traveling around, getting more video clips from the surrounding areas where I was from. And everybody still told me I needed more diversity. So the last two and a half years, I’ve been moving across the United States, going everywhere that I could. The Great Plains, Oregon. I’m in Texas now. I’ve been to Pennsylvania, Ohio, just getting all the video clips that I can, trying to pick up all the small time sponsors I could just to help me with the big maps. It’s pretty much led me to where I’m at today.

Bruce: Excellent. Thinking about being tied into to a ladder stand at age 9 years old with your Dad, that had to be one heck of an experience.

Kagney: Yeah, yeah. See, my Dad, we, we never hunted, you know, side by side, once I got to that age. I did a lot of turkey hunting and stuff from the time I was basically like five years old and we always stuck together. But being in Georgia, once I got my own hunter safety certificate and everything, we hunted about 100 yards apart. So I basically had the harness, the tree stand harness, wrapped around me and Dad always set, you know, right down the creek from me.

It was a good experience, but, I mean, it was a great one. He’d always be there. You know, and there’s nothing like being nine years old, shooting a 35 with 180 rounds, 180 green silver tip bullets. [inaudible 00:03:29]

Bruce: Sounds like fun to me. Who, who else besides your, your Dad helped you get started in hunting?

Kagney: Oh, well, my Dad, my uncle, my grandma, my grandpa, they all, big time hunters. Since I was seven years old, you know, I always got to go, you know, Thanksgiving, that whole week I was out of school, we would all pack up, we would go to Ogeechee WMA down in Georgia.

You know, then, right around Christmas time, we would pack up, we’d either go back to Ogeechee or we’d go to Redlands WMA and hunt there. And then there were a lot of local WMAs that were closer to the house that we hunted in between. So, you know, my whole family’s always been a big influence, ever since I was probably old enough to remember watching hunting stuff on TV, I always said that, you know, I wanted to be a big name in the outdoors world and that dream’s always stuck with me.