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Jeff Tucker hunts T-5 Ranch
Well it’s just another really good friend of mine named Mark Grupe, Jeff Tucker hunts T-5 Ranch, and he and I decided to start a podcast just for shits and giggles and fun and we essentially, it’s Hunitn for the truth is what we call it and as far our, you may get some wisdom out of it I’m still not sure yet, the jury’s still out. We’ve got about four episodes.
But really the whole gist of it is, is just having a conversation about the things that we love to do and work in. He’s a bowman and I’m a bowman and I do traditional and he does modern bowyer and so we constantly are trying to master our craft with that and we may end up talking about the political scene today. I think our last episode we were discussing people being attacked by bison on Yellowstone and why there’s no longer any common sense in the world. Jeff Tucker hunts T-5 Ranch
there’s no longer any common sense in the world.
Well I’m starting, the older I get I believe that there’s common sense and I believe that there’s sense, and those varying levels of knowledge it’s obvious with over, I think, 250 million visitors a year is what they get, and it’s not a petting zoo. And I think there’s truly a generation of people who are not necessarily ignorant but just not savvy to what they’re literally looking at or stepping into.
Because their backgrounds are obviously gonna be varied. And if you haven’t grown up around wild animals and you see this park as your own personal petting zoo and it’s time to go sit down and take a selfie with a bison then you really have a lot of, well rather a lack of knowledge that should allow you to survive the park. But it is, I think it’s a lot of just, for lack of a better word, ignorance and lack of experience with what it is the area they’re setting into.
And it just recently somebody was taking a selfie with a bison and if you can’t see that that thing outweighs you and that it’s really fast and full of muscle and big and it’s got these things called pointy horns, I don’t understand why anybody want to walk up to one.
what distance is your shot and I do believe that you can make the shot…
Oh yeah, no definitely getting downrange and yeah, I think that’s the thing too is how many feet per second are you traveling and what distance is your shot and I do believe that…my only issue is this, in the modern realm which I shoot, I’ve [inaudible 00:13:38] I used to I tend to use it when I’ve got a target that I know is a really good harvest, let’s just say I’m going trophy, and I know that I’m going to be looking at maybe a 35er or better yard shot on this just because the wily buck not wanting to come in.
And I love having the technology but the thing I have not been able to get my head around and this is nothing against the manufacturers out there or sponsors or what have you, but there’s not a mechanical broadhead that I can be a fan of at this moment.
I always, and it’s just me, I always worry about failure of that broadhead versus I still have packages because I buy things in bulk, I still have packages of old 125 grain satellite broadheads, but it’s a fixed broadhead and when it goes through both on a longbow or a compound, it’s gonna make a one inch hole all the way through it. And so I tend to fall back just a little bit more of the old methods when it comes to the physical broadhead itself, I want it to be fixed, I want it to be a big cutting surface, and I just don’t feel like I ever have to worry about that versus with the mechanical. And I’ve used ’em and I’ve had failure on ’em and that causes me some serious pause.
This is just my second year to be involved.
This is just my second year to be involved. I’ve gone out to the auction the last couple of years here in Brownwood and they do an incredible job in Brownwood, Texas representing Buckmasters. I went last year and they raised $180,000. This year I think they’ll beat themselves again. Last year they were the number one in the United States on raising through Buckmasters for special needs kids and veterans, hunting trips. But the cool thing is you get to go down there and you get to bid on stuff and I actually bid on a 1873 .44-40 down there and won it, so that’s kind of what this whole gig’s about and it’s a feel good moment.
But we had reached out to Larry Hart out there that runs that thing in Brownwood for Buckmasters and just told him we would love to sponsor having’ some bids come out or vets and kids with special requests to come out because Buckmasters has taken over essentially what used to be the portion of this wish for a kid thing where they wanted to go out and hunt, that was their wish. And they’d basically taken over because the wish for kids foundation no longer was involved in the hunting aspect of that, they just didn’t feel that that fit their genre which is fine. So Buckmaster’s picked it up.
But we had reached out to Larry Hart out there that runs that thing in Brownwood for Buckmasters
But yeah we’ve gotten some feedback from them about being able to have some vets come out and then Baker who’s been with ya on your program from Kill Cliff, they’ve also got some wounded warriors that we’re gonna set up for some hunts this year some doe hunts out at the ranch and we’re just tickled to death to be able to serve this. It’s gonna be a good time.
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