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Sam Evans – talking Bad Company Hunting & Outdoors

So let’s talk about that. Was he on your hit list?

Sam: Well, I’ve never seen this deer before in the area. I’ve got this little hunting hole, and I call it my shooting shack. It’s a big box blind, and it’s long shots. It was with a rifle. But me and Jason Hall was sitting in there, and this buck, he…we had watched eight other bucks that morning cross back and forth chasing does. And the field in front of us was really tall with grass, and you could just see, when they’d make their hop you’d just see the antlers. Well, I had passed this decent eight, and I kind of got to kicking myself. I’m like, “Well, maybe I should have just took that deer.” And then Jason goes, “There’s a good one.”

So it was a 298-yard shot. And I shot, and I thought I missed the first shot. And when he got in the sunlight, I thought, “Boy, that’s a lot bigger deer than what I thought it was.” Well then we get down there to him, and I hit him first shot and missed the second shot, but he was a really good deer, and I had never seen him. I was actually hunting for another deer that I had had an encounter with the year before that I call Hollywood. But you got to take what you can get in southern Missouri.

Bruce: Well, yeah. So I mentioned the Pope and Young. So, like I said, a 140-inch deer with a rifle, muzzleloader, crossbow, compound bow, it’s a great deer. Now how did you get that on film? Because 298, that’s a poke out there.

Sam: Well, we was running the video camera at that time, and we could zoom out there to him. We was kind of in the bottom field, and he was kind of up on this hillside. So you can get a…and it’s a box blind, so we had all the area to move in the box blind. And Jason, he got him on video and made the shot, and it just all kind of worked out good.

is this a natural travel corridor?

Bruce: Now are you hunting over a food plot or is this a natural travel corridor?

Sam: I didn’t put any mineral out at this spot. I just stayed out of it. And that was something that I’ve tried doing here lately, is…I’ve got one spot that I like to rifle hunt, so I stay out of it. I don’t go in there, I don’t go scouting. I just stay out of it. I scout the land around it and try to get pictures of bucks that I know that’s in that area.

But this buck, I had never seen him, ever. He’s one that just moved in there. And I think a lot of it, the field wasn’t mowed, wasn’t hayed this year or anything like that. And I think they just felt secure in that location, because, like I said, we seen eight bucks that day. And then the next weekend of rifle season, I took my brother in law, and he got that decent eight that I’d let walk.

Once September comes, just stay the heck out.

Bruce: You mentioned something that’s really important, and whether you are sitting up in a tree stand with a bow or sitting in a box blind with a rifle, if you know year in and year out you’ve had an opportunity to shoot some bucks out of that stand, and it’s really smart, just don’t do anything until you’re ready to hunt that stand. And listeners, take note of that because everybody gets excited, and you get your trail cameras up. And if you need to fix up the stand or the box blind, heck, do that in July, August. Once September comes, just stay the heck out. The first time you go in there is open of the rifle season or the first time you’re going to sit the stand. Now you say you like the tree stand also for archery?

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