On the road again…..just can’t wait to get on the road again! We are so excited to kick off our show schedule with a trip to Indy!  In addition to having a booth, we will also be presenting a seminar that focuses on hunting small tracts of land.  Make sure you click their logo on the left, so purchase advanced tickets, see who is exhibiting, seminar times, and much much more! Hope to see you there!

*We will be announcing more show dates soon!

What does “Workin’ For Whitetails” mean to you?

 We thought it would be great to hear from all of you, so this month we are asking all of you to head on over to our Workin’ For Whitetails Facebook page and submit a story and one photo on what WFW means to you and your family!

Each week, we will randomly select stories and showcase them on our website!  We will also create an album for all the photo submitted!  The deadline to submit your story and photo is February 29th, 2012.

Thanks in advance for sharing with us and we look forward to reading your stories!

~The WFW crew

Workin’ For Whitetails to us means, passing on the traditions of archery and the outdoors, to the younger generations by annually hosting a Kicking Bear camp!

This year we caught multiple bucks on Cuddeback that we have had history with and a lot of new bucks that definitely made our hit list.  We know the bucks were there, now the hard part…outsmarting them. Katie Pipp drew a Montana deer tag and took the long flight to “Timbuktu” to hunt opening week on team members Robbie and Nikki Dockter’s land.  They did a lot of scouting and spot  & stalk hunting to figure out where the big boys were hanging out.  On day four of her hunt, they set up a ground blind and she arrowed a 160” whitetail in velvet.  It was the “best day of (her) life”, not only did she harvest her biggest buck, but Alan also proposed to her!

A couple of weeks later was opening bow season in Wisconsin.  We were all dreaming of a mature buck walking under our stand, but Ann Altmann had it happen.  Sitting in with her husband Jon, she smoked an awesome 8 point buck.  What a great way to start the season!

After an exciting opening weekend, we hunted hard, but luck just wasn’t on our side. We saw bucks on trail cams and off in the distance, but nothing we could fling an arrow at.  That all changed October 22^nd, when Shelly was in one of her favorite stands, set over a food plot where she had been seeing a buck we called Crab Claw 8.  This is a buck she had a lot of history with and really wanted a chance at. Everything fell into place that night and she made an awesome 25 yard shot.  After a slow start to the season, all of a sudden it started to snowball.

Five days later, team member Josh Smith hit the woods on his lease property in Southern Wisconsin and let his Mathews rip on a bruiser 8, his biggest to date and his first buck since 2006.

Two days later, on November 12^th, Alan Dosedla turned the camera over to Katie. He set a stand on a ridge where two mature bucks had been cruisin’ and hoped for the best.  A buck we have all had a lot of history with the last couple of years named Lucky ended his lucky streak that night when he walked under Alan’s stand.  He released a Muzzy on this 5 year old buck, and the legend of Lucky ended.

Two weeks after Alan shot Lucky, Nate and Brian had a double hitter within five minutes of each other!  Nate arrowed a mature buck we named Muley, because he had no browtines to speak of, and Brian shot a management 8.  We were on a roll!!!

That brings us to gun season.  Shelly took her 10 year old daughter Halie out for her first whitetail hunt.  She dropped a doe with her .243 in its tracks.  Her reaction was priceless and the essence of what hunting is all about.

Alan also headed out during gun season, this time on his grandparent’s property in southern Wisconsin with a smoke pole.  He nailed a mature 8 point buck just shortly after setting up in his stand…he was on a roll.

All this time, Tara was hitting the woods hard.  Call it stubbornness or determination, but she wasn’t ready to hang up her Mathews for a rifle.  She hunted the entire gun and muzzleloader season with her bow in hand.  All of her dedication paid off on December 1^st when she finally got to let an Easton fly at a great 8.  After a tough season, it was such an awesome feeling for her to get her hands around those antlers!

These are just some of the highlights of our season so far, but our season is not over yet.  Until it is…we will keep Workin’ for Whitetails!

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~Nate Vogelsang

Note: For those of you that aren’t familiar with hunting in Wisconsin, when we harvest a deer, we have to take it to a registration station, where they put a red metal tag to signify that the deer was registered.