Hartbeat of Oklahoma Outdoors

Nice buck and great mount...

✨PrimeTime Day ✨ for an Oklahoma bruiser of a buck!!! Great job for a first bow harvest💪🏼!!!

Thanks again for choosing our shop for this memory.

Way to go, Tess!

The number one question I get when out and about is: “Been fishing lately?” The answer is, yes!!

I went noodling over the weekend and this was my biggest catch… 32 pounds. Catch and release.

I know the next question is going to be about the fish’s back. I have the answer in the comments section ⬇️

KOTV - News On 6

I am a hunter. More specifically, I am a deer hunter. I think about deer hunting 24/7, 365 days a year. I feed Double Down Deer Feed 20% protein, and DDDF Tine Release all year long to give the bucks every opportunity to reach their full potential, in both body size and antler growth. I also want the does to drop healthy babies, and feeding protein helps their milk production. I have been deer hunting since 1974, and in those 52 years, I've only killed one Oklahoma buck over a feeder. I dont plan on stopping hunting whitetails until I'm physically unable to do so. I hunt with my bow, muzzleloader, and rifle, and often say that if they had a rock-throwing season, I'd throw rocks at'em as well. I'm eat up with it. In 2003, I got tired of killing the first buck that walked by, and started hunting mature bucks. It doesn't always work the way I want it to, and there have been years when I got a visit from the skunk, but these days, more often than not, I put myself out in front of a good, mature buck. I still take a doe here and there, because I love eating venison, but I have learned more about hunting by sitting longer, and passing smaller bucks. When you are sitting later into the season, instead of tagging that 1.5 yr old forkhorn that walked by at daybreak on opening day, you learn a lot more about deer behavior, sitting in a stand, as opposed to being back at camp in front of the fire. That being said, I'll never, ever look down on a hunter that tags a young buck. I think a trophy is whatever you want it to be, and I'll celebrate your forkhorn just like it is a 160" hammer. Lord knows I've taken a lot of little bucks in my lifetime, and I am proud of all of them. I have been blessed to be able to hunt on some really nice pieces of land, and this fall will find me hunting on our own property. I look forward to getting to know these deer, and trying to figure them out enough to put myself out in front of a big, mature buck. Everything I do that involves making that happen, whether it be post-season & in-season scouting, supplemental feeding, tweaking stand locations, or checking cameras, it's all fun to me. There's not a lot of places I'd rather be than in the woods, whether it's those hot, sweaty early October sits, the mid November sits, when the woods are alive with deer, or those frigid, late season January hunts, when you're bundled up like the Michelin Man. It's all fun to me, and I can't get enough of it. Included in these pics are some of my favorite bucks I've taken. My biggest rifle deer, a 152 6/8 inch typical was taken on the legendary Holden Pasture low fence deer lease in South Texas. I am lucky to have become friends with the Double Down crew, and have been invited down to hunt a couple of times. I started hunting deer as a 15 yr old kid in South Texas, and to have the opportunity to take a buck like that, in the brush country, is an absolute blessing. My biggest bow deer, a 139 2/8 inch, 5 yr old droptine buck, was taken last October on a lease in NW Oklahoma, and was one we had watched all summer. He changed his pattern right before the season, but I was able to figure him out, and tighten my stand location down to put an arrow in him on October 15th.

On Oct 1 of this year, I'll be in a stand on our own Gypsy Hart Ranch, watching the woods come alive around me, as the Oklahoma sun peeks over the eastern horizon. I'll be hoping for a big boy to stroll by, but if one doesn't, that'll be okay. I love the hunt, and love being out in it, chasing whitetail deer. It never gets old, and if it does, I'm done.

We are in the middle of the growing season right now, but I can't wait until that first cold front sweeps down from the Saskatchewan, getting that big boy up during the day to chase the girls. I'll be waiting on you big fella...