The Moment!

Posted on January 29, 2012 by T-Roy

Well for the most part, it is over. Sad but true, deer season has come to an end. Though saddened, it truly is a blessing in disguise because like the bible says in Ecclesiastes 3:1
[ A Time for Everything ] There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
We all say we wish deer season was year round, but honestly do we? Could you handle 12 months of sleepless nights, long days on stand, frustration with wrong wind directions and all the things that test your patience as a deer hunter.
For me, honestly the way we do what we do to try and get what is needed for the TV show 12 months would truly kill us. So i am thankful when the season comes to and end, it gives us time for rest, rejuvenation, restructuring and preparation for the season to come. Life too has it’s seasons. We have seasons of joy, seasons of prosperity and even seasons of despair. We have seasons of both good and bad. Just like in hunting, we have good seasons and tough seasons. But we always look forward to the next season and what it may bring our way. But for that up and coming season there is much preparation before it arrives, especially to the Archery hunter.
Why is it we bow hunters spend So much time trying to perfect the art of Archery? We will spend hours in the stifling heat of the summer just to get that perfect arrow flight and group through tuning our bow. Why is it we take so much time out of our lives to run trail cameras, prepare food plots, hang stands, scout new properties and work ourselves to the bone before the season comes? It’s for one thing. A Moment!
Yep a moment. We do all this to be prepared for the mere moment we squeeze the trigger on a release. It’s that moment that all the work, sweat, time, money and effort comes down too. The funny thing is no matter how much time, money, practice and effort we give to get us to this moment, there is no guarantee that we will make the shot and hit our mark……….

I have yet to find an activity are hobby that brings the rush that comes with this moment we all strive for. Think about it, what is there that will make you shake at the knees, breath so fast that it brings some to the point of hyperventilating, heart rate to go so high you can hear it beating in your ears, and blood pressure to rise high enough to put anyone in the ER for test. What else is there?
The only thing that truly comes to mind is the day we will all stand before God when He is looking for our names in the book of life. I can only imagine what that will be like. There are many that have their name in that book, the question we have to ask ourselves is, are we prepared for that Moment when we truly should hear, Welcome my Good and faithful servant. Can you imagine what you will feel like when you hear those words, no deer, turkey, elk are critter known to man will bring the rush that this MOMENT will bring.

Till next time, thank you all for watching and supporting HH TV through season 1 and look forward to your response to Seson 2 coming in July.

Be blessed,

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Headin’ Home!

Posted on December 17, 2011 by randybirdsong

Well, for the most part the peak of the reason all us deer hunters enter the woods has come and gone in most of the mid-west, and that magical time was the rut. But for us boys here from the south it is just beginning to get rolling. Rubs, scrapes and sightings of bucks chasing are being reported daily. And those bucks that would only give night time photos on trail cams are beginning to show up in daylight hours. Here in the south we still have a solid month and a half of deer hunting to look forward to and the way our rut sometimes drags on it can last into mid January. So if any of our mid-western friends are looking for some more meat for the freezer, head south and hook up with the many reputable outfitters Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas have to offer. One thing cool about this part of the country is you can find several outfitters that have combo duck /deer, or deer /quail hunts. Now that makes for some great fun late season.
We at Head Hunters will be spending the next 3 days in North Louisiana with our friends at Wild Game Innovations chasing some high, wide and heavy horned bucks, and also shooting the new promo and opening segment for “Season 2 of Head Hunters TV on Outdoor Channel”. The whole gang will be in camp, Randy, Nate, Troy, Jon Scuba Steve and Jeff from V2 studios. We have some cool stuff in mind for this week and can’t wait to share with all of you “Season 2″ this coming summer. But until then, from all of us at “Head Hunters TV”, may you and yours have a Christ filled Christmas and a Happy New Year.

The crew at HH TV!

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“The Road Warriors”

Posted on December 3, 2011 by randybirdsong

Well, as you all may are may not know, the rigors of doing outdoor TV can effect many things in a man’s life. Now don’t get me wrong we are blessed to be able to hunt all over the country and have the opportunity to chase some really good deer.

But like Randy mentioned in His blog, there is nothing like coming home, especially when you need meat for the freezer. Now we never waste any meat wherever we go, there are times that we donate our meat to local charities, churches, and the ranchers/ outfitters we hunt with.

But when we return home to hunt familiar stomping grounds, that’s the time you feel like you can easily find those, acorn chomping, mud hole stompin, nostril blowing, nanny’s that we score based on the number of white packs in the freezer, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.!

So I left Illinois and Kansas this year with 2 tag sandwiches in my fanny pack but, I am going back to Illinois on Dec the 9^th  to try and redeem myself at Buck Creek Farms.

Now to say that I have had a boomer year, well that would be a bold face lie. Between work and just a little rough luck in the deer killing dept, the Ruiz’ 3 deep freezers are empty of venison.

This is why a Homecoming makes you walk around with somewhat of an attitude when it comes to deer killing. So, here we go. I have rifle in hand, not my Mission bow, but don’t get me wrong I love my Mission, but truly the mission I was on, the rifle was the right tool for this task……………….

It’s Nov the 30^th and my buddy Paul McLemore invites me, ok I invited myself, to hunt with him on one of his places for that afternoon. He assured me that he had a spot that the does were coming to like folks in the drive through at a Chic-Fil-A, he also said there is 2 good bucks as well. I assured him that if both those bucks were standing in the food plot with one doe, the doe gets a ride home in truck. I was not there to hunt bucks; I was there strictly for some U.S.D.A. Grade “A” Nanny meat.

Now I had been praying all weekend long while at work that the weather and the Lord would give me the chance to go hunting on my 2 days off to whack and stack for the freezer, in a legal way might I add.

So off we go, now I have never hunted this property so I was solely at the mercy of Paul as to where to hunt. I told him put me where I can see a long way, and stretch a bullet as long as possible if need be, he said I have just the spot.

Paul drops me off and tells me what direction to head and where the stand would be. Now Paul is a killa and I had my full trusts that with rifle in hand I was going to be on some pipeline are large food plot that was LOADED with choice venison on the hoof.

I followed his directions to the climber on the tree, shimmied up the sweet gum tree about 20 feet are so, turned around to be sure my harness was hooked good, sat down and realized right then and there that I should have brought my bow. I could only see 40 yards in either direction. I was in the biggest saw briar thicket you could ever imagine, and I’m holding a 30TC in my hand. Not good.

So NOW I’m waiting on the text that would say Just joking, walk to the North 200 yards and the food plot will be right there. But no text ever came.

At 4:20 I thought I saw, ok, I thought I heard something walking, yep there it is, Mr. Gray Squirrel. By 5:30 I had seen 1 squirrel and wood duck. How am I supposed to get meat in the freezer to feed my family with a squirrel and 1 duck, I asked the Lord. But little did I know God had this all worked out.

I climbed down, met up with Paul, and assured him that the joke was very funny, you perched me in a thicket with the wrong wind knowing that it would take a skidder to clear a path just for a deer to walk through. He responded to that with a strong southern smile and said this, you not like that area?

My response was, yea if I’m trying to kill the bull of the woods, but I came for some meat brother. We talked about going the next day and i made him promise that a food plot was what I was looking for, the one that the does are eating to the dirt.

My long 55 min ride home was filled with thoughts of how I was going to explain to my wife, daughter and 3 year old Shi-Tzu Gabbie that we would all be eating chicken from that Chic-Fil-A again.

Now here is where God intervenes and reminds me what it means to be thankful and humble, and how He was going to answer my prayers for venison in the freezer.

I had to take a different route to our home due to construction on a small bridge that wa out on our main hwy. This would take me past a new school that had been recently built at the northern parts of our county. I had passed there earlier in the day and what I saw there at 6:45pm was not there earlier at around 2:40pm. There was a deer lying in the median of the highway. There were no vehicles in sight so I turned around to see what the deer was, because you never know when it might be old sad daddy.

Now it wasn’t a booner but a decent 8 point, and to top it off he still had his rack.

I stood there for just a minute to see if the buck was breathing are alive, but after about 30 sec I saw no signs of life, so I reached down expecting this deer to be stiff as a 2×6, and to my surprise he was still warm, as a matter a fact he was hot and limber. I looked around to see if anyone was pulled over but saw no one. I rolled the deer over expecting the whole side to be smashed from a vehicle collision, but other than a broken lower right leg, this buck was fine.

So being from south Louisiana and growing up eating anything that wouldn’t eat us first, I loaded this dude up in my truck and headed home. I get home and advise Belinda, (my wife) whom I had spoke with by cell phone earlier on the way home that I had not killed nor seen anything, and that she should get dressed to head to Chic-Fil-A that we now had a deer in the truck to skin, and that she needs to get the grill ready for back straps. Now I’m not one to lie to my wife, but she looked at me like I owed her money and said this, so what did you do pick up one on the way here? And my response to that, as I was walking out the door with knives in hand was YEP. So 2 hours and 20lbs of hamburger and 2 back straps later I had just what I had asked for, it just happen a little different than I expected.

So the moral of this story is written in:

James 4:2   You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

I was halfway through skinning this deer when this verse of scripture hit me. I wanted a deer, but was I being honest with myself and others as to really wanting the meat as bad as it seemed. Well honestly, I did want and need the meat, but I too wanted to kill it myself. I had only killed 2 all season and both were in Montana and both were given to Mr. Bud Williams at Big Sky Outfitters. I had been several times since but with no luck.

Now like I said earlier I had asked the Lord for some deer meat, and in His time and His way he gave it to me.

You see I desired the meat, but I wanted to kill it, it’s the manly thing to do right?  Wrong, what God taught me right there was how and when we humble ourselves to His ways and trust Him, He will provide, In His time.  Ask and you shall receive, but before you ask, check your intentions then watch God work.

 1 Peter 5:5 “God opposes those who are proud. But he gives grace to the humble” 

Ain’t nuttin wrong with a little Road Kill.

Till next time, be blessed,

Troy Ruiz

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Season 2 is Kicking Like a Chicken!!

Posted on September 16, 2011 by randybirdsong

It seems pretty crazy that we just finished proofing our final episode for Season 1 of HeadHunters TV just a day or so ago and we are now right in the middle of filming the second episode for season 2! Man how time fly’s!  Season 2 is already looking promising though!

A couple weeks ago we made a trip to Campbell Cameras before we kicked off the first trip of the year to purchase some new equipment for this season.  As many of you may know, Campbell Cameras is the leader in the sport of filming hunts.  It didn’t take long and they had us fixed up with a couple new rigs and we were on the road for Wyoming!

Just like so many years in the past we spent the first week of September in Northeast Wyoming.  We were lucky enough to get invited back to the Solitude Ranch this year with our close friends Mike and Pam Schmid.  Words can’t even explain this place.  I have personally never hunted a place that was more well managed than the solitude.  It is incredible what they have done for the heard there and the bucks that is being taken off of it is proof in the pudding!

With episode 1 in the books, we are headed to Montana.  I guess it’s time to let ol’  Troy come out of the Cop shop and get in on some Action.  I will be picking him and Skidmore up from the airport tonight and starting our hunt tomorrow.  I made it a point to get out here a few days early just like always.  I have actually been scouting and hanging stands instead of hunting early, but I’m definitely not going to let Troy know that!

Stay tuned for new updates as the season progresses!

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