What I love most about working and making my living in the hunting industry is the awesome friendships made with some of the many, wonderful people who you really get to know in our business.

It shouldn’t be any surprise that I have always been very close to Will Primos. In fact, I was one of the turkey hunters on the TRUTH II turkey hunting video. We’re talking about almost twenty years ago.

Well, two of the classiest people you’ll ever meet in ANY walk of life is Primos’ own Brad Farris and Troy Ruiz. We’ve become very close friends and I admire them for their Christian faith, love for their families and their sense of humor!
As a matter of fact, if you were to see some of the text “conversations” we have while sitting in a treestand or the “voicemails” we leave for each other, you would walk away shaking your head mumbling, “Them guys ain’t right!”

For example, this past Sunday evening, my cell phone rang and it was Troy and Brad (and a bunch of the Primos gang) calling from deer camp in Iowa. They were sitting around watching Outdoor Channel and The Jackie Bushman Show came on featuring my oldest son Harman and me. Well, trust me you’ve never heard such as the ensuing conversations that took place! It was a hoot! (And I’ll never divulge the entire dialogue either.)

Then I get this picture they took while in camp! It is one of the priceless moments that makes me feel so blessed to have friendships like this.

I can't believe it's already December! Man how time flies. Team Realtree has had a pretty good year thus far. With only a few hunts left in the season, we are hoping to close it out with a monster from Indiana, Kansas or Illinois.

It's really tough to compare hunts from year to year, especially after all the success we had last year, killing 3 monsters over 200 inches! But we always do our best to bring you the most entertaining hunts available.

I look forward to sharing more with you about the 2008 season very soon.