Here are a few stories on encounters I’ve had.

This one is a hunt for man-eating lions in South Africa, in June, 1993

https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/man-eating-lions-south-africa/

Here’s an article that touches on the hunt for a man-eating polar bear in Alaska’s high Arctic, in December of 1990…along with a recent hunt where I called in a mountain lion and shot it running right at me, full-speed, at close range.

https://bornhunting.com/the-5-most-memorable-big-game-hunts-of-my-life/

This story touches on a hunt for problem Nile crocodiles in South Africa:

https://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/predator-hunting/hunting-dangerous-game-modern-day-man-eaters-ive-known

And this one captures some bear encounters from time spent living in and traveling through remote Alaska over the past 35 years:

https://www.outdoorlife.com/survival/close-calls-alaska-bear-country/

The count hit 400 deer, and we were barely three hours into the hunt.  We were on the island of Molokai, hunting axis deer with Pat Fisher, of Hawaii Safaris (www.hawaiisafaris.com).  I’d hunted free-range axis on the east end of the island before, but public pressure was high and trophy bucks tough to come by.  This time I sought to hunt private land, and I was glad I did.  Before nightfall we’d see nearly 500 deer. I closed that hunt with a good buck, and vowed to one day return.
Two years later I was back, this time with good friend Tom Munson, marketing director at Trijicon, and his buddy, Jeremy Vaccaro.  For both men it was their first axis deer hunt, for me, my third go-around in Hawaii, though I’d been fortunate to hunt them in other countries, too.
Following a 3/4-mile stalk on a rutting buck, Tom was finally in shooting position. But the buck was bedded down.  All we could see were his ivory-tipped antlers barely sticking above the extremely tall grass.   Finally, after and hour and 20 minutes, the buck stood and Tom made a perfect shot.

We were hunting grassy meadows on Lanai, where once grew the world’s largest pineapple plantations.  More than 90% of this island is privately owned, and the management of its game has led to a staggering amount of axis deer and some big antlered bucks.
Jeremy was up next, and after a long stalk, he made a perfect shot on a buck from over 270 yards.  The rut was in full-swing, and this helped keep big bucks active in daylight hours.  The shrill “bugle” of a rutting axis deer is something to behold, and when you’re surrounded by hundreds of deer, the calm air filled with rutting sounds, you know you’re in paradise.  Jeremy also took a mouflon sheep.
Axis deer are the widest ranging deer in the world and occur free-range in a few places within the continental U.S.  But the best hunting for them in the U.S. is found in Hawaii.  They yield what many hunters consider to be the world’s finest eating game meat and the most beautiful coat, with adults retaining their white spots their entire life.  They are an amazing deer to see, and eat!
Finally it was my turn, and as was the case on our previous two hunts, we hit it hard during the final hours of daylight.  We spotted many bucks, some in the prized 30-inch class, that I passed on.  I was hoping for something in the mid-30-inch class, or better yet, a buck in velvet.
Being an equatorial deer, the axis rut can last for months, and antlers can be hard or in velvet any time.  Less than 10% of the bucks we saw on this hunt were in velvet, so when I looked at a velvet-antlered buck through my binos, I knew what I wanted.
The buck bedded down in tall grass, allowing us to move in.  Getting 130 yards from where he bedded, I got set in the shooting sticks.  As soon as he stood and cleared the tall grass, I put the dot of my 3×9 Trijicon on his shoulder.  The 130 grain Nosler AccuBond hit with a thud, and the buck folded.
The velvet buck carried more than 30-inches of antler on his main beam and we skinned him out for a lifesize mount…simply to beautiful for anything less!  We also took home a cooler full of prime game meat, some of the best we’ve ever had.
Great memories, lots of deer and I can’t wait to get back…it’s a truly special deer hunting experience!

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Our family lives on wild game, and turkey meat is some of our absolute favorite.  It pains me, every time I hear people commenting on how tough and tasteless wild turkey is.  As with all wild game, the key is starting with a good product.
As soon as you kill a turkey, get the guts out as quickly as possible.  Next, get the meat cooling, fast.  A whole turkey can be cooked in many ways, or you can breakdown the parts.
We often grill or roast a whole breast.  Legs and thighs are great smoked whole, then cooked down with the rest of the skeleton to create some of the best soup stock you’ve ever tasted.  They can also be pulled, with the legs and thighs of one tom yielding about 1.5 lbs. of tasty meat!
Sliced into strips, turkey breasts make some of the best jerky there is.  Chopped into chunks, it’s great in a stir-fry or soup.
The key with obtaining great eating turkey meat is the same as with all wild game: DON’T overcook it.  For recipes, check out Tiffany’s website, www.tiffanyhaugen.com, and also visit her blog.

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Spring turkey season is off to a great start.  Despite the rainy, cold weather, calling has been working for us.  Here are some pointers that have helped me take early season toms in tough conditions over the years in the Pacific Northwest:

•When hen’s aren’t yet nesting and toms are stuck to them, call lightly, utilizing mostly yelps.  If toms respond by gobbling, don’t overcall.  Offer just enough yelps to let the toms know you’re still around.

•If a tom starts answering your every call, get more aggressive with the yelps.  Calling louder and more frequently can help in this situation.  This is especially true later in the morning, after a tom has spent a few ours unsuccessfully courting hens.

•A single hen decoy can be the ticket to draw in a hot tom.  In areas where there’s not a high tom to hen ratio, shy away from aggressive tom decoys early in the season.

•Calling to hens may be the key to success.  If a hen answers your yelps, and a tom is with her, call back to her mimicking the same sounds she produced.  This will often draw her in, with a strutting tom in-tow.

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A lot of folks in the NW are complaining about the rain we’re having this week….I say, bring it on!  More rain leads to better feed, and that means bigger antlers!    Last hunting season saw many big-racked bucks and bulls being taken around the West.  This was due to the wet spring and mild summer, both of which optimized antler growth.

I predict this season out West will be even better, with more big bucks and bulls being taken than last season.This past spring was one of the wettest on record for some states.
During the time of antler growth, rains spur the growth of quality vegetation which in-turn yields a nutrient-rich diet which optimizes antler growth.  The fact heavy rains occurred from March through June–during the most critical time of antler production–leaves no question there are some big antlers growing.  Recent mid-summer rains ensures the tops of buck’s and bull’s racks will continue growing.

Velvet covered antlers are some of the fastest growing tissues on the planet.  Under optimal conditions, elk antlers in velvet can grow nearly two-inches a day.  Combine rain, quality vegetation growth, good genetics and increasing daylight hours and the stage is set for big antler production.
To find these big bucks and bulls, summer is a great time to scout.  I routinely start my scouting missions around July 10 and go through August.  If you’re Western hunting area experienced heavy spring rains, and the summer heat is slowly progressing, you have all the reasons in the world to be excited about this upcoming season.
If you have a favorite scouting tool for this time of year, or something you’d like to share, we’d love to hear about it.  Feel free to contact me through this website, Facebook or Twitter.  Good luck, have fun and remember, we’re all on the same team!

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California is home to a huge and ever-growing pig population, and nonresidents can hunt them year-round.  License and tags can be bought over-the-counter.  Because the best pig hunting is found on private land, getting access or hiring the services of a guide are the best choices.  On this trip we hunted with good friend and guide Parrey Cremeans (www.justforhunting.com), a man we’ve hunted with in the past.  There’s a reason we keep coming back.

Zach Waterman, PR Director for Nosler, joined us on this trip.  Zach was testing out Nosler’s new M48 .325, a gun we’ll both be using on upcoming bear hunts.  I was shooting Nosler’s Custom M48 in a .260 caliber.  Both guns were topped with Trijicon scopes, making for the perfect setup in the potentially low-light situation which often comes with pig hunting this time of year.

Finding pigs wasn’t a problem…getting a shot was.  Excessive rains led to tall grass, and though we were seeing well over 100 pigs a day, getting a shot at a boar wasn’t a slam-dunk.  Toss in the fact we were filming the hunts for an upcoming episode of Trijicon’s Game Chasers, on the Outdoor Channel, and that made getting the ideal shooting situations even more challenging.

On our second morning of the hunt we spotted a group of about 40 pigs which held some nice boars.  After a lengthy stalk, Zach finally had his sights on a boar.  We couldn’t find the biggest boar of the group, but Zach didn’t care.  He made an absolute perfect shot.

Later that afternoon, Parrey and I looked over more than 100 pigs from one spot.  The hogs were coming out of the brush to graze on the green grass created by flood irrigation for the working cattle ranch we were hunting one.  This time of year, where there’s water in N. California, pigs won’t be far.  The temperatures were nearly 100º during the heat of the day.  Pigs were tucked tight in the brush, seeking shade, and we found a few wollowing in water.  But once the sun went behind the hills and the evening temperatures cooled, pigs were everywhere.

Parrey, myself and my camera man, Travis Ralls, covered over 1/2 mile and soon found ourselves surrounded by pigs in the bottom of a grassy plateau.  We were within 15 yards of several hogs but couldn’t see the big boars in the high grass.  With daylight running out we headed back up the hill, to gain elevation.  Finally we spotted a sounder of boars.  Moving into position, the 140 yard shot was simple, and the Nosler Partion did the job, dropping the pig in his tracks.

Zach and I couldn’t have been happier as we headed home with some of the best eating wild game in the country.  Stay tuned for a recipe or two…

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Living The Family Business

Beckie Jones, EDN        November 10, 2011

Braxton, Tiffany, Kazden & Scott Haugen

If you would’ve told Tiffany and Scott Haugen back in the first grade that one day they’d be married and jet-setting around the world, they would have probably laughed at you, then went looking for cootie spray.  But that’s exactly the path their lives took, with a few minor detours.

Yes hunters, fishermen and outdoorsmen, this is THAT Scott and Tiffany Haugen.  To catch the rest of us up, Scott has been featured in dozens of shows in more than 30 countries in the past 10 years, tracking almost every type of game imaginable. Scott’s books on hunting and fishing are specialized by region and type of game, domestic to exotic. Scott also hosts a show on the Outdoor Channel called Game Chasers and his family is often featured hunting alongside him or stirring a pot with the latest catch. Often Tiffany completes episodes of The Game Chasers with unique recipes and cooking segments on some of her husband’s catches. Birds, deer, elk, bear and salmon are all covered in Tiffany’s books as she takes the meat from field to table, including cleaning, cutting and cooking.

How did these two kids from Walterville end up as arguably the power couple of Lane County?

“She lived about a mile up the road this way, and I lived about a mile down the road.”  Scott says with a characteristic smile.

Spending their elementary and junior high years in the same class at the tiny Walterville school, the two couldn’t exactly steer clear of each other, but hardly took notice either. They graduated from Thurston High School together, still distant friends. Scott earned his Bachelor’s degree at University of Oregon, and Tiffany earned hers at Oregon State. It was a get-together at the Lane County Fair with Scott’s cousin, who was also Tiffany’s roommate, that started the spark that has resulted in 22 years of marriage, 2 sons and hundreds of thousands of fans.

Before they were married, Scott told Tiffany that he wanted to move to Alaska and live with the Eskimos.  Finding they possessed kindred adventurous spirits, Scott and Tiffany moved to Alaska shortly after they were married.

“We lived a subsistence lifestyle in Alaska. All the game we took care of ourselves, and ate,” Scott said.

“You had to. There were no stores or anything. If you wanted to eat, you went and got your food,” Tiffany added.

Having fished and hunted with his family growing up, Scott relished the opportunity for a new venue where he could scope out different game.  After seven years in tiny tundra villages,

“We knew it was time for a change, and we thought, ‘Well, why not make the most extreme change we can?’”

So they did. To Indonesia. A 208-degree difference on the particular day that they signed their contracts with the school in Sumatra where they would be teaching.  For two kids growing up in tiny Walterville, their adventurous spirit had to come from somewhere, and they both agree it started right here.

“I grew up hunting and fishing here. And that’s one thing we get asked a lot – ‘You’ve been to all these cool places in the world. Why do you live here?’ (It’s) where we grew up, and we just like the outdoors. You can hunt and fish something every day of the year if the rain doesn’t bother you,” Scott said.

“We have the best in the country – the salmon and steelhead and trout and all the other fish, and all the birds and big game,” Tiffany said.

After spending 199 days straight (in Alaska) in negative 40, 50 and 60-degree weather with the wind chill factor, “I’ll take rain any day,” Scott said.

His first forays into what has become the family profession began with an article he wrote on sturgeon fishing on the Columbia River. Then Cabela’s called to offer him a guest-host position on its ESPN show. Today Scott writes more than 100 magazine articles a year for Cabela’s Outfitter Journal, and other hunting and fishing magazines. Together Scott and Tiffany have written and published dozens of books on hunting and cooking a variety of fish and game. The Haugens decide where they go and what they hunt for the show. But with Trijicon, one of the world’s biggest scope companies as his sponsor, Scott is on the big game track regularly.

“The western big game flavor, that’s what they want,” Scott said. “What everyone in the country wants to do is come out here and hunt deer and elk, but very few people get the chance to do that, so we take it to them on the tube.”

As little boys, the couple’s sons Braxton and Kazden, helped narrate and co-host Game Chasers. Now 11 and 9, respectively, they sometimes do entire segments of the show by themselves. Braxton has even started editing alongside the show’s producers, using professional software like Final Cut Pro.

Braxton & Kazden wielding their new (at the time) hunters safety cards

“They both have been shooting TV since they were like 2. (Braxton is) pretty dialed in. He’s been around it so much, he knows exactly what he needs to do. He’s very camera aware,” Scott said. ”And everything that they have hunted has been with TV cameras (rolling),” Scott added. “They usually have one or two TV cameras with them. So it’s not just one person in the woods, so it makes it much, much more difficult (to hunt).”

The couple said even though the boys miss out on some school when they head to work with Dad, “They’re learning how to work hard. It’s not just fun running around out there,” Tiffany said.

With both their parents holding Master’s degrees in education, the boys don’t exactly get off easy while away from the classroom. They’ve prepared their own Power Point presentations while on location, and shared them with the entire school upon return.

Braxton & Kazden in Africa

One year Braxton and Kazden held a Tiny Toy drive at their school, where they collected miniature action figures and tiny dolls before heading to Africa. They packed one suitcase full of 50 pounds of toys, and took them to remote villages, refugee camps and schools in Africa, handing them out to children whose eyes widened at the sight. Some of them had never even seen a toy. The boys took pictures while passing the toys out, and shared that, too, with the kids at Walterville School.

“Whenever we take the kids places, we try to get them in to experience the culture,” Scott said.

It’s rare enough to see a marriage last 20+ years, even more rare when the couple works together, but for this local family, it’s the family business and the shared love for the outdoors, hunting and nature that seems to be the key to familial harmony.

Tomorrow, in part two of our time with the Haugens, we go inside the family home and get a feel for why their books, shows and adventures are so popular.

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DEER HUNTING THE WEST
Deer hunting the West is considerably different than deer hunting other regions of the US. Although the Mid-west may offer some of the finest whitetail deer hunting in the world, it cannot offer what deer hunting the West can. First, there are several Western Whitetail sub-species including several unique trophies such as the Columbian whitetail, Coues whitetail, Carmen Mountain whitetail and Texas whitetail found in the West. Second, the west offers other hunting opportunities during the deer hunt. In addition to whitetail deer, a hunter may be able to pursue mule deer, elk, bear, and even mountain lion during the deer season, depending on the state hunted.
Hunting the West often requires the hunter to traverse steep and rugged terrain, far away from major roads; which requires the hunter be in optimal shape. Most of the West is public land, offering all hunters easy access to millions of acres in which to hunt. The majority of public land is administered by the US Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In contrast, some western states like Texas are almost entirely private and access to hunting location can prove to be difficult. If you are hunting your home state or traveling across several states in pursuit of a western whitetail trophy, utilizing important hunting resources can determine the overall success of your hunt.
The ultimate hunting resource the hunter should utilize is the website or annual publication of the state Game & Fish department. Knowing and understanding the rules and regulations of the state is important and leads to strong hunting ethics. Additionally, several states offer “insider information” on where to hunt and how to hunt. Another valuable hunting resource is a quality map. A standard USFS or BLM map is useful, but the addition of a topographic map or aerial map will prove to be invaluable. In addition to a paper map, several software topographic map solutions are available as well. One of the best aerial mapping solutions is Google Earth. Utilizing these specialty maps allows printing of specific locations.
Western Whitetail is a one-stop hunting resource with the Western Hunter in mind, be sure to visit their website at http://www.westernwhitetail.com.

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