Reality Bowhunting TV Blog

If you were thinking that Easter is about a bunny…guess again!
“Living, He loved me, Dying, He saved me, Buried, He carried my sins far away.
Rising, He justified freely forever, One day He’s coming…Oh glorious day!”
Casting Crowns

Hope you have an awesome Easter Sunday!

It’s been a tough turkey season for many bowhunters around the country.  From Florida to the northwest, many of our guys have reported less than ideal turkey activity in the places that have always produced.  So when the opportunities are coming up…be it a big bird or small…some of the guys are making up for lost time!

Zeke Pipher of Nebraska has been battling unseasonably cold conditions, snow, and poor turkey action when he’s hit the woods.  So when a couple super-jakes slipped in to his setup he couldn’t help but to break in his brand new Mathews eZ7 and put his first tag of the year on a bird.  Zeke is blessed with the opportunity to kill multiple birds in NE so be watching for more to come from him.

And this morning Mark Hasenyager broke in his new Mathews Z7 Xtreme as well. We had the Darkhorse groundblind set up in the middle of four gobblers when the party started up.  Two jakes pitched down out in front of the blind, about 50 yards. They came in and put on a show as they checked out the DSD dekes at 8 yards from the blind. Then the boss came in to check out what all the fuss was about. The big tom tried his best to run the jakes off but they couldn’t stay away.  Mark let it rip on the big tom but his shot fell a bit short.  The jakes hung around the dekes even after the longbeard took off.  It was more than Mark could handle!  It was time for redemption!  Mark’s second shot was money and his Montana turkey tag was punched!
Watch for this hunt coming soon at RBTV.

Due to their work schedules Chris and Kimberly Mac only get to hunt weekends and a few afternoons each week. But this husband/wife duo has learned to make good on their time in the woods.
On the second Saturday of the Montana season Kim shot one of the many gobblers that paraded past their Darkhorse ground blind. The bird went just 40 yards before taking a nap. The other toms pounced on Kim’s bird, but at a distance of 40 yards Chris opted to pass on the shot with the long/curve bow he won at the recent Montana Bowhunter’s Convention.

Watch for more from these guys and their video coming soon.

Turkeys are dying in Montana and around the country this week! I had an awesome hunt this morning and killed a big tom just moments after he pitched down past my Double Bull blind.
It’s been a season of success already for the RBTV team with a number of birds being killed in the last few days. Zeke Pipher killed a NE bird last week, Kimberly Mac and Branden stuck birds on Saturday, Jon Paul killed a big TN tom yesterday, and I punched my MT tag this morning.

Photos and stories of these hunts coming soon.

Week one of the Montana turkey season is in the books. It’s been a tough first week, but turkeys are finally starting to get the shaft. Branden VanDyken scored this weekend on a bittersweet hunt.
Here’s his story…

“With a hard late winter in our hunting area, we were struggling to find birds in our normal spots. We were forced to find permission on some new spots, but birds were still in big groups and not responding to calls well.
After getting some early opportunities and failing on shot execution, we got permission on a great spot with good birds. Setting up near the roost in the morning got us a shot…with one of my buddies missing. We were moving to another spot when we saw some more birds. I hopped out and set up on the one bird, he had other plans and took off. Later, I called and got two gobbles down the hill from me. I barely got set up behind a big juniper when two birds appeared running to my calls at 15 yards. They skirted the junipers and walked into a shooting lane at 30 yards. I was already at full draw and the arrow was on its way. Bird down! Now I would like to say the hunt ended there. Not the case! A neighbor from the joining property decided he was going to yell at us for hunting. He put the hunt into a downer for a bit, but we were in the right, so we weren’t too worried. Our landowner said not to worry, and he even invited us back!”