Pinnacle Award Winner

Here I am with my Pinnacle Award for Outstanding Achievement. I won this award at the Professional Outdoor Media Association’s business conference in Knoxville, TN on March 21st.

POMA's Pinnacle Awards are the highest honor the organization can bestow upon its media members for their creative works. The Pinnacle Awards are presented by presenting partner Mossy Oak.

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Jim

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Here’s a gift that will be appreciated this Christmas season and for years to come. Buck Naked is jammed packed with tips, tactics, and strategies that will benefit both the novice and seasoned hunter.

Have a great Holiday Season,
Jim

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The General Season is Here

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Imagine yourself taking the biggest buck of you life this fall. Can you feel the excitement, the thrill?

 

With the general deer season just around the corner, you'll want all the information you can get to ensure success this fall.

 

That's why I wrote "BUCK NAKED, The Straight Dope on Trophy Whitetails". I want to help you to become a more successful hunter.

 

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Jim

Estrus Bleats

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I have heard a lot of does bleat during the rut; the vast majorities were yearlings experiencing their first breeding season. The poor little darlings don’t know what to expect. All they know is that the buck keeps coming for them relentlessly. They feel the urge of blood calling to blood and they’re scared to death.
The doe leads the buck into thick cover in an effort to escape him, not to find a cozy place where they can be alone.
As hunters we often try to impose noble human attributes to the animals we hunt. But there is nothing noble or gentlemanly about a whitetail buck, especially during the rut.
The estrus bleat is truly a rape bleat. The young doe is panicked. This sound is worth imitating because when an old buck hears this sound, he’ll know that some other buck is up to no good. He will think another buck is tending a young doe and will come in and attempt to steal the doe.

Jim
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Dress for Success

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Invest in hunting clothes that will keep you comfortable. A good camouflage pattern won’t help you if you’re freezing your buns off. I prefer to dress in layers. This way I can remove layers to keep from overheating and add layers when I’m not moving.

Jim

 

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All Boats Leak a Little

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Every hunting situation has a glitch. There's always a defect, always a problem, always a slow leak.

The question isn't, "is this perfect?" The question is, "will this get me close to a big buck?"

Sometimes we make the mistake of ignoring the big leaks, the ones that threaten our success in the field.

More often, though, we're so busy fixing tiny leaks that we get distracted from the real goal, which is to harvest a good buck.

-Jim
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Intuition Vs Analysis

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You have a gut feeling and then you analyze it. Now it doesn’t seem like such a good idea.

Do you go with your gut feeling?

Or do you slip into analysis paralysis?

The challenge is not to talk yourself out of your intuition. The challenge is to defend your instinct and then go for it.

-Jim

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Persistence Isn’t

Persistence isn’t hunting the same area with the same tactics over and over. That type of hunting is both boring and annoying.

Persistence is having the same goal over and over.

But the goal isn’t to harvest a buck.

The harvest of the buck is the result of doing things right.

-Jim

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Buck Naked

By Shannon Wood on February 25, 2013

Now my book collection on outdoor books are not as big as a professors at some big name college or university in some random English class. I have a cousin that lives with me at the time of me writing this review that graduated from Auburn University with a degree in English. These type of books just do not feed his fancy as I should say. His type of reading is certainly not like the readings that I read or have read in the past. Now I do give him credit for leading me to one great author known as Mitch Albom, whose books I have read have turned out to be amazing.
Buck Naked in my terms is a book that every outdoor man or woman should have in their collection. Jim Collyer the author, was raised in a rural community nestled in the rugged mountains of Idaho. In his acknowledgments of the book he says: Its been said that it takes a community to raise a child, and he is very fortunate to have been raised in this rural community of Idaho. Jim is an expert hunter, writer and speaker and contains over forty-five years of chasing whitetail deer in his life. I certain amount of each proceed of purchasing this book will also go to the Buckmasters American Deer Foundation.
If you are a skeptical type of hunter then one sitting and read of this book will change the way you look at hunting whitetail deer forever. I dont believe there is one hunter out there that isn’t skeptical in some sort of way at least just a little. Even I am skeptical in some degree and may not even know it myself. A common hunter can take this book and just read a few chapters in it and can stand a better chance at harvesting a trophy buck better than he could before he read it. If you are reading this review then you can take a little time read this book. If you cant read and you have someone else reading this review to you then they can read this book to you as well as they are reading this article to you.
I took my time and read this book through the 2012-2013 deer season here in Alabama. I have caught myself on more than one occasion not looking up out of the shooting house window to even see if there were deer standing in my food plots. In this case there probably were a lot of bucks and does that walked this year and will be that much bigger next year for me to harvest. To give you a little spoiler on this book it starts of at the beginning talking about be an investigative hunter and end up talking about good days and bad days of hunting. It will show in to some sense the mistakes you make already and tell you how to fix them to make them better for you as a hunter.
We all want to be better hunters and managers to a degree. And I will leave you with this on the final thoughts of just from me reading this book. I am not the type of person to read a book and a book and then give away my secrets that I have learned but if you will just pick you up a copy and read it for yourself, you will thank me later for telling you to do so. So pick your copy up today and you wont regret that you did. Buy here:Buck Naked

Four Questions Worth Answering

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Where is your next buck? (Specifically, not conceptually. Describe his bedding area, his feeding area, and his travel routes.)

Why is the buck here? (What is it about this situation that attracted the buck in the first place?)

How do you encounter him in a way that is undetected?

What changes are you going to make to adapt to his routine?

Start with this before you spend time on tactics, technology or strategies.

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Good Luck and Good Hunting,

Jim

Hunting Sheds

Among the whitetail hunter’s fraternity the spring search for shed antlers has become almost as competitive and widespread as hunting itself. Over the years I have found hundreds of shed antlers, the vast majority of which I didn’t even bother to pick up. A handful were of Boone & Crockett quality. What, if anything, can finding sheds do to help a hunter in his efforts to be more successful the following fall? The answer is plenty, if you know what to look for.


There are three things that affect the dropping of antlers: diet, stress, and hormonal fluctuations. The loss of hormones is the strongest determining factor. The largest bucks never seem to hold on to their headgear very long after the rut. Bucks fatigued from excessive fighting and breeding during the rut will be the first to lose their antlers.

Once I found a pair of fresh sheds on December 2 that clearly came from a “Booner.” The very next day I found an even bigger shed. Although finding sheds so early is unusual, it is even more uncommon the find a truly big buck carrying his antlers into January. I have spent a lot of year’s bow hunting in December and find it’s a race every year to get a big buck before he sheds. By the middle of December, panic starts to set in as we become aware that "Buckzilla" could become a "baldy" by morning.

Just like in deer hunting, the sheds from smaller bucks are much more common than those from larger bucks. Smaller bucks can keep their antlers well into February and March. For this reason small sheds offer us little valuable information.

The biggest bucks begin to lose their antlers shortly after the rut. I like to start looking for sheds as soon after the end of the hunting season as possible. December’s moist earth or fresh snow makes it a great time to look for tracks and to learn more about deer patterns in your area. Snow reveals the truths about the how’s and why’s of deer movement in any area.

Most importantly, if you find a monster shed, you’ll know exactly where that buck was during the rut, and should have a darn good idea where to look for him next fall. This is when you start looking for trees to hang a stand in next year. Look for nearby funnels, and brush thickets close to bedding areas. This is the one time of the year that busting a buck out of his bed won’t come back to hurt you. The buck has a whole year to forget about you. Regardless, be careful not to stress the deer anytime during the winter and early spring months.

I have used shed hunting to pattern several bucks over the years. It is often much more effective than preseason scouting, especially if you plan to hunt the rut.

I was looking for sheds and found an exceptionally large antler in a narrow timbered funnel. Towards the end of the season I hung a stand with hopes of catching the buck as he searched for does. About half an hour before the end of shooting hours I saw him coming. There was a large draw between us and I momentarily lost sight of him. I prayed he would come into view before it was too dark to shoot. He passed within twenty yards of the stand. As he quartered away, I let the air out of him.

Good Luck and Good Hunting,
Jim
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Looking for that special gift for the outdoorsman in your life? Give them the gift that truly keeps on giving, a copy of the book Buck Naked; The Straight Dope on Trophy Whitetails.


Here’s a gift that will be appreciated this Christmas season and for years to come. Buck Naked is jammed packed with tips, tactics, and strategies that will benefit both the novice and seasoned hunter.

At $15.84, it’s affordable for all of the hunters on your list. It also makes a great stocking stuffer.

Have a great Holiday Season,
Jim
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Get BUCK NAKED for X-mas

Looking for that special gift for the outdoorsman in your life? Give them the gift that truly keeps on giving, a copy of the book Buck Naked; The Straight Dope on Trophy Whitetails.

Here’s a gift that will be appreciated this Christmas season and for years to come. Buck Naked is jammed packed with tips, tactics, and strategies that will benefit both the novice and seasoned hunter.

At $14.95, it’s affordable for all of the hunters on your list. It also makes a great stocking stuffer.

Have a great Holiday Season,
Jim

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Combating Swirling Winds

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One of the questions I get asked most often is, “ How do you hunt in swirling winds?”


Swirling winds can occur anywhere in North America. However, they seem to occur most often while I’m hunting whitetail deer. Swirling winds can be a real nightmare. Often the only thing we succeed at is blowing are scent all over the hunting area and lowering our chances of seeing deer let alone harvesting one. While swirling winds are far from the ideal hunting situation there are a couple of things you can do to improve your chances.

First off, we should place our stand high on a ridge. This will help prevent both thermals and circling winds from pushing our scent throughout the area.

Secondly, we should place our stand high in the tree. I recommend a minimum of 18 to 20 feet. This dramatically improves our chances of keeping our odors above the deer’s noses.

If I’m still hunting or stalking, I’ll move into the direction of the prevailing wind regardless of the wind swirling. Often the prevailing wind will keep the swirling winds from spreading our scent to far in front of us. But you’ll be much farther ahead if you hunt out of a high stand on a high ridge during swirling winds then any other hunting method.

I can promise you this, you have a better chance of killing a deer hunting in swirling winds than you do sitting in your living room watching football.

Good Luck and Good Hunting,
Jim
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Anxious vs. Eager

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Most people miss use the word anxious when they really mean eager. Anxious comes from the root word anxiety.

We define anxious as experiencing failure in advance. Eager, its antonym, indicates anticipation.

When you hunt with anticipation, you will highlight the highs. You'll double down on the things that will delight and push yourself even harder to apply the tactics and strategies which bring success. If this is going to work, might as well build something that's going to be truly worth building.

If you hunt with anxiety, on the other hand, you'll be covering the possible lost bets, you'll be insuring against disaster and most of all, building deniability into all of your actions. When you hunt under the cloud of anxiety, the best strategy is to play it safe, because if (when!) it fails, you'll be blameless.

Not only is it more fun to hunt with anticipation, it's often a self-fulfilling point of view.

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Jim
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As part of our book launch promotion we are giving away 100 FREE "Limited Edition" lockback pocket knives. The knife is engraved with the Buck Naked logo. It has a beautiful Maple Burl Wood handle and a 2-1/4" 440C stainless steel blade. That’s an $18.95 value and it’s yours FREE with the purchase a copy of the book BUCK NAKED : The Straight Dope on Trophy Whitetails.

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Tomorrow, November 29th, we are giving away 100 FREE "Limited Edition" lockback pocket knives. The knife is engraved with the Buck Naked logo. It has a beautiful Maple Burl Wood handle and a 2-1/4" 440C stainless steel blade. That’s an $18.95 value and it’s yours FREE with the purchase a copy of the book BUCK NAKED : The Straight Dope on Trophy Whitetails.

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Win an artist proof on canvas of Michael Sieve’s "Busted Bachelors" print. Simply purchase a book or enter the contest on my site for a chance to win this 24" x 36" artist proof canvas edition. NO purchase necessary. The print is beautifully framed and has a retail value of $895.00.

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On November 29th, we are giving away 100 FREE "Limited Edition" lockback pocket knives. The knife is engraved with the Buck Naked logo. It has a beautiful Maple Burl Wood handle and a 2-1/4" 440C stainless steel blade. That’s an $18.95 value and it’s yours FREE with the purchase a copy of the book BUCK NAKED : The Straight Dope on Trophy Whitetails.

There’s only one catch. The book must be purchased through Amazon.com and must be purchased on Nov.29, 2012. Only the first 100 books sold will receive the FREE knife.

To receive your FREE knife simply purchase a copy of Buck Naked from Amazon.com on Nov. 29^th.

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