ABOUT US

SAM (The "WhackMaster") & Wayne (The "BuckSlayer")

We are a couple of good ol’ boys from Maine. We grew up and have lived here all of our lives. We are in our 50’s now and have been hunting the Northern Maine wilderness since we can remember. My "Great" grandfather was a Game Warden for the state of Maine years ago. My grandfather and his brother built a remote wilderness camp back in 1954 that was hunted out of for many years before I can even remember. Eventually when my Dad thought I was old enough, (maybe 16) he would write a letter to the principal of my school asking him to dismiss me on a Thursday or Friday so I could drive up to that old remote hunting camp and hunt with him and the other guys for the last few days of their week long, annual hunting trip. My Dad also use to take me Bow hunting with him when he got home from work. I think I was about 7-8 years old. Boy, those memories are still etched in my mine. Back then, he was using an old "Bear" 45 lb. pull, recurve bow. Although he didn't shoot many deer to put on the table, I can sure remember he flew a bunch of arrows at them.

Since our childhood we have always had the love and passion for the great outdoors, especially the hunting and fishing. Why wouldn't we, we grew up on it!!

It was our life…..and we lived for it!!!

In 1987, my Dad and I got our "Masters" Registered Maine Guides Licenses. We ran a family machine shop back then, but still, took 3 months off to pursue baiting and Guiding Black Bear Hunters out of our wilderness camp in Northern Maine for a few years.

Hartford CT, Sportsman Show 1989 ("BuckHorn" Outfitters)

Since then, we have not pursued the Guiding part of it as much because we had young children to raise and families to attend to. Now that the children are all grown up and out of the nest, Our passion has still been for hunting and enjoying the great outdoors.

Myself and some of our friends own remote camps in different parts of Maine. When the deer seasons approaches, we decide what camp we will be hunting out of on opening day. Some times our group will split up and go to different camps throughout the seasons chasing whitetails, Black Bear, Moose, Coyotes etc. A friend of my Dads who lives in Ohio (we call him "Buzzy") would always make the 18 hour drive up to Maine that 3rd week in November to hunt with us out of our remote, wilderness camp year after year. (for almost 30 years!!) (See "Buzzy" with his Big "Webbed" Buck Below.)

Our passion has always been for the Bow hunting, but we have been known to switch to the rifle the first of November when our Maine gun season kicked off.

Maine has mostly been a one deer limit State, and that (1) deer had to be a Buck unless you were lucky enough to get drawn in a “chance” drawing for a doe tag.

Although we have some huge bucks here in our State of Maine and have been lucky enough to tag several which have field dressed well over the 200 lb mark, we just don’t have the numbers of deer and large racks that some of the other states out there produce year after year. We have always been in search for new hunting ventures and to just get back out there in the wood and do what we

love most, "Chasing Whitetails!!"

We have hunted: Maine, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Canada and now Ohio.

30 or so years ago a friend of ours had an uncle who lived in Pennsylvania and asked why we didn’t come out there and bow hunt for deer with him in October. Well, 16 years later our group of (6) were still doing the 10 hour drive to P.A., renting a nearby cabin and chasing whitetails that 2nd week of October year after year. About 15 years ago, I decided to break away from the 6 man group in search for more “Trophy Class” whitetails. After doing some research, I decided to give Illinois a try. I got on the phone with my old friend ("Buzzy") from Ohio and asked if he would be interested in bow hunting Illinois for a week with me. His answer was yes, so next thing I know, I was flying to Illinois. Buzzy picked me up in front of the airport with his old pick up truck and a 1960 something camper in tow. I was standing in front of the baggage claim area at the airport when he pulled up. I was dressed in full camo’s, bow case in hand, (tree stand was disassembled and in my suitcase) We threw everything in the back of that old truck and off we went to the hunting grounds in Illinois. I must say, we looked like the old “Sanford & Sons” heading down the road, but who cared, we were doing it!!! and having a ball. !!!

After a few years hunting with Buzzy, my good hunting buddy and long time friend from high school (Sam) joined Buzzy and I the following fall as we decided to bow hunt Michigan. We met some real nice folks out there who invited us back the next year so we decided to return the following fall to do it again. We saw lots of deer, tagged a few, met some great people and had an awesome time.

The following year, Sam had some friends that he worked with that had been going to a place in Illinois and had great success on some Big Whitetails year after year. When a week opened up at this place, we booked our second trip out to hunt the state of Illinois again.

Although we saw a lot of deer and took a couple of nice bucks our selves, it was quite pricey, a non-res. license with tags was around $550.00 Bucks!, a long drive from Maine and only a 6 day hunt and it was over.

When we started to discuss where to hunt the following fall, our old buddy "Buzzy" from Ohio said that we should give his state of Ohio a try. He said they had lots of deer and some real hogs with big antlers. He told us that he had hunted Southern Ohio in the past with some friends and that it was semi remote (compared to Maine) and that the terrain was mountainous with mature timber unlike the flat plains of central and northern Ohio and that they had a 4-1/2 month bow season! (That statement alone definitely caught our attention!!!) It was shotguns or muzzleloader only (no rifles allowed) you could also use a Crossbow, Baiting was allowed and that the gun season was only for one week which didn’t start until the “rut” was mostly over in December. Sam and I decided, “what the heck” lets give it a try for a year and see how it all worked out. Well, the rest was history. We were "Hooked". We have now been hunting Southern Ohio for 14 years now and wished we had been hunting it long before this!!

We have both seen some "Monsteruous" Whitetails in this back country over the years. We will no doubt, connect with one of these "WORLD CLASS GIANTS" very soon!! Update: 6 of the 8 of us in our "New" Ohio camp we built 2 years ago shot 6 Bucks over the 140" mark last fall (2011). one scored over 170" inches! Now that's success!!!!

A Big Buck shot on my Trophy Lease last year will score over 210" inches and will be in the "Ohio Big Buck records"

CROSSBOWS ARE ALLOWED !!

We saw many large racked bucks that week (I saw 6 Bucks together that were following a "Hot" Doe that laid down right under my treestand!!!! We thought we had died and went to heaven. (Oh Ya!, I shot the largest of the 6 bucks, his picture is in our Photo Gallery section) We had found our bow hunters paradise. There was virtually no hunting pressure during the bow season. In fact, we hunted for 2 weeks for the next 10 years in a row and never so much as saw another bow hunter in the woods!!! It was like our own little world out there. As we continued to hunt this area, we took some nice bucks year after year and even saw 1-2 Booners every year for the next 8 years. The woods here was much more open from what we were use to hunting back in the fir and pine choked forest of Maine. These bucks would cruise by us well out of bow range and run from ridge to ridge looking for, and chasing does. Over time, we were introduced to other friends of people that took a liking to us who also gave us permission to hunt their property.

DEER FEEDERS ARE ALLOWED !!

Before we knew it, we were introduced to friends of "Buzzy" and were bringing down 50 or so "Live" Maine Lobsters to all the great friends and farmers we had met and were having an annual Maine lobster feed to kick off our bow hunting season in this great deer hunting State of Ohio. I now go down for 2-1/2 months of bow hunting and stay right thru the shotgun opener into December. I do my "post" season scouting on all the lease right after the shotgun season in December to make sure there is still lots of "fresh" deer sign on every lease so i will know if I want to renew my lease for th following year. We just love it!!!!

THE "BUCKSLAYERS" – "TROPHY" LEASE - BOW ONLY, 8 PT. MIN. NO GUN HUNTING ALLOWED!

Rob Collins- 210" – "TROPHY LEASE" BUCK (2011)

Sam and I decided a few years ago that we would like to have our own “Slice of Heaven” in Ohio just in case down the road things changed and we were unable to hunt these smaller farms that we have permission to hunt at the current time.

Well, after some extensive research, we “locked up” and Leased a 2,002 and a 1,288 acre parcel for the following hunting season which starts on July 1st each year.

UPDATE: WE ALSO ADDED 6 MORE LEASES TO OUR 2,002 & 1,288 ACRE LEASES! A 1,637, 758, 510, (463 acre "Trophy", Bow Only, 8 Pt. Min.), 251, and "new" for 2012, a 120 acre lease FOR A TOTAL OF OVER 7,000 ACRES OF PURE HUNTING PLEASURE IN "BIG" BUCK COUNTRY!!!!!!!

Although we knew we would not be able to afford the entire leases ourselves, we did know that by starting a hunting club, doing it professionally, setting firm rules and regulations and carefully choosing the right members that would all get along and fit in with each other, we could generate enough funds to cover the majority of the leases and have a private place to hunt and meet good friends that enjoy what we do for many years to come. Once you are in on our club and our leases, current members have 1st choice to renew year after year (before I go to my next years "waiting list") as long as you play by our rules and get along with all the current members of the club. Were looking for life long relationships and good hunting friends with great hunting ethics. Mess up once, and you won't be invited back the following year.

I love it so much that I am planning to simi-retire their for a few months out of the year (of course during the 4-1/2 month bow hunting season) so I can keep a check on, and maintain the lease(s), gates, signs, trails, deer camera's, food plots, feeders, deer ect. Hey! somone has to do it, It might as well be me!!!!

We are signing up new members for these (8) leases NOW, for the 2012 season which starts JULY 1st, 2012 ! Don't miss out this year!!!

I am now accepting $200.00 re-fundable deposit for our 2013/2014 waiting list. Available spots will be filled on a First Come…..First Paid (Deposit) Basis. We already have 4 members on this 2013/2014 "waiting list that have mailed in their $200.00 deposits for next year! Current members MUST HAVE THEIR 50% DEPOSITS IN BY A MARCH 1ST DEADLINE. AFTER THIS DATE, I GO TO MY "WAITING LIST" (IN THE ORDER THEY WERE RECEIVED) TO FILL THE VACANT SPOTS.

If all spots are full for you or your group, then I will refund your deposits in full. GARAUNTEED!!

NOTE: After October 1st, We shut down to go hunting !!, After this date, just mail in a ($200.00) deposit for each member to be added to my 2013/2014 "waiting List" or yiu can call me on my cell at: 207-590-5783 to see if I happen to have any spots available for the current season.

When I return from hunting, I will contact all current members to see if they will be renewing, or want a buddy or family to join for the following year. Any vacant spot will be filled with new members on my "waiting list" that have mailed in their ($200.00) deposit IN THE ORDER THEIR DEPOSITS WERE RECEIVED. I will reply to all e-mails during the current hunting season when I am in Ohio Hunting myself.

The cost is only $880.00 for the (2012) season. This is annually for "Full Access" to our year round, locked & gated Leases!!!

We know they won't last long so we are already on a waiting list for 4 other leases that are only 10-15 miles from these leases. These are also in great deer hunting areas and habitat!! We will be continuelly scouting and adding more leases in the future!!

Well, that’s it for now guys, If you are interested, send me an e-mail, Call me on my cell phone at: (207)-590-5783, or just hit the "Join Now" section for all the info before it fills up!!!!!

SHOOT STRAIGHT…..…..SHOOT OFTEN!!!,

WE CAN'T WAIT TO MEET ALL THE NEW MEMBERS ON OUR LEASES THIS FALL WITH BBD'S! (BIG BUCK'S DOWN)

AT "BUCKSLAYERS"…….WE DELIVER…."DIRT NAPS"….FOR "BIG" BUCKS!!…..WHY?……BECAUSE WERE GOOD AT WHAT WE DO!

Sincerely,

Wayne (The "BuckSlayer”)

and

Sam (The "WhackMaster")

WAYNE'S 2009 OHIO BUCK