Hey guys,
Let me introduce myself. My name is Jordan Summitt and I am the Video Production Manager for Buck Commander. I am also Chipper’s requested cameraman (you’ll need to know this later for the story I’m about to tell you.)
I enjoy filming all of the Buckmen but when baseball season ends, my job is to be in the tree with Chipper whenever and wherever he decides to go! Well baseball season had just ended and I had just heard from Chip that we would be headed down to his ranch soon but no word on when. So I planned a trip up to Nebraska with Duff to a new place he just got there…
I drove up to Nebraska via Little Rock, AR where I met the newest member of the Buck Commander Production team, Hunter Jobes, who also plays baseball for Duff in San Angelo, Texas. Hunter had used a camera a few times but really wanted to learn more. So we thought this trip would be a good one for him to “learn the ropes” of filming for BC. So the journey began….
Not 8 hours down the road I get a call from my wife that I had forgot my scent tote (which had every bit of my Under Armour clothing in it)…..I know what you are thinking, how can you forget your hunting clothes Jordan?!?! It still makes me sick to this day thinking about it. Duff said I could wear some of his gear so I pushed on forward to Nebraska!
15 hours later we arrived in Nebraska to be greeted by Duff. We got up the next morning, did some scouting, hung some sets and planned for the next morning hunt! We hunted that next morning and didn’t see a single buck thanks to Farmer Joe who decided it was the perfect time to cut his alfalfa field. As soon as we got off the stand, I got a call from Chip explaining that he decided to move our trip to Texas up to this week!!! And in order for me to get there on time I had to leave the following morning, so my Nebraska trip got cut a little short with Duff. Thank goodness we brought Hunter Jobes to help with the filming! So I packed what gear I had and told my wife to send me some clothes to Chippers ranch because I knew that his stuff wouldn’t fit. haha! I left Duff and Hunter the next morning and headed to Carrizo Springs, TX to hunt with Chip for the next few days.
I drove another 13 hours to meet up with Chipper….We had a few bucks that we had our eyes on from last year. Our main target….Chaparosa (for those of you who don’t remember, Chaparosa was a 170+ buck that Chipper missed on BC2 DVD). We were hoping to see him this year and get another shot at him to finish the story of the chase of this elusive whitetail. After talking to some of the ranch hands and doing some scouting of our own, we were afraid that this buck may have died of old age or had changed locations on us. We decided to wait and hunt him when we got the right wind so that left open a few other spots to hunt on the ranch. We went out the first morning to a spot Chip calls the Triple S, (Super Secret Spot). It’s a great spot where the deer funnel from bedding to feed every day. We hunted that stand the first morning until about 9 o’clock….we literally were packing up our gear and getting down when Chip spotted a BIG 9 come out of the brush. It took some shuffling but we were able to get a shot on him and Chip killed his first buck of 2009-2010 season!
Later that night we got a call from Duff with news of a 160″ Nebraska buck he put down thanks to the Buck Commander bow! The first question that comes to mind when you hear news like this in Buck Commander is “how was the footage?”. Duff said Hunter did a great job and it looked great! Once again, THANK GOODNESS WE BROUGHT HUNTER! This was Duff’s biggest buck with a bow and his first buck in Nebraska! So congrats to Duff! And congrats to Hunter for his first kill on camera!
We had a great time that week at the ranch, killed a few cull bucks and got the stands and setups ready for our group hunt in December. Between forgetting my Under Armour and driving about 40+ hours total I still had a great time, and I would do it all over again!
Here are some pics of the guy’s bucks from this week and stay tuned for the blog on our group hunt at LaRoche’s, we had a great week with 3 big midwest bucks down on the ground!
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