Join legendary guide, John McClendon, along with his family and friends as they share over two decades of Monster Bulls with you! You may have seen some of these bulls on our previous productions, but you haven’t seen them all together on one DVD. Get ready for back to back GIANT BULLS; we’re talking over twenty years of nothing but the best!

You will see more Monster Bulls on this DVD than any other DVD ever produced! Watch these bulls from early Fall (velvet bulls) into mid Fall when the bulls are hard horned and in the rut. You will see incredible footage of elk rutting, wallowing, fighting and getting up close and personal, screaming in your face.

Witness TEN ARCHERY HUNTS highlighted by the current WORLD RECORD P&Y Typical bull, 432 3/8 GROSS AND 412 5/8 NET, harvested by Shawn Patterson. You will also see the #2, #5, #6 and #11 RANKED P&Y bulls, (ranking of these bulls are the rank they placed at the time of harvest).

This will be our first DVD title to look at long range hunting. We have for years enjoyed shooting, reloading and good rifles in general. There is almost nothing as enjoyable as watching a well made shot done well and filming it.

We have  been filming for years, at first what we thought was the limit of the rifle or perhaps the hunter, now we have exceeded all of those distances and more often we are at the limit of our cameras.

We are going to bring you 12 new hunts for elk , deer and sheep all at long range . We will show you the guns, scopes, ranging devices and other pieces of fairly new equipment, all the gear that has changed and made possible shots of 600 to a 1000 yards. We will bring you what we feel is real today for the hunter, how to learn what is available and what to realistically expect from yourself in the field. What you can do or have done to a rifle and what you can expect from it. How far and how accurately can you range an object, how well can you read the wind, how to get yourself steady and ready. All of this wrapped around some really good hunts.

We have just about completed our new bear hunting DVD, naturally titled Bear Hunters.

All the hunts are done by stalks or long range spot and stalk. Most of the stalking we do with  bows on Alaska’s coastal bear but this year we have some that are stalked and thumped with rifles.

During the archery hunts we were able to get very close to a pretty good number of black bear. Some of the bear are huge. The one that could have been the largest we passed because he had rubbed his coat so badly, but we pass him really close.

From Alaska we move to Arizona and New Mexico to hunt black bear with bino’s at very long ranges. Here the canyons the bears live in are steep and thick and the country is huge. During the time of these hunts you will see the black bear change their food sources and even change the areas they are living in looking for new food sources.

We have a lot of great bear hunting both with a bow and a rifle.

All fair chase, all stalks!

Mexico in December, Mike Whelan, Brent Deal, Jeff Van Well and Enrique Molina

We had a great start to hunting Coues deer in Mexico this year. A lot of the ranches we are hunting  look very dry and the cattle on them look like they are going to have a hard time unless they get some real good winter rains. But the Coues deer looked like they were in great shape and had a good year on horn growth. I filmed a couple of hunts and out of three guys we took two really nice bucks. Jeff Van Well’s buck pretty much set the bar real high. It has a few extra points but is really a straight 3×3, that grosses about 125 B&C. Jeff really is good with a camera and I was able to film the entire hunt, it is one of the largest Coues deer I have filmed being taken. A bit later Brent went out on his own and shot a totally unique 11 point 119 inch toad! It all made for a great hunt.

Some notes from the hunt: I did see a what I thought was a huge number of deer for what the ranchers say has been a very dry year. These sightings also included a very high number of does with twin fawns. Seemed odd to see this on such dry year. We did see a bit of rut activity but most of the bucks we saw were still in groups. More in January, good luck on your hunts.

Kyler Barton, Joe Barton, Tim Tanner and John McClendon,

My daughter Kyler really enjoys hunting. She started hunting big game when she was 10 years old.The first tag she drew was a mule deer doe tag. That was a lot of fun to see my daughter glass for deer. It was incredibly impressive for me to watch as she shot her deer with a Remington 270 at 246 yards. It was her very first kill and she took it with one shot!  Then to be able to dress out the deer with her younger brother and her great uncle, what a great memory it made. As a father at the time, I thought this might be the best hunt ever, to be outdoors with my daughter and having the time of our lives.

This year 2009 she drew a junior’s deer tag and a bull elk tag. Her elk hunt was a great from the start, we scouted for four days and hunted for five. On this hunt she really got to experience what it means to say, early to rise and late to bed. Every day she met great people and made new friends. It just happened that we camped next to John McClendon and he had finished his hunt by the fifth day. John offered to go with us and call bulls for Kyler and we accepted his offer. The morning of the fifth day, after about a one mile walk in the dark, we found ourselves surrounded by bugling bulls. John was going to do the calling, Tim was running the video camera and I would be with Kyler as her coach. Kyler and I set up with her rifle on a bipod, Tim set the video camera up and John started to call. It wasn’t long and a nice 6×6 came to within 50 yards and Kyler made a perfect shot, she was tickled and so were we. Tim captured all the action on film for a lifetime memory, it was a great experience for all.

I will tell you it is hard to beat a day hunting with your kids! A big thanks to Tim Tanner and John McClendon for helping us out on Kyler’s  first elk hunt and also for hauling out the bull.

Joe Barton

Robert Barnes and John Mcclendon.

I wanted to do a short recap of my Arizona elk hunt with John McClendon. I was fortunate enough to draw an early rifle elk hunt for the northern part of Arizona. This area is known for producing giant bull elk and I was very excited. The trick in this unit was to find one with all his antlers intact. The weather was unusually warm for the first few days of the hunt. This probably had some affect on the rutting activity in the area. The rut was much slower than usual for this time of year. John has hunted the unit for many years and said it was definitely a strange year, as far as rut activity went. What bulls did bugle, quickly quieted up after sunrise. Without John’s experience and calling ability it could have been an extremely tough hunt. I have killed a number of mature bulls in the past and have done some calling on my own but I was amazed at John’s ability to call and mimic elk sounds. Several days into the hunt John was able to call this nice bull out of some thick cover, with all his antlers intact. I was able to put a 200 grain Nosler Accubond from my 8 MM Remington Mag. in the right place. I just wanted to thank John and McClendon’s guide service one more time for the excellent bull and the great hunt that I had in Arizona.

Bob Barnes

2009 was tough on us, on the archery elk hunt. Both Mike and Chris had great tags and hunted the whole two weeks. Chris shot a nice bull with his Mathews Swtichback XT and Shuttle T-Lock broadheads, and did it on the second to the last day of the hunt. Where we hunted there was not a lot of intense rutting, more like the bulls had a relaxed hunt. We videoed only one broken bull by the end of the hunt. Mike waited and waited, and tried to get on one really good 7×7 bull. We saw him, took some video of him at a distance but never got close enough for a shot. We did get some great video of bulls, mostly on water, some of those hunting shots for our DVDs are going to have to be Mike’s trophy this year.

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When he is not guiding on bear hunts Dave works real hard on his own bow hunting. This year he did a heck of a job on his Caribou and Moose hunts. His Moose and Caribou will both go high in the Pope and Young record books. One of these days we will finish our Moose hunting project with a new DVD and Dave is working on finishing it a lot sooner.

The McClendon family had a great time bow hunting for mule deer hunt this year. Travis and Levi shot really nice bucks using their new Mathew’s Reezen bows. These guys combined the new bows with their Shuttle T-Lock broadheads for two shots and two great bucks. They will bring the whole hunting story with more pictures soon.

Mike Whelan, 7-2009

Even though we have begun to get a little rain, it is still hotter than hell as I sit here at home in Arizona. Yesterday it was 105 degrees at three in the afternoon. It helps a little bit to look at some of the elk video we took almost three weeks ago on our first scouting trips for archery elk. It was a bit cooler and we got some spotty rain while we were scouting at a higher elevation in elk country. A good friend of mine Mike Miller and his brother Chris somehow managed to draw archery elk tags in one of the best elk units in Arizona. So we have started our scouting, hoping to find a good bull or two. This time of the year, along with glassing, you have to check waters. Traditionally we have looked for tracks around these waters, many of which are trick tanks. For those of you who are not familiar with trick tanks they are constructed water catchments, built by the Game and Fish Department to supply water to game and non-game animals when water is scarce or far from feed sources. Now days more and more hunters are using trail cameras to scout these waters. This year, I don’t think we went to one trick tank that did not have one or more cameras on it. We also use cameras and they do work remarkably well but I personally still like to look for tracks, sit the waters and glass the areas, to actually see what bulls are there. So far we have seen a couple hundred elk, filmed about forty bulls, saw one really good bull ( no footage) and found tracks of three other bulls that we would really like to see. For us that is a pretty good start for our 2009 archery elk hunts.

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