Feeding Schuylkill Mountain's Hungry Jasons!

Our good buddy Jason is making his annual pilgrimage to Southern Maryland this weekend to fill his freezer! Despite recommendations of a vasectomy, Jason runs the Schuylkill Mountain child factory, and has more mouths to feed than a soup kitchen! Every year, the Whackfactor team represents and does some serious population management on some of our agricultural properties, to fill our freezers. Jason usually takes home 10 to 15 deer each year, and feeds the hungry of Schuylkill Mountain, and the Whackfactor team is glad to help! It looks like they will eat well this year! Good Job boys!

Let the feathers fly

With cold weather finally setting in, the Whackfactor team has shifted gears somewhat after months dedicated to deer hunting. This time of year, you might find us chasing beagles after rabbits, sika deer hunting in the frozen marshes of the Eastern Shore, or huddled around a camp stove frying bacon in a goose blind! Brian, Jesse, Chris and Doug, along with some other friends and family were able to sneak away this morning and put the whackfactor on a nice limit of geese! Merry Christmas everybody!



Austin "Money" Murphy got the chance to hunt an elite river blind in Anne Arundel County's West river with some buddies and had an action packed hunt. Look for more pictures and video footage to come from the Whackfactor Outdoors duck shoot in the West River in January!

White Christmas Deer Whack'n!

The Whackfactor boys have changed gears and started to think about the freezers and we intend on filling them! .

Jesse and his brother Mike decided to take advantage of the brown deer in white woods, and hit the stand with the Whackfactor Outdoors camera rolling. While most people are hunting with muzzleloaders, Jesse decided to get up close and personal and use his bow. The boys got some great footage of Jesse putting the Whackfacgtor on a nice freezer filler with the bow in the snow!


Dougie got off work at 4:00 and hauled tail to the woods! With darkness coming on, he decided to still hunt a little, and snuck up on two does feeding in a honey suckle thicket and put her down with a great muzzleloader shot! Good job Doug!

Maryland's Shotgun Opener!

Whackfactor Outdoors has always looked at the opening day of Maryland's shotgun season as a national holiday!




This awesome 15 pointer had been seen on several previous occasions and it looks like someone had a close call with him because he had a razor cut across his back. It may have been the 28th of November, but this guy was still running a doe making for an awesome hunt. Brian did a great job putting the Whackfactor on this awesome buck, and Brent got it done with the camera! Awesome job guys!

Chris, unfortunately had to hunt off camera, but was also able to take this great deer. Awesome buck, Dude!

Youth Day

Chris has been watching a pretty 11 pointer on his trail cam in Southern Maryland since September, and felt like November 14th's Junior Hunt Day was the perfect time to go after him. He took his 16-year-old brother-in-law, Brandon, in his last year to hunt youth day. The buck had previously been exclusively nocturnal, but showed himself to Brandon in the peak of the rut. Brandon scored big this time, and put the Whackfactor on an awesome, awesome buck! Congratulations Brandon on a great buck!




We also spent the Junior Deer Hunt Day, with Whackfactor Outdoors partner, Sonny Goldey, owner of Southern Maryland Taxidermy, and his two sons Hunter and Holden. It is their first year hunting, and those boys couldn't wait to get into the deer woods! We are very thankful for being able to share this hunt with Sonny and the boys; it was an awesome hunt that we will never forget! A must-see hunt full of fun and laughs!

Jesse's Big 11-Pointer

Congratulations to Chris and Sarah Swann! Please join the Whackfactor Outdoors family in celebrating the birth of our first child! Olive Caroline Swann was born today at Civista in La Plata. She weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 20 inches long. Baby and mom are doing great!




Chris had bigger fish to fry, so Uncle Jesse wound up hunting solo, without his camera man. As any of you who have filmed hunts know, you always have the best hunts when the camera is miles away! Jesse hunted an area that hadn't even been scouted all year, and put the Whackfactor on this awesome 11 pointer! Congrats on a great deer Jesse!

November!

All bow hunters love it when November gets here! Whackfactor Outdoors loves to be in the woods with our cameras rolling and our arrows flying during the rut! We have really been seeing some nice deer, been passing up a lot of next year's deer, and been seeing some real monsters on our trail cameras!







Check out this sweet 8 pointer
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Brent's Early Muzzleloader Two-for-One Special!

Maryland's three-day early muzzeloader season is a great time to be in the woods and capitalize on the last feeding rush before the rut sets in! Brian and Brent hunted this morning on an oak flat in search of a nice 8pt that they had a close call with in early bow season. Today the odds were a little more in our favor—the wind was just right, and we're no longer limited to a 30yd shot! As luck would have he came by at about 20yds, making an easy shot. After stirring up the woods at first light, they decided to take out a doe to put some meat in the freezer!

Great hunt guys!

Johnny Hancock- Little Whackfactor!

Brent: "I had made up my mind that this year that I would try to get my younger brother Johnny on a deer, and that is what I did. We were set up overlooking a sweet potato patch that was getting hammered by some does. It wasn’t long at all before a small doe came out and Johnny took care of the rest."

Look to see a lot from this young man in the future! He's turning into quite the natural hunter, with the drive, determination, and the god-given skills and ability to get it done in any hunting situation! Good Job buddy!

Trevor's Big Stag

At the tail end of the Sika Slam weekend, most of us decided to head on home to work on the honey-do lists, but a few of the Whackfactor Outdoors boys would rather get an ear full and stayed to hunt one more day! On Columbus Day, Jesse, Doug, Jeremy, and Trevor headed out into the marsh for one last hunt, where Trevor and Jeremy would get it done in a very big way!

Trevor's first sika deer ever was a giant stag, with a bow on film on public land! Trevor: "We had not seen a deer all morning, then like a ghost he came out of the frag. I thought to myself, that it looked like a nice deer from 300 yards. I truly understood what a trophy he was when the boys and I found him only 80 yards from the tree..."


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Sika Slam 2009!

Every year, the Whackfactor Outdoors crew loads up and makes the trip from Southern Maryland, across the Chesapeake to the Eastern Shore. This year we had great weather and were able to find some great signs on the public land where we traditionally hunt. We also found some great new spots in the abundant state and federal property. We had some major equipment malfunctions and operator errors, and wound up taking 4 sika deer with bows on public land by the last day of the weekend, without any usable footage. Doug, Frankie, Jeremy, and Austin all scored on nice deer. Jeremy had an incredible self-filmed hunt with three stags on one hind at close quarters, but couldn't seal the deal and run the camera at the same time...



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It's Time

We have been seeing some great bucks, but are having trouble getting close as the swirling winds are often an issue. Brian and I finally got a break when the winds shifted to the North West. We setup close to a creek so the deer could not get down wind of us. The plan worked, and Brian put the Whackfactor on a great buck.

Thinning the Herd

Whackfactor Outdoors goes to great lengths to manage the deer herds on our properties. To keep our deer healthy, and our farmers happy, we take a lot of does. It really helps to take the edge off after a long summer of shooting targets and puts meat in our freezers!

Check out the green Tracer in route to the soybean thief in the above picture! Never knew what hit her!

Frankie's Big 11-Pointer

Frankie had been watching this beautiful 11 pointer on his trail cameras all summer, and had him figured out to a T! Frankie put the Whackfactor on him the first time in that piece of woods, and he looks even prettier in hand than he did on camera! Congrats on a great buck Frankie!

Pre-Season

Whackfactor Outdoors has started using trail cameras a lot more for scouting. It really helps us figure out what deer are using our properties, and where they are likely to be. There's nothing more motivating, nothing that get's us out of bed on that cold rainy morning like a picture of a big buck walking by one of our stands! Check out some of these preseason trail camera pictures! Stay tuned throughout the season, and see if we can put the Whackfactor on some of these pretty bucks!

Third Annual Maryland Hunting and Outdoor Expo

Whackfactor Outdoors finally unveiled our first production, Whackfactor Break-Out Adventures at the Maryland Hunting and Outdoor Expo, put on by Buckwild Magazine in La Plata. A good time was had by all! Laura Francese from Martin Bows stopped by the booth and had her picture taken with the guys...