Category: Outside TG

Casey Liegeois took his son, Jackson, down to Kansas for the youth season over the first weekend in September. It was a hot one, with temperatures topping 100 degrees in the middle of the day. They didn’t see many bucks the first day or the second morning, so in the middle of the day on September 6, they came up with a new game plan and headed to a different spot.

They made their way in by dropping into a dried-up creek bottom and following it all the way down to a stand on the edge of a bean field. As soon as they got settled, they saw bucks in the beans. Jackson had his eye on one buck in particular, and they watched him stand up and bed down multiple times before he finally started to move.

Jackson stood in the ladder stand while Casey sat in a hang-on stand next to him, and Jackson rested the gun on his dad’s leg for support. He did a great job working through the shot and dropped the buck in his tracks at 140 to 150 yards.

It was an all-around amazing trip, and Casey says time outdoors with his son is his favorite.

Casey is a Food & Beverage Estimator in our Wrightstown location. Congrats, Jackson, on an amazing buck, and thanks to Casey for sharing the story us!

After about ten years away from hunting because of work travel and a lack of access to good land, Scott Nuutinen is back in the woods and already has venison to show for it. His new house near Gwinn, Michigan, borders more than 100,000 acres of state land, so he bought a crossbow and decided to try to put some meat in the freezer.

On the afternoon of October 14, Scott went out to sight in the bow, set up a ground blind, and toss out some corn and apples. The next afternoon, he came back with a chair, his bow, and a range finder just to see how everything fit in the blind and how long a shot he’d set up for himself. It was raining, and he didn’t really plan to hunt, but he decided to sit for a while and look around.

About an hour and a half later, a decent doe walked up to the corn and gave him a perfect broadside shot. Knowing he had two tags to fill, Scott couldn’t resist the thought of fresh venison, and that was that.

With one down, he says he can now settle in and wait for the big one.

Scott is an Account Manager in our Marquette, Michigan, location. Congrats, Scott, on a great comeback hunt, and thanks for sharing the story with the TG Buck Pool!

Brynden Beck is back again with another impressive buck. Brynden was in his stand on Sunday, October 18, in Jackson County, Wisconsin, for an early afternoon sit with his bow. It was a pretty slow evening for the most part, until a doe and a 6-pointer showed up by his stand.

Then a 9-pointer arrived and got really aggressive toward the 6-pointer and the doe. He ran them both off and stood in an opening, giving Brynden a 27-yard shot. Brynden drew, settled on the deer, and released the arrow. He heard a loud crack when the arrow struck, and the buck took off down the hill and out of sight.

Brynden climbed down and went back to the shed to give the deer some time before starting the search. When they returned to the point of impact, they started finding blood. They trailed the buck and found him a little over 100 yards away. It was a good shot right behind the shoulder.

Brynden has become a regular in the Buck Pool standings in recent years, and this makes his third big buck in the past four seasons. He finished fifth in 2023 with a 141 1/8″ bow buck and fifth again last year with a 139 5/8″ another bow buck.

Brynden is a Service Technician Pre-Apprentice in our Wisconsin Rapids location. Congrats, Brynden, on another great buck!

Brett McAdams added a buck to his season this weekend. It’s his second deer of the year (that we know of) following a doe he took about a month ago.

On Saturday, October 17, Brett headed out for an afternoon sit in Leelanau County, Michigan, on an extremely windy day. Late in the afternoon, this buck came out of the swamp and passed his stand at 30 yards, but there was no presentable shot. The buck slipped into a large patch of autumn olive, and Brett wasn’t about to let him walk.

Instead of staying put, Brett climbed down and stalked around to where he figured the buck would come out. The wind was covering his noise, which worked in his favor. He knelt behind a bush and waited for what felt like forever. Then the buck popped out at 20 yards and locked right on to him. Brett was ready, though, and his bow shot to the vitals dropped the buck.

When he’s not thinning the lower Michigan deer herd, Brett is a Service Technician in our Traverse City location. Congrats, Brett, on a well-earned buck and a great hunt!

Legend Larry Robenhorst is feeling like an extra proud grandpa this week, and he’s got good reason. On October 10, Larry and his grandson Jameson headed out for the youth hunt in Brown County, Wisconsin, and Jameson came home with a 6-point buck.

It was a warm day in the shack, but the two stuck it out right up until the end. About ten minutes before closing, this nice 6-pointer stepped into the shooting lane and made a beeline for the Legends Buck Mineral. Jameson took aim and put the shot right into the buck’s heart. The deer ran about 40 yards and tipped over.

That makes four bucks for Jameson now, and every one of them was a heart shot. As Larry puts it, the kid can shoot!

When Larry Robenhorst isn’t making Legends Buck Mineral or out on a hunt he’s a Truck Driver for Tweet Garot at our Wrightstown Shop. Congrats to Jameson and Larry, and thanks for sharing the story with us!

Adam Stankevich got to be there for one of the best moments a hunting dad can have. His son, Nolan, tagged his first deer, a buck, during Wisconsin’s Youth Hunt this past weekend in Marinette County.

The heat didn’t slow them down. Adam and Nolan sat the first morning and saw only three deer, so they took a break and headed back out for the evening. It was a long, boring sit until 6 PM, when this buck and a doe stepped out into the food plot. It took Nolan all of five seconds to decide he was taking the buck, and he made it happen with his rifle.

Three of them were packed into a small stand overlooking that food plot, which Adam says made for a great memory of his son’s first deer. As for Nolan, he’s hooked.

Adam is our Virtual Construction Manager at the De Pere Office. Congrats, Nolan, and thanks to Adam for sharing the story with us!

Every deer camp has that one buck everybody wants. This year at Jason Waligursky’s camp in Iron County, Michigan, he got it. The buck was a ghost for most of the season, only showing up on camera after dark and before first light. Then on October 7, while Jason was stuck at work, the big guy walked past his stand at 6 PM with plenty of daylight left. It was the first daytime picture of him, so Jason took Friday the 9th off and headed north.

Friday evening was a bust, just a doe and a fawn. With the forecast calling for 80° on Saturday, Jason figured the morning was his best bet and climbed into the stand at 5:45 AM on the 10th. Around 6:30, he heard a deer walking up behind him. Figuring it was the same doe and fawn he’d been seeing, he wasn’t too fired up, but he got ready just in case. Good thing, because when the deer finally stepped into view, it was the target buck, stopped at 12 yards to his left.

Jason let the arrow fly. The buck trotted off with his tail up like the noise had just spooked him, and Jason admits he wasn’t feeling great about how it looked. He gave it an hour before climbing down to check for blood. He found a couple of drops and barely any on the arrow, but the buck had only made it about 60 yards before he crashed.

As if that wasn’t enough, Jason also knocked down five grouse over the weekend and saw plenty more. In his words, an all-around great weekend at camp.

Jason Waligursky is a Shop Scheduler and Cut & Form Lead at our Wrightstown Shop. Congrats, on a great weekend, Jason!

Hats off to Nathan Coe, son of Tweet Garot Project Manager Nick Coe, who arrowed a unique 12-point Wisconsin whitetail this past weekend.

This one was earned long before the shot. Nathan did all of the prep for this season on his own. He got his gear ready, got his spots set up, and put in the work that most people never see. As Nick put it, “Seeing him take on all of the preparation himself made this opportunity even more rewarding.”

When the moment finally came, Nathan made it count. He stopped the buck with a well-timed grunt, made a great shot, and the two had a quick recovery on what Nick calls a “beautiful, unique Wisconsin whitetail.”

Nathan’s own play-by-play of the moment:

“Dad, I gave him the ‘meh’ and stopped him just perfect!”

For Nick, it was more than a successful hunt: “A pretty special moment and a memory we won’t soon forget!” Days like this are what hunting is all about. They take patience and preparation, and they’re even better when you get to share them with family.

Congratulations, Nathan! That’s a buck to be proud of and a hunt you earned from start to finish.

Sunday evening, I was set up along the edge of a field on private land in Shawano County when I suddenly heard a deer coming in from my downwind side.

The deer stopped right at the base of my tree, giving me a brief moment to take in what was happening. It then took off again, running directly in front of me. As it moved, I caught a glimpse of velvet on one side and what looked like a 5-inch kicker on the other.

It didn’t take long to realize I was seeing something unusual. What I thought was a kicker was actually the buck’s G2, which had broken off but was still hanging in place, held together by the velvet.

The buck continued on, and on his second leap, I drew back and settled the shot. At just 12 yards, I made the shot and watched my Sunday evening hunt come to an unforgettable end.

Remington is a steamfitter from the De Pere/Wrightstown location. Congrats!

The albino possum I shot Monday morning while leaving for work 

Every once in a while a hunt comes along that reshuffles the record books, and Monday afternoon in Waushara County was one of those times. Brady Weidman arrowed a buck that taped out at 159 0/8″ — a score that, if it holds, lands him the 3rd largest buck in the 10-year history of the TG Buck Pool. That also makes it the largest buck ever taken in the state of Wisconsin in Buck Pool history.

Brady was settled in between a bean field and his brassica plot, with an east wind working in his favor for what turned into a wild afternoon. Early on, a good buck was working through the food plot when a bobcat came barreling through chasing fawns, scattering everything and running the buck off. Just when it seemed like the action had fizzled, Brady caught movement out in the bean field — and he knew right away who it was.

“I had been watching him all summer and hoping he’d give me an opportunity,” Brady said. He ranged the buck at 33 yards, settled his pin, and let the arrow fly on what felt like a perfect shot.

That’s when the hunt took its strangest turn. Instead of finding its mark on the buck, Brady’s arrow found a support cable on the field’s irrigation system instead. “The arrow definitely didn’t hit the mark, but thankfully, it hit a mark,” Brady said. “I guess there’s no other way to explain it — that arrow must have been heat seeking.”

Between the east wind, the freshly hung set, a bobcat stirring up the whole property, and a summer-long target buck finally stepping into range, Brady called it one heck of an afternoon in the woods — even if the ending didn’t go quite the way he drew it up.

When he’s not chasing giants in Waushara County, Brady works as an HVAC Service Technician out of our Wisconsin Rapids office.

The tape doesn’t lie — Brady just set the bar high for the 2026 Buck Pool. This one’s going to be talked about for a long time to come. Congratulations to Brady on a truly historic buck!

I shouldn’t editorialize or play favorites here, but if anyone deserved a good story to kick off the season, it’s Jeff Blohowiak — the man behind the TG Buck Pool himself. On the evening of September 15th, Jeff headed out to his stand in Kewaunee County with modest goals: get out, get the season started, and see what showed up. What he came home with was one of the best bow bucks of his hunting career.

Jeff set up on an intersection of two fence lines, corn on the west side and alfalfa to the east, with a westerly wind putting the odds in his favor for deer moving out of the corn as evening settled in. He didn’t have to wait long for things to get interesting. “I heard a sound that was like something tearing a cob off the stalk, so I got ready,” Jeff said. A solid 9-pointer stepped out first, but Jeff had a specific target in mind: a 10-pointer he’d been watching on camera.

Five minutes later, that buck showed up, making the same sound working the corn. “I immediately knew this was my target buck,” Jeff said. He drew back as the buck started to angle east, and let the arrow fly on a quartering-away shot. The hit was a bit farther back than he wanted, and the buck made it about 50 yards into the alfalfa before going down. “It happened so fast,” Jeff said.

Shortly after, an 8-pointer emerged from the same spot and wandered over to check on the downed buck, sticking around for about 15 minutes before finally moving off into the next woods. Only then did Jeff climb down and make his way over for a recovery.

Jeff, who put the tape to it himself, came up with a gross green score of 138″ — his first bow buck ever taken in September, and one he calls “bittersweet” now that his Wisconsin bow buck season is officially in the books. With his tag filled, Jeff says he’ll spend the rest of the bow season behind the camera filming buddies’ hunts to pass the time until gun season arrives, and he’s not ruling out an out-of-state bow hunt before it’s all said and done.

When he’s not in a stand or running a pool full of 300+ hunters, Jeff works as an Account Manager out of our De Pere office — and as the founder of the TG Buck Pool, it seems only fitting that he’d be the one to set the bar early this season. Looks like we have a lot to talk about on the podcast tomorrow.

Congratulations to Jeff on a great buck and a great start to the season.

Michigan’s early antlerless season got off to a great start for Brett McAdams, who connected with a doe in Manistee County this past Saturday, September 12. Hunting with a rifle, Brett made the most of the state’s early opportunity to fill the freezer before the fall rush gets going.

But the real story of this hunt might be the tracking crew. “My daughter Emma loves to do the tracking for me,” Brett said, proving that the kind of hunt that sticks with you is not just the one with the biggest harvest, but also shared with the right people. There’s nothing like watching a kid catch the hunting bug early, and having Emma along for recovery duty is the kind of tradition that turns a single hunt into a lifetime of memories in the woods.

When he’s not in the woods, Brett works as a Service Technician out of our Traverse City location.

Congratulations to Brett on a successful hunt, and to Emma on some A+ tracking work.