The Famous Bob Decker "Field and Stream" Buck

It was late August of 2008 and the middle of football camp for us at UW-Stout when several friends of mine talking and emailing me about the "Field and Stream" buck video that spread across the country via email.  Living only a half hour away and having hunted Buffalo County my friends wanted to know what I had heard about this buck and the video.  They had viewed the video on the Field and Stream website and wanted to know if this was a hoax.

Bob Decker's Field and Stream Buck

During football camp I am completely oblivious to what was taking place outside of UW-Stout Football.  But, I couldn't help myself either, so I went and checked out the video of this great buck and couldn't believe what I saw.  Could this be a new state record buck?

Here is the famous Field and Stream video shot by Scott Kirkpatrick of Buffalo County Outfitters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EvgkoxBvS8

 Throughout the fall the word continued to spread and this buck became an internet sensation. Bob Decker, of Eau Claire, was excited to hunt his lease in Buffalo County long before reports of this buck began to circulate, but his excitement increased when he heard reports that the Field and Stream video had been shot close to his lease.

Decker never would have thought his dreams would come true on a November 1 morning when he came face to face with this trophy buck.  A well placed shot landed Bob Decker is the record books with a new Wisconsin Non-Typical buck with a score of 233 2/8.

His new state record wouldn't last long.  In the fall of 2009, Wayne Schumacher of Fond du Lac, shot a new state record buck.  Decker may not have the bragging rights of having the record, but the buck he harvested is one of the most well know bucks to have ever lived.  Congratulations to Bob Decker.


http://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/trophybucks/NAW_field_0909/index.html

http://www.fieldandstream.com/pages/special-report-field-stream-buck-falls?page=1

http://www.wisconsinsportsmanmag.com/hunting/whitetail-deer-hunting/WI_1109_02/index.html

Welcome

I am currently the Defensive Coordinator for the football team at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.  Football has been a mainstay in my life since I started playing way back in seventh grade.  You could say football is a true love of mine.

Crazy Horse Hunting Club - Rusk County

My other main love outside of my family is definitely deer hunting.  I am fortunate to teach bow hunting as a class at UW-Stout.  It has become one of the more popular physical education classes at the University.  Teaching two sessions of bow hunting and an archery class the first quarter of the fall semester allows me plenty of time at the archery range each week.  By the end of the quarter I am pretty dialed in with my bow.  If only I could hunt more.

I do not get to bow hunt too much due to my football obligations.  It is mostly on Sundays that I'm able to get out in the woods.   I am lucky enough though to be able to gun hunt for the full Wisconsin gun season on our 400 acres in Rusk County.  The above photo is from our group, the Crazy Horse Hunting Club from the 2005 season.

I am passionate about whitetail hunting and big bucks in particular.  Like many of you reading this, I love getting email photos of big bucks that have been shot throughout the state each year.  I started this blog to share and discuss all these great bucks.  I have also started a Facebook page where photos and comments can be shared.  I'll provide a link to this page at a later date.