New Minimum Installation for 2008!!! Yes it's time and it only benefits everyone. This year we are going to place a min. inch on all kills both gun and bow. In an effort to keep 2 and 3 year olds from getting taken too early. We've talked to several clients and this will be a very effective way to make clients take the time to think before they shoot and be sure this is the deer they wish to go home with. All of the penalty proceeds will go towards stand upgrades and more food plots for the following year......
Country Singer Craig Morgan Scores on a great Buck! We were fortunate enough to have another Celebrity hunt with us this year. Country music recording artist Craig Morgan hunted with us during the month of November. He shot a great buck with his bow. He was hunting for the Hunter Specialties PrimeTime Bucks 12 video which will be released next year. The hunt was Filmed by Wade so that added some more excitement to the hunt.....PHOTOS.
214" Pig goes down!!!! Hillary Bates of Minn. shot a 26 point nontypical buck in November, Sitting through wind gusts of over 40 mph this wise old hog came sneaking right under his stand and met his maker. Congrats to Hillary!!!! See Photos...
Check out the Trail Camera Photos for This Year! WoW! have we got some bruisers on film this year. We have told all of you whom have called that several deer were seen and missed last year and the proof is on this page. Just look at all the Shooters on this page that are going to be walking our woods this fall. All I can say is if you are hunting with us this fall and aren't practicing right now, you are making the hunters for 2008 really happy.....
Watch for Codi's hunt and other Thunder Ridge Hunts on PrimeTime bucks 11. Co-Owner Wade Sehman's daughter Codi took her first buck this year with a muzzleloader and with her father videoing made the moment even more special. Make Sure you purchase the new PrimeTime Bucks 11 to see a snipit of her hunt along with several other Giants killed in Iowa. It is by far their most amazing DVD released to date....
Cabela's Outdoor Adventures In November Erik Pawlak was with us for a week to film a show with Cabela's. And after seeing several giants and shooting just in front of a complete monster. He was able to take a really nice buck. Watch for this hunt comming up on Cabela's Outdoor Adventures....
The 2006 Season Pleases both Guides and Clients. Throughout the start of bow season and well into the end of muzzle
loader season our guides put clients on big buck after big buck. With and ending success rate of 72% we were very pleased with this years
season, and are very optimistic about what is to come in 2007. With the cold weather comming in late after the seasons end. Wade and I
both viewed several bucks that already and will be over 150". Applications and deposits are already rolling in....
Michael Waddell stops in at Thunder Ridge
Thunder Ridge had the pleasure of entertaining Realtree Roadtrips Michael Waddell a few months back, although he can hunt and play guitar, his texas hold em needs some work. Photos
2005 Hunters
Score on 4 bucks that gross over 170"
-Check
the impressive photos on the site of both archery and gun 1 of these
giant bucks
taken at Thunder Ridge.
Thunder
Ridge Clients go 100% in 2004 and set an
all-time inches of rack record.
-In
2004 we had a total of 13 clients
with a total of 13 kills. The total inch count
of these kills came
up to a whopping 2,036 inches of antlers. And the good news for our 2005 clients is there were plenty left and passed
on.
Thunder
Ridge to be seen on the Outdoor Channel.
-This
past fall we were privilaged to have several TV host join us on hunts. In November Matt Morrett from Hunter
Specialties killed a 147",10 point on
one of our best farms, where he saw plenty of other bucks
which just wouldn't come close enough to close the deal on. In December North
America Whitetail's Pat Reeve
joined us for a Gun Season 1 hunt. Pat had a Monster 160+
10 point narrowly escape his muzzleloader bullet by a mear half inch. Then
the second day of Late Muzzleloader season
Rick White filled his tag in which
was a very warm week for our late season on a beautiful 8
pointer. We
finished up the season with H.S. Phillip Vanderpool taking a nice
management buck. After having so many monster bucks come in
with nothing but bad
luck Phillip helped out our
deer herd a little. So keep an eye out for us this Summer
on The Outdoor Channel
and on H.S. Primetime Bucks 9.
Cabela's makes
Thunder Ridge one of their Outdoor
Adventure
Destinations.
-Wow, what
an honor. We have just been chosen as Iowa's Whitetail
Spot for Cabela's Outdoor Adventures. Cabela's, known for its years
of leading the hunting and outdoor
outfitting industry. Has teamed up with Thunder Ridge, to make it
one of their destinations
for Trophy Whitetails. For assistance in drawing a
tag for our unit either contact us, or Cabelas
and ask about their T.A.G.S. program. When applying for a tag remember we are located in
Zones 4. Place Zone 4 as your zone on the application.
Spring
Shed Hunt Shows Sign of Things Yet to Come.
-The weekend
of March 5th Pat Reeve from Driven 24/7 came back to join Wade and Tony at the Iowa Deer Classic.
While back for this, We spent the whole weekend scouring through our
leased woods for shed antlers. Pat really gave Wade and I several
tips on where to look, and how to look for sheds. As you
can see in the Photographs, with Pat finding
most of the sheds, he really knows his shed hunting.
