MORE SASKATCHEWAN MONSTER BUCKS WITH GARDEN RIVER
OUTFITTERS
Chad Schearer
 Editor’s
Note: Last year, I hunted with Chad Schearer, and this
year he invited me on another hunt. As media-relations
coordinator for Black Powder, Inc., Schearer plans and
sets up trips like the one we went on this year for
writers, clients and TV crews.
QUESTION: Chad, why did you decide to put this hunt
together at Garden River Outfitters?
SCHEARER: I wanted to come up here and hunt, because
I knew we’d have a chance to take world-class
whitetails under fair-chase laws. Last year, I came
up here to check out Garden River Outfitters. In the
first four days of the hunt, I passed up 14-different
bucks that would have scored from 125 to 140 points
on Boone &Crockett scale. On the 50th hour of day
five in my stand, I had a 151-3/8-inch-class buck come
in that was a beautiful 5 x 6. I took him. Besides the
big buck I bagged, I saw that Mo really took good care
of his clients. Mo has a high return rate of clients,
and I realize as an outfitter that that kind of return
only comes with your clients’ loyalty. But if
those clients aren’t seeing big bucks, no matter
how loyal the outfitter or the client is, they won’t
come back. So, the number of clients Mo has shows the
phenomenal success of this outfitting business and the
attention and care he gives his clients.
 QUESTION:
Tell me about your hunt this year.
SCHEARER: On the first day of the hunt, the weather
was cool, the deer were moving, and I saw several bucks
in the 125- to 130-class B&C. I saw two 8 points,
two 10 points and some smaller bucks. On the second
day of the hunt, I had a spike come in three different
times, but there wasn’t a lot of deer movement.
On the third day, we went into our stand a little early,
and within a short amount of time, there were a lot
of deer moving. I had five does come in, and one of
those does went over to a scrape and urinated in the
scrape. I felt like we were going to have a good day
of deer hunting. By 8:45 am, I saw something move in
the brush, and I heard a buck grunt. I told my cameraman
to get ready. We were filming a TV show, and I really
needed to take a buck for the show. This buck grunted
all the way in to our stand site and came within 50
yards of the blind where the cameraman and I were sitting.
I had passed this buck up on the first day, but I’d
listened to the weather report. I knew the weather was
going to warm up to about 40 degrees, which was terrible
for deer hunting in Canada. I looked at the deer and
realized I had a cameraman next to me ready to go. The
deer was standing broadside, so I made the decision
to take the shot. The buck stomped his foot like he
was going to leave, and he was at full alert when I
took the shot. The buck ran about 30 to 40 yards. However,
my .45-caliber bullet had done the trick, and the buck
went down. I was shooting a CVA Kodiak Pro with the
new laminated stock equipped with a 3200 Bushnell Elite
3-9X. The buck scored 135 B&C and was really a nice
buck.
 QUESTION:
Will you come back to Garden River Outfitters again?
SCHEARER: You bet I will. Garden River Outfitters is
the place where you can have an opportunity for taking
a world-class deer that will score 170 points or better.
You can go to Texas and hunt, and many of those ranches
will charge you according to the size of buck you take.
But here, you pay one price, and you can take as big
a buck as you see, and there’s never any additional
charge. You can take a buck that will score 130 B&C
or over 200 B&C and the price for the hunt won’t
change. I think this is a great place to hunt. There’s
plenty of big deer here, and it’s a unique experience.
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To learn more about Hot Hands, call Howard Communications
at (573) 898-3422 or visit www.howardcommuncations.com.
 For
more information on Garden River Outfitters, contact
Mo Heisler at (306) 978-2307, or you can write to him
at Box 929, Martinsville, Saskatchewan, SOK-2TO.
To learn more about BPI black-powder guns, including
CVA and PowerBelt Bullets, Winchester and New Frontier
go to www.bpiguns.com.
TOMORROW: JOHN PHILLIPS’ STORY
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