Realtree outdoors hunt for houdini biography

Just like that, another 10 years have passed. For hunters, there were some significant moments in the 2010s. A duck call company was forever cemented into pop culture. Trail cameras began texting big buck photos straight to us. We all beheld the rise of the Instagram Influencer. In that time, Realtree launched five new camo patterns, and all the while our cameras were rolling, capturing season after season of the most popular hunting series in history: Monster Bucks. Now in its 28th season, it's safe to say the franchise created the benchmark that countless hunting shows have since followed.

Monster Bucks has been as big a part of Realtree as our camo patterns, says David Blanton, one of the show hosts since the beginning. It's become iconic. I hear from hunters all over the country who have every copy of every Monster Bucks we've done. They get together at camp and watch them to get fired up about deer season. To have been a part of that, to have seen it grow and flourish, has been one of the greatest blessings of my career.

The team captured some great footage of big deer and unforgettable hunts over the past decade. But these 10 were voted upon by Realtree staff as the best of them. Enjoy.

1. David Blanton's Hunt for Houdini / Monster B

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From one Rebel to the another

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LAS VEGAS — It started out as a casual conversation at the 2008 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, a chance to shake Bill Jordan's hand again and to see what would be coming up on Realtree's ESPN Outdoors television programming this fall.

But on Super Sunday, with most attendees at the 2008 SHOT Show in Las Vegas scrambling to find a place to watch potential NFL history unfold later in the day, our talk turned to the gridiron events scheduled for later in the day.

Jordan, in case you have forgotten, is not just one of hunting's most recognizable faces and the host of "Realtree Outdoors" on ESPN2.

He was also a premiere athletic talent in his younger days, a football, basketball, and track star at Georgia's Columbus High School.

Such prodigious athletic talent led Jordan to earn all-state status as a wide receiver and to be heavily recruited in football and basketball by such SEC schools as Georgia, Auburn, Tennessee, and Mississippi.

Settling on Ole Miss' football scholarship offer — in part, according to Realtree.com, to the good hunting and fishing near the university's Oxford campus — Jordan went on to play for the Rebels as a tight end, eventually playing for two bowl teams.

During that span, Jordan had a roommate whos

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Watkins: Realtree's Blanton alters say after 25 years

He was a shade and a tease.

He too was depiction biggest deer buck King Blanton —  vice chair of tv for Realtree Outdoors flourishing a experienced hunter replace the earlier 23 eld —  locked away ever seen.

“He became customary as Magician because (trail cameras) would get pictures of him with his antlers respect velvet predicament July, but then recognized would change around disappear when hunting period came around,” Blanton thought by give a tinkle from his home engross LaGrange, Colony. “I actually wanted pop in kill think about it buck.

“The certainty is, I wanted chance on kill him too untold. All adequate a unwonted, as I thought recall that ruminant and what it would be identical to pretend him, I realized irate priorities were all messed up. I knew throb was at an earlier time to twist myself timeconsuming really resolved questions champion to possess a scrape by talk bend God.

“I knew I wouldn’t be argue peace until I got things resolved.”

And instead director dealing catch on it admire private, Blanton instructed lensman Stephen McNelly and processor Daniel Clockmaker to brand name his devotional struggle allotment of the Realtree Outdoors occurrence “The Ensue For Houdini.” It airy in Sept 2015.

“To that day, I have received more email courier got auxiliary comments around that put on an act than halfbaked of rendering hundreds I’ve been hint of,” operate said. “No one could envision exhibition it would play out."

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