Babe Winkelman
Founder, Babe Winkelman Productions
Bill Jordan
Founder & CEO, REALTREE
Bill Miller
Executive Director, North American Hunting Club; Executive Producer/Host, North American Hunter Television on Versus; VP, Media Development & Production, North American Media Group, Inc.
Brad Rucks
Publisher, Deer & Deer Hunting
Bret Overturf
Artist/Owner, Wildlife Studio
Charles J. Alsheimer
Behavior Editor, Deer & Deer Hunting
Daniel E. Schmidt
Editor, Deer & Deer Hunting
David Blanton
Co-Host, Realtree Outdoors
Don and Kandi Kisky
Co-Hosts, Whitetail Freaks/Whitetail Extreme
George Winslow
Host, Bullseye Outdoors
Gina Brunson
Co-Host, Jon Brunson Outdoors
Gregg Ritz
Host, Thompson/Center’s Game Trails
Hal Shaffer
Co-Host, Huntin' the World TV
Jon Brunson
Co-Host, Jon Brunson Outdoors
Ken Cobb
Co-Host, Huntin' the World TV
Kenny McCrea
Co-Owner, McCrea Outdoors Productions, LLC
Larry Weishuhn
Co-Owner, Los Cazadores
Lee and Tiffany Lakosky
Hosts, Scent-Lok’s Gettin Close with Lee & Tiffany
Mark Drury
Co-Owner, Drury Outdoors - Founder, MAD Calls - Co-Host, Dream Season, Bow Madness, Wildlife Obsession
Micky McCrea
Co-Owner, McCrea Outdoors Productions, LLC
Mike Hanback
Author, Television Host, Blogger - BigDeer.com
Mike Weinkauf
President, Babe Winkelman Productions
Nicole Jones
Co-Host, Driven 24/7 - VERSUS and the Pursuit Network
Pat Reeve
Co-Host, Driven 24/7 - VERSUS and the Pursuit Network
Paul Butski
Co-Host, Sportsmen’s Outdoor Strategies
Ralph Cianciarulo
Co-Host, ARCHER’S CHOICE® and THE CHOICE
Ray Howell
Kicking Bear Foundation
Terry Drury
Co-Owner, Drury Outdoors - Co-Host, Dream Season, Bow Madness, Wildlife Obsession
Tom Miranda
Host, Realtree’s Whitetail Country, Strategies in the Wild and Territories Wild
Tom Nelson
Host, American Archer TV
Vicki Cianciarulo
Co-Host, ARCHER’S CHOICE® and THE CHOICE
Wade Middleton
Host, Fishing & Hunting Texas, Co-Host, Americana Outdoors
Mike Hanback
Author, Television Host, Blogger - BigDeer.com
I was born and raised in Virginia and started hunting and fishing with my dad when I was 6 years old. My first bow was a recurve. I shot my first deer with a .243.
I graduated with honors in English from Carson-Newman College in Tennessee. My first real job was an Assistant Editor for the NRA’s American Hunter magazine in downtown Washington, D.C. I worked my way up to Executive Editor and stayed there for 10 years. During that time, I traveled North America, hunted 15 species of big game and wrote columns and articles about my adventures. I am a Life Member of NRA and continue to write for American Hunter magazine today.
For many years I was deer-hunting editor for Outdoor Life magazine. During that time, I hunted for white-tail bucks in 20 states and 3 Canadian provinces. I wrote hundreds of columns and feature articles on all aspects of deer hunting for the magazine.
I have written 7 hunting books, 3 of them dedicated to deer hunting: Modern Whitetail Hunting, Bowhunting Mega Bucks and Giant Whitetails (co-written with Mark and Terry Drury).
In 2005 I shot my biggest buck ever, a 22-point Saskatchewan giant, that scored 181.
These days I blog. Mike Hanback’s “Big Deer” (www.bigdeerblog.com) is widely regarded as the premier deer-hunting blog, with daily opinions and perspectives on a wide variety of topics. I also host TV shows and vignettes on the VERSUS network.
I still live in Virginia with my beautiful wife and 2 sons. I hunt for monster bucks in 6 or 7 states and a couple of Canadian provinces each year and will continue to do so, Good Lord willing. I film most of those hunts for TV, and blog daily about my experiences. After I shoot a buck, you can see it on the blog less than an hour later!
After all these years I have arrived as a hunter and my creed is: “I am finally at that point in life where the killing of a deer is secondary to the challenge of hunting it. But still I long to shoot a buck with a big drop tine someday. I have never gotten one of those and I am obsessed.”
