Travis Patton is a 25-year-old small town southern Iowa native. He graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa but other than that has been a small town resident his entire life. After chasing his dream of baseball in college, he turned his passion to whitetail hunting and enjoys the outdoors with family and friends. Whether it is chasing southern Iowa longbeards in the spring or monster whitetails in the fall, you are sure to find him in the woods. He resides in Albia, Iowa where he is involved in the insurance business.

Tyson Patton is 22-year-old Albia native. He is an Apprentice Sprinkler Fitter for fire prevention by day and spends each free moment in the deer woods. He was introduced to the adrenalin rush of whitetail hunting by his brother and has been consumed ever since. Tyson enjoys turkey hunting as well, and loves to get these hit list bucks on trail cam or film. Like his brother, you are likely to find him in the deer woods come fall, where this duo will be perched together in a big oak bringing you footage, and hopefully kills) of these hit list bucks!

Travis and Tyson's 2009 Hit List

The brothers have access to a few brand new spots this summer through good ol’ fashion door knocking. The duo will focus most of their time on the new properties when the action heats up in late October. They will also be bringing you some hunts from public land early in the season to keep pressure to a minimum on their main farms. The bucks featured on their hit list are from some of the new farms - so history is at a minimum.  Travis and Tyson are quickly compiling a list of bruiser bucks for this year, and years to come.

The following words are Travis's :

Big Natural showed himself one night on our trail cam but was behind another buck in the photo and hasn’t been back on video or trail cam since. He is large main frame 8 with a deep split/fork on his right brow; hopefully he has stayed in the area and will show himself again when breeding activity picks up mid-season.

We will attempt to harvest this brute back on a couple secluded oak ridges that are loaded with acorns as soon as the season opens. From additional glassing of the ridges, we have found deer seem to be comfortable there and look to catch him staging before hitting the large crop fields after darkness sets in.

We hope this buck remains visible in shooting hours and begins to use the corn on our farm as a food source once the clover loses its luster. We will try to bring you some additional footage of this buck and/or trail cam pics along with the larger buck he is running with. Needless to say, this little 35 acre thicket is overlooked by many hunters and may provide the sanctuary we need to hit the "Jackpot" this fall!

"JUNK YARD": This big, ugly tank is definitely a mature animal. While the rack isn’t going to go outrageously high, he is an old deer with some funky character. His rack carries a very strange main frame 8 structure with some serious Junk on his brows as well as strong G2’s. Looking at his big blocky body we know he is mature and with genetics that are less than desirable, we feel he will be a great buck to harvest from the herd.

Not to mention the softball size goiter hanging from this guy’s chin!  Man, that thing is gross!  The goiter and the junky bases give him his name. We look forward to the chase for this wise old timber ghost as this type of deer is just as much a trophy to us as any high scoring buck. Stick with us and see if we can seal the deal on this ol’ boy.

"TED WILLIAMS": This buck is a strong nine-pointer with a frame that carries potential to be a great 9. When we think of the number 9 - and greatness - we can’t help but to think of baseball’s greatest #9, Ted Williams. Ted has eluded all our attempts to capture him on video during our summer velvet monitoring.  But he has made himself a mainstay on the trail cams. He has been traveling to this bean field with a fellow 8-pointer on a regular basis.

We will look to catch this guy on a bed to feed pattern early in the year.   We know the great Ted Williams was a hitting machine and this guy has what it takes to be part of our HIT list. As of now, he ranks low on the list and that may buy him another season of growth with that chance to become a real Wall of Famer!

"WICKED G2":  When we thought about what a wicked G2 would look like on a buck, we thought of this buck.  Tha is why he got the name "Wicked G2".  He has showed up a number of times on the trail camera and we think we have good idea where we can kill him come October.  "Wicked G2" wouldn't be a real high scoring deer but he would be a great buck to take out of the herd before he spreads his genetics around in the rut. 

We will be hunting this buck on a few different oak ridges with bean fields close by.  We don't think that the "Wicked G2" buck has moved very far from the area where we got the pictures of him during the summer so we will stay in that area when we go after him in a few weeks.

"NUBBY NUBERSON":  Tyson and I sat around for a while the other night trying to come up with a good name for this buck when finally "Nubby Nuberson" popped up.  We gave him this name because of a few nubbs that he has on his bases.  When we first got the picture of this buck, we knew that he was a nice deer but we didn't know if he was old enough to put on the hit list.  We decided to add him for now and then wait to see what he looks like this fall.  He may be a buck that we let walk because of his age, but you will just have to wait and see what happens - just like us.