Kelcey Gulvas  was born and raised in a small town two hours north of Pittsburgh called Dubois, Pennsylvania . He has always loved Pennsylvania because it has a little of everything, cities and plenty of woods. Kelcey remembers being a kid around the age of five or six sitting at his uncle's house watching videos of turkey footage with his cousin Cody and his father, Ed Gulvas.  From that moment on Kelcey has been obsessed with anything that has to do with hunting.

He began videoing and scouting deer with Cody at the age of 8. They were both so excited when their fathers passed down their old video cameras for them to use. Everyday, Cody and Kelcey headed out to a little field not far from their houses and sat for hours with a slate call and a deer call hoping they would get footage of some kind of wildlife.

Although they never got anything amazing, they did learn a ton about the great outdoors.  Among the most memorable moments in Kelcey's life was the day he got his first bow.  It was Christmas morning and he was not expecting a bow, he was thinking more along the lines of a gun. He opened the box and there it was, his first bow.  From that day on archery has been everything to him.  He currently shoots a Hoyt and he loves it. Kelcey has taken one really nice buck with his bow which was an eight-point with a twenty-one inch spread.

Kelcey is a catholic who enjoys playing baseball and basketball.  He graduated from Dubois Central Catholic this year and will be attending PSU Dubois for Wildlife Management. He is proud to be a part of the Midwest Whitetail team and is looking forward to a good year in the woods.

Cody Gulvas was born and raised in Dubois, where his father and two brothers taught him to hunt and fish. Denny Gulvas, Cody's Father, was and still is an avid hunter

and taught Cody everything he knows about hunting. Growing up, Cody's dad had a fence with about 15 to 20 turkeys in the backyard. Cody remembers waking up to a group of hens or a shock gobble every morning at about 5 o’clock.  Cody became addicted to whitetail deer hunting when he was about 5 years old.  His father brought home  the biggest buck he has ever shot, a 20 inch 12 point so thick that back then Cody couldn’t fit his hands around the horns.

Cody's two brothers, Brian and Cory Gulvas would shoot archery in their backyard for hours with father Denny.  Cody would watch and this is what fueled his love for archery.  Cody picked up his first bow when he was eleven years old and began practicing and scouting.  It has paid off for the 16 year old who has already harvested several Pennsylvania bucks with his bow. 

Cody has a lot of experience with the camera.  He started filming wildlife when he was 10, mostly wild turkeys.  Filming archery hunts from a tree stand will be something new for the youngster though as he and Kelcey will try to lay the smack down on some of their hit list bucks.

Cody and Kelcey's 2011 Hit List

"Mr. Crabs"- Mr. Crabs is on the top of our hitlist for 2011. He is the biggest buck we got on trail camera and as you can see he is a giant buck for any state especially Pennsylvania. He is on public land and it is hunted by many other hunters making it even harder for us to possibly kill him. We have patterned him to be coming to a corn field about 150 yards from our stand and so far he is using the trail 10 yards from our stand at least once a week. Hopefully we will be able to get a shot at this PA giant and be able to capture it on film. He is also surrounded by about 6 other bucks that are close to his size or maybe bigger. None of those bucks have showed up on trail camera yet but we hope when rut comes around they will make themselves visible to the camera lens and our bows. 

 "The Simple 8"-The Simple 8 is not a huge buck, but he is a good buck. He is in on an oak top that is all state lands and far enough in that it seems that not many other hunters are in the area. Unfortunately this year has not produced any acorns compared to last years bumper crop, but it seems that it has not effected the deer travel patterns out of the thicket and under my stand. Hopefully this buck will show up and i will be able to get a shot at him. 
 

"Mr. 150"- I do not have any pictures of this buck, but as you can understand from the name he is a monster buck. Last year my camera man Zach Walters and I were hunting in the spot we now call area 150 and we had a very close encounter with the buck i now call Mr. 150. It was early rut and a rainy dark day, this was the first time Zach and i were in this area hunting we scouted it early season, but waited until early rut to first try it out. We had saw a couple deer earlier, but nothing like what we saw later that night. I gave a few calls and about ten minutes later a buck came from behind us that we did not see until it was about 20 yards we also did not know it was coming because it was raining too hard to hear. Zach looked back and saw Mr. 150 looking directly at him. Zach not making a move didnt bring the camera up to get a video thinking maybe he would not acknowledge us and keep walking towards us so i could turn and get a shot. That is not what he did. He turned and trotted away letting Zach and I knowing how big he was and he is still the biggest buck i have ever saw in the stand. This buck was a ghost for the rest of the year until about July when Zach was on his way to work and saw the monster ten point standing on a bank looking at him about fifteen yards off the road. Zach called me later that day and told me what he saw. I would love to see this buck again and hopefully get a shot at him he has not showed up on trail cam yet, but i am hoping the rut will bring this big 150 class buck out and about.

Cody and Kelcey's Hit List

Keep checking back for updates on Cody and Kelcey's hit list because you never know what kind of bucks these guys may find next.  

The following words are Cody and Kelcey's.

"THE SENTINAL": This buck got his name because during the few times that we did get a look at him, he was always on the look-out or watching over the other smaller bucks in the area. Few pictures were ever taken of this buck mostly because of his nature to always be on alert and looking! I will have a stand for him and we will be givin' our all for him.
 

"HIGH RACK MYSTERY": This guy got his name because this is the one and only picture of him and the only time we have ever seen him. In this picture he is only about 300-400 yards away from my favorite stand. I will be hunting this stand the first day this year! 
 

"CEMETERY BUCK": This buck got his name because he lives nearby an old cemetery. I got a bunch pictures of this buck. Hopefully I can put an arrow through him!
 

"KING NINER": This buck was always a loner, I have never gotten any pictures of him with any other bucks. He is a nice thick 9-point that looks pretty old. I would like to get a shot off on this guy!

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"MOUNTAIN BUCK": This buck is not the biggest buck but for the mountains of Potter County, PA, he looks pretty decent. I had the camera out for 2 weeks and only got 2 pictures of him. I will be sitting a stand on this bench come October.

"TIGHT TEN": This buck is the one we got at the airport.  We set up the cameras there because the night before we saw six monsters.  He was the one to show up to the camera and it didn't take us long to figure out that we were going to shoot him.  We only have night pictures of him so we may have to wait till the rut before he comes out during the daylight.

"BACKYARD BRUTE": We got pictures of this buck after the season last year. We know he is wandering around here somewhere this year, we just haven't gotten pictures yet.  He is a mature deer so he will also be one that will be hard to see during daylight in the early season.  One thing is for sure, if we do see him, we will be grabbing for the Hoyt.

"WANDERING 9": He got his name because he seems to move a lot, this picture was taken last year but we have spotted him this summer.  He is too smart and takes off when the light hits him and we can't seem to put a trail camera in the right place; he is changing locations all of the time.