Tim Huffman has been an avid bowhunter since 1993. He shares his home with his wife Krista and their yellow lab Max. Tim has bowhunted and harvested several animals including turkey, antelope, bear, elk, caribou and several P&Y deer. He has hunted in numerous states as well as Alaska and Canada. Tim works in the hunting industry as a territory sales manager for Outtech Inc. since 2002. Tim's territory spans several states including Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North & South Dakota, Wisconsin and the U.P. of Michigan. He has sold and helped market bowhunting and hunting equipment to dealers and large retailers for companies such as Easton/Beman, Hoyt, Delta/McKenzie, New Archery Products, Robinson Outdoors, Tru Ball and Tru Glo.

Tim enjoys his job as it keeps him involved in the archery industry on a daily basis and gives him the chance to interact and speak to bowhunters all across the country. His job has also given Tim the opportunity to get to know, hunt and film some of the top hunters in the industry such as Easton Bowhunting TV and Fred Eichler several times harvesting antelope, turkeys and deer. Fred and his wife Michele have traveled to hunt with Tim in Iowa the last two years. Tim filmed hunts that have aired on Easton Bowhunting TV and Muzzy Bad to the Bone TV.

Hunting whitetails in his home state of Iowa are still his favorite hunts out of all of the hunting that Tim gets to do. Tim hunts in the rugged hills of northeast Iowa where the crop ground is separated by tracts of timber. The terrain is hilly and rough and the bucks have great cover and food sources. Bowhunting is a 365 day a year process for Tim. He enjoys everything from shed hunting, planting food plots, maintaining food plots, trail cams, hanging stands, and hunting from early bow season in Oct. through the rut in Nov. and finally late season muzzle loader hunting in Dec. and January. It provides great satisfaction not only by harvesting great bucks but the entire process and hard work that goes into it.

This year Tim has several food plots of clover and chicory planted along with a large five acre alfalfa/clover/chicory plot and a seven and a half acre corn plot were Tim is planning on hunting late season when the food sources become slim. "I’m looking forward to filming and capturing my hunts this year for the viewers of Midwest Whitetail!"

Tim's 2011 Hit List

"Dagger"

"Perfect 10"

The Perfect 10 buck I named because he is so symmetrical on both sides. Besides being a perfect 10 he does have some split brow tines which give him a very unique feature. I believe this buck is a 150” class deer as I have been watching him develop and grow the last several weeks. I have several trail camera pictures in several different areas on the farm during daylight and evening hours. This buck looks to be 3-4 years old and we could very possibly let him go for this year after we see how big he is after he sheds his velvet. He is spending a lot of time in my 4 acre alfalfa field where I found his shed this spring. If he continues that pattern we will be able to scout him preseason and early season to determine if he will stay on the hit list for 2011.

"Wide 10"

This buck I nicknamed Wide 10  since he has such a wide frame. He is a clean 10 point with good brow tines. I had a couple of encounters with this buck last year while hunting the rut. He was able to give us the slip a couple of times but this year should be a different story. I have several pictures of this buck roaming all over the farm since June and I have daytime and evening pictures of him. I hope to pattern this buck the last month before the season and possibly get on him the first couple of days of our 2011 bow season. I’m guessing he will be somewhere in the 150”-160” class. I will be able to determine that once he is completely done growing, the velvet sheds, and I get to see him myself with some early season scouting.

Tim's 2010 Hit List

“Tall 2” 

This buck gets his name from having his tall G2’s and frame. He resides on my main farm where “Dagger” lives and seems to be spending time in the alfalfa/clover/chicory food plot. He  is obviously from the same gene pool as “Dagger” with his long G2’s. The big difference with the Tall 2 buck from Dagger  is he has more “trash” or kickers and stickers coming off his rack. He looks to maybe have a split or fork on his right side G2 and a split on his right side Brow or G1 tine. He also has a sticker off his G2 on his left side. His G2’s remind me some of a buck my hunting and filming partner, Chuck, shot off this same farm 3 years ago with his bow,we named “the Big 6.” I’m not sure what  Tall 2 will score or if he will even score that great but he looks to be a mature buck. He might be a good candidate for late muzzle  loader season!

Chuck with "Big 6"

 “Crazy Brow Tine Buck”

This buck my wife, Krista, gave this buck his name because his brow tines are both split up at the top  and almost mushroom out. The “Crazy Brow Tine Buck” appears to be a main frame 8 with his split brows and a kicker off his left side main beam by or off his G3. He carries very good mass, width, and main beam length. He is also residing on my new farm and enjoying the soy bean field while hanging out with the “Split 2” and “Clean 10” bucks. I’m hoping to take Krista out for an early season muzzle loader hunt to try and video her harvesting her very first whitetail and it would be even better if she could get a crack at this dandy buck! The “Crazy Brow Tine Buck” is her favorite deer so far for 2010.

“Clean 10”  

 This buck got his name because a buddy of mine saw the picture and got all excited and said, “I like the Clean 10 out of all of those pictures!” He is just that, a big clean 10, with great beam length and a solid 150”-160” buck. As more pictures come in off the trail cameras once they lose their velvet, it will be easier to judge the bucks. It’s easy to over guess scores when the bucks are still in velvet because they sometimes look much heavier in mass than what they are after the velvet sheds. Clean 10 is also hanging out on the new farm and in the bean field as many bucks do in the late summer months. It looks like I will be on the new farm sitting close to the bean field come October 1st!

“Split 2 Buck”

This buck gets his name because his right side G2 is split or forked. This buck is residing on a new farm that I have for 2010 so I don’t have previous history with him. He has been hitting the soybean field hard in August and early September. I first saw Split 2 while mowing food plots on this farm. I had just completed mowing a plot and was driving along the bean edge during mid-day and he stood up in the middle of the bean field and ran to the woods. I’m sure with the heat and the bugs he was bedding out in the field during the day and then would get up to feed later. Judging from his pictures I think  Split 2  will score somewhere in between 160”-170” conservatively. He carries good mass, good main beam length, and good tine length. I’m planning on hunting Split 2  hard in the opening days of our Iowa bow season while the beans are still in and the bucks are still feeding heavily on the soybeans before they are harvested.

“Dagger” 

I have been chasing this bad boy since I first saw him in 2008. He has had 16” G2’s and 15” G3’s the last two seasons. He is a big clean 10 and gained some mass and length on his G4’s in 2009. I have laid eyes on old Dagger several times while in the field. I was able to video him out in a bean field in 2008 in early October and I got several pictures of him the same fall but no close encounters. In 2009 he showed up once again all over my trail camera’s and I had him at 60 yards chasing does in early November while hunting and filming with my wife. It was a windy day and a shot never presented itself. In January I was late season hunting out of a blind and videoed him out feeding late in the afternoon. He came all the way into 50 yds. but his G3 was broken off and with it being the last week of the 2009 season I let him go. I’m looking forward to my first sighting of Dagger in 2010!