I didn't stumble into deer hunting. I was drafted.

Thirty years ago, my father handed me a rifle and walked me into the Southern woods for the first time. What started as a rite of passage became a lifelong obsession — one that eventually shaped my education, my career, and the way I see the natural world.

I'm a wildlife biologist with a B.S. in Wildlife Management and an M.S. in Wildlife Biology. I've spent my career in the Southern United States assessing and improving habitat — learning the land from the ground up, one stand site, one soil sample, and one deer trail at a time. Before that, I served as a Radioman in the United States Navy, where I learned something that no classroom can fully teach: that precision, patience, and disciplined attention to detail are the difference between mission success and coming home empty-handed.

Turns out, that lesson translates perfectly to a deer stand.

Biologist on Bucks exists because most hunting content gets it backwards. It starts with the kill and works backward to the tactics. I start with the biology — how whitetails actually perceive their environment, process pressure, respond to habitat, and make decisions — and build the strategy from there. When you understand why a deer does what it does, you stop guessing and start hunting with genuine purpose.

Thirty years of chasing whitetails across the South. Graduate-level training in wildlife science. A Navy veteran's obsession with doing things right the first time. And just enough Navy-Marine humor to keep it from feeling like a lecture.

That's what you'll find here.

Tactical Biology for the Modern Whitetail Hunter.