CONCEPTion of Swamp City Media

Fred Jr, Fred Sr, Scott, Mark

A New Year and New Beginnings

Sheridan and Mommy

Whether you subscribe to the thought that 2014 is the year of the Horse, the lucky #7 (2+0+1+4) or its just another year, we should all agree on one thing...2013 was another blessed year that we all got to enjoy what we love, with the ones we love.  For me I couldn't ask for a better year; I knocked out a few more miles of my Appalachian Trail section hike, hunted my first Merriams turkey in South Dakota, spent a few days in the Big Horn Mountains of WY, made friends with some great people and best of all we found out that we would be new parents!  On December 29, 2013 Angela and I were gifted a beautiful baby girl, Sheridan Grace Loughery.  Man can I not wait to take her on her first back country hunt!

I was also invited to join the Outdoor team of Urban Hunting, completely humbled that they want to use my blogging to highlight their adventures.   

The  Immaculate Modest Conception

The whitetail rut has come and gone and the spring mating ritual for the wild turkey is on the horizon, just in time for the abstract idea of Swamp City Media to be born and the rejuvenation of our kindred outdoor souls that are starting to cramp with cabin fever.  

Sister Tracy, Nephew Brennan on a TN urban hunt

Scott Jr, Blake Soileau, Scott Sr. at "Honey Brake Lodge

Swamp City Media was once a concept of Scott Davis that started around 10 years ago when he began self filming his hunts.  With a season of filming under his belt, Scott decided it was time to push it a step further and produce a DVD.   Seven DVD's later, his own website, Urbanhunting.net,  and a new dimension added to his outdoor adventures, Swamp City Media is now a reality.

Rhett and Fred Perkins

To fully understand the idea of Swamp City Media you will need to follow me while I interpret Scott's philosophy on hunting.  My credentials are short but I know a humble man when I meet one and when we share the same outdoor passions my opinions are typically as accurate as a smooth bore rifle but at close range pretty darn precise.  After all, Scott and I spent a few days in the deep Alabama woods together last spring chasing turkeys and we both made it back alive (see Talladega Nights ) and if you have ever been to the central Alabama pine woods you will know there is nobody or nothing there, so getting to know each other was not an option! 

Scott contracted the hunting bug at a very young age and used this infection to earn his spending money by trapping wild animal pelts in his home territory of the Pine Hills of Central Louisiana.  His then hero, Daniel Boone, romanticized the outdoors and inspired Scott to try and split every pine within site, if it wasn't for his other passion of football, Scott may have deforested the Southern Pine with nothing more than a hatchet!

Scott and Papa Bear on the radio

In the early 90's the Davis family moved to Nashville, which was a big city by their standards.  Scott and his wife raised their three children there and what free time he could find he used it to hunt, he quickly discovered Percy Priest WMA, where he "cut his teeth" on Urban Hunting.  This WMA is nestled in Davidson and surrounding counties of middle Tennessee, a lot of which is in amongst major urban areas.  In the midst of hunting and fishing on Priest, Scott was fortunate enough to meet a few people that granted him access to their small urban parcels of land.  Urban Hunting was born and shortly thereafter his children became involved, all learning to hunt the "Urban" style.

Scott with a big 8

His roots of hunting and the outdoors are shared with memories afield with his extended family and siblings while growing up in the Cypress Swamps of the deep South,  fortunately for him he is still able to make new memories and share them with his own children.

So you see; the misconception of needing vast amounts of land or rural living to enjoy the outdoors from a hunters perspective is just that, a misconception.  The concept of Swamp City Media is simple ( Swamp- growing up in Louisiana, City- hunting in Nashville, Media- DVD and website) but the meaning is much deeper; a glimpse of how deep it goes can be seen in the ranks of God, Family and Hunting, when you meet Scott you will fully understand my perspective. 

Moving Forward

In between diaper duty I try to spend some of my free time writing and researching my next outdoor adventure, I  also take time to thank my creator for all he has given me and reflect on how blessed I am.  For instance;   just today my wife opened a new toy for Sheridan, as we tried to get her attention with the toys her focus kept shifting to the Pronghorn Antelope and Whitetail deer mounts hanging on the walls, she will either be an outdoors woman by default or grow up to be a vegan...either way I will love her to the end!  

I am excited to be invited to be a part of Scott's team and with the arrival of our new baby girl this whole year will be an adventure and hopefully Swamp City Media will be there to capture all those memories!  

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The Achoo Haiku

By T.C. Loughery

"Walking Home"

She sneezes a lot

The diaper genie is full

The turkey goobles