I was born and raised in southeast Pennsylvania. My greatest passions in life as a child were fishing and archery. As I grew into my teenage years, my love for bow hunting whitetail deer superseded all other desires!
As a teenager in the early 1990s, I watched my very first hunting video. In those days, videos were on VHS tapes, DVD and digital online streaming had not yet been invented. Regardless, I was immediately hooked on the idea of one day making my own hunting videos for people to watch and enjoy. I just wanted to be a professional bow hunter, it was that simple. I saved up my money, purchased a video camera in 1995, and started filming hunts with friends. Not long after I started filming, I had what I would call a spiritual awakening, or, a “God moment.” It changed my life for the better, but also made me second guess my efforts to go pro in the hunting world. I got very involved with my faith in Jesus. Being a young Catholic man getting extremely involved in his faith caused many to tell me, “Sean, you should be a priest!” Although I went to Catholic school grades K through 12, I never felt called to that vocation, but was afraid I missed something in God’s plan for my life. Since I knew what it was like to date girls, but didn’t know what living as a priest might be like, I decided to join a Catholic Franciscan Religious Order after graduating college. I spent three and a half years there praying for God to help me understand my vocation. Interestingly enough, while I was there, I felt as though God was calling me to make hunting videos as part of my mission in life. I also could tell He was telling me He had a different plan for my life. In an effort to follow God’s will, I came home when my temporary vows period expired. In the early stages of religious life, you profess vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience for one year. At the end of the year, you either renew them or leave. I left after being in temporary vows for almost two years, but you must be in them for about 4 years to be eligible to profess permanent vows. This is intended to give everyone discerning a vocation enough time to make sure it is their calling before fully committing to it. That approach is very wise if you ask me.
When I came home from the order in 2002, I tried filming hunts by myself but got frustrated with the equipment that was available back then, so I focused on just improving my hunting skills. In 2009, I started filming again and began editing the footage I had accumulated over the years. Eventually, I produced my first few hunting videos. Through the urging of a friend, I began uploading them to Youtube. You can check out my channel using the following link –YouTube channel. There are many different playlists. I have lots of playlists of hunting videos are in playlists like this one, CLICK HERE.
Also, in 2009, my first book on hunting went to print, titled, Becoming a World-Class Hunter. In 2014, I released a second edition of that book with a new subtitle, A Bow Hunter’s Spiritual Journey. This was done to help highlight the spiritual dimension of the book. In 2014, I also released a book on archery. In 2021 I published a comprehensive hunting book that covers basically everything someone needs to know to get started in bowhunting whitetail deer. This book is titled, How to Hunt Deer With Proven Success: A Comprehensive Guide to Help Bowhunters Harvest Bigger Bucks and More Deer. I then spent a year radically improving the archery book I had written. It went from about 100 pages to over 350 pages. The reason it became so long is that I essentially added a Catholic evangelization chapter followed by a spirituality chapter that links archery practices to personal growth in holiness. That book is titled Become a Better Archer and Use It to Avoid Sinning. All of these books are available on the STORE page of this website.
Another progression that took place over the years is that I developed a challenge hunt called The Map Reading Challenge. The design of it is intended to push hunters to improve their ability to read topo maps and aerial photos to find hunting hot spots before even setting foot in the woods in those areas. Click on the title noted in this paragraph above to watch past videos related to the Map Reading Challenge.
Lastly, as my role as a Catholic evangelist as well as hunting/archery mentor has grown, I decided to more explicitly join the two in a podcast called Faith and the Outdoors. You can check that out on the Podcast page of this website.
I am viewer and listener-supported, so if you watch any of my videos, or listen to any of the podcasts and like what you see and hear, please consider supporting me. You can offer a prayer for me, or there is also a “Donate” button on the podcast page of this website if you would like to make a monetary donation. Thank you for all the prayers and support! God bless you all!