Born in Cape Girardeau, MO in 1960 Buck learned to travel at an early age. His father was in the US Air force. The McNeely family was stationed in Texas, The Philippines, Washington D.C. and California by the time he started 1^st grade.

Buck learned to enjoy the outdoors and about hunting and fishing in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and San Joaquin Valley of California.  He attended High School in Hughson, CA where he played football, ran track and wrestled.  He also developed an interest in Mass Communications passing his FCC license exam as a sophomore so he could perform on the radio as a news caster and disc jockey.

While attending Modesto Jr. College in Modesto, CA he developed a life long love of producing TV, Film & Theatre projects and found he enjoyed telling stories and entertaining people via the visual mediums.

Buck attended Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO majoring in Mass Communications. He produced/hosted 18 episodes of a college dating game called “Dream Date.”  During the last semester of his senior year he started producing “The Outdoorsman” TV show and ran it on the local cable access channel as a class project.  Based on the positive acclaim he launched the series commercially in the summer of 1985 on the local FOX Affiliate.

In 1987 “The Outdoorsman with Buck McNeely” made its national debut on the Tempo Network. Over the years its aired on ESPN, Family Channel, USA Network, Fox Sports, The Outdoor Channel and others.

Today the series is the Nations Largest Syndicated Outdoor Adventure Series. It currently airs on over 370 TV stations, 4 Networks, 8 Satellite feeds, 200+ cable/LP TV entities blanking the Northern Hemisphere. The show also airs on 3 International Networks, American Forces Network, Far East TV Network and Middle East TV Network.

The Outdoorsman TV show has been produced worldwide in a variety of International & Domestic locations with a variety of celebrity guests from the world of sports, entertainment and politics. The format blends exciting world class adventures, environmental and conservation issues with tourism elements in a family oriented program designed to inform and entertain the audience.

His goal from the beginning and remains today to propagate a Mass Media Communications Network in support of and servicing the millions of people worldwide that enjoy the great outdoor lifestyle.

The next phase in the companies evolution is the development of several film projects in a variety of genres. Buck Co-Produced National Lampoon's Cattle Call. This film is scheduled to release in 2008 nationwide.  

Buck lives on a 130 acre ranch near Cape Girardeau, MO with his family (wife Ladonna, sons Max and Rex) and a pack of Labrador retrievers. His production company "Timberwolf Productions Inc." features a state of the art HD digital television production facility and is also located on the ranch.

This is the World Headquarters for the Outdoorsman International operation.