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As you’re hunting the rut, these five tips should help you. Tip #1 Tip one is to hunt as much as you can. If you can sit all day in a stand, I strongly encourage it. The action can heat up at any time of the day, not just early in the morning or late […]

In this video I want to talk about my three favorite rut hunting tactics. These three tactics are my favorites to shooting a buck during the rut. The first tactic I have is to sit all day. If you’re hunting during the month of November, it’s the time to sit all day in a tree […]

Food sources are changing big time during the month of October. It can be a challenging time to hunt as throughout the month, bucks are changing where they’re feeding, food sources are changing, and food sources are becoming more limited. It can be interesting and a little bit different on how to hunt bucks in […]

The month of October can essentially be broken down into three stages. It is a month like any other and I wanted to run through each stage and what it means for your hunt. First stage is early October which can be really good if you got a buck on a food source or if […]

I want to talk about why mock scrapes are the secret to getting more trail camera photos in October while out on the hunt. October is an interesting month because it’s a month of transition. Bucks are transitioning from the early fall and summer range into more of rut mode. The days are getting shorter, […]

An October cold front can be exactly what you need to get a buck on the ground. Cold fronts in October are especially helpful, because a lot of the month can be warm as well and the cold fronts can be drastic.  During the month of October, one of the most important ways that you […]

There’s nothing more frustrating than hunting nocturnal bucks so I wanted to talk about it. Hunting nocturnal bucks can be pretty dang difficult and buck seem to be most nocturnal during the month of October. This is the month when they’re typically moving just at night, are really close to shooting hours or staying in […]

When it comes to the rut, all the publicity is typically on the peak rut in November. What is often not discussed as much is the pre-rut, which is typically the time frame during the last week of October. During this time of year, bucks begin ramping up for the rut and days are becoming […]

In this video I want to talk about how far you can shoot a deer with your bow. There’s a few things that I want to talk about when knowing how far out to shoot with the bow. The first and definitely most important thing that I want to touch on is comfortability while bowhunting. […]

I’m here in Nebraska right now bowhunting, and I’m just going to kind of breakdown my archery setup with what I’m using, why I’m using it, why I like it and everything like that. We’re going to start off with the bow, which is the Mathews VXR. I think it’s a year old model from […]

In this video, I want to talk about bow sights. There are two main types of sights for compound bows: single pin sights and multi pin sights. I have extensive experience with both, and wanted to compare and contrast them. As you’ll see here, I’ve got a single pin sight and I want to talk […]

In this video I want to talk about heavy arrows versus light arrows. Right now I am currently shooting a Vector Custom Shot Arrow and it is a relatively new arrow company that I started to use during my hunts this year. I really just want to talk about the differences between heavier arrows and […]

You can see here that I’m in a treestand and we’re just wrapping up the morning hunting here in Nebraska. In this video, I want to talk about bowhunting from the ground versus a tree stand. There are a lot of differences and in some instances, hunting from the ground might be a better option […]

In this video, I’m sitting here next to a cellular trail camera that I’m just getting set-up on a new property that I actually just got permission on. I want to talk about the benefits of cellular trail cameras. Cell cams have become very popular over the course of the last five years especially. Once […]

If you’re just getting into the food plot game, you might be hearing the terms annual food plot and perennial food plot and you might not know what the differences are. In this video I want to touch on the differences between annual versus perennial and how you should know where to plant what. Essentially, […]

I’m currently standing in a new food plot that I just planted this year on a Wisconsin property, so I wanted to go over the basic gear that you would need to plant food plots like this. Now, it’s all going to depend on what you have available to you and what your budget is […]

We’ve talked about cell cams, how to get the best trail camera pictures, and more in some of our other videos. In this video, I want to specifically discuss some of the pros and cons of running trail cameras in the summer months. Right off the bat, some of the pros are that it gets […]

In this video, I want to talk about how to create and establish food plots. Now creating and establishing your food plots is not as easy as it might seem. There’s a lot that goes into food plots and I’m going to take you on a step by step basis. We have just created some […]

If you have your trail cameras out and you are looking to get the best summer trail camera images possible, there are a few basic tips to follow and in this video, I want to talk about exactly how to do that. There are a few things that I like to employ myself almost every […]

In this video, I want to talk about treestand locations within your food plots. So let’s say that you have a food plot in the ground that looks great and the deer are hitting it, but now the question is where do you put a treestand? That’s a great question to be asking and there’s […]

Acquired a large, new piece of property and want to get some food plots in the ground, but don’t know exactly where to begin planting food plots? This summer, one of my good friends was able to purchase 200 acres of land. With so many areas where we can plant food plots, we had to […]

When it comes to hunting from a treestand, there’s actually a few different options that you can come up with depending on what kind of stand you actually hunt out of. In this video, I want to talk about three different types of treestands and I’m going to go ahead and compare and contrast those. […]

In this video I wanted to go over a 101 on minerals, why I use minerals, why I like them, how they can benefit you, and how they can just help you in your efforts to put a buck down or put deer down in the fall. The biggest reason as to why I love […]

In this video I want to talk about five major summer scouting tips you should be doing. Right now summer is in full swing so I wanted to touch on a few things you should be doing during the summer months when it correlates to scouting and deer to help you get prepared for the […]

In this video, I’m gonna talk about e-scouting 101 for whitetail. I’ve been sitting at the computer this morning doing some e-scouting for a bunch of different stuff, but I kind of wanted to go over some 101 on e-scouting, why it’s important and why you should be doing it. First of all, e-scouting is […]

When you’re out summer scouting, it’s so important to keep the fall hunting season in mind while doing so. The biggest reason is that you need to think about how different the woods are and how the deer act in September, October, November compared to June, July, and August. Everything looks different especially if you’re […]

When it comes to scouting, the fundamentals of reading deer sign is often times not talked about. The first thing when it comes to reading deer sign that I think is key is simply understanding deer trails. I look for areas that deer trails intersect because if you come back to hunt that area in […]

Many deer hunters don’t start shooting their bow until right before season. I believe you should start your archery practice in the spring for a few different reasons. It gives you time to start developing a good routine ahead of summer when you should be shooting a lot. In the spring, I might not shoot […]

Studying trail camera images from the past year can help you immensely for the upcoming season. What I like to do is go through all of my trail camera images from the past fall that I saved to connect as many dots as possible. Something that is often overlooked is the fact that deer many […]

There’s nothing worse than scouting a great piece of property on a map in the fall and then going into hunt it and someone is already hunting the area you want to hunt. To help avoid that, I strongly recommend scouting in the spring for not only deer sign, but human sign as well. Pick […]

The most popular time of the year to be hanging treestands and cutting shooting lanes is easily throughout the summer. But, I want to share with you why I prefer completing my treestand work in the spring when possible. First of all, during the spring, the woods look how they will in the fall. During […]

Shed hunting is something I love to do in the winter and spring. There are a lot of mistakes people make when shed hunting and, in this video, I’m covering some no-no’s. The first is to not walk too fast when shed hunting. The quicker you walk, the tougher it is to spot antlers. Second, […]