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When it comes to hunting bucks in the last months of season, there are a few things you can apply to your hunting to help pattern a buck to get down. Between trail cameras, scouting and understanding the need for food for bucks late in the year you can learn how to pattern a buck....

When hunting in the extreme cold, the hardest thing to keep warm can be your feet. I’ve found three tips to help immensely. These three tips can help you stay hunting longer which can result in better chances of deer encounters. As you take to hunting in extreme cold, be sure to implement these three...

Something I do a lot is hunting whitetails in the snow. Depending on where you live or hunt, if you’re going to be chasing whitetails in the late season, odds are you’ll be hunting in the snow. There are numerous pros and cons of hunting in the snow and if you want to learn more,...

Something that often gets lost among bowhunters is to continue practicing shooting your bow throughout the season. And practicing shooting your bow in the late season is most important. When hunting late season, you’re typically wearing bulkier clothing, gloves and a facemask. All of these variables can make a difference when it comes to shooting...

Throughout my hunting life, I’ve killed the most bucks during the late season. There are multiple reasons why late season can be the best time of year to shoot a buck. From bucks needing food more than ever, to certain weather conditions giving you a great chance to catch up to one, give this video...

When it comes to the rut, there are three main stages of the rut. The first stage is the very end of October into the first week of November. This is commonly known as the pre-rut or early rut. In this stage, does aren’t quite ready to be bred yet, but bucks are getting fired...

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...