Deer Hunt - Big Buck Registry - Fueled By Treestand Wingman

In our last visit with Tim Gauthier in episode 166, we covered variety of topics including Tim’s back story, his father’s influence, his experiences filming and hunting all over the world, and some of his basic tactics. In this show, we dig a little deeper in ozone and how it’s should be used, an ever changing outdoor industry environment and what that means to the Enforcer, more of Tim’s tips and tricks for hunting whitetail, his hunt one big buck mentally, how he prepares for a hunting trip, and the story of how Tim guided legendary Dodger’s hitter Kirk Gibson, on a whitetail hunt for a buck called Fraser. OUR SPONSORS: The Treestand Wingman,  Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, The Enforcer, Morse's Sporting Goods, Strut Zone NWTF, Northwoods Common Scents, BIG BUCK MERCH  DEER NEWS: Deer Hunting Season Begins in Montgomery Park Maryland Montana Sportsman's Group Takes Offense to Arby's Promotion Men Plead Guilty on Deer Importation HERE'S WHAT WE DISCUSS: The Change from Scentlok to The E

Seems like one of the most controversial topics amongst hunters these days is high fence hunting. So, we decided to take another deeper look into the subject, only this time with Shawn Smith from Texas. Shawn, along with his father Rowan, runs a high fence-low fence ranch, a deer breeding and genetics facility, and a deer fence manufacturing company. There are many permits involved in running a high fence ranch, state granted benefits, state agency involvement, and there are quite a few things that we can learn from deer in a high fence/low fence managed hunting areas that we can take to the field on even public grounds. OUR SPONSORS: The Treestand Wingman,  Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, The Enforcer, Morse's Sporting Goods, Strut Zone NWTF, Northwoods Common Scents, BIG BUCK MERCH  DEER NEWS: Indiana Bans Rifle Hunting on Public Lands CWD Summit Held in Michigan Arbys to Sell Venison for One Day HERE'S WHAT WE DISCUSS: Recovery from Hurricane Harvey The Game Lock Fence Company, Deer Lo

If you’ve shopped for a tree stand between 1996 and now, you may have noticed a sticker on the box or on the tree stand with the three initials, TMA - the Treestand Manufacturer's Association. This sticker seems to be attached to everything we buy relative to climbing a tree these days, but what the heck does in mean? Climbing a tree prior to 1996 really was all that saf  and certainly there was no accountability regarding tree stand industry standards.  In a room, in a voluntary meeting at a trade show in Atlanta, Georgia in 1995, a group of treestand manufacturers gathered to build a new set of standards specific to a niche group of products that only a niche group of people understand, called treestands. It wasn’t as smooth as you might think, but it certainly changed the industry forever, made it safer, and ultimately more enjoyable and effective for the hunter. That TMA sticker, it means a heck of a lot more than meets the eye. OUR SPONSORS:  Covert Scouting Cameras, Morse's Sporting Goods,  BIG BUCK MER

Blake Alma has written for numerous outdoor publications, written 4 books, and hosts his own outdoor radio show. All because someone handed him a fishing pole when he was 13 years old. He fell for the outdoor way of life. Here's the kicker. Blake is only 16 years old.  In just 3 years Blake has accomplished more than many accomplish in a lifetime.  Blake is driven, isn't consumed by video games, and has a direction that we rarely see in a 16 year old these days. OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, ScentLok Enforcer, Morse's Sporting Goods, Strut Zone NWTF, BIG BUCK MERCH  DEER NEWS: Secretary Zinke Supports Sportsmans Part II Key Deer Got Help After Irma Huntress Commits Suicide After Bullying HERE'S WHAT WE DISCUSS Southwest Ohio, Cinci Mike Behrmann, Dan Coffman Tucker Buck, Tennessee 16 Years Old, Mature, Story Teller Imagination, Parents Not Sportsman Take a Kid Fishing, Bear Archery Youtube, The Art of the Outdoorsman Michael Waddell, Don't Waste An Opp

Ben’s reputation in the whitetail world is no secret. With the many Boone and Crockett bucks to his credit, it's easy to see why hunters want to know more. Ben’s dad started trapping and hunting with Ben when he was just a toddler. He credits his woodsmanship, deer and habitat knowledge to his father and the older generations of people who spent time with him outdoors. Ben has been in the forest industry since the age of sixteen and started his own logging business at the age of twenty. Ben now works as a forester/timber buyer for a local sawmill and as an outfitter for Wicked Ridge Outfitters. OUR SPONSORS:  Covert Scouting Cameras, Morse's Sporting Goods DEER NEWS:  Key Deer After Irma Smuggled Deer in Mississippi Ryan Zinke Secretary of the US Dept of the Interior, Expands Hunting Opportunities HERE'S WHAT WE DISCUSS: Knowing When to Hunt Moon Phase Strategy, Underfoot Overhead 29 and Up, Better at 30.1 After the Cold Front Intellicast, and Game Cams Whitetail Edge Everyone is a Horn Hunter Rule #1- Hun

When you get your own Wikipedia page, you know you've done something notable. Turns out Nick Hoffman has a page on the interweb based encyclopedia, and he should.  Nick made a career playing fiddle next to the likes of Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Trace Adkins, Sara Evans, and Brooks & Dunn.  But the fun doesn't stop there.  Nick has a show on the Outdoor Channel called Nick's Wild Ride where he hunts different parts of the world, but explores and documents unique aspects of the local culture while on location.  We suspected that Nick learned a thing or two while hunting different species so we asked him. He said the big this is to play the wind, sit down, and shut up (an old Fred Bear saying).   OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, ScentLok Enforcer, Morse's Sporting Goods, Strut Zone NWTF DEER NEWS: Key Deer During Irma New Urgency for Hunters to Test CWD California's Deer Season Opens in Full HERE'S WHAT WE DISCUSS: Deer Are The Same for the Most Part A

Every hunter dreams of shooting a trophy buck—of looking down on a cool, crisp morning and seeing a massive set of antlers walking below his or her tree. Master Bowhunter Bill Vale’s landmark book brings into perspective the order of survival.  Bill enjoys hunting in areas where the deer are under extreme hunting pressure, like Bill’s hunting area of Calhoun County, Michigan, where there are some of the highest numbers of hunters per square mile than any other place in the country. Bill studies how the solar/lunar forces (perigee and apogee), and the light the moon reflects and governs the movement and instincts of big bucks, and the timing of the rut from year to year. Bill shares with us his  aggressive secrets, tactics, and field-tested strategies that have been proven successful after 35+ years of hunting for pressured big bucks. OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, ScentLok Enforcer, Morse's Sporting Goods, Strut Zone NWTF DEER NEWS: Hunters Government at

"...for Billy Joe Lunch Bucket, the working man like me an you"- That's the phrase that embodies the cast of the podcast,  Working Class Bowhunter.  One day Curt Geier turned in his BMX bicycle for a compound bow and the rest is now actively in the podcast history books.  Curt heads up the podcast and has created a remarkable brand and cast. Their show is described as unscripted, fun, and casual, and all about the blue collar bow hunter.  We've been a fan since day one, and we finally put this interview together with Curt. It's been a long time coming.   OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, Morse's Sporting Goods, Strut Zone NWTF DEER NEWS:  Connecticut Man Dies of Tick Born Illness Repeat Offender Found Guilty of Poaching New Research Sheds Light on Lunar Influences HERE'S WHAT WE DISCUSS: What's a Main Stream Hunting Podcast Steve Rinella, Wired to Hunt, 9 Finger Chronicles The Apple Outdoor Categories Lacking Hunting Podcasts A Niche, A Hiking Podcast The

Art Helin spends a lot of time in the deer woods.  He is a student. Art says that it's not unusual for him to spend 150 days a year in the field - guiding, scouting, hunting, but most of all learning.  You'll often find Art delivering seminars for many different aspects of deer hunting, where he shares stories that he draws from his own experiences, both successes and failures. Art uses lots of today's technology including online topographical and aerial maps and game cameras.  He loves a good food plot, timberland management, pond projects, and smart foresters. In turn, Art conducts his own deer habitat consultations and will share his knowledge with any hunter that will listen. OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, Morse's Sporting Goods, Strut Zone NWTF DEER NEWS:  What You Should Know About EHD DNR Seeks Input on January Deer Hunt Moose Hunt in Two ND Refuges Are a First Tiffany Lakosky Opens Up about Battle with Cancer Here's What We Discuss: Dodgeville W

Mia Anstine recently found herself on the cover of Field and Stream and rightfully so,  Mia is an outdoor writer, podcaster, and hunting guide in Colorado.  You'll hear Mia's positivity as we discuss the numerous species and hunting opportunities that Colorado has to offer. Mia loves getting in shape both mentally and physically in preparation for her guided horseback mule deer hunts and explains why waiting  patiently for the right shot will pay huge dividends. She loves the variety of game found in her home state and enjoys intense temperature and weather swings that often appears during hunting season. Mia shares with us how to prepare for all the fun that comes with hunting the big country.   OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, Morse's Sporting Goods, Strut Zone NWTF DEER NEWS:  NSSF Praises NC on Sunday Hunting Wild Game Processor Now Need Free Permit Arizona Man PIcks Up Fawn, Goes to Bar HERE'S WHAT WE DISCUSS: Durango Colorado and a View of New Mexic

Which came first, the Rooster or the Hatch?  Turns out they were created around the same time.  Chris and Casey Keefer, the hosts of Dropped, an Outdoor Channel show reminiscent of what might happen if you crossed the Amazing Race and deer hunting into one survivalist package, are behind all of these - Rusted Rooster, a production company, Hatch a marketing company, and Dropped, a creative outdoor hunting television show.  With the help of Jason Brown, Chris and Casey have created what is arguably one of the best concepts on hunting television. We discuss with Chris and Casey how they developed the concept for the show, how the highs and lows of hunting is a microcosm of real life, Chris's deathly car crash experience, and wait until you hear what Casey has for breakfast in the 10 Rapid Fire Questions at the end of the show.   OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, Morse's Sporting Goods  DEER NEWS: 10 National Wildlife Refuges to Increase Hunting White Deer Tour

Across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans lies the town of Hammond, Louisiana. And tucked within the swamps of  Hammond you will find Bruce Mitchell and his humble homestead.  Bruce, one of the cast of Swamp People, entertains millions of viewers each year as he shares his nightly dinner preparation and adventures from is outdoor kitchen while sporting overalls and a stars and stripes bandana. Bruce is known as a gator man, but he's hunted everything that roams the swamps of Louisiana, including what Bruce calls "slick swamp bucks".  Bruce lives a simple life. His favorite saying is "everybody has got to die, but not everybody gonna live".  Bruce lives to live. And he shares his life frequently with the world of social media, despite his incompatibility with computers. Bruce shares with us his life in the bayou, how he scouts deer by boat, how he fills his 4 freezers with game meat, how he prefers scouting by spending time in the stand over cameras, and how winter alligators can be mistaken for floating pota

You most probably have seen the video.  You know, the one with the bluetooth trackable nock? The invention featured in this video leaves you saying "Why didn't I think of that"? Brandon Bates, the arena voice of the Professional Bull Riders and host of RMEF Team Elk on the Outdoor Channel, is also co-owner of Breadcrumb, the company behind the bluetooth trackable nock technology.  It takes more than a good idea to bring a product to market. It takes money, patience, time and a good plan. Brandon, who says he prefers to stay out of the spotlight,  is a television show host, PBR arena announcer, has spent many hours hunting the west with the likes of Cam Hanes, but is also an adventurous entrepreneur,  hardcore hunter and die-hard conservationist. Brandon shares his story. OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, Morse's Sporting Goods DEER NEWS: Tagged Suspicious Deer Found in Elk County New Law Allows Urban Deer Taking Donations to Food Banks Fawn Collar is Part of

John Eberhart, a Michigan resident, has been hunting the Michigan deer woods for 53 years. He has 30 bucks in the Michigan record books that John says were taken from 19 different properties in 10 different counties.  John prefers the public land hunts and the door knocking method to hunt on new pieces of land that are privately owned.  He's been on 21 out of state hunts and has take 19 Pope and Young bucks on 13 different properties in 5 different states. As you can see, John gets around. How does he do it so effectively?  Well, first, John is a skilled woodsman, but beyond that, John says his key to success is his saddle hunting apparatus, once known as the tree sling.  By popular demand, we listened to our listeners, and we are dedicating this episode to tree harness saddle hunting and John is the perfect hunter to explain this technique.  Notepad required. OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Horny Buck Seed Company, Morse's Sporting Goods DEER NEWS:  Breadcrumb Technology Produces

The deer drag of a tracker can last for hours. Trackers venture deep into the big woods, on the trail of a mature buck, wherever the track may roam.  By necessity, trackers become some of the most skilled navigational woodsmen on the planet. The ones that don't become skilled with a compass and TOPO map, never came home.  Joe DiNitto is a deer tracker and hunts the Adirondacks of New York.   He has been tracking big bucks on snow for 30 years now, and he doesn't appear to be slowing down any time soon.  Joe is patient and waits for those snow days before stepping into the woods. This style of hunting doesn't require scouting, scent control, playing the wind, tree stands, or moon phases, but it does require snow, a compass, a flashlight, and preferably a GPS.  Joe says the first step to shooting a big mature buck using this method is finding the "Holy ______" buck track.  From there, it is a game of pursuit and persistence and a pure disbelief in the word "can't".  Joe shares numerous stories in this interview

Please Nominate Us Podcast Awards If you wanted to test out a new kind of face paint that doesn't crack under pressure, meaning is doesn't run or disappear when faced with a severe perspiration situation, where would you go to test it?   For Brian Hardy, Florida was the ideal testing ground because first, it is the perfect environment to sweat, but more importantly, he lives there.  During an scorching mid-west hunt, Brian became fed up with traditional petroleum based, hard to clean up face paint, so he set out with his wife to create a healthy, easy clean up, no-run solution to these face paint problems. And, living in Florida, he conducted  test trials right in his own back yard.  Now, after years of trial and error, you will soon see Hardy Face Paint in some of the largest outdoor sporting good shops on the planet.  While we had Brian's attention, we decided to grill Brian on how to hunt deer in Florida.  We had no idea that you could have a rain out in deer hunting, but at least  now, even if you tried t

Please Nominate Us Podcast Awards Adam Hays III says that to kill a 200" buck, you must surgically remove them from the face of the earth.  This means planning, lots of planning. The first step is to actually hunt where a big deer lives. It's a simple strategy, but an essential one. Step two through the kill shot is a bit more complex.  Using the Red Moon phases of a product he created called the Moon Guide, Adam uses the high likelihood daylight deer movement days to plan his hunt in conjunction with a mental thesis of the buck he pursues.   Does Adam hunt the days when the Red Moon isn't present?  You bet. He says they are perhaps more important than the days of the kill hunt  - these are what he refers to as observation hunts.  Adam is also a fan of hunting the wind to the bucks advantage, hunting outside in, and learning which tree will become the kill tree.  Adam explains all these strategies in more detail during the interview. Notebook required.  OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Camer

Fred Bird is full speed ahead. A turkey hunter at heart, Fred found his dream job with the National Wild Turkey Federation as a Regional Director where his primary focus is raising money for the preservation and conservation of the wild turkey.  A huge and positive side effect of using dollars to create better habitat for turkey is the creation of habitat for all species.  Fred understands this and easily discusses his passion for the preservation of the hunting heritage. Fred may spend lots of time in banquet halls raising money, but make no mistake, Fred's field skills are top notch. And as you might imagine, Fred is one heck of a good turkey hunter. Turns out he's a pretty good deer hunter too (although he won't admit it).  We enjoyed Fred's passion and commitment to the outdoors so much that we launched another podcast with him called The Strut Zone NWTF All Access, which is now the Official Podcast of the National Wild Turkey Federation. Fred isn't just a desk and phone kind of guy. As he says, he likes

Roger Raglin is an outdoor television pioneer and he has been entertaining us with his deer hunting videos for over 30 years.  We don't see him slowing down any time soon as he continues to create and edit his own work.  Sure, maybe his perspectives on hunting and society have changed, but his drive is still alive.  Many people would not typically associate hunting with higher education (at least the liberals don't), but as we've learned there's more way more to Roger than hunting videos and television. Roger is an accomplished pianist and musician and is well known for his gospel collections in Oklahoma and often played along side Pentecostal preacher turned comedian, Sam Kinison.   Roger also spent many years as an academic where he pursued a PhD at Duke University and has many degrees to his name. Despite Roger's passion for learning, his real love is with hunting and the outdoors.  Roger was inducted into the 2011 class of the National Outdoor Hall of Fame and he is one fantastic story teller. OUR SPONSOR

Kalobe Miller is an accomplished deer hunter out of Pennsylvania, and without a hunting mentor to turn to, he learned to deer hunt through trial and error.  One such lesson:   Kalobe says that that the hunting pressure in his area is so high that learning to pattern the hunter is just as important as learning the pattern the deer. His goal is to shoot and kill one good mature buck each season. And to do this, Kalobe likes a good clean hunt. A clean hunt to Kalobe is when everything is in sync- the wind, the timing, the gear placement, your walk to the stand, right down to the noises you made getting in and out.  Using game cameras, he starts his observations in May and as he says, he likes to stick with 'em. What this means is that Kalobe likes to find out how they go from food source to food source, sometimes up to 8 miles of observation.  Kalobe says the answers are there if you do your homework and he prefers a healthy dose of black face paint. OUR SPONSORS: Advanced Treestands, Covert Scouting Cameras, Ho