smells fishy in here

Don’t know if y’all have heard yet but we approved an early velvet buck season in AR this year

Hello from SE Oklahoma..

1000ft elevation change in Tennessee?has to be far east Tennessee

Thank you guys!! This was an EXCELLENT podcast with some great tips and tricks. Thank you guys and thank you Ron for sharing your knowledge! Honestly have to say thanks to learning the covert calling I was able to get my first Turkey on Friday! I will also be getting a tube and long box from Ron so thank you guys! Keep up the great content.

There it is! A buck is a buck but change with age.

As far as the Rut is concerned, as long as the habitat remains good, there's certainly a pattern of time lines for increased odds, certain foods that drop in key time frames & concentrate doe's during Rut etc, but for the guy that gets limited days to Hunt? Do your Hunting pre season, find out where He Beds, and what trails He uses for what winds, figure out how to get close. 50--60 yards & during season see which of your ambush sites fit the wind for Your days off, and get aggressive. No Balls No Bucks. Knowing how to kill mature Bucks, is knowing how to put your hand in the bed of the buck you just killed while its still warm. I love to study how they choose to live in a kind of environmental fortress & the chess game is figuring out how to sneak in & kill the king. You'll fail more then you succeed, slapped in the face 20 times, but you'll be taking 21 Home because there's lessons learned with the losses.

This man is so right I been telling my son the deer at the house just make a big circle. I still have about all my SD cards from first cameras I had and few years ago I try going to spot around same days I seen big bucks day light. It's always been within 3 days

I was listening on the way to the woods this morning. I went to pull an SD camera I put out last June to let soak. Ended up getting daylight pictures of 4 different mature bucks from July - February of this year. All 4 spent 4-5 days in a row in front of the camera at different times from September - December. The biggest one was right behind a doe in one of the pics. I wrote down a log of these bucks with dates , times and moon phase to plan my hunts in that spot for this year. Hopefully I’ll have a follow up story to share sometime this season !

That was killed where?😮

The 2 deer posters that you have framed in your "studio" where can I get those?

The deer posters ya'll have framed, where can I get them?

Wth is a patrion

This is awesome, iv listened to this podcast 4 or 5 times and certain parts of it more than that, iv seen the same thing he has for a few years now, and he opened my eyes to some things but there are more that wernt mentioned

youre really just learning the estrous timing for each doe group, not that certain bucks move to areas on certain dates. The does estrous dates are genetic and passed along from generation to generation so they will always be consistent for that area as long as the whole area doesnt get wiped out by EHD or CWD, then you have to start your data collection over

To answer the question about chasing the rut on one piece of property, I have had one specific date range on a 1k acre plot, and had up to three separate specific date ranges on a 3k acre plot. Generally from what I’ve found looking back to places from years past, there is one per 1k acres on average. Now, that being said, one spot may also have multiple date ranges weeks apart based on how many does are in the area so it may mean hunting it, following dates around the property, then returning to the same tree during a different rut cycle. I have multiple years footage of specific bucks coming during an early date on a spot then different bucks multiple years on different dates. Think of it like a teenage boy. How many clubs you pass to go to a club to try to pick up girls? They got their preferences too and all bucks are different 😂

I have noticed the amount of sign that shows up changes each year with what food is available and even more so with the availability of water. I still have bucks showing on those same dates but I don’t believe they spend as much time in the area because of the lack of food and/or water. I sit in each spot regardless of conditions. With enough spots, you will be near one or the other eventually anyway.

I really like yalls content and guests, curious if yal had any specific podcasts with people that rely on trail cameras less

Definitely gonna be implementing this on Flordia Public land

Don’t come back to Arkansas with out me!

My place to the tee

Chased a bully buck last year couldn’t get it done. No i know exactly where I’m sitting and when. Love y’all’s podcast! Getting on more deer than ever listening to yall

This was a really good podcast. Lots of valuable information that would be very helpful to anyone no matter the level of hunting experience. There’s always something new to learn listing to the Southern Outdoorsmen. It was good talking with both of you in Mobile Alabama.

Started hunting last season on public I watched these videos religiously and can happily say I tagged 2 large mature bucks 200lbs each in southern Louisiana

To expand on restrictions on out of state hunters, I don’t think that non resident hunters should be able to apply to quota hunts. Just my opinion, I live and hunt in GA, it’s really annoying when you live in this state, pay taxes and then a bunch of non resident guys can apply as a “hunting party” and take up spots. Also I agree with Jacob, no sanctuaries on public it’s just silly. In GA we’re restricted to death on a bunch of WMAs, we don’t need more, I’m sure AL ain’t much different.

I would love to see something that would entice timber companies and large land owners to do more for wildlife management on their properties.

Just finished his last episode

FINALLY BEEN WAITING SINCE THE LAST TIME HE WAS ON

I liked this until i realized this was about gun hunting. I can’t stand rifle hunting. I mean come on little kids are killing big bucks from 100 yards away. Get close, 20 yards and closer. That’s how you know you have what it takes. But I get it. Everyone has their own thing. Rifle hunting is not mine. Way way way to easy and simple. Not my cup of tea.

I was able to do something similar to this in '22. I threw out a camera over a tight creek crossing tore up with scrapes and rubs in the mountains. It was nearly unhuntable, so I backed up a ridge where I guessed he was coming from based on the trail cam video and found another scrape and some older rubs. Last year, '23, I sat a trail paralleling the ridge top just under that scrape and passed on three bucks in two hours, same dates as the year before, but he didn't show. The next time I hunted that area was a month later and I took a younger cat out there to get his first buck and I figured he would shoot something I passed on and he almost got run over by the big boy at 10:30am. He shot him and the buck ran over the ridge top passed where I was sitting and I got to watch him take his last breathes. It was a really cool ordeal, and I keyed in on that area based on dates and it did not disappoint.

The comment about going crosseyed and blurred vision because you're staring so hard... done it 😂 Thanks guys for the great content and entertainment..

The Southern Outdoorsman Podcast is the best, no better content. Keep it coming guys!!

Calendar bucks

Yes Sir!! Been waiting on this one!

I found a good looking place way back off the “path” during Turkey season. I wasn’t too excited when I found there is a hiking trail right through it but I was second guessing giving up on it and now I am gonna go back and look a little harder.

You are making my gears turn..I started logging this info last yr..

I’m diggin Andrew’s shirt

Let’s gooo

Unscented spray deodorant on your feet helps a ton to. Specially when in waders

Can't wait for this!

would love to see y'all at the georgia outdoor news blast this july !! been working that show for years its great !! its in emerson georgia july 27 2024