Getting GOOD at Deer Hunting: A Relatable Guide!

[@R_Wyatt545]

Matt is 100% the real deal and a legit woodsman! I know from personal experience. He is one of the most real dudes you will meet and I’m blessed to call him my friend.

[@GarrettBrown-p6u]

Sweet episode! Super glad as a hunter of 26 years to see new people taking an interest. I have 3 boys and they are ate up with it at a young age so the future is bright. Good hunting guys!

[@GraylenGoOutside]

This was a really relatable episode for me. I also didn’t buy a bow and start hunting until my 30’s during covid, don’t have a mentor outside of just watching this podcast and things like Hunting Public, and just moved to NC. It’s awesome to see the level of success you can have as a relatively new hunter if you trust what you’re learning and seeing.

[@JamesEwing-d1v]

I went my first time this year, only had a few days but I’ve got one more day off to get out there before the season ends here. I’ve been diving into all your episodes and trying to apply everything with all the information you guys are sharing. It’s a lot but it’s so interesting, especially the episodes with the deer biologists. I nerd out on the detailed science. I look forward to sharing my first success story when it happens.

[@charlesleblanc6638]

Humble guy that got into Deers real quick .. only took him a fraction of time. Took me forever !

[@lukeford2150]

I would love to hear more on the show from hunters in primarily East Tennessee and also western West Virginia. Love the show and it has definitely helped me out alot with this season especially considering i started listening to yall early October.

[@sethmatherne7012]

Man, I went hunting this weekend on a local WMA. Went with another guy to an area I wasn’t familiar with. We got there later in the morning and never got the right feeling so I just scout/stalked and saw some sporadic sign. Coming out we saw a bunch of old sign from the previous year. Decided to go to a different spot and started scouting. Bruh! So much of what he said about finding the sign is important. Found all fresh rubs and some older scrapes. Found an old abandoned aluminum ladder leaned against a tree with 3 areas of fresh buck sign. We jumped deer twice, and I found literally a hub of semi-circle rubs. We kept scouting and as we were coming out we passed a guy who said he had just seen a “huge” buck not 30 minutes after we were in that area. Can’t wait for next weekend with that cold front!

[@williamledford6488]

As a guy who lives in Jackson County NC and has hunted these mountains all my life. I love all the love WNC has been getting from you guys recently. Y’all can come hunt with me in 2025 anytime lol I don’t even wanna be in a video lol

[@thefourthcolor]

Great vid. Young man is obviously a very skilled woodsman, cool that he's been able to translate that into hunting success. The story where he got distracted by a buck when he was staring at a tree was awesome 😂

[@fishingusa2051]

Him being a mountain climber-rock climber from Western North Carolina, I can only imagine how far they are going into the mountains. Glad he became a hunter. I can relate to him as a trout fisherman myself fishing back several miles in the course of a day there are many places in the Mountains that I should go hunt.

[@TTT-du6oj]

Great interview with a awesome humble young man🤙

[@joshuaclark5796]

Great comment about using a saddle on the ground. The amount of times I’ve been on a steep ridge and thought about doing that… might give it a whirl

[@MattD01]

I've just been binge watching alot of yalls shows trying to get caught up. I'm trying to learn as much as I can about being a woodsman or a better woodsman, and finding deer, especially on public land. I live in central NC and I too am like Matt, I'm kinda over the sitting over corn piles and want to hunt the "real" way even with a bow for the 2025 season on public land. Never really hunted public land so this will be a new and humbling adventure for me, but I'm hoping a successful one also!

[@brandonmcghee8611]

nc checkin in

[@fishingusa2051]

Yes this was a great episode

[@TrustinTimber]

My stories and experiences are all very similar except no bucks ever show up🤷‍♂️. Love and hate this guy all at the same time. But good for you man. Happy for you😊

[@southernhood5145]

My uncle had a house basically on top of a mountain in NC just south of Bryson but he sold it. I was always up there during the summer but I wanted to always go back and hunt

[@JamesM-l5g]

Great vid. Enjoyed it

[@scottclark1168]

Great show,being from NC makes its even better,yall need to check out the gamelands near me hills aren't as big lol,but the deer are,some really good gamelands here with archery only sections

[@GraylenGoOutside]

I’m waiting for a piedmont region episode. I’m new here and exclusively bowhunt so the state maintaining so many archery only areas is awesome.

[@nicholasthompson5325]

I live at the base of the Appalachians. I can be on public land in 15 minutes. I find hunting Whitetails in the Mountains to be the hardest, but most exhilarating of all terrains.

[@osar2870]

I find that it’s actually easier than flat land because you can find terrain funnels where deer will always cross instead of flat land where they could be anywhere for miles

[@fishingusa2051]

Did y’all look out the window around the 53 minute mark. Deer 🦌 all around the house.

[@cameroncook313]

In search of Midwest love! Indiana has some hammers brother come out next year!

[@4theloveoftruth86]

Greetings to my Hoosier neighbor to the north. I am in north central KY right along the Ohio river.

[@FinkeFishing]

Illinois here Wishing there was something more relatable everything is about mountains pine thickets and swamps the closest thing we have to a mountain is the river bluffs we don't have pine thickets and there's not much swampy land We got ag fields crp and hard woods our biggest elevation changes are probably a couple hundred feet

[@James-r3h2o]

How has no one noticed the deer standing outside the window eating 🤣💀

[@babyjames6979]

I am interested in this we stuff meaning I have hardly ever in 44yrs done any scouting with another hunter. Maybe thats part to why I only kill a buck on even years😂

[@Handedpeanuts]

In the mountains dear take path of least resistance with cover so most the time one hot trail with a scrape coming from bedding is the ticket u will see buck after buck during rut you will hardly find several hot trails joining unless you have a wide bottom or a flat top Matt your a new hunter beware of people taking advantage of your hard work finding dear and them using you to step on your toes big deer make most people crazy

[@orrenlilly5809]

This dude is the Han Solo of deer hunting lol

[@JacobL-e7f]

There's a deer outside the window😅

[@freedomrings4134]

West Virginia is the only sleeper state left

[@PrimalFrameOutdoors]

Hush don’t give it away man 😂

[@ryanknoup6288]

I’ve seen pictures of the beasts coming out of WV this year. World class deer there.

[@PrimalFrameOutdoors]

@@ryanknoup6288 and it will stay that way terrian keeps people out

[@nickborgman8105]

Shhhhh 🤐

[@freedomrings4134]

​@PrimalFrameOutdoors I agree. I've mapped lands everywhere. wV is for beast only.

[@TCRobertson10]

They're easy to kill when they're tied up in the backyard. 53:11