The Southern Outdoorsmen Hunting Podcast

This week we cover our Wyoming hunt! We cover all the funny aspects of the trip, like Jacob mistaking a cow for a grizzly bear! We also dive into how we utilized deer hunting tactics that work for us at home to find deer our west, including reading hunting pressure, finding the good thick cover, reading sign and picking setups. This was a fun episode and a great reference if your ever planning on hunting western whitetails! blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julian Ridings of North Carolina recently took a giant buck on some North Carolina gamelands that he has been hunting for years. Julian says utilizing tactics shared on the show by Don Cicero and Nathan Killen helped him tag this buck - from finding a hot feed tree, understanding the mindset of a mature buck, playing off hunting pressure and more. blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We wanted to do something special for our 200th episode, so we gathered 3 men who not only kill nice bucks consistently - but who kill a truly higher quality of deer than is typical for their area. We grill them on what it is that helps them kill the biggest bucks in their local public lands, sign reading, pressure reading, finding the deer, persistence it takes to get it done, and the process they went through to become the hunters they are today - and how you can do the same. blackberry smoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week for our listener success series we go to Austin Hendricks of Georiga. Austin used tactics he earned from the podcast to locate a buck, backtrack him, and use creative access to seal the deal on a very high pressure family farm! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Jenkins has taken some amazing bucks in the rugged, low deer density North Georgia mountains. Today he talks about his systematic way of going in and finding "pockets" of bucks to focus all his effort on. We also touch on how he breaks down the pockets of deer to hunt them efficiently, why he focuses on very rough terrain, calling and more. blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perry Bundy of NC is our listener success story of the day! Perry recently knocked down an absolute stud of a North Carolina buck recently - and we dive into how he utilized advice from his hunting mentors, along with guests from this podcast, to put his first nice buck down. Topics hit on include scrape tactics, using a trail cam to make his move, being able to read feed sign, walking WAY further than other hunters to find this buck, hunting transitions/diversity & more! Blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Glen Adcock has been bowhunting for 3 decades in the south on public land, hunt clubs, and small properties. Today he stops by the show to discuss staying in the game by utilizing in season scouting. Subjects include sleeping in and hunting your way into an area, gaging the intensity of deer sign based on deer numbers in your area, what kind of sign to fall back on if heavy feed sign is non-existent in your area, not letting deer pattern you, entry & exit, effectively bowhunting small properties & more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NEW bonus episode series! Seeing listener success stories roll in each week are definitely some of the highlights of our days, and we will be choosing 1 per week to feature on the show. This week we speak with Derrick Merrill of Alabama on his nice WMA buck he took earlier this week. We discuss which episodes made the biggest difference for him, applying advice from the podcast, how it clicked for him, how he found the buck bedded in a thermal hub, how the hunt went down & more! Blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrae Dacquisto is well known in the whitetail world for this "against the grain" tactics. Today we have him on the show to dig deep into the mindset of mature bucks - BEFORE the rut makes them crazy. How far do bachelor groups disperse, how far will a buck move from his bed before dark In this time, just how close do you have to get to have an opportunity, FINDING deer before you start hunting, scrape hunting, finding a bucks weakness and exploiting it and MUCH more are discussed on this episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jamie Mccay is well known across Alabama as a serious big buck killer. In this episode we pick his brain on a variety of topics including finding trails that bucks will frequent, rather than typical deer trails, what "big buck" sign looks like to Jamie, getting your most important pieces of information from the ground, big vs little scrapes & what they mean, assessing your acorn crop & how to use that information, gearing up for the pre-rut & rut and more! https://www.blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul Putera has already connected on a great buck this season using aggressive tactics that involve hunting the backside of bedding areas in the morning! We discuss why he feels its easier to kill an early season buck in the morning vs the evening, keying in on browse lines, tracks, and rubs in order to identify a target buck, and then backtracking him to his main bedding area. https://www.blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Myers is an old school deer killer who has been stomping around the Alabama woods since the early 1970's. Subjects range from Tony learning from the deer hunters who cut their teeth deer hunting in the 1940s, how he killed several giant deer on AL public lands, reading sign to locate big mature bucks, hunting deer effectively in the early season, the tendencies of mature bucks that differ from all other deer, feed trees, hunting young cutovers, and SO much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jim Forbes has been killing mature bucks on public land in the Appalachian Mountains for over 30 years, and has kept detailed records of each buck he has taken in that time. Today, Jim shares the trends he has noticed when it comes to the weather, time of year, and other conditions he has consistently killed bucks on, his terrain techniques, stand placement, and how you NEED persistence to kill good bucks consistently. https://www.blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wes Moye and his group of hunting buddies, AKA "The wolf pack" have developed an extremely successful method of aggressively targeting nice bucks on heavily hunted public land. On this episode he shares how they target escape routes, strategic setups to take advantage of escape routes, hunting with a group to increase success rates, how their group hunting success rate is almost 100%, understanding how a deer will react to pressure and LOTS more! https://www.blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tim Knight has taken 15 Pope & Young whitetails in the great state of Georgia on both public & high pressure private. In this episode we discuss hunting based strictly on sign rather than with the aid of cameras, how Tim determines the best place for a big buck to live, how he moves in on that spot, his very unique thoughts on calling deer, making an approach without getting busted, his best opening week tactics and MUCH MORE! https://www.blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacob started his season off with a bang tagging a GREAT velvet buck on the first afternoon of the Tennessee public land velvet hunt! This is Jacobs biggest buck to date, and we dive into the story of how to all happened. This is a classic late-night "deer camp" podcast with a ton of laughs, and an excellent example of the camaraderie that we all look forward to with our buddies every fall. https://www.blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We speak with longtime bear hunter Jason Miller on how he keys in on large bears in the early season with archery equipment. Subjects include map scouting for bears, narrowing down what a bear needs and keying in on it (and why you'll find big Appalachian mtn bucks in the same spots), knowing what kind of sign to hunt, knowing how long to give a spot before moving on, safely blood trailing a hit bear, & proper field care of the hide & meat! https://www.blackberrysmoke.com/the-band Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we dive deep into all things ground hunting with Josh from The Untamed! We cover how Josh uses terrain and vegetation to his advantage with spot & stalk tactics for big whitetails, how he meticulously glasses cover to find deer before they see him, how he reads a deers body language to determine what his next move should be, how woodsmanship is an irreplaceable ingredient in success & more! Podcast music: https://www.blackberrysmoke.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carl Brown hunts some of the thickest (and flattest) land out of all the guests we have had on. In his area all the land is extremely thick, with no cover of good bedding, good food and water all close to one another. We dive deep into how Carl locates good spots, then goes about finding concentrations of deer activity with maps, finds hard pinch points, and other "patterns" in an area that seemingly has none. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we dive deep with Andrew's mentor, Bennie George on a wide variety of topics focused on making you a well rounded hunter and woodsman. Subjects range from the unorthodox tactics Bennie has used to kill bucks his whole life, how hunting things besides deer is vital to your growth as a hunter, finding a good spot to deer hunt using squirrels, spending enough time in the woods to get that "sixth sense", along with a few hilarious stories! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bennett specializes on killing the bucks hiding right where you least expect them. Today we dive deep on the signs he looks for to track down a nice buck who's hiding in plain sight, determine how he knows when a buck is near, how he closes in, the kinds of areas he keys on to get a shot at these bucks, how he uses scents to his advantage and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the time of year to get your gear dialed - so we dive into saddle hunting setups, tree climbing methods, tree stands, pack systems, hunting boots, platforms, and some great digital deer scouting tools for the public land/lease hunter. We also give some tried & true tips on finding great deals on hunting gear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ben Allen says he owes a lot of his public land whitetail hunting success in Louisiana, Texas, and Missouri to his ability to go the extra mile and find the areas other hunters cant, or won't access. We discuss his methods for getting away from other hunters, even on places with a high amount of roads, and how finding these pockets means seeing more mature bucks on their feet in daylight hours. We also discuss finding the right tree to set up in, hunting based on weather patterns and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Johnathan Moreland has killed a lot of BIG riverbttom bucks in southern Arkansas on public ground, and he has done it with traditional archery equipment. On this episode we dive deep into Johnathans tactics and find out how he gets close enough to consistently take deer with a trad bow in wide open river bottom hardwoods. Subjects include finding funnels in a place that seemingly has none, high-odds feed trees, calling bucks, using hunting pressure directly to your advantage and much more. Have you tagged a deer using something you heard on the show? Submit your listener success story here - Share Your Story Here Check out our gear list here - Andrew & Jacobs gear picks Click the link below to check out our latest video on our Youtube Channel! - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBBuz-tOP7SNeM6fSrrgR0w Want to help keep the show on the air, and get some bonus content? Join our patreon - patreon.com/thesouthernoutdoorsmen Use the promo code “southern” for a discount on your OnX Hunt membership here - https://try.onxmaps.com/hunt/app/hunt-smarter/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA7bucBhCeARIsAIOwr-_sBLib6xC3ibT5BMlTrBUdWdpGYOWOZ_06eZhJajTmMKne7e00Rd4aAtldEALw_wcB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don Cicero has laid down many, many mature bucks with a bow on public lands across Alabama since the late 1980s. We had him on to do a deep dive on his thoughts on what an overlooked spot is, how to read sign, bump-and-dump hunting with his dad when he was young, tracking deer through the woods, sneaking up on bedded bucks, some unique thoughts on early season hunting, hunting "the spot in the spot" when it comes to thickets and SO MUCH MORE! This episode is packed with good info! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kevin Murphy is known to many as "the worlds greatest small game hunter"! On a recent camping trip with him we recorded this podcast with, introducing "Small Game Nation", which will be an online resource dedicated to all things small game! We are excited about what Kevin has going on and you can hear all about it here. Other subjects include Jacob accidentally shooting some pet rabbits, the stories of how we all got into hunting, the woodsmanship benefits of small game hunting and a lot more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On todays episode we talk about taking the latest deer hunting and scouting tactics shared by Troy & Josh on our last two episodes and applying them where we hunt. Subjects include redefining what an isolated spot is, learning how bucks move across a landscape (big picture), scouting "low-light" areas, our results with vanilla extract for trail cameras, finding a bucks skull who we had on camera and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some people believe hunting scrapes is unproductive, but Troy Pottenger says he owes his 20+ OLD whitetail bucks to his extreme scrape/mock scrape hunting tactics. Today we do a deep dive with Troy on finding community scrapes, locating 5+ y/o deer, knowing when you can kill those deer, finding bedding & adjacent scrapes based on cover/terrain, making realistic mock scrape, why some guys don't have luck hunting scrapes, Troy's with theory and MUCH more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Find this seasons buck NOW! Whether you are trying to target a specific buck, or put yourself into a target rich environment, scouting is everything. Listener-favorite Josh Driver came back on the show to discuss how to find a large buck to target based on finding buck core areas, how to begin getting consistent pictures of that buck, how to predict changes in his pattern, trail cam tricks to get more deer on camera in less time, and how to stick with that buck until you tag him this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Land Smathers has a history of putting down some great bucks in the swamps of Mississippi & today we pick his brain on water access, using hunting pressure, finding the cover and food deer are using, finding the right buck sign to hunt and how Land successfully hunts off the ground rather than in a saddle or stand in his area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live from Bows & Brews! We sat down and recorded with a bunch of folks who came out to our first bows & brews event and talked about our scouting workshop & gear demos! Subjects include finding big woods beds, finding "thickets" in area with basically no thickets, understanding how terrain effects deer behavior, everyones favorite saddle from the gear demo, the tactics that people use unique to their area and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bow hunting OLD whitetail bucks - Nathan Killen has a history of taking old bucks (5+ yrs old) on the public lands of Virginia and West VA. We dive deep into hunting these mountains covering subjects such as hunting “off the bench”, how old bucks don’t bed and travel like other deer, accessing and hunting mountain laurel and rhododendron thickets, faint vs heavy trails, identifying the RIGHT buck sign, and MUCH MORE! We also discuss the mentality change that has to take place to target truly old bucks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on the show we discuss how to not waste your time scouting un-useful things in the summer months. The idea is to spend time scouting certain features such as the right kind of vegetation, terrain features with the right type of vegetation around them, access, glassing/camera locations and more. We dive into map scouting, what kind of vegetation to look for, how to determine if vegetation will remain thick into the winter, sign to ignore & more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thomas Nix & Zach Stokes are buddies who both have been able to haul some nice bucks from South Carolina public land. Today we got them on to talk about hunting deep vs staying near the truck & how each of those tactics work the applied correctly, buck bedding in the south, pine thickets, knowing what sign to ignore, summer scouting and more. We also announce a new giveaway where you can win two of our most popular hats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DEER HUNTING content starts this week on the podcast! We jump into talking about planning our Alabama deer season by discussing what kinds of cover we will be scouting, locating cover on a map, knowing if cover you find now will be good in the future, biggest takeaways from last season, the "wolf pack" mentality, and a recent scouting trip! We also go In depth talking about our Wyoming hunt, how we are planning it, how we are map scouting for it and so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunting late season turkeys can be a serious challenge, so we talked to Shane Turpen of Georgia on hunting the last weeks of April and on up into May. Subjects discussed include what the gobblers are doing this time of year, if there are any calls to avoid this time of year, trying to find birds that will cooperate, finding birds in the heat and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this strut report we got our buddies Si Colley and Devin Duncan, who have each put down a pile of turkeys this season, to talk about what has led them to such awesome success this season. We hit on topics that can help you turn a bad season around, or help you fill those last tags you have burning a hole in your pocket. Share this with your buddies, and as always we greatly appreciate 5 star reviews on iTunes! Good luck to those hunting this weekend! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What to do at different stages of a turkey hunt? We sit down with our friend Wayne Lackey to talk about knowing when to sit down on a turkey, knowing what calls to use at what times on a turkey hunt, building an inventory of turkeys to hunt and a lot more. We also discuss Andrew's latest successful turkey hunt and how moving on a bird 5 times led to a successful hunt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this weeks strut reports we get turkey hunting updates, tips and tactics from hunters in South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Illinois, and Georgia! Thanks for tuning into The Southern Outdoorsmen Podcast, Your home for turkey hunting stories, turkey hunting tactics, and the strut report! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this weeks episode we cover a ton of ground starting with some recent hunts dealing with birds that seem to not want to move! Andrew shot another turkey, but it did not go as expected and we cover that and how Mark & Andrew sat on this bird for well over an hour before he finally broke and came in. Late in the episode we also talk about the early stages of planning a Western trip for this fall, since this is the time of year you need to start planning if you want to hunt a western species this year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this weeks strut report we cover gobbling activity, as well as what turkey hunting tactics are working right now in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Illinois & North Carolina! The Southern Outdoorsmen Podcast is your home for everything turkey hunting in the spring, and deer hunting in the fall. Please leave us a 5 star review and share us with a buddy! Good luck this weekend in the turkey woods! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we are joined by our friends Clay Colley and Mark Turner to discuss our eventful weekend of turkey hunting some of Alabama's rougher terrain. This episode is slap full of funny stories and good lessons learned from the successful and unsuccessful hunts this weekend. Subjects include finding unpressured birds, moving on turkeys in the mountains, trying to get the turkeys fired up on a slow morning, roosting birds and more! Dont forget to check out Hunt the Land Podcast with Mark! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we break down several hunts, including Andrew's two successful hunts from opening week! Subjects discussed include getting in a gobblers bubble, hunting birds right off the roost, finding likely roosting spots on a topo map, knowing when to call when the bird is cooperating vs when he's not, subtle calls that don't include vocalizations, red dot sights for turkey hunting and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first strut report of 2020 is live! In the strut report we give weekly updates on turkey hunting activity around the South. We cover gobbling activity, hen activity, where turkeys gravitate to after fly down, and turkey hunting tips from local hunters across the south! This week we cover Alabama, Florida and Georgia, and at the end of the episode we answer listener questions about beginner turkey tactics, public land ethics, and various turkey hunting tips! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our buddy Chris Jenkins came on the show to talk about his recent success on some Mississippi public land hunting some henned up toms! We hit a wide array of topics that include moving in on turkeys that have hens with them, locating turkeys, hunting on those days that they don't want to gobble, hunting from Mississippi bottomlands to Georgia mountains, being a woodsman, snake safety tips and much more! Don't forget our store is now live! https://www.thesouthernoutdoorsmen.com/shop Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Devin Duncan was one of our most popular guests from deer season (hunting mountain bucks), and we have brought him back to talk turkeys! We discuss how to hunt turkeys in windy or rainy weather, blind calling to birds, subtle sounds that tell you a turkey is near, and Devin gives some great advice for newer turkey hunters who may not be good at calling yet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cuz Strickland has always been a listener favorite, and today we had him on to talk turkeys! We spoke to cuz on a variety of tactics, including old school turkey hunting, how turkey hunting has changed through the years, the future of turkey hunting and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Billy Yargus came on the show to talk about using calls other guys aren't using, scouting turkeys, practicing setups and calls on live turkeys, hunting bumped turkeys, understanding what stage the gobblers in your area are in and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hunting on VERY limited time, knowing if a gobbler has hens with him based on his gobble, understanding what a turkey perceives, knowing if a turkey is killable, clucking to kill him, open woods early season hunting, and patience. Thats just a few of the subjects we covered with Mike Pentecost, a man who has been killing high pressured turkeys on Alabama public lands for decades! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Ellis grew up hunting Osceola turkeys in south Florida. He has also won several Grand National Calling competitions, so today we have him on the show to discuss both of those things! Scott tackles how to find oseola turkeys in south Florida both with map scouting and boots on the ground scouting, how they are different than other turkeys and how to approach them. Then he dives into things you can do to improve your calling skills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices