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Ep. 35: Brandon Brinkman - Whitetail Hunter's First Elk Experience
Subscribe Brandon Brinkman from Garmin joins Rich and the crew for a conversation on building a life around the things that matter. They get into late-onset hunting, CrossFit, Western hunt lessons, Garmin tech, and why small wins are what keep people coming back for more.Brandon shares how ideas from Atomic Habits shaped the way he trains, hunts, and works.
Ep. 928: Foundations - The Secret to Good Treestand Setups
Subscribe In this episode This week, Tony explains why learning to read trees and keeping an open mind on how to set up in them, is often the key to killing more big bucks by not just defaulting to our go-to stands. Connect with Tony Peterson and MeatEater Tony Peterson on Instagram and Facebook MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and Youtube Clips Presented By New
How to Actually Improve Your Deer Hunting This Year
Few things substitute experience and time in the field. While it can be tempting to think a new piece of gear can help you level up, it rarely works that way. As a gear editor and reviewer, I’ve used some of the best hunting gear money can buy, and I can tell you that no single piece of equipment has directly correlated to me killing a big buck.
Unpacked: K.C. Smith’s Early Season Gear Setup
As much as I love hunting gear and testing it, there’s no correlation between new purchases and killing a Boone and Crockett caliber deer. Unless maybe that purchase happens to be a large farm in Iowa. Otherwise, anything you can get in stores can’t guarantee you a big buck, or any deer for that matter. But that doesn’t mean hunting gear can’t make you a more comfortable or efficient hunter.
Is It Time To Ditch Your Treestand?
My world in bowhunting began from a humble ground-swatting position. It wasn't until I turned fourteen that my dad gave me a clunky climbing stand, the kind that's built to last. This was a game-changer. I was experiencing deer hunting from an elevated position, and that perspective increased my love for deer hunting like nothing else. After a few years of grinding tree bark, clinking, and clunking around the woods, I needed something more. Often, I'm overly skeptical of "trending" gear.
How to Fail Upward as a Hunter
Fail upward? What kind of corporate jargon is that? How could this possibly help me become a better hunter? Hear me out. Every hunter that I know with at least a dozen seasons under their belt goes through a natural evolution. That evolutionary path is different for everyone because everyone has a slightly different situation and different personal goals. For example, you might come to a fork in the road after having some success here and there, but never consistently filling your tag.
How to Start Training for Deer Season Now
This time of year should be a time of reflection on last deer season. While you might turn your attention to shed hunting and winter scouting, it’s reality check time for those lofty goals you set in October. Did you tag your “target” buck? Check out that new piece of ground? How many deer did you miss? When you did drag a deer back to the truck, were you winded and gasping for air? This last one, which pertains to your hunting fitness, should be as fundamental to deer hunting as anything else.
3 Common Whitetail Beliefs That Will Make You A Worse Big Buck Hunter
If you’re living vicariously through hunting industry folks to get your deer info, you’re in trouble. I know that probably sounds crazy coming from a guy who is in the hunting industry, but hear me out. The worst thing most hunters can do is adopt belief systems that shortcut their critical thinking skills. This goes for most of life, actually, but is most applicable here with whitetail hunters. The set-in-stone beliefs, the always and never statements, and the truth as you know it has to be yours.
3 Unique Habits of the Biggest, Oldest Bucks
Editor’s note: For more on this topic, tune into Eps. 690, 693, 696, and 699 of the Wired to Hunt Podcast. I’m fascinated by old whitetail bucks. If you’re reading this, you likely are too. I’ve heard it said that old bucks are almost an entirely different species from the rest of the herd and my own observations back that up as well. They move differently, act differently, and think differently. You can hunt deer or you can hunt old bucks, but you cannot hunt them the same.
Is Mobile Whitetail Hunting Overrated?
If you’re up on the current whitetail hunting trends, mobile whitetail hunting tactics are everything you hear and everything you read about. But if you aren’t doing hang and hunts on the regular, what are you missing? It’s surely the fastest route to wrapping your tag around a booner, right? Before you get caught up in the latest and greatest, it’s important to understand when mobile hunting tactics are absolutely the right move, but also when the tactic can actually be detrimental.
What’s Inside 4 Proven Mobile Hunter’s Packs
Organization. Unfortunately, it's not something that comes naturally to me, but when it comes to sneaking in tight to a buck's core area, I've learned the hard way being unorganized isn't an option. When mobile hunting, having a well-thought-out approach to packing your gear is the foundation for success in the woods. Let's look at four guys who have fine-tuned their packs through years of trial and error and have come to a process that works for them.
3 Hell Raisin' Conservation Tips for Hunters and Anglers
Imagine a world in which your favorite hunting spot is sold off and covered with condominiums. I mean it. Close your eyes for a moment and imagine this scenario. See your place, hear it, smell it. Now imagine a condo over there and there and there. How does that make you feel? Then, picture your favorite stretch of river or local lake choked out by a toxic algal bloom or slick with oil.
The Predator That Deer Fear Most
If you’re thinking wolves, coyotes, or cougars, think again. The predator deer fear most walks on two legs. A study conducted in 2018 at the Jones Center at Ichauway in southwest Georgia found whitetails were significantly more spooked at the sound of “super predator” humans than any other predator.
3 Reasons to Pull Your Treestands and Start Fresh This Season
Leaving treestands up for a full year is a bad idea. Leaving them up for several years is far worse. Yet, quite a few hunters do this with both hang-on and ladder stands. Not only is this unsafe, but it’s also often not the best strategy if you want to kill nice bucks. A blank-slate strategy with your ambush sites is a much better way to approach the year, even though this does require more work. The effort is worth it, for three very compelling reasons.
3 Grunt Call Vocalizations Every Whitetail Hunter Should Know
When it comes to leveling up your game as a turkey or elk caller, the animals do a pretty good job of educating us. Both species make a lot of noise, and mimicking their vocalizations is a straightforward path to becoming a better caller. When it comes to whitetails, it’s not so simple. I’d bet that most deer hunters never hear a real buck grunt in any given season. Our exposure to grunts often comes from hunting content where we watch other hunters call to deer.
Ep.19: You’re Ready To Call, Get Your Setup Right!
Subscribe In this episode Every year we get to hear hundreds, maybe thousands of stories that go like this: I was calling in a bull, he was all fired up and got to 80 yards, I could see him, he bugled a few times, and then left. In today’s episode, Jason and Dirk talk about how to prevent the “hang up” and what's important when setting up. They talk about using the wind, finding shooting lanes, when to be silent on the way in, and the calling strategy once setup.
The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (VI)
The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (VI) Meridional transport is the main climate change driver Javier Vinós & Andy May – September 4, 2022 6.1 Introduction Climate is a thermodynamic process determined by the energy flux from its entry point, mostly at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) of the tropics on the day side of the planet, to its exit point distributed across the TOA of the entire planet.
The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (V)
The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (V) Javier Vinós & Andy May – August 28, 2022 5.1 Introduction The 1990s discovery of multidecadal variability (see Part IV) showed that the science of climate change is very immature. The answer to what was causing the observed warming was provided before the proper questions were asked. Once the answer was announced, questions were no longer welcome.
The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (IV)
The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (IV) Javier Vinós & Andy May – August 22, 2022 4.1 Introduction While the study of weather variability has a long tradition, the science of climate change is a very young scientific topic, as attested to by the 1984 discovery of the first multidecadal oscillation, the primary global climate internal variability phenomenon, by Folland et al.
The Koonin-Dessler Debate (Part II)
The SOHO Forum Debate began at 5:30PM (Central Time) on August 15, 2022 in the New York Sheen Center, as I announced here. Koonin won the Oxford Style debate since 25% of the in-person and online audience shifted to his view that the debate question: “Climate science compels us to make large and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions” is a false statement. Here I will lay out both Dessler’s and Koonin’s most important arguments, in my opinion.
Ep. 344: That Ringing In Your Ears That Drives You Nuts
How to subscribe Subscribe Steven Rinella talks with Grace Sturdivant, Janis Putelis, Sean Weaver, Garrett Long, Seth Morris, Chester Floyd, and Phil Taylor.
Europe: Demography Governs Democracy by Giulio Meotti
Europe: Demography Governs Democracy by Giulio Meotti Posted By Ruth King on May 30th, 2022 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18567/europe-demography-democracy There is a replacement of civilization and the media is not even covering it. “By 2050, 50 percent of the French population will be mixed.” — Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Radio Classique, May 17, 2021. “The mayor of Grenoble adopts the arguments and rhetorical formulas of the Muslim Brotherhood: talking about freedom to impose sexism”.
The Economic Cost of Eliminating Fossil Fuels By Andy May
The Economic Cost of Eliminating Fossil Fuels By Andy May Posted By Ruth King on May 30th, 2022 The debate on how much impact humanity has on climate change continues. As nearly everyone knows by now, there is no observational evidence that humans have a significant impact on climate, so the debate is mostly over which future climate projection is likely.
Why Does Boston Buy Natural Gas from Russia?
The environmental organizations have full veto power on all energy projects through the legal system. Europe is vulnerable and needs our natural gas; prices are absurdly high and going higher. Yet, everyone in the oil and gas industry is afraid to invest any money, even if they have financing available.
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