This Will CHANGE THE WAY YOU HUNT DEER! Find a MATURE BUCKS SCHEDULE & WHEN TO HUNT HIM! 

Here in central north Carolina in the flat lands , Alot mature bucks make these loops under cover of darkness and they will bed up just off doe bedding in daylight and want move until after dark 30 while visiting these doe groups farms and properties along his loop journey and if u can pin point where u think he is , u will have to influence the buck to move in daylight like by pretending to be another buck making scrapes ,grunting & sound realistic as possible and i like to use code blue because its drawn out several nocturnal bucks to a mock vine scrape for me several times and has got several bucks loopy in the head and running around trying to locate this mysterious doe in heat ! Try code blue in mock scrape and thank me later !

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

This is my second listen to this episode... I hear something new every time

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

After 40 years of hunting i truly believe in the solunar good bad and great times to hunt and i think yall should do a podcast in regards to hunting solunar calendar times and dates ect.

I’m diggin Andrew’s shirt

100% agree with this guy. Have a 1 mile stretch on Mississippi that is exactly what he is describing. We don’t always kill a booner but we always see solid 130 inch bucks on public

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

He's spot on on all his talk. I've been 25+ years on public. We do pretty good. Appreciate the show I'm listening and stand alot of room to learn. Gonna apply some of his tactics try to sharpen my own knife.

FINALLY BEEN WAITING SINCE THE LAST TIME HE WAS ON

Iv been a date hunter the past two years and will never go back! Changed my entire life. Grandpa sat on a certain tree and certain time of the year ever year and crack a big one and I never could figure it out till now lol

I started putting my cameras 📷 eye hight, game changer, way more pics and no deer looking at cameras. Reconyx too no bs cameras

Really enjoyed this podcast. I think this happens better with more deer per square mile. Here in NH I’ve seen big deer on the same 3-4 day period, but it doesn’t happen in the same spots year after year. I’ve had cameras on a post rub and got two huge deer. The next few years nothing. We have 1-4 deer per square mile where I live. I’m sure you can probably find some spots. Just pretty hard to find here I believe.

Looking forward to trying this out. I'd definitely like to see this with historical data for sure. I might be getting a lease to some private where I can run cameras this year. So would be worth a try. Just hunt over food this year and leave everything else with cams.

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.

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.

Yes Sir!! Been waiting on this one!

I completely agree with this tactic and have been doing this in my primary public state for the last three years. The only issue I have with his approach is 'never putting cameras back in the same spot no matter how many big deer show up'. From a data perspective that just doesn't make any sense. One year is the smallest sample size possible - 1. Why not put cameras back in the same spots you found bucks in 3-4 years in a row? You'll have a much better idea on time frame and validate the consistency. That's just a no-brainer from a scientific approach. More data = more reliable intell. Tighten up your activity windows by removing the outliers 🍻

What's with the bleep at 19:20? It didn't sound like he named a location.

Can't wait for this!

Lol, you better have some snake boots on for those rattlers and cotton mouths if you are scouting in August

Also I don’t know if anyone else has noticed this but the bucks will know when the doe is there and still alive because he will sent check bedding areas and fields before he does his fall shift I don’t think it’s necessary for the does but there is social interaction that happens. he does a fall range loop and the buck I hunted for 5 years would go over his entire fall habitat and cut threw bedding areas and walk the fields right before he shed velvet usually mid August we would get pictures of him on one end where occasionally we would see him with a doe and then 4 or 5 hours later he would be on the complete other side where we would get the most rut photos of him. And then 3-4 hours later he would be all the way on the far edge of his fall range or what we thought was his fall range and he would cover that and do a great big loop over the course of 2-3 days almost like he was pre scouting his fall range I wonder if they see what the habitat is like in the fall range before they transition. I’ve seen this with several mature bucks now. But it was most noticeable with the buck I hunted. I nicknamed him trashy because he had 3 antlers and always had branches and stuff wedged inbetween the 2

What kind of cameras do you guys run to keep out and last all season?

That’s great information but the wind and other factors come into play.

I’ll elaborate on my findings 32:32 I hunted an absolute giant on public for 5 years the first 2 years it never clicked why he was doing what he was doing. Late October every season he showed up between the 24th-29th in daylight mid day 11am-2pm. The scrapes in the area didn’t open up until he opened them and then buck after buck after buck would work those scrapes and he would hit them once a month later he would make another round in the same spot and open the same scrape again but it would be close to end of legal shooting light or right after legal light. The 5th year I had a game plan to kill him (last year) he must have passed away. He never showed up not one time (I run 24 cameras on 2300 acres 9 of those are cell cams the rest are sd card on video and those are in areas I don’t touch until I know specifically when bucks show up) like stated in the video. He showed up on camera every year within a 3-4 day window October 24-27th and about 150 yards away he would show up October 28th-30th about a mile as the crow flies. He would show up October 27-30th in daylight 11am-2pm every year I had him patterned to the point I knew exactly when to go in. 2 years ago I was sitting on stand and November 8th and 11th he showed up mid day following a hot doe in the spot I knew was around his core. Ever since then I’ve been following several specific deer and the definitely give themselves up usually another thing to pay attention to he might be traveling the creek bottom 20 or 30 yards off your camera and you might not be getting photos of him but he’s in there. I’ve also found depending on the time of day if it’s a big ravine. They will travel the upper 1/3 and scent check the scrape and area and walk right past it on specific date ranges to they definitely know time frames on does I watched a giant get on a doe every year for 3 years and it never dawned on me until I’ve put all these pieces together. This podcast had good info!! It seems like once they hit 3.5-4.5 that’s when they become pattern able and shrink the circle but once they are 4.5-5.5 you can almost always count on it if you’ve seen them for a year or 2 on specific areas

Let’s gooo

Calendar bucks

PETERSEN'S HUNTING CALENDER TIMES IS PRETTY ACCURATE FROM WHAT I'VE DISCOVERED

Take away the cell cameras and cameras period & actually use woodsmanship , intuition & calendar dates from experiences and time in the woods & stand insted of intel & data from cameras ! True definition of hunting ...

Reconyx or browning fast as hell trigger speed get deer running

1700 acres with no deer.

Where was all this info when I was much younger? lol

Is his dates in southern Alabama in feb ? All I here is they have feb rut down there ?

Just finished his last episode

Cameras , cameras cameras, Pictures, pictures , pictures What other aspects of hunting is there anymore ?

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

I hunt walkin ereas private land to hunt I try to hunt it the wind in my favor there is no prescouting there it is illegal public land to many people there

My place to the tee

Welp fk us KS guys cuz they don’t let us use cams

CODE BLUE DOE IN HEAT WILL MAKE A MATURE BUCK GO LOOPY

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.

They don't seem very smart

Do doe families essentially synch up their cycles, generation to generation.... That's why bucks come back consistently?

I belive it 💯