Podcast Episodes

EP.511: Why Terrain Beats Trail Cameras When Chasing Mature Bucks

Carl Brickey and I get into just about everything in this one, and by the time we're done it doesn't feel like an interview anymore. It feels like tw…

3 hours ago

EP. 510: What a Five-Time National Champion Taught Me About Hunting | HOS

I want you to think back to the last time you were at full draw and something in your head started talking. Not the calm rundown of yardage and pin p…

1 week ago

EP. 509: Scouting Unpressured Ground Before The Season Ever Opens

Every year around this time, Chad and I sit down and do the same thing: we say the goals out loud. Not because saying it out loud makes it happen, bu…

2 weeks ago

EP. 508: Mobile Hunting vs. Stationary | What Years in the Big Woods Taught Us

We do these listener Q&A episodes because they force us to say the quiet part out loud. This one, with Greg back on the mic, dug into everything I ac…

3 weeks ago

Trail Cam University: I Filled My Tag and Got Worse at Hunting | Why You're Stuck

I've had seasons where I punched my tag and walked away feeling empty. I've had seasons where I didn't fill it and walked away knowing I'd gotten be…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

EP. 507: I Let a Brain Scientist Explain Why My Best Hunts Happen When I Stop Trying

I spent three hours picking the brain of a neuroscientist this week, and I walked away thinking about hunting differently than I have in years.

Dr. S…

4 weeks ago

Trail Cam University: Patience vs. Paralysis | The Deer Hunting Decision Nobody Talks About

There's a version of a deer hunter I used to be that I'm not proud of. He had all the intel, knew the thermals, understood the wind, watched the fore…

4 weeks, 1 day ago

EP. 506: Why We Stopped Looking For Deer While Scouting | Tony Peterson

We spent the first half of this one talking about fishing tournaments and running through a heat wave that had no business being that miserable. Neit…

1 month ago

Trail Cam University: You're Hunting Right. You're Getting In Wrong.

Most hunters spend the offseason obsessing over the wrong things. They're pouring over maps, pulling cards, debating stand locations. And none of tha…

1 month ago

EP.505: Deer Hunting Mistakes | When Ego Takes Over | HOS

Every hunter who's spent enough time in a stand knows this moment: the wind switches, the deer aren't moving right, something's off, but you've alrea…

1 month, 1 week ago