Hunters Advantage Podcast

In today's episode, Christian Babcock & Jake Gaylord talk through how to get started saddle hunting for a complete beginner. If you're a hard core saddle hunter you may know more about it than us, which is why we are aiming this episode at complete newbies.  -  Check out our merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/   - Follow our socials:   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@...

In today's episode, Christian Babcock and Jake Gaylord sit down to talk about early season deer hunting. They discuss some of their biggest early season mistakes, gear checklist, and safety tips. Be safe, shoot straight, and have a great early season! -  Buy a Hat or T-shirt here: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/   -   Follow our socials:    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.co...

In this episode, Christian Babcock, Jake Gaylord, and Payton Carroll sit down and talk through scouting sign on public and private land and how to know you've found enough to set up. Also, how to know when you've gone too far. We also field questions from our TikTok community. -  Buy a Hat or T-shirt here: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/   -   Follow our socials:    Tik...

In this episode, Christian Babcock and Payton Carroll talk about their last scouting trip to Kansas for the season. We talk about checking cameras, getting SD cards stolen, and find a lot of big velvet bucks on private and public. - Check out our merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/   -   Follow our socials: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@huntersadvantage    Instagram: ht...

In this episode, Christian Babcock, Payton Carroll, and Jake Gaylord talk through their worst equipment mistakes that have happened while deer hunting. Our hope is that you can learn for our mistakes and not make these yourself. We also discuss our MUST HAVE equipment for our bow hunting pack. - Check out our merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/   -   Follow our socials:  TikTo...

In today's episode, Jake Gaylord and Christian Babcock sit down with country music artist, Heath Sanders. Throughout the episode we talking about Heath growing up hunting the mountains in Arkansas, why hunting is our place of peace, what impact we can leave on others through hunting, and much more.  -  Check out our merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/   -  Follow our soci...

In today's episode, Christian Babcock sits down with Gabe Foley to talk about becoming a better bow hunter and scouting for big bucks in Ohio. Gabe is a 17 year old young man pursuing a dream of making hunting content for a living. Make sure to check out his page(s) under - Midwest Pursuit! -  Shop our merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/   Follow our socials:   TikTok: https:/...

In this episode, Christian Babcock and Jake Gaylord sit down with Craig Sloan of CAS Taxidermy Studio to discuss how to care for your buck before it gets to the taxidermist.  As Craig says, "The quality of your mount starts in the field." Check him out on Facebook - CAS Taxidermy Studio -  Check out our merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/   -  Follow our socials:   T...

In this episode, Christian Babcock and Jake Gaylord field questions from deer hunters in our TikTok community. We talk about hunting strategy and share what we learned from some of our biggest fails.  -  Shop our merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/ -  -  Follow our socials:   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@huntersadvantage   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com...

In today's episode, Christian Babcock and Jake Gaylord walk through the Hunters Advantage public land camping setup. From sleeping in the truck in the summer to sleeping cozy in our 16 x 20 canvas wall tent to sleeping in dingy, nasty motels in the middle of nowhere.  -  Merch (Hats & Shirts): https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/ -  -  Follow our socials:   TikTok: https...

In this episode, Jake Gaylord and Christian Babcock walk through each of their first rifle and bow kills. It is difficult to share the mistakes we made at a young age, but we have learned and grown from them and we hope our audience can do the same.  -  Buy A Hunters Advantage Hat: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/ -  - Follow our socials:   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hun...

In today's episode Jake Gaylord and Christian Babcock rant about "What If" the Hunters Advantage crew hunting strategies fall flat on their face this fall.  -  Buy A Hunters Advantage Hat: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/ -  -  Follow our socials:   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@huntersadvantage   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hunters_adv. ..   Faceboo...

In today's episode Christian Babcock and Jacob Gaylord wrap up the final episode of the Public Land 101 Mini Series. This time talking about how to hunt public land. There are many more specific topics we could get into, but chose to focus on the mindset and a few tactics to hunting whitetail deer on public land.  - Buy A Hunters Advantage Hat: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/ -  -&nbs...

In todays episode, Christian Babcock, Jake Gaylord, and Payton Carroll share some tips and tactics for successfully running trail cameras on Public Land. The Hunters Advantage crew has spent multiple weeks over the last two summers running trail cameras on public land and share their best practices.  We cover: Our top 2 strategies:  - Set & Reset  - Set & Soak  - Read L...

On this episode, Jake Gaylord and Christian Babcock sit down with Brandon Sanders aka Hunt WRX.  We cover:  - His early experiences hunting  - Hunting public land in Missouri  - What made his switch to a tree saddle - High Fence hunting & more!  -  Buy A Hunters Advantage Hat: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/ -  -  Follow our socials:  TikTok: htt...

In this episode, we continue our Public Land 101 Mini Series with boots on the ground scouting and it's importance.  We cover: Why it is so important The map doesn't give you the entire picture If you aren’t spending time on the property you aren’t learning much. You can't read about doing pushups. You have to do them to get the benefits. Buy A Hunters Advantage Hat: https://huntersadvantagem...

Author Charles Beaty "Prince of Poachers" sits down with Christian Babcock to share untold stories of rattling up bucks, escaping the law, and poaching deer off the world famous King and Kenedy Ranches. We DO NOT support any form of poaching, but these stories are nothing short of remarkable.  -   Check out his book here:  Princeofpoachers.com - Charles is attempting to donate 2% of...

In this weeks episode, Jake and Christian walk the HA community through how to Map Scout effectively for hunting whitetails on public land.  The three main topics of this episode are: - Why map scouting matters - What to look for when e-scouting  - 3D Map Scouting & why it helps -  Buy a hat- Hunters Advantage Merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/  Follow our socials -&...

Authors Charles Beaty "Prince of Poachers" and Pat Lane sit down with Christian Babcock to talk about south Texas history, ranches, and poaching deer off the world famous King and Kenedy Ranches. We DO NOT support any form of poaching, but these stories are nothing short of remarkable.  Check out their books here:   Princeofpoachers.com  beforethestoriesarelost.com  -Charles is...

Christian and Jake walk you through how to locate public land in your state and how to understand specific regulations so you stay legal while chasing whitetail.  -  Hunters Advantage Merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/  Follow our socials: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@huntersadvantage  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hunters_advantage/  Facebook: https://www...

In this episodes Christian Babcock and Jake Gaylord talk through the Golden Rule of Public Land Hunting Ethics. This is the first episode of the a 6 part mini series where we are going to take you from start finish of what it takes to hunt whitetail deer on public land. -  Buy a hat! - Hunters Advantage Merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/  - Follow our other socials: TikTok: https:...

In this episode, Christian Babcock breaks down 3 quick tips for running summer trail cameras on your property to keep more mature bucks around until the fall.  Check your trail cameras less often Wait for a good summer rain Use cell cameras wherever possible Grab a hat below! Hunters Advantage Merch: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/  Follow our other socials: TikTok: https://www.tiktok...

In today's episode Jake and Christian walk through their summer to-do list for scouting for big summer bucks in Oklahoma and Kansas. The work for killing those fall whitetail bucks starts right now.  -  Buy A Hunters Advantage Hat: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/ -   Follow our socials:   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@huntersadvantage   Instagram: https://www.instagra...

We are joined today by Christian Shropshire to discuss his scouting, trail camera, and hunting strategy for finding and harvesting bucks on Iowa public land. Christian has harvested many big bucks on public land and spends hundreds of hours a year scouring and scouting public land in Iowa. Today we discussed: Trail Camera Strategy Scouting Strategy Killing Booner Bucks Hunting Mindset Buy A Hunter...

Jake and Christian break down some challenging parts of self filming while bow hunting and how to overcome the challenges. Self filming can be hard, but with these tips we hope to alleviate some of the hardships you may face as a self filming bowhunter.  -  Buy A Hunters Advantage Hat: https://huntersadvantagemerch.com/ -  Follow our socials:    TikTok: https://www.tiktok....