The Southern Outdoorsmen Hunting Podcast

Luke Askew is our listener success story for this week with a big, heavy, slit G2 GA buck! Jacob discusses all the different tactics that went into tagging this deer, with a big focus on the role of diversity, what a diverse spot looks like, and why to hunt it.  blackberrysmoke.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Outdoorsy and use my code OUTDOORSMEN for a great deal: https://www.outdoorsy.com Advertisi...

A look back at our BEST CONTENT (ranks based solely off the amount of listener success stories from each episode). We look at finding and hunting buck beds with Glen Solomon, hunting hot feed sign and hunting confident with Richard Fought, finding that missing piece of the puzzle to break into more success with Michael Perry, predicting buck escape routes with Wes Moye, and a mature buck mindset w...

Cameron Choquette has had a great year in extreme Southeast Alabama. This season he has tagged two bucks, both just a short drive from both the Florida and Georgia borders! We talk about the habitat and terrain he hunted, how staying out of the good spots led to his filled tags, the role cell cams play for him, rattling multiple times in an hour, and much more that led to his success this season. ...

We got a MAJOR response from Travis' first episode so we had to get him back on! This time we go super in depth speaking on subjects such as woodsmanship, moving like "smoke through the woods", the correct way to still hunt cutovers and bedding thickets, funneling deer with deadfall, how to understand a "killing wind" and make it deadly, and SO much more! blackberrysmoke.com  H...

Jimmy Clark has been able to take some GIANT bucks on public land over the last few years. Today we dive into how he makes it happen so often and how post season scouting, historical sign, annual patterns, the wind rule, compounding features and hunting pressure all play major parts in his recipe for success.  blackberrysmoke.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Outdoorsy and use my code OUTDOORSMEN for...

This past weekend Zach, Andrew & Jacob were able to all take bucks on the same day, with Zach's deer being a giant! We go into the stories of those bucks, and the story of another giant buck that our friend Austin Broadhead also took in the same area. Many consider Zach's buck a once in a lifetime deer, but we discuss how learning from successful hunts like these and constantly applyin...

Travis Murray has been hunting Mississippi his whole life, and has had opportunities to hunt lands ranging from heavily pressured national forest, to unpressured private land. In this episode we dive into his tactic of ground hunting with traditional equipment via ghillie suit, still hunting bedding areas, why he NEVER hunts any kind of food source, how pressure effects public land deer vs unpress...

Blake Morton has had some major success on very small properties this season in South Carolina! On this listener success story we go over the 3 bucks he has put down this season using tactics such as scrape hunting, hunting thick, and hunting close to roads. We also dive in to how post season scouting and high levels of confidence led to such a successful season.  blackberrysmoke.com Our Sponsors:...

Everyone knows about grunting & rattling, but there is a larger spectrum of sounds that a deer makes that people don't utilize! Michael has been implementing these finesse calling tactics to give bucks the confidence to leave bedding cover before dark. Its not always about attracting a buck through vocalizations or rattling, but instead painting a picture that other deer are on their feet...

Listener Brett Mashburn has got it done this season on nice bucks in both Missouri & Alabama! Tune in to hear about his sucess, including the particular tactics that helped him, along with how he says he breaks down long, information packed episodes in order to get the most out of them.  blackberrysmoke.com Our Sponsors: * Check out Outdoorsy and use my code OUTDOORSMEN for a great deal: https...

Kevin Tullis is a veteran hunter when it comes to high pressure hunting clubs & public. Since the 1980s he has been perfecting the tactic of using other hunters to find big buck sanctuaries. Subjects: finding a "hunter pattern" & using it to highlight sanctuaries, finding the right kind of sign/habitat in sanctuaries, hunting them effectively, hunting travel routes between sanctuar...

Happy thanksgiving! We have a great listener success story this week out of Georiga! Jake Reese located a big, old palmated buck during the summer months - after a difficult bow season he was able to seal the deal on the buck in rifle season, more than a mile from where he first got pictures of the deer! Jake cites episodes "141. Find & Hunt a buck's core area w/ Josh Driver" and &...

Listener favorite Adrian Farley is back on the show after a year to tackle the tough questions about hunting mature bucks in the south this time of year! subjects: Major shift in deer movement when the leaves fall and how to use it to your advantage, micro terrain features, a deep dive into how a mature buck moves across the landscape, how to deal with eddying winds and thermals that switch multip...

Taylor Philpot managed to put down a huge buck in Virginia while using aggressive tactics he heard on the podcast! This is one of the most epic deer hunts you will ever hear, as Taylor did not wait for the buck to come to him, he went chest deep in the swamp to get him! He used tactics from Troy Pottenger (Ep. 175), Tim Knight (Ep. 188), Tony Myers (Ep. 191), Jamie McCay (Ep. 193), and Andrae D&#3...

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...

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 Our Sponsors: * Check out Out...

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 the...

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!  Our Sponsors: * Check out Outdoorsy and use my code OUTDOORSMEN for a great deal: https://www.outdoorsy.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands P...

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 Our Sponsors: * Check...

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...

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-existe...

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...

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 h...

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 &...

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.blackbe...