The Southern Outdoorsmen Hunting Podcast

Tony Myers is an old school deer killer who has been stomping around the Alabama woods since the early 1970's. Subjects range from Tony learning from the deer hunters who cut their teeth deer hunting in the 1940s, how he killed several giant deer on AL public lands, reading sign to locate big mature bucks, hunting deer effectively in the early season, the tendencies of mature bucks that differ...

Jim Forbes has been killing mature bucks on public land in the Appalachian Mountains for over 30 years, and has kept detailed records of each buck he has taken in that time. Today, Jim shares the trends he has noticed when it comes to the weather, time of year, and other conditions he has consistently killed bucks on, his terrain techniques, stand placement, and how you NEED persistence to kill go...

Wes Moye and his group of hunting buddies, AKA "The wolf pack" have developed an extremely successful method of aggressively targeting nice bucks on heavily hunted public land. On this episode he shares how they target escape routes, strategic setups to take advantage of escape routes, hunting with a group to increase success rates, how their group hunting success rate is almost 100%, unde...

Tim Knight has taken 15 Pope & Young whitetails in the great state of Georgia on both public & high pressure private. In this episode we discuss hunting based strictly on sign rather than with the aid of cameras, how Tim determines the best place for a big buck to live, how he moves in on that spot, his very unique thoughts on calling deer, making an approach without getting busted, his be...

Jacob started his season off with a bang tagging a GREAT velvet buck on the first afternoon of the Tennessee public land velvet hunt! This is Jacobs biggest buck to date, and we dive into the story of how to all happened. This is a classic late-night "deer camp" podcast with a ton of laughs, and an excellent example of the camaraderie that we all look forward to with our buddies every fall...

We speak with longtime bear hunter Jason Miller on how he keys in on large bears in the early season with archery equipment. Subjects include map scouting for bears, narrowing down what a bear needs and keying in on it (and why you'll find big Appalachian mtn bucks in the same spots), knowing what kind of sign to hunt, knowing how long to give a spot before moving on, safely blood trailing a h...

In this episode we dive deep into all things ground hunting with Josh from The Untamed! We cover how Josh uses terrain and vegetation to his advantage with spot & stalk tactics for big whitetails, how he meticulously glasses cover to find deer before they see him, how he reads a deers body language to determine what his next move should be, how woodsmanship is an irreplaceable ingredient in su...

Carl Brown hunts some of the thickest (and flattest) land out of all the guests we have had on. In his area all the land is extremely thick, with no cover of good bedding, good food and water all close to one another. We dive deep into how Carl locates good spots, then goes about finding concentrations of deer activity with maps, finds hard pinch points, and other "patterns" in an area tha...

This week we dive deep with Andrew's mentor, Bennie George on a wide variety of topics focused on making you a well rounded hunter and woodsman. Subjects range from the unorthodox tactics Bennie has used to kill bucks his whole life, how hunting things besides deer is vital to your growth as a hunter, finding a good spot to deer hunt using squirrels, spending enough time in the woods to get th...

Bennett specializes on killing the bucks hiding right where you least expect them. Today we dive deep on the signs he looks for to track down a nice buck who's hiding in plain sight, determine how he knows when a buck is near, how he closes in, the kinds of areas he keys on to get a shot at these bucks, how he uses scents to his advantage and much more! Our Sponsors: * Check out Outdoorsy and...

This is the time of year to get your gear dialed - so we dive into saddle hunting setups, tree climbing methods, tree stands, pack systems, hunting boots, platforms, and some great digital deer scouting tools for the public land/lease hunter. We also give some tried & true tips on finding great deals on hunting gear.  Our Sponsors: * Check out Outdoorsy and use my code OUTDOORSMEN for a great...

Ben Allen says he owes a lot of his public land whitetail hunting success in Louisiana, Texas, and Missouri to his ability to go the extra mile and find the areas other hunters cant, or won't access. We discuss his methods for getting away from other hunters, even on places with a high amount of roads, and how finding these pockets means seeing more mature bucks on their feet in daylight hours...

Johnathan Moreland has killed a lot of BIG riverbttom bucks in southern Arkansas on public ground, and he has done it with traditional archery equipment. On this episode we dive deep into Johnathans tactics and find out how he gets close enough to consistently take deer with a trad bow in wide open river bottom hardwoods. Subjects include finding funnels in a place that seemingly has none, high-od...

Don Cicero has laid down many, many mature bucks with a bow on public lands across Alabama since the late 1980s. We had him on to do a deep dive on his thoughts on what an overlooked spot is, how to read sign, bump-and-dump hunting with his dad when he was young, tracking deer through the woods, sneaking up on bedded bucks, some unique thoughts on early season hunting, hunting "the spot in the...

Kevin Murphy is known to many as "the worlds greatest small game hunter"! On a recent camping trip with him we recorded this podcast with, introducing "Small Game Nation", which will be an online resource dedicated to all things small game! We are excited about what Kevin has going on and you can hear all about it here. Other subjects include Jacob accidentally shooting some pet ra...

On todays episode we talk about taking the latest deer hunting and scouting tactics shared by Troy & Josh on our last two episodes and applying them where we hunt. Subjects include redefining what an isolated spot is, learning how bucks move across a landscape (big picture), scouting "low-light" areas, our results with vanilla extract for trail cameras, finding a bucks skull who we had...

Some people believe hunting scrapes is unproductive, but Troy Pottenger says he owes his 20+ OLD whitetail bucks to his extreme scrape/mock scrape hunting tactics. Today we do a deep dive with Troy on finding community scrapes, locating 5+ y/o deer, knowing when you can kill those deer, finding bedding & adjacent scrapes based on cover/terrain, making realistic mock scrape, why some guys don&#...

Find this seasons buck NOW! Whether you are trying to target a specific buck, or put yourself into a target rich environment, scouting is everything. Listener-favorite Josh Driver came back on the show to discuss how to find a large buck to target based on finding buck core areas, how to begin getting consistent pictures of that buck, how to predict changes in his pattern, trail cam tricks to get...

Land Smathers has a history of putting down some great bucks in the swamps of Mississippi & today we pick his brain on water access, using hunting pressure, finding the cover and food deer are using, finding the right buck sign to hunt and how Land successfully hunts off the ground rather than in a saddle or stand in his area.  Our Sponsors: * Check out Outdoorsy and use my code OUTDOORSMEN fo...

Live from Bows & Brews! We sat down and recorded with a bunch of folks who came out to our first bows & brews event and talked about our scouting workshop & gear demos! Subjects include finding big woods beds, finding "thickets" in area with basically no thickets, understanding how terrain effects deer behavior, everyones favorite saddle from the gear demo, the tactics that peo...

Bow hunting OLD whitetail bucks - Nathan Killen has a history of taking old bucks (5+ yrs old) on the public lands of Virginia and West VA. We dive deep into hunting these mountains covering subjects such as hunting “off the bench”, how old bucks don’t bed and travel like other deer, accessing and hunting mountain laurel and rhododendron thickets, faint vs heavy trails, identifying the RIGHT buck...

Today on the show we discuss how to not waste your time scouting un-useful things in the summer months. The idea is to spend time scouting certain features such as the right kind of vegetation, terrain features with the right type of vegetation around them, access, glassing/camera locations and more. We dive into map scouting, what kind of vegetation to look for, how to determine if vegetation wil...

Thomas Nix & Zach Stokes are buddies who both have been able to haul some nice bucks from South Carolina public land. Today we got them on to talk about hunting deep vs staying near the truck & how each of those tactics work the applied correctly, buck bedding in the south, pine thickets, knowing what sign to ignore, summer scouting and more. We also announce a new giveaway where you can w...

DEER HUNTING content starts this week on the podcast! We jump into talking about planning our Alabama deer season by discussing what kinds of cover we will be scouting, locating cover on a map, knowing if cover you find now will be good in the future, biggest takeaways from last season, the "wolf pack" mentality, and a recent scouting trip! We also go In depth talking about our Wyoming hun...

Hunting late season turkeys can be a serious challenge, so we talked to Shane Turpen of Georgia on hunting the last weeks of April and on up into May. Subjects discussed include what the gobblers are doing this time of year, if there are any calls to avoid this time of year, trying to find birds that will cooperate, finding birds in the heat and more! Our Sponsors: * Check out Outdoorsy and use my...