Whitetail Bloodline

On this episode we switch it up and Jon and Tyler take over the hosting roles to talk about Gavin’s Kentucky public land buck he shot 4 days into his rutcation. This was Gavin’s first year hunting public land plus he was doing it out of state in Kentucky. He started scouting this swamp land marsh that is also river bottom and it makes for some unique whitetails. The first mature buck he got on cam...

On this episode I’m joined by team member Jon Landwehr to talk about the Kansas Giant he put down with his Mathew’s v3 during the pre rut in early November!! Cellular cameras were a big aid to Jon killing this 180”+ Giant. We’ve been slacking on the podcast side because we’ve all been busy working and hunting during our rutcation. 3 team Bloodline bucks have hit the ground and more podcast to come...

I’m joined by my good buddy Chris Short once again on this episode and it’s just your good ol BS session with us basically catching up with each other and talking Whitetails. We cover a bunch in this episode about hunting public land and more so hunting public land during the pre rut and rut. Chris has been successful hunting big woods Whitetails his whole life and in the past couple years he’s ma...

On this week of The Weekly Whitetail Report I’m joined by 4 guest that are hunting 4 completely different types of Whitetails. 1st guest is Tyler Wilbur who’s a team member on the Whitetail Bloodline. He’s hunting mountain Whitetails in Pennsylvania which is known for the large numbers of hunters which also brings some of the most pressure in the entire county. Lots of pre rut activity and it’s ge...

I’m joined by Jon “The Kansas King” as my co host and our guest is Iowa Hunter and outdoorsman Orlando Vivone. We talk about the buck he just shot in Iowa that he named “Freak Nasty” and that’s because he was a freak of a non typical whitetail. From having summer history with this buck, having him travel over a mile to two different permission properties, all the way to killing this giant mid west...

On this weekend episode I’m joined by Tim Palmer from Pennsylvania, Austin Stone from Missouri/Kansas, and last but not least Drew from Central Wisconsin. This is the last week of October and bucks are starting to show pre rut activity and are starting to make scrapes and rubs a lot more frequently. Lots of bucks are starting to daylight so this week will probably be the calm before the storm but...

This is our first episode of our new segment (Weekly Whitetail Report) I’m joined by 3 team members on this episode Jon from Kansas, Tyler from Pennsylvania, and Angelo from Illinois. We talk what we’re seeing right now from hunting, driving, and our trail cameras and what we’re expecting the next week of hunting. Scrapes and rubs are starting to pop up and bucks are starting to show up more on ca...

I’m joined on this Episode by Lance Krueger who is a professional wildlife photographer that specializes in Whitetails and Wild Turkeys. We talk about how he got his start in photography and how it lead him to where he is today. Lance is arguably the best Whitetail photographer of all time and after the years of looking at his pictures he’s definitely got my vote. We talk about getting these pictu...

We’re joined on this episode by the one and only Lee Ellis who is one of the founders of Seek One and has popularized “Door Knocking” for permission properties to hunt monster Whitetails on. If you don’t know who he is he’s well known for killing giant bucks in urban hunting zones (especially hunting Atlanta Georgia Suburbs. We get into the absolute giant buck he killed in Nashville on the opening...

Gavin and Dylan are on this episode and it’s the 1 year anniversary of the podcast!! We talk about “The Farm” property and the 3 years of hunting it. We’ve been chasing a buck we named “Drop Tine” for year 3 and we just got him on trail camera hitting one of our mock scrapes in daylight with season opening in 2 days here in indiana!! We get into the lessons we’ve learned hunting this property and...

I’m joined by Tim Palmer who had a life riding bronks and after his retirement he went all in on whitetail hunting and he’s had some great success throughout the last couple years. One of his biggest passions is chasing public land Whitetails on the ground during the rut. Tim goes into what he’s doing and the strategies he’s using to get up close and personal with mature bucks off the ground with...

On this episode Carson Putnam joins us to talk about his giant non-typical buck he killed in 2021 on his family property in late November!! This crazy and unique buck scored a remarkable 269 inches and only had an 8 inch spread!!! Carson might’ve only been 16 but after hearing the story of this buck and how it unfolded, I can tell you there ain’t many 16 year olds like Carson. He was able to keep...

On this Episode I’m joined by Jon and Tyler to talk about our past week and the opening week of deer season for the team. Jon chases early season Kansas Whitetails with his son as they hunt the 10 day youth season. Gavin and Tyler chase out of state public land Whitetails in the river bottoms and swamps of Northern Kentucky. Weather got the best of us on our Kentucky trip with crazy thunderstorms...

On this episode we talk in depth about everything mock scrapes from why we make them to the whitetail deer scents we add to them to make them that much better. We cover a whole lot about scrapes, community scrapes, where to put these scrapes, the differ scents we add to them for the different parts of the year and everything in between. We also talk about naming bucks and having years of history w...

Gavin and Jon are joined by the owner of GB feeds Greg Bieker who just opened his small batch, specialty deer feed this year but he has been developing it for many years. Jon has been using these feeds for a couple months now and he is 100% a believer in it!! Greg goes into the ins and outs of GB Feeds from when and how he got the idea to start his own feed company but also why his feed is differe...

Gavin is joined by Ben Harrison and DA of the Bowhunting League!! They talk about their FREE bowhunting hunting contest that just happens to be the #1 in the country and it also has over $50,000 in amazing prizes!! These boys talk about how they started the Bowhunting League in 2015 and how far it has come and what’s new for 2022. This is definitely a contest and even better a group that want to b...

On this episode it’s a good ol BS session with Team members Gavin, Jon, and the newest guy on the crew Tyler!! We talk about being jacked up for the season, tree stand placement, mock scrapes, monster bucks, trail cameras, and many other topics in this episode. We’re extremely fired up for season and it’s only weeks away now, so time to get dialed in and get ready for the September opener!!

Gavin and Jon are joined on this episode by the one and only Jared Mills who’s a part of Midwest Whitetails, which is one of our teams favorite shows and guy in the entire industry so you can only imagine are fired up we were to record this episode. It was basically just a BS session with one of the best minds in the whitetail game, we talk about hunting for yourself and not hunting or caring abou...

I’m joined on this episode by Camryn and Jeremy Davidson. They’re from Kentucky and this more of a bs session about how they got into hunting and different hunting stories, like our first deer. We talk what it’s like for Camryn to be a women in the industry and all the ups and downs that come along with it. It was awesome talking with these two over a podcast and looking foreword to seeing how the...

Gavin and Jon are joined by Tyler Wilbur from Drawback Outdoors. This episode is a light hearted BS session with a topic not in sight and we just go where the conversation takes us. Lots of laughs and funny stories on this episode and we had a great time cutting up and talking with Tyler!! We still talk a lot about Whitetails, our fasting approaching out of state hunt in Kentucky that will be our...

Gavin and Jon are joined on this episode by guest Brenden Graff. He was born and raised hunting Missouri Whitetails and we dive into mock scrapes and community scrapes. We go into the locations we’re putting them in, the scents we are adding to them to make them seem as realistic as possible, and also the different things you can do to creat these mock scrapes. We talk about why the deer use mock...

Gavin and Jon are joined by guest Chase Turner who hunts small parcel Whitetails in the suburbs of Atlanta Georgia!! He talks about his approach to getting door knocking permission properties to get after these back yard bucks!! There is a lot of ups and downs that come along with hunting these type of Whitetails and Chase goes over them. From seeing distance of big city Atlanta Chris is often sit...

On this episode Gavin and Jon talk with Matt Tagget, one of the founders of REK Breoadheads “The Final Cut”. We talk about how the Michigan USA made company got its start and the ins and outs of what they’re doing different compared to other broadhead companies in the industry. They just dropped their newest REK Broadhead FX4. “Take the hardest hitting, best flying, fixed blade of 2022 for a test...

On this episode team member Jon Landwehr joins me to talk about the 1st 200+ inch buck he shot in 2020 “Titan”. Jon had at least two years of history with this buck and from getting the first trail camera picture of this buck, to Jon wrapping his hands around this mature Kansas GIANT of a whitetail, we cover it all in this episode and much more!! Jon learned from this buck that cellular trail came...

On this episode Alex Skelly who’s part of Whitetail Addictions l joins and talks about his public land success and the things he does to get on these public land mature bucks. Alex grew up in a die hard whitetail hunting family and by the time he was 12 and able to hunt he was already a die hard himself, killing a great buck his first year. We dive into E-Scouting public land and the features and...