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Tips To Attract And Hold Deer On Your Property – Episode #343
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This week Grant and Adam head east to work a hidden gem in the whitetails’ range. It’s a 90 acre parcel with lots of neighbors! Grant shares tips and ideas that will help this landowner attract and hold deer on his property.
Even the smallest of predators can cause serious trouble in the deer woods. Watch and learn how ticks can stress, infect, and even kill deer.
Plus, we will show you what has gotten us even more ready for deer season!
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Better watch your back around here! Watch as Adam gets ZAPPED!
New Weekly Video Blog: Better Fruit Trees, Better Hunting
This week Adam discusses how to make your deer seasons fruitful! Learn more about successful tree plots here!
Tip of the Week:
Ensure your HotZone fence works, fuel up a weed eater and trim back the soybeans under the fence!
Antlers In The Making – Episode #342
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What’s eating our food plots to the ground? This week we set out to take a few groundhogs wreaking havoc on our food plots. As a bonus, our trip to the Redneck Blind produces great encounters with some developing antlers. We put our aging deer on the hoof skills to the test. Let’s see how well you can do!
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Watch this behind the scenes look at tuning in the Prime Rize. I think Adam is just a little excited for bow season, don’t you?
New Weekly Video Blog: How To Create Cover For Wildlife
This week it’s all about creating cover! Matt talks about how prescribed fire creates ideal habitat for critters of many shapes and sizes.
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Did you miss a deer last season? Now is the time to practice! Dial in the Nikon scope and start sending a few well tuned rounds down range.
The Ultimate Food Plot Transformation – Episode #341
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This week we’ve rolled up the sleeves and gotten to work transforming our largest food plot! What was once a fragmented plot has now become an extremely huntable location. Watch to see how we strategically improve this food plot for better deer hunting this fall.
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Deer behavior is a fascinating thing! Watch as the Reconyx caught these does grooming one another in a clover plot!
New Weekly Video Blog: Creating Native Food Plots
This is why we use prescribed fire in our timber! Watch as Matt discusses the benefits of creating a native food plot with fire.
Tip of the Week:
The trees are completely leafed out, that means it’s time to trim! Get into your Summit stands and prepare your shooting lanes for bow season!
“Messy Food Plots”: Bigger Antlers, Better Hunting – Episode #340
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This week we share a couple of our strategies for protecting and improving our food plots. First up: a tip on how “messy plots” are designed to protect food plot soil. Better soil means better food plot crops, bigger antlers, and healthier does! Plus, we’re investing the time now to make a bow hunting hot spot for the late season. Watch this video to see this and more!
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Miss deer season too? Fight the urge with this clip of a buck working over a scrape!
Tip of the Week:
Groundhog watch! Be on the lookout! Groundhogs can cause serious damage to your plots!
New Weekly Video Blog: Better Soil Equals Healthier Deer
Want to grow healthier deer and bigger antlers? Watch Matt explain how to start from the “ground up!”
Keys To Success For Small Food Plots – Episode #339
New Video: Small Food Plot Secrets
It’s time to plant! Watch and learn our techniques for planting small, hidey-hole food plots. These methods will make bow season much more successful! Small food plots make great stand locations and are an easy tool hunters can create and use.
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Splish, Splash – I’m taking a bath! Check out this hen turkey cleaning herself in the dirt!
Tip of the Week:
Don’t get fooled! Learn how much deer are browsing your plots. Be smart and place a utilization cage to monitor food plot browse and success.
New Weekly Video Blog: Time For Archery!
It’s prime time to start shooting bows: Deer season is just a few months away so the preparation begins now! Get your summer time archery practice sessions started right. The last thing you want to do is form bad habits. I recommend practicing from a distance you feel very comfortable with. Starting off here will allow you to focus on your pre shot routine, step by step. This type of focus minimizes the chance of bad habits forming. As you continue with this method of practice, you will build muscle memory. Both your brain and your muscle need to go through the motions time and time again to ensure lethal shots are executed during bow season…
Is Your Turkey Season Over? We’ve Got Late Season Long Beard Action! – Episode #338
There’s more turkey hunting action in our newest video! Watch it today to see how the final hunts come together.
Tip of the Week: Trophy Rock is great for does too! It’s a stressful time. Give them the mineral they need!
This Week’s Blog: Matt shares a few tips on how to keep tabs on bucks during the summer.
Clips Page: Check out this clip! Throwing it back to 2013 with an awesome Kentucky gobbler hunt!
Bam! Busting Beards – Episode #337
Adam and Pro Staff member Seth Harker tag some great long beards right off the roost! Watch how they convince these gobblers to close the distance at daybreak.
A Kansas opening day tom gets a dose of the Long Beard XR. Watch Jerry and Aaron work together to make the hunt a success after this bird throws them a curve ball!
Tip of the week: It’s the perfect time to start a Trophy Rock mineral site! This will be a great spot to track antler growth during the coming months.
This week’s blog: Click to read more on food plot strategies and the long term benefits of the Broadside blend.
Clips page: Need some more turkey hunting tips? Click here to see Heath and Lindsey Martin share some sure fire turkey tactics!
Turkey Hunting Tricks – Episode #336
Grant and Adam set out to bag an Ozark ridge runner during opening week. Watch them reach deep into the bag of tricks to pull this one off!
Team Martin doubles again! The Arkansas opener was full of gobbles, fights, and flying lead. Watch the hunt unfold with some twists along the way.
Tip of the week: Don’t forget to inoculate your soybeans. Add before planting! Better soybeans, more protein – bigger, healthier deer!
This week’s blog: Looking for some late season turkey tips? Click here for tips to hunt turkeys in full foliage.
Clips page: Grant shares management tips with a group of Alabama deer hunters in this 6 minute video clip. Watch by clicking here.
2 Turkeys – Episode #335
In our newest video Grant and Adam team up to tag a late afternoon long beard in Kentucky. Then check out Lindsey Martin’s Kansas hunt. She doesn’t waste any time letting the Winchester do the talking on a strutting tom in the timber.
See how unproductive pine stands can be converted into valuable timber full of native browse. This tough task requires a one-two punch.
This Week’s Blog: Tips to help you fill turkey tags even with limited vacation days.
Tip of the Week:
Windy in the turkey woods? Use a loud call to carry the sound. A good box call is the solution.
Watch Young Guns: Turkey Hunting Action – Episode #334
Watch this episode as the young guns have the Winchesters in hand! Success, struggles, and smiles during this turkey hunting action.
Rae takes advantage of our pre-season scouting technique. Watch it pay off within the first half hour of Missouri’s youth season.
Pro Staff members Heath and Lindsey Martin take out a youth hunter in Arkansas. Gracie Pate stays persistent and tags her first tom ever!
Young Trace Harker is set on tagging a longbeard. He hunts hard and has a great encounter. See if his hunt unfolds as planned.
This Week’s Blog: Matt explains how to properly get setup on a gobbler. This will help you tag more toms this turkey season!
Tip of the Week:
When that gobbler hangs up, add some jake yelps to your calling sequence. This may make him jealous enough to close the distance.
