Category: Eblast Archives

We’ve got footage that shows our Hot Zone fence in action. The fence is only 2 feet high yet it keeps the deer from hammering important portions of food plots when the beans are young! We have the Reconyx footage that shows how. Watch it here!

Ever test buck grunt calls? We grabbed a boxful of old and experimental calls and took them to the field. It’s all about getting your tools ready for the approaching deer season.

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Reduce tick bites: Permethrin, applied appropriately to clothing, does a great job of keeping ticks off.

It’s been raining at The Proving Grounds. Throughout the US heavy rains have washed-out roads and bridges causing very serious damage. These rains have also damaged much of the agricultural landscape. Do you want to protect the hard work and money in your food plots? Watch now to learn how you can stormproof your food plots!

It’s always exciting to see a new buck in the food plots. Now we need your help to name this buck!

INDEPENDENCE DAY

July 4th, 1776 is the birth of our American independence. Our freedoms come from God. May God bless everyone who defends those freedoms.

Could this be the ultimate soybean for small food plots? We’re testing a unique type of soybean. Grant shares what it is and the early results.

C’mon, admit it, you like seeing fawns. We filmed twin fawns as they learn what crazy jake turkeys are all about. These jakes are nuts!

Here’s something you don’t like seeing – invasive species growing on your hunting grounds. Adam and Grant share their technique to efficiently kill multiflora rose.

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Now is a great time to add a food plot protection fence around portions of hunting food plots. Come hunting season you’ll have the best food in the neighborhood.

Happening now: young soybean food plots are a great place to film early June velvet. We got the cameras out and were not disappointed. A summer project for deer season: sweet! We just created a HotZone harvest area. This hot spot is designed to bring deer into bow range this fall. We’ll show you how we did it.

Fire last season  – today’s amazing results!
Watch this episode as we return to the scene of last season’s prescribed fire. It’s amazing. The fire released a stunning amount of plant diversity providing deer and turkey a very large variety of food and bedding throughout the growing season. A key addition to nearby food plots! Fire is a big effort, that can give you a big return!

Oh no! Groundhogs are all over our soybeans! Where’s the Winchester? It’s time for some summer hunting!

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Hungry fawns are on the ground. Help does get all the trace minerals they need. We use all natural Trophy Rock; helping does raise healthy fawns. PS: Add a trail camera too!

Deadly Combination: Fruit Trees & Soybeans

We started a tree plot last season. Now we’re planting a soybean plot among these young trees. It’s the early stages of a double trouble food plot for hunting. Twice the attraction will make a killer hunting location. We have tips to get you started.

Ever shoot a bow with your eyes closed? You might wanna try it. Grant shows you how to shoot blind bale style to get your trigger release on automatic when that buck comes in range.

Now is a great time to start aging deer on your property. Our Reconyx cameras are working full time. This week Grant invites you to age a deer. It’s a buck challenge for you!

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Fawns are fun to see. You might not see mom, but she’s close. Increase the fawns chances of survival by leaving it and the area undisturbed!

Clover is a great addition to your food plots. It grows early and handles heavy browse pressure. In this episode, Grant shares a great technique to establish and keep a great stand of clover. Plus, forage soybeans are so loved by deer that their growth can be limited in small plots. Watch this GrowingDeer.tv episode as Grant explains an exciting technique to improve soybean production in small plots!

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Start your stand of clover with forage wheat. Yep, planting wheat, at the same time as clover will protect young clover from browse and harsh weather. Watch this episode to learn more.

It’s growing season at The Proving Grounds! We’ve got tips to make your small clover plot a killer spot. Next, we have ideas for getting the most out of your soybean plots.

Want some hunting action? Heath and Lindsey share 2 gobbler kills in 2 states. Look out! School of the Ozarks students have descended on The Proving Grounds. Watch Grant as he challenges these freshman to think!

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Clover is great for very small plots.
Fertilize to make it last and taste better.
We add Antler Dirt to feed our clover and make it a place deer want to be!

Erosion control means better soil. Better soil means larger deer. Grant’s got easy tips for saving and building valuable top soil!

Here we go! Chase and Seth are running and gunning. With heavy rains about to hit, they’re set up on a hot gobbler, but this bird better hurry or our boys will be wet and out of luck! Then Seth goes solo hunting, where he sets up decoys in the perfect spot. Wow! It’s a full strut hammering.

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Want better deer?
Keep your valuable top soil.
Avoid erosion by always having
a crop in the field and not disturbing the soil!

This week Grant and Adam take the Redneck Blind sweepstakes winner turkey hunting. They get in a pile of turkeys! Then Adam and Seth team up and call in a big ‘ol gobbler. Not to be outdone, it’s Raleigh Woods turn behind the Winchester. It’s a father daughter turkey hunt. Watch Grant and Raleigh scramble to kill a big tom. It’s fast action as Raleigh locks on and pulls that trigger!

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Need to locate ’em?
Try high pitched and loud.
Owl hoots & coyote calls work great.

More birds down! What a great tradition, watch 84 year old “Pops” put the hammer down on dinner! Then Lindsey Martin takes out a Kansas bully bird! Plus, wow! Watch a gobbler terrorize a Montana hen decoy…then pay the price.

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Taking Grandpa hunting?

A large blind makes the hunt more enjoyable for him!