Hunters should avoid relying on trail camera intel for live hunting because by the time a buck appears on a camera, he has already moved on.

“Do not sit there and like hunt based off of camera intel because if you have a buck on camera you already missed him. He's gone.”

When hunting during the rut, hunters should analyze the terrain to determine how deer use the wind for security rather than just focusing on wind direction to avoid detection.

“I One thing that lulls me to sleep when I'm hunting private ground is I look at the wind to not get busted by deer rather than looking at the wind to understand how a deer is going to use that wind.”

Planting fall food plots too early leads to overly mature, tall vegetation that is less palatable and less attractive to deer during the season.

“in my opinion where I'm at that's too early because what'll happen is that that product will get too tall and it'll be less palatable to the deer. it'll be pretty mature by the time season rolls around.”

Landowners often fail to attract deer because they overcomplicate their management plans with too many techniques, gimmicks, and excessive property intrusion.

“we're in there way too much. We're putting intrusion on there. we're hunting that we're trying to over complicate with every gimmick, every technique to make it and I think at at some point the hunting community really over complicates things.”

He advises hunters to start their search at areas of congregation and follow the sign back toward bedding areas, looking specifically for scrapes near the bed.

“start at the area of congregation. We're going to find a little bit of sign. We're start following it back to the areas that we want to go or to towards that direction of of bedding. We're going to start running within about 150 less yards or less.”

The most effective late-season tactic involves hunting over food sources like food plots to observe deer as they feed during cold weather.

“I'm a late season hunter. I want I just want to camp out in a redneck or whatever and just watch him. I mean, that's the funnest time of the year for me, especially in that time of the year.”

Setting tree stands at very high elevations helps hunters remain undetected by mature bucks on public land.

“I think that the only way that a buck is going to reach maturity on public land is if he goes against the grain or against the trends.”