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Underground Hunters

Podcasts are great, but I'll throw this out there.

Find the local outdoor magazine in your area. Start keeping up with and paying attention to names. There's a fella who lives about 15 minutes away from me who has never written an article, but he's always quoted by one of the long time writers whenever they write their bits on hunting the delta. He has killed a LOT of deer down here over the past 30 years or so.

I was able to get the cell # of the writer. Working on getting a meeting with the killer. My experience is I'm much more interested in the viewpoint of somebody who hunts similar terrain to me, even if they lack notoriety.

For anyone hunting the southern swamps. @WHW has really helped me to get on good feed trees, and Glenn Solomon is The Man when it comes to getting on public land pigs.
 
IF you want to learn to consistently kill deer, read and listen to everything you can find from @WHW. You can take Warren's approach anywhere in the country, private ground or public and consistently kill deer. If you want to learn how to kill big deer consistently, that's going to be a different ball game all together and takes a different approach. When I say big deer, keep that statement in perspective too, what is a big deer in one spot will different than what a big deer is in another and those spots might not be 2 miles apart. Rather than thinking, "I want to learn how to kill big deer" set a goal to learn how to kill mature deer. Then if you still want to kill big deer, go hunt where big deer live and kill a mature one. A 5yo in Iowa generally speaking probably has a better chance to be real big than our avg 5 yo here.

Something that I think helps, or at least I think it has made me a better hunter is to go hunt new ground. Study the aerial and topo maps and break a property down, then go scout it at a fast pace making note of of how things look and what you find at the locations you marked during online scouting. Dont scout the crap out of it over and over. Then go hunt the spots where online scouting and boots scouting both confirm are spots likely to produce. Dont make it more complicated than it is. Food, water, the rut, cover and pressure, thats the when, why and where of most deer movement. Where are the spots that allow me to constrict or concentrate that movement. Hunt those spots on favorable winds.
 
Dan Infalt and his crew, John Eberhart, DIY Sportsman, The Hunting Public, Greg Litzinger (definitely an underground ), Sean’s Outdoor Adventures, pretty much any successful hunter that consistently gets into good deer in a PRESSURED state.

The way I look at it is if you learn and listen to anyone that is consistently either killing loads of deer or at least getting good opportunities in PRESSURED states, you will learn a lot.
 
My 3 favorite in no particular order are Southern Ground, Chasing Tails Outdoors and Southern Outdoorsmen. All three focus on hunting the southeast but will talk to folks from around the country as well. Most of their discussions include normal guys that have put together tactics that work well on public lands. I also enjoy Truth from the Stand, DIY Sportsman and Nine Finger Chronicles but they're my second tier.
 
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