The Southern Outdoorsmen Hunting Podcast

Asher Kight found a mature buck in his bed in late summer, filmed him from 20 yards, then set up 184 yards away and killed him early season. We get into how Asher finds and targets individual mature bucks in the Arkansas mountains, why he scouts far more than he hunts, and how he plans to kill a target buck in four sits or less.
In this episode:

- Going from a "brown is down" deer lease to targeting mature bucks

- Why dog-hunted ground can hold more big deer than you think

- Pine beetle kills and why they make perfect buck bedding

- Where mountain bucks bed: ridge points, finger knobs, and thermal hubs

- North face vs. south face bedding through the season

- Reading big sign: licking branches, tall rubs, and why low scrapes are night sign

- Hunting from the bottom up and waiting on the thermals

- The cane thicket buck and the mock scrape set to blow scent into his bed

- Homebody bucks vs. nomadic bucks, and how to tell which one you're after

- Reading nighttime trail camera photos and moving cameras closer

- Why bumping a buck isn't the end of the world if he doesn't smell you

- Giving the deer the wind and still beating his nose

- Why big bucks hook downwind of scrapes instead of standing in them

- Tracking doe groups to stay on a buck through the rut

- Early season browse, oaks, privet, and late season food in the mountains

- What "killing sign" looks like, and why your first sit is your best sit

- Rechecking spots midday on out-of-state hunts

- Why squirrels, turkeys, and bears make you a better deer hunter

- Learning from hunters who have the wall to back it up

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In this listener Q&A, we get into whether your wind actually pushes a buck out of his bed, or whether it's the walking in that does it. Then we run through your questions, hot takes, and hot tips as Alabama's opener closes in.

In this episode:

- Bucks bedding off WMA roads on gun days, and why your wind may not move them out of a thicket
- Bumped a buck from the same thicket two years running: is he really bedding there?
- Short on time in thick north Louisiana woods: finding bedding on onX, hunting sign over cameras, and why a saddle helps
- How to hunt a 70-acre cutover that's thick with hard access
- Making the most of five acres surrounded by ag
- Where the big 8 goes when his bachelor group shows up without him
- This year's mast: what a "loaded" tree looks like, and why lone white oaks may not pull deer
- HOT TAKE: no mobile setup beats a pre-hung set with a perfect access route
- HOT TAKE: slip hunters ruin more stand hunts than they kill bucks
- Hot tips: cup your ears, terry cloth for beggar lice, a treble hook for dropped gear, and talk to the old-timer at the gate
- Acorn field reports from Georgia, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania
- HOT TAKE: fewer gun weekends on Alabama WMAs
- Keeping deer meat out of ice water, and what actually makes venison gamey
- New alloy-case ammo and the cartridges it could help most
- Why every hunter should take a Stop the Bleed class
- Early scrapes and licking branches showing up well before the Alabama rut

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Dr. Bob Sheppard spent 23 years building a database of more than 3 million data points on what actually gets deer moving in daylight. We get into what the data says about the moon, the wind, cold fronts, and the rut, plus how he was hunting from a saddle back in the late '70s.

In this episode:

- How 23 years of hunter logs turned into 3 million data points
- What the data showed about the moon, and why the first two years fooled him
- The three variables that matter most: temperature, wind, and cloud cover
- Why deer movement climbs with wind speed instead of dropping off
- Where barometric pressure fits, and why it can't be separated from temperature
- Why the temperature change matters more than the temperature itself
- The day after the front, and why a northwest wind beats a northeast wind
- How much the rut really improves your odds
- Why he hunts a spot once, and how little it takes to leave scent behind
- Finding bottlenecks and setting up for morning hunts
- How to hunt thick clear-cuts
- Building one of the first saddle setups, and the business card that made him sell every tree stand he owned
- Teaching bowhunters with ketchup-bottle blood trails

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In this listener Q&A, we get into why the most worn-down trail on the hillside might only see one doe a week, and how to figure out which trails are actually worth hunting. Then we run through your questions and hot takes as bow seasons open across the Southeast.

In this episode:

- Why heavy, carved-in trails can fool you, and why you should follow them until they meet other trails
- The great moon debate: phase vs. position, selection bias, and why weather still wins
- Inside corners and field-edge pinch points (plus a listener who killed one in a spot we found map scouting)
- How to know which direction deer should be coming from, morning vs. evening, in Southern pine woods
- Can thermals swirl when there's no wind?
- What a thermal hub actually is, and the case for ridgetop hubs
- How to pick a tree when trails come from every direction
- How high to hang for bow vs. gun, and hunting low in big cedars
- Scanning with binos every 10–15 minutes, and the one time you shouldn't
- Why track shape tells you more about a deer's age than track size
- Reading feed trees: why beds underneath can make it an evening-only spot
- Trusting your gut on stand selection

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Phillip Robison (AKA Coyote Rob) is 81 years old and has been chasing whitetails in Alabama's Black Belt since deer first came back to the area in the 1960s. Long before scent control came in a bottle, he was spraying his hunting jacket with deer urine and keeping it in the deep freeze. One morning, an eight-point walked up and blew on the back of his neck.

In this episode:

- The scent routine he's used for 50 years, and why he believes scent matters more than camo
- The piece of string on his gun barrel that keeps him in the wind
- How he learned to stalk ridge points, pine thickets, and woodlots without blowing deer out
- What to look for when slip hunting: an ear, a hoof, a tail twitch, not the whole deer
- Why 10 to 2 on a windy day is his favorite window to ease through the woods
- What to do the moment you bump a deer, and why you should sit your butt down
- Why rutting bucks cover miles, and why sitting on trail camera intel can waste your time
- How he calls deer from the ground with a caller and scent setup at 81 years old
- Growing up hunting turkeys and squirrels in Clarke County when there were almost no deer
- Why squirrel hunting still builds better deer hunters
- A few of his best coyote-calling stories

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