Love it, that's all I do. No cameras, find trails. Just spend time in woods, go hike. Learn land nav, with compass and pace count, use a gps as a back up
Me too! I’ve had an awful season in terms of harvest. Haven’t taken one yet, but I’ve seen two and shot at one, and this is my first year using crossbow.
It’s overwhelming, all this new tech and studies about deer patterns, vision, wind scent, camo, thermals, rut, moon, temp … i just decided to go in the woods and enjoy the opportunity, and allow myself to make mistakes and learn from them.
Over the last few years I have used SD card cameras in the woods and treated them as gathering historical data for future hunts in the area rather than influencing my hunts for that moment. Last year, I tried cell cameras at my stand sites and was the most unhappy I have ever been deer hunting. I wouldn't go out if I wasn't seeing a target buck for a few days or I would be in one stand and get an alert where I'd see him at another stand and second guess myself while I was hunting. I spent very little time with boots on the ground exploring and gathering data in person. In the past, I had been reading books written by the Wenzel brothers and took that knowledge into the woods scouting in and out of season frequently to find quality spots. I'm definitely no big name trophy hunter but I killed 4 bucks in 5 years over 120" with one at 141" that way and was much happier overall. This year, I just used the cell cameras on the perimeter of the property for security. Its October 29 and the boys are moving and I'm exited to see what might come through my funnel stands and give me an opportunity.
💯 Alot of people are in it for all the wrong reasons these day..Leave those cell cameras at home and get out there and scout and hunt like the old days. A 130 that you actually hunted without bait feels better than a 180 that you killed over a corn pile.
I'm a late beginner and also like to help friends who are new to hunting. Very fortunate to have an amazing group of friends hunt every year in a remote area of a very beautiful northern state forest. A couple of years ago it was a friend's first time hunting, ever. He didn't even have camo, wore a skiing suit to stay warm. Borrowed a friend's rifle. Shot a buck on his very first day, just sitting on a hill in the woods. He seems to get a deer at every hunt, gets ducks every time we go for waterfowl. I've only ever harvested one deer, back at home, even though I've been going a few years. But every time I'm in the woods, especially in a real forest, it's fun, no matter the outcome. I drive almost a thousand miles one way for that, and pay almost two hundred bucks in nonresident tags for the experience. Oh, and we tend to all bring back meat because we share everything. I can't help being a gear geek, it's just in my nature, however mostly in guns. I definitely always tend towards low-tech in almost everything else, especially the process itself. I'll look at a map at home, just to figure out the spots I want to try, but in the woods I want to look around, smell the air, listen to the sounds and absorb it all. Slow down. Get away from gadgetry. Being freshly outfitted from a sportsman warehouse makes you look conspicuous. An old man in worn clothes with his dad's Marlin 336, such as I met in those northern woods - you can't buy that setup, nor would you want to. You have to live it. Maybe I will some day.
I learn my deer woods during Spring Gobbler. Late morning 1030 walking logging roads and creek bottoms. The sign and tracks are there. Also late season Flintlock after Christmas here in Pennsylvania tells the story. Nothing beats boots on the ground.
I’m 68, I walk slow, I have heart issues so I don’t go very far, very fast… but I’m able to walk um up. I hunt public land almost exclusively. I think I see them 1st or sooner, and I don’t make a lot of noise. Last year I went back to a long bow. I guess they don’t see me as much of a threat, until…
We’ve had a deer camp in our family since 1977. When I first started going there as a new hunter in 2005, there wasn’t a rack on the wall over 120”. Since then, we’ve added more than 20 bucks over 120 to the wall, including a dozen over 140. I myself have 8 or 9 of them. There were more deer back in the day, but there are certainly much better buck now, and it’s still incredibly easy to harvest a doe.
That I know of my Dad didn't really worry about wind direction. I have no clue how many quality bucks he killed in our area of north Mississippi from 125" to around 180"
I’ve got a 139, 148 and a 167 on my wall and I never hunted any of them with cameras. I hunt from the ground and love to go sit in the woods. Never killed one looking at my phone. I’m hunting a good area this year and don’t have any idea what’s there. Can’t wait to find out!! I’ll tell you though it’s hard to let that three year old 120 walk when you don’t have his daddy on camera but I’ve finally came around to it. To each his own.
Finally a man have the courage to speak the truth..lazy people want to make it easy using all kind of devices.other are just marketing.have to be done natural like back in the old days .like Grandpas do .
Why were our grandpa's so successful? ... lower total population, means less people hunting, which means less deer being killed. Less people hunting back then means less hunting pressure. More people hunting now means more hunting pressure. Now generations of deer have learn human hunting tactics, so they adapt and evolve, becoming harder to hunt. The land was less developed back then, so the deer didn't feel pressure on all sides. I hunt large area of public land in ontario, Canada and from my family's hunt camp experience there are way more hunters now than back in the day, and recently a public atv trail went through the area and hunting has gotten way harder since that trail. When I granddad got our family hunt camp, there was one road in and big buck everywhere, now there are roads and trails to every lake, pond, lookout, etc., and hunters everywhere accessing everywhere on atvs. Just my opinion.
These are just excuses. Our grandparents also had 1/4 of the deer in the woods to hunt. The deer population is massive compared to then. They would sit for days and not even see a deer.
Papa made me a firm believer in beer and cigarettes! Papa’s smoke called them inn and the beer cans made use a trail back to the truck. The original GPS!
Let's be careful not to attack other hunters, esp in public forums where (a) anti-hunters can use our words against us and (b) such that we facilitate ambivalent non-hunters become anti-hunters.
My Grandpa was a better hunter because he could spend most every day in the woods. Without the burden of federal regulations and limitations.. If he were around today he would be forced to spend most of his time in the $hity doing a day job he can't stand just to give half of it to the federal government.
The hunting industry is designed to make money. I've bought into a lot of the new stuff but it's just for fun. Every big buck I've killed has just been going off that feeling letting the woods guide you and sitting just a little bit longer a little more still.
I believe this to my core and it’s what I went back to. My uncle killed some massive Alabama deer and smoked cigarettes in the stand. Sometimes he would sit on a stump in blue jeans and a long sleeve denim shirt.
There's less public land to hunt now, less deer on the land, more hunters than 50 years ago, and generational genetic behaviors in deer HAVE changed the deer. It's NOT the same when our family hunted. Period.
They didn’t have posted private property everywhere they went and if they did have it people would still let them hunt . Now unless you have money good luck 😂 they didn’t have to deal with that
They were successful with little to no effort because the game populations were higher and habitats were better. Not to mention the amount of hunters were WAY lower, so most the quality deer were not being harvested. The deer have adapted over the decades for increased number of hunters that are out there. I'd love to go back in time 50 years and apply what I know now. Most of us would blow our grand daddy's out of the water. They'd laugh at us, because it would be unnecessary. They didn't have to mess around with all this nuance that we do now.
This dude is a effin breath of fresh air.
that's what i do!! i dont use cameras. i just like to go out and hunt. worst day in the woods is better then the best day at work.
Jordan Jones is spot on! We need more woodsmanship and to just deer hunt!
I'm 66 years old, he is a 💯% right. That is how I've always hunted. God Bless and be safe.
Love it, that's all I do. No cameras, find trails. Just spend time in woods, go hike. Learn land nav, with compass and pace count, use a gps as a back up
I hate cameras except AFTER the kill or catch
This clip literally just snapped me out of it. I was starting to get too crazy overthinking everything. Glad I saw this
Me too! I’ve had an awful season in terms of harvest. Haven’t taken one yet, but I’ve seen two and shot at one, and this is my first year using crossbow.
It’s overwhelming, all this new tech and studies about deer patterns, vision, wind scent, camo, thermals, rut, moon, temp … i just decided to go in the woods and enjoy the opportunity, and allow myself to make mistakes and learn from them.
Over the last few years I have used SD card cameras in the woods and treated them as gathering historical data for future hunts in the area rather than influencing my hunts for that moment. Last year, I tried cell cameras at my stand sites and was the most unhappy I have ever been deer hunting. I wouldn't go out if I wasn't seeing a target buck for a few days or I would be in one stand and get an alert where I'd see him at another stand and second guess myself while I was hunting. I spent very little time with boots on the ground exploring and gathering data in person. In the past, I had been reading books written by the Wenzel brothers and took that knowledge into the woods scouting in and out of season frequently to find quality spots. I'm definitely no big name trophy hunter but I killed 4 bucks in 5 years over 120" with one at 141" that way and was much happier overall. This year, I just used the cell cameras on the perimeter of the property for security. Its October 29 and the boys are moving and I'm exited to see what might come through my funnel stands and give me an opportunity.
💯 Alot of people are in it for all the wrong reasons these day..Leave those cell cameras at home and get out there and scout and hunt like the old days. A 130 that you actually hunted without bait feels better than a 180 that you killed over a corn pile.
Thank you for saying what I've been saying for years!
I'm a late beginner and also like to help friends who are new to hunting. Very fortunate to have an amazing group of friends hunt every year in a remote area of a very beautiful northern state forest. A couple of years ago it was a friend's first time hunting, ever. He didn't even have camo, wore a skiing suit to stay warm. Borrowed a friend's rifle. Shot a buck on his very first day, just sitting on a hill in the woods. He seems to get a deer at every hunt, gets ducks every time we go for waterfowl. I've only ever harvested one deer, back at home, even though I've been going a few years. But every time I'm in the woods, especially in a real forest, it's fun, no matter the outcome. I drive almost a thousand miles one way for that, and pay almost two hundred bucks in nonresident tags for the experience. Oh, and we tend to all bring back meat because we share everything.
I can't help being a gear geek, it's just in my nature, however mostly in guns. I definitely always tend towards low-tech in almost everything else, especially the process itself. I'll look at a map at home, just to figure out the spots I want to try, but in the woods I want to look around, smell the air, listen to the sounds and absorb it all. Slow down. Get away from gadgetry. Being freshly outfitted from a sportsman warehouse makes you look conspicuous. An old man in worn clothes with his dad's Marlin 336, such as I met in those northern woods - you can't buy that setup, nor would you want to. You have to live it. Maybe I will some day.
With that being said scout and walk your area and your all good for the season
I learn my deer woods during Spring Gobbler. Late morning 1030 walking logging roads and creek bottoms. The sign and tracks are there. Also late season Flintlock after Christmas here in Pennsylvania tells the story. Nothing beats boots on the ground.
spot on !! thanks great job !!
I’m 68, I walk slow, I have heart issues so I don’t go very far, very fast… but I’m able to walk um up. I hunt public land almost exclusively. I think I see them 1st or sooner, and I don’t make a lot of noise. Last year I went back to a long bow. I guess they don’t see me as much of a threat, until…
We’ve had a deer camp in our family since 1977. When I first started going there as a new hunter in 2005, there wasn’t a rack on the wall over 120”. Since then, we’ve added more than 20 bucks over 120 to the wall, including a dozen over 140. I myself have 8 or 9 of them. There were more deer back in the day, but there are certainly much better buck now, and it’s still incredibly easy to harvest a doe.
Awesome video
That’s deer hunting!
That I know of my Dad didn't really worry about wind direction. I have no clue how many quality bucks he killed in our area of north Mississippi from 125" to around 180"
Well said
They went deer hunting. ! (Good Stuff)
Where you guys out of? Great GON shirt by the way This is the first clip I've seen of your show. Very nice indeed. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve got a 139, 148 and a 167 on my wall and I never hunted any of them with cameras. I hunt from the ground and love to go sit in the woods. Never killed one looking at my phone. I’m hunting a good area this year and don’t have any idea what’s there. Can’t wait to find out!! I’ll tell you though it’s hard to let that three year old 120 walk when you don’t have his daddy on camera but I’ve finally came around to it. To each his own.
Finally a man have the courage to speak the truth..lazy people want to make it easy using all kind of devices.other are just marketing.have to be done natural like back in the old days .like Grandpas do .
Amen brother 🙏! I don't run trail cam's. I have killed 2 nice 8 point's in the last 4 years. I do things the old way.
Poor folks done learned so much they afraid to just go get em
Same with fishin
My kind of hunter.
100% correct forget the high-tech BS and just go hunting and have fun.
Ive got multiple stands on 3 different properties and I ground hunt more than anything else. 😂 thats when I have the most fun.
Stop worrying about wind ? 💨 lol don’t listen to that folks . Ignore the wind and you’re not going to shoot many deer
Why were our grandpa's so successful? ... lower total population, means less people hunting, which means less deer being killed. Less people hunting back then means less hunting pressure. More people hunting now means more hunting pressure. Now generations of deer have learn human hunting tactics, so they adapt and evolve, becoming harder to hunt. The land was less developed back then, so the deer didn't feel pressure on all sides.
I hunt large area of public land in ontario, Canada and from my family's hunt camp experience there are way more hunters now than back in the day, and recently a public atv trail went through the area and hunting has gotten way harder since that trail. When I granddad got our family hunt camp, there was one road in and big buck everywhere, now there are roads and trails to every lake, pond, lookout, etc., and hunters everywhere accessing everywhere on atvs.
Just my opinion.
These are just excuses. Our grandparents also had 1/4 of the deer in the woods to hunt. The deer population is massive compared to then. They would sit for days and not even see a deer.
Yes🤓.. heard a shout out to Maine..it sucks here lol 😂
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Papa made me a firm believer in beer and cigarettes! Papa’s smoke called them inn and the beer cans made use a trail back to the truck. The original GPS!
Grand dad sat on the ground or on a log and killed his deer
Let's be careful not to attack other hunters, esp in public forums where (a) anti-hunters can use our words against us and (b) such that we facilitate ambivalent non-hunters become anti-hunters.
My Grandpa was a better hunter because he could spend most every day in the woods. Without the burden of federal regulations and limitations..
If he were around today he would be forced to spend most of his time in the $hity doing a day job he can't stand just to give half of it to the federal government.
More logging less homes built more acres of good timber cuts less predators. But yes i do agree they also went deer hunting well said guys
Its because he was STARVING
Tree diapers! LOL!
The hunting industry is designed to make money. I've bought into a lot of the new stuff but it's just for fun. Every big buck I've killed has just been going off that feeling letting the woods guide you and sitting just a little bit longer a little more still.
Bingo!
I believe this to my core and it’s what I went back to. My uncle killed some massive Alabama deer and smoked cigarettes in the stand. Sometimes he would sit on a stump in blue jeans and a long sleeve denim shirt.
Cause they grabbed a gun. Walked miles and found the sign and sat all day
There's less public land to hunt now, less deer on the land, more hunters than 50 years ago, and generational genetic behaviors in deer HAVE changed the deer. It's NOT the same when our family hunted. Period.
There are more deer now than before
@johnmarkeby4047 maybe in your area, but not in the PNW where we're at...
I bet none of us have ever killed a buck that checked the internet to know where he was supposed to be at a certain time.
I ground hunt and hunt for the love of the woods and meat I don't care about big bucks and I hate camera's
Hoochie coochie choo choo train 🎉
Grand daddy didn't have tree stands or saddles so your hunting different then they did.
Yep they hunted instead of sat on their butt
They didn’t have posted private property everywhere they went and if they did have it people would still let them hunt . Now unless you have money good luck 😂 they didn’t have to deal with that
Ah, more deer less people, yes people hunted harder some where smarter.
Remove game cameras and cell phones and most people wouldn't have a chance or clue where to hunt 🤔
I genuinely think this is horrible advice lol “don’t play the wind” 😂 I’d definitely rather scout and play the wind 😂
They were successful with little to no effort because the game populations were higher and habitats were better. Not to mention the amount of hunters were WAY lower, so most the quality deer were not being harvested.
The deer have adapted over the decades for increased number of hunters that are out there. I'd love to go back in time 50 years and apply what I know now. Most of us would blow our grand daddy's out of the water. They'd laugh at us, because it would be unnecessary. They didn't have to mess around with all this nuance that we do now.
Sales ppl are always so full of shit
Yeah, has nothing to do with population or pressure…lol.