Thank you for this awesome content. Reading your books has been a... revelation! LOL I started late with whitetails in life, when I moved to Michigan from Argentina. I was a hunter (of red stag) there, but I never bow hunted pressured whitetails and I was clueless and mentorless in mid-michigan. Your books are awesome and these videos demonstrate in detail a lot of concepts you've written about . I really appreciate you and your sons take the time to generate and post this content for free. This particular one, about calls, is one topic that is easier to get in video compared to a book. Thank you!
This is probably my favorite of all of your videos. Very informative. Also especially appreciate your perspective of tailoring your advice to hunting heavily pressured public lands, versus private/less pressured lands. Have you made a "warmest socks/toes" videos ? This is about the only part that I've struggled to keep warm, especially after 1 hour on stand. Thanks.
Very helpful information. I heard my first wheeze last season an 8pt. was chasing a doe all around me, so fast and suddenly another ...bigger 8pt. showed up. They never got close enough, but it sure was exciting. Also, I modified my old grunt call to have a rubber tube instead of the corrugated plastic that most calls seem to have. I did this after butchering a deer and noticed the feel of the throat tube.
I'd like to see a video about how you go about selecting and then asking permission to hunt a property. Especially when you have never met the owner. Thanks!
I agree! It would be great to get a little pointer on how to approach landowners for permission. I have had very limited success gaining permissions in SW Michigan. I hunt public land in NW Michigan too but I am thinking about going and asking some of the private landowners.
I've used the "hands free" grunter for years. It's an inhale call with a rubber hose you attach to your shirt. I just cut the hose so it's just a few inches long and use it like a hand call. It has a rubber o-ring inside to adjust the deepness of the tone. I've had it for over ten years and works like new and never freezes up being an inhale call. I still seem them online in different places. Just wanted to pass it along.
Thanks, I've just have been a hard core bowhunter on pressured lands for many years and have figured out methods to have some relatively consistent success. I've put that info out, and am super glad to see many other bowhunters that are willing to put in the work, doing the same. John
The Knight and Hale EZ grunter plus is an exhale/inhale grunt call. I have had a lot of success with it. I mainly use it as an exhale call myself. But is has served me well. I don't know if they make them anymore.
After 40+ years of hunting NJ, NY, PA, MD, very pressured areas with success thanks to reading your first book, but still not close to your resume of success, one takeaway is calling works but most guys blow out their spots by over calling (done it myself).
Great video and information thank you for sharing. Just a suggestion but it would be great to get a list of the calls in the video description. Thanks again for the information.
The fawn in distress call is a Quaker Boy which is current and in their predator line. The rattle bag I use is an old Knight & Hale with long sticks and only 5 in the bag (bag is very thin material so sound carries well). The exhale grunt Wheez call is a MAD407. My inhale call is one I made out of an Eddie Salter reed. My son has a True Talker grunt that sounds great and it's a Hunter Specialty and Quaker Boy makes a good exhale grunt called the Ridge Runner. John
Great video, great information. All I'd ever seen before for instructions is what was on the packaging. Glad to hear some info from someone who knows what they're doing! Future video suggestion: scouting videos!
I may take a camera with me on a couple hunts to try it out, but no way I would take another person to film. Scent control, having another person get picked, and 2 instead of 1 intrusion are just too big a deal for me. I haven't even seen a shooter buck in Michigan in the past 2 seasons. It wouldn't bother me in Kansas though. John
Great video as always but I have a question off subject . All the videos I have watched you are using screw in steps of some sort. What do you use on public land that using anything that brakes the outer layer of a tree illegal?
We have Cranford strap on steps and this year John will using Shikar sticks from OUT on a Limb manufacturing, and I will be using Beast sticks from HUntingbeastgear - Joe
In 2017 - I called in 11 big bucks , on the Trinity River flood plain. 4 were 10 pts. or better, 1 was a HUGEE 8 , but I didn’t have enough sense to have a visual cue. I did the fawn in distress. Started low until I was blasting 500yds away. I knew I called them in cause I couuld hear them runnin through the swamp for over 100 yds. Saw several - not all , couldn’t figure out how to close the deal. Ground blind hunting. Any Ideas Chief ?
Ayo Big John my cousin tossed out all his Michael Jordan sneakers and clothes and now he says "if I can be like Eberhart" he even wants to get rid of his pick up and get a mommy van of death like yours ....#truestory lmao keep the videos dropping 🦌🇺🇸
Hey John quick question I have some great hunting property I just got my hands on in St Joseph MI I shoot a lot of good bucks an think this spot will be better want to come down an hunt with me this year? Would be a honor
John I basically worship everything you say and take it as gods word when it comes to hunting. The only problem I have is how you talk about hunting Kansas like it’s so easy... i live here and do really well, but it’s not like a boomer walks past me every hunt. I still have to work for it and get busted more often than I kill.
Outcast, I have to tell it like it is. I see on average about 12 P&Y's in a week when I go to Kansas and one week I saw 18 different P&Y's. In the past 36 weeks I've hunted at home (6 seasons and that doesn't include the 24 weeks of late season after gun season) I've seen 5 and killed 3. My son Jon has the same stats and of the 68 bucks a friend of mine has killed on his 40 acres here in the past 40 plus years, the largest is 110 inches. He has went out of state on 14 week long trips and has killed 12 bucks between 117 and 168 inches. I have another friend who has killed a 171 and a 158 incher on the very first evening of his week long trips to Iowa and has never killed a P&Y buck here in 40 seasons. You should just feel very fortunate that you get to hunt such incredible monster whitetail lands. That's exactly why all the TV guys hunt in those states. Here's what you should take from it, you are likely an extremely avid bowhunter and I have no doubt that if you resided in a heavily pressured state or area that you would figure out how to hunt pressured bucks and be able to connect on them occasionally, but not every year and they wouldn't be close to being as big, not remotely close. There was a reason we titled our first book "Bowhunting Pressured Whitetails", because if someone has never hunted anyplace other than the area they reside in, they assume they are hunting pressured whitetails as they have nothing to compare it to concerning the difficulty or the amount of mature bucks in a lightly hunted area vs. a heavily pressured area. Nothing wrong with that thought, it's just not reality. I hope I didn't offend you as that is not my purpose, but I have to tell it the way it is. You don't see hunters from Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and the Dakota's heading to Pa., Mi., W.Va., NY., or the northeastern states during the rut to kill big bucks.
Eberhart Outdoors no offense taken, just wanted to clarify to some people that we struggle too, they are still intelligent animals with insane senses, we can’t all be John Eberhart. 😉 I have a trip planned for Florida in October for hogs and deer to try my hand at out of state hunting out of my mantis, which, tbh, I found uncomfortable and switched to a adjustable webbing bridge like your new saddle is 🤦🏼♂️ needless to say I intend on buying one as soon as I can spare the funds, and I appreciate your new channel! I know it’s difficult to film, but please make a video where you walk through a NEW piece of ground and show your thought process on how you figure out where to hunt a mature buck, I think your viewers would benefit greatly from this! Thanks for the response and good luck this season!
@@outcastwreckreation6259 consider yourself lucky. I put 100 hrs on stand in Maine last year before I saw my first doe of the season. About 1 deer per square mile here
J Huntley Jesus. That’s insane. Yeah it’s definitely different hunting, my goal is to kill a 150” deer on public every year. You’re welcome to watch my videos, I have inferior video equipment but I get on deer 🤷🏼♂️
That is sheer BS big time to the umpteenth degree. I know several TV show hunters that are from Michigan and they have many P&Y bucks taken on TV from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and the Dakota's. Guess how many they have from their home state before they found there way on TV, ZERO!!!!!!! That's right, NONE. There level is 100% totally dependent on where they hunt, put them in a heavy pressured area and they are average at best. John
Thank you for this awesome content. Reading your books has been a... revelation! LOL
I started late with whitetails in life, when I moved to Michigan from Argentina. I was a hunter (of red stag) there, but I never bow hunted pressured whitetails and I was clueless and mentorless in mid-michigan. Your books are awesome and these videos demonstrate in detail a lot of concepts you've written about . I really appreciate you and your sons take the time to generate and post this content for free. This particular one, about calls, is one topic that is easier to get in video compared to a book. Thank you!
How often do you miss a deer he says, that's just crazy hahahahaha that was epic, this mans a true legend.
This is probably my favorite of all of your videos. Very informative. Also especially appreciate your perspective of tailoring your advice to hunting heavily pressured public lands, versus private/less pressured lands. Have you made a "warmest socks/toes" videos ? This is about the only part that I've struggled to keep warm, especially after 1 hour on stand. Thanks.
Very helpful information. I heard my first wheeze last season an 8pt. was chasing a doe all around me, so fast and suddenly another ...bigger 8pt. showed up. They never got close enough, but it sure was exciting. Also, I modified my old grunt call to have a rubber tube instead of the corrugated plastic that most calls seem to have. I did this after butchering a deer and noticed the feel of the throat tube.
From a fellow Northern Michigan hunter, I appreciate the knowledge and experience that your passing along. Love your channel. Thank you sir.
Purchased your signature saddle this morning. Can't wait to try it out! Keep the video content coming.
You will not be disappointed - John
I'd like to see a video about how you go about selecting and then asking permission to hunt a property. Especially when you have never met the owner. Thanks!
I agree! It would be great to get a little pointer on how to approach landowners for permission. I have had very limited success gaining permissions in SW Michigan. I hunt public land in NW Michigan too but I am thinking about going and asking some of the private landowners.
Watch more of his interviews he goes into Great Detail about it..
There's a reason why hasn't.
Another awesome informational video! I agree that the tactics you use here in Michigan will absolutely work anywhere in the country!
I've used the "hands free" grunter for years. It's an inhale call with a rubber hose you attach to your shirt. I just cut the hose so it's just a few inches long and use it like a hand call. It has a rubber o-ring inside to adjust the deepness of the tone. I've had it for over ten years and works like new and never freezes up being an inhale call. I still seem them online in different places. Just wanted to pass it along.
There was the Bowgrunter Plus inhale grunt call by A-way Products (Fred Abbas). Don't know if they make it anymore but it was awesome!
Agree. I used to have one as well loved it
The ninja by wood haven calls are hands down the best out there
Your tips are great. My son and i love hearing your stories of real hunting and things that have happend during hunts. That doe call stabilizer tho 😂
Love the channel!! Would be cool if you linked your favorite products in the description. You Sir are a legend.
I will in the future. Thanks for the input - Joe
Thanks, I've just have been a hard core bowhunter on pressured lands for many years and have figured out methods to have some relatively consistent success. I've put that info out, and am super glad to see many other bowhunters that are willing to put in the work, doing the same. John
The Knight and Hale EZ grunter plus is an exhale/inhale grunt call. I have had a lot of success with it. I mainly use it as an exhale call myself. But is has served me well. I don't know if they make them anymore.
After 40+ years of hunting NJ, NY, PA, MD, very pressured areas with success thanks to reading your first book, but still not close to your resume of success, one takeaway is calling works but most guys blow out their spots by over calling (done it myself).
Absolutely true, too much and faulty calling will ruin a perfectly good location. John
Great video and information thank you for sharing. Just a suggestion but it would be great to get a list of the calls in the video description. Thanks again for the information.
The fawn in distress call is a Quaker Boy which is current and in their predator line. The rattle bag I use is an old Knight & Hale with long sticks and only 5 in the bag (bag is very thin material so sound carries well). The exhale grunt Wheez call is a MAD407. My inhale call is one I made out of an Eddie Salter reed. My son has a True Talker grunt that sounds great and it's a Hunter Specialty and Quaker Boy makes a good exhale grunt called the Ridge Runner. John
@@eberhartoutdoors4219 thank you so much John, much appreciated!!
Great video, great information. All I'd ever seen before for instructions is what was on the packaging. Glad to hear some info from someone who knows what they're doing!
Future video suggestion: scouting videos!
Hi John, Appreciate your wisdom. Any advice on cold calling late season/January for archery?
With season coming up, I hope you get a couple of your hunts on video. That would be cool!
My brother and I will be attempting it but John will not. It is just not his thing - Joe
I may take a camera with me on a couple hunts to try it out, but no way I would take another person to film. Scent control, having another person get picked, and 2 instead of 1 intrusion are just too big a deal for me. I haven't even seen a shooter buck in Michigan in the past 2 seasons. It wouldn't bother me in Kansas though. John
Awesome stuff. Keep it up.
Great video as always but I have a question off subject . All the videos I have watched you are using screw in steps of some sort. What do you use on public land that using anything that brakes the outer layer of a tree illegal?
We have Cranford strap on steps and this year John will using Shikar sticks from OUT on a Limb manufacturing, and I will be using Beast sticks from HUntingbeastgear - Joe
In 2017 - I called in 11 big bucks , on the Trinity River flood plain. 4 were 10 pts. or better, 1 was a HUGEE 8 , but I didn’t have enough sense to have a visual cue. I did the fawn in distress. Started low until I was blasting 500yds away. I knew I called them in cause I couuld hear them runnin through the swamp for over 100 yds. Saw several - not all , couldn’t figure out how to close the deal. Ground blind hunting. Any Ideas Chief ?
The silencer/doe mat is called the Deceiver and I believe it’s sold by slicealifearchery.com
I believe that sounds correct. Thanks
John
Great information. How does highly pressured area effect deer calling?
Call less frequently and less aggressive. John
Eberhart Outdoors thank you . Is it okay to do a single contact grunt during early season every 30 minutes to one hour ?
Ayo Big John my cousin tossed out all his Michael Jordan sneakers and clothes and now he says "if I can be like Eberhart" he even wants to get rid of his pick up and get a mommy van of death like yours ....#truestory lmao keep the videos dropping 🦌🇺🇸
Hooks custom calls has a inhale grunt call that is the only grunt I will take in the woods.
What's the name of the battery powered bleat can?
Love your videos! Cheers
😎👍🇨🇦
I don't remember and it has no name on it. John
I found one called the "deceiver device"
Hey John quick question I have some great hunting property I just got my hands on in St Joseph MI I shoot a lot of good bucks an think this spot will be better want to come down an hunt with me this year? Would be a honor
Oh sure just invite him lol. Just kidding I will have him respond as soon as he can - Joe
Can you do a video on scent lok, how you clean and store them.. Pleasee
Email eberhart.outdoors@gmail.com with scent control in the subject line and I will email you the scent control docs
LEGEND
The doe bleat call may be the Deceiver?
John I basically worship everything you say and take it as gods word when it comes to hunting. The only problem I have is how you talk about hunting Kansas like it’s so easy... i live here and do really well, but it’s not like a boomer walks past me every hunt. I still have to work for it and get busted more often than I kill.
Outcast, I have to tell it like it is. I see on average about 12 P&Y's in a week when I go to Kansas and one week I saw 18 different P&Y's. In the past 36 weeks I've hunted at home (6 seasons and that doesn't include the 24 weeks of late season after gun season) I've seen 5 and killed 3. My son Jon has the same stats and of the 68 bucks a friend of mine has killed on his 40 acres here in the past 40 plus years, the largest is 110 inches. He has went out of state on 14 week long trips and has killed 12 bucks between 117 and 168 inches. I have another friend who has killed a 171 and a 158 incher on the very first evening of his week long trips to Iowa and has never killed a P&Y buck here in 40 seasons.
You should just feel very fortunate that you get to hunt such incredible monster whitetail lands. That's exactly why all the TV guys hunt in those states.
Here's what you should take from it, you are likely an extremely avid bowhunter and I have no doubt that if you resided in a heavily pressured state or area that you would figure out how to hunt pressured bucks and be able to connect on them occasionally, but not every year and they wouldn't be close to being as big, not remotely close.
There was a reason we titled our first book "Bowhunting Pressured Whitetails", because if someone has never hunted anyplace other than the area they reside in, they assume they are hunting pressured whitetails as they have nothing to compare it to concerning the difficulty or the amount of mature bucks in a lightly hunted area vs. a heavily pressured area. Nothing wrong with that thought, it's just not reality. I hope I didn't offend you as that is not my purpose, but I have to tell it the way it is. You don't see hunters from Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and the Dakota's heading to Pa., Mi., W.Va., NY., or the northeastern states during the rut to kill big bucks.
Eberhart Outdoors no offense taken, just wanted to clarify to some people that we struggle too, they are still intelligent animals with insane senses, we can’t all be John Eberhart. 😉 I have a trip planned for Florida in October for hogs and deer to try my hand at out of state hunting out of my mantis, which, tbh, I found uncomfortable and switched to a adjustable webbing bridge like your new saddle is 🤦🏼♂️ needless to say I intend on buying one as soon as I can spare the funds, and I appreciate your new channel! I know it’s difficult to film, but please make a video where you walk through a NEW piece of ground and show your thought process on how you figure out where to hunt a mature buck, I think your viewers would benefit greatly from this! Thanks for the response and good luck this season!
@@outcastwreckreation6259 consider yourself lucky. I put 100 hrs on stand in Maine last year before I saw my first doe of the season. About 1 deer per square mile here
J Huntley Jesus. That’s insane. Yeah it’s definitely different hunting, my goal is to kill a 150” deer on public every year. You’re welcome to watch my videos, I have inferior video equipment but I get on deer 🤷🏼♂️
@@outcastwreckreation6259 I'll check them out. Good luck!
I have several grunt calls you can exhale or inhale on same call
I have one of those but it doesn't sound realistic on the exhale side. Can you share the brand and model? John
@@eberhartoutdoors4219 duel is the brand not sure what model stretchable I think
My bad john stretch back is model
@@mtpocketswoodenickle2637 I'll have to check that out. John
I had 2coyotes run in full bore on a fawn in distress call..
No matter how hard I try, I cannot for the life of me, make that grunt while inhaling to stop the deer.
What am I missing here?
It's a specific inhale grunt
He said I shot well over 100 bucks with my bow
TV hunters are the best that's why they are on TV there at a level of hunting mere mortals won't achieve
That is sheer BS big time to the umpteenth degree. I know several TV show hunters that are from Michigan and they have many P&Y bucks taken on TV from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and the Dakota's. Guess how many they have from their home state before they found there way on TV, ZERO!!!!!!! That's right, NONE. There level is 100% totally dependent on where they hunt, put them in a heavy pressured area and they are average at best. John
Im sensing sarcasm
it gets past him sometimes lol