Great video. I and my hunting entourage recently started hunting Shawnee State Forest in Southern Ohio. This is over 63,000 acres of some of the steepest, thickest, nastiest, most rugged, wild and beautiful terrain I’ve ever hunted. The forest covers 2 Southern Ohio counties, Adams and Scioto, known for producing some of Ohio’s best monster bucks over the years. While there are spectacular, sprawling valleys and bottoms that twist and wind for miles, much of our very new experiences in Shawnee take us to incredibly steep and forboding terrain littered with dense cedar thickets and underbrush that’s exhausting and a little unnerving to navigate. For us, it’s not uncommon to find ourselves hiking 2-4 miles into straight-up and daunting wilderness to hang a stand. For most hunters, the idea that deer, particularly, mature bucks, avoid steep terrain like a parking lot packed with the 4x4’s of public land hunters has become an unfortunate assumption. Just this past year, in early November, the 6 of us did our best to tackle the intimidating terrain of Shawnee for the chance to see if bucks could be found in such difficult topography and how they’ve adapted to what is, unquestionably, raw and untamed wilderness at its finest in the lower 48. Shawnee has been dubbed the “Little Smokies” of Ohio, and, boy, did it live up to its name. What we discovered over 5 incredibly tough days of hunting Shawnee’s steep ridges, sheer drop offs, and densely choked benches was amazing. Over our 5 days of hunting these features, we saw 40+ bucks among the 6 of us, with me and my son passing on 130” bucks and my son coming oh so close to tagging a 140+” buck. Though we certainly hunted some of those sprawling creek bottoms and massive gulleys previously mentioned, the bigger bucks we were able to locate were almost exclusively found in the steepest, thickest, and nastiest terrain we hunted over 5 days. During one of my morning sits, in the mid-section of a fairly steep ridge system, in proximity to an unmistakable bench, I watched a young, but high-potential, 6 pointer literally slide his way, at times, completely on his haunches, down a nearly impossibly steep ridge across from my position into the huge creek bottom below me. He wasn’t spooked or just taking his closest available exit to escape danger…he just wanted to get into that bottom to freshen up a recent scrape line along the creek. He navigated that steep incline flawlessly, mostly on his butt, like he’d done it a thousand times before! This was just one of many examples we observed during our 5 day hunt of bucks, young and mature, effortlessly navigating their ways up and down ridiculously steep ridges and drops and seamlessly winding and twisting their ways through cover and dramatic habitat changes that most hunters would likely never venture into nor assume that any deer in its right mind would call home. In habitats and terrain where the topography is multiple times more daunting live, in the field, than it already appears to be by those twisting and tightly contoured elevation lines on a topo map, these bucks have mastered the art of navigating through it, up it, down it and around it, AND, from our limited experiences in Shawnee State Forest, just dare a willing and adventure-seeking hunter to “come get me…”!! Very intuitive video! After nearly 40 years of deer hunting, these animals NEVER cease to amaze me with their God-given fortitude and adaptability!!
Information whether read or heard is just for reference. When you have boots on the ground sometimes you will encounter a situation and it will trigger a memory of something you have read or heard. Thats when your own expeirience and what you have read and heard start to make sense.
On the pressure convo im a still hunter in eastern Kentucky mountains and ive realized that i cant over pressure bucks in the thick coal reclaims if i bump a big boy out of his bed today he will be right back tomorrow unless he is with a doe
@Dougarrowhead I promise you he absolutely will I can't speak for farm land but mountain bucks bed in a spot for a reason I got a 146 inch 10 last year after 8 days in a row of jumping him within 100 yards of the same spot he wouldn't bed in the exact bed each day but close enough to watch the way I had come the day before
@Dougarrowhead no just mature they pick a spot that gives them the ultimate advantage and ride it out my wall is full of them stupid giants because that's a thing
There’s only two reasons why you would release this information one is you’re trying to direct your fellow hunters towards a certain feature on the topo map while you go a different type of feature or number two you just don’t realize the damage it does when you highlight things
This already has 11 thousand views 😮. There want be a low gap in the whole southeastern united states that doesn’t get hunted 😂. As always great show guys 🦌 🩸 🦌
Im skeptical that this is accurate compared to a deer without a collar on its neck. They won’t act the same due to the skittish nature of deer. This should be taken into account. Just like moon readings on collared high fence deer vs wild deer.
This doesn't help me.... I hunt West TN and its all river bottom land. The deer obviously like the thickest cover and cut over sites for bedding. We have to search out the what food they are after and hunt them by food sources. I spent a lot of time this summer working on my habitat to hold more deer. Your advice is for hill country .
@ . I’ve killed so many big bucks I don’t really care anymore but to really help these younger generation hunters they need to understand the relationship with elevation, saddles, cover features, and especially thermals and air movement. Like I said I don’t care if they succeed or not. Take advice or leave it.
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Great video. I and my hunting entourage recently started hunting Shawnee State Forest in Southern Ohio. This is over 63,000 acres of some of the steepest, thickest, nastiest, most rugged, wild and beautiful terrain I’ve ever hunted. The forest covers 2 Southern Ohio counties, Adams and Scioto, known for producing some of Ohio’s best monster bucks over the years. While there are spectacular, sprawling valleys and bottoms that twist and wind for miles, much of our very new experiences in Shawnee take us to incredibly steep and forboding terrain littered with dense cedar thickets and underbrush that’s exhausting and a little unnerving to navigate. For us, it’s not uncommon to find ourselves hiking 2-4 miles into straight-up and daunting wilderness to hang a stand. For most hunters, the idea that deer, particularly, mature bucks, avoid steep terrain like a parking lot packed with the 4x4’s of public land hunters has become an unfortunate assumption. Just this past year, in early November, the 6 of us did our best to tackle the intimidating terrain of Shawnee for the chance to see if bucks could be found in such difficult topography and how they’ve adapted to what is, unquestionably, raw and untamed wilderness at its finest in the lower 48. Shawnee has been dubbed the “Little Smokies” of Ohio, and, boy, did it live up to its name. What we discovered over 5 incredibly tough days of hunting Shawnee’s steep ridges, sheer drop offs, and densely choked benches was amazing. Over our 5 days of hunting these features, we saw 40+ bucks among the 6 of us, with me and my son passing on 130” bucks and my son coming oh so close to tagging a 140+” buck. Though we certainly hunted some of those sprawling creek bottoms and massive gulleys previously mentioned, the bigger bucks we were able to locate were almost exclusively found in the steepest, thickest, and nastiest terrain we hunted over 5 days. During one of my morning sits, in the mid-section of a fairly steep ridge system, in proximity to an unmistakable bench, I watched a young, but high-potential, 6 pointer literally slide his way, at times, completely on his haunches, down a nearly impossibly steep ridge across from my position into the huge creek bottom below me. He wasn’t spooked or just taking his closest available exit to escape danger…he just wanted to get into that bottom to freshen up a recent scrape line along the creek. He navigated that steep incline flawlessly, mostly on his butt, like he’d done it a thousand times before! This was just one of many examples we observed during our 5 day hunt of bucks, young and mature, effortlessly navigating their ways up and down ridiculously steep ridges and drops and seamlessly winding and twisting their ways through cover and dramatic habitat changes that most hunters would likely never venture into nor assume that any deer in its right mind would call home. In habitats and terrain where the topography is multiple times more daunting live, in the field, than it already appears to be by those twisting and tightly contoured elevation lines on a topo map, these bucks have mastered the art of navigating through it, up it, down it and around it, AND, from our limited experiences in Shawnee State Forest, just dare a willing and adventure-seeking hunter to “come get me…”!! Very intuitive video! After nearly 40 years of deer hunting, these animals NEVER cease to amaze me with their God-given fortitude and adaptability!!
Man you guys do a phenomenal job asking the right questions getting the most usable pertinent information out of your guests for us listeners. 👍🏻👍🏻
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Landed my first deer this year. 3x3 Coues, 395 yards…came right up and over a saddle. Saw him do the same thing several times while scouting.
Congrats on your buck!
@@thesouthernoutdoorsmen thank you!!
Great interview! Lots a knowledge there, I appreciate the great content brother!
Information whether read or heard is just for reference. When you have boots on the ground sometimes you will encounter a situation and it will trigger a memory of something you have read or heard. Thats when your own expeirience and what you have read and heard start to make sense.
That elk mount in the background appears to be an older mount? The bull seems interested in the topic at hand😂😂
He does, he also seems shocked that the guy is telling all the secrets about how they travel lmao
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On the pressure convo im a still hunter in eastern Kentucky mountains and ive realized that i cant over pressure bucks in the thick coal reclaims if i bump a big boy out of his bed today he will be right back tomorrow unless he is with a doe
@Dougarrowhead no sir might get extremely sneaky and smart but they don't leave home except to get laid
@Dougarrowhead I promise you he absolutely will I can't speak for farm land but mountain bucks bed in a spot for a reason I got a 146 inch 10 last year after 8 days in a row of jumping him within 100 yards of the same spot he wouldn't bed in the exact bed each day but close enough to watch the way I had come the day before
@Dougarrowhead no just mature they pick a spot that gives them the ultimate advantage and ride it out my wall is full of them stupid giants because that's a thing
Aren’t you impressed with yourself! Depends where you are and genetics.
Gold right here!
There’s only two reasons why you would release this information one is you’re trying to direct your fellow hunters towards a certain feature on the topo map while you go a different type of feature or number two you just don’t realize the damage it does when you highlight things
Great videos as always. No pretentious douche bags on this podcast. Just quality content
We are glad you enjoy the content!
Agreed, we need deer food preferences
Huntr cough cough Jared cough
Here here! Their has been an explosion of self important d-bags in at its best is a sport of humility.
Like we say in Arkansas boy's.....the deer like to eat rocks and acorns here!
Good info. Would be better as he’s explaining things use topo maps as A supplementary explanation for a better visual
Just read this. Yapping is unhelpful.
Exactly. That's literally the reason I don't watch these videos
These bucks dont move on the wind. They move on the thermal afftects.
This already has 11 thousand views 😮. There want be a low gap in the whole southeastern united states that doesn’t get hunted 😂. As always great show guys 🦌 🩸 🦌
What do the 200” deer do? 🤪
To the people in the comments that already know it all why are you even here , and how come your not being interviewed
😆 right
Im skeptical that this is accurate compared to a deer without a collar on its neck. They won’t act the same due to the skittish nature of deer. This should be taken into account. Just like moon readings on collared high fence deer vs wild deer.
So your telling us everything we already know and have known for generations. 😂😂😂
This doesn't help me.... I hunt West TN and its all river bottom land. The deer obviously like the thickest cover and cut over sites for bedding. We have to search out the what food they are after and hunt them by food sources. I spent a lot of time this summer working on my habitat to hold more deer. Your advice is for hill country .
It’s called a “col”. 💵
No map graphics of gps tracks with topography. No drone footage seeing habitat features. You are missing a huge opportunity. Waste of time.
Seriously. One photo is worth more than 12:38 seconds of talking
You must not be very smart? All of this stuff makes perfect sense if you have an IQ over 75 and actually know what words mean.
@@Anonymoushunter5500 That’s not it, I just don’t come to RUclips to watch a podcast
U are complaining about the choice you made, u chose to watch the video
@ . I’ve killed so many big bucks I don’t really care anymore but to really help these younger generation hunters they need to understand the relationship with elevation, saddles, cover features, and especially thermals and air movement. Like I said I don’t care if they succeed or not. Take advice or leave it.
I thought everybody knew all this by now.
I guys some people haven’t reached the pinnacle of knowledge as you obviously have
@@jmharris23 It's talked about in every video about deer hunting.
@@markburrell2778what's a video 😅