This episode is coming to you from deer camp somewhere swampy in Alabama! We are chasing the rut this January and this is one of several camps we will be in over the month. We are joined by Michael Pike, Shane Parker, Chris Leppert, Talon Neal, and Greg Maher. Subjects include:

Hunting limited cover this time of year in the rut

The impossibility of escaping pressure in river-bottom country

The easy parts of hunting river bottoms

Figuring out the "road map"

When rut funnels dont pan out

Lots of encounters with shooters!


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546 - Chasing The Rut, Bama Riverbottom Bucks!

Your go-to Deer Hunting Podcast! The Southern Outdoorsmen is a show dedicated to diving deep on the topics that will make you a better hunter. We interview guys who are the "real deal", the best hometown deer hunters across the country - the guys who have consistent success deer hunting the same public lands, leases, hunting clubs, or family farms as everyone else. Every Monday we post an episode with fresh tips, tactics and strategies to give you an edge in the woods this fall.

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The Dilla is back! On this episode, we are joined by our good buddy Michael Pike, known to many as "the Dilla" (short for armadillo, because he has turned over every leaf in Alabama looking for big bucks!). We catch up with him on his awesome 2023 season where he tagged out in AL with 3 great bucks, two of which were big 10 points - all on public. Subjects include:

How Michael got severely burned out on deer hunting & then got back into it

The intangible aspect of being good at deer hunting

Why your tactics haven't been working

Listening to the woods (literally) to find deer

Building upon each hunt to increase your odds every time

The best way to plan out-of-state hunts

The camaraderie of having hunting buddies, and how it makes you hunt better


and tons more! It was great catching up and we are sure the dilla will be back on the show throughout the year.

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582 - Let THE WOODS Tell You Where the MATURE BUCKS ARE w/ Michael Pike

We have a great episode for our last turkey podcast of 2024! Andrew was able to tag another longbeard on his club, meanwhile, Jacob's brother Thomas was able to tag out on public! We relive all the hunts on this episode and talked about what made each one successful!

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581 - Andrew's Last Bird Of the Season & THOMAS TAGGING OUT!

This is a HIGHLY requested episode that we have had in the works! In this episode, we go over all the whitetail terminology that you need to know to hunt or scout for whitetail deer. We cover terms for deer hunting in flat land, hill county, and mountains - and we cover terrain terms as well as habitat terms. Some of the terms we cover:

Terrain saddles

Bluff gap 

Bluff

Bench

Creek crossing 

Ridge example in swamps 

Ridge top hub 

High crows foot

Thermal hub / hubs

Oak flat

Sapling thicket 

Oxbow lake / oxbow 

Beaver dam crossings

Compounding habitat edges 

Select cut 

Clearcut / cutover

SMZ

Compounding Terrain features (examples)

Glade

Leeward side of a ridge 

Logging roads / road bed / skidder trail

Ditch/drainage 

Secondary points

Ridge points 


and more! Want more? Here are more videos that go even deeper on some of these terms with map examples:

3 MUST KNOW Deer Funnels - https://youtu.be/YNhIZWd_1UU
FLAT LAND Deer Funnels - https://youtu.be/WN_-5K_pw6M
How to use Slope Angle Shading to Find Deer - https://youtu.be/dUf7GBf8buk
How to Tell if Woods are Thick from a Map - https://youtu.be/Zx2WN-qFkd4
Mountain Hunt Success on Compounding Terrain Features - https://youtu.be/NE5iAeneJ_k

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580 - The ULTIMATE GUIDE to WHITETAIL HUNTING TERMINOLOGY

Jacob called his shot and tagged out last week! He was able to take 4 birds using covert calling tactics he picked up from our interview with Ron "Coach" Watters a few weeks ago. In this episode, we discuss the calling tactics and give some calling demos.

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579 - JACOB TAGGED OUT! 4 Birds in 7 Days Using COVERT CALLING

DEER CONTENT IS BACK! We are excited to dig back into all things deer hunting EVERY Monday! To kick off deer season 2024 we had Anthony Troncalli, Jacob's uncle & owner of their family farm stop by the studio. Subjects:

How the habitat work on the farm has been going

How burning the farm late last summer affected the deer hunting, and more specifically buck bedding on the property

Hunting through a timber cycle

The best part of a timber cycle to hunt

Why you should hunt public AND private land

Traveling to hunt

Anthony's experience planting soybeans in < 2-acre food plots in central AL

Stalking a bedded buck in a thick pine stand


and LOTS more!

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546 - Chasing The Rut, Bama Riverbottom Bucks!

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