The Hunting Public

By The Hunting Public

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What's The Hunting Public about?

Hunters Aaron Warbritton and Zach Ferenbaugh talk deer hunting tips and tactics with various experts across the country. We'll also cover current conditions and strategies that can help you right now.

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#241 - How WE Can Improve T...

02.01.2023

In this episode, Aaron and I are talking with turkey experts Marcus Lashley and Will Gulsby about what we can do as hunters and conservationists to help improve turkey populations. In most regions of the country, turkey populations are on ...

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02.01.2023 #241 - How WE Can Improve TURKEY POPULATIONS! w/Turkey Experts Dr. Marcus Lashley and Dr. Will Gulsby In this episode, Aaron and I are talking with turkey experts Marcus Lashley and Will Gulsby about what we can do as hunters and conservationists to help improve turkey populations. In most regions of the country, turkey populations are on ...
01.24.2023 #240 - Staying on the Move When Hunting Big Bucks in the Northeast w/Izaak Young In this episode, I’ll be discussing hunting the northeast with Izaak Young of Vermont. Izaak spends as much time as he possibly can hunting on snow in multiple states, but he also isn’t afraid to get after it with a ...
01.16.2023 #239 - The Success and Mistakes of Our Best Muzzleloader Season Deer Drives! In the last episode, Ben and I discussed some of the changes to our strategy that we planned to make during our annual muzzleloader hunt. As we promised at the end of that episode, we recorded a follow up podcast ...
01.09.2023 #238 - Lessons We Learned the Hard Way: Plans and Expectations for Our Annual Deer Drives in the Hills! This season is Ben and I's fourth season hunting the hills with a group doing deer drives. What we like the most about this style of hunting is the team aspect and how much we learn doing it. Every time ...
01.05.2023 #237 - Finding Buck Pockets in The Georgia Mountains w/Chris Jenkins In this episode, I talk with Chris Jenkins about hunting the southern Appalachians. This area has low deer densities and rugged terrain that makes finding mature bucks a unique challenge. Chris has an extremely mobile style that helps him find ...
12.27.2022 #236 - Thinking Outside the Box to find Late Season Bucks w/Aaron Warbritton If you are like us, you often feel unable to relate to hunting shows telling you to hunt food sources in late season as you watch someone hunt over a standing crop field in frigid temperatures. Many hunters don’t hunt ...
12.21.2022 #235 - From Marine, to Art Student, to THP Intern!? w/Nick Andrews In this episode, I talk with THP intern Nick Andrews to share more about him and his life story. He tells us how he went from being a marine, to an art student, to a THP intern all by the ...
12.16.2022 #234 - Our Biggest MISTAKE in HILL COUNTRY w/Larry Helmers In this episode, Larry and I talk about some of the recent realizations we have had about hunting in hill country. As we learn more about hunting deer in big timber settings we continue to get better at anticipating specific ...
12.12.2022 #233 - Talking TRACKING in NEW YORK Deer Camp! This year was our second year making the trip up to New York to try tracking down a buck in the snow. Getting experience trying a new tactic is a ton of fun but we also enjoy sharing camp with ...
11.29.2022 #232 - Overlooked Hill Country Buck Bedding! In this episode, Warb, Ted, Greg, and I talk about overlooked buck bedding tendencies in hill country. Hunting a lot of different areas over the last few years we have experienced bedding tendencies that often don't get mentioned in most ...
11.22.2022 #231 - Tips For Hunting in COLD WEATHER! On our most recent trip, Nick and I were faced with a new challenge of bowhunting in extremely cold conditions and snow. In the first half of this episode, we talk about gear and other tips that that allowed us ...
11.15.2022 #230 - Staying Positive When Things Don’t Go As Planned As much as we dream about executing a plan perfectly and enjoying year after year of filled tags and a full freezer, we all experience times where it feels like nothing is going right. In this episode, we talk about ...
11.08.2022 #229 - THP’s Best Rut Stories of All Time! Most whitetail bow hunters look forward to the rut all year and dream of careless bucks cruising and chasing does. In this episode, I talk with the rest of the THP crew and we tell our best stories of crazy ...
11.01.2022 #228 - The Camaraderie of Bowhunting from Minnesota Deer Camp In this episode, Keith and I talk to our new friends Mitch and Tate about their experiences growing up hunting in Minnesota. We tell a lot of stories, talk about their grandpa, who bow hunted for whitetails before anyone else ...
10.25.2022 #227 - When Have I Gone TOO FAR? - Scouting Strategy For Late October If you have a mobile hunting strategy you probably have experienced the feeling of indecision when you find sign and are trying to decide if you should go further or stop and setup. In this episode, Keith and I talk ...
10.18.2022 #226 - Overcoming the Fear of Failure w/Beau Martonik In this episode, I catch up with Beau Martonik. Beau hunts the big woods of Pennsylvania and also travels to hunt other states in big woods settings. Both Beau and I really enjoy the challenges that come with hunting big, ...
10.10.2022 #225 - When Should You Get Aggressive in October??? In the middle of October, for the most part, conditions are hot, deer movement is low, and big buck sightings are few and far between. In this episode, Jake, Hayden and I talk about when we like to get aggressive ...
10.04.2022 #224 - A Season of Elk Hunting Experience and The Story of Our Success w/Doug Ferenbaugh Both my Dad and I grew up and lived in Ohio for most of our lives where we learned to hunt whitetails and turkeys. We both always dreamed of one day hunting elk but we were uneducated on how to ...
09.26.2022 #223 - Should You ALWAYS Call To Elk??? In this episode, Ben, Colin, and I talk about what we have learned when calling to elk. Like other forms of hunting we have found that calling to elk is very situational. We discuss the evolution of our calling strategy ...
09.23.2022 #222 - The Importance of Having a Good Team in Hunting and Life! w/Grant McCrabb In this episode, Grant McCrabb and I talk about a variety of topics including why we moved to Colorado, our plans and expectations for this elk season, hunting with a team, and staying focused in the final moments to make ...
09.19.2022 #221 - Social Media’s Censorship of Hunting w/Brad Luttrell Over the years social media has certainly changed the way most people communicate and also can change the way people perceive certain things. As hunters and anglers it is important to us to use social media to share our way ...
09.12.2022 #220 - When to STRIKE When STALKING a Bedded Buck! In this episode, Jake, Nick, and I talk about the timing and progression of making a stalk. Every situation is different, but in this podcast we cover several different strategies that we use to get within bow range of bedded ...
09.06.2022 #219 - Strategy For Calling Elk Solo w/Kody Kellom Kody Kellom and the Born and Raised crew have a ton of experience calling elk on public land in many states. Although they often hunt in groups and use group calling strategies, they also have a lot of experience calling ...
08.29.2022 #218 - Situational Strategies for the ELK RUT! In this episode, Jake, Aaron, Ted, and I talk about some of the different situations we have encountered during archery elk season. Over the last several years we have hunted elk more and more and continue to see how every ...
08.15.2022 #217 - Get Yourself Out of a HUNTING SLUMP! w/THP Every hunter hits a dry spell, or several dry spells throughout their hunting career. In this episode, Jake, Ted, and I talk about some of the things that we do to help get us out of a slump during the ...
08.08.2022 #216 - Find the ACTION During the RUT! - Reading Rut Sign w/THP In the last episode, we talked about reading sign during the early part of the season and into the middle of October. In this episode, Aaron, Jake, Ted, Nick and I pick up where we left off and talk about ...
08.01.2022 #215 - How Much Buck Sign Should I Setup On??? Reading Early Season Sign w/THP Although we are always looking for "hot sign" throughout the season, what that sign looks like may vary greatly depending on where we find the sign and what time of the season it is. In this episode, Aaron, Jake, Ted, ...
07.25.2022 #214 - AGGRESSIVE Hunting Tactics for BIG BUCKS and BULLS! w/Tony Trietch Tony Trietch is a hunter from Michigan that travels out west every fall to hunt whitetails, elk, and mule deer. When he started hunting out west he began hunting more aggressively by spotting and stalking the biggest bulls and bucks ...
07.11.2022 #213 - Increase Your Odds Of Recovering the Deer You Shoot w/Shane Simpson and Ryan Carpenter In this episode, I talk with Shane Simpson and his friend Ryan Carpenter about blood trailing deer. Shane has a tracking dog and gets a lot more tracking experience than the average hunter by using his dog to help hunters ...
07.04.2022 #212 - Viewer Stories Part 2 - Deer Hunting Stories and Why We Started Ground Hunting! This episode is part 2 of the stories that were told by viewers/listeners that we met at last weeks garage sale that we had in Iowa. Part 2 includes several more awesome deer hunting stories from Lincoln Mehlert and Grant ...
06.28.2022 #211 - Viewer Stories Pt. 1 - AWESOME HUNTING STORIES FROM OUR VIEWERS This past weekend we had a big garage sale where we met a ton of cool people! During the sale we had volunteers record a hunting story that they wanted to share. It was a ton of fun listening to ...
06.21.2022 #210 - Our Days at Hunting Camp w/Doug Ferenbaugh and Rich Meyer Ever since I can remember, my Dad and our friend Rich Meyer have spent time hunting together every year at some sort of hunting camp. I was lucky to have many great hunting mentors as a kid and along with ...
06.14.2022 #209 - Why We STOPPED Shooting MECHANICAL BROADHEADS! Throughout our bowhunting careers all of us at THP have experimented with mechanical broadheads. In this episode, Aaron, Greg, Ranch Fairy, and I talk about our experiences shooting mechanical broadheads and what bad experiences ultimately made us change back to ...
06.06.2022 #208 - PROOF That NO BUCK is NOCTURNAL! - w/Bronson Strickland and Steve Demarais of Mississippi State University Steve Demarais and Bronson Strickland are professors at Mississippi State University. There, a team of faculty and graduate students make up the MSU Deer Ecology and Management Lab. Through many research projects Steve and Bronson have learned a ton about ...
06.02.2022 #207 - Getting Bit By a Rattlesnake and Traveling the Country Hunting Turkeys w/Bruce Hall We met Bruce Hall last turkey season and hunted with him for the first time this past week in Wisconsin. Bruce has some awesome stories from his travels hunting across the country. In this episode, Jake and I talk to ...
05.25.2022 #206 - Mobile Hunting Camps for the Traveling Hunter w/Sam Soholt Sam Soholt is a long time friend of THP. Sam and his brother Josh are huge advocates for public land and over the years he has built some of the best mobile hunting camps that I have ever seen! The ...
05.16.2022 #205 - Creating a Better Hunting Property By Managing Timber My friends Larry Helmers, Ben and Keith Robinson have been working together on Larry's 80 acre property for the last four years to improve the wildlife habitat. The property is primarily timber and their management practices have greatly increased the ...
05.12.2022 #204 - The Best Way to Manage For Wildlife! w/Kyle Lybarger Kyle Lybarger is a conservationist from Alabama that takes pride in creating and maintaining native ecosystems. In the last year, Kyle has also started creating content to try to help educate folks on how to identify and promote the growth ...
05.02.2022 #203 - Best Turkey Hunting Stories w/Born and Raised and The Untamed During our trip to West Virginia, we shared camp with our friends at Born and Raised Outdoors and The Untamed. We really enjoy sharing camp with so many folks because of the memories made and the stories shared. We decided ...
04.25.2022 #202 - Understanding Similarities of Hunting Different Species To Become More Successful w/Born and Raised Outdoors Over the last week we were lucky enough to hunt with some of our friends from Born and Raised Outdoors. In this podcast, Kody Kellom, Noah Montgomery, and I talk about the correlation between deer, turkey, and elk hunting strategy ...
04.11.2022 #201 - Returning to Hunting As an Active Duty Military Member Many people take a break from hunting throughout their lives for one reason or another. For some, eventually something sparks the interest to get back into it. That was the case with one of my best friends from high school, ...
04.04.2022 #200 - Getting ATTACKED By a WILD HOG! - Finding the Positive in Every Life Situation w/Josh Ilderton Over the last few years we have become good friends with the folks at The Untamed. Josh Ilderton is one of the most passionate hunters that I know and has a great, positive, outlook on life. In this episode, Josh ...
03.28.2022 #199 - Southern Turkey Hunting Culture and Getting Kids Interested in Hunting w/Josh Thrash Josh Thrash is a die hard hunter that Aaron and I first met in 2017 when we made our first trip to hunt public land down south. Since then, we have become good friends with Josh and look up to ...
03.21.2022 #198 -Tactics For Hunting Henned Up Gobblers in the Early Season! In this episode, Jake and I talk about turkey hunting during the early season when a lot of toms are still with hens for most of the day. Throughout the season there is always a chance that you could run ...
03.15.2022 #197 - Why Turkey Populations are Declining! - Missouri Turkey Research Project Over the last couple years we have been more and more interested in learning about wild turkey populations and why they are declining in different parts of the country so Aaron and Ted met up with the Missouri Department of ...
03.08.2022 #196 - Turkey Tour Excitement! New Strategies, New Gear, and Plans for the Spring! w/THP We are getting excited about heading out for the turkey tour! In this episode, I talk with the whole crew about what we are looking forward to the most going into this season! We also discuss calling strategy, unique gear ...
02.28.2022 #195 - Reading The Behavior of Individual Turkeys w/Ben and Keith Robinson In this episode, Ben and Keith Robinson and I talk about some of the things that we have learned over the years hunting public land in different parts of the country. We discuss mistakes that we commonly make and how ...
02.21.2022 #194 - A Season as a THP INTERN! w/Roy Holdford and Ben Feldpausch Every season we bring in 1-2 individuals to help them get a foot in the door of the outdoor industry by sharing what we know about creating content, career opportunities, and hunting. In this episode, I talked with our most ...
02.11.2022 #193 - Are Cell Cameras Messing with Your Strategy??? Season Recap w/Erik Barber Erik "Slingin' Rik" Barber puts a lot of time into hunting public land whitetails throughout the fall. In the past, Erik has had the best success using run and gun style tactics where he aggressively hunts an area once and ...
02.04.2022 #192 - How To Use Scouting Intel to Hunt Mature Bucks! In this episode Jake, Ted, and I talk about what we are looking for when we are offseason scouting and how that information helps us during the season. Now is a great time to get boots on the ground and ...

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