Whitetail Rendezvous

Growing up in the South, the Lindsey’s learned early in life that hunting is an important part of their heritage. It gave them a chance to combine some of their favorite things: family, friends, and nature. The Lindsey Way features David and Jeff Lindsey as they share their way of life, passion, and stories about the whitetails they hunt. In this episode, Jeff shares some of their promos as well as what to expect from them for the Iowa Deer Classic. He also lets us in on what they are up to at The Lindsey Way, guiding us behind the scenes with their plans for the show that the viewers can expect in the following months.

Covering multiple kinds of hunting, we dive into the turkey hunting industry with Will Downard of Killer Gear. He shares what they have been doing in their company while offering the latest promos and products for your hunting experience. He shares one of the biggest hunting industry secrets in the turkey world and offer the kind of products for this specific kind of hunting. Will also demonstrates the many ways you can go about hunting apart from turkey like the elk, presenting decoys and more.

“Kory’s father introduced him to hunting and fishing the woods and waters of north western Pennsylvania at a young age. His father created the foundation of knowledge so Kory can spend his falls chasing whitetails with bow, rifle, or flintlock. In the spring you can find him on the stream, chasing after trout. When he’s not in the field or on the water you can find him in the kitchen or in front of his smoker, creating a delicious meal from the wild game he has harvested.

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That is how Bill came to be sitting in his parents’ front yard one day in 1986 with paper and colored pencils, sketching and coloring the bark of a giant oak tree that grew there. Bill believed that by layering the images of twigs and leaves over a vertical bark background, he could create a three-dimensional appearance that would match a variety of terrain and make his pattern distinct.

Using local mills, Bill navigated the printing process until he finally had a set of camouflage clothing to photograph. Always the promoter, Bill began to photograph the garments on bowhunters in tree stands. Every month for about eight months, he sent the images to hunting clothing buyers across the nation. However, Bill couldn’t send sample garments because the camo was doing too good a job disappearing. “We couldn’t get the pattern to stay on the pants,” he remembers. “It rubbed off. I had only one suit and no additional fabric, so I kept sending photos.” When December rolled around, the buyers were clamoring for garments.

“I didn’t have any garments,” Bill recalls, “but I couldn’t tell them that, so I just sent them some more photos.” The problem would be resolved, but with no time to spare. Bill had begun working with Eastbank Textiles, and they met the printing challenge just one week before the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show. At last, Bill was on his way home with about 30 yards of the printed fabric to be made into garments for the show, but the airline sent the box of fabric to Columbus, Ohio, instead of Columbus, Georgia.

“I finally got the fabric on Monday, and the show started that Thursday,” says Bill. “I rushed it to the manufacturer and they made the basic garments by Wednesday morning. I had naked mannequins waiting at the SHOT Show, and I was sitting in Columbus waiting to get pants sewn.”

Every entrepreneur has his own story of struggles and battles, twists and turns, wins and losses. What matters in the end is that triumphant hooray as we each reap the fruit of hard work. Sean Matson, Co-Founder and President of Strike Force Energy drinks, shares the amazing story behind its success and the journey to creating what is now Strike Force Energy. They are proud veteran-owned, and all of their products are made in the USA. Today, they offer a full range of energy products and are looking to expand into new horizons. They believe that everyone has a warrior within and their mission is to give you #FuelForYourFight.

Believing how “research equals results,” Daryl Cherry, director of sales at Whitetail Institute, brings us up to speed with the company – from when they started to what the future looks like. Showing us the message to become better land stewards and managers of our own private herds, he shares how you can better read and understand the tag, most especially when it comes to buying seeds. He talks about making a food plot while giving his insights on where we should be at right now in the food plot cycle of the year.

Curt Headington, VP of Marketing at Xpedition Archery, shares about the latest in the company as well as his own hunting experience. He begins by talking about Iowa whitetail hunting as well as how you can get an Iowa tag. Moving on with Xpedition Archery, Curt pulls one of the bows up and walks us through the risers and the wheels, differentiating what they got versus the other brands in the marketplace.

Founded in 2015, Hen Outdoors is an online destination for women who enjoy hunting, fishing, bow fishing, archery, or anything outdoors. Our goal is to provide outdoors women with content specifically geared towards women. As well as provide outdoors women with a tight knit, supportive, and inspiring community of 36k+ women who share their passion.

A California based company, we’re devoted to providing women with Women’s Hunts across the US, entertainment, outdoor related discussions, hunting/ fishing tips, stories, and more for women all over the world.

Hen Outdoors has also created a lifestyle apparel brand, allowing women, and young girls, to wear their passions proudly to the gym, to a concert, school, or wherever life may take them.

Arcus Hunting product review with Lucas Mashtare –

Dead Down Wind –

Scent prevention is a process and a routine. Hunters plan and strategize each and every season on how to go undetected for that opportunity of a lifetime. The goal being to reduce your odor signatures to the lowest possible level.

Dead Down Wind uses enzymes – a natural catalyst for change. They break down odors at a molecular level, a process we call Enzyme ScentPrevent® or ESP. The use of enzymes allows Dead Down Wind products to eliminate a wider range of odors. We call this technology 3D+ Broad Spectrum. While some might have you believe the only thing you need to concern yourself with is bacteria related to perspiration, that is simply not the case. Hunters carry many foreign odors to the field that can alert whitetail or other big game animals. The science behind a big game animal’s nose will tell you it’s looking for any telltale odor that might give them an idea of who or what is in the area. That’s why we specifically formulate a broad range of odor control, not just one type of bacteria.

Dead Down Wind does not offer cover scent. Scent prevention is a discipline and process that requires a complete system that focuses on our three-phase system – Laundry, Hygiene and Field – which actively work together to kill bacteria, not just covering odor but annihilating right at the source.

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Obsession Bows –

Based in a one-stoplight town in the state of Georgia, our small-town values center on family, friends, and a never-ending commitment to building the very best products for every caliber of archer. We understand bows are a significant investment for our customers and we value the trust you place in us when you purchase an Obsession. Our drive to excel, to “Change Or Get Left Behind,” enables us to continue to defy expectations and be the technological leader of the industry.

Ramcat –

Concave scoops create an airfoil that eliminate wind planing and forces air to slip over the ferrule and arrow shaft for best-in-class accuracy and impact energy.

Trophy Taker –

Today, the quality and performance of Trophy Taker has expanded to include more vital accessories for today’s performance archer. Everything we build is designed to perform – it’s just that simple. Perform, don’t fail, so you can achieve. What began in the rugged mountains of Montana is now an attitude shared across the country: don’t settle for compromises, there is a better way. We think our customers agree, You Can Settle, or You Can Be a Trophy Taker!

Mule Deer Foundation –

Past, Present, & Future

Over twenty years ago, the concept of giving something back to mule deer was a dream of Emmett Burroughs. As Emmett traveled around the country hunting and filming mule deer, he realized that many of us take this awesome species for granted.

Think about what the world was like in 1988. Mule deer had been extremely abundant right up until the winters of 1983-84. Across the West, the record snowfall lingered long into spring and early summer. Many mule deer and black-tailed deer perished, mostly starving for lack of food covered by snow and from cold temperatures.

A few years later, Emmett observed that mule deer populations had not rebounded from this die-off. Many factors contributed to mule deer not coming back – loss of habitat, predators, poaching, highways crossing through the middle of transitional ranges, and subdivisions being built on winter ranges. State wildlife agencies were busy trying to grow more elk and dealing with endangered species issues.

On top of that, funding to state wildlife agencies was in decline. Mule deer management, which had been a staple of most fish and wildlife agencies, was taken for granted. It was as if mule deer, which were at one time the premier big game species, were no longer worthy of prominence.

Emmett gathered together a few of his close friends and acquaintances and asked them to think back at how much they had taken mule deer for granted. He challenged them with the famous words, “We must give something back to mule deer and black-tailed deer.”

In July 1988, the Mule Deer Foundation was incorporated as a 501(c)3 wildlife conservation organization. Founded in Redding, California, the original Board of Directors developed the mission statement of MDF, “The mission of the Mule Deer Foundation is to ensure the conservation of mule deer, black-tailed deer and their habitat.” As with many wildlife conservation organizations, MDF started having banquet fundraising events to raise money for projects benefiting mule deer.

TAGNBRAG –

Tag N’ Brag started as a notebook of ideas created by David and Dean Giarrizzo while they were in college at Ohio State University. They wanted to create a place where all hunters and fishermen/women could connect, share experiences, and exploit themselves as outdoorsmen/women.

In the fall throughout their college careers, David and Dean would spend countless hours in the car going to and from school to the hunting grounds. They even scheduled classes on the same days as each other so they would have opposite days off to go hunt. Much of the time spent in the car and some in class was focused on jotting down ideas and creating the vision for Tag N’ Brag.

In December 2011, they launched the first version of www.tag-n-brag.com. In less than two years they have turned the outdoor social network into a brand recognized throughout our industry. www.tag-n-brag.com is going to re-launch a new custom designed website at the end of November. We now have an iOS and Android phone application, our own blog, and our own web show on tag-n-brag.tv. We have great plans of expanding the Tag N’ Brag brand even further and look forward to connecting hunters and fishermen/women worldwide.

Own The Season TV –

Art Helin of Dodgeville, Wisconsin, began hunting over 30 years ago under the instruction of his father and grandmother. What started as small game and deer hunting in his home state grew to an obsession to hunt nearly every big game species across North America. Raised in a hunting and fishing family, Michelle began hunting with Art at the age of sixteen and they married three years later. Art’s hunting success and passion for teaching others has led to his pro/field staffer positions for various manufacturers since 1996. Together with his wife, Michelle, and the staff of Art Helin Outdoors, he promotes these companies and the great outdoors by working trade shows, attending retail store events, and providing in-store training to their employees.

Starting in 1998, Art began giving seminars to small audiences for Primos. Since then, he’s traveled across the country speaking at venues large and small, from local sporting clubs to Bass Pro Shops/Cabela’s, the Iowa Deer Classic, and the Field & Stream/Outdoor Life Deer and Turkey Expos. When speaking with people, Art draws upon his own past experience, successes and failures, as well as the over 150 days per year in the field hunting, guiding, and scouting. Michelle joined the seminar circuit in 2013, speaking on safety, first aid, and CPR for the outdoors.

After having planted food plots, practicing woodland management, and completing timber stand improvement and pond projects on his own 40 acres, leases, and properties of friends and neighbors for eighteen years, Art started habitat consultation services in 2015.

Art and his wife, Michelle, are experienced in videography, having filmed for Archer’s Choice Media Productions and the Double Bull Archery video series starting in 1998. They launched their own show, Own the Season, in 2019.