Alex Rutledge & Ben Moore American Roots Outdoors

Alex: Well, Bruce it's an honor to be on the show with you and thank you for what you do for hunters across America and Whitetail Rendezvous and I'm honored to be on your show and I'm excited about the new project that my wife and I and our team has created.

It's called American Roots Outdoors TV, (https://www.facebook.com/AmericanRootsOutdoors/) and what our whole focus is, is to promote heritage, family and the cultures of each team member and the people we hunt with. And our constitutional rights as outdoors men and women and our Christianity. What we're doing, is we're introducing something new, and fresh to the outdoor industry, Bruce.

What we're gonna do initially is start this off very slow and grow this brand with our partners sponsors on webisodes. Our mission is to launch this in January and we're capturing all our footage and we're gonna do 26 episodes a year starting out, and we're excited about this.

American Roots Outdoors TV

Bruce: Well, tell me about the format of the show and then we're gonna get to all four parts that you just talked about. Heritage, family, our constitution, culture, and faith. How did this all get started?

Alex: Well, believe it or not, Bruce, I created Bloodline Outdoors in 2010 with another team, and I was an owner and host of it, for approximately six years, and sometimes things just don't work out. I sold the business in 2014 and after my partnerships that I was in and anyway, it didn't work out. But we continued to support Bloodline even though I'm not the host and we wish nothing but the best for Bloodline and its team members.

My daughter one morning goes, "Dad, I know you're wanting to do something else, but Dad, I've done some homework for you, I've done some research for you, that stands for what you're about, Dad." And she goes, "I've come up with the name "Roots"." She got on the internet and researched the name Roots and Roots if you look up the definition, it all goes back to many things, especially our families.

"I've come up with the name "Roots"."

Our whole focus is to promote family, a clean oriented show and webisodes, and hopefully it touches families and motivates them to want to do more with their families and encourage others to want to be good stewards of the land and conservationists, etc.

That's the whole mission statement. So my daughter come up with the name and we went on GoDaddy and searched the name American Roots Outdoors and it was not protected so we own those names, .TV, .com, .org, .net, we own all of it. We're launching this thing and it's all about us, it's not about me even though I'm the host and owner.

Even though I'm gonna be promoting our partners and our teams. We've got 7 teams that we're creating across the nation so there'll be 14 people. All 14 of these people have stuck with me through the thick and thin and when I've been in the valley, so to say, and they've showed their true integrity and friendship to me.

I also have seven board members that are very successful business people that's involved in the outdoor industry that I go to for advice when I make decisions. We have a total of 14 and 7 will be 21 members in our group.

Bruce: Well, thanks for that. What's the format of the show? If somebody clicks in, what're they gonna see, hear and what's it all about?

Alex: It's all about myself and our team members traveling the country and maybe into their hometowns of hunting with their family members or friends or farmers whoever it is. And you're gonna get to see different cultures captured on film and lifestyles and techniques. And it's gonna be a knowledgeable entertaining webisode episodes.

to see different cultures captured on film and lifestyles and techniques

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Wally Carmichael Men of Abundance

The Men of Abundance Community (http://menofabundance.com/) is a community of men who strive to be abundant in everything we do in life. The greatest men among us have an abundant vs. a scarcity mentality. No one man is better than the next, but we can all be better than the man we was yesterday. "Become the change that you wish to see in the World" ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Yeah, Men of Abundance originally started out because I am writing a book called, Living Your Life of Abundance. As I was going through and writing the book chapter by chapter, I realized there's too much of me injected into the book and I didn't want all of me and all of my background and all of my lifestyle in the book, I wanted other people in the book as well.

In podcasting, as amazing as it is, I was introduced to Ryan Daniel Moran's Freedom Fast Lane. Wally Carmichael Men Abundance

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Ryan wanted to get in contact and have one-on-one conversations with guys like Grant Cardone (http://www.grantcardone.com/) and they guys from the Shark Tank and all these different people in different industries. But of course, you would have to pay a lot of money to talk with these guys. Wally Carmichael Men Abundance

So what he did was he created conference in Austin, where he would invite all of these speakers to come of course, and he would pay them. And then he had guests come who were gonna pay him so that he could pay his guests. I thought, "Well, that's amazing." That's about the time I discovered I could be a podcaster. I could start my own podcast and I did basically the same thing. Wally Carmichael Men Abundance

I started my podcast so that I could talk with other influencers and gather information about other people living a life of abundance. Specifically, men, but I do talk to women on the show as well, because let's face it, we have a lot to learn from women, right? Wally Carmichael Men Abundance

Bruce: Yes.

Wally: So, really the whole thing about Men of Abundance is paying it forward. Living a life of abundance and everything that we do in life in our relationships, in our faith, in our vocation, whether it's a job or a business, or both.

If you have a job on the side also we talk a lot about that on the show. We talk a lot about fatherhood, I've had guests on out of the Navy Seal on, David who wrote the book about Navy Seals and how they raise their sons.

We talk a lot about relationships, quite frankly, we talk a lot about business. Since I'm retired, since I'm a veteran, an entrepreneur, I still work a full-time job as well. I attract veteran entrepreneurs, so we talk a lot about that. We just have a great time. We talk a lot about different stuff.

So generally, I want it to be 30 to 40 minutes, but hey, sometimes the conversations just go on, and they're very, very amazing conversations. We just have a conversation. We just talk and share our kick in the gut moment, I like for my guests to come on and share that moment in life, whether in personal or business that was just a kick in the gut.

Because anybody who's trying to progress in life you're gonna have failures. Don't try to avoid them. Those are fuel for your fire. Those are nutrition for your brain. Those failures are where you learn. Then we go right into talking about that pivot point, that enough is enough. That point in your life where you said, "This is enough, I'm not gonna live this way no more, I'm not gonna be consumed by porn and alcohol and drugs, I'm not gonna be consumed by working for some guy or some person that I just can't stand that doesn't treat me right. I'm not gonna live this way." And they make that pivot point, they make that decision.

We go into that and then we basically talk about what they're doin...

Brian Sparks Lucky 7 Brand

Brain Sparks Lucky 7 Brand is the owner of Nelson Creek Outdoors LLC.

He started the company to help others get the most out of the often limited time sportsmen get to spend in the woods. With his own busy schedule, Brian wanted to have products that could help him connect with good deer even if he was unable to spend as much time preparing as he would like. Brain Sparks Lucky 7 Brand

By designing quality products that attract and hold deer, he greatly increased his success in the field. Now he shares these products with other busy hunters to help them achieve their hunting goals. Brain Sparks Lucky 7 Brand

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Brian: Basically we only sell it during the season. In fact, what is . . . Today is Tuesday. We just actually started yesterday, delivering and mailing out scent. We bring it in a couple of times a week during this time of year. The scent, by the time it gets here, is no more than three days old. It stays refrigerated. We bottle it. We ship it. We get it to you basically as close to steaming as we possibly can. That's really important with deer urine products. The number one thing that drives effectiveness of it is how soon you can get it. No matter what preservative you use, the deer won't detect in it. Fresh deer urine will go bad. By the time it's four months old, it's time to throw it out. Brain Sparks Lucky 7 Brand

Bruce: So how do you control . . . You just said four months old. You sell it so sunlight can get in it. I understand that sunlight and air really breaks down the chemical composition of the deer urine. Is that correct?

Brian: Yes. Any light in there, if you put it in a clear bottle, which a lot of places do, the UV light gets into that bottle, and it'll break it down even faster. That's why we prefer the solid white plastic bottles that sunlight doesn't penetrate. Of course, we don't fill them all the way to the top. There's no air in there. We only fill them up for the season. In fact, we started with one bottle here, doing one bottling this Monday. We'll do another one this weekend. We're not keeping anything year to year. We're not bottling it in February and hoping to sell it now. We're basically . . . We have contracted with a deer farm that we found was the most cleanly place, as far as no contamination in the urine. We knew exactly what we were getting.

We only fill them up for the season.

Just basically, this place had the greatest product and could deliver to us fresh all the time. We make sure that it . . . I can't express enough. There's really two things to Lucky 7 that make it great. One is its freshness, and the other is that it is a dual scent with a secret combination of some [inaudible:00:04:42] buck in it to...

What once started as a tribute to his Grandpa has now become Grandpa Ray Outdoors – John O’Brion’s organic approach to wildlife nutrition. From deer fuel to wildlife attractants that work, every product is all natural. Grandpa Ray Outdoors offers great winter energy sources for deer, such as turnips and rutabaga. They offer only the most innovative products and services for wildlife, food plots, crops, lawn and gardens. It’s not just what you have in the ground this year, but what you’re going to plant next year - and how you can set yourself up for success for years down the road.

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Make sure you tune in to part two of John O’Brion, Grandpa Ray Outdoors. He's going to be talking about creating funnels, creating pinch points, and creating cover so you can get to your blind or your tree stand without being seen. How does he do it? He does it with something called Egyptian weed. He does it with a lot of tall growing forage-type products that he knows works and he's got a great friend in Wisconsin that's helped him figure out how to do this and how to make the right crops for the right situation to have deer actually move toward your stand. Brad Jones is his friend who's helped him with this.

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I'm with John O’Brion from Grandpa Ray and this is part two. We've got a really good show going. We've got some good thought patterns on making deer a goal where you want them to go in using forage and different types of crops. John, let's stay with what your buddy has talked about, Brad Jones, about how he moved deer or creates pathways and funnels and specific areas where deer are going to use so then he's got a stand set up pretty much maxed out. Let's continue talking about that.

One place where I invited you to come visit when you come over into Wisconsin is a place called Drop Tine Hollow. There are some videos that we put out there that we've shown people and they were able to see how that was set up. A few little terms I'll use and I'm trying to paint people a little bit of a visual just for the words now is I love creating scrape lines along the woods' edges. Other reasons for that some people overlook is if you're planting corn and beans. Think like a farmer again, when you plant corn and beans along those woods' edges which tend to be shadier, they tend to not do very well. Why do that? The clover blends will tend to tolerate that better. Another way of looking at it, trying to maximize the amount of forage that you're providing to your deer. Create this little edging, create some really good perennial forages, utilize that area to the best of whatever it's able to grow. If you're going to be doing some screenings, we will put that out there and it could be 30 yards out, which is something some people might want to consider is if their bow hunting in their effective range, that's the same as 25 yards, 30 yards. Maybe plant your perennials out to that point so when a deer is out in that field and if they're just outside your scrape line, your perennial clover, your perennial legume blend, it's easier to range those deer, if that makes sense.

Yes, that makes a lot of sense.

A lot of guys I work with, if they do want to plant corn, corn can be an effective screening product. Think like a farmer and you should really rotate your corn and soybeans every year. I have a number of people that'll plant strips. If you do have a slope, there's a term called contour strip farmer where you'll run and you’ll alternate the corn and beans. You're also being a conservationist where you're helping hold soil. You can run a strip of corn and then the next strip got to be the beans and then the following strip again will be corn. Use corn as a food source or destination source or even a screening source where depending on how your stand is laid out on your property, is to help get you into the stand.

DIY Shawn Greathouse

Short Bio: I have been happily married for 21 years to an extremely supportive and understanding wife.... Stacey. We have four children and archery/hunting is a lifestyle that our entire family lives and enjoys.

I have been hunting big game my entire life, and specifically bow-hunting since 1993.

Now, I lack only the moose specie for the "Super Ten" AKA "Poor Man’s Slam". In the last seven years, I have taken several white-tail bucks over 160" with the largest grossing 196".

I currently compete on the National ASA 3-D Archery tour where I am a Factory Staff shooter for Mathews Archery  DIY Shawn Greathouse https://www.facebook.com/shawn.greathouse.9?fref=ts

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I am excited to talk about the including youth and women in our hunting heritage as that is an important thing within our household being that both my wife and older kids hunt and have had some success.

In regards to the three things that I am passionate about:

#1 I have really been enjoying filming hunts and putting together short films to show family and friends some of the country and sight/sounds along the journey of the adventure.

To have those close encounters and to be able to share those with non-hunters in a tasteful way is a lot of fun.

#2 I have been passionate about helping folks that are new to archery set up and get the most out of their equipment.

#3 I have as well as my children have been involved and passionate with 3-D archery competition.

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Wesley Caruthers Talks about Bucks, Gobbles and Gills TV

On my property here, I got four places. Two places are just your regular, average salt blocks that have dissolved into the ground, and then I have two others in some pretty high traffic areas that I know close to the core area of where some of my really nice bucks stay.

You can find me on Facebook. Wesley Caruthers, Grunt Gobble & Gills on Facebook. We do have an Instagram and Twitter, but we don't keep up with it very much. It's mainly Facebook and our webpage, which is www.gggoutdoorstv.com.

Bruce: So are you between the bedding area and the feeding area, or where they go to get the water? What kind of terrain have you put mineral sites in?

'm close to a water source. The salt and stuff, it's salty. They like to have a drink after that

Wesley: I'm close to a water source. The salt and stuff, it's salty. They like to have a drink after that, so I'm pretty close to a couple of creeps on the property.

Bruce: Now, when do you start looking at your food plots? It's March, whatever, 8th today. What are you doing as far as planning your food plots, or working them?

Wesley: We've, well, we're always trying to find new places and new spots to put stuff, clearing land and just keeping the property ready for it. Depending on what we plant, really depends on when we do it. We're a really big into spring gobbler hunting. So we like to put stuff with some chicory and some other stuff, [inaudible 00:09:32] that the turkeys like, but the deer love as well.

Bruce: So how many trail cameras do you put out on your private lands?

Wesley: Oh, gosh. That's a tough question. Between all of us, wow. I don't have a number between all of us that we put out.

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Steve Flores is a passionate mountain hunter and credits his love for hunting to his dad who took the time to introduce him to be where he is today. A lifelong whitetail hunter, Steve knows his way around the woods and shares his knowledge on mountain whitetail bow hunting through a number of pages of major outdoor magazines such as Bow and Arrow Hunting, Bow Hunting World and Deer Hunting. He also writes articles for John Livingston's DeerLab. In addition, he serves as a pro staff for Matthews. Steve reveals hunting a mature whitetail is probably one of the hardest things to do, and then when you put a bow in your hand it makes it even harder. He adds hunting in the mountains increases the challenge even more, and he’s always been drawn to that challenge of match of wits with what he thinks is one of the smartest animals God ever created.

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Let’s connect with Steve Flores. Steve is a passionate hunter, enjoys chasing mountain whitetails in the native Southern West Virginia. Steve credits his love for hunting to his dad who took the time to introduce him to become what he is today, a lifelong whitetail hunter. Steve shares knowledge of mountain whitetail bow hunting through a number of pages of major outdoor magazines such as Bow and Arrow Hunting, Bowhunting World and Deer & Deer Hunting. He also writes articles for Jon Livingston's DeerLab. His insightful and helpful tips can also be found at various websites throughout the internet. In addition, he serves as a Pro-Staff for Matthews and uses this Under Armour gear exclusively for all his hunt.

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Steve Flores WV Mountain Hunter

We're going to talk to Steve Flores. Steve Flores is a Pro-Staff member for Matthews. This guy writes a lot of great articles. He writes some content for Jon Livingston down there at DeerLab. Steve writes for Bow and Arrow Hunting, Bowhunting World, Deer & Deer Hunting, Dan Schmidt up in Iola, Wisconsin. This guy knows his way around the woods and he knows his way around the pen. Steve Flores, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.

Let's just jump right into the show and talk about why you love hunting whitetails?

The biggest thing is the chess match that’s involved in it. That's one of the main things. Hunting the mature whitetail is to me probably one of the hardest things to do. When you put a bow in your hand, it makes it even harder. For me, someone who hunts in the mountains that increases the challenge even more. I've always been drawn to that challenge of match of wits with what I think is probably one of the smartest animals God ever created. I always like to test myself against the animal to see how I match up. I don't always win but sometimes I do.

We win enough to keep us coming back, don’t we?

Yeah, just enough to keep you come back for a little bit more.

Let's talk about the terrain in West Virginia. I know we've got readers all over North America, so share with us where you hunt, what it looks like and how difficult it really is to match wits with a mature whitetail buck?

The terrain is nothing but mountains. There are no food plots. There are no CRP fields. It's basically just wooded mountains. The biggest challenge is, unlike hunting in Midwest, there are no established feeding locations and bedding locations. Deer can feed in bed in multiple locations in different days, different times of the year. Actually pinpointing an area where a deer is going to feed in the evenings is almost impossible because you can't predict which acorn tree that this buck is going to play when he gets up out of his bed. On top of that, you can't really predict which thicket this buck is going to bed in before he gets up to go to one of 50 acorn trees dropping acorns. It's impossible to figure out. That's the biggest challenge is putting yourself in a...

Michael Lee – Co-Owner Backwoods Life "Yeah, a high tech redneck at its finest".

: Let's just jump right into Backwoods Life and how it started, why it started, and where you're going with it.

Michael: Oh yeah, Backwoods Life. This will be our 11th season on TV starting around July in 2015 on Sportsman Channel, or Wild TV up in Canada. It started, like I said about 10 or 12 years ago. Kevin and I, my co-host/co-owner, we met at a hunting store actually in Florida. Just a random sequence of events fell into place for us to cross paths to brainstorm on this idea. We had another co-owner/co-founder Trey Wetherington with us back years ago and we started what was called then Southern Backwoods Adventures, and that just got really hard for a lot of people to remember and say, and we were Southern Outdoors and Southern Backwoods Outdoors and every other combination of stuff you can remember. So we just changed our name to Backwoods Life about 4 or 5 years ago. That did a lot of good things for us. Helped the brand grow. Trey switched positions. Woody Sullivan, our co-host now, he took Trey's place as a co-owner and co-host. Trey is still involved with the show as well but we've got a good team of folks around us. We have a lot of fun. We chase black tail, elk, quail, deer, turkeys. You name it we get after it. Try to have a lot of fun and just kind of show you what we do and little southern Georgia rednecks get out of the woodwork every once in a while and get to have fun.

Man 1: That sounds great. Now if you had to encapsulate the main theme of your show, what would that be?

Michael: I think the Backwoods Life show itself really goes into detail in each episode about a place, about a person, about a outfitter, to kind of show how that place relates to the backwoods life or that person relates to a backwoods lifestyle. That's a broad term. The Backwoods Life goes all across the board with what anybody can interrupt that but for us it's kind of getting out there away from the real world if you will and enjoying the outdoors in the purest form as possible and just having a good time. Whether you're hunting or you're just out there driving through the mud or walking through a creek bottom, just enjoying the backwoods as they are. That's kind of what our show is about. You'll see a lot of different scenarios in there from our crew members that help us make the show possible, ourselves and things in our lives, and then the people we humble and the locations we go to. You'll see more about those kinds of things. It's not really all about the kill. It's about the hunt and about how we find them, showing who we are and what we do.

Man 1: Let's just stay right there and talk about the hunting tradition, because you just talked about the hunting tradition. Yes, we all like to put the buck on the ground, put the turkey on the ground, there's no doubt about it. But it's more than that, isn't it?

When I think back to when I first started hunting, I was 8 or 9 years old

Michael: Absolutely. When I think back to when I first started hunting, I was 8 or 9 years old or whatever as far as deer hunts go with my dad, and I sit back and I remember those days and if we saw a deer that was just an added bonus, and the good Lord knows if we killed one it was a great day but just remembering those times of us sitting in the stand together and that tradition being passed on you just get that appreciation for the little things in the outdoors as far as the animals you see, you know deer you see, turkeys you see, whatever. Just knowing that you're somewhere that [inaudible]. You just feel like you are apart of something greater than what you are, and that to me is what it's all about. Just having that feeling of I am right where I'm supposed to be right now, and that's just hard for some people to understand but for those that kind of get what I'm saying,

Using scent control or sprays to mitigate your scent is crucial for hunters. You also have to make sure that every piece of equipment and clothing is covered up. Every little thing you can do to help control your scent is a little piece of the puzzle that’s going to turn you into a more successful hunter. Brian Gibbs is huge on that philosophy. He goes the whole nine yards with Be The Tree cover scents: from the body wash and shampoos, to the laundry soaps, to the scent-away bags. If a cameraman is with Brian, he makes sure that guy’s covered up as well. All these factors (including ScentLok camo) contribute to Brian’s success in professional hunting.