#184 - Finding a Summer Buck to Kill in November With Don Higgins
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we catch up with Don Higgins. We hear the story of Mel (the #2 typical shot in Illinois). And cover some of the following:
Finding a summer buck to kill in the rut?
What do you see all great parcels having in common?
Summer bucks- Nov 6th ish - you ask this next?
What was one thing you cringe at for what you did previously on a farm?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, folks, what's going on? This is Jake Hofer with Exodus Trail cameras. This week, we have a |
| 0:05.4 | really special episode one that we're very excited to share. It's an episode with Don Higgins, |
| 0:10.2 | and we talk with Don about his Buck Daddy shot this past year, Mel, and it was actually |
| 0:16.4 | within the last 30 days or so. It was officially scored. It comes out to be the number two typical buck shot in Illinois behind |
| 0:22.6 | None other than the Mel Johnson buck which is number one all time and this buck was actually the biggest typical shot with a bow in the last 16 years which is absolutely crazy |
| 0:32.6 | We asked him if he would do anything different about the story of Mel and we also break down how his |
| 0:39.5 | strategies have changed over the years. In the last four years, he's shot his four biggest |
| 0:43.9 | bucks. So we ask him, what is he doing differently now? And just a really good conversation. |
| 0:48.6 | We hope you guys enjoy it. We are going to be in Wisconsin when this episode is live and I always hate to kind of like |
| 0:56.5 | lay out our plan because sometimes schedules change and people you know life happens for other people |
| 1:02.3 | but right now we have a great schedule lined up we're going to be stopping with Joe Rettmeister |
| 1:08.4 | Dan Infault Jeff Sturgis amongst many other guests so it's going to be a great time those are going to be stopping with Joe Rettmeister, Dan Infault, Jeff Sturgis, amongst many other guests. |
| 1:12.1 | So it's going to be a great time. |
| 1:14.4 | Those are going to be White Tail Cribs episodes on our YouTube channel. |
| 1:17.3 | We're going to have a lot of different content coming from this trip and obviously some podcasts too. |
| 1:21.8 | So we hope you guys tune in, check those out. |
| 1:24.5 | And also we actually started an additional podcast here for Exodus, and you guys |
| 1:29.4 | can check that out. Episode one is live, and you can just go to the description here in this podcast |
| 1:35.0 | and go over and check that out. It's called Land Podcast. We're talking about how to buy land. |
| 1:41.0 | So it's interesting, different spin. You can dive into that more if you're interested |
| 1:45.2 | in it. But for now, let's go ahead and get right into this week's episode. |
| 1:48.8 | Lights. Camera! Follow the trailer. |
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