#231 - 25 Years of Hunting Whitetails Across The Midwest- Here's What Jason Michael Has Learned

The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

Jake Hofer

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week we have a great episode from the GAOS in Harrisburg, PA. We sit down with Jason Michael to talk about what he's learned from hunting acorss the country the last 25 years, hunting public land bucks, and not pretending to be better than what you really are.

During this episode, you will learn about;

[01:06] Introduction to the show

[04:12] Meet our guest; Jason Michael

[05:26] Jason's whitetail hunting journey

[10:21] States he has been hunting

[12:31] 2021 hunting lessons

[13:82] "Maybe you are not as good as you think."

[17:00] How much has Jason grown in value during the 25yrs of hunting

[20:33] What should you do during the days that you screw up and don't hunt?

[24:08] His goals for the next year

[28:46] If someone left Jason the keys to their farms, what would he do with them?

[34:01] What to do if someone gave you three years to design your whitetail journey

[40:10] A bit about the 2022 full moon hunting

[44:33] Why Kansas is Jason's favorite state to hunt

[46:26] The number of trail cameras you need in your hunting experience

[41:18] The biggest mistake that people make with trail cameras

[51:34] Things he wishes to have known earlier

[58:06] Why are you not hunting forever?

[01:01:06] Golden nuggets from the guest and how you can connect

Notable Quotes from the Episode

Maybe you are not as good as you think.
You might be good at what you do in your hometown, only to find that you are just starting when you interact with the big boys.
Making mistakes and learning from the experiences is part of the process.
Everybody wants the product, but no one wants to pay the price.
Go out and make mistakes because that's part of growing. There's no better education than that which comes from experience.
Getting yourself better each day is all that matters.
Believe in yourself and give yourself a chance.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What is going on, everyone? This is Jay Koffer. Welcome. This week we have a great episode with Jason. Michael. Jason is a, I don't know how to describe Jason. I would say he's a hunting fanatic, but also just a great person, someone you want to be around, somebody you want to talk to, and we're privileged to do so. And he's been on the podcast here a handful of times and probably one of the
0:21.5	best episodes we ever did was lost at the Iowa Deer Classic of 2019 I want to say it was gone
0:27.1	forever so this episode we cover a variety of things we talk about general hunting scouting
0:32.8	rut just a good old deer conversation the best way I can describe this and it's really really good. So I hope you guys enjoy it. Before we get into the episode, I have a handful of announcements. First one being, if you haven't caught our other episodes or our emails or social posts, the April trade-up program is coming to a close this Saturday. If you're listening to this, when this goes live live and to keep it short basically any camera any
0:54.6	brand doesn't matter you can trade it in and save $75 off any render or render bundle and all you
1:01.5	do is use the code upgrade at checkout and you will get a return shipping label for your trading cameras
1:08.7	and then you send those in and then once we receive that we send you your
1:11.4	brand new exodus render or render bundle so pretty cool way to get rid of some cameras that
1:15.6	really aren't doing anything for you and get the reliable exodus render so something kind of
1:20.0	cool that we've been sitting on for really years now we wanted to give it a shot and the response so
1:24.8	far has been really great and a lot of people have taken advantage of that so if you
1:28.0	are on the fence you have until this saturday april 30th and then also be sure to subscribe to
1:36.0	the email newsletter that's all i'm going to say we have a ton of really special and exciting
1:41.8	announcements coming down the pipeline i'm not just saying that you're
1:45.2	going to want to know what's going on. We have something very limited and something that is going to
1:51.4	probably surprise a lot of you guys. So that's where I'll just leave it. And hope you guys have a
1:56.4	great rest of your week. Here is this episode with Jason Michael at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this past
2:02.6	February. Here we go.
2:04.6	Lights.
2:06.3	Camera! Follow the trail.
2:07.5	If you know where a deer's betting and you know where he's eating, that deer should be dead.
2:11.7	If you're passive on a deer, what you're doing is you're teaching.
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