#281 - Start Designing Your Dream Whitetail Farm Right Now With These Food Sources with Steve Hanson
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, we are back in Iowa talking deer hunting with Steve Hanson! Steve bought his first farm in Iowa in the 1990s and has been fanatically chasing whitetails almost his entire life. After many years of success and helping over 100 clients tag their best buck, steve has a couple of tips and tricks when it comes to managing for giant whitetails. We discuss:
- Eating a tag in Iowa
- Continually raising your standards
- The challenges of hunting Iowa as a non-resident
- The Iowa point creep
- Steve's springtime whitetail checklist
- The best food source for your farm
- Getting ready for food plots
- Small tract vs. large tract food plots
- Steve's biggest regret when it comes to hunting
- Guiding In Alaska vs guiding in Iowa
- One thing that whitetail hunters do wrong
- The benefits of hunting specific bucks
And So Much More!
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast. This week, we have a returning guest, Steve Hanson. If you didn't catch the Steve Hanson podcast last October, it was all about making the most of October. And this one is a variety conversation. We cover a lot of different topics. And I hope you guys really enjoy this episode. And no major announcements right now. We're going to have some exciting things coming down the pipeline. I can't tell you the Exodus rival is in stock and we're shipping those. We have Exodus rival bear boxes. So those are the Camlock made in the USA steel boxes that are available on our website now. And if you are getting ready to go to the attack events, be sure to scoop up some Exodus MMT arrows. |
| 0:40.2 | That is it. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Here we go. Lights. Camera! Follow the trail. |
| 0:43.3 | If you know where a deer's betting and you know where he's eating, that deer should be dead. |
| 0:48.3 | If you're passive on a deer, what you're doing is you're teaching. |
| 0:51.6 | I've got 30 bucks in the Michigan record book. Everyone but one has had at least one previous wound on his body. |
| 0:58.2 | Some had as many as four. |
| 1:00.6 | The Exodus podcast. |
| 1:02.5 | Your source for all things, Whiteale. |
| 1:05.6 | This is an encore of the week's recorded an episode with Land Podcast. |
| 1:09.6 | And now we're going to be shifting gears here a little bit. |
| 1:12.0 | First off, once again, thank you for taking the time to sit down. Let us follow us you around for a couple days in life, Steve Hansen. Yeah, no problem. It's pretty interesting. It's cool to buzz around and see what you have going on and all the different projects that are kind of ongoing. Is this one of, would you say this one of your busier times of year? |
| 1:10.5 | Busier on the habitat work for sure. all the different projects that are kind of ongoing. Is this one of, would you say this one of your busier times of year? |
| 1:29.7 | Busier on the habitat work for sure. |
| 1:31.7 | Yep. |
| 1:32.1 | This has been a really challenging year just as far as weather. |
| 1:34.8 | We haven't had the good long periods of frozen ground, which let us get around and work on |
| 1:39.6 | certain projects. |
| 1:40.5 | You know, it'll freeze for a day. |
| 1:41.7 | Then it's muddy for six days. |
| 1:43.4 | And that makes it |
| 1:44.4 | real challenging. Yeah. And so in case anyone hasn't caught, we've done a couple episodes now. |
| 1:50.5 | We did one, we did two last August. And so we talked about kind of your full story as |
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