#394 - Why Late Season Is the Most UNDERRATED Time to Kill a Mature Buck with Kyle Heuerman of Team Radical
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
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Late season rewards planning, discipline, and patience
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Snow on the ground changes everything — especially food selection
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Beans outperform corn in snow; corn offers more season-long versatility
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Mobile blinds can be a massive advantage when knocking down corn
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Exit strategy matters just as much as entry
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Water holes are an underutilized, high-impact tool
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Mental burnout causes more late-season mistakes than lack of skill
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You can still kill late-season deer without food plots if you adapt
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, talking about late season. It's becoming my favorite, honestly. The rut is just so crazy. |
| 0:05.3 | Man, I put a lot of time and effort in just to get humbled during the rut a lot. |
| 0:09.6 | This week's episode of the White Tail podcast presented by Moultrie. We're talking about |
| 0:13.5 | late season hunting with Kyle from Team Radical. It's very strategic on how it's going to work, |
| 0:19.4 | because let's not forget late season, you're dealing with a lot of eyeballs, a lot of noses. You've got to try to get that win exactly right. Even if you are in a blind, still a really good odds that you can get nailed. For a lot of people, late season is one of their favorite times of the year. If you have the spot, you have the conditions, it can be a great opportunity. But with that said, it is one of the most challenging times if you don't have that setup. |
| 0:42.3 | Like right now, with snow on the ground, I prefer the beans for sure. |
| 0:46.3 | No snow on the ground, 100%. |
| 0:49.3 | I prefer probably knocking down corn throughout the majority of season, and it's no question they're on the beans right now. If you've struggled with late season hunting in the past, where you're looking just to get a little bit better for next year, maybe you need to recognize that you need to make some more late season plans if you can. This is the episode for you. Here we go. Yeah, and I think a lot of it too, people are burnt |
| 1:12.1 | out too, you know? People go so hard for the rut, they get sloppy. You know, I always said |
| 1:17.0 | those little bitty mistakes are the ones that cost you. Oh, we got Kyle, team radical. It's, |
| 1:22.5 | we're about to get, I think, hit with a bunch of snow. It's, uh, it's late season. I know you love late season hunting. |
| 1:30.7 | I do. We got to get you on there because people either love it or hate it. So, and for the guys |
| 1:35.7 | that hate it, we're going to give them some ideas if they don't have the food plot. If they don't |
| 1:41.1 | have like the late season set up what they could potentially do so |
| 1:44.2 | before we get into all of that um tell us just a little bit about you kyle i've followed you from afar |
| 1:49.7 | for a long time but for folks who maybe haven't done so what do you have to tell them yeah so uh i'm the |
| 1:57.8 | owner of team radical we create online hunting videos have for for years, started out doing DVDs back in 2008. |
| 2:05.6 | Kind of the same era that when White Tail Adrenaline was started, we did all the consumer shows together. |
| 2:10.6 | Had a lot of fun doing that, but obviously we got older and got more responsibilities and went to the web and thank goodness we did. |
| 2:20.4 | And yeah, so primarily our number one thing we hunt is white tails. |
| 2:25.2 | But we do hunt a little bit of everything and anything. |
| 2:28.6 | Got some really good coyot hunters on the team. |
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