Most of your hunters believe that mature bucks are all nocturnal, that only move a night.

According to Steve Bartilla, that belief is completely wrong.

Overwhelming majority of ground you go on.

You swear there's as nocturnal as nocturnal can be.

That is really not normal.

That is trained behaviors.

In order to get a chance at a mature buck,

you have to be hunting where they're at in daylight. And Steve talks about how you can quickly train bucks to move a night by hunting the wrong way. Perception is reality for humans. Perception

is reality for White Tails. If they do not see you, if they do not cure you, if they do not

smell you, if they do not feel you, you weren do not smell you, if they do not feel you,

you weren't there. In this episode of the White Tail podcast, presented by Moultrie,

were unpacking why mature bucks seemingly vanished in daylight and how to reverse that

train behavior using terrain habitat and all the different off-season projects that are likely

top of mind with none other than Steve Bartella.

Here we go.

The majority of hunters in those areas, when you got that serious release, you really better be figuring out where those bucks are bad because nine times out of ten, they're literally watching you walk in and walk out.

Steve, welcome to the White Tail podcast. How you doing this morning?

I'm doing great. How about yourself?

I'm doing awesome. I've been looking forward to this all week.

And Steve, for you, I know you've been on some podcasts in the past, but I want to ask you a pile of questions.

I have a bunch of questions I already prepared.

But before we get into management, all the different things that go along with white tail hunting that we're all infatuated with,

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