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This week is a video version of a live Q&A we did at the Iowa Deer Classic with Lee Lakoski and Skip Slide.

I guarantee our fire has way more pressure than anywhere you're hunting.

There's not a public piece in the state private that has more pressure than we're putting on.

We basically hammer it until we kill him.

I just shot him October 10 at 10 o'clock in the morning, seven and a half a year old years. It was 241. I broke my own rules because it works out. In this episode, we're breaking down some of the biggest myths, talking about pressure, food plots, and the so-called rules that might be actually holding you back. For me, it would have to be food. I mean, that brings me to don't go fishing without bait. I would say properly managed timber is equally as impactful as food plots and reality. I wanted to give Lee, Skip, and the Owad Deer Classic a huge thank you for allowing the Whitetail platform to record this seminar and share it with all of you. I hope you guys really enjoy it. Let's go and get right into it. You know, if you guys had good regulations, if you had common sense,

you'd actually have a lot of three-year-olds, you'd have a lot of four-year-olds, you'd have a lot of five-year-olds, and then you could say it is easy to kill those three-year-olds, because in Iowa, it is. In a world where people are looking for rules to kill mature bucks, What is one deer hunting rule that you break every season?

So think of conventional wisdom.

You can't do that.

That's against the rules.

That's a cardinal sin.

What cardinal sins are you breaking every year and finding success?

For mine is hunting the same stand or same area multiple days.

And even on field edges.

You know, we just wait until it is a difference between getting out when it's like gray dark compared to like dark dark, black dark. And then when it gets, you just wait until it gets black dark, you walk out and the deer basically look at you, you know, and they run a little bit, they just, they're right back. But you've seen that over the years like, you know, we,, it's some people, well, he can't, you know, disturb them too much or whatever else, how much pressure. But it really makes no difference on ours. If I'm hunting a deer, I'm after them every single day, you know, until, until you get your shot at them. And like I said, it's more pressure. Like people say, man, I can hunt your farm, I guarantee our farm has way more pressure than anywhere you're hunting. There's no, there's not a public piece in the state private that has more pressure than we're putting on ours. Because we're, especially, you know, we have several different farms. If one of them has a couple of deer that we're hunting, we're hunting every single day, basically in the same areas in the mornings might, you might be in the timber off of a field. If he's coming into a field, we're there at night, but we basically hammer it until we kill him. But, you know, the thing is that kind of the whole back, you know, where people, we used to say, you know, stay out of your timber, keep it a, you have sanctuary stuff. That's what, like for Skip and I, we're out on our farm every single day, like through the whole summer, then we're going out and checking feeders, and checking cameras, we're putting out mineral stations, we're doing checking soil samples, they're doing something. So they're used to us every single day. And so when we go to hunting, we're kind of the same way, you know, you're hitting stuff, you know, at least once a day

or a couple times a week or whatever. So to a deer, really July doesn't look any different

than November to them. And so by keeping that presence in there throughout the whole year,

but like through the summer, I'm basically a lot of them checking the feeder. We have, you know,

like I said, it's not feeders to kill anything on.

We have plenty of food.

They have food all over. It's basically we use the, you know, all the protein pellets and all that stuff to keep them healthy and try to, you know, try to avoid the EHD with them. And that's one way you can, you know, help them keep them healthy and to live through that kind of stuff. So every time I go out there, I'm just hitting a button on there to make sure it's working.

And you can see right on your cameras, five minutes after you leave, it can be new and they're all coming on. and to live through that kind of stuff. So every time I go out there, I'm just hitting a button on there to make sure it's working.

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