#410 - You Don't Need Money, Big Land, or Fancy Gear to Kill Big Whitetails—You Just Need This One Thing with Jeff Hopkins
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
We Discuss:
- Details separate average hunters from elite ones
- Big bucks don't move like younger deer
- Movement and noise ruin more hunts than scent
- Your walk in matters as much as your setup
- Neighbor pressure can work FOR you
- Most hunters carry too much gear
- Stillness kills more deer than aggression
- First sits are best—don't burn stands
- Patience creates opportunities for giants
- You don't need money to kill big bucks
And So Much More!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You don't need a lot of money to kill big white tail. |
| 0:02.1 | You just got to pay attention to details. I can teach you to kill a big white tail. Welcome to the white tail podcast presented by Maltry. There's three things for certain in life. You're going to pay taxes, you're going to die, and they'll always be lazy hunters. This week we are joined by Jeff Hopkins to talk about paying attention to detail using neighboring pressure to your advantage and why gadgets and gear don't matter |
| 0:21.9 | along with so many other topics here today. |
| 0:24.5 | All these things are detail-oriented things that can change the levels of being a 150 |
| 0:30.2 | killer to a 170, 180, 190, even 200. |
| 0:33.2 | If you think you need money, fancy gear, or the best property to kill a giant white tail, |
| 0:37.6 | this episode might change your mind. Let's get into it. Here we go. Jeff, I'm really, I've been looking forward to this. We've been chatting here. And I don't know who you are. And so I want to get to know who you are. And we've chatted and you've been to bow hunting for 47 years. And this is the first podcast you ever done. So for everyone and myself included, |
| 0:56.9 | tell me a little bit about yourself and kind of maybe how you got introduced to hunting and what |
| 1:01.6 | 47 years of bow hunting and a lot has changed in the world of bow hunting over 47 years and just |
| 1:08.0 | whole can of worms here. Yes, yes. |
| 1:11.3 | So I was introduced into bow hunting by my grandfather in 1979. |
| 1:17.2 | He was a big fisherman, a big hunter. |
| 1:19.5 | So always enjoyed going with him. |
| 1:22.9 | And he taught all of his grandkids to hunt and fish. |
| 1:25.4 | And it was very important to him to teach us to do it the |
| 1:29.7 | right way. So, and what I mean by that is going to houses and getting permission to hunt, |
| 1:35.7 | permission to fish if you want to fish a pond or do any of that. It was very, very important to him. |
| 1:40.4 | So to pass on something that he had taught us like that meant a lot to us, and he actually |
| 1:45.8 | even carried on into my life, you know, further on to doing things the right way. So I was a UPS |
| 1:53.0 | driver. I did that for 33 years and raised three girls. Now I have seven grandkids. So, you know, hunting has always been a passion |
| 2:02.7 | of mine, and it's been something that I haven't shared a lot with a lot of people. A lot of people |
| 2:08.5 | don't know who I am, but I've killed several big deer. I mean, around my area, people know who I am, |
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