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The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

#411 - Why Your Hunting Property Isn't Producing Big Bucks (And How to Fix It) with Thomas Mlsna

The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

Jake Hofer

Sports, Wilderness

4.9616 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the WHTL Podcast, your source for Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests. In this episode, we're back in the studio with a Q&A from the Whitetail Master Academy with Thomas Mlsna.

We Discuss:

  • Pressure kills more opportunities than bad habitat
  • Food plots alone won't hold mature bucks
  • Native browse is the backbone of deer nutrition
  • Diversity in cover > just more cover
  • Bedding must match wind, terrain, and security
  • Access design determines huntability
  • Most hunters hunt too aggressively, too often
  • Timber work creates the fastest habitat ROI
  • Early season bucks prioritize security + food
  • Habitat without discipline won't produce results

And So Much More!

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https://bit.ly/WhitetailMasterAcademy

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, what is going on? Welcome back to the White Tail podcast presented by Moultry. This week, we have a Q&A session with Thomas Milsna from the White Tau Master Academy. If you're a member, you may have already watched this. But I want to bring this to everyone's attention. We cover a wide variety of topics across the country, habitat-related deer hunting strategy, and I hope you guys really enjoy this

0:21.4

episode. It's about turkey season. When this goes live, Illinois and where I'm at,

0:26.7

turkey season will have been open for one day. And I'm not as into turkey hunting as I used to

0:31.6

be, but I'm pretty excited to get out for a couple mornings. And using the Multry app and the

0:36.4

smart AI filtering system, I'm

0:39.1

able to change basically my feed to just deer in turkeys or just turkeys and cleans up the

0:44.2

entire feed to where I see there's where there's some birds. And so I use that feature a lot on

0:50.5

Moultry with their app. And if you're running Maltries and you're not using it,

0:54.4

I encourage you to do so.

0:55.8

And then also over the years,

0:57.3

I have found more and more value of having a turkey scope

1:01.1

on top of my turkey gun, my shotgun.

1:04.0

And Hawk has the vantage IR.

1:06.2

It has a illuminated scope.

1:09.1

So you can really pick out exactly where you want to aim on the turkey's head and you can save using the code WHTL at Hawk Optics. I'm telling you, if you stick to the disc lining up the beads, that's what I did my whole life. That's what I did growing up. But having a turkey scope on top of the gun just has a lot, gives you a lot more confidence. And I am happy to lend out my gun and let people borrow it and use it for turkey hunting and use that full setup because sometimes when the birds don't cooperate, you get one chance. They want to make sure you can make a count. And we going through some different housekeeping here I'm really excited to say latitude is a proud partner of the

1:48.7

white tail podcast and I've been using the latitude products for multiple years now I've bought

1:54.0

their carbon sticks I've gifted them to people because I love them so much they're made in the

1:58.1

USA they're super quiet they're so easy to set up. And I absolutely

2:03.2

love what they're doing from the Grit series. If you haven't watched that before, I encourage you

2:07.7

to go over there. It's really entertaining to do a great job. But beyond that, their products

2:11.3

are top of the line and they work and they're excellent people behind the brand. So I'm

2:15.8

really excited to be working with latitude.

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