Some people make excuses and some people find solutions.

And I am a firm believer that our most valuable tool as a deer hunter is our mind.

In this episode of the White Tail podcast, we are joined by West Delks, a land consultant who specializes in helping hunters create predictable opportunities on mature bucks.

If you want something different from every other deer hunter, you gotta be willing to be different.

So there's some radical things that we do that may get scoffed at or laughed at,

but hopefully the results can speak for themselves.

We cover building high-efficiency trail camera setups,

how to actually manipulate deer movement, what separates farms you can kill big deer on versus versus ones you can't. You can't take what a property doesn't give you. And you might have the most amazing stand location in the world. But if you got to go through 400 yards of timber and bust out every deer to get to it, you got to stay out. All right, Wes, welcome to the White Tail podcast. How you doing?

Fantastic.

Great to be here, Jake. I'm looking forward to it.

Yeah.

No, it's, I've been looking forward to this as well.

You are one of the unique people in the world of White Tails that has seen probably more ground than just about anyone.

You've interfaced with some of the most hardcore ear hunters and probably

some folks that were just starting out and wanted to make sure they got on the right path

from the beginning. So, which I feel is a pretty fair demographic of the people that listen to this

podcast. So really appreciate hopping on here. I know, are you done on the consulting trail now for the year?

I am. I always want to look at properties when the leaves are off the trees so that way we can

fully evaluate the quality of the cover when we need to, that being the wintertime. So I typically

end my consulting season in Wisconsin, Minnesota,

and the Dakotas, finished up here at the end of April in northern Minnesota. And I joke that

there's two times a year in northern Minnesota, there's August and then there's winter. And that

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