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The Southern Outdoorsmen Hunting Podcast

486 - MASTERING HILL COUNTRY FEED TREES with Scott Seales

The Southern Outdoorsmen Hunting Podcast

Andrew Maxwell & Jacob Myers

Wilderness, Sports

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Today our buddy Scott Seales is back on the show to discuss his bread and butter - hunting mature bucks on feed trees! Most of our past guests who talk about feed trees come from a big woods, riverbottom setting - but Scott has found success with this tactic in hilly pine country in central Alabama. This is a must-listen episode of you are wanting to target feed trees for mature bucks! Subjects include: Why you NEED TO BE hunting mornings in early season Feed trees in TIGHT SMZ's or very skinny hardwood bottoms Finding THE feed tree that a mature buck is bedding close to How Scott finds feed trees then runs his "circuit" How positive and negative terrain are FLIPPED in early season Finding low spots that COLLECT ACORNS and attract bucks Using THICK pines to get in tight to bucks without being detected Why early season feed trees are the best time to tag your target buck What. buck sign Scott needs to see in conjunction with feed sign to get him excited Do bucks prefer feed trees on STEEP slopes? and TONS more. We know a lot of listener success stories will come from this episode! If you get something out of it, make sure you share it with a buddy. Listen to more from Scott in episodes 428 and 435! Jscobs spike we mentioned in the podcast - 10 YARD BOW KILL FROM THE GROUND! Tennessee Public Land Deer Hunting Watch Andrew's successful mountain hunt from 2022 - Hunting Community Scrapes for Trophy Bucks in BIG WOODS! | Alabama Public Land Deer Hunting Got a question for the show? Submit a listener Q&A form Use the promo code “southern” for a discount on your OnX Hunt membership here - https://try.onxmaps.com/hunt/app/hunt-smarter/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA7bucBhCeARIsAIOwr-_sBLib6xC3ibT5BMlTrBUdWdpGYOWOZ_06eZhJajTmMKne7e00Rd4aAtldEALw_wcB Save 10% on your next Vortex Optics order at MidwayUSA.com using the Promo Code "SOUTHERN1023" - https://www.midwayusa.com/ NEW Trace system from First Lite - New: Trace System Have you tagged a deer using something you heard on the show? Submit your listener success story here - Share Your Story Here Want to help keep the show on the air, and get some bonus content? Join our patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thesouthernoutdoorsmen Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Transcript

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0:00.0

There are two new features on on X Hunt that you need to check out if you haven't seen them yet

0:04.4

That is the recent imagery feature and the leaf off imagery feature now leaf off imagery pretty self explanatory

0:09.9

It's just a really really crisp high quality leaf off imagery

0:13.1

We're actually just using it on our hunt and Arkansas and it was unbelievable some of the best imagery I've ever used on an app

0:19.0

But also the recent imagery layer is a true satellite image that updates every week or two and you can actually go flip back through

0:26.1

those so that is excellent for seeing you know where the new cutovers are at what fields have been cut where the leaves are

0:32.6

Changing what the water levels are in certain lakes or rivers you might be going to and like I said

0:37.0

It's updated every couple weeks so you can actually go flip back through the dates and see how stuff has changed over time

0:42.4

Which y'all know is extremely useful as a southerner

0:45.6

Y'all make sure to go check it out and make sure you use the promo code southern to get 20% off your elite membership

0:50.7

Now you can go check them out at on xmaps.com or you can hit the link in the description

0:55.3

Y'all know that vortex makes high quality optics to help you out on your next hunt

1:00.1

But did you know that they're also a freaking awesome apparel company too if you head on over to vortex.com and look at their apparel section

1:06.7

You'll be blown away at what all they have for real. I'll give you two things to check out in particular the vortex heavyweight hoodie

1:12.9

It's just a big heavyweight hoodie man. It's like it's so it's super cozy

1:17.2

It feels like you could do some work in it super warm. I know I'm gonna be wearing on a lot of rabbit hunts

1:22.1

Coming up in the next month or two and then another thing you need to look at is their cloud shaker rain jacket

1:26.7

It's a great rain jacket and an affordable cost

1:29.9

Super lightweight super sleek and it looks good. I mean you like wear it

1:33.0

I wear it out on dates with my wife all the time again

1:35.3

Super impressed with the quality and you're gonna find a whole bunch of other stuff over at vortex optics.com in their apparel section

1:41.4

And how you can get 20% off your apparel order at vortex optics.com with the code southern 20

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