A lot of the guests that we feature on this show like to target feed trees to hunt white-tailed deer.

Whether it's hunting white oaks, red oaks, water oaks, not all oaks, whatever the case may be, they all do things a little bit different. But there is one common theme between all of them. And that is, when you're hunting feed trees, you just need to check as many trees as you can, find that fresh hot sign, and set up. That is what's going to give you the best chance at seeing deer or seeing a buck.

Well, there's two different tools you can use that fresh hot sign and set up that is what's going to give you the best chance at seeing deer or seeing a buck well there's two different tools you can use that are seriously helpful for that the first one you've heard us talk about it is the acre and producing oak layer from on x hunt you turn it on it'll show you where the white oaks are at where the red oaks are at where it's mixed red and white oaks now there's's another one that I've used here lately, and it's

the coniferous versus deciduous layer. So it shows you what's pine trees, what's deciduous trees like oaks, and then what's a mix of both. So my new hunting club is mostly pine trees, which if you're hunting in the deep south, a lot of you guys can probably relate to that. But I turn that layer on on my Onex Hunt app, and it showed some areas of mixed pines and hardwoods that I completely missed just by looking at the satellite image. So I went and popped in, checked those areas out and sure enough found a bunch of white oaks that were kind of interspersed with these pines that are just loaded. So not only do those two layers help me find oaks faster, but it also helps me find the oaks that I'm

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One of the most common questions we get is from people who are looking to get into mobile white tail hunting. They're looking at saddles, but they don't know which one to get. They don't know how to get comfortable in a saddle. And I always recommend the Lone Star Saddle from Latitude Outdoors. One thing you'll hear from a lot of people when they first get into saddle hunting is they deal with a little bit of hip pinch. That's just basically where you don't have your saddle adjusted right. And so it's kind of pinching your hips when you're sitting in the tree. It's really uncomfortable. It can take some fine-tuning to get a lot of saddles right where they're comfortable to sit in. But with that Lone Star saddle, it has a hip-pinch reduction system built into the saddle. Basically what that means is that right out of the box, this thing's going to be very, very comfortable, whether you're doing a quick early season bow hunt or if you're planning on sitting in that joker all day long in the rut. That Lone Star saddle is personally my favorite saddle, and especially if you're newer getting into saddle hunting and you're looking for something easy and comfortable, check out that Lone Star from Latitude. So to go look at the Lone Star and a whole bunch of other mobile white tail gear,

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And I try to spend as much time in the woods where I'm hunting at during the off season

because what I call the local doze that I've got in the area,

I want them to get used to me, just like the ones I've got out here in my back door.

We can go out there and talk to them and they don't run. That's what I want them deer where I'm hunting at to do the doze to do the same thing because I don't want the bucks. The doze to run off. I want the doze to stay in the area when the ruts there's to bring the big bucks in. And I was actually telling you a story about I had

what I call three local doves on the property of 42 acres I hunt. And I had them patterned out

because they had unique features. One of them had the black face and the notched out ear,

and she always had twins every year. And two years in a row, this was three or four years ago, I had the black face dough

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