One thing we talk about with almost every guest on this show is map scouting. My favorite map scouting tool is LIDAR. If you're unfamiliar, LIDAR is basically like a 3D scan of the Earth surface. I like to say it kind of takes away all the surprises. LIDAR is now available on OnX Hunt on their topography map. If you go to your app right now, click on the topography map, you can flip on that LIDAR feature and boom it's going to come on and you're going to see what I'm talking about.

The LIDAR is going to allow you to see things that are normally hidden from view. This might be ditches, bends in creeks, rocks, old roadbeds. I personally love old roadbeds because deer like to walk them. They're great places to find scrapes. They're great camera locations. And you know before, an old roadbed or an old logging road might be something that you kind of happen upon while you're out scouting or hunting. Well now with the LIDAR, before I go into an area, I can turn on that LIDAR and I can see exactly where those road beds are. Even old logging roads from the 1930s, you can still see them on there. So that allows me to go straight to those spots and check them out. It's just an incredibly helpful tool, and it's available now on Onex Hunt. And hey, if you want to get 20% off your OnX Elite membership, you can use the promo code Southern. Like I said, it's going to save you 20%. Go check out that

LiDR feature. You'll be glad you did. Know where you stand with OnX Hunt. I'm super excited to

announce that Vortex just updated their Crossfire Riflescope line with the Crossfire HD

Riflescopes. These are an improvement over the previous design that delivers sharper detail

improving low light transmission, giving you a lot more confidence with your hunt.

If you're wanting an effective rifle scope, that gives you great low-light capability without breaking the bank.

Check out the new Crossfire HD scope from Vortex.

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your order of any vortex optics. 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, check out latitude outdoors.com. Hunting where a little drain, just a low spot comes out of that cut. And it doesn't

have to be a big hill. It doesn't have to be like a valley running up in there, but literally just a

low spot coming out. Even something that they just cut right across. There's no... Those are the

best one. Yeah, there's no SMZ or anything in there. They cut right across it and it just dumps out

into like a hardwood bottom or something. Those are awesome spots. Or even dumps out into like another pine stand. They like to walk those little low areas in there. I think it's one way that they find their way around in those thickets. Yeah. And also it seems like those low spots for some reason there's always some kind of habitat change. Like whether the grounds rock or something, the pine trees don't grow that great they try to plant that drainage yeah and it always seems like they're more brushy

like those low spots are more brushy than the hill sides next to it and that's i think it's another

like interior habitat edge uh which again they'll bet on they'll travel up and down it and so on

and we've watched that so many times. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

This Thanksgiving edition of the Q&A Southern Outdoorsman podcast.

You're going to have fun. Jacob looks like a pumpkin sitting over there.

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