Mid- Atlantic Outdoorsmen - What Is The Perfect Arrow Set Up for White-tailed Deer? with Jeff Vaughn

Sportsmen's Empire - Whitetail Hunting

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4.8 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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In today's episode I have Jeff Vaughn, the lead bow tech and shop manager at Ocean's East Timber and Tines. Jeff is a wealth of knowledge regarding arrow builds, bow tuning, broadhead selection, and really all things archery. In today's show I pick Jeff's brain for an hour straight on what we as hunters need to do to select the perfect arrow build and the right broadhead to get the job done this season. Jeff and I discuss arrow weight (light and fast arrows vs heavy hard hitting arrows). We dive into the topic of FOC, how its calculated and its importance in an arrow build. We talk about broadheads and the debate of mechanical vs fixed blade heads. We deep dive into the topic of broadhead selection and discuss the differences between 2 blades, 3 blades, reverse and forward deploying etc. We also spend some time talking about shot placement in different scenarios. This is an excellent listen, and I guarantee you'll learn something, enjoy! Our Sponsors: * Check out Thompson Cigars and use my code SE for a great deal: https://thompsoncigar.com * Check out Troll Co Clothing and use my code EMPIRE25 for a great deal: https://www.trollco.com/hunting Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:12.7	Book your trip to Tifino, British Columbia today, and see yourself in Canada. What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Mid-Atlantic Outdoorsman podcast. Today is August 26th as I'm recording this intro and I'm fired up today because in 12 days from now I will be in the White Tail Woods, 18, 20 foot up a tree with a bow in my hand, hunting deer. I'm pumped. I'm taking a trip up to
2:05.7	Maryland for their opening weekend, hunting some public ground there, staying at a buddy's house
2:10.2	and hunt with him. And we're probably going to be hunting. I would imagine mostly evenings
2:15.1	doing some scouting during the midday and hunting mostly
2:18.8	evenings depending upon what we find with our scouting, glassing, et cetera.
2:23.6	But man, I'm fired up.
2:24.8	It's going to be an awesome hunt, I hope.
2:26.7	And regardless, we're going to have a really good time.
2:28.7	And I'm just excited to be back in the woods carrying a bow with broadheads on the
2:32.5	end of it.
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