An overview of the families hunting strategies. With the end of Turkey season, minerals are left out for the deer, game cameras are placed, and plenty of scouting is performed over the Summer. This allows the guys to know where place their tree-stands for the season in Winter.
Summer, around here, is jam packed with tryint to get as much velvet footage as possible, checking cameras, and clearing trails. As the countdown to opening day continues, the anticipation continues to grow. Another great part of summer is the annual Heartland Bowhunter video school.
Dan Richardson wins the draw for a 3 day hunt with the HB team.
With no cover in a hayfield, Rex hides at the base of a large cedar. Shawn takes a long time calling in a buck to the decoy.
John and Clayton hunt Whitetail Deer from tree-stands in Kansas.
Jeff & Jason drive nearly 900 miles southwest to "Elite Outfitters" in New Mexico with an Elk tag burning in their pockets. Craig & Ron hunt Elk in Wyoming.
The HB team get out after a long winter for the traditional Spring Turkey shoot.
Deer are plentiful 6 weeks into the season, as luck turns team-HB's way.
November heralds a great time of year at Big Timber Farm.
Hunting Whitetail Deer without much cover.
The crew finishes up the spring turkey season in Missouri and heads to Kansas for one final hunt!
Looking for a way to extend their archery season, the guys trade in their shotguns for their bows! Late season Canada geese can be a lot more talking, and a lot more shooting, than a cold deer stand.
Brady is in the thick of the deer action and is hoping to take a mature buck with his bow.
The guys are in North Dakota hunting early season velvet whitetails. This is one of the few states where you can hunt velvet deer and the hunting is spectacular.
Opening day in Missouri with friends from Buck Commander.
Spot and stalk mule deer hunting with Scott and Jeremy Coon out of Deer Meadows Outfitters in Nebraska.
The team gets back home and the deer action is picking up! With it being early in the season, they decide to put four guys in one tree to see if team work will make the dream work.
Late October has every deer hunter hurrying to their stand. Jeff has his Iowa tag and is hieaded to the land of giants! After having to hurry home for a get together, Jeff punches his first Missouri tag for the season.
Jeff is headed back to Iowa to try to fill his tag with the help of Whitetail Properties.
Jeff and the Heartland Bowhunter crew hook up with Shawn Mahaffey, of Whitetail Authority, to hunt Kansas during the rut.
Hunting in southern Kansas for a buck nickenamed Tallboy.
The crew heads out for their annual Thanksgiving hunt.
Archery goose hunting makes for a great social event. We are always looking for ways to lengthen our season, and geese present for a ton of shooting...and missing. After the season is over, we take the longbows pheasant hunting.
It is time to pack up the tents and head out spring turkey hunting. The guys are in for a huge surprise when a storm covers them in nearly a foot of snow.
Shed and turkey hunting make up a large amount of the time we spend in the spring. It is exciting to know what bucks might have made it through the season and what to look forward to next year!
This is Jeff's first time out of the country, first time bear hunting, and the first time hunting with his fiance, Trish. This makes for a whole lot of firsts as they head up to go black bear hunting in British Columbia.
Shawn and Jeff stalk Antelope in the plains of South Dakota, and then on to Montana for bull Elk.
Back home in Montana preparing for Whitetail Deer season. Dustin travels to Nebraska, hunting early velvet bucks.
Mike and Skyler drive to North Dakota hunting velvet Whitetail Deer from tree-stands. After running out of light, Skyler stalks a big buck on foot.
Quality deer management is the theme. Follow along as the crew manages their whitetail herd and experiences some of the tough decisions that must be made in a full blown QDM program.
Jeff is spot & stalking huge mule deer in the sand hills of Nebraska and South Dakota.
Mike and Skyler travel to Northwest Missouri, decoy in tow. Dusty catches up with "Trouble", a buck he knows all too well.
The rut is winding down and the deer are transitioning back to the food sources. The guys change their strategies and try to capitalize on hungry vulnerable bucks.
Mike and Shawn puruse a cat-like, Missouri buck with what seems like 9 lives. After watching "Sticker 8" all summer, they finally catch up with him for the first time in the stand in early November.
The guys travel to central Kansas to hunt turkeys with the newest members of the crew, Nick, Matt, & Scott White.
The team is chasing turkeys back hom in Missouri.
The crew heads to the big timber of Northeast Missouri in pursuit of big eastern gobblers.
Head to Manitoba for Nick's first black bear.
Mike Wirsig and Rex Luchtel join Mike as they kick off the season with the annual trip to North Dakota to hunt with good friend Nate Flynn of Central Dakota Lodge. With season opening on September 3rd this year the guys are hoping to catch a mature buck still holding velvet and sticking to his summer patterns.
Follow Mike and Shawn on an incredible 3 year quest for a buck nick-named 'Junior'
The crew is back home in Missouri getting ready for deer season. Early season has been great to them in the past and this year was no different.
HeadHunters TV's Randy Birdsong joins Shawn on a trip to hunt early season whitetail with Clayton Miller in Central South Dakota.
Mike is headed west in pursuit of big mulies with Deer Meadows Outfitters. Follow Mike & guide, Jeremy Kuhn, as they spot & stalk the sandy hills of Western Nebraska. www.deermeadowsoutfitters.com
The rut is heating up and Shawn is headed to Eastern Illinois to hunt with Clifford Neames of Quail Shed Lodge.
Matt White is hunting his home territory of Central Kansas. With the rut just getting started, big bucks are sure to be checking Outfitters Choice plots for receptive does.
Mike is headed to Ohio to catch the beginning of the rut and then back to Iowa to hunt with Whitetail Properties Auctioneers Jason Smith and Chad Freeberg on an incredible listing that hadn’t been legally hunted in almost 30 years.
Nick White and his wife Dessirae get aggressive with some rutted up KS whitetails!
Scott White is hunting 20' up in an old silo overlooking a lush Outfitters Choice food plot.
Ty Easley chases a 6.5 year old buck nick-named ‘The Scendero Buck’. Although ‘The Scendero Buck’ continues to give him the slip, several other nice bucks present opportunities…
The crew is contributing to managing the deer herd all the way up until the last day of season.
After a ton of hours spent on stand during deer season, the crew gets together to hunt some geese with the bows.
As summer winds down, the crew is getting prepared for the upcoming season and the first trip of the year to North Dakota to hunt with Nate Flynn of Central Dakota Lodge. Shawn is up to bat this time and is trying to get his first ever velvet whitetail.
Nick and Matt White head West to WY for the second leg of the Campbell Outdoor Challenge.
Skyler and Clayton road trip to Canada for the first ever moose hunt.
Introducing Clay Craft - the newest member of the HB team and son of Whitetail Properties Land Specialist, Bryhn Craft.
Skyler and Clayton are hunting during the rut in Northern Missouri.
With October coming to an end, the guys are spending a lot of time in the tree all over the mid west waiting for the rut to break loose. Join Mike and Rex in the tree during that magic time!
After a tough trip to Iowa, Matt returns home to some good news on the trail cameras.
Nick White is hunting in KS and ends up in a familiar blind where his brother Scott had some luck the year before.
The rut is winding down and the deer are transitioning back to food sources. Several acres of standing beans prove to be a hot spot the first week of December.
Scott White has a tough time connecting during the rut in KS but redeems him self in the last few days of season.
On the 100th episode of HB, we take a look back at some of the most incredible hunts and best moments from the previous 7 seasons of the show!
Shawn Luchtel makes a trip to Northern Missouri in mid-October as deer movement is starting to pickup and bucks are establishing their territory.
The rut is kicking off and the bucks are beginning to get aggressive. Using a decoy this time of year could be the ticket to luring in a mature buck.
Nate’s waterfowl season has finally ended and he can change his focus to whitetails in North Dakota. Colder temps, frontal systems and the rut have deer activity at a high this time of year.
Michael Hunsucker is hunting a familiar ranch in Wyoming - The Solitude. The weather is brutally cold for this time of year but the guys are determined to tough it out in search for a mature buck.
