Bowhunting Whitetails with Bill Winke

This is the first installment in a new series I am going to start producing called "Bowhunting Whitetails w/ Bill Winke". Most episodes will focus on hunting strategy and deer behavior, but in this episode I am going to introduce the farm I recently bought and explain why I am focusing on habitat work and not trying to increase deer numbers on the new property. kwhunting kwwhitetail

I learned a ton from my 2021 season and ended it with a great buck. In this episode, I talk about the hunt and how going to extremes to keep the deer from knowing they were being hunted ultimately produced an awesome buck. It came down to sleeping in the field every evening, whether at the base of my tree or in a Redneck Blind. I am not sure I will ever do that again - it wasn't a lot of fun - but

In the third episode of my new series, I discuss the most interesting things I learned last season - a season spent sleeping in the woods each evening. It was fascinating to see what deer really do in bedding areas, when they arrive in the mornings and how easy it is to sneak past them once they have bedded.

I never would have considered this debate ten years ago, but recently I have shot several very good bucks in October, as have many of my friends. It is a legitimate question: is October really better? I do think that if your goal is to kill a specific buck, then October may very well be better than November. I have the hunts to prove it. Also, I go back to my farm to rescue a soybean plot that the

I stumbled upon a stand location about 15 years ago that turned out to be pure dynamite. Since then I have tried many times to create more of this type of setup on my farm. These tiny little staging area food plots became the heart of my hunting strategy. Without a doubt, setting up one, or more, spots like this where you hunt will improve your hunting area and your season. The best part is tha

There are a lot of good reasons to run your cameras all year long, but if you are really serious about finding and patterning the bucks you will be hunting this fall, there is a one month window that is critical to the process. In this episode, I talk about when I start to run my trail cameras each year.