Secrets the Deer Hunting Industry Won’t Tell You

By Adam Moore – Wired2Hunt

As a high school kid, I spent most of my Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays at my grandparents. I had almost zero responsibilities and ample hunting time. When I wasn’t in the woods, I would thumb through stacks of Outdoor Life or Field & Stream that my grandfather hoarded over the years and kept in a wicker basket beside his recliner.

In the evenings, he would formulate the next day’s hunting plans for me and my cousins as we watched hunting shows. Most of these shows featured sprawling midwestern ag fields, big bucks, even bigger tower blinds, and, of course, the whispered interview and shout-out to the outfitter providing the hunt. It was completely foreign to the southern piney woods me and my family hunted, but we didn’t care. It fired us up, and those shows gave us the illusion that we were one food plot or carefully hung stand away from killing a wall-hanger. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY