Nine Finger Chronicles - Deer Hunting Podcast
The Nine Finger Chronicles podcast covers a variety of topics including hunting gear reviews and information, individual hunter profiles, hunting success stories, and hunting strategy tips and tactics. Host Dan Johnson is a passionate sportsman whose year revolves around bowhunting, his crazy family, and his overall love for Mother Nature. This podcast is brought to you by the Sportsmen's Nation Outdoor Podcast Network.
Skip Get's Derailed
On this episode of Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan is once again joined by Skip Sligh to talk about deer behavior. That is until Skip derails the entire episode and takes us in a couple different different directions. For those of you who have never heard Skip speak, the first thing you will notice is that he is as passionate about whitetails as they come. Although the guys do talk about deer behavior off and on in this episode, Skip also talks about habitat improvement, hunters who take more than they give back, and his thoughts on how baiting is...
Strategy Deep Dive
Over the past couple seasons Dan has struggled to locate a shooter buck on his main farm. On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan talks with Nate Roseveld from the Michigan Wild Podcast about locating big bucks on properties that have been cold over the last seasons. With a similar experience in past seasons, Nate shares his thoughts on what happens when a good property dries up and the big buck seem to disappear. The guys discuss crop rotation, how deer respond to livestock, trail camera data, and access routes on small properties. This is an excellent...
A Wisconsin Outdoorsman
On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan is joined my the host of the Wisconsin Sportsman, Pierce Nelles, to discuss hunting in the Badger State. The guys have a great discussion about tradition and why he thinks his home state has such a steep history in the outdoors. Another excellent episode full of stories, opinions, and two dudes talkin' huntin'! Enjoy and share!
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Spirit Of My Father
On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Travis Coulter of Kentucky shares a story about his father and a big velvet buck. The underlying topic of this episode is alcoholism and how it destroyed the life of a fellow hunter. Travis talks about going hunting with his father when he was a youngster until his drinking got so bad that his uncle had to step in and put him under his wing. Both Travis's uncle and father played their role building an outdoor foundation for Travis. Fast forward to 2019, alcohol finally caught up with his father and he...
Public Land B.S. Session
On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan chats with Zach Gregory of Michigan about his love for hunting public land. Zach talks about growing up in a family that only hunted during "deer camp". It just so happened that "deer camp" never resulted in any deer, it was more or less a social event. Over the course of 15 years Zach had never shot a deer during "deer camp". So one season he had enough and decided to start hunting public. The first season he went to hunt public with a ladder stand , and although he tagged out...
Iowa B.S. Session
On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan is joined by fellow Iowan, Kaleb Carstarphen, in a good old fashioned BS Session. Kaleb admits that one of the reasons he started taking hunting more serious, is the fact he wanted to impress he dad. He shares the story about growing up with a father that taught him a lot about hunting and the outdoors, but he knew that there was way more to learn in order to kill mature bucks. The answer... he went mobile. This story, like many, involves not only a change in gear but a...
A One Eyed Buck Story
On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan is joined by returning guest Tom Watters from Kentucky to tell a story about a one-eyed 140 class 10 pointer that lives on his farm. Tom shares how he first noticed this buck because he had a major eye injury and an extremely sick looking body. Tom didn't expect this buck to make it through the winter. However, this buck made through two more winters and returned as a health 4 year old. Tom describes where this lived, the terrain he used, food sources, and of course the strategy he implemented to connect...
Derailed B.S. Session
This episode was supposed to be about spring habitat improvement. However, once the conversation started rolling the entire episode was derailed and it turned in to two fathers and passionate outdoorsmen talk about what they love about hunting. On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan is once again joined by Mitch Shirk of the Pennsylvania Woodsman for a good old fashioned BS Session. Enjoy and Share!
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NWTF Annual Turkey Episode
On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Dan talks with Mark Hatfield, a wild turkey biologist from the National Wild Turkey Foundation, about the state of the wild turkey in North America. Mark kicks off the show by explaining his role as National Director of Science & Planning. He assists in guiding the NWTF's mission, strategic oversight, and research. Mark goes in to detail about some of the research projects he has been a part of over the years and how he closely works with both federal and state agencies to manage the wild turkey population. This is an...
Skip Goes Hard On Habitat
When it comes to experienced land managers and an advocate for the whitetail deer, there is none greater than Skip Sligh. On this episode of the Nine Finger Chronicles, Skip and Dan break down his annual habitat management strategy. The two kick off the episode with a little BS Session about a presentation he gave at the recent Iowa Deer Classic about bogus rules and regulations trying to become introduced and what can happen when hunters ban together and voice their opinions.
Listen as Skip talks about enhancing the careering capacity of the deer on the land...
