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On this week's Full Draw Friday, Austin and Canyon discuss entry and exit strategies for hunting public land. Access can make or break your hunt, so make sure you use these tips when you plan for the upcoming season!

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This week, Canyon gives an update on turkey season, upcoming events, content, and partnerships. Thanks to everyone for watching, subscribing, and following along with us as we build our brand!

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This week, Austin and Canyon wrap up the natural browse conversation. They talk about several ways to promote natural browse in different types of locations and how it can benefit your deer herd.

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This week, Canyon shares his thoughts on a recent viral post from Tim Wells concerning the state of the whitetail deer herd in Illinois. Tim makes a lot of good points and there's quite a bit to unpack, so settle in!

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On this episode the guys are drafting your favorite hunting personalities. They are drafting from a pool of hunting personalities made up of guys like Jim Shockey, Ted Nugent, Michael Waddell, and Roger Raglin, to Chris Bee, The Hunting Public, Jared Mills, and everyone in between. There's also a legends category with guys like Fred Bear, Teddy Roosevelt, Chuck Adams, Buffalo Bill, and more! Let us know who you think won in the comments! And let us know if we missed anyone!

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This week, Canyon and Austin are opening a new habitat series on natural browse. In the first episode of this series, they talk about what natural browse actually is, and why it's important for all property types.

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On this episode, we talk about some of our biggest pet peeves when it comes to hunting, the community, the industry, the government, and more. We by no means covered ALL of our pet peeves, but these are few that really grind our gears. Let us know what pet peeves you have!

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For part three of our buck bedding series, the guys wrap things up by talking about how to set up to hunt a buck bedding area. There's a lot of good info in here and tips on how to successfully kill a buck after you've found his bed. Especially on public land.

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This week the guys are recording from the Illinois Deer Classic. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to talk, and to all our new listeners. Make sure you subscribe to see all our content!

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On this Full Draw Friday, Austin and Canyon discuss what to do once you locate buck bedding areas.

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This week we come to you from the Iowa Deer Classic in Des Moines, IA. This is always one of our favorite events of the year. We always enjoy talking to everyone and seeing all the great companies and products.

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On this episode of Full Draw Friday, Austin and Canyon talk public land buck bedding. This will be a multiple part series, with this part one being about locating the bedding.

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This week, Canyon tells you about all the changes coming to Ridge Hunter Outdoors. We'll be bringing you some new content, moving things around on YouTube, and bringing on a co-host for Full Draw Friday. You'll also get to see some new and familiar faces on the channel as we move forward! Thanks for following along!

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Meet your new co-host of Full Draw Fridays Austin Stone! Austin has been a frequent guest on the podcast over the years and we've now teamed up with him and Tactical Approach Outdoors to bring you a new and improved version of Full Draw Friday! Hope you guys enjoy it!

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This week Tyler and Canyon sit down in the new studio to talk about the past waterfowl season, the upcoming turkey season, and much more. You guys know Tyler from Spring Struttin' and you'll likely get to know him even more very soon!

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Drew Kazenski is the Chair of the Illinois Chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers. He joins us this week to update everyone on what BHA has going on, how you can help, and much more. We talked about stream access in relation to HB 1873, the Lake Shelbyville Archery Park, and Drew's adventures this past fall.

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The Illinois S3DA sanctions archery competitions throughout the country, giving kids the opportunity to compete in the sport of archery. This can open a lot of doors for the participants, including chances at college scholarships.

Steve has been the Illinois State Coordinator since we've been working with the organization. He is stepping down from the position though and turning it over to Josh White. We got to talk to both of them at this year's Indoor State shoot.

We also talked about the legitimacy of national deer research and studies, as well as how...

On this Friday episode, Canyon discusses a new table released by the MSU Deer Lab. While their intention was to show correlation between temperature and movement, it also shows some interesting insight into just how much bucks are moving in primetime throughout the season. What do you think?

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With the season over, it's time for the annual End of Season Campfire episodes. The guys sit down and talk about the season, the bucks they killed, some they didn't, and a lot more. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

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On this episode of Full Draw Friday, Canyon talks about post-season scouting. He talks what to look for and how to factor it in to your plan for next year. Consistently killing mature bucks is a year-round game, so get out there and get started on next season!

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Austin Stone is the man behind Tactical Approach Outdoors. When he's not laying the hammer on giant public land bucks in Missouri and Kansas, he spends his time managing and consulting on hunting properties, teaching webinars and whitetail workshops, and creating awesome content on YouTube.

This week we talked about his 2024 public land buck, how the hunt went down, what he thought were the biggest keys to harvesting the buck, and much more. We learn something every time we talk to Austin and hopefully you guys do too.

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On this Full Draw Friday, in light of the recent snowstorms in Illinois, Canyon talks about ways you can be successful hunting in heavy snowfall. It might give you a better opportunity than you think to kill a nice buck. The biggest challenge might be just getting to the woods.

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Nelson Grant is a Sheriff's Deputy in the Flathead Valley of Montana. He's also an accomplished deer and elk hunter, a mountain sport aficionado, and all around good dude. We got to talk to him this week about his upbringing in Maine hunting whitetails, introducing kids to hunting, being in law enforcement in several different capacities, learning how to hunt elk, and much more.

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Martin Brose is an avid hunter, shed-finder, and author from north of the border. He wrote the book titled 'Brown Gold: A guide to shed hunting in North America.' This week, we got to talk to him about his background in hunting, life in Canada, shed-hunting, his book, and much more.

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On this Full Draw Friday, Canyon recaps 2024 at Ridge Hunter Outdoors and looks ahead to 2025. It's been a great year at RHO. The team had an awesome season and we can't say thanks enough to all our listeners and viewers for following along!

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On this episode, we talk to Nic De Castro from Landtrust.com. Nic is the founding owner of Land Trust. If you haven't heard of them, they are like Airbnb for hunting and recreational property. It's a really interesting model that connects outdoor enthusiasts with private land owners. We got into all of that and much more on this week's episode.

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On episode 144, Canyon and Nate talk to Rodney Hawkins of Midwest Farm and Land and RG Outdoors. Rodney has been a partner of the show for almost two years now, and has a lot of new stuff going on. We talked about everything he's doing with RG Outdoors, MFL, and much more. He was also able to kill a couple nice bucks this year, which we discussed as well.

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On this episode of Full Draw Friday, Canyon talks about the second rut. He discusses what it is, why it happens, and how to hunt it. While most does have been bred by now, there are still some that will be in estrous throughout the rest of the season. If you're lucky and play your cards right, you just might catch a mature buck chasing one by your stand.

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On this Full Draw Friday, Canyon talks late November strategy for finding bucks. It can be a weird time, because the bucks still want to rut, while the does are ready to go back to food. That can play to your advantage though if you know where to go. That's what this episode is all about! Hopefully these strategies will help you tag a late November buck this season.

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On this episode of the Ridge Hunter Outdoors Podcast, Canyon and Nate talk about their hunts over the last week and what things look like heading into the Illinois gun season. With just four days left to bow hunt before the first firearm season, the guys hope to fill their bow tags this week.

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On this episode of Full Draw Friday, Canyon talks strategies for the rut lockdown. The lockdown can be a tough time to hunt. Bucks can be all but impossible to see, does are also in hiding, and overall movement can be very subdued. However, there are still plenty of mature bucks taken every year during this phase. A lot of them are taken using the tactics discussed in this episode. Implement them this year and see if they work for you too!

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On this episode of Full Draw Friday, Canyon talks strategies for the rut lockdown. The lockdown can be a tough time to hunt. Bucks can be all but impossible to see, does are also in hiding, and overall movement can be very subdued. However, there are still plenty of mature bucks taken every year during this phase. A lot of them are taken using the tactics discussed in this episode. Implement them this year and see if they work for you too!

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The rut is heating up throughout the Midwest, but how do you hunt it to give yourself the best chance at a mature buck? That's what were talking about this week. Saddles, Ridges, and Funnels oh my. Try these strategies out and you'll hopefully have your tagged punched sooner than later!

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On this week's episode, Canyon, Nate, and Blake talk about their expectations for the rut. They also discuss the less than ideal weather conditions, election day, the CJ Alexander situation, and much more. Good luck to everyone out there. Go make the most of November!

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On this episode of Full Draw Friday, Canyon talks early rut strategies. There are plenty of strategies that work for the entire rut, but if you break it into phases, you can be successful even more consistently. Good luck to everyone and enjoy the best month of the year!

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The early season is gone and October almost is also. That means one thing for whitetail hunters: The rut is here! On this episode, Canyon recaps lessons learned and confirmed throughout the early season. He then talks rut expectations and strategies as it rapidly approaches. Good luck out there!

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On the third and final instalment to the Deer Hunting 101 series, Canyon talks about how to hunt. It's a 30,000 foot, baseline view of the basics of how to kill a deer. This will hopefully serve as the final part of a basic guide to getting new hunters started. If that's you, or if you know someone who is getting started, give the whole series a listen and let us know what you think. Good luck out there!

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On the second instalment to the Deer Hunting 101 Series, Canyon talks about the basics of where and when to hunt. These two things can make or break your success in the field, so it's important to have a good understanding of the basics before heading out on your first hunt. Stay tuned for next week, when we'll talk about the how of hunting.

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Ethan Stubbs has worked on some of your favorite hunting shows over the last few years. Most recently, he was hunting with and running a camera for Bill Winke on Hoyt's Bowhunting Whitetails. Before that he interned at Midwest Whitetail. Now, he's got his own channel on YouTube and is in the real estate business selling land all across Iowa. He's taken some monster Iowa whitetails over the years and he knows his stuff when it comes to bowhunting. We had another great conversation with him on this episode. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.