MDRN Whitetail EP. #2 - 49 Years of Bowhunting for Giant Whitetails - What Don Higgins has Learned
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MDRN Whitetail EP. #2 - 49 Years of Bowhunting for Giant Whitetails - What Don Higgins has Learned

B1IntermediateAugust 21, 20261 hr 2 min
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In this episode of MDRN Whitetail, Don breaks down the principles that actually built a 49-year career chasing giants — not the tips everyone's already heard, but the ones he had to learn the hard way. We get into: The "same time, same place" theory Don first wrote about in 2003 — and how tracking one buck's annual pattern for six straight years led to a first-morning kill Why hunting "the fringes" isn't about staying on the edge of everything — and how a 2-acre patch of cover next to an elderly neighbor's yard produced a 200-inch buck The October morning that broke...

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That's Don Higgins a man who's about to embark on his 49th bow season

I think most guys just put out their trail cameras

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Today I probably hunt fewer hours than any time in the last 49 years That's Don Higgins a man who's about to embark on his 49th bow season He has killed five bucks that average over 211 inches I think most guys just put out their trail cameras

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They get a picture of a big deer in daylight. No, he's daylight now now. It's time to go in honey Well, you're a step behind me because he's already daylighted Here's a quick stat most people give all the credit to Don's farm But he's killed a 214, a 193, a 185, and a 180,

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all on knock on door permission that anybody could have hunted. And that same time, same place is the key for these bigger bucks than I'm shooting.

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