MDRN Whitetail EP. #3 - 5 Don Higgins' Tactics That Can Help You Kill Mature Bucks
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MDRN Whitetail EP. #3 - 5 Don Higgins' Tactics That Can Help You Kill Mature Bucks

B1IntermediateAugust 28, 202642 min

Don Higgins has been bowhunting for 49 years — and today he hunts fewer hours than at any point in his career. In this Recovery, we go back through the biggest, most usable takeaways from the full conversation: the discovery that changed how he reads wind and bedding forever, the ethics behind walking away from 19 out of 20 hunting tips, the patience it took to sit on a buck for three full seasons, and the mistake that took him over a decade to correct into a precise rule. This is the breakdown episode — the lessons, distilled, so you don't need 49 years to use...

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I'm in a tree stand. It's necessary to kill a deer, but it's also your enemy as much as your friend.

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Welcome to the first ever episode of the Modern Whitetail Recovery. What this is is a summary and breakdown of last week's episode where I sat down with Don Higgins to talk about what he's learned over 49 years of bow hunting. I'm in a tree stand. It's necessary to kill a deer, but it's also your enemy as much as your friend.

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The goal here is to break down the most important topics from last week's episode so you can apply it and have the season of a lifetime. There's so much great information in these podcasts, But we have to extract it to get the most out of it. So that's what we're gonna do today. Let's get into it All right. Welcome to modern whitetail recovery

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Um, if you're familiar with like bear grease bear grease podcast He does the bear grease podcast and the bear grease render where he renders out the bear grease and covers last week's episode I always thought that was super creative and I love that and I was like, well, what can we call this? breakdown summary of last week's episode and I landed on the recovery because

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