Deer Season Summary
As deer seasons in many states come to a close following the holiday weekend many hunters begin to look back over the season to figure out what was responsible for either their success or failure. In this episode, Bill Winke runs through a quick deer season summary touching on many of the different strategies and changing tactics...
Post Season Scouting
On this episode of Whitetail 101, Bill Winke discusses his plans for the immediate week after the season ends with post season scouting. Scouting deer in the post season gives you immediate closure from this year’s season and at the same time a little bit of hope for next year.
Late season hunting is necessarily over! There is...
Hunting Weather Fronts and Breaks
On this episode of Whitetail 101, Bill Winke dives into the last weeks of the late season. The Midwest has been blessed with many cold fronts sweeping through, but unfortunately this alone does not seem to be persuading mature bucks to feed in daylight. Bill dives into what he thinks may be the reason for...
Setups for Late Season Hunting
On this episode of whitetail 101, Bill Winke discusses setups for late season hunting in further detail from last week’s episode. In last week’s episode, Bill discussed late season hunting out of blinds. Bill dived a bit into why he like the use of blinds in the late season and how he goes about setting...
Cold Weather Hunting Strategy
On this episode of Whitetail 101, Bill Winke discusses late season hunting as we find ourselves in the first week of December. On this episode, Bill discusses not only what the bucks are doing during this transition period to food, but also what your cold weather hunting strategy should look like.
During this week, bucks really settle...
Patterning a Buck for the Late Season
On this episode of Whitetail 101, Bill Winke discusses patterning a buck for the late season. The rut, the action and movement around peak breeding, is coming to an end and once again whitetails will focus on food. This is the week to start the process of finding a buck on a pattern...
Second Peak of Rut Hunting
On this episode of Whitetail 101, Bill Winke discusses this week’s hunting scenario. It is Thanksgiving week and it also happens to be the last week of good rut hunting. This is “crunch time”!
Last week bill discussed the lockdown phase of the rut, we are now slowly working our way out of lockdown and back...
During this episode of whitetail 101, Bill discusses hunting the rut. As you can see Bill found success. To watch the full hunt go to MidwestWhitetail.com.
The week of November 14-20th mark a tough time for hunters. This period of time can be considered the November lull. The peak breeding of does in estrus for the Midwest falls right around...
Deer season ramps up during the first two weeks of November. Bow hunters wait all year for this week, November 7th- 13th as it can be the absolute best week for deer hunting. Unfortunately this November has been up to this point something that no hunter would look forward to. The temperatures so far this November have been completely...
The first week of November has arrived and it is a transition time for both hunters and bucks. Deer activity has gone from bucks more or less slightly pushing does, to now seeking the first does to come into estrous. Bill Winke discusses which hunting tactics and tree stand locations you should focus on. Not only does Bill cover...
Late October Hunting Tactics
As deer season now heads into the last week of October, Bill Winke host of Muddy’s Whitetail 101 discusses changing hunting tactics from early season to mid-season. The mid-season, what many hunters would regard as the best time frame to hunt bucks starts during the last week of October and runs through November. This frame contains...
Hunting the October Lull
This week on Muddy TV’s Whitetail 101, web show host Bill Winke describes his experience hunting the October Lull. Each and every year around the middle of October hunters begin to experience a slow period. While the first two weeks of October and bow season are filled with exciting encounters, trail camera photos, and harvesting of...