Truth From The Stand Deer Hunting Podcast

Truth From The Stand Deer Hunting Podcast

Truth From The Stand is a weekly whitetail deer hunting podcast built for serious DIY hunters. For 10 years, we've been covering the tactics, strategies, and real stories that help hunters consistently kill mature bucks. From early season scouting and food plots to scrape hunting, rut tactics, and late season pressure, we cover it all. Each week we sit down with experienced whitetail hunters, bowhunters, and public land hunters to break down what's actually working in the field. Whether you're chasing bucks on public land or private ground, managing a property, or just trying to punch your tag on a mature deer, this is your podcast. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow the show so you never miss one

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EP.505: Deer Hunting Mistakes | When Ego Takes Over | HOS

August 12, 2026 • 22 mins
Every hunter who's spent enough time in a stand knows this moment: the wind switches, the deer aren't moving right, something's off, but you've already invested the time. You climbed the tree, you sat through the cold, you've got two hours in already. So you stay. Not because staying is the right call, but because leaving feels like admitting you wasted the sit. That's the sunk cost fallacy showing up in real time, in a tree, with...
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Trail Cam University: Why Hunting Less Will Kill More Deer

August 11, 2026 • 24 mins
There's a version of hunting that looks like dedication but is actually just noise. You know the guy. Out every weekend, every morning, every evening, running cameras, bumping deer, wondering why the big ones have gone nocturnal by the second week of October. I've been that guy. Most of us have. This episode is about the discipline nobody talks about, the hardest skill in deer hunting: knowing when to stay home. It sounds simple....
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EP. 504: The Ego Problem That's Killing Your Deer Hunts | Jake Bush

August 5, 2026 • 97 mins
Jake Bush and I sat down for one of those conversations that started in one place and ended up somewhere I didn't expect. We caught up on life first, the season, family, trying to find some balance between chasing deer and not losing your mind or your marriage in the process. If you've hunted hard for more than a decade, you know that tension. It's real, and it's worth talking about honestly instead of pretending it doesn't exist. ...
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Trail Cam University: Information vs. Understanding | The Decision That Changes Everything

August 4, 2026 • 17 mins
I've been staring at trail camera photos for longer than I care to admit. Thousands of them. Maybe tens of thousands. And for a long time, I thought that was the job — collect enough pictures, find enough patterns, and the deer would basically tell me where to stand. They didn't. What I've learned, slowly and sometimes painfully, is that there's a canyon-wide difference between information and understanding. You can have a ...
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EP. 503: The Discomfort Threshold | Cody D'Acquisto

July 29, 2026 • 103 mins
I've said it before, but every season I get a little more convinced that the best hunters aren't the ones with the fanciest gear closet — they're the ones who actually understand what they're chasing. That's the thread running through this whole conversation with Cody, and it went a lot deeper than I expected going in. We start with journaling, which sounds like a soft topic for a hunting podcast until you realize Cody uses ...
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EP. 502: What Ten Years Of Deer Hunting Mistakes Taught Me

July 22, 2026 • 98 mins
I sat down with DJ Riley for this one, and it turned into one of those conversations that started in one place and ended up somewhere I didn't expect — which, if you've been listening long enough, you know is usually when the good stuff happens. We kicked things off talking about summer. Not the fun part. The part where you're scouting in ninety-degree heat, dragging cameras through timber that feels more like a sauna, and t...
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EP. 501: Why Your Worst Hunt Last Season Was Actually Decided In July | HOS

July 15, 2026 • 19 mins
I'll pick this up right where I left off in episode four. I told you to sit down and run four honest questions on your worst hunt of last season. No sugarcoating, no "I need to be more patient." Find the actual decision that broke things. If you did the homework, you've got something with edges now, a real turning point you can point to. So now what? It's July. There's nothing to hunt. You've got a diagnosis and no patient to test...
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EP. 500: The Hunt Was Never The Point

July 8, 2026 • 91 mins
I hadn't sat down with Josh in a while. Not because we fell out or drifted on purpose, just life did what life does. Kids, seasons, work, all of it stacking up until you look up and realize it's been way too long. So when we finally got together to record this one, it felt like picking up a conversation we'd never really finished. A lot of this episode is about parenting through the years nobody prepares you for. Josh and I are bo...
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EP. 499: Stop Waiting for Perfect | Hunting Aggressive When Time Is Short

July 1, 2026 • 110 mins
There are seasons in life that don't care about your hunting plans. They hit hard, rearrange your priorities, and force you to figure out what you're actually doing out there and why. That's what this conversation with Justin was really about. Justin lost his nephew before the season started. I'm not going to gloss over that. It shaped everything about how he approached the woods this year, and honestly, it made for one of the mor...
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EP. 498: The Truck Broke Down & The Hunt Got Real

June 24, 2026 • 63 mins
There's a version of hunting where everything goes according to plan. The rig starts, the weather cooperates, your deer or elk are exactly where you left them. That version of hunting isn't what Blake Ledger and I talked about on this week's episode. Blake's a guy who hunts with traditional archery equipment, chases deer and elk in country that earns every inch of access, and has a relationship with hunting that goes a lot deeper ...
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EP. 497: Why Most Hunters Never Learn From Their Failures | HOS

June 17, 2026 • 22 mins
Failure hits different in hunting. When a quarterback throws an interception, there's film. A coach. A coordinator breaking down every footstep and finger placement. The feedback loop is immediate, structured, and relentless. When you blow a shot at a giant buck, you drive home alone with your thoughts and a pile of questions that don't have easy answers. That's the part nobody really talks about. Not the failure itself, but what...
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EP. 496: One Thing The Best Hunters Do

June 10, 2026 • 68 mins
There's a version of deer hunting where you show up every fall, do roughly what you did last year, and hope things go differently. A lot of hunters live there. I've lived there. And for a long time I didn't even realize it was a choice. That's really what this conversation came down to. Chad and I kept circling back to this idea of hunting as a craft versus hunting as a habit. And the more we talked, the more I realized how easy i...
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EP. 495: The Hunt That Broke Everything He Thought He Knew | Ty Jennings | Discomfort Is The Strategy

June 3, 2026 • 81 mins
There's a version of every hunter that gets comfortable. You find a stand you like, a pattern that's worked before, and you ride it. You tell yourself it's strategy. Most of the time, it's just fear dressed up as confidence. Ty Jennings knows that feeling well, and he blew past it. In this episode, Ty sits down with me to dig into the kind of hunting conversation I live for: not the highlight reel stuff, but the honest reckoning ...
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EP. 494: Hunting Dead Ground | The Mental Game of Finding Whitetails

May 27, 2026 • 76 mins
There's a particular kind of restlessness that hits a hunter in the off-season. It's not impatience exactly. It's more like a low hum in the background of everything you do. You're mowing the lawn, you're half-present at dinner, but somewhere in the back of your mind you're replaying last season's misses and mentally walking new ground you haven't set foot on yet. That's where K.C. and I found ourselves in this episode, and honest...
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EP. 493: Why Mature Bucks Live Where You Won't Go | HOS

May 20, 2026 • 21 mins
Most hunters spend their off-season trying to make things easier. Better gear. Warmer clothes. Closer access. And honestly? I get it. Comfort is seductive. Your brain is literally wired to chase it. But here's what nobody in the hunting industry wants to tell you: comfort might be the single biggest thing standing between you and consistently killing mature deer. In this episode, we're digging into something that underlies everyt...
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EP. 492: Why Most Hunters Are Doing Too Much and Enjoying It Less

May 13, 2026 • 75 mins
There's a version of hunting that looks great on the outside. Big buck, good photos, done by noon. Then there's the version most of us actually live, which is messy and complicated and tied up in kids and jobs and the slow realization that your priorities don't stay the same forever. That's what Greg Litzinger and I got into on this one, and I'll be honest, it's one of those conversations that kept going in my head long after we s...
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EP. 491: What Years of Hunting One Buck Actually Teaches You

May 6, 2026 • 75 mins
Tom Murphy and I have had a lot of conversations about deer hunting, but this one felt different. We got into the kind of detail that most hunters never talk about out loud, specifically what it actually takes to hunt a mature buck over multiple seasons without losing your mind or your confidence. Tom's account of finally closing the deal on a deer he'd been after for years is worth the listen on its own. The shot, the tracking, t...
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EP. 490: Why You Blow It When It Finally Happens | HOS

April 29, 2026 • 22 mins
There’s a moment in every hunt that matters more than all the scouting, all the prep, all the miles you put in. It’s the one where the deer finally shows up. And if you’ve done this long enough, you know it doesn’t always go the way you thought it would. Your heart rate jumps, your breathing changes, and all of a sudden you’re not thinking as clearly as you were ten minutes before. You rush something...
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EP. 489: Why I Chose the Harder Way to Hunt

April 22, 2026 • 73 mins
This week I’m joined by Kolton Schenker, and we spend some time talking through what it looks like when hunting starts to shift from something you do… to something you really commit to. We get into his background—years behind a compound bow, time spent out West, and what came with finally stepping into land ownership. But where the conversation really settles in is around his move to traditional gear. What that ...
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EP. 488: The Longer You Do This, The More It Gives Back | Find Your Tribe

April 15, 2026 • 76 mins
This week I’m joined by Will Coggin, and it’s one of those conversations where you realize pretty quick how many parallels there are between the things we spend our time on. We talk about how hunting and jiu-jitsu have a way of bringing people together fast, and how a lot of what Will learned in the military—discipline, structure, adaptability—shows up again in the woods. Not in some forced way, just in how...
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