Hunting guides

Use Past Seasons to Anticipate the Rut on Your Ground

When is the rut on your ground? Use past seasons' sit logs — rut phase, buck sightings and dates — to plan your best days instead of guessing.

Hunting the Wind: Track Wind Direction by Stand

Hunting the wind stand by stand — finding each treestand's best wind, recording the wind you really had, and checking it against your sightings.

Logging Gobbler Activity to Plan Your Next Setup

How logging gobbler activity — roost, fly-down, strut zones and weather — by setup helps you choose tomorrow's turkey setup from today's notes.

Morning vs. Evening Sits: What Your Data Shows

Morning vs evening deer hunting — the general case for each, why your ground may differ, and how to compare your own sits by time of day.

How to Pattern Whitetails From Your Own Sit Logs

Learn how to pattern whitetails from your own sit logs — what to record, when patterns become real, and how to turn them into better stand choices.

Keeping a Spring Turkey Hunting Journal

Why and how to keep a turkey hunting journal — what to record on spring mornings, logging harvests and misses, and reviewing a season before the next.

Stand Rotation: How to Avoid Burning Out Your Best Stand

How stand rotation keeps your best treestand productive — signs a stand is pressured, rotating around the wind, and using your sit history to decide.

What to Record After Every Deer Hunting Sit

A practical deer hunting log checklist — the stand, times, wind, temperature, deer seen, shot opportunities and notes worth writing after every sit.