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by Clint Campbell
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.
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- 1 weeks ago1h 13m
EP. 517: The Rut Is Here. Why Aren’t You Seeing Bucks?
Every fall we build the rut up into something it almost never is. We burn vacation days, watch for the cold front, and walk in expecting the woods to hand over a buck because the calendar says it should. Then reality shows up. Empty sits. Sign that looked hot a week ago has gone stale. A buck you were counting on is either dead, nocturnal, or three farms over chasing something you’ll never see. Chad Sylvester came back on to talk about exactly that, but first he had to tell me about elk. He just got back from his trip, and like most good elk stories, it was a mix of things going right and things going sideways in a hurry. Mountain hunting has a way of humbling you even when it’s going well, and Chad brought that perspective straight back into the deer woods. Most of this conversation lives in the gap between what we expect from the rut and what it actually delivers. The mental grind is real. After a few slow days it’s easy to start second-guessing everything: your spot, your setup, your whole plan. What we kept coming back to is that the answer is usually on the ground, not in your head. Fresh sign beats old sign every time. A scrape line that was smoking two weeks ago doesn’t mean much if nothing’s touched it since. You have to be honest about what the woods are telling you today, not what they told you last week. That led into one of the bigger debates of the episode: when do you scout, and when do you hunt? Sitting a stand that’s gone cold because it’s the plan is a great way to waste the best days of the year. But wandering around too much can blow out the exact deer you’re after. We got into how each of us makes that call, and why being proactive almost always beats waiting for something to change on its own. We also talked about hunting pressure. By the rut, deer have been dealing with people for weeks, and the bucks still walking around have learned from it. Adjusting to that, instead of pretending it isn’t happening, is a big part of what separates productive sits from frustrating ones. We closed on something I’ve been leaning on hard this year: minimum standards. Set them before every trip. The hours you’ll put in, the scouting you’ll do, the decisions you’ll make no matter how you feel at 4 a.m. on day five. You can’t control whether a buck shows up. You can control whether you held up your end of the deal. If the rut’s been kicking your butt this year, you’re not alone. Give this one a listen before your next sit. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 8m
How Cameron Derr Fills Tags Every Single Season
Some guys kill a deer. Cameron Derr fills tags, season after season, and that’s a different thing entirely. Luck can hand you one buck. It can’t hand you a track record. So when Cameron sat down with me, I wanted to get past the results and into the decisions that keep producing them. We started where every deer camp eventually ends up arguing: the moon. Everybody has a theory, and most of those theories line up suspiciously well with the days we already had off work. We dug into whether moon phases actually move deer or just give us a story to tell ourselves, and where the moon belongs on the list next to the things we know matter. Cameron also just launched his own podcast, and his approach caught my attention. Keep it digestible. Give people something they can use on their next sit instead of an hour of theory they’ll forget by the parking lot. That’s a good rule for a show, and honestly a pretty good rule for hunting. Then we got to the part I was most excited about: ground hunting early season whitetails in the Dakotas. No big timber, no perfect tree, just open country, summer patterns, and deer that can see you coming from a long way off. It’s a high-wire act. Some days it comes together fast. Some days a buck takes one wrong turn and the whole plan is dust. That unpredictability is exactly why it’s so addictive. The back half of the conversation went deeper into what really separates consistent hunters from everybody else. Patience. Observation. Watching deer long enough to understand what they’re doing instead of guessing. We talked wind, and how one bad sit with the wrong breeze can undo weeks of careful work. We talked about adapting when the ground changes under you, including what happens when the loggers show up and the woods you thought you knew turn into something else overnight. Cameron shared stories about specific deer, the lessons those bucks taught him, and the preparation that goes into a hunt long before he ever walks in. None of it is flashy. All of it is the kind of stuff that quietly stacks up into filled tags. If you’ve ever wondered why some hunters seem to connect every year while you’re still waiting on the right moon, give this one a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago27 min
35 Days Chasing One Pennsylvania Buck: What Kept Me Going | HOS
Nobody needs help getting out of bed on opening morning. The gear’s been laid out for a week and you’re awake before the alarm. That’s motivation, and on opener it’s free. The morning that decides your season is the one three weeks later. Same 4:15 alarm, the fourteenth time you’ve heard it, no shooter in ten days, and a very reasonable voice in your head making a very reasonable case for sleeping in just this once. That morning is what this episode is about. In 2024 I hunted one deer in the Pennsylvania mountains for more than thirty-five days straight. A legitimate Boone and Crockett buck living in country where deer like that almost never exist. I lived out of my travel trailer, hunted mornings, worked remotely through the middle of the day, and went right back in every afternoon. On October 11th I saw him on the hoof for the first time. Then he vanished. A week of not finding his sign later, the excitement was gone. What got my feet on the floor after that wasn’t motivation. It was something I’ve started calling truthful lies. Small, technically true things I told myself every morning. A big scrape I hadn’t seen before. Old rubs from past seasons. The tallest rub I’d ever found in those mountains. None of it was proof. All of it got me to the truck. From there I get into why motivation acts like weather, and why Angela Duckworth’s Grit is a book I come back to every fall. Enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare. Effort counts twice. In hunting terms, that means the small, boring reps nobody brags about. A few arrows a day through your full shot sequence. Ten minutes on the map. Logging every sit, especially the empty ones. Enough sleep and strength to be sharp on day twenty instead of just present. Before the season, during it, and after. I also break down the three places guys fizzle: when the novelty wears off, when fatigue turns into one excuse a week (I own one of mine from this season), and when a miss guts you. That last one comes with a story from a sixteen-day Midwest public land trip where I missed a big buck twice, kept getting up anyway, and on the final evening, truck already packed, killed a deer I didn’t know existed the day before. Then the practical part. Build the floor, not the ceiling. Set minimum daily standards for your bow, your intel, and your body, plus one rule for the hard mornings. Mine is simple. The alarm is not a question. And yes, I tell you how the Pennsylvania deer ended. It isn’t the ending you’d guess. Motivation’s going to show up for opener. It always does. This one’s about what gets you out of bed when it doesn’t. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Oct 14, 20261h 11m
EP. 514: Your Trail Camera Is Lying to You | Daylight Photos vs Night Photos Before the Rut
Every year around the back half of October, something shifts. The woods go from feeling like early season leftovers to feeling like something is about to happen. Scrapes open up overnight. Licking branches get torn apart. If you’re paying attention, there’s a short window in there that a lot of hunters sleep through while they wait for November. That window is what Jake Hofer and I dug into on this episode. Jake spent last season chasing specific deer, and he came on the show to unpack what that actually looked like. Not the highlight reel. The encounters that didn’t work out, the sits that taught him something, and the slow grind of figuring out how a mature buck lives. Every one of those close calls made him a better hunter, and that’s the part that never makes it onto social media. We spent some time there too. Hunting culture has changed. Social media has connected us in ways that are good for sharing knowledge and staying aware of the legislation that affects all of us. It has also turned a lot of deer hunting into a scoreboard. Jake and I talked about what we’ve gained, what we’ve lost, and where deer hunting in Illinois stands right now. Then we got into the meat of it. Homebody bucks vs gypsy bucks. Some bucks live in a tight core area and you can build a plan around them. Others show up for a week, vanish, and turn up three farms over. Knowing which one you’re dealing with changes everything about how and when you hunt him. Seasonal shifts move both kinds, and Jake had sharp takes on reading those changes before they catch you flat-footed. Trail camera data was the other big piece. A stack of night photos can make you feel great about a buck that will never give you a daylight opportunity. Daylight photos, even one or two, tell a completely different story. We broke down how to read your cards honestly instead of hopefully. Finally, we talked about picking your days. Weather fronts, specific dates on the calendar, and when it’s worth burning your best stand versus holding it for the right moment. Scrape week sets up November. Hunt it smart and you walk into the rut with real information instead of guesses. If you’re staring at trail camera pictures right now trying to decide when to go in, this one’s for you. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Oct 7, 20261h 14m
EP. 513: Old-School Deer Hunting in a Hight-Tech Era
It had been way too long since Ryan and I sat down together. Long enough that we had some catching up to do, and long enough that a lot had changed — most of it on his end. Ryan spent a big chunk of the past stretch recovering from a serious arm injury. If you've never had your body take hunting off the table, even temporarily, it's hard to explain what that does to your head. The physical rehab is one thing. The mental side is the part nobody warns you about. Ryan was forced to slow down, and in slowing down, he had to take a hard look at what actually mattered — family first, then what he really wanted out of his time in the woods. That reset showed up in how he hunted last season. Ryan walked away from a lot of the tech. Fewer trail cameras, less leaning on years of historical data, a lot more trusting his gut. That's not a knock on cameras — I run them, you probably run them — but there's a point where the data starts hunting you instead of the other way around. You end up chasing a buck that was in a spot two Novembers ago instead of the deer that's there right now. A big part of our conversation was about hunting mountain country, which is its own animal. Deer don't move through steep terrain the way they do in farm country, and the sign doesn't always tell you what you want it to. Ryan's approach leans hard on postseason scouting — getting in after the season when you can't hurt anything, walking the ground, and figuring out how deer actually use it. From there, he hunts more aggressively and stays flexible. If a spot isn't producing, he moves. No marrying a stand because it worked once. We also got a little nostalgic. Both of us miss some of the old-school way of doing things, when it was just you, a map, some boot leather, and whatever you could figure out on your own. There's a version of hunting that's more about solving a puzzle than checking an app, and I think a lot of guys are drifting back toward it. What I appreciated most is where Ryan's head is at now. He's enjoying the experience more and worrying less about the outcome. That's a hard place to get to, and it usually takes something going sideways to get you there. We wrapped up talking about plans for this fall and how good it is to hunt with friends again. If you're stuck in a rut — too much data, not enough instinct — this one's for you. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 30, 20261h 45m
EP. 512: The Cost of Sharing Your Hunting Spot Online
Jacob and I got into one of those conversations that starts on one topic and ends up covering the whole reason we hunt in the first place. It happens more than you'd think when the mic's rolling and you're not trying to force a structure on it. We started with something that's been nagging at both of us: what happens to a hunting spot once it hits the internet. A photo, a tag, a location pin, and suddenly a piece of ground you worked years to figure out belongs to everyone who scrolls past it. We talked about what gets lost when hunting spots become content instead of something earned, and why we've both gotten a lot more careful about what we share and when. That led us somewhere bigger. We talked about how hunting used to be something we did alone, and how it's turned into something we do with people, guys we trust, guys we've learned from, guys we're still learning from. Neither of us set out to make that shift. It just happened as the seasons piled up and we figured out the stand isn't actually where the good stuff lives. The good stuff is in who you call after, who taught you the thing you almost got wrong, who you owe a debt to for showing you how to read sign instead of just hoping. We spent real time on mentorship, on surrounding yourself with people who know more than you and aren't afraid to tell you when you're wrong. On trying a technique you don't fully believe in because someone you trust says it works. On what it actually costs, in time and attention, to keep a marriage and a hunting habit both healthy at the same time. Neither of us has that fully figured out. We just know ignoring one to feed the other doesn't work. By the end we landed on something neither of us planned to say going in: the outcome matters less than it used to. Not because we've stopped caring about killing deer, but because we've started caring more about whether we showed up honest, paid attention, and left the woods a little better for having been in them. If you've been hunting long enough to feel your own priorities shift, this one's going to hit close. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 23, 20261h 33m
EP.511: Why Terrain Beats Trail Cameras When Chasing Mature Bucks
Carl Brickey and I get into just about everything in this one, and by the time we're done it doesn't feel like an interview anymore. It feels like two guys who talk shop on the phone a lot finally hitting record. We start where a lot of good hunting conversations start: gear and stories. Archery season, duck hunting mornings, the whole process of building a bow by hand. Carl's got real callouses from that last one, not the kind you fake for a photo. There's a thread in here that caught me off guard: how surfing and skateboarding shaped the way he reads the outdoors. Different sport, same instinct. Read the conditions, adjust in real time, or get humbled by something you didn't respect enough. That instinct is basically the whole episode once we get into mature bucks. Carl doesn't talk about killing big deer like it's luck. He talks about it like a research project. We spent a long stretch on how he actually studies a piece of ground: not just where deer are right now, but where they've been for years, and why last season's pattern doesn't automatically predict this one. Historical data came up more than once, and not in a spreadsheet-nerd way. In a "I've hunted this ridge for a decade and here's what it's actually telling me" way. We got into specific gear and technique too, the stuff that changes outcomes instead of just looking good in a photo. What's earned a permanent spot in the pack, what's been cut, and why some of what worked five years ago doesn't work the same way now. Toward the end the conversation drifted toward what's next. New ground he's looking at, a few life changes on the horizon, and how those changes are already shaping the way he's thinking about next season before it even starts. This is one of those episodes where the takeaway isn't a single tip, it's a way of paying attention. Terrain, history, patience, and knowing the difference between a hunch and a pattern you've actually earned. Give it a listen and let me know what stuck with you. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 16, 202620 min
EP. 510: What a Five-Time National Champion Taught Me About Hunting | HOS
I want you to think back to the last time you were at full draw and something in your head started talking. Not the calm rundown of yardage and pin placement. The other voice. The one that shows up uninvited and starts narrating the worst version of what's about to happen. I always figured that voice mattered. I just wasn't consistent about doing anything with it, if I'm honest, until I sat down with Carter Starocci this summer. If you don't follow wrestling, here's what you need to know: Carter is a five-time national champion at Penn State, the first man ever to do it. By the time he was chasing that fourth and fifth title, the pressure wasn't hypothetical anymore. Every match had a target on it. I asked him what he was doing with his head between whistles, and what he told me reframed how I think about my own competition, and then how I think about hunting. The first thing he said: the words you use with yourself become true, not mystically, mechanically. Rehearse "I always blow it when they get close" for twenty seasons and your nervous system stops reacting to the deer and starts reacting to the story. Heart rate spikes early. Hands shake. You rush a shot you had plenty of time to make. The second thing cuts deeper. At his level, the difference between competitors isn't physical anymore, it's mental. Everybody left on the mat can wrestle. We've all hunted with a guy who shoots lights out in July and can't hold it together when a shooter steps out in November. It was never his form. Nobody had drilled what was supposed to run through his head in that moment. The third thing changed how I think about stand time specifically: you remove the anxiety by not making the hunt the whole goal. It's just the next rep in a career built out of reps. I felt that firsthand this year, in a BJJ tournament and out on the plains chasing a genuine giant. Neither result was the point while I was in it. That's exactly what let both of them happen. This episode builds a four-question filter for running that self-talk audit on stand, and it's not an off-season-only project. It's before, during, and after. Go build your one line. Drill it until it's automatic. It won't show up on its own the day it matters. Hunt like you train. I'll see you in October. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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.
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