Less Is More – R2K Exposes Deer Hunting – Randy Brewer

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Less Is More – R2K Exposes Deer Hunting – Randy Brewer

We’re heading to Illinois. We’re going to meet up with the R2K boys. Kyle Peterson, Randy Brewer and Kyle Leonhard are the guys that makeup R2K. If you’ve been on social media, you’ve seen them. They’ve got channels all over the place. It’s exciting to have you on the show. Let’s start off with why you are existing. What’s so special about having another group of guys saying, “Here we are and this is what we’re doing. Check us out.” Why don’t you tell the readers what’s so special or why you created R2K?

We wanted to be able to show the people our passion for hunting. That you don’t have to be a professional hunter or have tons of sponsors to be able to do something like this, to be able to get a name out there for yourself and let people see what your adventures are and how your hunts go, the good side and the bad side of hunting. A lot of people don’t get to experience the stuff that we get to, where we could take time off work to go out and be in the woods. We want to show people that it’s a lot of fun, no matter if it’s good or bad.

Is it reality TV comes to R2K?

Yeah.

I know you guys are fun. Kyle Peterson, what’re your thoughts?

My idea of it is we enjoy hanging out with each other, having fun and sharing the family values that were taught to us when we were younger. Some kids, their parents may not hunt. The kids may not even know anything about hunting, but they might love it if they try it. If we can show them how much fun we have and how much we love the outdoors, it might get more kids involved. It would be a good thing for everybody. It’s always about friendship, family, being outdoors and enjoying the time out there in nature. We’re not dealing with all the crimes in the cities and we’re enjoying it.

What about you, Kyle Leonhard?

They touched about all the points. It’s the passion, bringing all the content and getting it out there so everybody could see it.

Kyle, are you behind the camera all the time or are you a shooter?

I try to do the shooting. Do you know any good cameramen? I got some that forget to hit the record button a lot.

I’ve noticed that.

This guy sitting next to me missed the turkey hunt on film.

I had a guy once. We had a nice double setup and I was rattling like a banshee. We got a big buck. The big buck stood about 80 yards. We never could get him on film. The little ones were all over it. After the session was over, I said, “This is going to be great.” I didn’t buy the beer that night. That’s for damn sure.

In my defense though, I did get the sound of the shot and the flop on the ground, but I didn’t get the actual shot on film. You got to hit that little button that says, “Open lens cap.”

Pick somebody that’s known in the business and has done thousands of thousands of filming. It’s Pursuit Channel, Sportsman Channel and all that. Every single one of them has had goof-ups. That’s inherent because you get excited because in comes a turkey, in comes a doe or in comes anything. When they’re coming in and in proximity to your stand, it’s exciting. I don’t care what it is. When I get deer that close and they’re completely clueless that I’m hanging around, in a split second they could be deer sausage, it excites me. It also excites other people because they go, “There he is.” They tense up and get buck fever like everybody else. They don’t do their job and that’s why filming is hard. All the people I’ve had on the show talking about filming say it’s very difficult. It takes teamwork, a lot of repetition and hundreds of hours to get it down to where it’s clicking. I don’t know how you set up in the morning when it’s dark out anyway. You got two sets up. If you’re using climbers, you got to do that. If you got hang-ons, they’re hopefully already up. You’ve got to get up there, get all set up and wait for the action. Sometimes I’ve had all-day sits. It’s me, the squirrels and that’s about it. 

We do a lot of self-filming too. It makes it even harder.

Do you have an arm that you click on? Do you have it in one place and you have an arm and you click on it? I was thinking about that. What if that deer doesn’t come in that way? You’re screwed.

Each and every one of us either has a Tactacam, an UltraPro, a GoPro or something like that that we can mount up in the tree too. I messed up on a deer. I had the UltraPro above me and a wider shot of it. I could have shot, but I was thinking more about the big camera because it wasn’t on the deer, so I let the deer walk.

That’s what it is. All of a sudden, you’re thinking more about the film and getting the shot on the film than harvesting the deer. A lot of guys told me that their main objective is to get the game on the ground. They can do all the other stuff after that. The biggest part of any show is getting the harvest shot. It’s getting the kill shot down so people go, “They got it done.” For all the shows on TV, there are thousands of deer that are shot on film. I don’t know if we went over a million deer nationwide. In Wisconsin, it’s 100. I don’t know how many in PA. I don’t know how many deer. Let’s say 500,000 or more deer were taken, bucks or does. That’s a lot of content. More and more guys and gals are going to self-filming because there’s a big need for it and the platforms allow it, GEN7 TV or CarbonTV. You don’t need Pursuit or Sportsman Channel. People are figuring out. You put up good quality. Those two channels put up great quality. There’s no question about it. They have great guests. Some people can’t afford that, so there are guys like R2K that are out there sharing it. This is the reality. This is the oops and the ops. This is the story that we’re going to put together. Talking about stories, how do you build the story for your hunts? What do you try to do?

We go off the history that we’ve had with some deer. I’ve got history with a couple of deer that have eluded me. About everybody here built their season off their history and what we’re getting on trail cameras. The deer I’m after is old. He’s close to a 200-inch deer. He might get 130. He’s old, but to me, he’s still the biggest trophy out in that timber. He’s mature and smart. I’ve been after him for a few years. He’s a genius.

He’s in your timber. Is it on private land? How many acres?

Yes. The farm that I originally started on in the area was only eight acres. My sister happened to see him in her timber so that’s where I went. I got permission to hunt the property south of there, which is about 200 acres. There’s still only about an additional twenty acres worth of timber. He’s using the CRP field to the north and the cornfield to the south to get back and forth. I got a creek on the east side.

Do you have a funnel or a pinch point you can head him off?

Not really. There are too many ways around. He can go any which way and I can’t. There’s too much open land for me to pinch him down.

You got CRP, which is open. You got standing corn, which is a great place for a deer to flat out live. You got a little creek bottom. What does he do during the rut? Does he not play so much in the rut?

He mostly goes nocturnal during the rut. I’ve had two, three pictures of him in daylight during the rut. It was on days I was at work. I changed where I was parking my truck, how I was entering any stands. One night, I got him directly underneath me. It was so dark I couldn’t see my pins. It was after hours so he got a free pass. That’s the closest I’ve ever had him on the hoof to me.

Was he on the field edge that night? 

He came across my sister’s lane going to her house. He came into the timber a different way than what I expected him to, and he walked underneath me.

Did you have a hang-on sitting?

Yeah.

Did he come from the neighbor’s or did he come out of the cornfield?

He came out of the CRP, crossed one property and into the other property.

You’re sitting in a little patch with eight acres of woods. Why do you think he went the way he did?

I’m not sure. He was in that timber for over four hours in daylight and I wasn’t there. I was at work. The next day, he was there for a couple of hours. He bedded down ten yards from my deer stand and went back into the CRP. I went in to hunt and he came walking in the CRP. I was downwind of him. I had no idea he got about 150 yards away. He stopped, turned around and walked back the other way. The wind was blowing away from him. I have no idea. It’s like he knows I’m there.

Did you walk the trail? Was that your entrance trail?

I came in on a completely different side, the opposite direction of what he came from. He still wouldn’t come in. It’s almost like he knows the sound of my vehicle.

He might. Was the sun hitting you and casting a shadow?

No, the stand I was in that night was on the downhill side. The sun was already down past it. I have no explanation.

I’m happy you said it. You walked way out of your way to get to your stand. Some guys will walk the shortest way to get to their stand and think nothing about it. Jeremy Berlin shot a 180 after three nights on him, but he walked over a mile out of his way. It was a quarter-mile from where his truck was. He walked a mile out of his way and got on his tree stand. The deer walked underneath him and the rest is history. That’s the only reason he got him. He found a creek bottom, access downwind and everything. That deer had no clue because the truck was in the barnyard. It doesn’t say, “This is Jeremy’s truck. I’m out here to kill you,” on the bumper. He went all that way around. He got in the tree stand and sat there. Within an hour, the deer was dead.

I’ve heard of guys taking boats. They hunt near a river or something and taking boats in to get to their stands.

It’s boats, canoes or walking creek bottoms in your Muck boots or LaCrosse boots. I’m guilty of it too. I’ve got one stand. It’s twenty yards off the farm road. I park and walk a quarter-mile to that. I walk up. They know I’m there. As soon as I get off that farm road, they know I’m there and they won’t come by. Yet, the trail camera says that if I left the stand at 10:15, then at 10:25 there he is. They’re that smart. If you don’t believe that, hunt for a while. I’m not trying to be a smart-ass, but those deer know. They don’t scent you. They sense you. They sense that something isn’t right. I can’t wait, Kyle Peterson, to see a picture of you hammering that guy. You got to change it up. As I had one guy said, he only hunts three days. He’ll hunt one deer in three days. If he doesn’t get him, he’ll go someplace else and figure it out. How about staying out in the tree stand overnight, making sure he’s not there?

It has crossed my mind, but the mosquitoes are terrible down there.

I’m serious. Bring one of those heater bodysuits. Get that and strap yourself in. Forget the safety harness and all that. I’d buckle myself to the tree, go to sleep and see what happens.

During the rut, he was bedding. I had to get the stand out of there. I couldn’t hunt the stand that was in there because every night he was coming in. He’d bed from 2:00 in the morning until 7:00 in the morning. I knew that if he was going to keep doing that every night, there’s no chance of me hunting that. He was never coming in the afternoon. He was bedding during daylight and he’d go right onto the neighbor’s property that I don’t have permission on. That was the luck of the draw.

Show up at 12:00. Get in your body suit. Spray down with all the great scent stuff, Ozonics or Scent Crusher. I don’t know what you have to do but watch him come into bed and let him go to sleep. When the sun comes up, he’ll stand up and you shoot him.

I might try that. I’ll let you know how it worked.

Let me know how it worked. You can’t nock an arrow when you’re not hunting and you’re sleeping in a tree. I don’t think that’s against the law. I wouldn’t nock an arrow, I wouldn’t do anything. I’d just be sleeping in my tree. I’d try something crazy because he likes that place. You’re so close to getting him. There’s this one little piece that you haven’t figured out. It’s either that or he commits suicide. He walks down a lane and goes, “Here I am. Don’t miss.” 

“You win.”

We have good giggles and laughs, but that’s how much you get involved with some of these bucks, especially on private land. You get to know them and they get to know you. That’s part of hunting. That’s a good thing about why we hunt. Randy, do you have any stories like that? Tell me your story.

I do. One of my bigger bucks was the first big buck that I took with a bow. I hunted him for a few years. I get within 30 yards. I was sitting at a corner of a fencerow. You know how bucks love to run fencerows. He was holed up in his thicket. It was a bush of saplings. I could never get him in. The year I hunted him, I made it a point to stay out of that stand until the first week of November. I took my daughter to a dentist appointment in Peoria. I got back to town at noon. By 12:15, I was in the stand. At 3:15, I had the deer on the ground. He came in chasing a doe. He came in about four yards underneath me. He stopped, looked at the doe, looked up at me and was like, “Crap.” I was already at full draw. It was too late for him. I got him on the wall.

Did he know you were there? Did he know your stand was there?

Yeah, it’s an open field. There’s nowhere else there to put a stand-in. There’s a timber down at the bottom. It goes back up to the top. There’s a cornfield up there. There’s a bigger timber next to me. I sat right in the corner of three fences coming together. There was no other tree to get into the timber. I put another stand further over into the bigger timber, hoping I could catch him coming through there. He never did. I knew it was going to pay off if I was patient. I waited for him and got in there at the right time of day. It worked for me.

How did you slip in there?

There’s a pasture that was directly behind me. I could walk the timber along that pasture, it’s a straight shot to the stand. You’re only out in the open for about 60 yards and you’re back in the cover again. He was bedding down in this bottom. It goes down into a ravine. It’s a big cattle lot. The farmer puts cattle in there at certain times of the year. It’s got a few little fingers in it. That’s where he was bedding up at. He was bedding down in the bottoms and the fingers. The wind was perfect that day. It was blowing at my face and away from where he was bedded. Before he came in, a 150-inch ten-pointer came in chasing a doe. I thought it was Chiquita. I saw him chasing that doe off. I stood and heard that deep bellow grunt. I knew it was him. The doe came out, stood right underneath me and here he comes, right up through that little thicket of saplings that he would always hole up in.

How about you, Kyle? You’re the last man standing.

My ground is a lot of CRP. It’s mostly a pasture area. I don’t have a lot of history with too many bucks. I got a couple on velvet. Two of the bucks that I had on camera, the neighbors ended up getting them. That was the story of my season.

What can you do with your neighbors? 

They don’t go over there.

They’re staying on their land. You’re staying on your land.

Yeah. I have a lot of deer that come through there during the rut. It’s being there at the right time felt like any other.

Do your neighbors practice QDMA? Are they brown and down?

They were all mature deer. They do a pretty good job. I have a couple of neighbors that’ll shoot about anything. There are four neighbors. They usually are pretty good about not shooting small deer until the gun season.

It’s open season. That’s hunting. When I started off hunting, if it was brown and legal, it was down. There wasn’t any question. We had twenty, 30 people in all the families that we’re feeding. In these small Wisconsin towns that I was hunting with the family, when you have five kids and they all have families, all of a sudden you got twenty people. We’d shoot in the morning and hang them. By midnight, they’re in the reefers, the freezers or hanging in the meat locker because they want to age them. I grew up in that tradition, “Everything that you see here is going to get eaten.” There are a lot of people in this country that still do that. If they don’t fill up their freezer with meat, then that’s not such a good thing. Now we have the organic thing. Venison is organic meat. People are hunting organic. Do you want to eat organic? I can help you get the best organic in the world. You won’t pay $20 a pound or whatever for it. We live in a different time. Let’s talk about the season. Kyle Peterson, we’ll start off with you. What’s on your hit list? We know you got the big guy. Is there anybody else? Are you solely after the big guy?

I got a pretty decent ten-point and probably a 130, 140-inch eight-point I’m after. They’re all older deer. They’re five-and-a-half or six, somewhere around there. I had a strange buck. I never had a trail camera picture of him. He’s the biggest mainframe eight-point I’ve ever seen in my life. I caught a limb when I shot. It exploded my arrow. I never saw him after that either. I’m hoping I’ll get redemption on him if he comes passing back through. Other than that, there’s a ten-point and the big guy. I’m waiting to see which one is going to make itself more vulnerable early in the season. Outside of that, I’m going to pick off a couple does, put some meat in the freezer and enjoy it.

There are different seasons within our hunting season. In the early season, they’re coming off the summer pasture or summer groceries. They’re starting to change over to what they’re going to be eating during the fall and the patterning later in September changes. How soon can you get after the deer in Illinois?

It’s in October 1st when the season opens. I have an alfalfa field, a bean field, a cornfield and a clover plot all within 150 yards of my stand.

They got everything they need.

A creek is only about 250 yards.

Do you have any brassicas?

I do not.

Don’t you feed them during the winter? What do you leave them up for the winter?

We can’t feed in Illinois. The farmers’ combines aren’t quite as efficient.

Can you put a brassica field in and not hunt it? How does that work?

We can hunt food plots. The only problem is that in the small amount of acreage that I’m on, everything else is tillable. The farmers already got all their crops in. They do winter wheat and stuff like that later on. I only got a small area I can plant. I’m trying to keep the deer healthier through the summer months because it seems to be when we’ve had the most issues as far as deer getting sick or anything like that.

You got food, water and cover. You got stuff for them to eat during the wintertime because your winters aren’t brutal there like they are in the Upper Midwest?

They can be. We had one day that was about 35 below.

That was one day though. That wasn’t a month.

It’s not months at a time.

Anybody can survive 35 degrees below zero for a few days. If it goes below zero for a month, it gets hard. It gets hard on the deer and it stresses them. When it’s time to have the fawns, they’re not in good shape. That’s for sure. Randy, what’s your game plan for the fall?

I got a couple of big eight-pointers I’m after. I’ve got one that I’ve been chasing for the last few years. He came in close last time, but he was with it. It was early October and there were still in a bachelor group. It was strange because they were bumping these two yearling does around. I couldn’t understand that. It was odd. It seemed like the rut in Illinois was a lot sooner than it normally is. It hit about mid-October and just went away. Later in November, they started chasing does again. It was a funny year for the rut around here. I got one of them. I named one of the eight pointers, Bob. I’ve got him on my Tactacam a few times, walking underneath my stand. Everybody goes, “Why do you call him Bob?” I say, “He’s like a neighbor. He’s always around.” He was only a three-and-a-half-year-old. He’s going to be a four-and-a-half-year-old deer. He’s looking pretty good. He’s a 140, 150-inch deer.

How many acres do you hunt?

I got 40 acres that I hunt. There are another 30 acres over by Oak Run that I can hunt also.

You got 70 acres. That is a whole heck of a lot to some people.

I would rather hunt the smaller plots than hunting the big timbers. There are probably 300 acres across the railroad tracks from where I hunt. It’s called The Brickyard. They get a lot of pressure in there. They push their deer over to us. It’s just one other guy hunting that and me. He’s got other property he hunts. Most of the time, it’s only me in there which makes it nice.

How do you decide where to put your stands?

A longtime theory of mine is finding where the trails cross. X marks the spot. It’s anywhere you see trails coming through that are heavily used. It’s something that’s been dried up and not used but are heavily used and they cross. I always try to put a stand in that location because you’re going to catch them coming, either to food or back from food to bed. I never get in close to a bedding area. I stay as far away from a bedding area as I can. I’ll still hunt it, but not right on top of it. I like putting my stands on field edges. I’ll hunt gateways where there’s a corner of the field. I like hunting them in corners of the fields because you catch them coming across the field or going back out of it and into the timber.

Have you noticed this in the wintertime when there’s snow on the ground? Some of them are 45 degrees to the heavy trail. It’s like an arc. You got the straight line and the right angle triangle. You got a trail that connects the two and it arcs. Have you ever hunted those arcs?

I haven’t.

From what I’ve learned and studied, you have to do this in the wintertime to see it. The bucks will intersect those arcs, not at the X but some number of degrees away from the X. I can’t tell if it’s twenty, ten, fifteen yards. The terrain is everything. There’s an arc that will connect the two main trails and they’ll be able to scent check. They’ll hit that arc. They’ll get in the middle and then scent check based on the wind. They can cover both those trails, standing from one point. They don’t have to come to the center. It’s interesting how bucks will loop main trails. In the staging and transition area, the buck will stand up. He’ll wait and get the wind right. He’ll check the field. You’ll never see him because he scent-checked. It’s the same on a ridge. He’ll use the flow of wind and scent check. You’ll never see him. It could have been a mature buck within 100 yards behind you scent checking. You’ll never see him. That’s how smart they are. In the winter, check those connecting arcs. They’ll figure out that if they make loops where those two trails intersect, they can scent check them and even eye check them for does. Check it out. See if it works. Let me know if it works out. Kyle, what’s your deal? Kyle, how many acres are you hunting?

I got 60 acres that I hunt. It’s my mom’s husband. A neighbor, who was four or five years ahead of me in school, his dad has 110 acres that butt up next to the 60 that I hunt. He allowed me to start hunting that.

You got plenty of lands. Eight acres is plenty of lands. It’s harder to hunt a buck on eight acres because he knows you’re there. The odds of eight acres having some buck coming from five miles away cruising through there are slimmer than 120 acres or 100 acres. The more land you have, the more opportunity for bucks to move. Whenever the peak rut is, those suckers are moving. We got enough studies to show that home ranges don’t mean jack. They’re gone. There’s one thing on their mind and they’re going to find it. We got private land. You’re not hunting public land at all. It was you, Kyle Leonhard, who talked about a 365 hunter. Talk to me more about that.

It’s all year, from the time the antlers drop. I’m doing a little timberwork for TSI. I’m going to do that in the offseason. The woods are pretty open, not real thick. I thought about doing a little bit of timberwork to create bedding areas to try to keep them. Where I hunt is more of a pasture area. I started doing food plots a couple of years ago. That takes up most of the spring and summer, mowing and spraying. I got brassicas and some beans as well. I got an acre of standing beans for the late season. That’s something I enjoy doing. I started a little apple orchard on the ground too.

Apples work. They just take a long time to mature.

They’re not producing much yet.

Have you done any hinge-cutting?

That’s what I want to do in the winter. That’s a lot of work.

It works, just don’t get carried away.

Less is more.

You can read that all over the web. I’ve talked to Adam Keith and Matt Dye from Land & Legacy quite a bit. Most guys go, “I’ll create this,” and not so much. Unless you’re going in there and taking out the prime one logs and timbering it, you got a whole different story. If you’re hinge-cutting, there are right ways to do it and right locales to do it. You want to do it where deer naturally would bed if they had a cover. There are keys to that. Before you jump into that wholeheartedly, do some work and ask a lot of questions. Done right, it’s great. Done wrong, it makes a mess. You don’t accomplish what you think you’re accomplishing. Talk about the one big thing. I’d like to ask each one of you. It’s 2018. In 2013, what do you wish you knew then that you know now?

That this buck was going to be as smart as he is.

A few years ago, I had a pretty good chunk of ground leased. I struggled with getting to any stand because the property was so long and narrow. It had so many accessible ways to get into a stand. I always used to take a long, hard walk up and down the ravines on the old tractor roads to get back to the pasture. Every time I’d go back there, I was spooking a deer or two. I learned, in the year I hunted that property and in the last couple of years hunting smaller properties, that if I had brought my stands to the front of the property and played my cards a little better, I probably would have had a few more big bucks down. Instead, I was trying to get back in where they’re traveling more. I learned in the year I hunted the property that I just stuck a stand. There’s one draw-out in the very front of the cornfield. I stuck a stand right in the middle of it. About fifteen minutes before dark every night, they start flooding out there. I had no idea why they came to that field. My cameras never showed it and all of a sudden they were there. I learned to be more patient and hunt the fringes more than getting in where I think I got to be.

They’re going to bed in the woods unless there’s a mass crop. If you got acorns, it’s a whole different topic. You have to hunt them differently. You’re running and gunning then. I know some guys who don’t even put up stands. They’re hunting them right off the ground. Randy, what’s your thought on what you wish you knew a few years ago?

I’m like Kyle. It’s patience. I wish I had the patience that I have now. It’s been proven. I’ve got three big bucks on the wall from being patient, not trying to over-hunt an area, not being too aggressive with pollen, scents or anything like that’s going to alert the deer that you’re there. I found that a lot of times, it’s just being in the right place at the right time and being patient. It comes through for you. Less is more.

How about you, Kyle? What do you wish you knew a few years ago?

I wish I knew that there was going to be EHD. 2012 and 2013 were hard here in the Midwest for that. The population is just getting back up. That’s been some tough years. 2017 was pretty good. I’ve seen a lot of mature bucks. It’s also patience. I didn’t have near the patience back then.

You can’t do anything about a disease. The patience part, I became a better elk hunter when I didn’t walk five to ten miles a day to find the elk. A guy told me, “Here’s how we hunt elk. We get as high as we can. We get looking over this base and that base. We find the elk first and then we go hunt them.” Elks aren’t that hard to hunt once you find them. The hard part about elk hunting is finding the sucker. Once you find them, unless you bust them, they’re not going anywhere. They know where they are and they live in hellacious places. It’s hard to say, “Get high and glass. Spend the whole day. Be there before dawn and stay there until after dark. See if you can find a herd in a basin. If they’re not there, you go to a different basin.” It works on public land and private land.

That’s the thing I learned. Even with whitetail, I do a lot of long-distance scouting. I’ll sit up and get my long glass. I’ll glass a quarter-mile away. It’s half a mile across one field to the next field. I can check that. Other fields aren’t so far. You don’t get out of your truck. You roll down the window, put your glasses up, your spotting scopes up, and hunt them that way. Don’t put any pressure on them at all until you can pattern them and hunt them. If they’re on the oak trees, you got to spot and stalk them and hope for the best. You know where they’re going to be. You got to find them coming through and working it. That’s old style, being on the ground, sitting there and being patient, being invisible. You have to become invisible and see what happens. That’s exciting because you hear them coming and you see them coming. You see the horns coming up above the brow of the hill. Are there any last words? 

We’re not professional hunters, but we look forward to sharing our stories with everybody. We do Pro Staff for a few companies like Rage Broadheads, Nocturnal, BLOCK Targets, Happy Herd and Carbon Express Arrows. These are a few of the companies. They help us out to get through and help us do this easier. We all have full-time jobs. We’re sharing our story and hope that we can share with a lot more people in the future.

Randy, how do people get a hold of you?

They can go on our Facebook page, @R2KOutdoors. They can contact us on Twitter, @R2KOutdoors, our YouTube page which is R2K Outdoors.

Less is more. What are you going to say for yourself?

That’s it.

I can’t wait to meet up with you guys and laugh because you guys are fun.

We’ll all meet up somewhere.

I want to come to hunt. It’s a matter of getting the show to where I can hit the road and do it. This has been a blast. We got a lot of laughs. We’ve shared a lot of information. I love the thought of small plots. You don’t need large plots. I know one guy. He’s got a 40. Every year with his daughter, he takes off 140-plus bucks off the same ground. It’s surrounded by private land. It’s not quite suburbia, but everybody knows the bucks are there. They get them every single year. They hunt three days a year and that’s it. They’ve got it down to a science. Hopefully, I’ll meet him and be able to do some work with him. R2K, thank you for being guests on this show.

Thank you for having us.

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• Land & Legacy – past episode
• @R2KOutdoors – Facebook
• @R2KOutdoors – Twitter
• R2K Outdoors – YouTube

About R2K

We are a group of hunters that share the same passion for the outdoors and have the same goal. That goal is sharing our Journey with others. We have all been hunting for more than 20 years each and have each had our own success in the woods. Now combining all of our hunting knowledge together and trying to put as much as we can on film.

Our passion stems from our families. The hunting we did as kids has only become a passion we can only hope to pass on for generations. The beautiful elements of nature and the early fall mornings during deer season to the gobble of a turkey in the first morning light. The amazing views from our deer stands and the wildlife we get to watch and film, is what drives our passion for the great outdoors.​