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Well, our first thing at Created Outdoors, our very first thing it’s not hunting, it’s not a hunting show it’s not about a group of guys, the first thing that we want to do with Created Outdoors is our ministry. Joe Willis all in Created Outdoors.  A lot of people want to talk about God like as an evangelist type, well, the way we do it is through our woodsman-ship. And everything that we do outdoors we want to let everybody know that we’re doing that for God. And it’s like a ministry deal, but it’s not like we’re outside, and everything that we do is to glorify God. And that’s our way of showing through our work all of us on Created Outdoors, through our woodsman-ship.

that’s our way of showing through our work all of us on Created Outdoors, through our woodsman-ship.

Well, last year and the year before they cut the state in half, basically north and south. And they’ve allowed us, the southern part of the state to run into February. But in the 2016-2017 season which will be basically next season, they’ve allowed the whole state to go February the tenth. So it’s a lot of the people down South they got to tag another deer because of the 10 extra days. But especially down South deer usually ends on January 31st and the rut’s still going on when deer season stops so they actually gave us a few more days to where we can hunt deer in the rut. So I think it’s going to open up a lot more harvesting and stay.  Joe Willis all in Created Outdoors

And it makes it really, really hard to sit in a stand all day when it’s 85 degrees

Well, this year our record was terrible. And there was hardly any activity at all. You just about, the only way you were going to get to see any deer at all, really, was to hunt near a food source and you would see them early in the morning or late in the evening. Generally, a lot of these guys down here that hunt the rut they like to get in a tree stand or a box  however, they hunt and just sit there all day. And it makes it really, really hard to sit in a stand all day when it’s 85 degrees. Nothing ever froze, so all the bugs were still alive and when you’re getting bit by mosquitoes in the second or third week of January it makes it hard to deer hunt. Joe Willis all in Created Outdoors

The lucky part for us here in the South is that if you want to call it lucky, but the lucky part within the South here is, once our acorns hit the ground we have a longer period of time. We don’t have snow, a lot of times the ground don’t freeze up on us and once that acorn crop hits the ground we have a longer period of time where the deer can go to those acorns and eat them, okay. We also have a lot of wild fruit trees out here in Alabama, a lot of persimmon trees. And we’re lucky enough to where those, we don’t have any bad weather and they’ll drop fruits for the deer to eat and I like to find a late-dropping acorn tree, okay. Joe Willis all in Created Outdoors

I like to get out in the woods and find where a deer’s trailing, I like to go find the rub line and then go find where he’s scraping at

Usually it’s going to be a white oak, okay, but I like like to find an acorn tree that’s dropping late and I put me a camera up and I’ve been real successful finding late-dropping oak trees and that’s usually where, because I’m just not a big fan of, of course I’m a bowhunter, and I’m just not a big fan of hunting fruit flies. I put fruit plots on my property just so the deer’ll have something to eat but I’m just not a big fan of that. I like to get out in the woods and find where a deer’s trailing, I like to go find the rub line and then go find where he’s scraping at and then I’ll put out my cameras and then I try to pattern it. And that’s where I been most successful at. And of course down here…

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