Robbie Knickman, creator of The Mix, an attractant that has been creating a buzz in the hunting world lately, shares the backstory of how he discovered this great product. He talks about the science behind it as well as some great tips on how to utilize it. Robbie is vocal about the idea on why he created this product, recalling his love for hunting and his daughter. He provides great insights as he discusses the importance of feeding your fawns with healthy food containing minerals and nutrients. Robbie gives a checklist of what to do and what not to do when doing backyard suburban hunting.
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The Mix And Other Fine Blends with Robbie Knickman
Joining us is Robbie Knickman. Robbie is Camo Thug Outdoors. What does that mean? He came out of the low rent district of Baltimore and survived. He’s a street survivor. He’s created something called The Mix. The Mix is taking the hunting world by storm, simply because it works. It’s an attractant and some minerals thrown in there. More than that, if you read all the testimonials, “The Mix will get you pictures,” says David Cagle. Pictures are what we need to take inventory of what’s on our ground. The Mix does that for him. We’ve used The Mix in parts of Wisconsin. I call them the popsicles. They worked. They’re an attractant that the deer love. They pick up the scent, they come and they hammer them. If you got trail cameras, buy them, they work. Make sure you can use it in your area. If you can, try out The Mix and you can find Robbie on Facebook and get all his information. He’s going to share who he is, what he does, how he hunts deer in the State of Maryland and how he closes the deal each fall. Sit back, relax and enjoy Robbie Knickman from The Mix.
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I’m heading out to PA and Robbie Knickman. Robbie’s a good friend. This is his third or fourth time on the show. He and his daughter are the creators of The Mix. Robbie, welcome to the show.
Thank you, Bruce. I’m glad to be here again. It’s always a pleasure.
The pleasure’s all mine.
Robbie and his daughter created something called The Mix. Robbie. Let’s go back and let the readers know what The Mix is and we’ll unpack it from there.
The Mix is what I call an unorthodox deer attraction. I thought of that as just the regular mix with the regular deer attraction. Kylie took the stuff in the woods one day. She put it out in front of the camera next to my deer feeders, and we got pictures of deer eating that. They never touched my feeders. I made some phone calls. I called Doug Roberts a lot. Almost every day I called Doug from Conquest Scents. They basically run down the deer’s nose, their nutrient factor, what they like and the mineral context. I had The Mix out for a while, and then I came out with the Mega Mix, which is The Mix mixed in with a bunch of mineral and nutrients. We’ve got that out. That’s doing good. I’ve got my third product out which is called the Super Mix. Super Mix is all powder form. There are no clumps, everything’s powder. Three times the mineral, three times the nutrients of the Mega Mix.
We’re bringing out a new product. I haven’t named it yet because I have someone help me out. We can’t say who this person is because if people find out who it is, he can lose a lot of sponsors and stuff. He gets the name and that’ll be out. There’s no mix whatsoever in the new product coming out. The new product coming out will be basically for growth and body nutrients for an early season. That’s going to be good for it. When it comes to hunting season though, you want to pull big deer in. It’s already been proven now going on two years. You start putting the Mega Mix and the Super Mix out, you’re going to pull deer in your spot. You’re going to hold them. They’re not going to leave. I’m telling you, once the deer get a taste of that stuff, they’re hooked.
The deer will come back digging a hole for it every day. One guy put it on the log, it was four-foot high. The log is down to about a foot high now. He kept up on The Mix, the deer was just destroying the log. They got holes underneath of it. For being something weird or something unorthodox, it works great. It works with the Happy Herd. If you are using that product and you add The Mix into it, I guarantee you’re going to entice more deer. I’ll give you a prime example. You would go on Facebook. My buddy, Dave Haler, is one of my newest field staff. He’s been hunting the spot for 25 years. This is his first year using The Mix all year. The deer he got on his property now, he called and thanks me every day. He hasn’t had deer this big. Ten to fifteen bucks in his picture, but they’re huge.
Some of the bucks were 140, 150. They were feeding on the mix. He has pictures of fawns. The fawns are so healthy. They’re almost bigger than their mothers already from eating on The Mix all summer. This year I’m busy. With only me doing it, it takes a toll on me. I like doing it because I knew I was getting into when I first got into this business. Seeing all the results from the people who have been using The Mix for a year or two, I’ve seen how big their deer got. Especially when you call it Bullwinkle, that deer was a freaking elk. That’s how big it is. He shows the pictures on my page, on my Camo Thug Outdoors group page on Facebook. He sent me the whole picture. His G2s between 40 and 50 inches high. The deer is massive. He said he hasn’t had deer this big on his spot. He’d been hunting the spot for 25 years.
You still got those popsicles?
A lot of people with the deer popsicles are getting them for bears. Bears are tearing them up, so are the deers. B and B Outdoors, my buddy Edward. he got six of them. He hung them out, they were gone in two days. The deer hammered them. He had pictures of two or three deer on it, but on at one time. They only lasted three days tops. He bought eight of them. He ordered ten more. The deer popsicle is doing good. Everybody wants big racks. Everybody’s been ordering a lot of Mega Mix, Super Mix. Super Mix has got three pounds of mineral, three times the nutrients. The deer will get a lot of nutrients. I’ve been trying to stress lately in the hunting industry that you’ve got to take care of your deer. I noticed after deer season people stop feeding the deer. Once he’s done, I’m done feeding the deer. I’m trying to stress and educate people because I’ve been doing a lot of research. The first winter is the hardest on the fawn.
If you don’t keep food out there for your deer, neither of the fawns isn’t going to make it because they’re not strong enough. You’re going to take a bag of corn, take one of my three-pound bags a week. Those 50 pounds of corn, I’ll dump that three-pound bag of the mix on top of it. Deer got food and deer got nutrients. The line of fawns will survive, especially if they have a harsh winter. Everybody knows most fawns don’t survive. If you have a really harsh winter, they die because there’s not enough food there to go. I’ve been trying to stress that a lot lately. Even though deer season ends, continue to feed your deer. Take care of your herd. I know I have. I didn’t hunt my spot on the last time.
My buddy’s starting and went uphill on his track. We put out a week before. We put out a bucket for The Mix. While he’s up there sitting on tractor running, he’s got four deer ten yards from him. They would not leave the feeders. He’s sitting down the running tractor. The deer feeding on the feeders and they’re staring at him like we’re not running away. That tells something right there. You’ve got an animal that doesn’t like people, and the guy sitting on a tractor with a bunch of corn on the back. You’ve got your deer feeding. The videos on my group page, the deer is standing there. They didn’t go anywhere. They kept on feeding. I was surprised when I saw that. I never thought you’re going to drive up, you’re going with these. You’ve seen on the video, the deer stayed there. It didn’t move.
Everybody out there has got a bucket of whatever and theirs is the best bucket of whatever in the business. Why is it important to feed these deer? You mentioned to it about the fawns and their first winter. Overall, why does this mineral, food, and attractant all make a difference for the deer herd?
The nutrients and attractants I had in my mix are the highest. The company I deal with has the highest nutrient factor. The deer got to have nutrients. Even in the winter, when you got a buck. When a buck goes in rut, he loses between 30%, 40%, 50% of his body weight from running. He’s going to need nutrients. I said, “My mix not only is it like their snacks, it also got the nutrients and the vitamins they need.” It helps their immune system, give them more energy. Help them to heal. He walked on the rut because a lot of times the fawn has to survive. That fawn’s now putting nutrients in the deer. It’s not giving the deer no vitamins, that’s what I basically keep my Super Mega Mix.
It’s weird; it’s unorthodox; but it works. Share on XI did some research on the good mineral, a good nutrient and other vitamins that I put in there that I did research on. It’s all in the bag. It’s going to help the deer. It’s going to help their immune system. It’s going to put weight on them. It’s going to help them be a lot quicker from the rut. It’s going to help the does survive. This will give more food and give some nutrients. I was nervous at first. I talked to this person, that person he told me this, he told me that. I put it on the bag. I tested it myself first. When I brought it out, I was nervous. I’m thinking to myself, “Are people going to see the same results I have? Are they going to see the deer get as big as my deer are down in Maryland where I hunt?” I thought of marketing. I thought I’d get the feedback. I thought I’d get results.
I only had one guy call me. It molded it upon him. I don’t believe that because I put out a twenty-pound bag of Super Mix before we had our big snow. Snow covered it up. I went in there three days later because I hunt behind my staff also. I walked in there. We got four inches of snow. You could see what a deer dug to get to the Super Mix. None of that was molded. It was all good to go. The good thing with the Super Mix with it being in powder form, even the Mega Mix, if it gets wet, it’s going to seep that mineral into the ground. The way it happens, the deer he dug the mineral, soak it in. Nutrients in a deer are important. That’s what I’ve been trying to stress to people. Even if you don’t use my mix, use something else. People often ask me, “How come you never say you’ve got the best thing on the product on the market?” You’ll never hear me say that because I don’t think I do. I have one in the best on the market, but you’ll never hear me say, “My stuff is number one. My stuff is the best on the market. Don’t use this, don’t use that.”
I tell all my guys if you find something else that works with The Mix, use it. If you use The Mix or if you use something else, you want to throw The Mix in, throw it in. You’ll never hear me say, “I’ve got the number one product on the market,” because I won’t do that. There’s so much stuff out there. You know for a fact, Bruce, there are all kinds of stuff out there. Probably twenty times better than mine. The good part is to me being how I am. Use it, mix it in with whatever you’re using and see results. People asked me, “Robbie, I heard The Mix does this, The Mix does that. What can I do to see the result?” I said, “I’ll send you a bag. You try it out. See for yourself.” I could sit here and talk The Mix up like it’s Superman of products, but until you actually see what I’m talking about for yourself, like they say, “A picture speaks a thousand words.” That’s why I had a lot of people saying, “I don’t think it works. I don’t think it this.” A couple of guys got it and now they’re one of my best customers I have.
One guy called to tell me, “Why should we pay $11 for a bag of my Super Mix,” when he isn’t going to buy a twenty-pound bag of corn for that, that’s worth as good. This is why I thought, “I’ll send you one five-pound bag. You put a camera on it. You go buy that 50-pound bag of corn. You’ve got my product next to it. Let me know what gets hammered first.” Sure enough, he called back, “I want some more.” It’s weird, it’s unorthodox, but it works. It works great. I’m shocked. I’m still overwhelmed with all the attention I’m getting from it. It’s pretty wild when I do live feeds. I’ve got guys from TV shows coming in from Conquest Scents, he’s always on my live feeds. That says something about it when they do that. I’m going to Michigan to visit Doug Roberts from Conquest Scents. The Pigman tried The Mix. Ted Nugent tried The Mix. That’s pretty wild when you got people like that, “Send me a couple bags. Let me check it out.”
I was at the Sportsman Show, and we walked through Jim Shockey’s booth. This is what the guy told me. He wasn’t there that day because he had to fly home. He said, “Jim knows who I am,” and I swear to God, that’s what he said. He goes, “He watches your live feeds. He knows about The Mix.” That guy has named one of my pages, the Boss Lady, as you know. He had a hat for her, he had a tee shirt, and they gave her a video all from Jim Shockey. That made that little girl’s day. He watches all my feeds and they all get a kick away at all my live feeds. There’s always fun everywhere. A puppet or a doll or she’s trying to beat me up in my live feed videos. That little girl’s awesome. When you got somebody like that, Jim Shockey he watched your live feeds. It went through my head a little bit. The same way with you, Bruce when you first started. I’m like, “Don’t let him down,” and sure enough, he didn’t.
I even told a lot of people, you’re not going to get the same results. Let’s say if I put it out in Maryland, you put it out in Michigan or Indiana, they’re different in each region, but they’re all going to eat The Mix because the way it smells and the way it tastes. You might not get a thousand deer in one picture. Some people in one week they’re getting all bucks from The Mix. The next week they’re getting all does. They tell me about the time, “Robbie, I’m getting nothing but does when I put The Mix out.” I said, “That’s good. The upcoming season.” They go, “How you feed her?” I said, “Think about it. Come in end of October, where all are the bucks going to be at? Where the does are at.” They’re like, “Yes, I didn’t think about that.” When the rut’s starting out then those bucks are going to be where the does are at. The more does you’ve got in your area, the better you’re going to hold them.
I don’t know if you heard of the show, Unbroken Outdoors Matt Fazenbaker? They gave me a lot of pointers on as far as doing videos. This was my first year trying to film. I’m nervous about it. It’s going to be a good year because I have 28-person field staff team. They’ll all be posting pictures every week of The Mix. They’re going to check their cameras every week. I’ve got sponsorship. I’ve got Prym1 Camo, UltraProX Cam, I’ve got L & M Custom Scents. I love their stuff. Every deer I shot last time, the wind was in my face, these deer came up behind me. They never once smelled me. They have a cedar soap. When you use some soaps, you wash and your skin feels all dried out and crackly. With L & M, it moisturizes your skin and it lasts for 24 hours. Once you wash, you don’t get that dry, cracked up feeling. You feel moisturized. Your skin’s soft. You’re not feeling like you went through a sign or something like that. I’ve got to get a big shout-out to L & M Custom Scents. I hunted behind for the first time. It was a week before the last day I had a doe. I had the biggest doe I’d ever seen in my life come in.
I end up hitting her front side because she wouldn’t turn. When I walked up to this doe, Bruce, I had never seen a doe this freaking big. After I dressed that, she was a 176-pound doe. I had one come in there before her. Bigger than her but I couldn’t get a shot. I’m sitting there. I was watching it. The wind was in my face behind me. I sit down and I go, “Damn.” I happened to look over my right shoulder. I look up and I saw a deer go behind me. I easily turn to my left and sure enough, this deer came off fifteen yards behind with the wind right in my face. Walked out, never once smelled me. She stopped staring at me. I was up high, but she was staring in my direction.
She wouldn’t turn. She went about twenty yards and dropped. I’ve never seen a doe that big in my life. If you go with body size, that’s the biggest deer I ever shot for his body size-wise. She was huge. I tried dragging her out. I couldn’t do by myself. I had to drag her over a stream. I ended up calling a buddy from work, “Come back to the yard and I got a deer for you.” They got this law that I shoot deer in Maryland. I can’t bring them over the PA line. They feed on that and all that. If you shoot deer over PA line, you cannot bring the carcass over the line. We had to have them butchered in Maryland. You can pick out the meat but you cannot transport deer off where the DNR refers over the state lines. I hunt in PA and I hunt in Maryland. The rut seasons is starting and I can’t wait to fire it up.
How big a land do you have?
Behind that work is about three acres but it butts up to a bunch of woods. Down the spot where all my big deer. Bruce, I have big deer. I didn’t hunt my spot all last year because they were building another warehouse on Capitol Hill. Somebody came down and stole one of our cameras. Luckily, we had a whole camera watching that camera. I had to go up there and be all rude to the project manager, but I got my camera back. We’ve got lots of them. These three acres, it butts up to a six-acre piece of wood. The good part is I’m the only one who hunts back there. Me and my one field staff were the only ones back there. I’ve got one deer, I started pouring out the Mega Mix and he showed up the end of last hunting season. I had never seen a deer down in this part of Maryland this big. I did in the haul. From what I could tell of this deer, he’s a twelve point with a drop tine. His G1 to G2s are about between eighteen, nineteen inches high.
You see deer like that in the Eastern Shore. I have never seen a deer like this. The bad part is the Mall and the casino is three miles down the road. What the cool part is I have a big six-footer in my wall in there. His G1, G2s are sixteen inches long. He’s 2.5-foot wide. I shot that deer two miles from I’m hunting at now. I don’t know what they were eating back then before I put The Mix out. The deer I got running around there, they’re eating The Mix. Like I said, I fed them all last time. We didn’t hunt back there. We had a real old doe. A doe starts breeding, he becomes a grocery store, so she’s got to go. He’s not doing your herd any good. I’ve been stressing also a lot of the buck to doe ratio too. You’ve got to keep that buck to doe ratio. He took her out. We’ve got some really big deer this time. The nearest house is about 140 yards away from me, but we’re only allowed to use bows back there. It’s what we call backyard hunting in Baltimore. The biggest deer killed was in somebody’s backyard. It was a 209-inch buck.
You live in Pennsylvania. How far do you have to commute?
55 minutes, under an hour. I would have done it. I travel 55 minutes to an hour on there.
When do you hunt then? Right after work?
Friday, I’m going out to work because it’s opening day. Saturday morning I’m leaving here at 3:00 in the morning. I’ll get down there about 3:30, get there 4:30. The time I spray down. I got to carry so much stuff in the woods with me. I even had to go and get a new backpack with all the camera arms and stuff. The time I get all that loaded up and walk up the hill and get in my stand and I get situated. I’m ready to go. The sun goes up at about 5:00. Between 5:15 and 5:20 the sun’s been going up. I’m all ready. I got two little boys in my backpack which I’ve got to send you a Jake’s Huntin Hook, Bruce. I don’t know if you heard of them yet.
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Basically, what it is, when the deer stands where we get up there. We take our glove off. We take our hat off. We take the backpack. What we do, we knock our glove down the tree or you knock your high tree. Hopefully, not your bows fall or your backpack falls, you climbing down to pick this stuff up now, you just unravel that. Lower it down, you swing it. It hooks whatever is down there. You pull it back up. The cool little invention from my buddy, Steve Billups. He invented it and he sent me one and I had been promoting them. He always sends stuff for my fundraiser, giveaways for that. This is going to save a lot of people time. I’m a klutz. The main thing I drop when I get in my tree stand is my Pepsi. I’ve got to have my Pepsi or I’ll be no good. Instead of me climbing down to get it, I’ll lower that hook down. I’ve tried it. That hook picks up arrows. If you drop a hat, a glove, whatever you drop it’s going to pick up. Just bring it down there, hook it, pull it back up, wrap it up, put it back in your bag or it’s got a clip on, you clip it on your backpack. You clip it wherever you want to clip it. It’s definitely a game-changer. The cool little invention, it is. I’m just playing with it backyard.
Let’s talk about backyard suburban hunting. Give us a couple of tips. There are a lot of people in our audience that do love out east. They know about suburban hunting. Let’s talk about tips. How’d you find the deer? Where are they?
Basically, what I do up there, go out for a hunt. He’s been up there. The main thing I look for is deer trails. I’m going to see where the deer are coming in. I noticed when you walk up the top of the hill. He’s got an opening. What I did, I walked up to the opening. I looked around. I looked for deer signs. Deer droppings, I looked for rubs, I looked for scrapes. I want to see the path where they’re coming in there. As a hunter, you know if a deer is coming in an area. A lot of that trail’s going to be beaten down like an army went through it. That’s basically what I look for. I didn’t invent The Mix because I was five or six years now. I started pouring out. I was using that donkey corn. I put that out and started putting cameras on it and we started getting deer in the area.
If you’re going to hunt, take care of the property. Share on XEvery year I hunt a deer, I killed a deer. Ever since I got The Mix going on, we’d be feeding The Mix. The biggest thing for suburban I can say is, the most important is sure that it’s legal to back there. Make sure you’re not within 100 yards of any house, regardless. That’s the biggest thing. There are a couple of spots I want to hunt down there, but I can’t because there are houses every 50 feet. The deer run through there. We’re knocking down all these woods and then building all these houses. We’re building factories. We’re taking the deer’s habitat, and we’re forcing them to live in our backyard. They’ve got nowhere else to go to. If you notice every time they build a building or a warehouse, I noticed myself, you start seeing more deer dead in the road. You start getting more human and deer-car crashes in a local neighborhood. Coming home, I ran three different deer. Three different times that were hit by a car and still alive. I called the cops. I stayed there until the cops came and put them down. They were on the side of the road. One was in the road, flopping around and still alive. I went over there and dragged her out. I hit deer months ago going to work. I got called in one night. I’m going down the road. This deer came out of nowhere. It gave my work truck a new bumper. For suburban hunting, I would suggest looking for droppings, look for deer signs. I stay away from the bedding areas. I made that mistake already.
Make sure all the neighbors know. The good part where I hunt at now is probably all the neighbors know that I’m back there. I had a deer last year I killed. It ran and died in some guy’s back door in front of his kids. That guy was cool about it, but he knew it and he goes, “You must be Robbie.” I said, “Yes, sir.” He goes, “Rob, we noticed you were back there. We don’t mind.” He goes, “Can I ask you a question?” “Yes, of course.” “What are you going to do with that deer?” I said, “Why? Do you want it?” He said, “Yes, I will.” “Let me drag it to woods. I’ll drag it out and throw it in the truck.”
Let your neighbors know you’re back there. Make sure you got permission. Keep your permission slip in your backpack regardless. I have yet run into the DNR where I hunt at but you’ll never know. There’s always that first time. If you’re going hunt, take care of the property. Keep it clean. Don’t leave your trash up there. Keep your feeders out. Keep them filled. Keep your deer fed. The biggest thing is to look for signs. Put it in areas you never had deer before, and now they’ve got deer all in there because of The Mix. Another guy, he had a deer he called The Mix Buck. He put The Mix out, and you guys know what time he cooked. He put it in one area and this deer is killing it. He came in and destroyed it.
Also, the time we started messing with his buck, he put The Mix a mile away. He had pictures of same deer coming into it. We put a mile in the other direction, for another deer. The same deer coming into The Mix. He’s ended up harvesting that deer. That deer was going around looking for The Mix. When I said Bullwinkle, he’s got Bullwinkle on all four of his mix types coming in eating The Mix. There was a couple of them. A couple of deer were fighting over it. Bears were eating it. There’s a video on my page are two bear cubs fighting over The Mix. The bear cubs are rough. I like bears eating The Mix now too. I even got pictures of coyotes and everything else in here.
How do I decide where to put The Mix up to attract the deer and then hold the deer?
I tell people if you want to get The Mix in your area and say you got a feeder, pour The Mix around your feeder first. Let the deer know there’s something different there. For the first two or three weeks, keep The Mix outside your feeders. That way you get to see for yourself how the deer are coming in. If you have two feeders, alternate The Mix and see for yourself that The Mix is working. One week put it by the feeder on the right. I’ve got two feeders, tree about five-foot apart. The next week, put it on the other feeder so you can actually see whether the deer going to pass that feeder to get to The Mix and vice versa. After two or three weeks, you see the deer on your mix more and more. They start dumping in your feeders. Now, the guys will five-gallon buckets of The Mix, which is expensive because of its weight. What I found out you can do is save yourself some time and people say I’m crazy for saying, the money is.
If you order two five-pound bags of the mix in a week, you can take two bags of corn. Take that mix and that total of ten-pound mix and turn it into 80 pounds. What you want to do is you take a bucket in the woods with you with your mix and your corn. You want to take half that bag of corn, dump it in the bucket. Fill that quarter of the bag of The Mix in there. Mix it up with your hand, rubber glove on or it doesn’t matter, either way, mix it up. Put it in your feeder. Dump some more in there. Do the same thing. Repetition is major. You’re basically taking that ten pounds of the Mega Mix food mix and mixing in with your corn. That smell and all that other stuff are getting coated on that corn. All the powder and stuff in there from the minerals and stuff like that. You’re taking two 40-pound bags of corn and you’re turning both those bags of corn into The Mix. You’re mixing it with The Mix, you’re dumping in your feeders. You put out that ten pounds of mix, it’s going to go in one night. I had a guy buy two five-gallon buckets, gone in one day. You dump it out, the deer, once they start eating it, they don’t leave it.
People are saying I’m crazy for saying this. I’m shooting myself in the foot. If you’re going to buy corn with an empty bucket, pour some corn followed by The Mix and mix it up. Pour some more corn in, put The Mix, mix it up. That way, that mix is going to last a little bit longer. I’m crazy for saying that but to me, I want to make money doing this to cover my costs. I thought The Mix for money. I didn’t start it to be famous. I didn’t start it to be, “I’m Mr. this and that.” My nickname is now The Mix Man. Everybody calls me The Mix Man.
I started this because, for one, my daughter likes it. My daughter is my world. I get to spend so much more time with her in the woods. To have her going hunting with me, she has her little bow now. She’s got her gun. The main reason I do this is for my daughter. We have so much fun together. If you watch one of my live feeds, you’ll see what I’m talking about. It’s my little daughter, that’s the main reason I do this. That’s why people call me, “Robbie, I’m disabled. I can’t afford shipping on The Mix.” “What do you want? I’ll send it to you.” People tell me I need to stop doing that. Like I said, yes, I want to make some money doing this to cover my cost, I didn’t get in to get rich.
I’ve done all this to help people. Which everybody has to do a lot of stuff for the veterans. I do a lot of stuff for my hunting friends, disabled kids. When Kylie’s appendix broke months ago, she had to have emergency surgery. They transferred up the Hershey Medical Center, the Children’s Hospital. I’ve never seen a ward take so much pride and devotion into one kid. That hospital cares about what they’re doing. They want us to come in. The doctors come in every thirty minutes. Is she okay, checking her? Then the after the surgery, every 30 minutes somebody came in the room checking on her. She had her appendix out plus she had pneumonia at the same time.
The newest fundraiser I’m doing, I’m doing for that medical center to raise funding, which is the fundraiser giveaway. I already got a bonus for the first prize. I’ve got all kinds of stuff. My main purpose for doing this is to help people. That’s what I want to do. A lot of people can’t afford some of the stuff on the market and a lot of people have money. I’ll lose money here and there, but putting a smile on somebody’s face or putting a smile on four disabled kids fighting over The Mix. Each one of them 45 minutes of each other.
I want to help people. I want to cover my costs, but I want to help people. I know how it is growing up, not getting in the woods that much and not having a lot. I want to help people, Bruce, “Yes sir, I do.” That’s why I do a lot of fundraisers giveaways and stuff like that. I want to help people. I want people to get out in the outdoors with the kids. Put The Mix out saying, “Robbie, thank you so much for The Mix.” To me, that’s my payment there. Kids these days, they play too many video games. You don’t get outdoors enough. That’s why Kylie is in the outdoors a lot. Not on video games. Kids are the future of hunting for me. I keep the kids interested. I’m keeping the outdoors. It’s going to be a dying sport if we don’t.
Robbie Knickman, thank you so much. This has been so much fun. Give a shout out to whomever.
I just want to give a shout-out to the American Veterans Outdoors Association. They take a lot of veterans with PTSD on hunting trips and fishing trips with their family. Nevin’s Hunting Friends, L & M Custom Scents and Prym1 Camo. If you are reading, you are awesome. Thank you very much. Quick holler UltraProX Cam, you too. We can’t skip my buddy of Steady Form because of Nick my bow’s shooting 100% better with that Steady Form. If you haven’t got Steady Form in your bow, get a Steady Form, put it on your bow. You’re going to improve your accuracy, your distance, and your shooting pattern. Trust me, it works.
Robbie, on behalf of thousands of readers across North America, you’re one of a kind. I always love having you on the show.
I’ll be here.
We’re heading out to Iowa to the home of the giants. Yes, everybody knows Iowa has giant bucks. Nate Keeney is going to tell us all about how a young man who’s working on a farm, though he doesn’t own it, he’s working 2,000 acres. That’s his job. He’s able to have a couple of honey holes on that land. Plus he’s got some of the honey holes through his joining up with Extreme Element Outdoors. Those guys are putting together a great team in Central Iowa. You’ll be hearing more from them. I’ve got Chris Enyeart coming up next on the show. He’s going to talk about Extreme Element Outdoors. Back to Nate, Nate is just a gung-ho young man that loves hunting whitetails. If he isn’t working, he’s sleeping or hunting whitetails. He’s eating too. Having said that, Nate Keeney is going to bring some keys to why he’s a successful hunter. One, scent control. Two, stand placement. Three, he always watches the wind.