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Steve Purvis Owner Kentucky Dream land LLC Avid whitetail hunter and real estate investor
Bruce: All right, here we go. Hello out there, everybody in the world of Whitetail Rendezvous. This is Bruce Hutcheon, your host, and today I have Steve Purvis from Kentucky Dreamland, LCC who buys and sells hunting land throughout the mid-west. Welcome to the show, Steve.
Steve: Hi Bruce, thanks for having me.
Bruce: So starting right off, let’s talk about that story you shared with me a couple weeks ago about that 142 that you had patterned pretty well, then he disappeared and let’s hear what the listening audience, just what that was all about.
Steve: Okay. Well that story started off with getting tons of [Inaudible 00:00:51] pictures of this buck, and just like everybody else a lot of them are at night time, but I was getting a lot of this buck along with four or five other bucks. And I always had a perfect win for this stand, I always buy grate proof lots, I can never understand when I was hunting I wasn’t hitting these bucks but I was getting them on trail cam. So it came to my conclusion that I need to set some trail cameras up on the route that I’m taking to get to my stand. So I put up a trail camera and sure as the world, the exact same stand I was walking to, the path, to get there, I had every single buck on camera using the exact same way.
So, with that knowledge, I had set up on a tower stand and at the end of the field where I could overlook to see what would come out that next night, and about 15 deer came out, seven buck, I mean just grunting. The greatest little scene you could have ever seen. Well, then I realized . . .
Bruce: Wow.
Steve: It was awesome. I mean, I couldn’t even, I’ve never even heard of so many bucks grinding at one time in my entire life on this day. It was the last day of gun season. I really wanted to kill a buck, this buck, with my bow, I’d rather kill him with my gun. Sot he next day, it’s back to bow season, gun seasons’s over, and I just take a different route to the exact same tree stand. I get up into the stands and it’s the exact same wind, exact same stand, I just took a different route getting there. Within 30 minutes, him, another younger 18 pointer, a smaller buck, all was chasing a doe. He came right down, 15 yards from my stand and I shot him and he went about 25 yards and fell over.
Bruce: Wow.
Steve: The moral of the story here is just, like, you know, it’s the same stand. I wasn’t hunting the wrong stand, I wasn’t hunting the wrong wind. I was over the right food source, I was in the right area. It was just the way that I took to get to my stand.
Bruce: So when you changed up how you got to the stand, lets’ tell the listeners exactly what you did. Tell us what you did before and then what you did to solve the problem, because obviously the deer was there, you did something that he didn’t like and then you did something that he didn’t know about and game over.
Steve: Well basically, I mean, when the deer are taking the same path that you’re walking into the woods, there will simply smell you. I mean, you could use all the scent products you want and you can put on the rubber boots and do the whole nine yards, but there’s still that scent there that they’re smelling you. Or if he wasn’t smelling me, he could have been overlooking that bedding area on the woods area that I was coming through and they could have simply seen me. I don’t know that factor, we’ll never know. They either a, smell me walking in or they seen me walking in. So when I just changed the route and I came through the field versus coming through the little woods path to get to the exact same stand, there was no way. I know they definitely couldn’t smell me because of the way that I came in through the field.
Bruce: Mm-hmm.
Steve: It made all the difference in the world, so those deer that was coming up the hill to the bedding, now there was no way. I just knew the direction the deer was coming from, I just didn’t know how they were getting there. And that’s one of the things where just putting trail cameras over deer feeders or putting trail cameras over just strictly the food sources, it’s not telling you the whole story. You’ve got to have them over the food sources and in the wood on the paths so that you know how they’re getting to the food sources. The plot watcher pro camera, that right there really changed my whole way of hunting because now you can put that camera up, and every 5 seconds it takes a picture from sun up to sun down. You can see on them big fields where the deer are entering and where they’re exiting the field, and it changed my game completely.
Bruce: Wow. Hey, thanks for that great tip. Let’s talk now about the why behind your hunting white tails. When did this start, who was involved in it and why the passion has continued to this day?
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