Some vids you guys may find useful

[Steve Bartylla]

I promised I wouldn't stink up the forum with the web shows I'm doing, unless I believed they "may" help in some way. I was posting a link to the other forum to illustrate how a good share of bucks don't jump much from year to year and figured I should take the time to post the ones I think will be of use here.

If anyone wants more, they can all be found at one of two locations:

Hunt em Big (just 2 episodes deep on a run of 12 that air over season)
http://video.deeranddeerhunting.com/hunt-em-big/

Grow em Big (runs every other week year round)
http://video.deeranddeerhunting.com/growem-big/

Hanging stands by yourself safely

Aging bucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLGuSnz4ia5cQuq1MMlNCfe0x3nxpNuDjG&t=3&v=EuzfvmxYcw0

Hinge cut bedding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=4&v=JR7i3SbJYvg

Deciding on whether you should shoot does or not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=5&v=ZA9EW2UKDDQ

Firminator in use (just including this because one of you asked if I had any video of it...production guy didn't include as much as I wanted, but it's still better than pics...the cereal rye was sprayed, but the rest was all done with the Firminator)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=uQAYaE4EDUk

Accessorizing food plots to increase shot opportunities and their drawing power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=LtshIDvfzT0

Edge Feathering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2&v=6NrdbCr0QwU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=3&v=uQAYaE4EDUk

 

[MoLandOwner]

Some videos are good, once you get past the Bush Hog, Millennium, Rage, Redneck, Reconyx, Wildlife Research, Easton, Remington, Heater Body Suit, Firminator, Nomad ads that is!:confused::eek:

 

[Greta&Gus]

Steve, you have your water sources in the middle of the food plot yet others say to put them off of plots between bedding sources. Why do you put them in your plots and not back in the woods?

 

[willy]

Great videos, I check back often, looking for the next installment.

 

[tooln]

Thanks
Steve

 

[MoLandOwner]

I like the fact that Steve waste's little time trying to create buck beds, in his bedding video. Most of the time you are just wasting chainsaw gas. All a guy needs to do is identify where the bucks bed already and work around them.

 

[Steve Bartylla]

Some videos are good, once you get past the Bush Hog, Millennium, Rage, Redneck, Reconyx, Wildlife Research, Easton, Remington, Heater Body Suit, Firminator, Nomad ads that is!:confused::eek:

I'm afraid it's the price of playing poker, MO. If they weren't paying for the ads I can't do the show. I'm just lucky that the show sponsorships are small ball compared to TV. So, I do get some pressure to do infomercials in the show, but none of them have flipped yet when I said no.

 

[Steve Bartylla]

Steve, you have your water sources in the middle of the food plot yet others say to put them off of plots between bedding sources. Why do you put them in your plots and not back in the woods?

It just looks that way because the production guy uses the same cut away of a pond in the middle of a plot over and over. I put that one there just because that location was already holding a little water and was too wet to plant. Most water holes I do are just barely in the woods, right off the food plot, allowing both the water and food to be shot from the same stand. the other most common locations are by low impact in woods stands. The common theme are all water sources I create are within shooting range of low impact stands

 

[Natty Bumppo]

I'm afraid it's the price of playing poker, MO. If they weren't paying for the ads I can't do the show.

Thanks for those links. Good stuff.

Can I ask you a question about the products in the vids...just out of curiosity? Do you actually use the Millenium Monster-150 then as your stand of preference? I saw it in the "How to Hang a Stand" vid. I personally think that's the best hang-on stand that I've ever used in 30 years of hunting. The things they thought of and the size to weight ratio just make it a great stand! Just wish it was made in the USA.

 

[Steve Bartylla]

I always used Rivers Edge's Big Foot XLs. As luck would have it, one of my clients bought 30 of the 150s a couple months before D&DH started going after sponsors for hunt em Big. After hanging those 30, I begged D&DH to go after Millennium HARD and, with a few added calls from me, they sealed the deal. I just got in from unloading a few ladders, sticks and chairs they sent me. If I end up liking the ladders half as much as their stands, I'll be thrilled.

 

[Steve Bartylla]

I do wish the seat was about 3-4" shorter (shallower?), but that's the only thing I can come up with that I don't REALLY like about them so far....and that's fairly minor.

 

[scott44]

Thanks for the videos Steve!

 

[Jim Timber]

Holding a chainsaw at neck height and preaching safety first doesn't jive.

The chip shield won't save you from a chain to the face or neck. There's very few people on this planet who can control a saw in that position without risk of an injury.

Loggers already think we're nuts for hinge cutting. Don't give them more ammo.


If you absolutely have to hinge a tree that high up, build a platform ot stand on a trailer - something.

 

[bat man]

^^Hey Timber - design a hinge tool and do a $100 provisional patent on it. I can help market it. Bottle jack thats splits one side and pulls tree over? Your the engineer. Serious talk.

Wedge under pressure a guy can smack with a sledge?

 

[dipper]

Steve u need some journalism training. I can tell u are passionate about this stuff, but u need to work on your poise in front of the camera. It really impacts your delivery and gives it an amateur feel. one of my old lady friends was a reporter and she told me a little about it. She now anchors in Dallas. I know she had a bunch of training, and u are probably trainable. Image is everything!

 

[bat man]

Since we are handing out free advice I may start a poll on what Dippers need in life. #1 would be stop using this forum.

 

[Reagan]

Since we are handing out free advice I may start a poll on what Dippers need in life. #1 would be stop using this forum.

I'm glad I didn't have a drink of coffee while reading that.

Don't we need people who know EVERYTHING to hang out here? Then us mortals can learn a little from those who know all.

On second thought, I am wrong. He doesn't know anything about TACT. That leaves us with one subject that he is not an expert on. Just don't ask him.


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[Jim Timber]

No disrespect meant at all, Steve. Just not something I'm comfortable seeing and I know my logger people would burst a vessle ranting if they caught that clip.

If you see any of the West Coast falling videos, they cut notches in the big trees to place boards to stand on while they cut above the root flare.

I'd hate to see or hear of anyone getting hurt.


As for designing and marketing a hinge tool. I don't know. There's a lot of variables in peoples skill and judgement, and that could just wind up a can of worms that shouldn't get opened.

 

[Steve Bartylla]

Guys, honestly, I'm not the least bit offended by what Dipper wrote. I believe he was offering sincere constructive criticism and he is 100% right. I would come off much more professional with some training.

What he doesn't realize, through no fault of his own, is that I already turned down crossing that bridge years ago. I was offered pro training for that exact same reason, as I was told I needed to develop a "style." I ultimately decided to pass, determining that I'd always be damn good at being myself, but would stink trying to be anyone else.

I like the "amateurish" feel I put off. It's me. None of what I do remotely resembles anything like teaching others the finer point of brain surgery. It's talking hunting with buddies, nothing more or less. So long as I "preach safety" (I believe its critical to do that, as people need to know a lot of this stuff is dangerous) this is a way I can talk to my "friends," show them exactly what I do, warts and all, though I will make sure camera angles don't make it look like I'm cutting at neck level (shoulder level is as high as I ever try to go...still more dangerous than waist level, but I've got no desire to tell everyone no higher than shoulder level and have it appear neck/face level). If people watch, then they don't hate me. If they hate me, so be it. I'm fine with that as well. Either way, it's just me being me, and I have no desire to try to come off as anything else.

No worries, JT.

 

[*Hawaii5joe*]

Steve, thanks for not being one of those fist pumping idiots with multiple layers of deer hunting shirts and be-dazzled jeans. We like you for who you are and what you do. An audience of deer hunters could careless if you have good poise. I've learned more from you and your books over the years then anyone else in the industry. That's what matters.