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Truth From The Stand Deer Hunting Podcast

Truth From The Stand Deer Hunting Podcast

By: Clint Campbell
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Truth From The Stand is a weekly whitetail deer hunting podcast built for serious DIY hunters. For 10 years, we've been covering the tactics, strategies, and real stories that help hunters consistently kill mature bucks. From early season scouting and food plots to scrape hunting, rut tactics, and late season pressure, we cover it all. Each week we sit down with experienced whitetail hunters, bowhunters, and public land hunters to break down what's actually working in the field. Whether you're chasing bucks on public land or private ground, managing a property, or just trying to punch your tag on a mature deer, this is your podcast. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow the show so you never miss one
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  • EP. 499: Stop Waiting for Perfect | Hunting Aggressive When Time Is Short

    EP. 499: Stop Waiting for Perfect | Hunting Aggressive When Time Is Short
    Jul 1 2026
    There are seasons in life that don't care about your hunting plans. They hit hard, rearrange your priorities, and force you to figure out what you're actually doing out there and why. That's what this conversation with Justin was really about. Justin lost his nephew before the season started. I'm not going to gloss over that. It shaped everything about how he approached the woods this year, and honestly, it made for one of the more real conversations we've had on this show. Grief has a way of stripping away the noise. You stop worrying about inches and start thinking about what the time actually means. We got into a lot on this one. Fitness, aging, managing injuries that aren't going away as fast as they used to. If you've been hunting for more than a decade, you know exactly what we're talking about. The body starts sending signals you can't ignore, and the question becomes whether you adapt or make excuses. One of the things Justin kept coming back to was trusting his instincts. Not the overcomplicated, over-researched, app-dependent version of hunting that we've all been seduced into at some point, but the raw gut feeling you develop after years of watching deer move. That instinct doesn't show up on a map layer. You earn it. We also spent a good chunk of time on ground hunting, and that's where things got fun. Close encounters from the ground are a different category of experience. The margin for error disappears. You feel the hunt instead of observing it. Justin had some stories from this season that reminded me why I fell in love with this in the first place. But here's the thread that tied all of it together: time. When you're balancing a family, a job, real life, every sit matters more. That pressure can work for you if you let it. We talked about hunting aggressively when you only have one or two windows in a week, about not burning a stand waiting for perfect conditions that might never come, and about letting experience teach you faster than any piece of technology can. The role of tech came up too, and not in a flattering light. We've all leaned on it as a crutch. Sometimes the best thing you can do is put the phone down, trust what you know, and go. This one hit different for me. I hope it does for you too. New episodes every week. Subscribe wherever you listen. SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Check out Spartan Forge to map your hunt —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • EP. 498: The Truck Broke Down & The Hunt Got Real

    EP. 498: The Truck Broke Down & The Hunt Got Real
    Jun 24 2026
    There's a version of hunting where everything goes according to plan. The rig starts, the weather cooperates, your deer or elk are exactly where you left them. That version of hunting isn't what Blake Ledger and I talked about on this week's episode. Blake's a guy who hunts with traditional archery equipment, chases deer and elk in country that earns every inch of access, and has a relationship with hunting that goes a lot deeper than punching tags. When we sat down together, I wasn't expecting the conversation to go where it did -- but that's the thing about talking to people who actually hunt hard. The real stories always surface. Blake told me about a breakdown that happened mid-trip in the middle of nowhere. Not a dead battery, not a flat tire -- a full vehicle failure at the worst possible time, in the kind of country where that actually matters. What unfolded after that wasn't a disaster story. It was a testament to what hunting communities actually are when things go sideways. People showed up. Problems got solved. The hunt continued. We also spent a serious chunk of time talking about time. Not time management in the corporate-seminar sense -- actual hours in the field, boots on the ground, eyes on animals. Blake's a believer, like I am, that you cannot shortcut your way to understanding a piece of ground. Trail cameras help. Scouting helps. But there's a kind of knowledge that only accumulates when you've watched a particular drainage long enough to know what it does in a particular wind. That doesn't come from an app. The conversation shifted into the mental side of hunting -- the anticipation that builds before a season, the way a hunter's mindset evolves after years of close calls and missed shots. Blake's had both. He talked about visual confirmation and how trail cameras changed -- and didn't change -- how he thinks about hunting. There's a version of the scouting game where cameras become a crutch, and a version where they sharpen your decisions. The difference is the hunter using them. This is the kind of episode I started this podcast to make. Two guys who love the woods, talking honestly about what it actually takes. No shortcuts, no highlight reel -- just the real thing. Listen in. You'll leave with something useful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • EP. 497: Why Most Hunters Never Learn From Their Failures | HOS

    EP. 497: Why Most Hunters Never Learn From Their Failures | HOS
    Jun 17 2026
    Failure hits different in hunting. When a quarterback throws an interception, there's film. A coach. A coordinator breaking down every footstep and finger placement. The feedback loop is immediate, structured, and relentless. When you blow a shot at a giant buck, you drive home alone with your thoughts and a pile of questions that don't have easy answers. That's the part nobody really talks about. Not the failure itself, but what comes after. The silence of it. I've watched hunters handle blown opportunities in two ways. Some bury it. They chalk it up to bad luck, move on, and repeat the same mistakes the next time a buck steps into the wrong lane. Others spiral. They replay the moment so many times it becomes more about self-punishment than actual learning. Neither one makes you better. What actually moves the needle is treating a failed hunt the way an athlete treats film study. Structured. Intentional. Without ego. That's what this episode is about. I wanted to pull apart the process of reviewing a hunt, not just emotionally processing it, and give you something practical you can use when things go sideways. Because they will go sideways. That's hunting. The question is what you do with it when they do. I work through four questions that I think every hunter should be asking after a failure, whether that's a missed shot, a bad stand decision, or a deer that just evaporated before you could close the deal. These questions aren't about making yourself feel better. They're about pulling real information out of a frustrating experience so it actually means something next season. The hardest part of all of this is that hunting doesn't give you instant feedback. There's no referee. No stat line. No slow-motion replay from three angles. You have to build your own system for reviewing what happened, and most hunters never do that. They just wait for the next opportunity and hope the outcome is different. Hope isn't a strategy. If you want to grow as a hunter, you have to get honest about where things broke down. That means getting past the emotional weight of a failure fast enough to actually examine it. Not dismiss it. Not wallow in it. Examine it. This episode is for the hunters who want to get better every single year, not just the ones who get lucky.SHOW NOTES AND LINKS: —Truth From The Stand Merch —Check out Tactacam Reveal cell cameras — Save 15% on Hawke Optics code TFTS15 —Save 20% on ASIO GEAR code TRUTH20 —Check out Spartan Forge to map your hunt —Save on Lathrop And Sons non-typical insoles code TRUTH10 —Check out Faceoff E-Bikes —Waypoint TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    22 mins
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