This one starts in camp and ends with a buck on the ground. A giveaway hunt turns real when Sara Haney—taxidermist, longtime friend, and lifelong hunter—steps into Missouri deer camp during the heart of the rut. Base camp is loaded. Cameras are rolling. Ammo is getting tested. And nobody’s sleeping much.

The hunt itself comes together fast. A blind move, heavy sheds on the rattle, and a mature mainframe ten shows up looking for a fight. One shot. A short run. A chocolate-horned buck down in the timber. The kind of moment that hits harder because you waited for it.

Along the way we dig into rattling windows, reading movement, age over inches, and why adjusting on the fly still kills deer. We talk camp life, gear that actually matters, and what it takes to host a hunt when everything else is happening at the same time.

This is deer camp the way it really goes—controlled chaos, good people, and earned results.

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Gun season hit Ohio and everything lined up—first snow incoming, pressure dropping, cell cam intel stacked, and the Grizzly Alpha blinds sitting exactly where they needed to. Two mature bucks on the hit list, hours of daylight left, and that first cold front feeling in your chest.

Thirty-plus years chasing whitetails together, and we finally dropped deer on the same damn day. One six-by-six with stacked tines slipped out of the timber right on the weather change. One blade-G2 bruiser followed minutes later in the corn stubble. Two tags filled, two clean shots with the .350 Legend and Deer Season XP, and lifetimes of bow-season frustration erased in under an hour.

We break down cell cam patterns, mineral pit power, food vs. bedding decisions, weather volatility, and the real logic behind when to sit a blind and when to stay home. Shot placement, pass-through myths, bullet performance, and why the .350 Legend is basically the cheat code in timber country. Plus: camp traditions, first-buck shakes, skinning shed fireball rules, and that moment every hunter lives for—the shaky voice on the first recovery call.

This is everything that matters in November: wind, timing, instinct, and a blind full of confidence.

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Three weeks on the road, deer hitting the dirt, and camp stories stacked from Missouri to Michigan. The Winchester camp brought all-day sits, tight setups, and the kind of buck action that turns a quiet timber into chaos. Rattling pulls, missed windows, clean kills, and a sweepstakes winner who brought the antlers—and the heat.

Then we break down the tool that changed everything this season: thermal drones. Marginal hits, standing corn, coyotes in the mix, and finding deer in under two minutes from four hundred feet up. No disturbance. No guessing. Just truth. What that means for outfitters, neighbors, and doing right by the deer is laid out plain.

We close with the state of whitetails across the Midwest—Michigan pressure, doe-heavy ground, pockets of giants, and Ohio loading up for gun season with cold weather, 350 Legends, and the Grizzly blinds finally in the right spots.

Lives well lived. Stories worth telling. Join the brotherhood at keeferbrothers.com and grab the free companion app.