Nine Finger Chronicles - Deer Hunting Podcast

Epic October: B.S. Session

Is the October lull real, or did the deer just hear you’re coming and decide to take the week off? Dan Johnson and Pierce Nelles debate the seasonal mystery, swap whiteta

Blueberries & Big Bucks

A family-owned blueberry farm the size of a small company. A hunter who packs out elk, chases bucks across state lines, and still walks 13 miles a day switching irrigatio

Hunting Down One Buck: What Do Nocturnal Trail Cam Pictures Mean?

Hunting Mature Bucks: Trail-Camera Clues, Access, and Public-Land Pressure When a mature buck appears on camera in the middle of the night, is it a real opportunity—or j

Finding Success In The Big Woods & Swamps

Joey Mnczunski joins Dan Johnson to share how he left a crowded family lease in southern Michigan and built a public-land hunting approach in Northern Michigan’s big wood

Suburban Bowhunting & Population Control

Urban deer hunting gets wild fast when 10 acres can hold 15 to 20 deer. Returning guest Mike Ward joins Dan Johnson to explain how he and his organization help manage ove

Opening Week Public Land Buck Down

AI is already changing deer hunting faster than most hunters want to admit. Dan Johnson and returning guest Aaron Berg break down how drone recovery, public-land strategy

Tater Skins & Fist Fights

What happens when a hunting podcast turns into a hilarious, brutally honest conversation about parenting, public-land chaos, and why the best bowhunters are always one ba

Public Land Slayer: Chancy Walters

Forward-facing sonar, brutal tournament pressure, and a 220- to 240-inch Kansas buck that got away—Chancy Walters lays it all out in this raw, funny, and unexpectedly int

B.S. Session: Small Property Oasis

Some of the best deer habitat isn’t on giant farms - it’s built one pond, one apple tree, and one overlooked bedding pocket at a time. Dan Johnson and Adam Larson break d

Next Level Bowhunting Strategy

Big deer hunting success comes down to two things most hunters get wrong: trigger control and finding the micro pocket that deer actually use. Dan Johnson breaks down how

Deer Hunting: Less Pressure More Patience

Ten years changes the hunter, but maybe not in the way you think. Ryan Mead sits down with Dan Johnson to compare notes on a decade of bowhunting, deer behavior, and the

Neighbors: Whitetails & Mule Deer

Western Kansas Deer Hunting: Decoys, Glassing, and Mature Buck Strategy Western Kansas hunting gets brutally honest here: when deer numbers fall, CWD spreads, and the win

Just A Guy Who Loves Deer Camp

Some hunting stories are funny. This one is pure deer-camp gold. Greg Franzoni and Dan Johnson trade the kind of public-land memories, family traditions, and hard-earned

Pheasant Dogs & Family Traditions

Ready to publishPheasant hunting gets a whole lot better when you learn how a father-son crew turned South Dakota bird camp into a 30-year tradition, and why the best hun

Just Going To Send It: A Hunting Strategy

The phones are listening, the deer are moving, and Jeremy Dinsmore is ready to throw arrows again. If you hunt whitetails, obsess over trail cam intel, or just love the k

Big Woods Public Land Strategy

Indiana bowhunter Seth Taylor has learned something most hunters spend years chasing: success in the woods has a lot less to do with giant bucks and a lot more to do with

Finding Public Land Bucks... On A Jet Ski

The river-bottom deer hunting playbook is changing, and Lucas Psycho is already adjusting. From dry-year deer shifts and EHD pressure to why trail cameras might actually

Tinfoil Hats & Misinformation Campaigns

CWD, fake hunting trends, and corporate money are quietly reshaping the future of whitetail hunting - and Kevin Vistison thinks most hunters are looking at it all backwar

Southeastern Bowhunter

Baiting changes everything in Georgia deer hunting - and if you think public land and private land play by the same rules, this episode will change how you hunt. Dan John

B.S. Session w/ Jon Barlar

Your next big deer season might be won or lost by one simple thing: knowing when to stop forcing it. Dan Johnson and John Barlar unpack the kind of whitetail strategy mos