B.S. Session w/ Jon Barlar
About this episode
Dan Johnson and John Barlar discuss whitetail hunting strategies, emphasizing the importance of timing, pressure, and patience in deer hunting.
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 most hunters ignore, from pressure-sensitive 50-acre setups in the Chicago suburbs to the late-October rut window where the biggest bucks finally expose themselves. If you hunt private, public, or tiny parcels surrounded by development, this conversation will change how you think about timing, pressure, and patience. Dan and John break down what makes a property “sensitive,” why shooting a doe too early can shift buck patterns, and how one hunter’s decision to sit back, wait, and hunt smarter led to better encounters year after year. You’ll also hear how suburban Chicago still produces giant deer, why access and landowner relationships matter more than most hunters realize, and how reading deer behavior in travel corridors can turn a dead-end parcel into a real opportunity. John also shares the reality of hunting after knee replacement surgery, including the brutal recovery, the adjustments to climbing and sitting, and what it takes to get back in the woods when your body no longer cooperates the way it used to…
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