Anyone seen any of this years hunting DVD’s? I know a few are out. The 3 Drury’s videos are out, Primetime 13 by H.S. is out. Watched part of it last night, a lot more bowhunts on this years video. 
Anyone seen any others?
Not yet. I always look forward to the Primetime Videos. I will have to go out searching this weekend to see if I can find it. However, if I start watching new deer material this early, you might as well bring the strait jacket over too. 
I’m having a hard enough time the way it is staying sane and usually wait at least until the end of July to start watching new stuff. 
I think Stacie is starting to wonder what in the world she got herself into.
I recently bought Primos Truth Bowhunting Vol. 6. I like the Truth series from Primos and since I’m a bowhunter, it’s a perfect fit.
It’s not Hollywood – It’s the TRUTH.
Yes the Drury Boys kill bigger deer and claim to know more about their deer that anyone else. I just can’t get past ALL the repeated information and interview sessions they feature. They spend more time explaining the preparation of the hunt than the hunt itself. 
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They spend more time explaining the preparation of the hunt than the hunt itself.
Hmmmm, I guess I view that as a good thing???? I watch the videos for entertainment, but all videos have that. Show me something else. I like to view videos that show me why, how, when, what where etc. they did to harvest or encounter an animal. Honestly, I’m real sick and tired of the shows where a hunter just shows up the night before after a Outfitter has scouted this deer all year long. The hunter goes out in set stands by the Outfitter and in a day or two and shoots that buck????? Big deal, 
that does not show or teach me anything. I have to imagine most anyone that hunts that is put into that same situation would harvest that animal. Also, most of us can not afford to go on hunts like that.
Show or Teach me something that I can do, to harvest better or more animals. Teach me things about food plots, stand locations, how to hunt the rut, set trail cameras, how to become a better hunter, etc. Almost anyone can be plopped down into a tree stand and shoot one that walks by. I rather watch a hunter that harvest a 140″ deer that works at it, does his/her homework, puts in the sweat equity and time rather then a B&C some outfitter put a hunter on. Show me some history with that deer. Show me what most of us Hunters go through to encounter these animals. Why did they pick that stand location. Why did they hang it there, etc. Something, I can relate too.
Nothing against you or anyone else Kentucky boy, but personally that is what I’m into and all about and this is something I feel real passionate about. I realize others may not feel the same way, but just letting you know how I feel/stand.
PS: I hate to say it, but you will not like the IDO Hunting videos.
Ditto to Lip’s comments…. alot, not all shows, show you big buck after big buck, being put down. Harvesting an animal is great, but what goes into it, lasts much longer than the second it takes to shoot it. I like to think I know how to shoot an animal… show me how to get to that point consistently and I will feel I have left the show smarter and better for it Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing big bucks shot, but I also like to see how others go about, consistently doing it.
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Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing big bucks shot, but I also like to see how others go about, consistently doing it
Exactly!
love that stuff too just dont show the 6 planes the guy had to take to get there 
Hey Lip – no offence taken. I love learning how to be a better hunter. I’m really into the Deer & Deer Hunting TV series and anxiously await the next issue to read their magazine every month. I’m not a great hunter by any means and there is much for me to learn. What IDO video would you suggest that gives general hunting information without all being about food plots?
I’ve only been hunting for 4 years and don’t have the time, money or leased property to put much the Drury Boys have to teach into action. I have a verbal permission to hunt 75 acres a couple of hours from the house. I can only muster a couple of trips up there outside of hunting to scout, hang stands and do some recreation shed hunting…..the rest of the time I have is devoted to hunting, maybe 1 – 2 weekends at best a month during the archery season, that is all I can afford to get away.
My primary tactic to draw deer closer, buck or doe, is the use of calling. I believe the Primos team does a good job of demonstrating how, where to place a stand for calling and when to call. Are they the best at it…probably not. Granted they AND ALL OTHER PROFESSIONAL HUNTERS are hunting properties (private or outfitters) that are micro managed for the sole purpose of harvesting huge / mature whitetails. I’ve seen the Drury team pass up a few documented 5 year olds to shoot one of their 6 year olds running their property. So when they call deer on those properties they react so much more than they ever would where I get to hunt.
IMHO I prefer to watch the Bowhunting series from Primos when I want to see hunting. I will pop in a D&DH DVD when I want to learn something about deer behavior or deer biology. I never intended to put the Drury Outdoors team down with my original post. I just don’t have the resources to live out what I see on Drury DVD’s, but I can afford to buy a few good calls (not all are Primos either) and dream about the possibilities of calling in a deer close enough that I can make a clean ethical kill.
I’m not trying to stur the pot with this post – I just wanted to give a little background behind it.
Im with Lip on that. I personally cant stand to watch the shows with outfitters and then after wards the “hunter” talks like he put all this work and effort into getting this deer. No he was the guy to sit in the stand where he was told.
The Blood brothers dvd’s out of WI are very informational and the Buck commander new dvd just came out with chipper jones. I could watch them all day long 
Question for you guys. Would you rather buy a hunting dvd with 10-12 hunts with guys doing their own thing or one with 25+ hunts with some doing there own thing mixed in with some outfitted hunts? Just curious because the only production team with enough people to pull off a video with 25+ kills doing their own thing is the Drury productions because they have 40-50 teams. They also are supporting 3 videos per year instead of 1, like most productions, with a few doing 2.
Looking forward to your responses.
Ben, I personally do not mind seeing an outfitter hunt from time to time from a person/team. I understand you can’t have a place every where in the country that you would like to hunt whitetail. However, for an individual or team that only or a majority of the hunts are produced with an outfitter hunt, it does let the air out for me. 
For instance, Drury, Lakosky’s, etc. They have outfitter hunts on their videos but also have plenty of hunts and footage on their own land. IMO, I have no problem with this.
Kentucky, I guess I was not just thinking of the Drury Bros. only as there are a few productions that teach. I was thinking more about teaching videos in general.
You also have to look at how many different species these guys hunt. For instance, Primos has to make a DVD for elk, turkeys, waterfowl, big bucks, bow hunting(deer), and once in a while big game. I talked to Brad Farris two years ago when he was visiting an archery shop and he said that the Primos team is gone from late August to December respectively, off for a couple months, and then gone for turkeys in the spring. Obviously these guys don’t have time to hunt their “backyard” so it depends on the “team” and their goals. Each team has their own objectives and if every one of them had the same goal to hunt “backyard bucks” then it would be boring
I understand that PT, but I’m just stating what interests me and what I like to see. Also at the same time Primos still gets in some back yard action. With that being said, that may be why Primos doesn’t quite do it for me. I like their videos and the footage, but perhaps that is why they are not one of my top favorites. Give me Drury, Lakosky, Gregory, Rick & Julie Krueter or Bill Winke’s new stuff any day.
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I understand that PT, but I’m just stating what interests me and what I like to see. Also at the same time Primos still gets in some back yard action. With that being said, that may be why Primos doesn’t quite do it for me. I like their videos and the footage, but perhaps that is why they are not one of my top favorites. Give me Drury, Lakosky, Gregory, Rick & Julie Krueter or Bill Winke’s new stuff any day.
I personally don’t mind seeing outfitted hunts. Just cause its an outfitted hunt doesn’t mean the hunter didn’t hang there own stand or the hunter had nothing to do with the success or failure of the hunt. Just because an outfitter points you to a tree doesn’t guarentee anything, not even a deer sighting. Maybe you sit in a tree for a few days and figure out the deer are always crusing through one spot, you tell the outfitter. You pop in the next day and smash one. You never know what really happens, and maybe the productions should tell the story a little better. Maybe the outfitters doesn’t want people to know that a video hunter came into camp, tweaked a stand and was successful because of it. Just playing devils advocate here.
Are some of our favorite video hunters really all that different from oufitters? The ones you see year in and year out nocking giants down have large tracks of land, land that holds big bucks, and the best food available but instead of taking money to hunt their highly managed property, they let their friends and fellow team members shoot the big ones. Sure, they hang their own stands and it all comes from trial and error to find “the tree”. So are the Lakosky’s, the Drury’s, the Gregory’s and others really that much different then an outfitter? I purposely left out the Kreuters because they are outfitters. Just something to think about.
I personally enjoy the Primetime video’s. A few guys I really don’t care to watch on there but for the most part they are my favorite deer hunting video’s. Drury just has to much talking on their’s for me. I am really suprised that there is not a video that goes from start to finish to show looking at scouting to harvesting. Would take awhile but would be very informative. If anyone out there knows of any like this give me a shout.
I would like to find videos that would show me the way most people hunt like the ones that ask permission or lease land that the hunter has to do the work not the ones that have thousands of acres and can choose from about 100 150’s or better because would it really matter what tree u sit in JUST THOUGHT I WOULD ADD MY TWO CENTS 
One thing that sucks about not having cable tv is that i don’t get to watch some hunting shows. One series that will bring new phenomena is Bill Winke’s Midwest Whitetail 
I believe last fall was his first year of production. He uploads his videos w/i 2 days of the hunt on youtube. He shows what the terrain is like on a map, why he hunts there, interviews, HIS hunting spots, etc. Can’t get any better than that I don’t know if he is making DVD’s on each season but i would buy them for sure 
Hey Guys,
I’ll have to say that I like the Lakosky’s and Drury videos the best. For one how can you get sick of seeing Tiffany and I think Bill Winke has some of the best stuff out there with Midwest Whitetail.
Would somebody please come out with a hour long DVD of Jackie Bushman in Texas, with a highpowered, going from one box blind on stilts to another just layin’ the smack down ???? 
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