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The Hunt Fish Journal is a educational podcast hosted by Greg Barnhart, Dan Stapleton and Jerry Everhart with a passion for promoting archery, hunting and fishing in the great outdoors.
Greg Barnhart is a custom wood worker with a great love of the outdoors, hunting and fishing. Greg started shooting archery around 14 years of age and was fascinated with the flight of the arrow from his youth. Greg started Deer hunting in 1978 in the Wayne National Forest in Southern Ohio. Greg is an avid Bass fisherman who has waded the Stillwater, Mad, Little Miami and the Great Miami rivers as well as the Twin Creek. Fishing the reservoirs, rivers and lakes all over Ohio in his early years kindled a fire for Bass fishing that continues to this day.
Dan Stapleton is the owner of Dan's Sport Shop in Camden, Ohio. Dan has over 35 years deer hunting experience, and is a Master Bowyer with over 25 years of experience. Dan has traveled to many destinations and fished for many species of fish. Dan's favorite is Crappie Fishing. Dan's Sport Shop is a full-line archery pro shop with indoor shooting lanes.
Jerry Everhart is an accomplished deer and Turkey hunter and a great fisherman. Jerry’s experience in harvesting big bucks has been a passion of his for more than 40 years, taking more big bucks than the average hunter with his proven Scrape Methods during the rut.
We hope you find this pod cast insightful and entertaining.

Thank you for listening
Greg, Dan and Jerry

The Hunt Fish Journal Greg,Dan and Jerry interview Lee and Tiffany Lakosky, Gregg Ritz, Harold Knight, Stan Potts, Fred Eichler, Al Lindner, Ron Lindner, Jimmy Houston, Grant Woods and many others as well as teach Scrape Methods for hunting whitetail deer

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    • 4.5 • 92 Ratings

The Hunt Fish Journal is a educational podcast hosted by Greg Barnhart, Dan Stapleton and Jerry Everhart with a passion for promoting archery, hunting and fishing in the great outdoors.
Greg Barnhart is a custom wood worker with a great love of the outdoors, hunting and fishing. Greg started shooting archery around 14 years of age and was fascinated with the flight of the arrow from his youth. Greg started Deer hunting in 1978 in the Wayne National Forest in Southern Ohio. Greg is an avid Bass fisherman who has waded the Stillwater, Mad, Little Miami and the Great Miami rivers as well as the Twin Creek. Fishing the reservoirs, rivers and lakes all over Ohio in his early years kindled a fire for Bass fishing that continues to this day.
Dan Stapleton is the owner of Dan's Sport Shop in Camden, Ohio. Dan has over 35 years deer hunting experience, and is a Master Bowyer with over 25 years of experience. Dan has traveled to many destinations and fished for many species of fish. Dan's favorite is Crappie Fishing. Dan's Sport Shop is a full-line archery pro shop with indoor shooting lanes.
Jerry Everhart is an accomplished deer and Turkey hunter and a great fisherman. Jerry’s experience in harvesting big bucks has been a passion of his for more than 40 years, taking more big bucks than the average hunter with his proven Scrape Methods during the rut.
We hope you find this pod cast insightful and entertaining.

Thank you for listening
Greg, Dan and Jerry

    Rut Roundup 2020 With Robert Bourn

    Rut Roundup 2020 With Robert Bourn

    Welcome to this fourth show of the Rut Roundup with Robert Bourn. Robert started listening to the podcast and gained a better understanding on how to make scrapes work for the deer hunter. Robert started using the scrapes and licking branch method that we've been sharing on our show since October 2010. Robert then came to the 2018 Rut Workshop in Eaton Ohio, and while we here at the Hunt Fish Journal had no knowledge of his success, Robert reached out last season to inform us on how well he's been doing. We hope you too will hear what Robert is sharing in this show and will implement this powerful method to start building your trophy wall. 
    "Special thank you to Robert Bourn for taking the time to do this show"
    Trail & Scrape Deer Scent and the Key days are available over at www.huntersblendcoffee.com  

    • 32 min
    Rut Roundup with Jason Plank

    Rut Roundup with Jason Plank

    Welcome back to the Rut Roundup! This week we talk to Jason Plank from Pennsylvania on how his season went last fall. Jason discovered the Hunt Fish Journal 2 years ago and here's what he wrote,
    "Hey Greg, Just wanted to update you since are last correspondence.  I had incorporated scrapes and linking branches at two of my sites.  They were not set up exactly as you guys teach and I didn't even have a stand or blind at one of my sites.  The property is up for sale and I wasn't sure what was going to happen, so I didn't hang a stand.  I did however stay out of there except for running the scrapes. This past weekend, I decided to hunt one of the stands in the afternoon  I was sitting on the ground with a ghillie suit.  I saw 1 doe about an hour before dark.  The wind was swirling and she smelled something but didn't take off.  She just walked down through the woods instead of staying on the trail.  Then about 20 min. before last shooting light, this buck walked in with his nose to the ground.  He hit the trail and headed to the second scrape I had set up.  When he hit my opening, he gave me a 20 yd shot.  Next year, I will have some stands set up with the method that you guys are teaching.  I have not used mach scrapes a lot in the past, but do believe in them.  I think thats what attracted me to your method." 
     We here at the HFJ like hearing from all you guys and bringing you on the shows to tell your success stories around the Rut Functional Hunt Method.  
    Thank you to all our listeners and special thank you to Jason Plank for taking the time to do this show!! 
     
     
     

    • 24 min
    Rut Roundup Fall 2020 Justin Zimmerman

    Rut Roundup Fall 2020 Justin Zimmerman

    Welcome to the 2nd show of the fall Rut Roundup! This week we talk with Justin Zimmerman on how his Rut Functional stand setup went last year. We continue to fan the flames for the 2020 deer season, hoping you have all your stands set and ready for the Key Days!! You can still get these days over at huntersblendcoffee.com and the Trail and Scrape Deer Scent. Using deer sent in scrapes that are setup around your stand can be a power tool in the seek stage of the rut. Reach out to the HFJ if you have harvested using the Rut functional Method and tell us your story. Special thank you to Justin Zimmerman for taking the time to do this show. and Thank you to all our listeners.
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    • 28 min
    Rut Roundup Fall 2020 from the 2019 Season

    Rut Roundup Fall 2020 from the 2019 Season

    Welcome back to the Hunt Fish Journal!! It's been a while but we're hitting the ground running with the continuing of the Rut Roundup of the 2019 deer season. We decided to release some of the Rut roundups this fall to help fan the flames for the 2020 deer season. In this show you will hear from Tommy Engram in Ohio on how his season went. Tommy also talks about the Rut Functional Hunting Method and the impact it's had on his life and podcast. Tommy along with Chad make up the Rut Ambush Podcast. https://www.rutambush.com/ 
    Thank you to all our listeners and special thank you to Tommy Engram for taking the time to do this show!! 

    • 51 min
    Deer Hunting with Walt Mitchell and Family

    Deer Hunting with Walt Mitchell and Family

    Well you've heard Walt Mitchell talk about big deer and how Walt and friends connect on really good deer, but in this show, Walt, Cheyenne and Wally talk about their last 2 years of getting the family in the deer woods and the crazy things that can wrong in the hunt and the things that go right. This show will have you laughing all the way! Thank you Walt, Wally and Cheyenne for taking the time to come to the HFJ for a sit down visit. 
    Greg, Dan and Jerry
    Remember to check out https://www.huntersblendcoffee.com/  for great Coffee, Rut functional Calculation and Scent!

    • 1 hr 21 min
    Rut Roundup Part 2 Matt Stockton

    Rut Roundup Part 2 Matt Stockton

    Welcome back to the HFJ. In this 2nd rut roundup show you will hear from Matt Stockton on how his key days progressed and the difficulties Matt came up against in northern Ohio. These rut roundup shows started as a result of all the people having great success implementing the Rutfunctional Hunting Method developed by Jerry Everhart over a 40 year period. These stories from our successful listeners serve as a tool to help you gain confidence in your woods and learn this great method. So sit back and enjoy a hot steaming cup of Hunters Blend Coffee and enjoy this page in the Hunt Fish Journal with Matt Stockton!
    Thank you to our listeners  and a special thank you to Matt Stockton to taking to time to do this show. 
    Greg, Dan and Jerry
    Remember to check out https://www.huntersblendcoffee.com/  

    • 42 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
92 Ratings

92 Ratings

webster michael ,

Very informative

Great podcast and very informative, Jerry has put a lot of time and effort into this tactic and style of hunting and I have personally had success the past 7 years from these tactics since I started listening

HFJfan ,

Best podcast I’ve found

I’ve been listening to the Hunt Fish Journal Podcast for over 4 years. It is most informative and educational podcast I have found. What I have learned on this podcast is more than I would have ever learned from a life time trial and error on my own. There’s a lot of” information” out there- whether given by experts , so-called experts or hunting traditions- some of it good, some of it misinformed, and some it just plain bad. Jerry takes the mystery out of pursuing big bucks , By applying science - which includes information he has learned from 50 years of making field notes every time he goes to the woods, Jerry has developed a method that when properly applied , will dramatically increase your odds of seeing quality bucks within bow range

Will Run done ,

Great Podcast

I just recently start listening to podcast and I have been missing out. Highly recommend and lot of information

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