“They Are So Advanced”: Morgan Wallen and Mark Drury Discuss Whitetail Deer Hunting Tips in New Drury Outdoors Video

The Drury Outdoors team have shared a new video of Morgan Wallen in a deer-stand alongside one of the hunting company's founders, Mark Drury, with the duo discussing the subtleties of whitetail habits and common misconceptions about the animal.

The video appears to have been captured during a recent expedition with Drury Outdoors, with Morgan Wallen continuing to make the most of his time away from the road, following the conclusion of his record-breaking One Night At A Time World Tour in October.

Wallen has been an avid hunter for a number of years, with the ‘Last Night’ chart-topper referencing his penchant for trailing ducks, bucks and more in a range of tracks.

On one of the many stand-outs from his widely lauded 2023 album, One Thing At A Time, ‘I Wrote The Book’, for instance, the Sneedville megastar boasts (“When it comes to hitching the boat up / Backing down the ramp in my old truck / To find a bunch of logs, to catch a bunch of hogs / I wrote the book, yeah, I wrote the book”).

In December, Morgan Wallen embarked on a hunting trip with MyOutdoorsTV, and now, it looks like he’s teamed up with Drury Outdoors on a separate expedition. In the newly shared clip, Morgan Wallen quizzes Mark Drury on whitetail deers, asking the hunting expert about their tendency to move in the opposite direction to the wind, “If they're so smart, why wouldn't they always go against the wind?”

Mark Drury responded, “A lot of people think they do, and if you watch them they don’t!”, with Morgan Wallen chuckling as he echoed, “I know they don’t!” Drury went on, “They can't. If they did, if the wind stayed out in the North for, you know, a week…”, before Wallen finished his sentence, “They'd go and go and go. That makes sense”.

Mark Drury expanded, “Bed's a bed, food's food. They will still use the wind to their advantage when they can, but a bed's still gonna be a bed, food's still gonna be food”.

Drury explained, “They'll use it to their advantage almost out of convenience. There are a lot of different things that will change where they bed - wind speed, wind direction, the time of year, leaves on, leaves off, so bes are variable throughout the year. And during the day, he may plop down whenever he's tired, and it may not be a ‘bedding area’. If he's seeking security, he's gonna go to a bedding location”.

Later in their conversation, Morgan Wallen enquired about whitetail bedding habits, before Mark Drury touched on the unrivalled sense of smell they possess, “Watching these bloodhounds track a deer, and how they use their nose, not necessarily on blood, but the brush and every little thing, they help you understand how keen a whitetail's nose is. They are so advanced over any other animal when it comes to scent. It's unbelievable. They're top of the shelf”, with Drury joking, “If you could teach a deer how to blood-trail, you'd never lose a deer, I know that...!” Morgan Wallen then quipped, “Maybe someone hasn't thought of that!”

It must be highlighted that Morgan Wallen will be getting considerably less time to hunt in the coming months, with the ‘Thought You Should Know’ singer-songwriter currently gearing up to release his eagerly anticipated fourth album, I’m the Problem.

After hosting the inaugural Sand in My Boots Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama in May, Wallen launches his I’m the Problem Tour the next month. If we’re lucky, we might even get to hear the new record before his first performance of 2025, as we suspect the country titan might be readying I’m the Problem for an April 4th release date.

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