Southern Ground - Sportsmen's Nation

This week on the Southern Ground Hunting podcast we're kicking off the Local Legends series with an absolute big buck killing machine, Nathan Killen. Nathan lives and hunts in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, and has a track record for consistently killing mature bucks year after year. From a young age Nathan began learning that hunting deer and hunting mature bucks were two different games. As he began figuring that out, he started changing his tactics on public land and as luck would have it, he started killing bigger, more mature bucks than any of his hunting buddies. If you were to simply take a look at his social media accounts, you would think this is a guy hunting in the midwest states like Iowa, Indiana, Illinois or Kansas, however, that's not the case. Nathan has hunted the Appalachian mountains for his whole life. Mountain bucks are just different. Typical to most mountainous areas, Nathan's stomping grounds struggle with low deer densities and high hunting pressure. Add the fact that he's reg