"Six Amazing Whitetail Experts
Decode The RUT So You Can Tag A Lovesick Monster Buck This Season -
Even If You Have Limited Hunting Time..."

Bill Winke of 
MidwestWhitetail.com

Bill Winke has been writing full-time for hunting magazines for 20 years.  He specializes in articles about hunting strategy - primarily whitetail deer – and assembling, tuning and shooting archery equipment accurately.  

Bill grew up in Northeast Iowa but has had the amazing opportunity to hunt deer in sixteen states and three Canadian provinces.  

In 2008, Bill introduced MidwestWhitetail.com, an online hunting show that has become very popular.  In 2010, he produced Midwest Whitetail TV for The Sportsman Channel, which won “Best New Series” on TSC.  In 2011, Midwest Whitetail won the coveted award of Best Hunt Show.

Bill earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Iowa in 1986, spent four years working in the aerospace industry in Kalamazoo, MI and now lives on a farm in southern Iowa with his wife Pam, their 14-year-old daughter named Jordan and their 12-year old son named Andrew.

Rick Basile of 
INVITE X-Tream Wildlife System

Todd Bromley of
Crossbow Magazine

Todd Bromley is the owner of Crossbow Magazine and a Pennsylvania native with over 35 years of archery hunting experience.

Todd currently has trophy animals listed in four different record book registries and in 2012 harvested an SCI top 10 record book black bear with his crossbow.

Todd has had over 40 articles published in various outdoor magazines and recently co-authored his first book; “The Beginners Guide To Crossbows.” He currently holds patents and trademarks on many innovative products in the crossbow hunting industry. 

In 2007 he formed the Pennsylvania Big Buck Association and traveled the state consolidating the states whitetail records. In 2008 he was named the first Pennsylvania State Regional Director for the North East Big Buck Club.

In 2009 he formed the Pennsylvania Crossbow Federation and served as its first President. Working hand and hand with the States Commissioners and Governors office, Todd and his staff played an intricate part in the legalization of crossbows in Pennsylvania. 

In 2010 he received the American Crossbow Federation’s Lion Heart Award for his tireless work promoting the crossbow as viable archery hunting equipment. 

Mark Kayser of
"The Buck Stops Here" TV Show

Mark Kayser has been photographing and writing about the outdoors since junior high with a career spanning more than two decades.

Mark is the whitetail columnist for North American Hunter, the backyard whitetail bowhunting columnist for Bowhunt America magazine and the Hunting West columnist for Cabela’s Outfitter Journal. 

Currently, Mark hosts The Buck Stops Here on NBC Sports and co-hosts North American Hunter, also on NBC Sports. Mark also participated in the 2006 Versus first-ever Whitetail Challenge.

Currently, Mark hosts The Buck Stops Here on NBC Sports and co-hosts North American Hunter, also on NBC Sports. Mark also participated in the 2006 Versus first-ever Whitetail Challenge.

His work has been published in nearly every major outdoor publication on the market today including Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, American Hunter, North American Hunter, Turkey Country, Turkey and Turkey Hunting, Cabela’s Outfitter Journal, Sporting Classics, Shooting Sportsman, Bowhunter, Bowhunting World, Bowhunt America, Rifle Firepower, Predator Xtreme and Whitetail Journal. 

In addition, his photographs have been on the cover of six books, dozens of magazines and several video covers. 

Mark’s hunting has been featured on a variety of television outdoor shows and videos including: Whitetail Revolution, The Versus Whitetail Challenge, Realtree Outdoors, Realtree’s Monster Bucks, Realtree’s All-Stars of Spring, North American Hunter, North American’s Tales of the Hunt and scores of other shows he’s appeared on.

Steve Sorenson is 
"The Everyday Hunter"

Steve Sorensen comes from Russell, Pennsylvania. He speaks frequently at sportsman’s events, and writes for a variety of publications.

His articles have appeared in Deer & Deer Hunting, North American Whitetail, Sports Afield, Outdoor Life, Bear Hunting Magazine, Ohio Valley Outdoors, and others. His biweekly newspaper column in the Warren Times Observer won Best Newspaper Column in Pennsylvania three out of six years for his column called “The Everyday Hunter.”

He’s also a field editor for Bear Hunter Online, and edits web content for Havalon knives.

Steve serves on pro staffs for Alpen Optics and Havalon knives, and is a Web Pro Staff for Deer & Deer Hunting magazine.  

Kip Adams of QDMA

Kip Adams is a certified wildlife biologist and QDMA’s Director of Education and Outreach.  He writes the Whitetail Wisdom column in Quality Whitetails and Kip’s Korner for QDMA.com. 

Kip helps landowners and hunters with deer and habitat management across the U.S. and Canada and has been featured on several hunting television shows. 

He has authored nearly 100 articles on deer and habitat management and has written chapters for four books.  Kip has also presented over 250 seminars on deer, habitat, and hunter management and herd monitoring techniques.