A piebald buck, a bow and a run of width guesses at Samson's Whitetail Mountain
Jerry Stafford's Southern Illinois estate posted five new Shorts in one day, mostly questions, as the whole channel had a day far beyond its usual.
Samson's Whitetail Mountain
Story of Why this story? The whole channel is running at 1,173,423 views a day, 10 times a normal day (117,383).
She made a perfect shot on that beautiful piebald buck !!! #deer #deerhunting #bowhunting
"How wide would you guess ??" is the kind of question Samson's Whitetail Mountain likes to put to its viewers, and on Thursday it put it several ways. Of five new Shorts from Jerry Stafford's privately owned hunting estate in Southern Illinois, three are about antlers and how far they spread: "How wide is to wide ??", the guess above, and "Was it smokehouse or high n wide ??". The fourth asks where a shot landed. The fifth is the only one that simply tells: "She made a perfect shot on that beautiful piebald buck !!!", a bowhunting clip of a white-patched deer.
The timing fits the calendar. Illinois opens its archery deer season on October 1, so these are some of the first bow hunts of the fall on the estate, which in its own words also offers elk and more exotic hunts.
The channel had a very big day, more than a million views, about ten times its usual pace. The new Shorts are not the reason: together they had gathered only a few tens of thousands. Something older on the estate's shelf is carrying the crowd, and the clip does not name itself.
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- Channel
- Samson's Whitetail Mountain
- Subscribers
- 162,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,131,031
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,173,423 (on a normal day: 117,383)
The numbers
A day like this is far outside the routine for a hunting estate's channel, and the new uploads explain only a small part of it.
💡 Test your knowledge
The Boone and Crockett Club, whose scoring system counts the inside spread of a buck's antlers, was founded in 1887 by which future president?
Theodore Roosevelt founded the Boone and Crockett Club in 1887 with a group of fellow hunters and conservationists, years before he became president.