#180: A Trackers Approach to Bowhunting
DEER HUNTER
Kevin Vistisen
4.7 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
On this episode I am joined by Todd Havel. Todd is a successful tracker and big woods hunter. He has killed some incredible deer thought multiple states in the midwest.
Because Todd is a contractor and has limited time he has not had the opportunity to bow hunt in many years. This season Todd decided to slow down his work load and rededicate himself to bowhunting. He's utilizing his skill set he's gained from tracking to narrow down locations that have the best opportunity to capitalize on a mature whitetail buck.
Todd has also recently began using a small fleet of trail cameras and he is sharing his findings with me and breaking down details.
Todd is a wealth of knowledge and I very much enjoyed our conversation this week.
Thanks for listening!
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the deer hunter podcast, a platform created to entertain, educate, and evolve the modern day deer hunter. |
| 0:41.3 | Okay, well my name is Todd Havel and I'm from central Wisconsin. |
| 0:59.0 | I grew up hunting the farm communities, the farmlands, and pretty much self-taught. |
| 1:07.0 | At one point, I kind of wanted a little bit more of a challenge. |
| 1:12.2 | So I headed north into the big woods. |
| 1:15.6 | I fell in love with that right away because there's this open space and you can go forever. |
| 1:20.8 | Very few trespassing signs. |
| 1:24.6 | One of the things that frustrated me, farm country hunting, is I can hunt this 40, and then I get the defense line, I can't go anymore. |
| 1:31.7 | And I just felt like there's something on the other side that I wanted to see or hunt the other side, and I couldn't do that. |
| 1:37.2 | And going up north, open those avenues, and kind of just stretch my legs and adventure. |
| 1:45.2 | I ended up picking up tracking, snow tracking, bucks, because I kind of got stagnant and just stand hunting all the time. |
| 1:55.8 | And I wanted something a little bit more exciting and a new challenge, I guess. |
| 2:01.1 | And I found out that was my true love. |
| 2:03.7 | That's really what I love doing. |
| 2:06.4 | I love giving you a track in the snow kid at Christmastime. |
| 2:10.6 | I never get tired of it. |
| 2:12.1 | I'm getting up in age, and I still go. |
| 2:15.1 | Every track I get excited on. |
| 2:17.4 | And so that's kind of I love. |
| 2:19.9 | I love to move around a lot. |
| 2:21.6 | It's hard for me to sit. |
| 2:22.6 | So it suits me well. |
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