#205 - PUBLIC LAND BIG WOODS Scrape Strategies for Right Now
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
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🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Want to learn what bucks do this time of year? Listen as Cameron interviews Steve Sherk Jr. about his late Oct and early Nov strategies.
Steve runs a ton of trail cameras throughout PA and is a wealth of knowledge for maximizing the most out of your season.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, folks, what's going on? Good morning. This is Jake Hofer, and this is Trailcam Radio. |
| 0:04.3 | And even better, this is a scrape week edition of our podcast. Cammer just got back from a trip to |
| 0:10.4 | Pennsylvania to hunt at Steve Shirk's camp, and he did a little big woods scrape hunting, |
| 0:16.8 | and it was with none other than Steve Shirk. Now, if you don't know Steve, he writes for our website. |
| 0:23.2 | We have recorded quite a few podcasts with him over the years now, |
| 0:27.1 | and we also had his hunting camp on White Tale Cribs. |
| 0:30.9 | Steve runs a ton of cameras and is a wealth of knowledge |
| 0:35.2 | when it comes to scrapes, big woods deer hunting, finding big bucks |
| 0:38.9 | in Pennsylvania. And it's always a enjoyable experience to listen or talk to Steve, talk about deer. |
| 0:45.8 | So this week we have Cameron asking a lot of scrape questions for you guys. A lot of these questions |
| 0:51.6 | came out of the office. And we hope you guys find some value, |
| 0:55.7 | enjoy it and hopefully your scrape week has yielded some level of success. Maybe you found a new |
| 1:01.8 | big buck or you are closing the distance on a buck that you want to put your tag on. So we hope |
| 1:07.6 | you guys enjoy it. Let's go ahead and get right into it. Here we go. Lights. |
| 1:13.2 | Camera! Follow the trail. |
| 1:17.4 | If you know where a deer's betting and you know where he's eating, that deer should be dead. |
| 1:21.2 | If you're passive on a deer, what you're doing is you're teaching. |
| 1:29.3 | I've got 30 bucks in the Michigan record book. Everyone but one has had at least one previous wound on his body. Some had as many as four. |
| 1:50.0 | Trail can radio. From the guys at Exodus. All right, we are live and it is scrape week, so you already know where I'm at. We are talking to PA Bigwood's guide and legend, Steve Shirk. What's going on, man? Not too much, just enjoying your company. Yeah, thank you, |
| 1:55.8 | man. I appreciate you having me up here. We've had a pretty good time and pretty exciting hunt to tell all you guys about. |
| 2:02.4 | So if you stick around to the end of this conversation, Steve and I will kind of recap my hunt, |
| 2:08.5 | where he had me set up and maybe some future plans. |
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