#242 - Scouting and Hunting Pennsylvania Swamps For Mature Public Land Bucks! Curt DeLattre from Ridge Raised Outdoors
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, we are in the studio with Curt Delattre of Ridge Raised Outdoors. Curt grew up hunting the big woods in Pennsylvania but has since tranistioned to hunting the public land swamps that dot the landscape across the state. We discuss:
-Growing up hunting the big woods of Pennsylvania
-How being stationed in California led to the birth of Ridge Raised Outdoors
-The lessons he learned from the swamp hunting master Dan Infalt
-How he e-scouts swamps and what he looks for
-Finding islands of solid ground in the middle of swamps with e-scouting
-Finding pinch points and rut funnels that you cant see from e-scouting with boots on the ground
-The types of neighboring private property that he looks for when choosing a swamp
-His hunting strategy for public land swamps
-His short term and long term trail camera strategies for hunting public swamps
and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast this week. We have Kurt from Ridge Raised Outdoors, |
| 0:05.0 | and he came into the office and we have a sweet episode all about hunting swamps and Pennsylvania |
| 0:10.9 | and what his strategy is for short-term, long-term strategy for trail cameras, what he does to go in and |
| 0:16.8 | try to find non-aerial pinch points, meaning something that you can't see easily on Google |
| 0:22.9 | or ETH or Onyx or wherever else you're looking, and how he uses those to hopefully kill a mature |
| 0:27.9 | buck. So I hope you guys really enjoy this conversation. It is a good one. Some things you can |
| 0:32.3 | implement right now as you gear up for this upcoming season. And also talking about the upcoming |
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| 2:01.9 | and until next time let's go ahead and get right into this week's episode lights camera |
| 2:06.9 | follow the trailer if you know where a deer's betting and you know where he's eating that deer |
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