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The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

#243 - #VelvetFest Is Here! Listener Q&A and Summertime Trail Camera Strategies

The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

Jake Hofer

Sports, Wilderness

4.9616 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, we are taking listener Q&A's from a poll that we posted on instagram. We discuss:

-The start of #VelvetFest

-We Are Hiring!

-Finding and hunting pinch points in the rut

-What to look for when scouting in tall grass fields

-Summertime trail camera locations that actually tell you something

-The lifespan of the Lift II 

-How many times does a buck have to hit a scrape before making a move on him

-Jake and Chad's fall 2022 gear list

-How much historical summer data can impact fall hunting

-How to hunt hill country buck beds on no wind days

And so much more!

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast this week. We have a Q&A session from all the questions that came in on Instagram and we answer a wide variety of topics. Hope you guys really enjoy this conversation. We have a lot of different updates here in VelvaFest, the MMT, and what else we have going on here at Exodus. So I hope you guys really enjoy it. Just want to say thank you to everyone. Let's go ahead and get right into it. Here we go. Lights. Camera! Follow the trail. If you know where a deer's betting and you know where he's eating, that deer should be dead. If you're passive on a deer, what you're doing is you're teaching. 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

0:39.0

four the exodus podcast your source for all things white tail all right now all right now

0:44.7

all right we're live and uh been a little bit here i think what we last time we did the q and a

0:50.4

we're going to do one quarterly so quarter two is over in quarter three three now, which in the world of our life, this is the, this is just a start. This is the,

0:59.1

the, this is the fun, the game is just starting now. This is the first half of the fun year.

1:03.8

That's it, man. The first half doesn't really matter. The second half. Pretty much. We're,

1:08.3

we're in the chips now. So,. So how has everything been here recently?

1:13.4

It's been busy.

1:15.7

Busy.

1:16.6

Dude, I'm looking at the calendar thinking, like, I got 50 days until elk season rolls around.

1:20.8

I haven't really started packing or training and doing any type of cardio work.

1:26.6

Do you build my lungs or build my legs? But, I mean, things have been great, dude. Things are rocking here. We're getting ready to kick Velot Fest off. The arrow stuff has been absolutely phenomenal. We had nothing to complain about, man. All smiles. Absolutely. And if we did want to complain, I bet you no one would listen anyway. So it doesn't really matter.

1:47.1

They don't. Smiles and baggy eyes. Right on. Yeah. That's great. So are you, do you have a ticker for Idaho, like a countdown? Or is it just kind of every now and then you're looking like a, uh, somebody sent't have a ticker running but somebody sent me a text i think it was yesterday and they said 50 days

2:05.3

till september 1st i'm like holy crap i need to i need to get my button gear so i ordered my

2:13.7

my food did some food prep last night um rounded up some gear so i'll be okay actually i have

2:21.0

probably 65 days i'm not planning to go out until the second week and then hunt the back half

2:25.4

of the month so i got uh i got two months i'll be i'll be ready i'll be ready absolutely well yeah

2:31.7

and you bring up a point velva fest man Fest, man. When this is live, that means

2:34.9

Veltefest is starting July 15th. This is going live, you know, whatever the following Tuesday.

2:40.2

Best time of the year. Maybe not the best time, but one of the best times. It's one of the most

2:45.0

exciting times. Man, like there's this lull after turkey season like May to basically now it's like what the heck do

2:52.8

do I guess wait wait for wait for Velafest well for me yeah but I mean I guess from a landowner's

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