#248 - 150+ Trail Camera Study Across 100,000 Acres in PA: Here's The Best Day for Mature Bucks! - Steve Sherk
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we have a familiar face back in the office, Steve Sherk from Sherk's Guide Service. Steve spends more time in the woods in one year than most hunters do in 10 years. Steve just completed a multi-year trail camera study, looking at pictures from over 150 trail cameras to see if he could find a pattern to when and why big bucks daylight. We discuss:
- What he learned about deer movement from looking at multiple years of trail camera photos
- His trail camera strategy for 100,000 acres of Pennsylvania big woods public land
- His most successful trail camera locations for daylight photos of big bucks
- Short-term vs. long-term trail camera sets
- The one day that he had the most daylight pictures of mature bucks
- What factor did he notice in his study that had the most influence on daylight buck activity
- Should you look at the weather, moon phase, or barometric pressure when targeting mature bucks
- How much Pennsylvania's bear season affects deer movement during gun season
- What he looks for in October that spikes daylight buck activity
- How droughts can affect where in hill country deer move to
- When do mature bucks typically show back up after the lockdown
And so much more. This is one you won't want to miss!
Connect:
-PDF of Steve's Trail Camera Study: https://exodusoutdoorgear.com/blogs/news/best-day-buck-activity
-https://linktr.ee/exodustrailcamera
-https://linktr.ee/TheLandPodcast
-https://bit.ly/TheDeerGearPodcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast. This is Jake Hofer and this week we have a really |
| 0:04.8 | strong episode from the Exodus office with Steve Shirk and Steve should be a familiar name to you guys. |
| 0:11.5 | If you have listened to this podcast here for a while, we recorded a white tail cribs with him. |
| 0:15.3 | It was a couple years ago. We recorded a podcast at his hunting cabin and just a really diehard deer hunter that is |
| 0:22.5 | infatuated with deer and runs a ton of cameras. |
| 0:25.6 | So on this episode, he's breaking down his most recent 150 plus trail camera study |
| 0:31.5 | across 100,000 acres in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:35.3 | And so Steve has spent the past few years gathering data on |
| 0:38.3 | White Tails in the Deep Woods of Northeast Pennsylvania. Steve focused on daylight buck |
| 0:44.0 | activity and we're discussing basically what his findings are, including what he thinks is the most |
| 0:49.6 | important factor when it comes to deer movement during the hunting season. His study took |
| 0:53.6 | into account of temperature, |
| 0:54.6 | moon phase, barometric pressure, and much more to help relate to how this could help you guys |
| 1:00.6 | in your deer season this upcoming year. We link to his documentation for this study in the link below. |
| 1:07.3 | We hope you guys really enjoyed this episode. if you do be sure to share it with |
| 1:11.3 | someone that might enjoy it as well tell them leave a five-star written review it really helps us out |
| 1:16.7 | and also if you haven't checked out the new website here at exodus we have a brand new website |
| 1:21.4 | from this summer we have the exodus mt arrow which is an entirely new arrow line and if you want to learn more about that, head over to the website, check out the product video. And I think if you are looking to learn more about arrows, you're going to be impressed with what we've done here. So we'll just leave into that. I hope you guys have a fantastic rest of your week. Until next time, see you guys. Lights. Camera! Follow the trailer. If you know where a deer's betting |
| 1:45.4 | And you know where he's eating |
| 1:46.4 | That deer should be dead |
| 1:47.7 | If you're passive on a deer |
| 1:50.0 | What you're doing is you're teaching |
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