#249 - How Andy May Consistently Finds and Kills Mature Bucks on DIY Trips!
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, we are back in the studio with the deer hunting legend Andy May. This podcast with Andy went so in-depth that we had to break it down into two segments, so be on the lookout for part 2 next week! Get your notes ready, there is A LOT that Andy covers that you would never think of when in the whitetail woods.
If you want to skip the introduction, Andy's section starts at the 9:18 minute mark.
We discuss:
-How Andy balances work, family and hunting to kill mature bucks
-How he has found better success with less time to hunt
-Using previous experience in the woods to make on-the-fly decisions
-How growing up hunting in Michigan taught him to think outside of the box when hunting public land
-Why he'd rather travel and hunt public than spend money on a high percentage lease
-His process of scouting an area that he plans on hunting in the fall
-A complete breakdown of his 2020 Iowa rut hunt
-Why do bucks travel perpendicular to deer trails in the rut
-Killing a mature buck over then only scrape in the area
-Do bucks use scrapes in the rut?
-Mature bucks use scrapes less than young bucks
-There aren't big deer everywhere in Iowa
-A complete breakdown of his 2020 Michigan gun hunt
-Using terrain features to your advantage
-Letting other hunters do the work for you in gun season
-What areas mature bucks run to when gun season starts
And so much more!
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-https://bit.ly/TheDeerGearPodcast
-https://linktr.ee/TheLandPodcast
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Our, we're live, and we have an exciting episode, a two-week series. Not too often we do a part |
| 0:05.7 | one, part two, but this one, there's no way you could retain the whole thing in one sitting. Would |
| 0:10.4 | you agree? A hundred percent. And it was unplanned. Like, it was just natural flow of conversation. |
| 0:16.5 | Yeah, a couple banger episodes, man. That's great. Not just for us, but like the value that the two episodes give to all the people listening, |
| 0:24.3 | like there is a lot there that can make a difference in the upcoming 2022 White Tail season. |
| 0:31.2 | That's huge. |
| 0:32.0 | I think to have real-time advice as you're going into something where it's top of mind fresh |
| 0:36.0 | and it's not a podcast from like January where you forget. I mean, realistically. So definitely excited and you can |
| 0:44.2 | probably see them title. It's Andy May. But before we get into all that, is there anything exciting |
| 0:48.1 | in your world that you want to share as you prepare for September and everything else? |
| 0:55.2 | No. No. |
| 0:58.6 | Exciting, no, man. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm still in the grind mode of getting this house remodeled, final prep for elk season, |
| 1:06.1 | really starting to shoot at some distance. |
| 1:08.7 | I haven't shot recently. |
| 1:10.3 | So my shooting stuff kind of has changed over |
| 1:13.5 | last year as far as like practice regimen. Last year I was very consistent shot a lot kind of all |
| 1:20.7 | through summer to get my effective range. I wanted to be able to shoot 80 to 100 yards if if I needed. |
| 1:26.6 | And obviously it didn't happen. But this year |
| 1:29.3 | shot a bunch in the spring, early summer, like with the arrow stuff going on. And then there was a |
| 1:34.7 | big pause like June and July. Didn't really shoot a whole bunch. And now I'm back to, you know, |
| 1:41.0 | shooting every single day. And I'm this is is the best. I, well, for whatever |
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