#253 - Kill A Giant This October & When To Rattle For Mature Bucks With Steve Hanson
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
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🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, We are in Iowa talking about October deer hunting with Steve Hanson! Steve bought his first farm in Iowa in the 1990's and has been fanatically been chasing whitetails almost his entire life. After many years of success and helping over 100 clients tag their best buck, here are some tips he's learned along the way.
We discuss:
-Growing up in a non-hunting family in the Chicago suburbs
-Exclusively managing and hunting 800 acres in Iowa
-Setting up food plots for a successful October hunt
-Using cleared brush to create dead zones for scent on certain winds
-Patterning bucks in early October
-Should you hunt October Mornings?
-Hunting an October cold front as it is hitting
-What October food to look for if you can't plant food plots
-Making beans stay green throughout early October
-Where to shift for the second week of October
-What scrape should you hunt once bucks shift
-Where to shift for the third week of October
-Steve's strategy for an October muzzleloader hunt in Iowa
-When should you start to rattle?
-How and when to rattle when hunting an October morning
-Size matters for rattling antlers
-Where to shift for the last week of October
-The #1 thing first-time Iowa hunters mess up
-Overcoming buck fever
-Is it easier to kill a buck in October or the rut?
-Wind direction vs thermals
And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast this week. We have a great episode with Steve Hansen. |
| 0:05.2 | And so Steve is from Illinois originally, was a guide in Alaska, and then ended up in Iowa and has |
| 0:11.6 | been chasing White Tails fanatically, basically his entire life. And he loves the month of October. |
| 0:17.5 | He loves different parts of October for a variety of reasons. And he's breaking |
| 0:21.8 | down his strategy for the entire month. What is he setting up on how he does it? And when he breaks |
| 0:27.6 | out those rattling antlers and how he uses them, just a great conversation to get you geared up |
| 0:33.0 | for the month of October. It's here. It's what we've been waiting for. So now go out there and |
| 0:36.6 | make the most of it with the help of some of these guests that we have here on the podcast. Before we get into this |
| 0:42.1 | episode, though, it is the last week to sign up for the Hunting Beast Gear and Exodus giveaway. |
| 0:48.5 | Head over the description in this podcast and you will have a chance to win a B stand, a set of B sticks, an Exodus |
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| 1:01.8 | that announces the winner on September 30th. So be sure to add us to your contacts on your |
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| 1:45.4 | it for now. I hope you guys enjoy this episode with Steve. I know I did. Here we go. |
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