#254 - Killing a Specific October Buck on Highly Pressured Public Land with Cody Jenkins!
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, We are back in the studio talking with Cody Jenkins of The Whitetail Legacy podcast. Cody has hosted over 250 podcasts about deer hunting with numerous hardcore whitetail hunters and has learned a thing or two from talking to all his podcast guests about chasing big bucks.
We discuss:
-His favorite podcast guests to listen to about deer hunting
-His October trail camera strategy
-Lessons learned from previous mistakes running cameras in October
-Targeting a specific deer on high-pressure public land
-Unconventional sets for trail cameras on public
-Public vs Private land strategies
-Waiting for corn to get picked to access a certain stand
-What conditions does Cody look for when determining when to hunt in October
-Killing 2 bucks 2 years in a row on the same day in the same stand
-Where to hunt on public for the first October cold front
-Should you hunt October mornings?
-His strategy for hunting mornings in October
-His plans for this fall
And so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast this week. We have a great guest. Cody Jenkins, |
| 0:04.7 | if you've been listening to the Exodus podcast for quite some time, it should be a familiar |
| 0:08.2 | name, but if you're brand new, I'll tell you this. Cody is a very serious and dedicated |
| 0:12.8 | whitetail hunter and finds success many times and hunts a variety of properties. And we're talking |
| 0:19.3 | about how he has tagged some specific bucks during a certain time frame in the month of October. |
| 0:25.7 | The story of a deer he screwed up on in October and ended up killing it later on in November. |
| 0:32.0 | So just a great conversation to keep in mind as you are gearing up and rolling through this month of October and chasing white tails. |
| 0:39.3 | Before we get into it, really no major announcements just want to say thank you for everyone that entered the Hunting Beast giveaway. |
| 0:45.7 | Alex Howard from Pennsylvania was the lucky winner and we sent out an email and hopefully there was no confusion, but basically if you didn't win the grand prize, we wanted to provide some sort of savings. And so we sent out a special email to everyone that signed up and was not the grand prize winner. I believe the Hunting Beast store will be sending you an email as well if you did sign up and you were not the grand prize winner. So keep an eye out for that. It was great to partner up with the Honeybeast on this one, |
| 1:12.2 | and there was a lot of people that entered. |
| 1:14.2 | So I just want to say thank you to everyone for that. |
| 1:15.9 | Also, if in case you haven't caught the new episodes of Whitetail Cribs, |
| 1:19.2 | be sure to head over to our YouTube channel. |
| 1:20.8 | Check those out. |
| 1:21.7 | We've had three new uploads, I believe, |
| 1:24.0 | and they have all been absolute awesome episodes so be sure to check those out we're |
| 1:29.0 | releasing those on Sunday so check those out we're premiering them you can watch them with us live |
| 1:34.6 | really cool that is it for now if you enjoyed the episode share it with a friend leave a five-star |
| 1:39.8 | written review now let's get into this week's episode. Lights. Camera! |
| 1:45.6 | Follow the trailer. |
| 1:49.9 | If you know where a deer's betting and you know where he's eating, that deer should be dead. |
| 1:53.6 | If you're passive on a deer, what you're doing is you're teaching. |
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