#265 - Hunting 41 Times Across Multiple Properties To Kill A Specific Buck! Justin Hollandsworth's 2022 Buck Hunt Breakdown!
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, We are sitting down with repeat guest Justin Hollandsworth to Talk about his 2022 Buck and the story of how it all went down. Justin had multiple years of history with this buck and sat a total of 41 times out of 21 different trees across 5 different properties chasing this deer this fall. We discuss:
-Hunting a buck with a huge range
-The history Justin has with this specific buck
-Door knocking an entire area
-Bully Bucks
-Locating your target buck after the shift
-The complete story of Justin's chess match with his 2022 buck
-How many opportunities can you get after a buck winds you?
-Early season vs rut vs late season for a specific deer
-Do mature bucks always walk with the wind in their face?
-Late Season tips and tactics
-The benefits of hunting a specific mature buck
And so much more!
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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 an |
| 0:03.9 | episode with Justin Hollinsworth. Justin has been on White Till Cribs. We've also done |
| 0:09.4 | multiple podcasts with him over the years. And this one is about his past season and more |
| 0:14.8 | specifically a deer that he hunted 41 times for in over 20 different setups and how the story ends. I think you will find |
| 0:22.6 | very interesting. So hopefully you will take some items from this story and put it into hopefully |
| 0:28.4 | your strategy for killing a specific buck or figuring out what the heck some of these animals do. |
| 0:33.5 | We talk about bully bucks. We talk about some late season tips. We talk about the benefits of hunting a specific deer versus just an age class of deer or let's say a score of a deer. |
| 0:44.5 | Being specific can help you shoot more big bucks. |
| 0:47.1 | So I hope you guys enjoy this episode. |
| 0:49.2 | As always, if you guys enjoy it, please leave a written review. |
| 0:52.1 | It would really help us out. |
| 0:53.7 | And as always, head over to a website, Exodus Outdoorgear.com and sign up for our email newsletter. We have a lot of announcements coming in 2023 and you are not going to want to miss them. And we are very excited. We've been working really hard behind the scenes and we have some great things coming down the pipeline. So I hope you guys take advantage of that. And that is it. |
| 1:11.2 | Hope you guys have a fantastic week. Here we go. Lights. Camera! Follow the trailer. 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 four. The Exodus podcast. Your source for all things, White Tail. Justin, how's it going this morning? Good. How are you? I'm doing well. We were just talking. It's kind of everyone's licking their wounds after a couple crazy months and getting back in the swing of things of life. And you've been hard at it for, let's see, end of September to when did you end up notching your tag there in Ohio? |
| 1:57.3 | November 29th. It's a long, a lot of sits. And I want to dive into that. Yeah. And I want to dive into that specific deer, but you sat 41 sits for that deer and 20 some different trees. Yep. Yeah. So on five different properties. Well, let's his dive right into it. So did that deer just have a huge range or was he just extremely unpredictable or he had a huge range yeah my |
| 2:19.2 | buddy of mine who hunts across uh hunts across the road from some of this stuff too like every once |
| 2:24.6 | and a while he just text me and thank god he was tagged out because he was like hey woody's over on me |
| 2:30.9 | uh he was on me last night i'm like je, geez, are you kidding me? So then it was |
| 2:34.4 | like, you know, I'm like, man, you know, like I'd have plans or something like that to go and to hunt him or whatever. And I'm like, he's like, yeah, he's over on me right now. And I'm like, there goes that set because I was thinking I was going to do this this morning or evening or whatever. So it was just the deer has been been around. I got pitchers. First time I got |
| 2:54.0 | pictures of him was in 2019. And I thought he was a two and a half year old. He could have been a |
| 2:59.7 | three and a half year old. I don't know. I'm going to get him aged. But he was just, he had 17 points |
| 3:05.7 | and had a wide frame. And, and, and I remember the first |
| 3:11.2 | time I've seen him, he reminded me of a young, remember years ago, it was either Gina Barry |
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