#300 - The State of Hunting Media Summer, Scouting Strategies and Listener Q&A!
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Chad and Jake are back in the studio with another Q&A, talking about trail camera placement near bedding areas, choosing between bucks, managing trail camera setups, the influence of YouTube hunting channels and podcasts on out-of-state hunting, and their upcoming elk hunting plans. We discuss:
- The impact of content creation on hunting opportunities and draw odds
- Summer scouting helps locate elk, but it doesn't guarantee success.
- Elk can be killed in transition routes, not just in bedding areas.
- Expanding hunting locations and adapting strategies based on changing conditions.
- Deploying cameras to locate target bucks requires a wide-net approach and continuous repositioning.
- The future of limited hunting opportunities in Iowa and Kansas
- Knowing a deer's bedding and feeding areas can increase your chances of a successful hunt.
- Scouting in the summer can give you valuable information about the deer population in the area.
And So Much More!
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast this week. We have an excellent episode. We had questions submitted by you guys and we answer an array of questions. Talk a little bit about buck betting, summer scouting, ball tactics, out of state trips, and also the state of hunting media. So hope you guys enjoy this episode. Before we get into it, obviously Veldefest is up and rolling, but we just just announced another giveaway and this is the biggest one yet this is huge this is a four thousand |
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| 0:46.7 | We're going to announce that winner via text or email late August, early September. |
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| 1:17.5 | on the website hope you guys take advantage of this let's go and get right into this week's |
| 1:21.4 | episode here we go lights camera follow the trail if you know where a deer's betting and you know where he's eating, that deer should be dead. |
| 1:30.3 | If you're passive on a deer, what you're doing is you're teaching. |
| 1:33.7 | I've got 30 bucks in the Michigan record book. |
| 1:36.0 | Everyone but one has had at least one previous wound on his body. |
| 1:40.2 | Some had as many as four. |
| 1:42.6 | The Exodus podcast. Your source for all things white |
| 1:46.3 | tail what's going on what's happening brother it's august it's august it's august it's |
| 1:52.9 | august it's august it is man it's a rapidly freaking approaching very fast you feeling, are you feeling the anxiety? |
| 2:03.3 | Is this, is the temperature gauge starting to rise a little bit? |
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