#306 - Kill Your Target Buck in Early October: Hunting Opening Week for Mature Bucks with Justin Hollandsworth

The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

Jake Hofer

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, we are back in the studio talking with repeat guest Justin Hollandsworth. Justin is a wizard when it comes to hunting early October and has killed plenty of big bucks in that time frame. We discuss:

Early season hunts require patience and careful consideration of multiple factors
Stacking different factors in your favor and being patient for the right time to strike
Observation and quick action are crucial during the early hunting season
Hunting during the first two weeks is essential as conditions and deer patterns change quickly
Don't be afraid to make mistakes or fail, sometimes taking risks pays off
Spotting scopes and binoculars can provide better information than trail cameras
Trail cameras are valuable tools for learning about deer behavior
Consider weather conditions and wind direction when analyzing trail camera photos
Being patient and observing signs, weather conditions, and deer movement
Hanging preset stands can be convenient, but being 10 yards off the mark can ruin your opportunity

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 returning guest,
0:03.7	someone you're probably familiar with Justin Hounsworth, and we're talking about his favorite
0:08.0	time of year to kill a target buck in its early October. We're talking about some things to
0:13.9	consider top food sources to key in on how to be the right level of aggressive to make it happen.
0:20.2	And this is a very timely conversation
0:23.3	for you to do a little bit of more glassing here and hit the season running if you're in one of
0:28.2	the states that opened late September or October 1. So I hope you guys really enjoy this episode
0:32.7	and a lot of great information in here. So I hope you guys enjoy it. No major announcements from
0:37.2	Exodus.
0:38.0	Keep an eye out from email communications from us, as always. We don't run ads on here, so I'm just going to ask this. If you haven't left a written review, we'd really appreciate it. So let's go ahead and get right into this week's episode. Here we go. Lights. Follow the trail.
0:35.3	Ready to shoot.
0:36.3	If you know where a deer's bedding and you know where he's eating, that deer should be dead. go. one previous wound on his body. Some had as many as four. The Exodus podcast. Your source for
1:13.4	all things, White Tail. Justin, how's it going? Good. It's going really good. I'm finally hunting.
1:21.3	It feels good to be back in the woods again. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Where are you at right now?
1:27.1	Kentucky. Kentucky. So you headed down there for
1:30.3	one of the earliest openings of the year and chasing some whitetails. Yeah, we got down here about
1:36.3	two days prior to a season starting and did a lot of glass in, stuck out a lot of cameras,
1:43.5	and just try to, you know, just try to locate some stuff.
1:46.9	And as of right now, we haven't had had much luck, but it's been, it's been 95 to 100 degrees almost every single day.
1:55.9	But a big front came in and got a bunch of rain. and today um as of right now it's 76 so that's a
2:06.0	huge difference from um what we were dealing with before um you know i druged andre down here
2:13.9	from iowa and and um is he has he melted is he melting down there he's he's
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