#308 - How To Hunt the First October Cold Front, How Bucks Use Thermals, & Running 300 Trail Cameras - Shane Parker
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In this episode, Shane Parket talks about the importance of understanding thermals, how deer use thermals, and how you can use it to your advanatge. Shane also talks about what his strategy is for hunting the first cold front of October and what he's learned from running 300 trail cameras in the big woods.
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to Exist podcast. It's October. |
| 0:08.8 | It is the time we've all been waiting for. |
| 0:12.6 | And even more so. |
| 0:13.5 | We had that first cold front rolling in here later this week. |
| 0:16.3 | And I hopped on the phone with Shane Parker. |
| 0:18.6 | He's from Alabama. |
| 0:20.0 | He runs over 300 cameras, puts in a lot of time scouting. |
| 0:24.5 | And this information is going to help you have more success or at least make you a little bit more thoughtful for what the front we have come on right now. |
| 0:33.2 | And also for the rest of the season. We talk about how to hunt thermals, how deer use thermals, |
| 0:38.3 | and some specific scenarios that you should look for throughout the season and how you can get |
| 0:43.1 | the advantage. So I hope you guys enjoy this conversation if you do. We would greatly appreciate it |
| 0:47.9 | if you left a written review. As always, head over to our website, sign up for our email newsletter, |
| 0:54.3 | and we should have some exciting information, maybe a little bit of savings coming down the pipeline to you if you sign up for that. |
| 1:02.1 | So enough of all of this. |
| 1:03.5 | Let's get right into this conversation with Shane. |
| 1:09.0 | Shane, how's it going? |
| 1:10.5 | Oh, great, man. Like I said, just tired.? Oh, great, man. |
| 1:11.5 | Like I said, just tired, ready to get this, get a couple days of rest and hit hard with this cold front this coming in this weekend. |
| 1:22.3 | Yeah, it's the cold front we've all been waiting for. |
| 1:24.8 | And so we were talking, you walked 27 miles in six days. What the heck were you looking for? What were you doing? Man, just looking for sign. Basically right now, I found a lot of it, just kept finding more and more. So I just kept going and going and going, basically. I'm trying to learn a whole new area. I don't have much, much experience in this area. So I'm just trying to learn as much |
| 1:45.9 | as I can, as quickly as I can. I dropped about 30-something cameras over the last, really, two |
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