#312 - Making The Most Out Of The Last Few Days Of October! Elk Hunt Recap, Product Updates and More!
The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests
Jake Hofer
4.9 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Exodus Podcast, we are back in the studio doing an internal epsiode. We get into chad's 21 day elk hunt, what we've learned from running 100's of trail cameras over the years and capitalizing on the last few days of October. We discuss:
- Chads 21-day Elk Hunting trip
- A rollercoaster of emotions and physical exhaustion
- A Mountain Lion Encounter
- Tag reallocation and hunting pressure influence outcomes
- Upcoming hunting trips to Iowa and Illinois
- Seasonal changes create fast-changing hunting conditions
- Taking advantage of short hunting windows is crucial
- Mental preparation and awareness are essential for success in hunting
- The lucky doe entering estrus early attracts competitive bucks
- Lessons learned about recognizing sign and making split-second decisions
- The impact of weather conditions
- Maintaining a calm and positive mindset
- Overanalyzing and second-guessing can hinder success during the rut
- Following your gut instinct allows for more accurate decision-making
- The launch of the Exodus vault
- An upcoming shipment of rivals is expected in the next two weeks
And so much more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on? Welcome to the Exodus podcast this week. We have an internal episode. We haven't done one of these in quite some time. And Chad recounts his Western trip. We're talking about what we've |
| 0:22.9 | learned from a bunch of trail cameras and a lot of the expert guests that have been generous |
| 0:27.8 | enough to share their time on how to capitalize on this last little chunk of October and make |
| 0:34.0 | the most of it. So hope you guys really enjoy this episode. Next week we have Steve Hansen, |
| 0:38.9 | and he's breaking down the month of November |
| 0:41.8 | and how to make the most out of it. |
| 0:43.9 | So hunting the very first part of November |
| 0:45.6 | and then all the way into the mid part. |
| 0:48.0 | So that's something that you might want to go back |
| 0:49.6 | and listen to twice as the season progresses. |
| 0:52.6 | So I hope you guys have an excellent weekend and good luck. |
| 0:57.5 | What's going on? Not too much, man. Good morning. Good to see that pretty face. |
| 1:02.8 | Exodus morning show here. Bright and early. That's what I felt like here this morning is we just need to be |
| 1:08.8 | doing this live and have people driving to work right now |
| 1:11.0 | yeah we could man that there's an idea for the next project absolutely so it's been a minute |
| 1:16.5 | since you've been on here and uh the last time we talked on here was you were headed out west yeah and so |
| 1:23.7 | you know i've got the the cliff notes, but I think people probably want to hear |
| 1:28.5 | how it went. Well, it was, I'll wrap it up as quick as I can. It's, it was everything at Elkhunt |
| 1:36.0 | should have been. I got beat physically. I got beat, got beat up mentally. I got beat up emotionally. |
| 1:46.4 | So there's a lot of adversity, |
| 1:49.6 | which is, you know, that's what you, that's what you want. That's what you expect. Uh, had a lot of encounters was a, you know, I think that trip was 21 days long as far as me being gone. |
| 1:55.1 | And I think that we hunted probably 16 of those days. So we lost, |
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