Welcome to the Huntback Country Podcast today.

This is episode number 319.

This episode is one that I'm personally really excited to release and honestly I'm going

to go back and listen to myself because it's a conversation that I recorded quite

a while ago.

Our guest is Hal Blood and he is up in Maine and hunts big wood's bucks up there.

If you're unfamiliar with that style of hunting and that hunting culture, we do explain that

in this conversation and also relate it to western hunting.

And particularly, we speak with Hal about tracking.

What can you learn from tracking about deer?

How can you effectively use tracking as a hunting strategy and much more?

This came to light for me recently when we were in Kodiak and it made me think of this

conversation.

One of the days I was hunting with my buddy Corey Ford and there was already some snow

on the ground leading into this day but on this particular day of hunting the forecast

was for it to snow continually all day from light to light and that's what it did.

And we ended up going through nearly a couple feet of snow and getting on some fresh buck

tracks and truly tracking deer in the snow which was a ton of fun.

I learned a lot.

It was interesting to follow those tracks to observe how deer move where they move and ultimately

to close the distance for shot opportunity which we are so close to doing on multiple times.

We were able to track in and get very close to some deer but just in the cover didn't

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