#391 : WIND, THERMALS, AND GIANT MATURE BUCKS
DEER HUNTER
Kevin Vistisen
4.7 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
"This guy gets on more big deer than anyone else i know"- Curtis Zabel.
Tony Vanasten joins us for this weeks episode. Tony is a trapper, all around outdoor enthusiast and in a league of his own in regards to locating and hunting down big mature whitetails.
Make sure to give Tony a follow over at his Instagram and YouTube page.
Thanks for listening!
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the deer hunter podcast, a platform created to entertain, educate, and evolve the modern day deer hunter. |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.7 | All right, here we go. |
| 0:55.7 | Welcome in, everyone, to this week's edition of the Deer Hunter podcast Friday, September 5th. |
| 1:02.8 | How about that? |
| 1:04.4 | And you are in the studio. |
| 1:07.5 | Deer seasons rapidly approaching right around the corner all over the country things are |
| 1:13.3 | kicking off as we speak in some states others are just one or two weeks out here in michigan we're |
| 1:20.2 | an october first opener and by october first or that first week of october first pretty much |
| 1:25.4 | everybody's up and running so we're in we're in we're on deck |
| 1:29.4 | that's essentially what's up we're on deck we're getting ready to walk in and so we have a fantastic |
| 1:37.7 | episode for you here this week i'm joined by my friend tony van asht. And if you don't know of Tony, he is, |
| 1:48.0 | he's something else. Tony spends an incredible amount of time in the woods. He's super detailed. |
| 1:55.2 | And he's just like at another level at getting on big deer. I mean, when at another level he some may even say that tony is in a league of his own and i mean that i've watched this guy for a few years now from a distance and i'm just like shocked all the time at how many big deer he gets on and is around. |
| 2:20.8 | He's a big proponent of utilizing scrapes to locate deer. |
| 2:25.9 | And I really didn't know a whole lot about how he hunts. |
| 2:29.7 | So this was a fantastic opportunity for me to essentially interview him about his process and theories. |
| 2:37.9 | And we kind of cover the gambit. |
| 2:39.8 | We spent a lot of time talking about wind, thermals, topography, overall strategy for entry and exit. |
| 2:47.2 | And just like hunting different age classes of deer like getting into that you know |
| 2:54.7 | three to five year old deer and then some of those real special like five plus you i mean |
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