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East Meets West Hunt

Ep. 039: Hunting Traditions and Photography with Jason Mears

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9796 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, I’m joined by Jason Mears, who is an avid whitetail hunter and Sitka Gear Whitetail Ambassador. Jason and I sat around a fire at his northern Pennsylvania property talking about the Pennsylvania hunting tradition, hunting pressured deer, photography and much more. In the introduction, I go into detail on my recent gun hunt that led to me finally filling my PA buck tag!  Topics: My 2018 Pennsylvania rifle hunt that ended in me filling my buck tag PA Hunting tradition Hunting pressured deer Who is Jason Mears Hunting specific deer and hunting goals Surviving long seasons of ups and downs Traveling to Ohio Outdoor photography - camera gear, photo styles and sharing tasteful photos Resources Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt                  @beau.martonik                  @jmears3650 Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors   www.eastmeetswesthunt.com Heather's Choice Affiliate Link Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Are you an adventurer looking to take your hunt to the next level, then you're in the right place.

0:05.8

Welcome to East Meets West Hunt with your host, Beaumartonic.

0:14.8

Hey, everyone. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and start to some of the rifle seasons,

0:25.4

gun seasons here in Pennsylvania and throughout the east.

0:28.7

I wanted to give a little bit of an update here on how the first week of a rifle season went here in Pennsylvania.

0:35.6

So it's been quite a few years since I've carried a rifle for myself.

0:43.6

And, you know, it didn't fill a bow tag at all on either Pennsylvania or Ohio.

0:48.7

And I was kind of going into this rifle season on a little bit of a low, kind of bummed out about

0:56.4

not filling a tag.

0:59.0

And so I got to sit down with a good friend of mine, Jason Mears, who will be on this

1:05.6

podcast, and Jason is such a great guy and a really, really good white-tail hunter and photographer that I look up to in the outdoor space.

1:16.8

So Jason and I sat down around the fire the night before hunting season opened up here as far as gun season in Pennsylvania.

1:25.3

And at that point, you know, we were both kind of having slow years and

1:30.3

trying to figure out you know where to go next and kind of our outlook on gun season so with that

1:40.5

being said the first day of gun season was really eventful for me.

1:46.1

I'm going to go into a little bit more detail.

1:48.3

I plan on talking about it here in this intro, but ended up kind of going through the

1:53.0

story on the podcast that will be releasing next week with Nick Berger, Allie, DeAndrea,

1:59.3

and Marta Dozy.

2:02.0

So I recorded that podcast and ended up going to detail.

2:05.6

But I had a little bit of a tree stand incident that was really scary and then ended up getting an opportunity at a target buck that I had and didn't pull through with it.

2:22.5

I ended up wounding the deer actually with a shoulder hit and tracked him for a long ways and

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