Ep. 084: Built for the Backcountry with Jeff Ellis / Jakt Gear

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, I’m joined by Jeff Ellis, founder of Jakt Gear. Jeff grew up in the midwest and found a way to become consistently successful elk hunting year after year. In addition, he started Jakt Gear which offers the most user friendly magnetic bow slings available. I’m running one on my bow this year allowing me to have my bow ready, while reducing fatigue from lugging it around in the mountains or on your way to the tree stand. Topics Intro - Discussing a recent mountain buck scouting trip Jeff’s background Jakt Gear’s My Sling-A-Ling magnetic bow sling Traveling from east to west Going from a novice elk hunter to being consistently successful Dealing with altitude Being in better shape and living a better life Resources: Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik @jakt.gear Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ https://jaktgear.com/ Shop new apparel! https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/shop Gear List! https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/post/beau-s-gear-list-for-a-september-elk-hunt Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Partners: onX Mapping at your finger tips on your phone, computer or GPS that will allow you scout harder, hunt farther and increase your success rates. This is the number 1 tool that I use every single time I'm in the woods or mountains. University of Elk Hunting Use code eastmeetswest to get 20% off of the most comprehensive elk hunting course available. Heather's Choice Healthy, great tasting, dehydrated meals for the backcountry. Use code eastmeetswest to get free shipping on orders over $99. http://lddy.no/7og2 Maven Optics Top quality binoculars, spotting scopes and rifle scopes for your hunts from east to west. Listen to the podcast for a special code to get a free gift with your next order! MTN OPS MTN OPS is the leader in providing science based supplements to help you train inside and conquer more outside. https://glnk.io/mw0/beaumartonik Wild Carrot Scents Changing the way you look at deer scents. Their tear away, no mess packaging is exactly what I need for hunting the mountains of Pennsylvania, to the swamps of the south and farm country in the midwest. Prime Archery Prime builds bows for hunters with parallel cam and centergy technology. Their free strings for life program is unmatched in the industry. Test drive one at your local shop and experience it yourself! Exodus Outdoor Gear Exodus is building cameras that are built to last. With an industry leading 5 year warranty that covers even lost and stolen cameras; they're worth checking out! Listen to this episode to learn about a special deal from them this month! 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.
0:13.6	Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast presented by Onex.
0:21.5	So for today to talk a little bit about Onex, I'm going to kind of get into a short little
0:27.6	story here about this past weekend.
0:30.4	I went scouting for Mountain Bucks here in Pennsylvania.
0:34.8	Went into an area that is, I scouted in the springtime with a buddy
0:43.1	of mine, Michael Palladino, and Michael picked out this spot on the map, and he's like, hey, you
0:48.9	want to go scout this and go check it out.
0:51.3	So him and I, you know went in there and and went really
0:56.6	it was way back in probably uh i don't know anywhere from three to four maybe even a little
1:03.6	further than that miles away from any road and a lot of elevation change to get to this spot i mean
1:09.1	it's it's as far in as you're really going to get in Pennsylvania.
1:13.9	And just hoping to really find that next class, just age class of deer. And we found what
1:22.4	looks like could be that type of area. So anyways, long story short, marked a bunch of those spots on
1:28.4	on X, you know, back in the springtime looked at things like, you know, signpost rubs or rubs
1:34.1	that have been, you know, rubbed year after year, which I'm finding, you know, a lot of these
1:39.9	in these types of areas that, you know, are really remote. The bucks are just putting on age and
1:45.3	they're also shown a lot of dominance to, you know, for these critical betting areas on these
1:51.3	points of the hills. So, you know, marking those, the, any scrapes, betting, you know, different
1:59.7	terrain features, vegetation features,
2:02.1	marking all this stuff ahead of time.
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