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East Meets West Hunt

Ep. 105: Mountain Buck Trail Camera Strategies with Chad Sylvester // Exodus Outdoor Gear

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9796 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, I’m joined by Chad Sylvester, Co-founder of Exodus Outdoor Gear. Chad is here to talk all about trail camera strategies for hunting these old, smart mountain bucks. We discuss short and long term strategies, paying attention to less distinct terrain features, running cameras on scrapes, and a little about late season tactics.   Topics Chad’s Ohio hunting season Exodus Short term and Long term trail camera data Paying attention to less distinct terrain features Running cameras on scrapes Late season big woods hunting and trail camera strategies   Resources: Instagram:   @eastmeetswesthunt - https://www.instagram.com/eastmeetswesthunt/ @beau.martonik - https://www.instagram.com/beau.martonik/ @sylvester_chad - https://www.instagram.com/sylvester_chad/ @exodustrailcameras - https://www.instagram.com/exodustrailcameras/ Facebook:    East Meets West Outdoors - https://www.facebook.com/EastMeetsWestHunt/   https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ https://exodusoutdoorgear.com/   Shop new apparel!  https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/shop   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. Use code EMW for 20% off of the Hunt app. https://www.onxmaps.com/ University of Elk Hunting Use code eastmeetswest to get 20% off of the most comprehensive elk hunting course available. https://www.elk101.com/product/university-of-elk-hunting-online-course/ Heather's Choice Healthy, great tasting, dehydrated meals for the backcountry. Use code eastmeetswest to get free shipping on ALL orders.  http://lddy.no/7og2 Maven Optics Top quality binoculars, spotting scopes and rifle scopes for your hunts from east to west. Use the code eastmeetswest-gift get a free gift with your next order! https://mavenbuilt.com/ MTN OPS MTN OPS is the leader in providing science based supplements to help you train inside and conquer more outside. Use the code BEAUFREESHIP for free shipping on all orders.  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. https://wildcarrotscents.com/ 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! https://www.g5prime.com/ 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!  https://exodusoutdoorgear.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.8

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

0:14.7

Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast presented by Onex.

0:22.5

So Onex, as you know, I use it for just about everything when it comes to being in the woods

0:28.4

hunting. And in addition to that, I'm kind of organization freak when it comes to data and

0:36.4

different things like that.

0:42.9

So the way I use the waypoints that are identified as a trail camera.

0:46.5

So with today's podcast being all about trail cameras,

0:49.5

I figured this would be a good little tip to share.

0:53.6

So I label all the trail camera icons in the light blue color,

0:55.1

just the way I organize them.

1:03.3

But underneath that, I'll have them labeled say cam zero zero one or cam zero two, whatever that might be.

1:14.0

And within the note section on each waypoint, I write the details of what camera it is, how much life is left you know a whole bunch of different you know pertinent information to that whether I need a climbing stick to get to it

1:19.3

things like that so that anytime I'm going out in the field afterwards I can click on that or

1:23.7

before I go out in the field to check camera, I can click on the waypoint,

1:33.5

see any details, and hopefully not run into the situation like I did a few times when I skip that step and happened to forget my climbing stick and had to shim me up the tree to try

1:39.0

to get my camera down. So if you want to check out the Onex Hunt app, you can head over to onexmaps.com and use the coupon code EMW.

1:49.3

That'll save yourself 20% off off of their website only.

1:53.7

It does not work in the app store, Google Play, or Apple.

1:58.6

So I also have a message here from our friends at Exodus.

2:04.8

So Chad, who's on today's episode, he's one of the owner of Exodus Trail cameras,

2:10.9

Exodus Outdoor Gear.

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