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East Meets West Hunt

Ep. 115: Shed Hunting and Scouting Mountain Bucks with Troy Pottenger

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9796 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, Beau Martonik is joined by Troy Pottenger to talk about one of my favorite topics - shed hunting and spring scouting for mountain bucks. Troy is extremely successful in hunting giant mountain bucks in northern Idaho, and we’ve found that a lot of his tactics in the west apply to the big woods whitetails of the east. We discuss locating big deer, hunting clearcuts, shed hunting strategies, utilizing licking branches, being efficient scouting and more.   Topics: Troy’s 2019 hunting season The hunt for one buck Locating big deer Hunt the clearcuts Shed hunting strategies Utilizing licking branches Being efficient scouting   Resources: Instagram:   @eastmeetswesthunt - https://www.instagram.com/eastmeetswesthunt/ @beau.martonik - https://www.instagram.com/beau.martonik/ @mtn_man33 - https://www.instagram.com/mtn_man33/   Facebook:    East Meets West Outdoors - https://www.facebook.com/EastMeetsWestHunt/   https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/   Watch new elk hunting film SYNERGY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUazLyAgklE 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/onlinecourse/ 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 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/ MTNTOUGH Fitness MTNTOUGH has created online fitness coaching built for the mountain hunter and athlete. With new video workouts at your finger tips every day, you will be sure to be in the best shape of your life and mentally stronger. https://mtntough.com/ 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 and you're in the right place.

0:05.8

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

0:14.1

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

0:21.6

So with the OnX hunt app, specifically for the spring scouting and shed hunting season,

0:27.4

like we're about to talk about in this episode, you can use the tracking tool to really help

0:33.0

yourself while you're out doing shed hunting or scouting specifically with shed hunting when you turn on

0:39.0

the tracking tool it'll track your mark just as it sounds as you're walking and hiking tracking

0:44.7

your distance the amount of time and you know miles per hour that you're going and everything within

0:51.1

that you can save that track and look back and make sure that, you know,

0:55.8

you're covering a specific area as good as you like or, you know, kind of game plan.

1:01.1

If you're looking for a specific buck sheds, there's a bunch of different ways you can use

1:05.4

this tracking tool.

1:06.3

But in the spring here, that's a great way to use it for shed hunting. If you want to check out the

1:12.7

onex hunt app, head over to onexmaps.com. You can use the coupon code EMW. That'll save yourself

1:19.6

20% off of the app. Also, University of Elk Hunting, Elk 101, and Corey Jacobson have put together the most comprehensive

1:29.1

Elk Hunting Learning course available.

1:31.3

So the beginning of the course is something that is really great for this time of year

1:36.3

and goes hand in hand with Scouting with Onyx.

1:39.9

There's a huge section in the University of Elk hunting online course devoted to finding and

1:47.2

locating elk using online tools such as onyx.

1:51.7

And that feature alone led me to finding the meadow where I ended up killing my bull

1:57.1

out in Idaho this past year, you know, a mixture of using Onex and the University of Elk

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