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East Meets West Hunt

Ep. 133: Confidence and Patience Kills Mountain Bucks with Steve Sherk // Sherk's Guide Service

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

Sports, Wilderness

4.9796 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, Beau Martonik is joined by Steve Sherk of Sherk’s Guide Service in the first episode of this two part series on hunting public land mountain bucks in the big woods of Pennsylvania. We discuss scouting buck beds, a proven trail camera strategy, setting up for the kill, and being confident in your plan to succeed year after year. We will dive into hunting timber cuts on part 2 in episode 134.   Topics: Sherk’s Guide Service Hunting the Appalachian big woods Scouting buck beds Trail camera strategy to pattern mountain bucks Setting up for the kill 3 day strategy for success Mobile hunting vs. Set Stands   Resources: Instagram:   @eastmeetswesthunt - https://www.instagram.com/eastmeetswesthunt/ @beau.martonik - https://www.instagram.com/beau.martonik/ @sherksguideservice- https://www.instagram.com/sherksguideservice/ Facebook:    East Meets West Outdoors - https://www.facebook.com/EastMeetsWestHunt/   https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/   Mountain Buck Scouting YouTube Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr28sUY3YgGSgHiOi3gwtB8UwCe6eX1bI   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/ TETHRD The Tethrd Team has created the ultimate tree saddle hunting setup. The Phantom Saddle and Predator Platform system is truly the culmination of ideas & input from thousands of dedicated tree saddle hunting fanatics around the world.  https://tethrdnation.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?

0:04.6

You're in the right place.

0:05.8

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

0:13.9

Hey, everyone.

0:15.0

Welcome back to another episode, the East Meets West Hunt podcast presented by Onex.

0:20.5

The Onex Hunt app is the premium GPS hunting app available for your phone, your tablet, and also on your desktop.

0:29.4

And they all link together.

0:31.0

So one of the things that is basically what Onyx was built around was being able to find you access whether that's private lands

0:40.2

whether that's government lands in the form of state game lands state forests national forest

0:46.4

BLM and also possible access so in certain states and like specifically in Pennsylvania there'll be areas that have like a grid over it when you have this layer turned on. And what the PA possible access is. And again, I'll just talk specifically in Pennsylvania, but this is available to many other states. So onyx is mapped over 520,000 acres of possible access lands just in Pennsylvania,

1:14.6

including timber and land conservation groups that possibly have access to public hunting.

1:21.7

You can look through their websites. You can look up any of that stuff to be able to figure out

1:27.2

whether you're available to hunt

1:28.7

that or not some of them have it labeled say right on a gate it'll say open to public hunting

1:33.9

some you can find on the website if you're traveling from afar i've used this feature in ohio to

1:41.0

kill a buck on what would be essentially private land that was open to public access.

1:47.3

And also, I do it in Pennsylvania all the time, hunting timber company properties and other

1:53.1

different land conservation groups.

1:55.2

So if you check out the onex hunt app at onexmaps.com, use the coupon code EMW that'll save yourself 20% off the hunt app.

2:06.6

The University of Elk Hunting online course was developed by Corey Jacobson and the team at Elk 101,

2:13.3

and it is a complete resource for increasing your El Cunning knowledge. I mean, everything that you

2:19.7

can think of from the beginning stages to the end will help increase your confidence and hopefully

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