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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 311: Pre-Rut Tactics and Getting to Full Draw On a First Buck

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show we talk through important pre-rut hunting tactics AND chat with two new hunters about their recent Field to Fork mentored hunt.

Topics discussed:

  • How to kill your "local" buck right now
  • The power of late October cold fronts
  • How to use annual patterns to kill a deer this week
  • Ramping up your calling strategy
  • Why you should think about scrapes right now
  • The importance of confidence and a well-planned hunt
  • What Field to Fork is
  • How our new hunters came to be interested in hunting
  • The challenges they encountered trying to learn
  • How their first buck encounters went and the emotions they experienced
  • Where they go from here
  • How we can all get involved helping introduce more people to hunting

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:51.1

Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast.

0:53.9

I'm your host Mark Kenyon and this is episode number 311 and today in the show we're

1:11.3

going to be talking about pre-route hunting strategies and then we're joined by two new

1:16.3

hunters to discuss some close bucking counters and our recent Mentored Hunt in Michigan.

1:24.9

Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast.

1:29.9

Brought to you by Onyx.

1:31.7

Today we've got a fun show, we've got an interesting show, a couple different things

1:36.6

we're going to be covering.

1:38.2

Joining me here shortly is Josh Furter-Hillard and two new hunters Dan, Jajo and Mike

1:44.5

Romine who joined us recently for a Field to Fork event here in Michigan.

1:50.4

This is a program ran in this case jointly by the Quality Deer Management Association

1:55.3

and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers in which we trained up eight new hunters and paired

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