Ep. 374: Big Woods, Big Scrapes, Big Bucks with Troy Pottenger
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show I’m joined by whitetail addict Troy Pottenger to discuss his unique methods for targeting big mature public land bucks in the big woods, big hill country he calls home.
Topics discussed:
- The unique areas Troy hunts whitetails
- How his techniques have worked across the South, Midwest, and beyond
- Breaking down huge chunks of public land into more manageable sections
- Spring and summer scouting
- The terrain features that mountain bucks are attracted to
- Elevations of most activity
- How to locate bedding in big hill country
- The importance of community scrapes in big woods settings
- How to locate and identify these best scrapes
- Creating the ultimate mock scrapes
- Pro tips for running trail cameras on mock scrapes
- The importance of mock rubs
- Setting up bulletproof stand sites
- Wind considerations in the hills and mountains
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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 374. |
| 1:08.9 | In today's show I am joined by Whitetail Addex Troy Pottener to discuss his unique methods |
| 1:14.7 | for targeting mature bucks in the big woods big mountain country he calls home. |
| 1:22.0 | Alright, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast brought to you by Onyx. |
| 1:26.6 | Today I've got Troy Pottener joining me for what is going to be a great episode. |
| 1:32.7 | Troy is a particularly interesting deer hunter talk to because he's achieving a level |
| 1:37.0 | of deer hunting success that we're used to seeing from the TV show Hunters that we all |
| 1:42.2 | know of out in Iowa and Illinois in Kansas but he's not doing this on some big managed |
| 1:47.7 | farm in the heartland. He's doing it all DIY on public land in the huge forests and hills |
| 1:54.5 | and mountains of Idaho and he's also proven that he can take the tactics he's perfect |
| 1:59.9 | in that location and he can apply it to other parts of the country too and have just |
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