Ep. 384: Hunting the Whitetail Rut with Andrae D’Acquisto

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show I'm joined by legendary whitetail bow hunter Andrae D’Acquisto for a followup to our previous conversation this summer and this time we’re tackling how to hunt the whitetail rut.

Topics discussed:

My principles for rut hunting success
How Andrae's 2020 season has gone so far
How he goes about finding a buck during the last few days of October
Why the rut can be frustrating for someone hunting a single buck
The most important step to Andrae's rut success
The detail of the rut bump and dump
Setting up on funnels during the rut and why some bucks avoid them
How and why to set up off the edge of bedding areas
What to do when you see a buck locked on a doe
Overhunting or not?
What sign is valuable during the rut
How moon phase may or may not impact deer movement

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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 384.
1:08.9	And today we are joined by the legendary White Tail bow hunter Andre de Cuisto for a follow
1:14.2	up to a previous discussion this summer and this time we're diving deep into the White
1:18.9	Tail rut.
1:22.2	All right, welcome to the Wire done podcast brought to you by Onyx.
1:26.0	Today we're joined again by Andre de Cuisto.
1:29.4	Now Andre was a guest back on episode 366 and it was a pretty exciting thing having
1:35.8	him on.
1:36.8	He has not previously done podcast interviews up to that point.
1:40.0	So it was interesting to get to hear from him.
1:42.7	We talked for over two hours.
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