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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 413: Aggressive On-the-Ground Tactics for Whitetails with Josh Ilderton

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show, I’m joined by West Virginia bowhunter Josh Ilderton to discuss his aggressive on-the-ground tactics for hunting whitetails.

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast.

0:05.8

Your home for dear hunting news stories and strategies.

0:09.9

And now your host, Mark Kenyon.

0:15.5

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast.

0:18.5

I'm your host, Mark Kenyon, and this is episode number 413.

0:22.0

And today in the show, I'm joined by West Virginia bowhunter, Josh Illderton, to discuss

0:27.8

his aggressive on the ground tactics for hunting whitetails.

0:34.8

Alright, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast brought to you by Onyx.

0:43.6

And today in the show, I'm joined by Josh Illderton.

0:47.4

And Josh is a Southern West Virginia bowhunter, most well known across most of the country

0:52.9

for his work on the untamed YouTube series.

0:57.7

On this video series, Josh and a group of other avid hunters and houndsmen chase bucks

1:04.2

and bears across West Virginia and several other nearby states.

1:08.1

But from a whitetail perspective, what I think sets Josh apart the most is his penchant

1:13.3

for chasing bucks on the ground.

1:16.0

His self-proclaimed favorite hunt is the glassing up whitetails from a distance and then

1:20.4

putting on a stalk until he can get into bowl range.

1:23.6

And he's doing this and I mean, it's the big rugged wooded mountains of West Virginia.

1:29.6

And it is, it's really impressive what he's been able to pull off, not to mention it

1:33.6

looks like a lot of fun.

1:35.8

I've, I've followed a lot of what they're doing down there.

1:39.6

It's, it's crazy what he's pulling off and it's got me, you know, personally more and

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