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Early October Hunting Recap - Illinois and West Virginia
Description
On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, Beau Martonik is going solo to break down his recent hunt on some of the best private farm country in Illinois, followed by a scouting trip to the rugged mountains of southern West Virginia.
Topics:
Illinois - Quietkat Hunt
- Learning from someone with 25+ years of experience in hunting mature deer
- Green soybeans and acorns were hot food sources
- Snorting back and forth with a buck
- Finding water and a nice buck
Southern West Virginia Scouting Trip
- Glass in the mornings and scout afternoon/evenings
- Day 1 consisted of walking different levels of ridges on the sides of valley fills looking for white oaks dropping
- Day 2 covered other points and dropped some cameras
- Day 3 found the holy grail spot with 4 ridges converging at one spot with a large community scrape
- Finding the does
- Why the southern West Virginia mountains are different than other areas in the Appalachian range
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