Episode Details

4 Public Land Bucks, 4 Different Tactics with Chris Weist

Episode 287 Published 3 years, 4 months ago

Description

On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, Beau Martonik is joined by Chris Weist. In the last few years, Chris has left his home in Pennsylvania to try his hand at public lands in Maryland and Ohio. Last season, Chris brought home 4 bucks between the 3 states using different tactics for each. They break down these tactics based on his stories from a memorable season.

Topics:

00:00 Intro
03:18 Chris’ Background
09:13 Branching out hunting Maryland and Ohio
12:36 Scouting Maryland public land for early season
16:17 Finding where the deer bed outside of the clearcut
20:03 Hunting the off-wind
21:12 Finding the right access to hunt the feed tree
25:31 Locating the Right White Oak Tree to Hunt
28:19 Patterning bucks in September
32:42 5 years of trail camera data learning where bucks like to bed in Pennsylvania
34:54 Locating this buck’s specific bed
38:00 How Chris killed this PA Mountain buck near his bed
43:28 Three-year strategy to breaking down a piece of land
46:08 Spending 22 days in Ohio
53:28 Setup above or below the trail?
56:06 How hunting with a traditional bow changes your setups
57:29 Gun season double in Ohio
01:02:11 Still-hunting ridges in Maryland
01:05:56 Recapping the 4 tactics used for 4 different bucks in one year
01:08:13 Spring scouting and historical data