Episode Details

How We Adapt to Circumstances Changing A Hunting Area Mid-season with Jake Bush

Episode 322 Published 2 years, 8 months ago

Description

Beau Martonik is joined by Jake Bush of Ohio. Jake is known for his success on big early season mountain bucks. They discuss the struggles of hunting the big woods when things change (logging, hunting pressure, EHD, etc.), how they adapt to these situations, different ways bucks use hub systems, how they learn an area over years, and much more.

Topics:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:07:53 - Getting used to shooting the longbow
00:11:13 - Hunting a specific deer and utilizing trail cameras to do so
00:12:23 - Managing lots of trail cameras, knowing how to interpret the data, and is it really worth it?
00:19:25 - Jake dealing with effects from EHD
00:22:27 - Deer densities and how it relates to quality of bucks
00:27:16 - Filming struggles
00:31:27 - Jake’s story of a logging skidder ruining his hunt
00:44:18 - Figuring out a mature buck’s tendencies and weakness
00:48:57 - Journaling
00:52:53 - Hunting in October vs the rest of the season
00:54:08 - What is hot enough sign to set up in October?
01:00:25 - Branching out to different states and adapting
01:05:32 - Learning from other hunters