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East Meets West Hunt
East Meets West Hunt
Author: Beau Martonik
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The East Meets West Hunt Podcast is your resource for all things adventure hunting. This podcast is for the hunter that loves planning and preparing for the hunt, just as much as the hunt. Whether it's deer hunting for big woods mountain bucks, chasing elk in the Rocky Mountains, and anything in between, we will talk to successful hunters from all over to provide the EMW community with useful knowledge and motivation to continue to live their life through a series of adventures.
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Beau Martonik sits down with Jared Scheffler of Whitetail Adrenaline at Huntstock. Jared has spent 19 years filming his own hunts with no sponsor dollars, mostly on the ground, mostly on public land (they added permission-only private a few years ago), and now with a longbow.
That much footage has given him strong opinions on shot angles. He doesn’t like broadside, and he has a frame-by-frame reason. He explains why quartering-to holds up better for him from the ground, what stiff arrows and big one-direction cuts have to do with it, how he broke his own target panic, and why he likes to get inside 20 yards.
Then it’s the rut. During lockdown, Jared’s crew started bumping bucks off does on purpose. In timber, he’s seen those bucks lock her back down within 100 to 400 yards, sometimes as close as 125, and settle in within 30 to 45 minutes. If you bowhunt on the ground, or want to, this one’s worth a listen before your next sit.
In this episode:
19 years of Whitetail Adrenaline, The Reckoning Round 3, and why they still sell DVDs
Running a hunting film company with no sponsor dollars
Longbows, heavy draw weights, and what ancient archers practiced with
Why he doesn’t like the broadside shot
Frame by frame: the arrow was 15 yards out before the buck reacted
Why quartering-to and head-on shots work better for him from the ground (and why it’s different from a tree stand)
Stiff arrows, and why he calls his two-blade a one-blade
How he broke his own target panic as a teenager
Shot process, and why things go wrong faster the tighter you get
A mule deer at four and a half yards that never knew he was there
Moving fast when you can so you have time when you need it
Bumping locked-down bucks off does on purpose, and how far they go
Sunny days vs. cloudy days for still hunting timber
Hunting your way in instead of rushing to a destination
The biggest whitetail any of them have seen in the wild
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Solo episode. This is Beau Martonik’s bowhunting seminar from Huntstock, recorded live, and it’s built around one of the questions he gets most at shows and in his inbox: should I stay in this spot, or should I move?
Beau walks through the framework he uses in the tree to take the emotion out of that call, then backs it up with real hunts from the last decade, including the ones that didn’t work. If you’ve got a week of rut vacation coming, this is the one to listen to before you burn it.
In this episode:
Why the big woods don’t follow the farm country playbook
Why bouncing between spots had Beau chasing his tail
The reasons to stay and the reasons to move
Clean access using roads, drainages, and thermals
A map breakdown of a spot where he watched a buck at 18 yards with his bow on the ground
Why a part owner of a mobile hunting company sits one spot for days
Day six or seven in a lonely funnel, and a noon buck on November 8th
Taking the same approach to Iowa with no historical data
Leaving a spot on day three, driving 10 or 15 miles, and killing the buck he was after
Why early season and new areas need a different approach
How he handles swirling wind during the rut
Q&A: browse species, e-scouting timber cuts, finding old apple trees with LIDAR, and his favorite clear cut age
https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1
Instagram:
@eastmeetswesthunt
@beau.martonik
Facebook:
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Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel:
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Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w
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Bonus episode. Beau Martonik sits down with Todd Bumgardner of Packmule Training Co., a performance coach who’s trained NFL linebackers, special operators, and a lot of hunters. Todd wrote an article for the East Meets West journal last October on managing your body and mindset through the whitetail rut, and this is the conversation behind it.
The rut is mostly long sits and patience, waiting on one moment that happens fast. This one is about the small stuff that decides whether you’re sharp when it does.
In this episode:
Why the rut wears you down, and why it matters going into the holidays
Being a body in the tree vs. actually hunting
Stress, and sending an arrow into the next zip code
A quick joint routine at the truck before you walk in
Why 2% dehydration hurts your thinking, and why water keeps you warmer
What Beau carries for an all day sit
Keeping blood sugar steady without giving up the snack cakes
Taking a break when you’re smoked, and a midday nap in the tree
Sleeping better when the nights are short
Prepping stand food the night before
https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1
Pack Mule Training Co IG: https://www.instagram.com/packmuletrainingco/
Instagram:
@eastmeetswesthunt
@beau.martonik
Facebook:
East Meets West Outdoors
Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel:
https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/
YouTube:
Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w
Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links:
https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners
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Beau Martonik sits down with Jeremy Ballantine at Huntstock. Jeremy grew up in southern Vermont tracking big bucks on snow, has guided moose hunters for over 25 years, and hunts Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
Years of following mature bucks through the mountains showed him they don’t use the country the way other deer do. They parallel the trails, cut through saddles on one contour, and scoot through the funnels without leaving much sign. That’s where he kills them now. This one is tactic heavy, from rattling in crunchy leaves to sitting one spot for a week.
In this episode:
Hunting Vermont, and why tracking and stand hunting feed each other
Why bucks love to bed above their own backtrack
Using rattling antlers to get a buck’s attention when he can’t hear a grunt
Two bucks he wouldn’t have killed without antlers in the tree
Why the brawlers die young and the true giants are mellow
Wide Clyde: a three year chase, a hot doe, and eight seconds on snow
Frustration rubs, and why not every rub means something
Doe groups, trail camera history, and four day rut windows on some mountains
Bucks that winter 15 to 18 miles from where they rut
Why you have to treat mature bucks like a different species
Why the best funnels have the least sign
Sitting one funnel five or six days dark to dark
Why he shuts his cell cams off during the rut
Swirling wind in a funnel, and his favorite rut dates
https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1
Jeremy's YT - https://www.youtube.com/@InPursuit365
Jeremy's IG - https://www.instagram.com/inpursuit_365/
Instagram:
@eastmeetswesthunt
@beau.martonik
Facebook:
East Meets West Outdoors
Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel:
https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/
YouTube:
Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w
Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links:
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Beau Martonik sits down with Dan Infalt of The Hunting Beast at Huntstock, with Johnny Stewart as co-host. Dan has been asked about bedding areas on every podcast there is, so this one skips the tactics and goes after the story behind them.
Dan learned to hunt alone in southern Wisconsin, chasing one buck for three seasons, finding his sheds every year, and figuring out that if he wanted to kill him, he had to be close to where he bedded. On Thanksgiving morning, a rock off the hood of an old junked car finally pushed that buck out. He went on to a 15 year run of giant bucks, and Dan is honest about what that run cost his family, and why he started giving everything away.
In this episode:
Why hate online means you’re doing well
Learning to hunt with no mentor and a dad who couldn’t give a compliment
Finding a buck’s sheds three years running and learning his bedding areas
Crosswinds, a junked car, and his first giant on Thanksgiving Day
Giving away the “secrets” and the kickback that came with it
Making people better hunters and hunters better people
Johnny, Beau, and a wind bump at deer camp that turned into Beau’s biggest buck
Helping his longtime hunting partner kill a 170 inch ten he’d been chasing for years
Timber the raccoon, and why hunters care about animals more than people think
Losing some of the want, and the birthdays and Halloweens it cost
Why you have to earn luck
How putting his spots on film has cost him
Why 5% of hunters kill all the deer, and the confidence nobody can sell you
https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1
Dan's YT - https://www.youtube.com/@thehuntingbeast
Dan's FB - https://www.facebook.com/dan.infalt
Instagram:
@eastmeetswesthunt
@beau.martonik
Facebook:
East Meets West Outdoors
Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel:
https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/
YouTube:
Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w
Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links:
https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners
Amazon Influencer Page
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