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by Beau Martonik
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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- 1 weeks ago58 min
Ep. 517: Day 3, No Deer: How I Decide to Stay or Move During the Rut (Live at Huntstock)
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: 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 https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago20 min
Ep. 516: Performance Coach on Staying Sharp Through All Day Rut Sits w/ Todd Bumgardner
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 Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 16m
Ep. 515: Why the Best Funnels for Mature Bucks Have No Sign w/ Jeremy Ballantine
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: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago1h 39m
Ep. 514: The Real Cost of Killing Giant Bucks w/ Dan Infalt & Johnny Stewart
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 https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 weeks ago1h 57m
Ep. 513: 10 Days of Archery Elk in Wyoming (Big Bull Down) w/ Tyler Martonik & Derek Testerman
Bonus episode from Wyoming elk camp. Beau Martonik sits down with his cousin Tyler Martonik and cameraman Derek Testerman at the end of a 10 day archery elk hunt on general tags. The plan for day one was to take it easy and acclimate. By 4:30 that afternoon, a cow walked to within five yards of Tyler, he looked over and said “bull, Beau, bull,” and Beau had a 6x6 coming around the knob. What followed was a five hour trip out in the dark through blowdowns and a thunderstorm, and another full day to get the rest of him out. From there it’s Tyler’s hunt. Learning one drainage over most of a week, waiting for thermals to settle before moving on bedded bulls, a wallow found on LiDAR, close calls at 80 yards, and wolves in camp at 3 AM. In this episode: Burning seven points on a Wyoming general tag Acclimating without sitting in camp: camp low, hunt high The cow at five yards and the bull behind her Butchering a bull on a slope he kept trying to roll off Five hours of rain, cliffs, and blowdowns on the first trip out Why bugles are closer than they sound in thick timber Waiting for thermals to settle before moving on bedded bulls A wallow that only showed up on LiDAR Elk staying low for water in a hot, dry year Wolves in camp at 3 AM The herd bull play where everything went right but the bull Gear that worked, what’s getting replaced, and boiling a skull for Wyoming’s CWD rules https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1 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 https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Oct 6, 20261h 35m
Ep. 512: Why Deer Follow His Tracks Right to the Stand (233 Bow Kills) w/ Jim Gallagher
Beau Martonik sits down with Jim Gallagher at Huntstock. Jim is in his 50th year of hunting, has been bow-only for close to 40 years, and has killed 233 deer with a bow, almost all of them in the swamps and thickets of the Northeast. His system runs the opposite direction from most. Instead of trying to leave nothing on the walk-in, he wants deer to find his trail. Store scents and cover scents didn’t hold up, so for about 35 years his boots have gone in fresh rabbit droppings, later with tarsal gland hair on top, a buck tarsal hangs seven feet up over a mock scrape, and he walks past his tree and hooks back so a deer following him in gives him an angled-away shot. Then he calls, every sit, on a set schedule. He also gets into why he aims at the very bottom of the deer, going back to around 1986, when he and Gus Park tallied their misses at a picnic table in Pennsylvania, and 30 of 35 had gone over the deer’s back, and a long list of stories from 50 seasons of doing it his way. In this episode: Tracking deer in Maine snow and going bow only 39 foot stands and seven busts in 17 years The calling sequence: one nostril, fawn mew, grunt, rattle Why store scents failed and rabbit droppings didn’t Tarsal glands seven feet up over a mock scrape Shooting out the side of the peep in low light Why a deer blowing at you can be a good thing The night bucks fought under his stand in the dark Straight down shots and where he aims from 39 feet The J hook that turns a following deer into a quartering away shot His biggest buck, a 212 pounder that followed him for a week The Pennsylvania picnic table tally and the barn test on deer ducking the string Checking the swamps after the first October snow A broken arrow rest, two lost bucks, and why you shoot your bow after a bad hit https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1 Jim's YT channel - https://www.youtube.com/@jimgallagher4939 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 https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 29, 20262h 8m
Ep. 511: What Deer DNA Reveals About Which Bucks Breed w/ Dr. Steve Ditchkoff
Beau Martonik sits down with Dr. Steve Ditchkoff at Auburn University, where he has run the deer lab for about 25 years and has been studying deer for roughly 35. He did not grow up hunting deer. His father quit about the time he was born, so he grew up fishing outside Detroit, found a fisheries and wildlife degree at Michigan State, studied wintering deer in Maine on snowshoes, and did his PhD in Oklahoma on mating strategy, which was a question deer biologists mostly weren’t asking then. That question is what this episode is built on. In 2007, he built a 430-acre facility at Auburn, fenced, with about 100 adult deer in it, because hunting shows had spent years telling people which bucks were breeder bucks and nobody had studied which individuals actually breed. His group tries to capture the whole population each year, pulls a tissue sample off every deer, and builds the family tree out of DNA. They can look at one buck and count what he sired at one, two, three and four years old, and see which does he bred with. The answer is that it isn’t random. It’s partially driven by similarity in body size and age. He also has data showing a doe increases her movement substantially right before she comes into heat. What he flags as belief rather than data, and he flags it himself, is his hunch that a dominant buck is targeting specific does rather than wandering. Then the hunting consequence: if you knew the exact peak of breeding, that’s the worst week to sit, because that’s when the most bucks are locked down. The other half is pressure. He doesn’t believe gunshots are what deer respond to. He believes they respond to the sign we leave walking in and walking out. Two of his studies sit under that, one in South Carolina where daylight use of a hunted spot dropped the day after a sit and took about a week to recover, and one in Alabama that found the best day of the week to hunt. In this episode: Why the Southeast ended up leading deer research Where AI helps wildlife science and where it goes wrong How he ended up handing his data to Bill Thompson What confidence actually does to a hunter in the stand We train deer to avoid us, and the sign we leave doing it The South Carolina study, and the week it takes a spot to recover The best day of the week to hunt, by the data 72 square miles of ammunition plant, and what those deer acted like Why bucks move more where the deer are thin Why the peak week is the worst week to sit The breeder buck question nobody had ever actually studied Inside the 430 acre facility and the family tree built out of DNA Whether a dominant buck is choosing which does he breeds The walkabout a doe goes on before she comes into heat Bucks that moved two and five miles and never came back Whether you need to know how many deer you have The three things 35 years changed about how he hunts https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1 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 https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 22, 20261h 16m
Ep. 510: He Won’t Scout Before Opening Day, and He Kills Bucks in Week One w/ Lucas Benoit
Beau Martonik sits down with Lucas Benoit, a bear houndsman and guide out of central New Hampshire, with Johnny Stewart in the co-host chair. Recorded live at Huntstock. Lucas got into hounds around fourteen with two accident-litter beagles, bought his first two finished bear dogs off a guy who was quitting, treed about sixteen bears that first season, and has since had a year of just over a hundred. Ask him which he’d rather do and he says deer hunting, a hundred percent. He has killed mature bucks on September 21st in back to back years. Johnny spends most of the episode refusing to let him call it luck. The argument underneath it is worth the listen. The first week of the season is the best week of the year to kill a mature buck, because if you can find what they’re feeding on, they aren’t far from it. December gets almost that good, and he’ll tell you he still struggles then. The reason most people never cash that first week is that they go scout it the week before and blow the place out. Lucas does not pre-scout. He finds sign in real time and sets up on it the same day. Then it gets specific. Ten white oaks on a hilltop spine, three or four of them producing, one or two acorns under each, and bucks routing through to check every one. How to look up into an oak and read whether it has produced in the last couple years. The stand he hung over a pattern he called a slam dunk, then left and came back the wrong morning. Blowing a buck off a hill on opening day, staying out five or six days, then parking a mile away and climbing a steep hemlock face because it was the only way the wind worked. And a 170 inch buck that stood up at fifty yards, crossed a clear cut, looked at six dogs and three men for five minutes, and bedded back down. In this episode: Beagles to bear dogs, and why hounds are the honest way to manage a bear population Why running dogs is the best deer scouting he does all year The rub line he found on a bear chase, and the buck that walked it in daylight A 170 inch buck that bedded back down in front of six dogs Why the first week of season is his best week of the year Why he doesn’t scout the week before opening day The slam dunk stand he hung and then didn’t sit Same spot, same date, years apart Reading which oaks are producing before you ever look at the ground A September buck killed in the morning, on a spot he’d already blown out How long to stay out of a spot once you’ve bumped a buck Five bucks on the last day of the season, and whether that’s luck Lucas' IG: @nhbearguide https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1Instagram: @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 https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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