Ep. 298: Northern Wisconsin Big Woods Bucks with Derek Malcore // Okayest Hunter

On today’s episode, Beau is joined by Derek Malcore of Okayest Hunter. Derek spends a lot of time hunting the cedar swamps and big woods of Northern Wisconsin. They discuss finding edges within monotonous landscapes, cedar swamps, the importance of rubs, 2 things all successful hunters have in common, and much more.

Topics:

06:26 What is Okayest Hunter?

10:52 Derek's background and Wisconsin culture

15:32 Communicating and teaching info to other hunters

18:59 Cedar swamps and flat forests

37:27 Favorite time of year to hunt in Derek's area

39:45 Deer density and wolves

46:34 Quality of deer in Northern Wisconsin

50:12 MN and WI regions correlated to buck quality

53:57 Old trail cameras

56:53 Grunting and lessons learned

01:00:37 Dragging deer out

01:08:48 Time in the woods, learning, and success

01:18:29 Rub clusters

01:22:33 Current trail camera strategies

01:31:31 Do you really ever know what the deer are doing?

Note** timestamps might be off by roughly 4 minutes on the audio version due to ad length changes

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