Ep. 305: Hunting Early Season Buck Bedding Areas and Big Woods Food Sources with Paul Putera - Pt. 2

Beau Martonik is joined by New Jersey native and hunter, Paul Putera. Paul has a wealth of knowledge hunting the big woods, mountains, swamps, and everywhere in between in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, and other places. This is part 2 of 2, where they discuss details around different browse, forbs, all day sits in early season, buck bedding tactics, and the thermal advantage.

Topics:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 07:08 - Mock scrapes
• 11:22 - Bigger bucks hang out down in the bottoms/swamps
• 22:01 - All day sits in early season
• 23:34 - Acorns and paying attention to other plants
• 30:23 - Time of year dependent spot selection, tactics and efficiency
• 35:52 - How high up should you get in the tree?
• 38:42 - Hunting around the bedding
• 41:33 - Using thermals to your advantage
• 47:57 - Blowing out deer can be a good thing
• 51:05 - A buck story from Paul

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

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