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#435 - 30 Years Hunting Public Land: Johnny Stewart's Big Woods Scouting Playbook For Brand-New Public Land Spots
Welcome to the WHTL Podcast, your source for Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests. In this episode, we're back in the studio with Johnny Stewart.
We Discuss:
* Early October is food-driven, so look for pockets of acorns, not a whole forest of mast.
* Probe into a new area a little at a time instead of hiking every inch and burning it out.
* Start e-scouting with the historic wind and focus on leeward, east-facing ridges and fingers.
* Roughly 300 feet of relief from creek to ridgetop gives a mature buck room to bed safely.
* Mature bucks favor cover where they can see 0 to…
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