Ep. 282: Patterning A Booner Mountain Buck On Community Scrapes with Troy Pottenger

On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, Beau Martonik is joined by Troy Pottenger. Troy has been on the podcast many times over the years, but this one is special as we break down his 2022 season in Idaho and Washington hunting next-level mountain bucks.

Topics:

• 00:00 Intro - Mountain Bucks Scouting Camp Info
• 10:00 Troy Pottenger’s 2022 Whitetail Season
• 16:10 What You Need in a Hunting Rig Setup for the Mountains
• 24:50 Why this cluster of community scrapes is good all year
• 38:45 Hunting tight to buck and doe bedding
• 44:07 Bully bucks
• 49:57 When to strike using historical and real-time data
• 54:30 Over-marking the scrape
• 58:56 Backtracking bucks to find where they bed
• 01:06:20 Patterning bucks on a scrape
• 01:13:20 Closing the deal on a Washington booner whitetail buck
• 01:19:20 Analyzing the shot and blood trailing
• 01:32:55 Different methods for getting a deer out of the woods
• 01:38:25 Dead silent, cold-weather clothing for bowhunting
• 01:41:46 See Troy’s giant buck on the video podcast!
• 01:44:50 Troy’s target buck for next year in Idaho
• 01:54:36 Importance of having backup hunting spots
• 02:06:50 Troy’s Mountain Bucks Boot Camp

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

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