Ep. 288: 250+ Trail Camera Study on Pennsylvania Public Land - What We Learned with Steve Sherk
Bowhunting | Mountain Bucks | Mobile Hunting | Big Woods Bucks | Deer Hunting
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Show Notes
On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, Beau Martonik is joined by Steve Sherk of Sherk’s Guide Service. Steve is a guide on public land in the mountains of Pennsylvania and spends more time in the woods than just about anyone. They discuss Steve’s trail camera data from the 2022 deer season compared to Beau and Joe’s cameras, totaling 250+ cameras in the big woods.
Topics:
- 00:00 Intro
- 04:08 Mild Winter
- 11:08 A tough 2022 Deer season
- 13:06 Parameters for Trail camera data collection
- 19:33 Focusing on the right days to hunt
- 25:23 First half of October
- 28:33 Food source impact on deer movement
- 30:56 Middle of October daylight mature buck movement
- 34:00 Late October and early November
- 39:18 Second and Third Weeks of November
- 45:36 Comparison to 2020 season with hot weather
- 47:54 Gun season
- 49:23 Where are we placing our trail cameras
- 51:13 Test Camera locations
- 56:05 How the camera data is affecting off-season scouting
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