Ep. 308: Thermal Hub Masterclass - How to Hunt Early Season Mountain Bucks - Pt 1 with Shane Parker

Beau Martonik is joined by Alabama Big Woods hunter, Shane Parker. Shane has an extraordinarily detailed and analytical approach to hunting whitetails around thermal hubs in the mountains of Alabama. They discuss how he uses weather stations, thermal hub characteristics, fallout points, waiting until the thermals switch, scouting hubs, and more. This is part 1 of 2.

Topics:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 07:20 - How Beau Found Shane
• 08:20 - Shane’s hunting background 
• 10:50 - Trail camera obsession
• 12:00 - Weather stations and how Shane uses them
• 13:49 - Using all available and historical data
• 19:20 - Thermal hub characteristics and how deer use them
• 29:40 - Beau’s 2022 buck and how it used thermals
• 31:50 - Find the fallout point
• 35:44 - Don’t forget to look where you’ve come from when you walk through the woods
• 41:15- Trends of how deer use hubs
• 49:20 - Mature bucks are just a different animal - non-linear movement
• 56:35 - Don’t push into an area too quickly
• 59:25 - Scout thermal hubs mid-morning
• 01:02:28 - Hunt lower - just under the cover
• 01:03:44 - Wait until the rut to hunt thermal hubs in the mornings

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