Ep. 309: Thermal Hub Buck Bedding, Topo Hubs, and Terrain Features - Pt 2 with Shane Parker

Beau Martonik is joined by Alabama Big Woods hunter, Shane Parker for part 2 of their thermal hub and terrain feature discussion. Shane has an extremely detailed and analytical approach to hunting whitetails around thermal hubs in the mountains of Alabama. They discuss how bucks are using the terrain to bed, travel through the ridges, what topo hubs are, other terrain features, and much more. 

Topics:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 05:34 - Anticipating what elevation bucks will be at based on thermal switches
• 09:05 - Bucks using the same or different beds
• 11:48 - Get confident with playing the long game
• 16:53- Terrain features and buck bedding characteristics
• 20:34 - Using Spartan Forge Slope Angle
• 26:47- How wind speed can determine a hunt
• 29:41 - How food affects a thermal hub
• 33:48 - Topo hubs and how Shane uses them
• 40:29 - Movement in higher elevations tends to be at daybreak
• 44:59 - The importance of finding diversity in the terrain
• 47:21 - If you’re hunting and you’re comfortable, you need to move
• 53:09 - Big woods highs and lows
• 57:19 - You just need to put in the time

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

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