Ep. 310: Terrain and Vegetation Funnels You Probably Don’t Notice with Rusty Johnson // United Outdoors

Beau Martonik is joined by Rusty Johnson of United Outdoors. Rusty is from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and has a dedicated year-round approach to chasing mountain bucks. They discuss the importance of ditches, vegetation gaps, hunting all winds, taking mountain tactics to Kansas, trail cameras, deer stories from the past, and much more!

Topics:

• 00:00 - Intro - Montana Archery Hunt Film Launch!
• 08:56 - Introducing Rusty and the Ozarks of Arkansas
• 11:27 - Logging cuts
• 14:24 - Rut timing for Rusty in Arkansas
• 18:16 - Terrain features that deer gravitate to
• 27:10 - Wind
• 31:33 - Continued conversation on deer relating to ditches and gaps
• 33:39 - Scouting in late winter/early spring and tree talk
• 39:39 - Breaking down a memorable deer story from Rusty 
• 51:17 - Using angles and elevation for smart access
• 56:12 - 35mm trail camera in the early 2000’s
• 01:03:06 - Do trail cameras spook deer?
• 01:07:25 - Taking the failures with the success
• 01:11:39 - Calling deer
• 01:16:13 - “Gap” terrain features
• 01:22:14 - Weather comparisons

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

Resources:

GoWild:

Beau Martonik (East Meets West Hunt)

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