Ep. 305: Hunting Early Season Buck Bedding Areas and Big Woods Food Sources with Paul Putera - Pt. 2

Beau Martonik is joined by New Jersey native and hunter, Paul Putera. Paul has a wealth of knowledge hunting the big woods, mountains, swamps, and everywhere in between in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, and other places. This is part 2 of 2, where they discuss details around different browse, forbs, all day sits in early season, buck bedding tactics, and the thermal advantage. Topics: 00:00 - Intro 07:08 - Mock scrapes 11:22 - Bigger bucks hang out down in the bottoms/swamps 22:01 - All day sits in early season 23:34 - Acorns and paying attention to other plants 30:23 - Time of year dependent spot selection, tactics and efficiency 35:52 - How high up should you get in the tree? 38:42 - Hunting around the bedding 41:33 - Using thermals to your advantage 47:57 - Blowing out deer can be a good thing 51:05 - A buck story from Paul 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) Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik @wearehuntr Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors Website/Apparel/Deals: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ YouTube: Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices