Ep. 288: 250+ Trail Camera Study on Pennsylvania Public Land - What We Learned with Steve Sherk
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 Note** timestamps might be off by a few minutes on the audio version due to ad length changes Resources: GoWild: Beau Martonik (East Meets West Hunt) Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik @sherksguideservice 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