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


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

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