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- čas přidán 11. 12. 2021
- Dan & Chad from Exodus break down Southern Ohio's public land hill country, and how to go after the true mature bucks with a bow. Watch & Subscribe to the Exodus channel here: / exodustrailcameras
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Dan I finally got that monster we talked about last year! He is my avatar photo! Thanks for being you! You remind me of my Dad, who I lost to cancer and a brain tumor. Peace and Love....and Let's Go Brandon!
Congrats!
What state?
@@nemideergoon1844 PA....The video of me first seeing him 3 years ago is on my channel. I had already tagged out that year and could not shoot him, but for fun I tried snort wheezing at him when he crossed the ridge and the result I caught on tape. Check it out!
Congrats..👍.. Very nice buck man
@@BiPolar_BeaR. thanks man! Deer of my life! It won't matter if I ever shoot another buck. I mean I want to, but i am not greedy!
For what it’s worth I definitely appreciate the long format videos with description breaks. Good content.
On a warm hunter's evening on a ridge bound for no deer, i met up with a old buck and he was just too tired to breed. So we took turns a starin' through the dim light at each other till legal light was over and he began to leave...
Nice story
😂
Yep, the couch surfers will scroll right past a deer video this long without a giant buck in the thumbnail and miss some of the best scouting advice you can get. Thanks for the video. I got 4 does this year with the rifle and still have my buck tags. I have a good WMA to hunt with the bow. Gonna scout and put out cams. Armed with better information.
Nothing like the beautiful "natural sound" of a 4 wheeler while your hunting !
I got my first buck and first deer and first with a bow this season. I did the leg work but truly this is really Dan’s deer because his wisdom is what put me in the right spot to make the shot. I’m getting a little plaque and the big buck serial killer will have a credit on there. Thanks Dan I hope you become bigger than Fred Bear in the hunting community because your doing more than just hunting,your the mentor to hundreds if not thousands of hunters just like me that are just “regular joes”.
Hunted ohio '13-'17'. Got a 140 class. There were deminishing deer #'s every year. I stopped when license and deer tag went over 300.
I'll be tuning in and really enjoying this series!!!! Thank you Dan!!!! Eh Dan I still have a buck tag in my pocket. Late seasons coming I try to locate bucks but that's a tough one can you do some intense late season tips and tactics this season? I've watched all of yours over and over lol thanks Dan!!!
Probably one of my favorite videos you’ve posted in the last couple years. Absolutely loved watching your process and how you’re never afraid to keep trying stuff until you find the right spot and the right deer to chase. You’re absolutely right, you don’t need to kill something to have a great hunt and this is a perfect example of that. Lets go Brandon!!!
Man as an Ohioan I would have loved to just tagged along and learn every move Dan makes. I have learned more about hunting from his videos then my grandfather taught me in 15 years. He was a walk in and sit by tree guy. Never taught me what sign to look for how to read the wind or that you need to scout to be in the best possible position for success. I was 9 when I started hunting I'm 31 now. I shot my first buck ever on public land thanks to Dan!!! Thank you sir for everything you post and do for your fellow hunter.
Same here, 31 yr old from Ohio and shot my first public land buck this year. Congrats on your success Travis and thanks Dan for the education you provide!
This was great Dan and Chad. Awesome work as usual!!
Gets me excited to go explore. Great video and love the having both of you show us some good sign
This is why I love watching The Hunting Beast the most. Dan takes the time to educate us on his process of finding that big one depending on terrain, cover, sign, food sources and bedding. Absolutely love how selfless he is in sharing his knowledge. Keep up the great work Dan!
Thank you guys for a really great broken down play by play hunt and adding the map details with it too. Always puts a lot of terrain into perspective where i hunt and I've learned a lot from these.
Your videos are great. I’ve been hunting public land for over 30 years and have learned a ton. Thanks and keep up the good work
Happy Independence Weekend Dan! Great memories with your son. Have a great year. Enjoyed the lesson, as always.
Love the videos Dan, maybe Try hunting those thick clear cuts, then big deer love them for bedding and cruising looking for does during the rut, especially when they’re 2-3 feet tall when the brush is about chest high, they feel safe with the thick brush but they can still see a good ways, good luck guys
Best content I've seen yet! Thanks Dan!
I've learned more from this video than I have in any magazine or tv show....
Thank you for all your shared knowledge. Keep on keeping on 100%
Awesome video Dan. It’s all about “Going the distance” and I would say you definitely went above and beyond that.
I really enjoyed this footage. Great scouting techniques observed. Thanks for sharing and good luck in Indiana!
I needed to hear the end of this Dan. Because this season has been my worst season ever but you gave me hope thank you
Some of Dan's most influential videos for me were about reading rub lines. Helped me get a buck on some public where I had never been able to capitalize. I would love to see him make a playlist, or revisit that topic. Love ya Dan. Merry Christmas!
Great video Dan and Chad matching wits with these great creatures is where the true contentment of being a hunter is for me,felt like I was on the hunt with you guys.Thanks Bill L
I like to see you take an Ohio Monster. Ohio for the most part can be feast or famine. It can be really tough any time of deer but late season can be exceptionally tough. Good luck! Look forward to more Ohio trips. Come up to Central Ohio ,we'll N.Central. Have a blast.
Thank you for all that you do Dan, Rick, Mario, etc.🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽👊🏽🇺🇸🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
I'm only literally a 1/2 an hour on the. into this video and it's awesome this is by far my favorite video and favorite type of video I love to see Dan make. 🇺🇸🎯🇺🇲
Awsome video !! Great job Dan and Chad
Awesome 👍 video Dan, we hunted Ohio same time as you two was wondering why didn't have very good season but every thing you guy's seen was exactly what we experienced this year.
Another awesome educational video from my friend Dan. Thank you Chad and Dan for this experience 🙏. Abdullah
Hi Dan! Love the content. Been wanting to say thanks for sometime. Finally figured out how to be able to comment. What can I say I’m old school. I have been bowhunting 31 years. I have had better than average success with nice bucks on public and private by permission. Not a single day has gone by that I don’t think about bow hunting. Always learning and strategizing. But always felt like there was something missing. I have been a big believer in bedding areas. Sought them out everywhere. I figured out what I was missing after watching one CZcams video of yours. Buck bedding! It’s been a game changer for me. I have capitalized a few times and a few close calls since. I appreciate all you do. Thank you and please keep videos coming
Man it’s awesome your hunting where I hunt!!!! This is almost as awesome as actually meeting you!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I have 200,000 + acres of public in SE Ohio and it’s full of big ole bruisers….the hills can be tough but they’re are giants in there they just are hard to hunt!!! Glad you made it to Ohio and I hope you continue going!!🙏🙏🙏
Wow epic hunt my anticipation was through the roof with all that fresh sign. Filming your progression and explaining it in detail was very educating. Thank you
Big let down is what you meant to say
You and Chad got a ton of good intel for later this season or same time, same channel next year.
Thanks for sharing your videos and keep them coming please.
This was an amazing way to video so that we could learn so much. I am on my third time watching. Thank you. I would love to ask you a few questions about my next hunt out west. You have gotten me studying maps and remembering terrain from last years hunt. Watching this video made sense. I am remembering rub lines and will push in closer to a supposed bed even if I bump them. Game on.
best video all year buck or no buck. thnx Chad and Dan for the learning adventure
This has me pumped for next bow season I found a similar area last week while still hunting/scouting 1.5 miles or so deep on public this gun season and knew I was onto somthing good but there’s always a little doubt, this video boosted my confidence in the area.
Great stuff guys. Wealth of knowledge from two veteran hunters. I’m looking to do a lot more of hunting a few specific deer this year, versus chasing my cameras, or historical data from my cameras. My cameras have helped me find numerous areas that hold big deer every year, now it’s my turn to utilize what I have learned from Dan and many others (including you Chad), and be a Hunter. Great clinic fellas!! 👍🏼👊🏼💪🏼🦌
What a great video . Very interesting and some really cool information .
You look good Dan , looks like you lost a few pounds . Not that you had any issues before .
I like the long videos as long they are interesting like yours .
Thanks for sharing .
Good hunting ...
My 12 years of boys hunting Ohio over seen big drop in deer density but it's nothing compared to the green mountains of southern VT.. but seeing big bucks in both states on a regular basis. Love your stuff Thx
Glad to see you make it to OH Dan. It’s definitely low deer densities, and the hills can make for some tough hunting. There are some big bucks, but not seeing a deer is pretty common. Hope you get to make it back. If you or anyone from the beast wants to make a future trip, you’re welcome to stay at our camp. Over 100,000 acres of public within a 20 minute drive. Love to hunt with you guys and learn.
Great info thanks Dan!!
Bummer.....thanks for sharing the experience.
One of my favorite episodes, Yes im a little bias. Your welcome back to Ohio anytime Dan.
I think this may be the best video I have ever watched.I`m from Pa and hunt public ground and we don`t have many big bucks to hunt.I started hunting public ground in Ohio last year and killed a 140 this year and have pictures of a 180 or better.I think I have a chance at the big one next year.Thanks so much for sharing your hunt.
👍😁Hi guys...cornfields act as security cover for high pressure areas...last week of October there's always a food shift because of the corn drying out...great stuff as usual👍🏹🎯🦌
Me and a group of guy i know went to Kentucky for 11 days. I moved in a little to close and jumped a giant buck out of his bed and never saw him again . So in the end I came home empty handed but learned alot . Time for me to get out and start scouting.
I hunted the Blue Ridge Mountains in VA for a long time. Then I got divorced,that’s a story I won’t bore ya with. We I learned hunting in those mountains was travel routes between bedding and food or water the either ran the sides of the ridges or they would run the tops of those ridges. It took a while but eventually I found that that applied to young bucks and most does. The big bucks would always be below their routes. An old timer told me a mature buck will never silhouette himself. Like he would be likely to do on the tops. I appreciate your videos and the knowledge you are kind enough to share! Merry Christmas brother!!
Always great videos keep up the good work
Dan looks like he slimmed up a little this year . Looking good Dan .
From Ohio myself welcome to Ohio Dan best of luck to ya sir
Favorite video of ‘21 season. Educational
Great information. Thanks for sharing.
Sweet Dan
Liked as I hit play!!!
Howdy Dan, I'm from eastern Ohio and the public land over here is mostly old strip mine land . It's pretty tricky to hunt because it's unbelievably thick but there is good deer here.
Only a couple minutes in and you nailed it.Side ridge runners for sure down that way... 👍🏻 almost NEVER on top. Love areas right along river where super thick but limited amount of cover. You wouldn’t think enough to hold deer and there isn’t for doe groups but there IS for an isolated monster.
Southern Ohio (south east) counties were my favorite, I had a lease there for years. Not easy getting up those hills, even dangerous on the ATV but the bucks were HUGE. Something about that area that keeps producing giants.
Tell Chad I said hi and if you guys want to take a scouting trip this winter or spring give me a shout. I have a similar, but yet very different approach from what you guys are/were doing and have been very successful getting on those giants and deer were you are at. Chad can can attest to that and my craziness as well.lol Good luck to you!
Great video Dan, thanks buddy. That looks a lot like the terrain I hunt here in East Tennessee.
I'm in Eastern nc...yall got any public worth hunting in Eastern TN? I visit there at least every other year to Gatlinburg
Whats up with the rain prep boys Lol
You guys should check out Egypt valley wildlife area in Ohio near Piedmont lake between Egypt valley and Piedmont 20,000+ acres of public
Can't get close if you don't bump a few. Good vid Dan and Chad.
Ready for this!!!
In my neck of the woods now Dan . I live in Clermont County Ohio.
Welcome to Ohio . Don’t feel special Dan 😄 , I live here and have had sub humans harass me …blowing their horn , revving their truck , run 4wheelers into the access and one even shot off his handgun by my truck . I have a spare camera that I now set on video by my truck and can’t wait to pass any intel I get to the DNR . 😉 . Great video and hope you can make it back soon .
Awesome like always
I hunted Ohio public early this year sure does seem like lots of pressure cars and trucks every were really like your videos
22:14, my ears 🩸 That was a hard transition in sound level. From whispering to blaring rain hitting leaves.
Thanks for this video I learned so much from this! I live in adams County Ohio and I live on a 160 acres of Nothing but big hills in valleys and I'm constantly trying to learn how to kill the big old mature buck I know has to be on my property. Made This property but up to Public land What but the access to that land is on my property There is no other way to get there I wish I could get some help on exactly what to do but by watching these videos I learned something new every time. Thanks again.
I seen the biggest deer of my life in Adams. Over 200”. I’ve hunted all over Ohio and where I live in West Virginia and Adams county is still my favorite. Amazing place with giants
"I help hunters some want it all to themselves it's just how it is" Dan He is right he knows human behavior as much as he knows white tail behavior, you're a hunter's hunter Dan.
Believe we were just a short distance from you the last week of October. We came up from Georgia to southern Ohio and I got the one in my picture 3 days into the hunt. My buddy also tagged out on that day also with a nice 130 8 pointer
Good stuff guys! My kind of video
It’s 100 degrees outside in Missouri right now, with a heat index of 354. This video has me aching for that chilly evening that’s a little colder than you’re dressed for, with my breathe fogging a little, like Dan’s. Mmmmmm MMMMM!
My favorite video! Getting beastie!
Hunted Southern Ohio hills in Washington county for a few years now and I live in WV. I've ran into a local trying to mess my hunt up with an atv because he saw my car parked at the end of the road he lives on. He actually drove it on Wayne National Forest land tho. It's a shame that some locals have an ownership mentality over the public land they live by. I actually posted about it on Facebook public Ohio group and most the Ohio resident were just plain spiteful saying then don't come to Ohio, and stay in your own state as if they own Ohio and the National land. It's okay tho I still got one of "their" big bucks this year. It's some tough hunting in those public hills.
Cool video! 👍🏻
Dan, I hunt in mn, I mostly hunt behind trees with my Lonewolf climber
Good stuff
Possibly shawnee but that's getting super pressured the last year or two. Use to be you'd rarely see a hunter, this past bow season could hardly find a parking spot. Glad to see ppl getting out and working on the public, can tell Dan and the HP have had a big influence.
I didn't see but a few trucks last year second week of November. I'm sure first week was wild though.
Looks a lot like brush creek to me.
I think its a little further east than Shawnee, maybe the Wayne down in Ironton but not sure. Totally agree with Shawnee being pressured, trucks and cars every other public access it seems.
Super glad I always go to the end first. It was over an hour with nothin. And that’s not representative of Ohio hunting at all. But I’m glad this stud showed the video. Cmon over out of staters. Find a corner cornfield like everyone else.
Hunting hills very similar to that in missouri and I will bet my life 100% of the time cruising and bedding is always low. If you find a bench even a few feet wide on the north side of a secondary ridge down low, you can have my house if there isn't deer living on it. The can run around the top if danger comes from below and dive into the valley if it comes from above. Theyre out of sight from the access trails and roads on top. Its a bulletproof setup for them in places where the pressure is always up high
Don’t wee wee on your boots?! 😆
Great video.
Your awesome
I know the girl that shot the 170 class buck and i believe took the record for the area of the biggest buck shot by a woman with a bow in that area. She made a magazine cover i think from it the buck i believe was 170 7/8. Her name is megan.
What color panties did she have on?
Can you do a video about the thermals in those hills and how you need to be aware of them when setting up and entry and exit
Great video. I will say that I think you maybe have underestimated the pressure that the large national forests in southern Ohio feel throughout the year. Especially during the gun season, you will have a hard time going anywhere public without seeing multiple other hunters.
The ODNR has started to ease up on bag limits due to declining deer populations across the state. Not a good sign for those of us who only can get out a handful of times every year.
Can't wait till Dan goes for his first Olympia title. And gets a big Alberta swamp buck.
Numbers are definitely lower in southern OH compared to the ag/hill areas in east oh but still some good buck deer.m. I think you all are maybe in the Wayne NF area.? Roads on top and more gradual hills. Other areas have no roads on top and these are the kind I like- 300 feet straight up will eliminate a lot of pressure!
You guys are amazing. How you can put all the sign together to complete a scenario.
Oh just for your knowledge
World record red stag
7 6 5 6/8 inches.
From station just beside one of New Zealand s best ski fields
I hunt central OH, there’s tons more pressure.
I’m always doing that, find great sign and pass on a lot of 2.5/3.5 year olds. But haven’t been able to kill the big buck I jumped in late October. The crazy chess game came almost drive you crazy
Tks
Get you another one Dan
Would enjoy spend a day just scouting with you, because I feel I'm always missing the boat, I have shot some nice bucks with bow, nothing that would compare to what you shoot, but I'm turning 62 this November and know that time is ticking. I acess to 120 acres of private, my buddy and I are the only ones who hunt it. I also know a spot I use to hunt on public that I have take some nice bucks that would be right up your alley Dan. I live in wis if you ever want to hunting I'm game, but I'm sure there are a million guys who would jump at that opportunity. I live in appleton wis, and hunt private in merril wis, the public I hunted is in Brussels wis.
Dan any trail camera pictures yet of buck that made those big rubs??? Please post when get some would love to see the buck that made them.
Yes, everybody comes to Ohio at some point. But Ohio public is pretty friggen tough. There's big bucks here, but there's easier states out there... I encourage you fellas to go there...
That's a great shirt Dan, don't be so modest.