Ep. 337: Chasing Whitetails on the Ground with Tony Trietch
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
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Summary
Today on the show I'm joined by Tony Trietch for a fascinating discussion on the merits of the traveling hunter lifestyle and aggressive tactics for hunting big whitetails from the ground.
Topics discussed:
- #TinesAndTrash
- Why Tony takes off for months at a time to hunt
- How he designed his career and life to allow for long-term travel and hunting
- The mental side of solo hunting/travel
- Most crucial camping gear and hacks for hunting trips
- How to eat well on DIY trips
- Why Tony stopped using treestands in 2012
- The allure of open-country whitetail hunting
- Can Tony's ground-hunting tactics work in the Midwest or elsewhere?
- How to find high-quality areas for ground-pounding for whitetails
- Tips for better glassing up big game
- How to scout and locate whitetails
- How to begin planning a stalk on a whitetail
- Rattling and calling whitetails on the ground
- Using a Heads Up Decoy
- Making the shot count from the ground
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | Your home for dear hunting news stories and strategies. |
| 0:10.1 | And now your host, Mark Kenyon. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm your host, Mark Kenyon, and this is episode number 337. |
| 0:21.6 | And today in the show we have got a fascinating discussion on the merits of the traveling |
| 0:26.1 | hunter lifestyle and spot and stock hunting big white tails from the ground. |
| 0:33.4 | Alright, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Podcast brought to you by Onyx. |
| 0:38.0 | Today I am joined by Tony Treech for what ends up being, or I guess it ended up being a |
| 0:44.3 | really real cool conversation. |
| 0:46.3 | I just got done recording this one. |
| 0:48.3 | And Tony is not a hunting industry guy. |
| 0:51.4 | He's not working full time in this line of work. |
| 0:53.9 | Rather he actually started and built up a construction company up in my neck of the |
| 0:58.0 | woods of Northern Michigan. |
| 0:59.3 | At least I'm going to claim them as my neck of the woods inside love that area. |
| 1:04.1 | But he has built his career and really his whole lifestyle in such a way that Tony is |
| 1:10.2 | able to travel the country every single fall in search of deer and elk in other big |
| 1:14.8 | game. |
| 1:15.8 | And he does it for two, three, four months a year. |
| 1:19.1 | And I'm not just saying he goes out there for a week in September and then a week in |
| 1:22.9 | October and then a week in November. |
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