How to Read The Woods and Track Big Woods Bucks with Legendary Deer Hunter Hal Blood

[@wecatchfish9531]

Hal is a legend.

[@douglasroseveare7295]

Absolutely.

[@paparomesoutdoors711]

Had to finish this up today a really great and enjoyable podcast, thanks for sharing Hal, great work Pat!!

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@paparomesoutdoors711 thanks Papa!

[@paparomesoutdoors711]

@@HuntSuburbia 😎👍🇺🇸

[@HuntSuburbia]

Hey everyone! Hope you enjoy the podcast. Feel free to comment along in the live chat and I'll answer any questions

[@crowtubecrozier2857]

How do I buy a jacket?

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@crowtubecrozier2857www.bigwoodsbucks.com

[@jstjst2111]

Just want to say thanks. I've been recently diagnosed with lukemia and been in nonstop treatment. This season is the first in 45 years I'm missing. Your podcast may seem like no big deal but for me they are giving me a reason to push thru everyday. 2025 I will be back in the big woods! Keep these coming please !!!

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@jstjst2111 thank you, and sorry to hear, but I will pray you get better. one step in front of the other, just like tracking!

[@BuckDown603]

Love this. Great Job Pat, thanks to Hal and Deb for hosting this! Awesome.

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@BuckDown603 thank you!

[@douglasroseveare7295]

A friend and I just got back from a trip to Duck mountain park. Such a great time in the woods. We tracked a buck for a ways in there and funny how you mention how many nice bucks you've seen get away that shouldn't have. This buck would dress over 200lbs and had some nice head gear also, probably in the 130's. Big tracks and stagger was good. We just came around some thicket near some swamp and he was standing up looking at me, before I could even shoulder my rifle he was gone. As bad as it feels to not even take a shot at him it is the first time I ever felt I was in the game and could have tagged a nice woods buck. The bucks I've tagged at my place are surrounded by ag fields and are so much easier to tag than even young woods bucks. I'm hooked.

[@derekhall938]

He is truly a living legend. Wish I could make it to huntstock again this year but I’ll scouting for an October bull hunt. Anyone who is thinking about going do yourself a favor and go!!! Hands down best event I’ve ever been too!

[@HuntSuburbia]

Thanks Derek, we'll see you at Huntstock next year!

[@derekhall938]

@@HuntSuburbia for sure!! Might drag the wife and kiddos along next year

[@paulcoenen7918]

Picked up a few extra tips from one of the GOATs.

[@SmallGameHunter]

Love watching and listening to Hal and Rick. Easy to listen to and full of good info. Thanks to you asking good follow-up questions!

[@bushleague3472]

Great to see you keeping the Living Legends in the loop, that series was awesome. Big thanks for what you're doing. I'm mainly a still hunter, hunting very similar terrain to Hal, and that bit on 90/10, travel corridors, and relation to doe pockets is bang on. My point being, you can adapt your still hunting skills to be effective in big timber if you want to, but you need a sound strategy to keep you in that 10% all day, and Hal basically told you most of what you need to know.

[@stevekulbacki5238]

Nice to know Hal is a fellow Marine.

[@johndonaldson661]

That was awesome!

[@evanclough6221]

That one was a banger my dude

[@panheadxp]

Hal's childhood and mine were so alike . I was raised on a dairy farm and was in the fields and woods everyday, the only time I would come back to the farm was for chores or more BB'S for my gun. Then of course graduated to big weapons to carry 😂

[@jamisonbolduc8433]

What an excellent podcast

[@mikemiller9346]

Awesome video 👍

[@Studioshinedown16]

Awesome! Great interview!

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@Studioshinedown16 thank you, glad you enjoyed it l!

[@bruceallen6377]

That was fantastic, what a wealth of knowledge! I guess the only question I had that wasn't talked about much is the process of dragging a 200 pound deer two or 3 miles. It's super hard to kill one but it kind of seems like the hardest part is actually getting it out of the woods especially if you're by yourself. maybe next time you could ask Hal to tell some stories about the retrieval and if there's methods to making it a little easier. Thanks for your channel!

[@bushleague3472]

Not claiming I'm on Mr Blood's level, but I've dragged a fair amount 200lb deer several miles, usually solo. I've never bothered with a rope, unless the head is lifted the antlers catch on everything, so I just drag 'em by the antlers. The big thing, is I try to get them out to any type of trail, then use a utility sled to move them as much as possible. For moose and elk I keep a chainsaw in the truck and clear out a bit of a sled trail to the kill if possible.

[@dominicledesma7228]

I always loved Joe Denitto’s response to this. He said, “what else would you rather be doing?” And like Hal says, “the easiest part is dragging them out of the woods.”😊

[@bushleague3472]

@@dominicledesma7228 That Joe Denitto episode was pure gold. I think the big thing is to borrow what you can apply to your particular situation. Unlike Hal and Joe, I find still hunting to be very productive, applying many of the same principles to my strategy. I'm also a fan of an old writer called Francis Sell, a wealth of knowledge on still hunting, but even there I need to discard various things because my deer dont act quite like his deer either.

[@RickDent]

Hal is real guy, real hunter

[@crowtubecrozier2857]

This mans a true legend

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@crowtubecrozier2857 yes he is!

[@TR.Actual]

Another great one Pat & Hal

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@TR.Actual thank you!

[@KenTibbetts]

i can kinda relate togal. im from ludlow s a kid. moved to southern maine. worked at the hannaford warehouse stacking meat boxes. (making pallets). my great uncle teddy perkins is from harpswell and we used to go visit up there all the time. i currently hunt out of york/cumberland counties and also from our families ‘camp’ upin crystal me. ut you know what. all these years and i still dont have myself a racked buck. maybe this year will be my time.

[@johncollins2282]

Very good

[@johnrocheleau7959]

Pretty sure my aunts and uncles went to school with Hal. Small world.

[@robgrubb420]

excellent

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@robgrubb420 thank you!

[@BrittnayBassett]

my husband has the same carbine rife, and carries it the same way.

[@mikecostello6841]

How does Hal feel about Sunday hunting in Maine and would he like to see that change?

[@donnievickers7043]

Hi hal. If u have to chase deer for miles like u do what keeps people from getting lost in the mountains especially when they haven't ever been hunting there before

[@ashermolyneaux5003]

GPS combined with a sense of direction

[@jackbeckwith9699]

See you guys at huntstock NY

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@jackbeckwith9699 say hello!

[@maineoutdoorsman677]

Hal is a typical man boy ,we hunt first then hunt some more I remember when hale lived out side of Greenville an had his bear hunting dogs 🐕

[@CamBrann]

Wouldn’t you know, my idol deer tracker is also a lobsterman.

[@shawnlewis6544]

Great video

[@dominicledesma7228]

He’s mentioned a “deer yard” a couple of times in the video. What does this refer to?

[@HuntSuburbia]

That's where deer winter in the north. It is dense evergreen cover where the canopy keeps the snow accumulation low.

[@dominicledesma7228]

@@HuntSuburbia awesome, thanks for the reply! Tracking isn’t as strong of a tradition out here in the upper Midwest. So, I always learn a lot from NE hunters and CAN apply it to where I hunt in Wisconsin. Thanks for producing great content.

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@dominicledesma7228 absolutely, thanks for watching! I love hearing comments like this. Hope to see you at Huntstock sometime, it's worth the drive!

[@dominicledesma7228]

@@HuntSuburbia it’s on my list! 😎

[@JimBowSlice]

4 a.m running the roads. (Rick) lol

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@JimBowSlice 😂

[@sethhussey5804]

Could go into the marine core at 18 but the state wouldnt consider him for game warden until he turned 20... 😂

[@JimBowSlice]

No kidding....

[@HuntSuburbia]

@@sethhussey5804 crazy

[@tubesurfing]

I thought it was roast beef sandwiches

[@KenTibbetts]

oops. to hal. not togal

[@REDNECKROOTS]

Gota name your rifle a better name. Meat gun is lame af! I think the MEAT SEEKER is alot better name.

[@aaronsmith230]

You’re lame af