Thermal Hub MASTERCLASS - How to Hunt Early Season - Pt 1 | East Meets West Hunt Podcast - Ep 308

Beau Martonik is joined by Alabama Big Woods hunter, Shane Parker ( ‪@the_novemberwarrior1738‬ ). 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
01:00 - How Beau Found Shane
02:00 - Shane’s hunting background
04:30 - Trail camera obsession
05:40 - Weather stations and how Shane uses them
07:29 - Using all available and historical data
13:00 - Thermal hub characteristics and how deer use them
23:20 - Beau’s 2022 buck and how it used thermals
25:30 - Find the fallout point
29:24 - Don’t forget to look where you’ve come from when you walk through the woods
34:55 - Trends of how deer use thermal hubs
43:00 - Mature bucks are just a different animal - nonlinear movement
50:15 - Don’t push into an area too quickly
53:05 - Scout thermal hubs mid-morning
56:08 - Hunt lower - just under the cover
57:24 - Wait until the rut to hunt thermal hubs in the mornings
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[@edwardclark5211]

Dream Big brother 🙏

[@andyholder6039]

I need pictures 😂

[@erichanss3300]

Going forward, if y'all could use some dry erase markers and boards for illustration, that'd be great. Thanks for the info!

[@BeauMartonik]

Great idea! I’ll have some clips this week that are about 10 minutes long that will have the exact situation he’s talking about in explaining it! Also, Shane’s KZbin channel in the description (November Warrior Outdoors) has some great visuals.

[@Brandon-uo1rv]

Agree with the visuals. Seems like good info but in these situations it's great to see multiple illustrations. There are so many different variables that it is hard to follow from one speaker to another on what they are trying to describe.

[@MrSquidwardGames]

​@@BeauMartonikor just use generic topo, like even it theres a town on it lol. Just to see how these look and can see where the thermal pool sits.

[@stevebishop5417]

I use my local airport for wind, since it's more accurate versus app info for my area.

[@OscarPerez-mn3po]

Great Intell on Thermal Hubs! Could you please share the link to the video you referenced. I couldn’t find on Northwoods Warrior channel. Thanks much!

[@casanovafrankenstein8875]

Freaking awesomeness!! 👏👍

[@cooterbrown1703]

what video is he referring to about a buck dropping into a thermal hub when the thermal switch?

[@StealthTRD]

Is this the November warrior guy?

[@twobbles10]

Yea

[@BeauMartonik]

Yep!