A FOOT PRINT IN THE SNOW...
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2022
- Todd Havel is a tracker... And a dang good one. Whether you track or not, you can learn a lot from the men who have mastered it. Want more? You can visit Todd at / 307702256717984 or / @mistyrivertrackers9806
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When my dad took me tracking when I was a young boy (7-8) the biggest thing he would point out was to look at what the deer won't walk thru because it will tell you allot about how big he might be... My dad had his own style of just knowing deer and enjoyed playing the game of cat and mouse...I tried to always tag along but some hunts are just a one man show and I never got mad because I knew dad was on a good one and I couldn't wait until he got home to hear the story or see the buck... The best buck my dad got was in 1975 in Atlanta Michigan on state land a 138" 8 pt that dressed out at 220 lbs my dad was in his mid 20's and he told me that he had one hell of a time getting the buck back to camp by himself... But I have a little trick that my dad tough me when I was learning how to track/stalk and it was to practice on squirrels... He told me that if I could track then stalk a squirrel and not have it run up a tree that I would have no problem getting on a deer... Now I got my two young boys trying their hand this year.
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing. God speed and good luck to you sir.
Todd's tracking skills are amazing. He has a new subscriber. Thanks for introducing us
I really enjoyed this video. There is a wealth of deer hunting knowledge in it to draw from. It’s nice to just listen to guys who have a passion for hunting deer.
this is one of my favorite ones. as a tracker I tell people you can learn more in one day tracking than a season in a tree-stand and Todd really says it well. Following real bucks around the real woods and watching what they really do to pressure in real time is the best way to learn about bucks.
Great video! I love it when I hear people say tracking a deer in the snow isn't fare chase. I know they have never tried it. Awesome stuff thanks guys.
Successful trackers are the ultimate deer hunters. Dedicated, smart, patient, and willing to put the time in and miles on. You have to really know the science of deer hunting, but want to keep learning more along the way. Great interview
That was a great opening talking about how you can learn something from everybody. I totally agree and I try to listen to other people no matter what the subject including hunting.
Wow! This really left a mark/imprint on me! There is an enormous amount of information here. Thank you! I think I learned more in this 45 minutes than I have in my 51 years.
30 plus years ago when I was old enough to go hunting the hunter's never seemed to even ask how the other hunter's hunted cause mostly they respected the sport more and weren't brainwashed with social media crap but now days it seems like everyone is voicing their opinions without being asked. They want to know what did you use to kill your deer and if one says crossbow that starts an argument and if you hunt over bait etc but these videos of others sharing their knowledge brings back the ways the sport use to be. This video was a lot of info to absorb so I may have to watch it again Laughing....... Be safe out there fellas.
Thanks guys for taking me on this journey hunting tracking! I'm an old Woodsman ,I built log cabins lived Off the Grid in Wild places. I ran out of money so now I can't afford a wild Place 😮was way out in up,,mich almost begged a big buck with bow in du wilderness ,,I come back to my land and my Camp after dark and discovered hear the wife cleared out and my son together, Rob the camp half of our life savings😢 imagine the feeling!! and it happens several times yes my heart was broke I hung around for a few weeks getting Camp organized and loading up my 16 ft trailer and truck and drove out of the Wilderness and headed back through Wisconsin stopping by my mom's Farmhouse for about a week and then back to Arkansas to my other Homestead in the wilderness did this for years running back and forth living a very free life is hauling all my tools and equipment with me to build the homesteades . never had much money I had a spinal cord injury and a broken back and I did all that work to build these homesteads and then the wife would abandon me anyways😮😮 anyways, I miss living in the bush! now I'm living in my house 120 years old in a small farming town in southern Missouri Ozarks ,but I'm surrounded with the Ozarks mnts ,the Jacks Fork n current Rivers lots of woods :-) house getting ate by termites😂 but after watching your videos I'm going to start bow hunting again 😅and maybe I'll go live out of my pickup truck Across America and carry a pressure cooker with me, if you know what I mean -😊😊😊😊
I have tracked quite a few deer and this guy really knows his stuff! He explains some of the missing pieces that other trackers never mention...Great video!!!
Todd, you just taught me some common sense tips that I have been overlooking. Thank you! And Dan, thanks for introducing us to him!
You're welcome
Good pick on sharing this video Dan. Really enjoyed it. Definitely going to check his channel out.
That was excellent! Many Northern New England hunts this way at times in rifle season. .
I heard that grunt at 24:41 and another at 25:17. Awesome! Thanks Dan and Todd!🤘🏽🤘🏽👊🏽🇺🇸🍻🤘🏽🤘🏽
As an East Coaster, it's neat to hear of some Midwest guys who track the big woods! Definitely a lot of overlap between what Todd said and many of the big name trackers up here say. Interestingly, he says he almost never gets them after the first bump. Curious if that has to do with the terrain he's hunting... many guys out here feel like they're more successful a time or two AFTER the first bump, because now you know he's not 10 hours in front etc. Just wait a bit, and then keep after him.
Another great video from our favorite Cereal (Buck) killer Dan Infalt a wonderful story from a great hunter keep up the vid's there awesome 👍.
What more can anyone say… That’s how it’s done. Never will you be more satisfied, more of a woodsman, more impressed upon by nature. Great job!
Enjoy watching deer tracking videos the woods are beautiful and the deer are easier to see in the snow going to give it a whirl with the flintlock
That's one of the most enteresting videos I've ever watched. I live in Tennessee so really don't get the snow to do tracking like that.
Shoot id be hooting and hollering at that! Screw those guys who say you gotta shoot big bucks to be a successful hunter! Awesome video
Awesome, you don't see many hunting videos like this, reminds me of the good old days of deer hunting.
Very interesting to get a different perspective on hunting techniques. Seems to be a very exciting and proactive method!
This was infinitely fascinating
I’ve never tracked but it seems interesting and something I will look into learning.
Great stuff Dan, I appreciate the content you are putting out! Thanks!
Many great tips in this video,I wish I was 30 years younger.
Thanks again, Dan..I am reminded of my younger days in the north woods of New England. A season without snow was often not so good. Sure we had some good drives, but a light wet snow was the time to put some miles on and cross some mountains. No cell phones then meant getting out to a house somewhere to call home for some help dragging out! thanks for the memories!
This information was honestly fascinating to me. I’m definitely gonna be trying this if we get some snow in MD this season
Thank you for bringing more contents to your videos Dan. I enjoy all of it because I learned something from all of it. I’ve been traveling a lot so I’ve been going back listening to all the podcast including interviews you’ve done with other podcasters and then when I’m done I listen to them again. Priceless. Thank you
Great advice.
One of the best educational videos you’ve produced. Wish I wasn’t 72 years old because I’d like to try this. Oh I know, never too old to learn.
Thanks
Appreciate this video. Thank you
This video was super necessary for all of us hunters to add to our knowledge. Especially when the weather makes unexpected conditions to hunt
I’ve knicked quite a bit of deer in my time of hunting during rifle season so tracking my deer down is always something I’ve found myself doing.. ever since I was young I’d track deer in the woods bc I loved hunting, no bow, no rifle, just following tracks. I picked up on deer movement and habits over time but finally having someone else go in to such depth about the same things I experience and have experienced in the woods is mind blowing to me. I absolutely loved this video and I agree with when he said “go track 100 buck tracks and you will know it all” I don’t think you’d go wrong on picking up what a deer does when he is relaxed and how he moves under the conditions he’s in..it’s more than interesting. This was a hidden gem forsure!!
Great video!
Great video Dan. Guy knows his sh*t. That's how a bunch of guys do it up here in Maine.
Smart dude I definitely took something for this video
Good interview
That is some spot on, field tested, sound advice. I concur completely.
Even if you only do it once, it's worth the effort. It is fun, and shows you the woods from the deer's perspective.
Great video ! The Benoit’s from Vermont, Hal Blood and the Big Woods Buck Team from Maine and New Hampshire, Rodney Elmer Vt, The Salerno family out of the Adirondacks in New York, just to name a few are some of the best Whitetail deer trackers in New England. Lanny Benoit and Hal Blood are probably the most knowledgeable deer trackers in New England. And have killed hundreds of big 200+ lbs bucks tracking in some of the lowest deer numbered states in some of the hardest places to hunt. Big Woods
Tracking down a buck is on my bucket list of things to do with deer hunting some day! I think it's one of the ultimate ways to hunt.
Best video of the year to date. Thanks!
cant beat old school...thanks, guys.
Very interesting stories! Thanks Dan!
Awesomeness
Pre nfl draft show
Who Dat!
That was a fun video to watch. Glad you posted it.
Woodsmanship! Even if you don’t track in the snow being able to absorb the sign and use it is important. Good video
A lot of great tips in that video. Thanks for digging that one up
Awesome information! Love hearing different tactics!
Great video, can't wait to track this winter.
Are you kidding me Dan...what a great video
Lots of good tips here, thanks. Great stuff.
Very smart Man, thank you for all that information. Great video
Love this!
Outstanding. Thanks Todd!
You're welcome
My wife insisted we watch this tonight Happy wife Happy life
great video! track 100 deer got it!. cant wait for another one!
Thanks Dan I'm going to subscribe to him right now. Definitely very knowledgeable person and that'd be quite a way to hunt next year I know it's tough but I have a hard enough time setting still as it is LOL.
Happy to see some tracking ! Love all your videos Dan, hope your well brother 👍🏼
Some outstanding information guys!!!
Great video thanks for sharing!
Great video, thanks for sharing 👍
That was an informative video. Your friend is a cool dude and obviously has learned a ton about north woods deer. Thank you both for doing this.
Oh, and how true is that tidbit about always scanning ahead and not staring at the track right in front of you.
The shirt alone deserves the like 👍 but these guys are full of knowledge love it
Regean hired Fauci. Great video Dan stay safe.
Good material. Thank you for share
Quality content. Been searching high and low lately. I will be following his Facebook page now. Thx
Good video a lot of useful information ty Dan
That shirt 😂👍
Love your shirts Beast!
Can we get another Todd video or can you follow him around the woods one day that would be really awesome.
Sweet stuff!!
good info.....thank you...
Great Video!
Your shirts are the best.
Cool video and tactics.
Awesome video
great video!
Why so long to release this footage? It was really cool.
I had one excellent experience in my early days tracking large drag-mark tracks in the frigid calm after freshly laid blizzard on MI public the day after Thanksgiving. I couldn't get anyone to go hunting with me and had the place normally filled with orange to myself. I ended up in the midst of a second rut experience with a couple of 1.5 yo bucks (the status quo) chasing a doe before 'Mucho Grande' revealed himself and I spooked him. Had I been less ignorant; my hunt should have just continued instead of calling it quits!
Excellent content. Look at the Maine boys channel Big Woods Bucks; they practice this exact style of hunting.
Let’s go!
Always had a fascination with tracking, used to read about the Benoit brothers (think that’s how it’s spelled?) actually did track down some deer once but they were doe. Wanted to go out late season and do investigative tracking but always so dang busy!
I'm surprised this style isnt more popular in the north woods of the midwest. Very popular here in new england and the only way to reliably hunt a buck in the big woods providing you have snow. low deer density and 1000s of acres. true woodsman's ship from navigation, reading sign, and doing all this on the fly.
I learned quite a bit here from this videos and the way i correlate it to my mistskes in previous years. I cut tracks on a buck i bumped the other day but he slowed down andni couldnt find them in the leaves i couldnt figure it out after I found scat and 3 more trails of russled leaves. If i had a better gun at the time id of been able to kill him but shooting 100 yards with a 20 guage youth edition model 870 express isnt trusting to me. I have seen slugs get stopped by shoulders blades. Cousin just shot a buck at 130 yards eith a 20 guage and the slug stopped at gis shoulder blade and the deer actuslly came back and he killed him in the same day a nice 5 point.
Been doing this more and more as I age. Enjoying it so much more than stand hunting.
Benoit style of tracking, its what we like to do in the North East .Get your legs in shape for this style of hunting lol check out Rodney Elmer &Mountain Deer videos are sooo good.also the Bigwoods bucks guys with hal blood.
Oh and Jeff Doyle is another awesome tracker and youtuber
I'm in total agreement, anyone who likes this style of hunting should subscribe to both. Last fall I had my first opportunity to do what these guys do. I've always bow hunted out of a greedy and or on the ground. Getting my first whitetail by tracking was just as the video described. All I want to know is why Dan was sitting on this video so long, it is GOLD.
My first track i took up north mid week ended up a guy shot it off a fire lane while he was eating lunch in his truck it was the guys first buck happy for him .
Probably his last
No thank u guys 4 all the tips!!! U guys have forgot more than 99.9 of them will ever know
if your interested in tracking i recommend hal bloods book hunting big woods bucks
The guys and gals in Maine hunt this way. If they can walk they track just the way the majority of hunters there hunt. Tradition sort of
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Great stuff. I live in the north east and try to track as much as possible. It’s the most exciting and demanding way to hunt up here.
Thanks for great content
Great video and knowledge. What caliber and bullet choice was he using in that thick stuff?
I shoot a 30-06 7600 carbine
Yeah I really hate those people that think they know everything too. Because they make people like me who really do, look bad!
Tell us how much you do know. That way when you get it all wrong we can laugh. I know you were being a smarty pants and so was I.
Dan, have you ever shot a deer that scores less then 10 inches?
1 or 2... lol
@@thehuntingbeast lol this guy goes around RUclips asking all you guys this question. Why? 🤷♂️ 😆 maybe he’s tokin on the happy hay 🥴
sorry Dan not a fan of bait hunting poor excuse for the word hunting
What the heck are you talking about? There was one mention of "even if you don't like a certain kind of hunting, listening can teach" It supported baiting in no way at all what so ever... Really? Did you even watch the video? it had nothing to do with baiting?
Dan if you could email me or have a way to contact you I’d love to have a conversation. Your the man!! Keep uploading !!
thehuntingbeast@aol.com