Ep. 388: How to Consistently Track Down Mature Adirondack Wilderness Bucks with Joe DiNitto // ADK Trackers

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Beau Martonik is joined by legendary Adirondack tracker, Joe DiNitto. Joe has spent his lifetime tracking bucks in the snow in vast wilderness areas throughout the northeast and Montana, with his average buck’s age being 6.5 years old. They discuss how to find a mature buck track in the wilderness, determining how fresh a buck track is, what a big buck track looks like, his process for following a track, realistic practice with your rifle, some hunting stories, and a lot more. This episode was recorded live from Huntstock in New York.

Topics:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:10:19 - How to find a mature buck track in the wilderness
• 00:15:36 - How to determine how fresh a buck track is
• 00:19:04 - What a mature buck track looks like
• 00:22:14 - Once you find a track, what’s next
• 00:34:59 - You jumped the buck you’re tracking, what’s next?
• 00:40:04 - Most memorable tracking story
• 00:46:44 - Realistic practice - shooting your rifle
• 00:53:59 - Iron sights vs. scopes

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