Jason Hamlet is the host of IHunt Podcast where he and his crew talk tips and tricks on how to hunt whitetails. Jason had only been hunting for a few years but wanted to share his journey with other hunters. In this episode, he shares the reason why he started his podcast and where he envisions it will be in the future. He gives an insight into what it takes to create his podcast and also shares how he got into the world of hunting, emphasizing that patience is one of the most important traits for a hunter to have.
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IHUNT PODCAST – Jason Hamlet
Joining us is Jason Hamlet. He is the host of The IHunt Podcast. The special thing about Jason is he started hunting a few years ago. He got a crew together and they spin stories and listen to stories and talk about tips and techniques and what it takes to put mature whitetail on the ground. When I asked Jason about his one big thing, he said patience. That has changed over the last few years. Patience in his first year was get out there and sit in the stand all day. Like a lot of you, I’ve done that and if it’s the wrong stand on a wrong day, you have a nice all-day sit. Jason has tuned-up his game and he’s taking some nice bucks there in Southwest Ohio. I’m looking forward to him to share some of his big buck tips on the show.
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We’re heading out to Southwest Ohio and we’re going to connect with Jason Hamlet. He is the host of The IHunt Podcast. If you haven’t listened to it, you have to check it out because he’s got some great stories there. Jason, welcome to the show.
Thank you very much, Bruce. It’s an honor to be on the show. I’ve been listening to you for quite some time. It truly is an honor to be able to sit and chat with you.
It’s all about having fun and in the warm-up, we were talking a little bit about shop. It’s interesting how both of us get into the podcast business. We’re going to jump right in there and have Jason give us some backstory on why The IHunt Podcast began.
The IHunt Podcast evolved to where I first started hunting. When I had my first successful harvest after a couple of seasons, I had that moment in my head. I was like, “It would have been great to be able to share this journey with people.” Share the story that I went through, practicing to use a bow and taking steps to learn different avenues in the woods by yourself. I think it would have been good to document and share that with people to encourage other hunters who may think about taking to explore it and that it is possible to pick up at a later stage in your life. I didn’t do anything with it at that time.
The following year, I harvested a buck and it was my first buck ever. I thought to myself, “This would have been the great second chapter of this story. Why am I not sharing these adventures and stories with people?” A few months after that, I started The IHunt Podcast and it’s about exactly what it sounds like. It’s about my hunting experiences and friends who I have met along the way and the guests that I have on the show, their hunting stories. It’s about sharing experiences and learning from that.
If you would, share with us a couple of different episodes of some of the funny things that you’ve heard from other people since you started your podcast.
A funny story is I had a fellow on by the name of Steve Miller who was big into a bird dog. That’s been the great thing about this show is I’m able to talk to people and listen to many different things that I’m into. I’m mainly turkey and deer, but he’s into bird dog. To hear how they train the dogs is totally different than what I thought it was. I come to find out he has trained a goat to chase rabbits if you believe that or not.
I’m not too certain about that. I haven’t seen a goat chasing rabbits, I guess rabbit goat. It works for me because it’s unbelievable what’s out there, that’s for sure.
He’s got pictures to prove it. Aside from episodes, some of the guys that I’ve had on the show became a full-time part of the show. Jake Franklin, Jerry Roberts, Chris of Real World Redneck and Don Pratt, have all come on in and they’re sharing their stories with me as we go. It’s phenomenal the type of community that’s been built upon Twitter from this. The community that surrounds it and meeting these guys and sharing the stories with them is amazing. We’re going to start leaning more towards that format of us five guys. We sit around and sharing our hunting stories and bring in a guest on with us. We’ve mastered the five-person podcast over the internet as crazy as that sounds.
Do you use Facebook Live or Skype? How do you do that?
We’re doing it with Skype. We’re looking at trying to get some avenues to post up the videos and some of these conversations that we’re having. Add a little bit more content and a little bit more special for the YouTube viewers out there.
I went to BlueJeans a few months back. I was at John Stallone’s Show. He used BlueJeans. I asked why and he said you can record audio, video or both. Take a look at it. It’s pretty simple.
I’ll definitely check it out. Does it have the capabilities of doing more than 2 to 4 people at a time?
I believe so. I don’t do that but I’m looking at participants and it has two. I’m sure you can leverage it up to more than that. Take a look at it and see if that will work. I tell people if I can use this technology, anybody can.
In this day and age, it seems like we're wandering into supermarkets not knowing where we're getting our meat from or what it is. Share on XI got some pretty digitally slow learners on my side over here.
Let’s change it up a little bit and talk about how you started hunting a few years ago. What’s up with that?
I was never the type that would even think about going hunting. It’s not like I ever looked down on hunters but I never had the respect for what hunting meant. I grew up in a fishing family. I had no mentor that would have showed me how to hunt. It started blossoming where I got turned on to Steven Rinella. I started watching his show and without me being a hunter, I realized I’m into his hunting show and what he stood for. The whole processing of the game and keeping any one person hands on your meat from the time it’s harvested all the way to the plate. It struck a chord with me. In this day and age, it seems like we’re into these stuffed supermarkets with who knows where you’re getting your meat from or what it is. It’s one of the things that I wanted to see if I could try for myself. I hint around with my wife about it. One Christmas, she got me a bow out of nowhere and I was like, “Now I’ve got to learn how to hunt.”
That’s where it began. Was that a recurve or compound? What kind of bow was it?
It was a compound bow. I took it to the local pro shop, got it all set up for me and started practicing. I started hunting that season in January, so I knew I didn’t shoot it enough. Thank God I didn’t know enough to put myself up in front of a deer. I was just freezing my toes off in January.
You decided to watch Steven Rinella and then you said, “I want to try that.” Typically, somebody goes and gets a mentor or somebody mentors them. I know that happened in my life a long time ago and I started doing that. How did you do that by yourself? I’m interested in that because I bet some readers are probably saying, “Nobody’s helping me. I’m all by myself.” It can be done, is that what you are telling me?
Yeah, but you make a lot of mistakes. I can take you back to that first season I sat. I was sitting on the ground in the snow on the edge of a cornfield. It’s ridiculous to look back now and realize what I was doing. You have to put one foot in front of the other and know that you are going to make a ton of mistakes. You’ve got to keep reading every article you can get your hands on. YouTube is huge. You can search for anything you want to learn about on YouTube and then to read great shows like your show. There are some other great shows out there that can deliver a lot of good information.
You need a bow and you need to get on the digital web world and start figuring out, “I’m going to hunt whitetails. I’m in Ohio and this type of terrain. How am I going to do this?” What about gearing up? There are many choices. Forget about broadheads and all that, but the type of shoes, camo or carbon fiber. How did you sort through all that?
I’m still sorting through all that, to be honest with you. When I got started, the bow my wife had bought second hand from a friend of a friend. A lot of my camo came from a buddy from high school who we reconnected when I got into hunting. He had been hunting, so he has some stuff. He took me out maybe once or twice that first year. He had some camo that he didn’t wear anymore that he sold me for $20. I had a hand-me-down camo. I had some rubber boots. It froze my toes off that first year. You get out with what you got and make the mistakes. I don’t think it matters when you’re new what camo you have. You’ve got to have that experience in the woods to realize. You hear people say that a deer can smell, but until you’re out in the woods and you see it, then you start realizing, “I’ve got to do a better job at this.” The same thing with the eyesight, where you’re placed in a treestand and all those things unfold as you get in. I’ve always been the guy who I dive into it and figure it out as I go.
Are you hunting out of hang-on or climbers? What type of treestand are you using?
That first season, I was hunting on the ground. I’ve evolved to where I’m using ladder stands, climber stands and hang-on stands. I successfully was able to go into an area and hang a hang-on stand and hunt it that same evening with some success. I think that was a big success for me so far.
That’s great because that is easy. Do you use steps to get up on your hang-on?
Yes, the steps and hanging on by my end. Anybody who hung up a stand up by themselves, it’s difficult to work, especially if it’s your first time doing it. I was able to pull that off in the stand and ended up shooting. I didn’t end up shooting a deer that night. The next night, I ended up shooting a deer out of it. From using the strategy of staying patient and not going over the flooding area and hanging on as I go.
The deer you shot, was that the piebald doe?
Yes, it was a beautiful piebald doe. I couldn’t believe it when I caught her on camera. We went through this phase in our show where we were doing this thing called gaining ground. The whole point behind it is we were sharing our experiences of going out and knocking doors for more property for the upcoming hunting season. This was one of the properties I was able to land off doing that. It puts the story for the season is I go out and knock on some doors and got some permission. It was only a fifteen-acre parcel, but on the trail cameras from running them, because I didn’t have a whole lot of time to run the trail cameras in the first season hunting it. I’ve seen a few pictures of the piebald and I have a few nice bucks on the property. I knew you don’t normally put a doe on your target list, but I know that if I saw her, she was definitely going to be a target.
Tell us about the hunt. Was it an afternoon hunt or a morning hunt?
It was an afternoon hunt. I got there after work and it played out nice because I had hung that stand on a Friday and I didn’t see anything on Friday night. Saturday and Sunday, it rained all day, so I didn’t get to hunt there. I knew the Monday night that I ended up hunting that it was going to rain early morning up until about 10:00 or 11:00 and then the rain was going to stop, so we had nice cooler weather. I knew those deer were going to be up moving early after that rain trying to get out from the wet trees that they’re under, get out in the field and dry off and get that much-needed nutrition. They’re probably not moving a whole lot in the monsoon we were having.
Sure enough, I got out there at about 4:15 PM. It goes back to this whole patience thing because this was the slowest I’ve ever walked to my stand. It’s almost like a ninja walk and finding every piece of green grass stand on the edge of this plowed cornfield I was walking down. I took my time, got my standing and within fifteen minutes of being in my stand, the deer started showing up in front of me. She was the second deer that I ended up coming out by 5:00. I’ve shot a few deer in my short time. This was the first time that I had to draw on a deer when I have other deer in the field watching me. It was definitely a new challenge and something that’s nice because my experience with before is that big buck I’m staring at.
It’s because all those eyes get dicey.
It’s like playing a chess game to where you’re watching each deer and making sure he’s looking over there, so when she looks this way, I know I can draw. If he’s still not looking in that direction he was looking, when she looks that way, then you’ve got to wait and be patient. I finally got to a full draw when she was about fifteen yards away on me. I’ve done this before and you figure I learned, but when I got back into the full draw, the trigger on my release on my bow was flipped around the opposite way than I’m used to having it.
Instead of sitting off to my right, it was sitting off to the left. The last time when this happened to me, I tried to move my finger over and I clicked the trigger and shot the arrow twenty yards over the deer’s back. This time, I ended up releasing it from a full draw, clipping out, switch flipping over, clicking back and then getting back to full draw. I was able to pull that off and I get the shot off. I have a hard time always though at this early stage in my hunting career of knowing how well I have an animal because I haven’t shot enough of them. My mind always goes to maybe I didn’t hit her so well. I don’t know if that’s what every deer hunter thinks. I always think maybe I hit him right because that’s always a fear. I don’t want to injure an animal.
I got down and saw good blood and the bubbles in the blood make me feel confident I hit some lung. I get back to my car and wait for about 45 minutes. In hindsight, I don’t think I waited long enough because I go back in and start doing some tracking on her. I was talking to one of the cohosts on the show, Jake Franklin. He was one of the first people I called and he was helping me on the phone with tracking her. I thought maybe I jumped on something, but I thought it was a bird. It was one of those things like maybe it was a bird. I walked up twenty yards on the trail, I see a big spot of blood and no deer. I waited until about dark for another hour-and-a-half and waited even longer. At that point, I was able to call in some reinforcements, my wife, my father-in-law, mother-in-law. I bless my wife for getting out there in the woods in the dark and trying to find some blood.
A long story short on this is we ended up hearing some dogs running around in the woods and couldn’t figure out what was going on. My father-in-law who took a different direction from me started calling us over. He had seen a deer, she was laying down and she was still breathing. She was about 10 to 15 yards from him. The dogs came in and jumped her up. I knew that it’s about 9:00, 9:15. I’ve got dogs running in the woods chasing this wounded deer. I know I’m not going to find her that night. I backed out again and I’ll work the next morning. I got out early at first light by myself and picked up an overnight blood trail. It’s the first time I ever had to even think about doing something like this.
When you’re doing that, you’ve got dew from the night before. All that blood starts to dissipate into the water and it’s making it harder to see. It presents a whole element of challenges, especially for somebody who hasn’t followed a lot of blood trails. With some advice and some tips from the community that I’ve developed and from Jake, I was able to follow the blood trails. I was plotting along on Twitter and point me in the right direction. I started walking and sure enough, I find that blood more and more. About 9:00 that morning, I found her. It was fourteen hours after I shot her. I was truly blessed to have found it. I thought I got those dogs chased her across the county.
You can’t control the dogs, the coyotes or the bears. Let’s go back, you smoked the deer but maybe you got her high or a little far back. Where did you hit her?
I ended up catching her left shoulder blade but I got good penetration. It went through her left lung. I did have an exit hole, but the arrow didn’t pass all the way through. I never found my arrow. When she went off, it was still in her and I knew she wasn’t using her left leg. I was hoping I got behind the shoulder blade, but if I didn’t get behind the shoulder blade, I got enough to where I caught that lung. I think it had a lot to do with the dogs chasing her. It kept her adrenaline up and kept her alive for a lot longer than it probably should have.
You said you took the shot and waited for about 45 minutes. It’s not raining out and it’s clear, I’m assuming. How long are you going to wait the next time with a similar shot?
I’m waiting for an hour-and-a-half next time. I’m not rushing myself into the woods unless I hear a crash or see them fall. I’m not going to leave the stand after an hour-and-a-half because I don’t want to put myself in a situation where I jumped my deer again. If I wouldn’t have jumped her through that first time, then the dogs would have jumped her later.
She would have expired. When you walk back out, you would have found her right away. That’s my thinking. These are lessons learned and we all get excited. I’ve made every mistake in the book, but you put a good shot on him. You can see him and you know where the arrow was hit. That only comes with time, Jason. That’s the only way. Shoot enough deer and you’re steady. You watch your arrow and you see the point of impact and the arrow passed through. I shot up a bear once out of a treestand. My arrow went right through stuck in the dirt. I went down there. It was this solid blood. Who’s the guy? Brad Stricker of Red Vanes Outdoors. It was because I didn’t want to track that guy at all and I heard him die.
If it was a bear, I’d be waiting for about six hours.
Until you're out in the woods and you see the deer, you start realizing that you’ve got to do a better job at this. Share on XIt’s all the same. As ethical hunters, as people who are conservationists and people who realize the value of the deer, not just the food value, but the value they present in our lives. We owe them the best that we can do. Everybody gets excited. The best thing is to back off and wait. Text all your buddies, your friends and say, “I’ve got a buck down. I’ve got a doe down. Meet me up at my treestand 1.5 hours or something.” Sit there and enjoy being out there rather than getting down out of your stand.
That’s one of those things that you hear people say stuff like that and tell you things when you’re starting. At least for me, it doesn’t sink in until I make that mistake myself. Now that I’ve done that, I was faced with that feeling. When I went to bed that Monday evening, I had the feeling that I lost this deer. It was my fault that I pursued her too fast. Now this deer may die or not. I may never find her or these dogs are going to tear her up. When you start having those emotions and literally when I’m talking to my wife about it, I’m almost in tears because she’s such a beautiful animal. She is not only beautiful but a rare piebald deer. It wouldn’t have done it justice if I didn’t recover that dear. I thank the Lord that the trail I’m tracking the blood ended up being 588 yards from where I shot her. Thanks to the dogs and a little bit of my own stupidity.
You’ve got a community. You mentioned some of your cohosts and everything. Let’s talk about how you developed your community and what that means to you.
The community that we’ve developed means the world to me because when I got into hunting, I didn’t have a whole lot of people around me who hunt. I didn’t grow up in the hunting culture, so I didn’t have a whole lot of friends that hunt. Now that I’ve started the show and I’ve met the guys that were some of the cohosts on the show. They’ve been helpful and awesome. They’re always giving me tips. The community on Twitter, the followers that we’ve been able to get are supportive. They’re always sharing their own experiences and what they see in their woods. That means so much. I work 9:00 to 5:00 like everybody else. When you’re sitting at work and you want to be outside and one of your followers is outside and they shoot a deer, you’re as happy for them as you would be for yourself. I got a call from Tony Rose, he was on my show and he shot a doe from his stand. I was the second person he called. He started with a flint tip arrow.
Did he knock it himself?
No, he had somebody make them for him.
I’ve known a couple of different people. They get the flint and then they take a deer horn and that bit. They wind it on the cedar shaft with rawhide. This is almost going back to the traditional time. It’s unbelievable. Those broadheads are extremely sharp.
He was showing some videos of some penetration he was having when he was shooting it for practice. It was amazing how efficient those stone tools can be. From the community aspect of it though, those calls like that I didn’t get a few years ago. He called me and said I was the second person he called. He’s still shaking in his voice. He’s still on his stand and I’m shaking hearing about it. It’s like fire for him. Those are the types of things that it’s all about to me. That’s why I love doing this show that I do is to have people on to share that and to have them share that with me. I don’t need to make any money off any sponsors. That’s rewarding in and of itself.
I call it common ground. My show, we got real people and real places, but roll on the common ground because you can go to an elk camp, deer camp, whatever camp any place in the country or North America and roll hunters. That’s a neat thing. You’ll never know who’s sitting beside you because nobody cares. You talk hunting and it’s the commonality that I find intriguing with Whitetail Rendezvous. It’s the commonality you have with people from all different walks of life and it’s unbelievable.
It’s unfortunate that there are these little hangups that we have here along the way in the hunting community between this type of weapon over this type of weapon, or this type of hunting over this type of hunting. Those things get blown up more. Being a novice hunter and getting in, I cannot tell you the number of people who’ve reached out to help me and give me advice. I grew up with fishermen. When you fish, if somebody was catching something, they are not going to tell you what they are using. They’re not going to tell you where they’re fishing at. These hunters are willing to share everything. I’m fortunate for that community.
Let’s talk about passing on. That’s one of the things that are near and dear to your heart. Share with our readers what that means to you.
That means a ton to me because that was also another driving factor in learning to hunt. You start as a man and when you have little boys, you start looking at the types of things you’re going to be able to pass down to him and that you know that’s going to be worthwhile in his life to share with him. You start looking at your own abilities and where you fall with that. I don’t want to say hunting is going away. It doesn’t seem like it’s something that I feel being brought onto the majority of the next generation as has in years past. I want my child to be able to have that connection with nature in this world of iPhones, tablets and everything now, reward now. I want him to be able to have that time that he appreciates in the woods doing something that is hard. It takes a lot of discipline, a lot of time to get good at and a lifetime to master, and how to escape from what the world is going to look like here in the next 15 to 20 years.
If you were going to write to your son the five things he should know about hunting, what would they be? They probably changed, but what would they be?
Number one is patience. It’s something that evolves with somebody every single year. When I first started hunting, I thought patience meant staying long enough in their stand. It’s come to the realization over years that’s not what patience means. Patience can mean you have to be patient when you go into the woods, how you go into the woods, what deer you’re going to go for when you check your cameras. Every aspect of hunting, you have to make sure you’re hitting that right time to minimize your impact. That evolves as you go. Patience is the number one that he needs to learn.
Number two is to respect the animal. You need ethical shots. Make sure you’re doing the best you can to give that animal’s life the respect it deserves. Number three is to consume every bit of the animal as you can and to do it yourself. You don’t have to take it to a processor. Everything that they can do, you can do with your knife in your house with the thing hanging up in the garage. Number four would be to share those memories with your loved ones and to share the food with your family and take it for what it is. Those could be hard. You’re not supposed to go out there and get one every day. It’s not supposed to be easy. You’re doing this because you’re going to grow as a person each time in the woods. That’s why you have to look at it. You can’t look at the success of your season is what you hang on the wall or what you put in your freezer, but what you’ve banked for the next season.
The only thing I’d add to those is practice. We all have to practice. Practice walking, practice hanging on your hang-on the same day you’re going to hunt it and practice shooting your weapon of choice and all those things. When the moment comes, you don’t have to think. It’s muscle memory, eye-hand coordination and you do what you need to do and get the job done.
That’s an important one to add to it. I’ll go ahead and move that one up to number one.
I can remember many times where I have to boost myself up and go, “Come on, can I get in the game?” It’s because my head was someplace else.
That can for sure happen. Going back to the whole patience aspect evolves, so does the whole idea of practice. When you’re starting out, I thought I was doing enough practice but then you realized, “I’m not nearly what these guys say I should be. I need to be practicing.” That whole aspect of you’re practicing a routine evolves as you get older too, as you get more seasons into it.
Let’s talk about patience in year one and patience in year five.
Patience in year one was essentially I had the same idea of patience in hunting as I did in fishing. Patience in fishing, you’re taught to keep your bait in the water and you’re going to catch a fish. That’s what patience is in fishing. That’s the mentality I went into with hunting at first. If I sit here long enough and show my devotion and patience, I’m going to see a deer eventually. That’s what patience meant in year one. Patience right now goes down from everything going back to these properties that I’ve picked up this season. Of the three properties that I picked up on, one of them held a decent number of deer or deer that I wanted to target. Years past, I would have foolishly gone in a month before the season and been in there every few days checking cameras. I’ve been scouting a bunch. Now, I’m a lot more reserved and a lot more patient in my approach. To put up cameras at first and checking them when it rains to keep my scent off and spending a little bit of time as I could in the woods.
As far as my hunting approach, I’ve been hunting the old edges of these woods. I know I have some bedding areas in these woods. I’ve been staying out of the beds and been hunting in field edges where I know I can get in without being spotted, have a good wind and get out without being spotted. I try to catch something moving through there at the wrong time and not going in after him yet. I don’t want to drive any bucks off the property. I’m waiting for that opportune time in November and getting a little bit deeper into those woods. My aspect is I would have messed up the spot that I have terribly if I would’ve got it a few years ago. There probably wouldn’t be a deer left on the property. I have gotten daylight pictures. They’re not changing their patterns much. It’s a matter of catching one of these bucks at the right time when I have the advantage in the wind.
I like how you said in your property you’re hunting the fringes. The fringes work because deer are fringe critters. That’s where they live, and then pinch points, funnels, topography and all those things go into your bank. You’ll start seeing places when you’re walking land and stuff. You go, “I was about to go this way,” and you look at your wind. All of a sudden, it starts making sense. That’s what I’m trying to share with you. It will start making sense. It will open up like a book because you go, “I can read this,” but that takes time. A lot of students study and get around guys as you have around you. They can say, “Have you thought about this? If you’re going to hunt here, the wind is going to bounce. It’s going to come off that valley and hit that ridge and it’s going to bounce. When you think it’s going one way, it’s not.” All those little things that make a difference shooting the buck or the doe you want because they’re smart critters.
It’s like you said about bouncing ideas off other guys in the community. I showed the guys on the show some aerial shots. We always share in topography and stuff like that and give each other pointers. They were able to pick up on a funnel that was a couple of properties off my property, but that was definitely affecting my property that I could take advantage of setting up on this one corner of the property. I wouldn’t have found that if it wasn’t for these guys. Granted I haven’t hunted that area yet, I’m guessing they’re bedding close there. I’m waiting to go in and hunt that area until there they’re on a rut. They’re not worried and they’re thinking about something else at the time.
If you’re not using Google Earth, I’m leaving for Wisconsin and I thought it had a couple of farms in Buffalo County to hunt that didn’t turn out. All of a sudden, I get with the biologists at the DNR and I said, “What about this place? What about that place?” Bill Winke had hunted the property that I’m going to go to a few years ago and he wrote an article on it. I emailed him and he was gracious enough to get back to me. It’s unbelievable what you can do with Google Earth because I get a lot of information. I get on the ground and I could say, “Here’s a pinch point, here’s a long neck, here’s the general trend in the wind.” All of a sudden, that makes sense. The other guys that have made many mistakes that hopefully learn and they start picking up on the nuances of terrain and little saddles. I love hunting saddles. I live out West and I hunt saddles all the time. The same thing holds true in the ridges because critters are lazy.
They’re going to take the path of least resistance always. If there’s a spot on a fence that’s six inches lower than the rest of the fence, most likely they’re going to cross that spot on the fence.
It’s like going through swamps and cross rivers and get from the barrier, the feeding area. They’re going to go as direct as they can, but they’re going to make it as easy on themselves. Sometimes people forget that.
Did you said you’re leaving for Wisconsin?
Yes. I’ll leave Colorado and then I’ll hunt some farms and I’ve got some meetups with some of my followers throughout the state. It’s going to be a great 27 days.
I’m going to be in Wisconsin. It will be one of my very first out-of-state hunts.
Patience is the number one lesson that a hunter needs to learn. Number two is respect for the animal. Share on XWhere are you going?
I’m going to Ellsworth. It’s West Wisconsin on the border of Minnesota.
Is that Pepin County or Dunn County?
You’re asking the wrong person. I don’t know anything about Wisconsin. I got the address. I know the city and I know what I’ve got to bring. I’m just getting in the car, got my GPS and I’m driving.
Are you going by yourself?
I’m driving by myself. I’m meeting up with my buddy, Jake Franklin, one of my cohosts on the show. It is going to be our first-time meet-in. We’re going to do little deer camps set up there for about 5 or 6 days. We’re going to do a few podcasts during the day, hunt mornings and evenings and hopefully, put some meat on the ground and have a great time. I’m excited about that. I’ve never done a deer camp, never been out of state to hunt, never been on a trip to hunt. I couldn’t be even more excited.
It is supposed to be the hot day in Wisconsin. I like to hunt 30th, 31st and then I love to be in my stand on Halloween. I love that to death. It’s so much fun to do that. That’s going to be fun. You’re going to see a lot of deer.
That’s what I’m hoping. I’m hoping to get close to the magic time on their rut and then get back home in time when our rut picks up. Hopefully, I’ll be able to back to back some peak rut activity between the two states, but you know how that works out.
That’s a 10 to 12-hour drive for you?
It’s a 10.5-hour drive.
It’s an easy road, just watch out for deer if you’re driving later early.
I’m glad it doesn’t look like I may be running on any snow on the drive. Fingers crossed, but it’s looking good so far.
It’s been nice to hang out with Jason and talk about The IHunt Podcast. I love it when a guy says, “I’m going to start hunting,” and take care of his own meat, feed his family, passing on the tradition and sharing with others the tips, techniques and strategies, as I call it the common ground around the campfire and talk about hunting whitetails. Jason, it has been a joy to have you on the show.
I appreciate you having me on. It’s an honor. I would love to have you on some time and chat with the guys and me. You can check out the podcast, www.TheIHuntPodcast.com on Stitcher, iTunes, Google Play. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, @TheIHuntPodcast. I’m not the pool of information at this show. I’m the guy that asks questions because I’m the guy who needs to learn and hopefully you pick something up along the way.
It’s The IHunt Podcast with Jason Hamlet. Check him out. Google him and he’ll show up. I’m sure you’re going to be not only entertained, but you might learn something along the way. With that, Jason, thank you on behalf of the thousands of our followers across North America for being a great guest on the show.
Thanks.
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