Skip to content

Artwork for East Meets West Hunt

SportsWildernessExplicit

East Meets West Hunt

Beau Martonik

The East Meets West Hunt Podcast is your resource for all things adventure hunting. This podcast is for the hunter that loves planning and preparing for the hunt, just as much as the hunt. Whether it's deer hunting for big woods mountain bucks, chasing elk in the Rocky Mountains, and anything in between, we will talk to successful hunters from all over to provide the EMW community with useful knowledge and motivation to continue to live their life through a series of adventures.

30 episodes
weekly
Avg 1 hr 39 min
English

Episodes 30

Newest Oldest Longest

All20 Unplayed20 In progress0 Played0

Counted on this page — what you have heard stays on this device, so it is not something the list can be paged by.

#413
Thursday · 1 hr 57 min
Ep. 513: 10 Days of Archery Elk in Wyoming (Big Bull Down) w/ Tyler Martonik & Derek Testerman
Bonus episode from Wyoming elk camp. Beau Martonik sits down with his cousin Tyler Martonik and cameraman Derek Testerman at the end of a 10 day archery elk hunt on general tags.
#512
Tuesday · 1 hr 35 min
Ep. 512: Why Deer Follow His Tracks Right to the Stand (233 Bow Kills) w/ Jim Gallagher
Jim is in his 50th year of hunting, has been bow-only for close to 40 years, and has killed 233 deer with a bow, almost all of them in the swamps and thickets of the Northeast.
#511
September 29 · 2 hr 8 min
Ep. 511: What Deer DNA Reveals About Which Bucks Breed w/ Dr. Steve Ditchkoff
Beau Martonik sits down with Dr. Steve Ditchkoff at Auburn University, where he has run the deer lab for about 25 years and has been studying deer for roughly 35.
#510
September 22 · 1 hr 16 min
Ep. 510: He Won’t Scout Before Opening Day, and He Kills Bucks in Week One w/ Lucas Benoit
Beau Martonik and Johnny Stewart sit down with Lucas Benoit. He has killed mature bucks on September 21st in back to back years, and talks about why the first week of the season is the best for targeting mature bucks.
#509
September 15 · 1 hr 5 min
Ep. 509: Lee Ellis on the Blizzard Buck, Self Filming at Negative 18, and the Tree He Didn’t Want (Part 2)
Beau Martonik sits back down with Lee Ellis of Seek One for the second half of their conversation, which is one long story about the massive late season buck he shot last year in a blizzard..
#508
September 8 · 2 hr 5 min
Ep. 508: How Hunting Less Put Them on More Good Bucks w/ Jameson Curtis and Kelly McGraw
Beau Martonik sits down with Jameson Curtis and Kelly McGraw of Wild at Heart Outdoors, the two guys behind Pursuing the Allegheny.
#507
September 1 · 1 hr 6 min
Ep. 507: Why Your Camo Pattern Matters Less Than What It’s Reflecting w/ Dr. Karl Miller (Part 2)
Beau Martonik sits back down with Dr. Karl Miller for the second half of their conversation, and this half is entirely about what a deer sees.
#506
August 25 · 1 hr 40 min
Ep. 506: Deer Biologist Explains Why Scrapes Peak Two Weeks Before the Rut w/ Dr. Karl Miller (Part 1)
Beau Martonik sits down with Dr. Karl Miller of the University of Georgia, where he spent 40 years leading deer research.
#505
August 18 · 2 hr
Ep. 505: Lee Ellis Kills a Giant Every Year in a Different State. Here’s the Pattern. (Part 1)
Beau Martonik sits down with Lee Ellis of Seek One, who has been at this since 2015 and says roughly 90 percent of the deer on his wall are deer he had more than a year of history with before he killed them.
#504
August 11 · 2 hr 9 min
Ep. 504: Building Grit, Breaking Hard Hunts Into Small Pieces, and a Kodiak Goat in a Whiteout w/ Adam Foss
Beau Martonik sits down with Adam Foss, the youngest bowhunter to complete the North American sheep slam and a photographer and filmmaker.
#503
August 4 · 2 hr 24 min
Ep. 503: A Full Season on Iowa Public Land, Self-Filming, and Knowing When to Pass w/ Joel Burham // Whitetail Fit
Beau Martonik sits down with Joel Burham of Whitetail Fit, who moved to Iowa, got his residency, turned down an invite to a phenomenal private farm, and hunted public ground and only public ground for the whole season to see what it would teach him.
#502
July 30 · 36 min
Ep. 502: What GPS Collar Data Reveals About Buck Bedding | Mountain Buck Scouting Series
This is from the Mountain Bucks Scouting Camp where we break down big woods buck bedding from every angle — GPS home range data, how mature bucks choose beds, doe bedding patterns, morning hunting strategy, and why mid-October may be the most underrated window for killing a mature buck
#501
July 28 · 1 hr 54 min
Ep. 501: Treat Trail Camera Data Like a Scientist, Not Just for Real-Time Data w/ Gregg Farrell
Gregg walks through why he treats trail camera data almost like a science experiment before he ever locks in on one specific buck.
#500
July 21 · 2 hr 9 min
Ep. 500: 50 Years of Big Woods Hunting Lessons w/ My Dad, Joe Martonik
oe’s been hunting Pennsylvania whitetails for almost 50 years, watched deer densities crash and slowly rebuild, and built a lifetime of lessons most hunters never get from a single season.
#499
July 14 · 1 hr 41 min
Ep. 499: The Hardest Deer We've Ever Tried to Bowhunt w/ Collin Heaps
Beau Martonik sits down with Collin Heaps of MTN OPS to recap a bowhunt for axis deer in Hawaii.
#498
July 7 · 52 min
Ep. 498: What Deer See at Scrapes That You Never Will (New Research)
Beau Martonik breaks down a peer-reviewed study from the UGA Deer Lab published in December 2025 that found whitetail rubs and scrapes emit measurable UV photoluminescence that deer can detect and humans can't.
#497
June 30 · 2 hr 12 min
Ep. 497: Giant Bucks in Mountain Laurel Nobody Else Will Hunt w/ Pat Burns
Beau Martonik sits down with Pat Burns, a big woods hunter from the Northeast who has been hunting mountain laurel thickets for years, killing giant bucks in cover most hunters won’t go near.
#496
June 23 · 2 hr 22 min
Ep. 496: Summer Scouting Mountain Bucks — Trail Cameras, Cuts vs. Mature Timber, and Why Deer Disappear on Opener w/ Johnny Stewart
Beau Martonik sits down with Johnny Stewart -- a PA-based DIY public land hunter with 30+ years of big woods experience across Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Ohio, and North Dakota. This one is all about summer scouting.
#495
June 16 · 2 hr 2 min
Ep. 495: Wild Game Cooking Deep Dive — Bear Fat, Venison Burgers, and Freezer Turkey w/ Allie D'Andrea & Nick Berger
Beau Martonik sits down with Allie D'Andrea (Outdoors Allie) and Nick Berger for the first time in four years. A big chunk of this one is wild game cooking.
#494
June 9 · 1 hr 32 min
Ep. 494: What 6 Years of PA Public Land Hunting Taught Me About Mature Bucks w/ Ryan Leary
Beau Martonik sits down with Ryan Leary, a PA hunter who has been grinding big woods public land for six years and put together back-to-back mature buck kills including a 7.5 year old eight point in 2025.

Showing 1–20 of 30 episodes