East Meets West Hunt
by Beau Martonik
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Ep. 514: The Real Cost of Killing Giant Bucks w/ Dan Infalt & Johnny Stewart
Oct 13, 2026
1h 39m 44s
Ep. 513: 10 Days of Archery Elk in Wyoming (Big Bull Down) w/ Tyler Martonik & Derek Testerman
Oct 8, 2026
1h 57m 28s
Ep. 512: Why Deer Follow His Tracks Right to the Stand (233 Bow Kills) w/ Jim Gallagher
Oct 6, 2026
1h 35m 47s
Ep. 511: What Deer DNA Reveals About Which Bucks Breed w/ Dr. Steve Ditchkoff
Sep 29, 2026
2h 08m 02s
Ep. 510: He Won’t Scout Before Opening Day, and He Kills Bucks in Week One w/ Lucas Benoit
Sep 22, 2026
1h 16m 04s
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| 10/13/26 |  Ep. 514: The Real Cost of Killing Giant Bucks w/ Dan Infalt & Johnny Stewart | Beau Martonik sits down with Dan Infalt of The Hunting Beast at Huntstock, with Johnny Stewart as co-host. Dan has been asked about bedding areas on every podcast there is, so this one skips the tactics and goes after the story behind them. Dan learned to hunt alone in southern Wisconsin, chasing one buck for three seasons, finding his sheds every year, and figuring out that if he wanted to kill him, he had to be close to where he bedded. On Thanksgiving morning, a rock off the hood of an old junked car finally pushed that buck out. He went on to a 15 year run of giant bucks, and Dan is honest about what that run cost his family, and why he started giving everything away. In this episode: Why hate online means you’re doing well Learning to hunt with no mentor and a dad who couldn’t give a compliment Finding a buck’s sheds three years running and learning his bedding areas Crosswinds, a junked car, and his first giant on Thanksgiving Day Giving away the “secrets” and the kickback that came with it Making people better hunters and hunters better people Johnny, Beau, and a wind bump at deer camp that turned into Beau’s biggest buck Helping his longtime hunting partner kill a 170 inch ten he’d been chasing for years Timber the raccoon, and why hunters care about animals more than people think Losing some of the want, and the birthdays and Halloweens it cost Why you have to earn luck How putting his spots on film has cost him Why 5% of hunters kill all the deer, and the confidence nobody can sell you https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1 Dan's YT - https://www.youtube.com/@thehuntingbeast Dan's FB - https://www.facebook.com/dan.infalt Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ YouTube: Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 39m 44s | ||||||
| 10/8/26 |  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. The plan for day one was to take it easy and acclimate. By 4:30 that afternoon, a cow walked to within five yards of Tyler, he looked over and said “bull, Beau, bull,” and Beau had a 6x6 coming around the knob. What followed was a five hour trip out in the dark through blowdowns and a thunderstorm, and another full day to get the rest of him out. From there it’s Tyler’s hunt. Learning one drainage over most of a week, waiting for thermals to settle before moving on bedded bulls, a wallow found on LiDAR, close calls at 80 yards, and wolves in camp at 3 AM. In this episode: Burning seven points on a Wyoming general tag Acclimating without sitting in camp: camp low, hunt high The cow at five yards and the bull behind her Butchering a bull on a slope he kept trying to roll off Five hours of rain, cliffs, and blowdowns on the first trip out Why bugles are closer than they sound in thick timber Waiting for thermals to settle before moving on bedded bulls A wallow that only showed up on LiDAR Elk staying low for water in a hot, dry year Wolves in camp at 3 AM The herd bull play where everything went right but the bull Gear that worked, what’s getting replaced, and boiling a skull for Wyoming’s CWD rules https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1 Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ YouTube: Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 57m 28s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 |  Ep. 512: Why Deer Follow His Tracks Right to the Stand (233 Bow Kills) w/ Jim Gallagher | Beau Martonik sits down with Jim Gallagher at Huntstock. 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. His system runs the opposite direction from most. Instead of trying to leave nothing on the walk-in, he wants deer to find his trail. Store scents and cover scents didn’t hold up, so for about 35 years his boots have gone in fresh rabbit droppings, later with tarsal gland hair on top, a buck tarsal hangs seven feet up over a mock scrape, and he walks past his tree and hooks back so a deer following him in gives him an angled-away shot. Then he calls, every sit, on a set schedule. He also gets into why he aims at the very bottom of the deer, going back to around 1986, when he and Gus Park tallied their misses at a picnic table in Pennsylvania, and 30 of 35 had gone over the deer’s back, and a long list of stories from 50 seasons of doing it his way. In this episode: Tracking deer in Maine snow and going bow only 39 foot stands and seven busts in 17 years The calling sequence: one nostril, fawn mew, grunt, rattle Why store scents failed and rabbit droppings didn’t Tarsal glands seven feet up over a mock scrape Shooting out the side of the peep in low light Why a deer blowing at you can be a good thing The night bucks fought under his stand in the dark Straight down shots and where he aims from 39 feet The J hook that turns a following deer into a quartering away shot His biggest buck, a 212 pounder that followed him for a week The Pennsylvania picnic table tally and the barn test on deer ducking the string Checking the swamps after the first October snow A broken arrow rest, two lost bucks, and why you shoot your bow after a bad hit https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1 Jim's YT channel - https://www.youtube.com/@jimgallagher4939 Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ YouTube: Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 35m 47s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  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. He did not grow up hunting deer. His father quit about the time he was born, so he grew up fishing outside Detroit, found a fisheries and wildlife degree at Michigan State, studied wintering deer in Maine on snowshoes, and did his PhD in Oklahoma on mating strategy, which was a question deer biologists mostly weren’t asking then. That question is what this episode is built on. In 2007, he built a 430-acre facility at Auburn, fenced, with about 100 adult deer in it, because hunting shows had spent years telling people which bucks were breeder bucks and nobody had studied which individuals actually breed. His group tries to capture the whole population each year, pulls a tissue sample off every deer, and builds the family tree out of DNA. They can look at one buck and count what he sired at one, two, three and four years old, and see which does he bred with. The answer is that it isn’t random. It’s partially driven by similarity in body size and age. He also has data showing a doe increases her movement substantially right before she comes into heat. What he flags as belief rather than data, and he flags it himself, is his hunch that a dominant buck is targeting specific does rather than wandering. Then the hunting consequence: if you knew the exact peak of breeding, that’s the worst week to sit, because that’s when the most bucks are locked down. The other half is pressure. He doesn’t believe gunshots are what deer respond to. He believes they respond to the sign we leave walking in and walking out. Two of his studies sit under that, one in South Carolina where daylight use of a hunted spot dropped the day after a sit and took about a week to recover, and one in Alabama that found the best day of the week to hunt. In this episode: Why the Southeast ended up leading deer research Where AI helps wildlife science and where it goes wrong How he ended up handing his data to Bill Thompson What confidence actually does to a hunter in the stand We train deer to avoid us, and the sign we leave doing it The South Carolina study, and the week it takes a spot to recover The best day of the week to hunt, by the data 72 square miles of ammunition plant, and what those deer acted like Why bucks move more where the deer are thin Why the peak week is the worst week to sit The breeder buck question nobody had ever actually studied Inside the 430 acre facility and the family tree built out of DNA Whether a dominant buck is choosing which does he breeds The walkabout a doe goes on before she comes into heat Bucks that moved two and five miles and never came back Whether you need to know how many deer you have The three things 35 years changed about how he hunts https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1 Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ YouTube: Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 2h 08m 02s | ||||||
| 9/22/26 |  Ep. 510: He Won’t Scout Before Opening Day, and He Kills Bucks in Week One w/ Lucas Benoit | Beau Martonik sits down with Lucas Benoit, a bear houndsman and guide out of central New Hampshire, with Johnny Stewart in the co-host chair. Recorded live at Huntstock. Lucas got into hounds around fourteen with two accident-litter beagles, bought his first two finished bear dogs off a guy who was quitting, treed about sixteen bears that first season, and has since had a year of just over a hundred. Ask him which he’d rather do and he says deer hunting, a hundred percent. He has killed mature bucks on September 21st in back to back years. Johnny spends most of the episode refusing to let him call it luck. The argument underneath it is worth the listen. The first week of the season is the best week of the year to kill a mature buck, because if you can find what they’re feeding on, they aren’t far from it. December gets almost that good, and he’ll tell you he still struggles then. The reason most people never cash that first week is that they go scout it the week before and blow the place out. Lucas does not pre-scout. He finds sign in real time and sets up on it the same day. Then it gets specific. Ten white oaks on a hilltop spine, three or four of them producing, one or two acorns under each, and bucks routing through to check every one. How to look up into an oak and read whether it has produced in the last couple years. The stand he hung over a pattern he called a slam dunk, then left and came back the wrong morning. Blowing a buck off a hill on opening day, staying out five or six days, then parking a mile away and climbing a steep hemlock face because it was the only way the wind worked. And a 170 inch buck that stood up at fifty yards, crossed a clear cut, looked at six dogs and three men for five minutes, and bedded back down. In this episode: Beagles to bear dogs, and why hounds are the honest way to manage a bear population Why running dogs is the best deer scouting he does all year The rub line he found on a bear chase, and the buck that walked it in daylight A 170 inch buck that bedded back down in front of six dogs Why the first week of season is his best week of the year Why he doesn’t scout the week before opening day The slam dunk stand he hung and then didn’t sit Same spot, same date, years apart Reading which oaks are producing before you ever look at the ground A September buck killed in the morning, on a spot he’d already blown out How long to stay out of a spot once you’ve bumped a buck Five bucks on the last day of the season, and whether that’s luck Lucas' IG: @nhbearguide https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ YouTube: Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 16m 04s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 |  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. Lee saw a buck with heavy brow tines one time in the summer, across a rolling bean field, and then didn’t lay eyes on him again until the first week of November. He spent most of the season putting time into a different deer entirely. Then the season ended in a blizzard. Lee walks through almost hitting that buck with his truck five days before he killed him, watching him feed in a cut cornfield for an hour and a half in cold that left his fingertips sensitive for weeks afterward, and asking a neighbor for access permission rather than hunting permission so he could keep a tree line between himself and an island of timber full of eyes. He gets into the tree he wanted, the tree he settled for, and why the second one is the only reason the hunt happened. Also covered: the does blowing and then coming back, a lung liver hit that looked perfect on camera, backing out for a sleepless night, dragging the deer out a mile on a sled at negative 18 with a frozen beard, and the deer’s other close calls. Part one of this conversation is episode 505. The Wilderness Society - https://act.wilderness.org/a/26bcpledge-eastwest-1 Instagram: @eastmeetswesthunt @beau.martonik Facebook: East Meets West Outdoors Shop Hunting Gear and Apparel: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/ YouTube: Beau Martonik - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQJon93sYfu9HUMKpCMps3w Partner Discounts and Affiliate Links: https://www.eastmeetswesthunt.com/partners Amazon Influencer Page https://www.amazon.com/shop/beau.martonik Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 05m 45s | ||||||
| 9/8/26 | hunting strategiesmental reset+3 | Jameson CurtisKelly McGraw | Wild at Heart OutdoorsPursuing the Allegheny | — | huntingsocial media+5 | — | 2h 05m 00s | ||
| 9/1/26 | deer visioncamo patterns+3 | Dr. Karl Miller | Sitka | — | deercamo+7 | — | 1h 06m 09s | ||
| 8/25/26 | deer researchhunting+4 | Dr. Karl Miller | University of Georgia | Pennsylvania | deerscrapes+5 | — | 1h 40m 50s | ||
| 8/18/26 | deer huntinghunting strategy+3 | Lee Ellis | Seek One | — | deerhunting+8 | — | 2h 00m 53s | ||
| 8/11/26 | mental side of huntingbackpack hunting+4 | Adam Foss | SITKAMigrate | Calgarynorthern BC+1 | bowhuntingsheep slam+5 | — | 2h 09m 50s | ||
| 8/4/26 | public land huntingself-filming+3 | Joel Burham | Whitetail Fit | IowaKansas | Iowa public landself-filming rig+3 | — | 2h 24m 49s | ||
| 7/30/26 | buck beddingGPS collar data+4 | — | — | — | GPS collarbuck bedding+5 | — | 36m 00s | ||
| 7/28/26 | trail camera datahunting strategy+5 | Gregg Farrell | TactacamFirst Lite+1 | Wisconsin | trail camerahunting+6 | — | 1h 54m 59s | ||
| 7/21/26 | huntingwhitetail deer+3 | Joe Martonik | — | Pennsylvania | hunting lessonswhitetail deer+5 | — | 2h 09m 24s | ||
| 7/14/26 | bowhuntingaxis deer+4 | Collin Heaps | — | Hawaiiaxis deer+2 | bowhuntaxis deer+4 | MTN OPSBEAU | 1h 41m 59s | ||
| 7/7/26 | deer behaviorhunting strategies+4 | — | UGA Deer Lab | — | whitetail deerUV photoluminescence+4 | — | 52m 29s | ||
| 6/30/26 | big woods huntingmountain laurel+3 | Pat Burns | Huntstock | NortheastMassachusetts | giant bucksmountain laurel+3 | — | 2h 12m 17s | ||
| 6/23/26 | summer scoutingtrail cameras+4 | Johnny Stewart | Timber Ninja KunaiMini Kunai+1 | PennsylvaniaNew Hampshire+3 | summer scoutingtrail cameras+5 | — | 2h 22m 39s | ||
| 6/16/26 | wild game cookingbear hunting+4 | Allie D'AndreaNick Berger | The Butcher's Table | PennsylvaniaFlorida+2 | wild game cookingbear fat+5 | — | 2h 02m 28s | ||
| 6/9/26 | public land huntingmature bucks+4 | Ryan Leary | — | Pennsylvania | PA huntingmature bucks+5 | — | 1h 32m 39s | ||
| 6/2/26 | arrow flightpenetration science+5 | Bill Vanderheyden | Iron Will Outfitters | Coloradodark timber+1 | arrow systemsbroadheads+6 | — | 2h 00m 34s | ||
| 5/26/26 | Pennsylvania elk huntingelk population+4 | Jeremy Banfield | Pennsylvania Game Commission | PennsylvaniaBenezette | elk huntingPennsylvania Game Commission+5 | — | 1h 24m 56s | ||
| 5/19/26 | turkey huntinghunting culture+3 | Josh IldertonMason Holz | The Untamed | West Virginia | turkey huntingWest Virginia+5 | — | 1h 11m 50s | ||
| 5/12/26 | turkey huntinghunting gear+3 | Jason Redd | Timber Ninja Outdoors | West Virginia | turkey camphunting recap+3 | — | 1h 35m 52s | ||
| 5/5/26 | mule deer huntingpublic land+4 | Dioni Amuchastegui | Deadfall Design | — | mule deerhunting+5 | — | 1h 52m 03s | ||
| 4/28/26 | muzzleloadershunting+4 | Brad Watts | CVA | — | muzzleloadershunting tips+5 | — | 1h 18m 40s | ||
| 4/21/26 | IntroMeet Bobby Worthington+13 | Bobby Worthington | Final QuestPoncho Outdoors+1 | Mountain MikePikeville+1 | whitetail huntingarchery+3 | — | 1h 43m 51s | ||
| 4/14/26 | Getting to Know EliJust Hunt Club and the Filming Experience+7 | Jon LewisEli McArthur+1 | Just Hunt ClubPoncho Outdoors+1 | PA | big woodshunting+3 | — | 1h 16m 55s | ||
| 4/7/26 | turkey huntingstorytelling+4 | Brent Reaves | MeatEaterNWTF+1 | South | MeatEaterhunting styles+3 | — | 1h 13m 22s | ||
| 3/31/26 | IntroCatching up with Jacob+12 | Jacob Lishen | IG Land LimitedPoncho Outdoors | NCNorth Carolina | hunting pressureconfidence+5 | — | 1h 25m 39s | ||
| 3/24/26 | Deer HabitatTurkey Hunting+4 | Jonathan Boehme | Catman YouTubeCatman Instagram+2 | NashvilleTurkey | NWTF showself-filming+2 | — | 1h 29m 52s | ||
| 3/17/26 | Lyme Disease DiscussionAdam's Background+9 | Adam Kristan | Stram Center for Integrative MedicineTicknology+2 | — | tick-borne illnessesearly detection+1 | — | 1h 46m 26s | ||
| 3/10/26 | DIY huntingmindset+3 | Andy MayJohnny Stewart+1 | Poncho OutdoorsThe Mindset of a DIY Hunter+1 | Michigan | EHDhunting challenges+2 | — | 1h 17m 38s | ||
| 3/3/26 | Jeff's Journey BeginsFounding Financial Outfitters Group+10 | Jeff Bynum | Financial Outfitters GroupFounding Financial Outfitters Group+2 | Alaska | financial fitnesswealth management+3 | — | 1h 40m 09s | ||
| 2/24/26 | IntroCatching up with Mark Kenyon+8 | Mark Kenyon | the Land & Water Conservation FundMeatEater+2 | AmericaAlaska+1 | huntingpublic lands+5 | — | 1h 42m 50s | ||
| 2/17/26 | Old-School Hunting & the Pennsylvania TuxedoOne-sticking & Rappel Systems+10 | Josh Stewart | East Meets West Hunt | — | whitetail strategyhunting stories+1 | — | 1h 24m 28s | ||
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Chart history for East Meets West Hunt
Peaked at #16 in United States, currently #16 in United States.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | — | #16 | #16 | — |
| Canada | — | #23 | #23 | — |
| Italy | — | #65 | #65 | — |
| South Africa | — | #131 | #131 | — |
| Mexico | — | #140 | #140 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #146 | #146 | — |
| Sweden | — | #184 | #184 | — |
| CH | — | #188 | #188 | — |
Chart Positions
8 placements across 8 markets.
Chart Positions
8 placements across 8 markets.