Ep. 291: Go West, Young Man! with Tim Bunao

On this episode of the East Meets West Hunt podcast, Beau Martonik is joined by Tim Bunao. Tim is originally from Pennsylvania but now resides in the great state of Montana. They discuss how the two met, BMX, how western hunting changed Tim’s life, learning to hunt mountain bucks, Montana public land whitetail hunting, improving your shot process under pressure, and much more.

Topics:

00:00 Intro

04:09 Meeting through Train to Hunt

14:50 How BMX translated to hunting

26:42 Transitioning back to hunting 

30:39 The White Oak Buck

31:39 Finding the Hunting Beast and western hunting

33:28 How western hunting changed Tim’s life

39:22 Going deeper to find mature mountain bucks

43:24 How to learn from your mistakes through journaling

46:42 The Three-Year Strategy for hunting a new area

48:09 Living the east meets west lifestyle - Moving to Montana

52:49 Leveraging hunting partner strengths

59:39 Public land Montana Whitetail hunting

01:02:56 Shed hunting in Montana for whitetails

01:06:29 Finding the transition lines in the river bottoms

01:10:09 Where bucks in bed in the river bottoms

01:13:49 Different landscapes that you can hunt whitetails in Montana

01:15:29 Should you be allowed to hunt with a rifle during the rut?

01:17:21 How Tim has improved his shot under pressure

01:32:09 Staying present in the moment of the shot

01:34:19 Future hunting plans and goals

Note** timestamps might be off by a few minutes on the audio version due to ad length changes

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