The Hunting Beast
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George
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j-bird
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I am not familiar with their work... I also do not follow or watch much regarding hunting, or habitat work on TV or in monthly periodicals any more either. I find the resources I need on the forums and my own experiences of what I have found work for me on my land. I got burned out on the fake fist pumping, over blown egos, horn porn, shooting penned deer and constant barrage of advertising of products. I don't need "sizzle" with my hunting. Not saying your guys are guilty of any of that....but I am beyond that at this point in my hunting career.
jsasker007
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Never heard of it. Is it another 30 minute long infomercial ?
weekender21
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I watch Dan’s videos from time to time. He is hunting all public and has great advice and tactics for the mobile Hunter. He also makes the lightest climbing sticks on the planet although the recently released "Lone Wolf Custom" sticks might be close.
Nothing really groundbreaking in my opinion. Dan aggressively hunts bedding areas for bucks and has been very successful doing it. A drastically different approach to box blinds and food plots but a style that many public land guys are likely familiar with.
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Nothing really groundbreaking in my opinion. Dan aggressively hunts bedding areas for bucks and has been very successful doing it. A drastically different approach to box blinds and food plots but a style that many public land guys are likely familiar with.
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suburbhunter
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What weekender21 said and...
They are referring to thehuntingbeast.com. Another forum type site with the main deer hunting focus on locating and strategically hunting buck bedding. Dan Infalt is the owner of the site and a no frills everyday type guy who is a highly respected public land hunter. I believe he is a machinist in his life real job.
They are referring to thehuntingbeast.com. Another forum type site with the main deer hunting focus on locating and strategically hunting buck bedding. Dan Infalt is the owner of the site and a no frills everyday type guy who is a highly respected public land hunter. I believe he is a machinist in his life real job.
g squared 23
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The hunting beast is exactly OPPOSITE from most of the guys’ approach and tactics on forums like these. Which makes sense, because his tactics are aggressive and would burn out a small property in no time. Thats why he hunts large pieces of public land and will not usually hunt a spot more than 3 times in a season with few exceptions. He works very hard to get on deer, something folks on this forum could appreciate, but instead of managing habitat he spends his time scouting, scouting and scouting some more, and then hanging and hunting.
To whoever said what he does is nothing groundbreaking, I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and call it a very naive comment as opposed to an ignorant one. Dan has been using and developing those tactics since before the hunting public guys were born; they’ll admit that a lot of what they do and why they do it is because of him. I won’t go so far as to call him the “godfather” of public land tactics, but to the guys “in the know”, he’s an authority on killing bucks on heavily hunted public land.
A lot of guys on here would appreciate his hard work, it’s just focused in a different direction than food plots and TSI and planting and killing invasives, etc. But he definitely works just as hard as anyone on this forum to be successful. I respect his work enough to know there’s a lot I can (and have) learned from his videos and DVDs and also realize he’s a much, much better hunter than me, and is more successful. And I’m hunting private land with unpressured food plots.
I always hunt public land a few times, hang and hunt areas I’ve scouted, and I always walk away appreciating how difficult it is to kill a good buck on public land (that’s not in Iowa).
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To whoever said what he does is nothing groundbreaking, I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and call it a very naive comment as opposed to an ignorant one. Dan has been using and developing those tactics since before the hunting public guys were born; they’ll admit that a lot of what they do and why they do it is because of him. I won’t go so far as to call him the “godfather” of public land tactics, but to the guys “in the know”, he’s an authority on killing bucks on heavily hunted public land.
A lot of guys on here would appreciate his hard work, it’s just focused in a different direction than food plots and TSI and planting and killing invasives, etc. But he definitely works just as hard as anyone on this forum to be successful. I respect his work enough to know there’s a lot I can (and have) learned from his videos and DVDs and also realize he’s a much, much better hunter than me, and is more successful. And I’m hunting private land with unpressured food plots.
I always hunt public land a few times, hang and hunt areas I’ve scouted, and I always walk away appreciating how difficult it is to kill a good buck on public land (that’s not in Iowa).
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weekender21
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j-bird
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Well it sounds like I should at least take a peak and see what it's all about. I have no issue learning something new. I just got really burned out on the "hype" shows... I don't need that. I don't hunt public land, but his ideas and concepts might be something I can/could adapt to my style of hunting. We we stop learning we stop growing....
jsasker007
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Sounds like he is just following what the BENOITS have been doing their whole lives. Of course I could be mistaken---I didn't know that AL GORE created the inter-web either. Good luck to the beast.
weekender21
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He has a different perspective than most, definitely worth watching. I use mobile tactics on private just like public. If nothing else, you’ll at least be entertained. I love Dan’s T-shirts.
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Hoosierhunting
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The Hunting Public guys did a few episodes with Dan this year. I think they’re not too proud to show respect to the beast. If nothing else Dan is worth watching for his T-Shirts. I mentioned The Hunting Public and Dan before on here because I thought guys in here would like them. Besides Rinella, they’re the only hunting TV I can watch. Most hunting shows are garbage. Rinella, THP and Infalt offer something different.
Hoosierhunting
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Chainsaw
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I'm another who had never heard of the Hunting Beast forum Mark. Checked it out and read the thread on "Why are you on the edge all the time?". It was a great thread.The poster Magicman54494 gave it his all and shared how to meet up with big bucks four or five times faster once edges were understood. There were some good posters on that particular thread. Maybe if some of us were to invite some of the posters to our forum we could add additional diversity and activity to our forum. I for one will give it a try--not to steal posters but to handpick some that are over the top like us but may do things differently that could add to our forum and they could maybe learn something from us as well. Love Win-Wins! There is no magic, no grand new secrets but magic does happen when we all share our experiences and ideas. And the more the merrier.
Chainsaw, what topic was that thread in?
It’s very interesting to me how they hunt. As long as I can remember “we” were told to stay clear from bedding.
I’m going to check those guys out too.
From what I remember reading about The Beniots is they were the stalking masters.
Chainsaw
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I never met the Benoits but they hunted some of the same areas in Northern Maine that we were hunting at the time. The normal for them as we heard it was to drive the roads and pick up a track that looked promising and follow it every where until they caught up with em. I tried that deal and had it work sometimes. One track though I followed for six miles (as the crow flies). I was young so the routine was to literally run down the track until the track showed the deer to be slowing down. And then one would advance a step or two and stop and look and look and look before taking the next step or two.That deer walked six miles straight never slowing down and then when it came to the East branch of the Penobscot it went straight across on the ice part and swam across the open water spot without missing a beat. I had to turn back at that point. Six miles back was a long ways. The woods were big and six miles twice in one day filled the day. With up to 33 guys in our camp we would never see each other in the woods and the distance between roads was six to 15 miles or so. And those were just gravel logging roads.
Mark, the thread was just as I listed, "Why are you on the edge all the time?" I found it by doing a google search for hunting beasts and then clicking on Public Land Hunting on the beast index. The thread was five or six down from the top.
Mark, the thread was just as I listed, "Why are you on the edge all the time?" I found it by doing a google search for hunting beasts and then clicking on Public Land Hunting on the beast index. The thread was five or six down from the top.
