{"podcast":{"title":"Hunt West Podcast","slug":"hunt-west-podcast-7078834","podcast_index_feed_id":7078834,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/553162/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/huntwest","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/2/4/e/024e6bba670f23c327a2322813b393ee/HW_Pod_Cover_Art_White.png","author":"Jaden Bales","episode_count":110,"summary":"The Hunt West Podcast is for hunters who'd rather wear out a pair of boots than a YouTube playlist. Most hunting podcasts give you campfire stories, gear hype, or endless tag talk. Hunt West is different. This is applied hunting wisdom — the stuff that actually helps you find critters and fill tags in the wild country west of the 100th meridian. Hosted by Jaden Bales — hunt consultant, mule deer junkie, and professional tag nerd — the show mixes solo riffs, guest conversations, and hard-earned lessons from real hunts. You'll get strategies for e-scouting, application hacks, mindset shifts, and the kind of woodsmanship that still matters when the Wi-Fi goes dark. If you're the kind of hunter who loves general seasons, sharp steel, glassing knobs, and planning three tags ahead — welcome home.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T20:22:24.062654+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hunt-west-podcast-7078834"},"episode":{"title":"How We Build Mule Deer Hunt Plans On Scouted Bucks with Garrison Kinsel","slug":"how-we-build-mule-deer-hunt-plans-on-scouted-bucks-with-garrison-kinsel","published_at":"2026-09-05T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hunt-west-podcast-7078834/how-we-build-mule-deer-hunt-plans-on-scouted-bucks-with-garrison-kinsel","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hunt-west-podcast-7078834","url":"https://huntwest.net/how-we-build-mule-deer-hunt-plans-on-scouted-bucks-with-garrison-kinsel","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/ac1d913b-8d7b-4b44-b5f3-6dbc4520f94e/Pre-Season_Plan_with_Garrison_Kinsel_1.mp3?dest-id=4776387","summary":"Opening day is where an entire summer of mule deer scouting collides with reality. Jaden sits down with Garrison Kinsel to compare their scouting seasons and lay out their actual plans for the opening days of Montana's archery season and Colorado's muzzleloader season. Both hunters have identified mature target bucks, but the picture is already changing. Trail cameras have gone quiet, bucks have shifted elevation, high-country vegetation is drying out, and other hunters are beginning to appear. Jaden and Garrison discuss why a missing buck may have only changed his travel route, how water and feed can reshape late-summer patterns, and why hunters often need to expand their search before abandoning a productive area. They also break down how they are ranking their A, B and C locations, adjusting their tolerance for hunting pressure, and deciding between aggressive spot-and-stalk plays, ambushes and still-hunting. Garrison plans to scout several C-tier locations before committing to his original target bucks, while Jaden intends to hunt aggressively on opening morning before falling back to lower-pressure country. This episode is a real-time look at turning summer scouting into a hunting plan that can survive opening-day chaos. If you have a buck scouted, recently lost track of one, or placed too many eggs in one honey-hole basket, this conversation will help you decide what to do next. Show Links: Follow Garrison Kinsel on Instagram Get the Hunt West Digest Sunday Email Learn About the Hunt West Argentina Red Stag Trip Need help with a last-minute hunting problem? Email Jaden at jaden@huntwest.net Thanks to Bo DePena, a musician, friend and avid hunter in Colorado, for the intro and outro music for the show.","meta_description":"Opening day is where an entire summer of mule deer scouting collides with reality. Jaden sits down with Garrison Kinsel to compare their scouting seasons…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4370,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hunt-west-podcast-7078834/episodes/how-we-build-mule-deer-hunt-plans-on-scouted-bucks-with-garrison-kinsel/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hunt-west-podcast-7078834/how-we-build-mule-deer-hunt-plans-on-scouted-bucks-with-garrison-kinsel.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}