Deer Biologist Explains Why Scrapes Peak Two Weeks Before the Rut w/ Dr. Karl Miller (Part 1)

Podcast: East Meets West Hunt · Beau Martonik

Opublikowano: 2026-08-25

Beau Martonik sits down with Dr. Karl Miller of the University of Georgia, where he spent 40 years leading deer research and mentoring close to 100 graduate students. Karl grew up hunting the Pennsylvania big woods before he went south for his PhD, and much of what hunters take for granted about rubs and scrapes came out of his lab. The core of this conversation is signpost communication. Karl walks through why bucks make rubs in the first place, and what one of his students found when he ran a chemical analysis on forehead gland secretions: 67 different compounds, and n...