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Ep. 953: Rut Fresh Radio - 2025 Kickoff, Early Season Intel, and Giant Wisconsin 8 Down · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the
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Speaker 1: Wired to Hunt podcast, and we are back for another
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Speaker 1: season of our rut Fresh radio mini series. This is
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Speaker 1: like season eight, maybe it's been a long time running.
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Speaker 1: It's a fan favor every season. Come the fall, we
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Speaker 1: do this extra drop, which if you are not familiar,
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Speaker 1: I want to give you a very fast rundown of
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Speaker 1: what this show will entail this week and every week
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Speaker 1: from now on through the rest of the season. What
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Speaker 1: we're doing is we are chatting with a handful of
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Speaker 1: different deer hunters from across the country every single week
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Speaker 1: to find out what they've been seeing in the woods,
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Speaker 1: what kinds of behavior they have been noticing, how recent
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Speaker 1: weather factors or conditions or atmospheric conditions, whatever be, how
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Speaker 1: that stuff's impacting deer movement, how the changing habitat out
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Speaker 1: there is impacting deer movement, deer behavior and hunting strategy,
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Speaker 1: and how all of this can help you he was
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Speaker 1: a hunter in your coming hunts over the next three,
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Speaker 1: four or five, six, seven days. That's what we do,
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Speaker 1: quick hits with people all across the country to get
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Speaker 1: the most recent relevant information to help you as a
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Speaker 1: deer hunter. This week. So that's what the show is.
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Speaker 1: And it's been like that for like I said, seven
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Speaker 1: or eight or nine years now. Now what is different
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Speaker 1: this year is that we have a new captain for
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Speaker 1: the rot Fresh ship. This year, my good buddy mister
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Speaker 1: j Koefer is taking the reins from our palace Tyler
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Speaker 1: and Casey, who've ran the show for the last two
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Speaker 1: or three years. Jake just ran an awesome mini series
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Speaker 1: called the Back forty Podcast, which hopefully you heard, that
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Speaker 1: is wrapping up and now rutfresh is kicking off. So Jake,
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Speaker 1: great work with a Back forty and welcome to rot
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Speaker 1: Fresh Radio.
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Speaker 2: Hey, it's great to be here, and it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: an exciting fall and it's gonna be a roller coaster.
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Speaker 2: There's gonna be things that we can predict and there's
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Speaker 2: gonna be things we can't predict, and it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: great to get and idea what's going on across the country.
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Speaker 2: And I would say this too, key weather fronts. You
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Speaker 2: can listen to a guy that's maybe further west and
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Speaker 2: what was he seeing just a couple of days ago,
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Speaker 2: and how can it apply to your neck of the
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Speaker 2: woods or north to south.
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Speaker 3: So really excited for it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you've heard this episode, You've heard this
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Speaker 1: show as a listener, You've tuned in as a listener
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Speaker 1: over the year, so you know what it's all about.
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Speaker 1: But you've never been in the captain's seat having to
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Speaker 1: find these people, talk to these people, extract useful information
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Speaker 1: from them. How are you feeling about this new responsibility
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Speaker 1: that you bear, having to be the conduit for tens
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Speaker 1: of thousands of people to get the information they need
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Speaker 1: this week to have success in the field.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel that pressure maybe a little bit now.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be great to hear the success of
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Speaker 2: you know, people having throughout the season, or maybe the
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Speaker 2: struggles or just the anticipation of the season builds up.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like it's going to be contagious
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Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to it. I mean, we have
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Speaker 2: some really good guests here for this week, and we
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Speaker 2: actually have one if a guy that shot a really wide,
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Speaker 2: awesome buck and so as a as a deer hunting fan,
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Speaker 2: I'm excited to hear the story firsthand and see what
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Speaker 2: he keyed it on. And so it's great to be here,
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Speaker 2: grateful for the opportunity, and it's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 2: of fun.
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Speaker 1: So is there anything new that we should be watching
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Speaker 1: for this year? With you running the show? And you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm here this episode, but I'm I probably won't be
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Speaker 1: around for most of the episodes. You'll be running the
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Speaker 1: whole show from here on out. I'll drop in as
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Speaker 1: a guest here and there. But do you have any
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Speaker 1: changes you're wanting to make? Is there anything new coming
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Speaker 1: down the pipeline that we should be watching.
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Speaker 2: For The plane is gonna get built in the air,
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Speaker 2: so as it sits expect some really good information.
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Speaker 3: You know why.
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Speaker 2: It's been a favorite in the past. And I feel
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Speaker 2: like once I get my sleeves up and maybe ankle
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Speaker 2: deep in some mud, there's very possible there's gonna be
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Speaker 2: some audibles or some different approaches here. So that's that's
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Speaker 2: my foreshadowing without an idea of what the foreshadowy really is,
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Speaker 2: and for there that's fair.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: One thing, though, am I right? Are you still planning
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Speaker 1: on having video for all of these interviews? This is
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Speaker 1: that right?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: All of them are still gonna be video.
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Speaker 2: There'll be some challenges, yeah, there'll be some challenges throughout here,
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Speaker 2: so that is one of the biggest changes. And I
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Speaker 2: feel sometimes it's crazy just how many people watch podcasts
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Speaker 2: on YouTube now. And I think that audio is great.
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Speaker 2: But to see the excitement or maybe see the dark
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Speaker 2: circles under my eyes or guest eyes. They've been out,
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Speaker 2: you know, in the in the woods chasing deer for
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Speaker 2: three weeks, four weeks or a week slid, it's going
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Speaker 2: to be fun to look at my face. I guess
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Speaker 2: week one here in September, September, and then by the
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Speaker 2: end of December, see what I look like.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know what you should try to do. Here's
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Speaker 1: a little stretch goal for you. If we could somehow
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Speaker 1: get some of our successful guests, you know who just
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Speaker 1: kill the deer. We got to get some of these
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Speaker 1: guys to like take us out to the truck or
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Speaker 1: to the barn, or to wherever they've got there. Did
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Speaker 1: I want to see some of these deer in real life.
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Speaker 1: That'd be pretty fun, a great story. So if that
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Speaker 1: works for anyone, try to get that. I'd love to
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Speaker 1: see some video of these deer that we're getting the
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Speaker 1: recent stories and recent information from or another good one.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we can get someone to report to us from
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Speaker 1: a tree. I don't think that's ever happened before. We've
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Speaker 1: never hit anyone calling before from a hunt where they
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Speaker 1: can actually show us what things are looking like right now.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that won't work because they'll be whispering on a podcast,
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Speaker 1: which doesn't sound ideal.
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Speaker 3: But brainstorming here I'm supposed to do.
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Speaker 2: I might be hosting from the tree at one point,
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Speaker 2: so we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: I love it, so okay, so that's the game plan.
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Speaker 1: That's what we have to look forward to. What else
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Speaker 1: do you want to cover here before we get to
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Speaker 1: the interviews?
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Speaker 3: I think that's that's the premise. I'm excited.
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Speaker 2: Hopefully everyone is just chomping at the bit for this
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Speaker 2: upcoming season. I know some folks are still waiting for
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Speaker 2: that October one date to hit the calendar, but there's
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Speaker 2: people that are up and going and we've been talking
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Speaker 2: with them, and uh, that's pretty much all the housekeeping
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Speaker 2: I can think of for the time being. And I
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Speaker 2: know you recently just got back from a trip and
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Speaker 2: I haven't I don't know how it went, and so
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Speaker 2: I'm really eager to hear your Western Adventures slash Fishing
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Speaker 2: trip too like Hunting and Fishing trip.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the cast and the last we're going to be
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Speaker 1: doing a full podcast on it, so I won't give
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Speaker 1: away too much, but I can tell you that probably
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Speaker 1: one of the big things that we experienced on this
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Speaker 1: trip is something that a lot of folks are going
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Speaker 1: to be experiencing over the next week as they're listening
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Speaker 1: to this, which is still a lot of these hot
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Speaker 1: and dry conditions. And I'm really curious to hear from
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Speaker 1: the other guests that you have on the show today
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Speaker 1: about how they are dealing with this weather, don't I
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Speaker 1: don't think this is unique to me. I think that
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Speaker 1: this has been a very dry, hot, you know, late
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Speaker 1: summer and early fall for a lot of people, and
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Speaker 1: I gotta believe that's going to be impacting deer and
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Speaker 1: deer hunting strategies. I'm I'm, you know, seeing this with
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Speaker 1: my food plots. I've never had a worse food plot year.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you had the same problem, but
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Speaker 1: it has been horrible by us. So I'm just very
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Speaker 1: curious how is that going to impact people's food plots
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Speaker 1: and they're hunting strategies around green plots and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: How is this dry weather going to impact people with
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Speaker 1: mass crops this year? Are the mass crops going to
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Speaker 1: be impacted by that? What about water sources? Are the
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Speaker 1: little isolated water holes and maybe people usually depend on
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Speaker 1: in the early season, are those going to be dried
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Speaker 1: up and not you know, available for us to hunt over?
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Speaker 1: What about EHD? I've been hearing more and more reports
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Speaker 1: of EHD in certain parts of the country. Is that
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Speaker 1: going to be popping up and really impacting people's seasons?
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Speaker 1: All of that is very much on my mind right now,
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Speaker 1: based on what I've seen and heard. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if you've heard any of this with your interviews so far,
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Speaker 1: but I'm curious.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's already been a common occurrence. EHD has
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Speaker 2: been brought up the just the level of dryness from
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Speaker 2: failed food plots, potentially acorn dropping maybe a little bit earlier.
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Speaker 2: In some parts of the country, crops got in late,
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Speaker 2: so they say that crop's going to be out, you
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Speaker 2: know a little bit later this fall, and obviously that
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Speaker 2: can change things.
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Speaker 1: And then.
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Speaker 2: For some of it too, it's so dry that some
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Speaker 2: of the crops are going to come out early, So
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Speaker 2: it's it feels like we're getting a little shaky start
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Speaker 2: to the season, like the stage is not set as
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Speaker 2: of right now to be.
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Speaker 3: This amazing thing. We had a really wet July.
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Speaker 2: You know, It's like there was a lot of things
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Speaker 2: that we're setting up a really exciting year, and now
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Speaker 2: mother nature seems to be even the playing field as
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Speaker 2: we get closer to a lot of these season openers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I hate I feel like many seasons we're
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Speaker 1: kicking it off with a lot of excitement, and for
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Speaker 1: some reason, I'm kicking off this season with like some apprehension. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because of some of those things we just talked about.
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Speaker 1: So I just don't know. I'm a little bit nervous.
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Speaker 1: I'm feeling nerves from people right now given some of that,
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Speaker 1: especially the EHD thing, I think, yeah, it's getting that's
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Speaker 1: getting scary for a lot of folks.
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Speaker 2: So I actually I call. I called my local game
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Speaker 2: boarden yesterday just to see have you heard any rumblings
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Speaker 2: of a BHD in this area?
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Speaker 3: And he said no, not at this time.
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Speaker 2: I talked to not in regard to refresh, but just
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Speaker 2: talk to some folks where not you know, southern Ohio
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Speaker 2: places outside of there that are experiencing them some EHD
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Speaker 2: or people getting nervous that deer are disappearing. And then
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Speaker 2: you know, we did that podcast on the back forty
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Speaker 2: about failed food plots and I had I had bragged
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Speaker 2: that I typically had don't have failed food plots. I
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Speaker 2: do have a failed food plot here where I live.
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Speaker 2: And I went out there last week and I said,
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Speaker 2: why is there no germination? But on some of the
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Speaker 2: other ones, they're they're coming up. Okay, But man, we
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Speaker 2: need we need some rite.
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Speaker 1: We need rain so bad, so bad. Well, I'll be
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Speaker 1: doing rain dances over here. I hope you'll be doing
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Speaker 1: the same. And maybe between all of us here, uh
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Speaker 1: listening to the Wired hunt podcast and deer hunters all
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Speaker 1: over the country, of all of our rain dances are
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Speaker 1: done at the right times, enough times, maybe we'll finally
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Speaker 1: get some of that pre sip that we so desperately need. So, uh, Jake,
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Speaker 1: who who are we hearing from today? Who are we
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Speaker 1: hearing from? Where are they from? What's coming up next?
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Speaker 3: We have Cameron Dirt.
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Speaker 2: He had success in North Dakota earlier this month, and
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Speaker 2: he's gonna be You had to listen on how excited
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Speaker 2: he is about the Ohio opener.
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Speaker 3: We have Joe Cater from Missouri.
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Speaker 2: Their season opened up September fifteenth, and his approach and
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Speaker 2: what he's keen in on. He's had success in the
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Speaker 2: early season when when conditions are right, and it doesn't
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Speaker 2: sound like he's as bullish as it sits right here now.
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Speaker 2: And then we have our gentleman from Wisconsin who killed
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Speaker 2: a beautiful deer is and his name is Mitch Stam
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Speaker 2: and the Deer Society posted recently it's a very very
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Speaker 2: impressive frame deer and he shot that on the first
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Speaker 2: sit of the season. So we're gonna hear how all
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Speaker 2: that came together, and it's gonna be a great kickoff
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Speaker 2: to refresh and I hope everyone tunes in every single
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Speaker 2: week because it's gonna get it's gonna get more exciting.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna things are gonna fall into our lap and
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Speaker 2: there's gonna be some positive bounces along the way.
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Speaker 3: And I'm very very excited. So we have some great guests.
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Speaker 1: Awesome, well, Jake, thank you for taking my baby and
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Speaker 1: stewarding it into this next phase of its life. I'm
11:04
Speaker 1: excited for the Ja Koper era of Retfresh Radio, and
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Speaker 1: let's get to those interviews.
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Speaker 3: Thanks, Let's do it.
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Speaker 1: Real quick.
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Speaker 2: Before we get into the episode with the guests, I
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Speaker 2: want to let you know that Roughresh is brought to
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11:28
Speaker 2: properties here in the US. All right, we got Cameron
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Speaker 2: Der on the line. He recently tagged a buck in
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Speaker 2: North Dakota. He's back home in Ohio and your season
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Speaker 2: is opening up this weekend. But you kicked off the season.
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Speaker 2: How everyone dreams with a buck tagged out on an
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Speaker 2: out of state trip.
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Speaker 3: Where were you and what were you doing?
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Speaker 5: I was in Minnesota. I'm just kidding. I was in
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Speaker 5: North Dakota. Went out there for the archery opener.
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Speaker 6: This year.
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Speaker 5: It opened earlier than it's ever opened. August twenty ninth
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Speaker 5: was the opener, so we were like, man, we could
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Speaker 5: really hone in on a deer doing something consistency, with
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Speaker 5: some consistency, And I actually took a trip out there
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Speaker 5: in July at the end of July to hang cameras
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Speaker 5: and kind of figure out what the deer we're doing.
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Speaker 5: The way it goes is when you take those trips
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Speaker 5: out early and think you have something pinned down, you
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Speaker 5: get out there to hunt at that time deer shedding
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Speaker 5: and they start doing crazy things and you lose them.
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Speaker 5: So it was a game of game of glass and
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Speaker 5: a game of time, and I was able to connect.
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Speaker 2: What was one or two key things that put you
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Speaker 2: an opportunity but to be you know, sub twenty yards
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Speaker 2: with with a buck that you were happy to shoot,
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Speaker 2: you know, target buck.
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Speaker 5: So we've been going out there for five years and
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Speaker 5: I learned a lot in those progressions. But out in
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Speaker 5: those scenarios glasses, the time behind glass and really figuring
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Speaker 5: out what deer are doing. It's so open that it
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Speaker 5: may seem like a deer doesn't have a trail or
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Speaker 5: a pattern or something that you can hone in on.
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Speaker 5: But if you spend enough time behind the glass watching them,
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Speaker 5: there are areas where they're vulnerable. There will be some
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Speaker 5: type of terrain pinch or some type of something that
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Speaker 5: you can take advantage if you spend enough time behind glass.
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Speaker 5: If I watch this deer do something one time and
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Speaker 5: I was like, okay, well I'm gonna go kill him,
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Speaker 5: I wouldn't get it done and I learned that over
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Speaker 5: the time of being out there. So watch them do
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Speaker 5: the same thing on camera three times, physically watched them
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Speaker 5: with glass twice, and then I made my strategic move.
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Speaker 2: You come from a tree, come from the ground. What
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Speaker 2: is your strategy If it's really open, I have to
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Speaker 2: imagine traditional Midwest. I'm going to be getting a tree
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Speaker 2: or wise off twenty feet up. It's probably not in
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Speaker 2: your playbook.
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Speaker 5: No, No, this area, it doesn't have this particular farm
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Speaker 5: that we were on, there are no tree. There's not
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Speaker 5: a tree on the farms, a fourteen hundred acre piece
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Speaker 5: that does not have a single tree on it. There's
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Speaker 5: some shrubby brush things that would be like head high
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Speaker 5: that if they were in the right position, you could
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Speaker 5: make a hide out of it. But in this particular area,
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Speaker 5: I had a standing corn field behind me, standing beans
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Speaker 5: in front of me, and I had a draw that
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Speaker 5: was going down into a lake below me. In between
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Speaker 5: the beans and the corn there's a bunch of sage.
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Speaker 5: So the sage is like if you get into it,
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Speaker 5: it's like head high strategy we've used in the past
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Speaker 5: is taken like a t post or a fence post
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Speaker 5: or something in there with us and like zip tying
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Speaker 5: some of that sage to it, just to give you
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Speaker 5: some sort of structure in front of you. And then
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Speaker 5: the standing corn was kind of like my backdrop and
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Speaker 5: some sage. So it's a fantastic hide. It's worked for
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Speaker 5: me twice in the same exact little sage pinch. When
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Speaker 5: you get that crop rotation of corn and beans, you
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Speaker 5: have that edge out there, dynamite and below me was
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Speaker 5: a cattail slew. If you have cattails, standing corn, standing
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Speaker 5: beans in the first week of September in Dakota State,
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Speaker 5: you're in a pretty good situation.
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Speaker 2: What about you know we're near the end of the
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Speaker 2: month of September. Would you say that same strategy and
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Speaker 2: advice would ring true if someone had a tag in
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Speaker 2: their pocket and they're in the Dakota's or they're in
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Speaker 2: a plain state, you know, ready to go this weekend.
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Speaker 5: If there are trees in the area, like oak trees
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Speaker 5: and stuff, oaks are dropping and deer are are going
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Speaker 5: to prefer the oaks. But in those ag areas where
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Speaker 5: the beans are still green. The Dakota's were wet this year,
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Speaker 5: so they got a really good stand crop stand. If
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Speaker 5: the beans are still green. Yeah, that's that's exactly what
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Speaker 5: I would still be doing it. But if you are
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Speaker 5: in other areas that are going to have oaks, oaks
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Speaker 5: are dropping and bucks are switching for sure.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so now Ohio is going to be opening this weekend,
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Speaker 2: what's your what's your strategy? You know you already have
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Speaker 2: one down right, So what is your strategy an outlook
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Speaker 2: over the next seven days for Ohio's opener.
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Speaker 3: A lot of people are excited.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure there' given me a lot of people that
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Speaker 2: are gonna go out there and scratch that edge they've
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Speaker 2: been waiting a long time to hunt for the first time.
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Speaker 3: And their respective home state.
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Speaker 2: If it's Ohio, what would you say or what are
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Speaker 2: you paying attention to as the season is about to open.
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Speaker 5: Temperatures and oaks for this weekend? But depending on what
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Speaker 5: part of Ohio you're in right now, I severely fear
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Speaker 5: for you. If you're in the southeast portion, I don't
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Speaker 5: know what you do down there, I don't I don't
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Speaker 5: know what you plan to do. Do you even hunt
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Speaker 5: this year?
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Speaker 4: I don't know?
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Speaker 3: Is that Have you heard it being that severe?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? There was a report It's like on Facebook and
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Speaker 5: I didn't validate it, but they said they were over
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Speaker 5: seven thousand deer reported reported in ten Yes, that's not
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Speaker 5: what hasn't been reported or hasn't been found. So it's
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Speaker 5: really ugly in the southeast portion right now. So you
17:09
Speaker 5: probably are gonna get yourself in a situation where you're
17:12
Speaker 5: gonna travel or go somewhere new. And if you're in
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Speaker 5: that boat right now, I would be paying attention to oaks.
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Speaker 5: Oaks are starting to drop. It's been so dry there
17:22
Speaker 5: seems like they're dropping a little earlier than maybe typical.
17:26
Speaker 5: So yeah, oaks. For me, I'm going to pay attention
17:30
Speaker 5: to the weather. I have that tag filled, so I'm
17:33
Speaker 5: not itching or dying to get out there. And right
17:36
Speaker 5: now the outlook doesn't look too great for temperatures mid
17:40
Speaker 5: mid to high seventies. A couple of weeks ago it
17:43
Speaker 5: was in the sixties and feeling right and then we
17:47
Speaker 5: had this warm spell pop up. So in the outlook
17:50
Speaker 5: that I have right now, there's not that cold front.
17:52
Speaker 5: But when we get that cold front, if you have
17:54
Speaker 5: a deer still doing some sort of pattern on on
17:58
Speaker 5: some oaks, or if you still have green beans, they're
18:01
Speaker 5: yellowing up really quick. But right now it's all bed
18:04
Speaker 5: to food and temperatures.
18:07
Speaker 2: If you had to put a scale one to ten
18:10
Speaker 2: for the next seven days with your guys season opening Saturday,
18:14
Speaker 2: ten being electric best it's ever been, and one being
18:18
Speaker 2: you're not going to probably send an alarm on Saturday.
18:20
Speaker 3: Where does it fall?
18:24
Speaker 5: Time of year plays into a lot of this, But
18:25
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say like a five. I'm in the middle.
18:29
Speaker 5: I don't feel great about it because you're not getting
18:32
Speaker 5: the most optimal temperatures. But if you're in a position
18:35
Speaker 5: where you have a deer doing something with some sort
18:37
Speaker 5: of consistency, he's not been pressured yet. This first week
18:42
Speaker 5: of the season for a lot of people is go time.
18:44
Speaker 5: It is the time to take advantage of that. So
18:47
Speaker 5: for me personally, I don't have that situation. The deer
18:52
Speaker 5: are switching into smokes and I got to move some
18:54
Speaker 5: ultary cameras around and figure them out a little bit more,
18:58
Speaker 5: spend too much time focusing on north of Yoda. But yeah,
19:02
Speaker 5: I would put it at like a five. But if
19:04
Speaker 5: you're in a situation where you have a deer pinned
19:06
Speaker 5: down and you know what he's doing, it's probably a
19:08
Speaker 5: little higher. On that scale for the first week of
19:10
Speaker 5: the season.
19:11
Speaker 3: I love it.
19:11
Speaker 2: Well, the time is here. Congratulations once again on successful
19:16
Speaker 2: Dakota's buck. It's always great to it's almost like is
19:19
Speaker 2: the sun going to come up? Is camera going to
19:21
Speaker 2: shoot a buck in the Dakota's it's almost you shoot it,
19:24
Speaker 2: you show it in. So congratulations with that. Awesome, awesome
19:27
Speaker 2: to hear that story. And good luck this season, good
19:29
Speaker 2: luck this weekend if you head out, and thank you
19:31
Speaker 2: so much.
19:32
Speaker 4: Thank you.
19:33
Speaker 3: All Right, we got Joe Cater on the line.
19:35
Speaker 2: He's in Missouri and their season has already been opened.
19:41
Speaker 2: How is everything going in Missouri? It's a little hot,
19:43
Speaker 2: it's a little dry. What have you been seen or
19:47
Speaker 2: not seen?
19:48
Speaker 7: So it's kind of been all over the place. I've
19:52
Speaker 7: got a couple of shooters that have been on my
19:56
Speaker 7: dad's form, but it's one of those spots where it's
20:00
Speaker 7: it's a duck hunt farm. He's a duck hunter, so
20:03
Speaker 7: he's always up there being retired and doing whatever he wants,
20:06
Speaker 7: scaring the hell out of everything. But so I haven't
20:10
Speaker 7: those deer have not been regular in any way, shape
20:12
Speaker 7: or form. And I'm really concerned that you know that
20:17
Speaker 7: three letter word we all fear when the drought comes
20:19
Speaker 7: is EHD. So I haven't had pictures either one of
20:24
Speaker 7: those deer for three weeks, two three weeks at least,
20:29
Speaker 7: and haven't had any rain of any measurable content over
20:34
Speaker 7: there for probably six weeks.
20:36
Speaker 4: I want to say, yeah, six weeks. My fault plot's
20:38
Speaker 4: over there, complete loss.
20:40
Speaker 7: So here at home, we had a half inch the
20:45
Speaker 7: other day, but again before that, it.
20:47
Speaker 4: Was I mean, I haven't had any rain since July.
20:51
Speaker 7: So I redrilled fault plots Saturday when cereal grains because
20:58
Speaker 7: they just I mean it's hard, you know, unless you have.
21:01
Speaker 4: A really good way to irrigate.
21:02
Speaker 7: And I'm busy trying to stay married and raising my family,
21:06
Speaker 7: so that's uh, that's priority number one. So uh, it's
21:12
Speaker 7: just been kind of tough. Uh had one years, probably
21:15
Speaker 7: a shooter here at my house at least one, and
21:17
Speaker 7: there's another one that it's kind of hard because at
21:20
Speaker 7: my home home farm there, you know, I'm I'm kind
21:24
Speaker 7: of in the hills off of the river bottoms, and
21:26
Speaker 7: until they cut those crops in the bottom, I don't
21:28
Speaker 7: see a whole lot of activity as far as mature
21:31
Speaker 7: bucks go.
21:32
Speaker 4: So that's kind of that's kind.
21:34
Speaker 2: Of where we're Yeah, what would you say, are you
21:38
Speaker 2: anticipating crops to get out on time this year? If
21:40
Speaker 2: you had a guess when they might eventually get out?
21:42
Speaker 2: I mean, what's kind of your prediction for that if
21:44
Speaker 2: if for folks that have similar situation.
21:47
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're gonna be a little bit behind of where
21:50
Speaker 7: what we would consider normal here in north central Missouri.
21:53
Speaker 7: We had a rotary club dinner Monday night, and I'm
21:56
Speaker 7: surrounded by farmers at that thing, and you know, there's
22:00
Speaker 7: probably gonna start cutting here this weekend, is the word
22:02
Speaker 7: on the street. As far as cutting corn. There's you know,
22:07
Speaker 7: because a lot of those crops we had a very
22:09
Speaker 7: wet spring and summer. We had a very wet springing summer,
22:13
Speaker 7: and you know, they didn't get a lot of those
22:17
Speaker 7: crops in the time that they normally do.
22:20
Speaker 4: So that's just kind of what the cars that we're
22:24
Speaker 4: dealt right now.
22:25
Speaker 2: So so looking you know, looking at the extended forecast,
22:29
Speaker 2: looks like it's still going to be warm this upcoming weekend.
22:32
Speaker 2: You know, your season at that point had been open
22:34
Speaker 2: for you know, almost two weeks or so. Are you
22:38
Speaker 2: are you going to be out and doing dope patrol.
22:41
Speaker 2: Are you going to be sitting back and waiting? What
22:44
Speaker 2: is your strategy going into this upcoming weekend, you know,
22:47
Speaker 2: like the twenty fifth or twenty sixth of September.
22:50
Speaker 4: Unless I got a deer that's doing something.
22:54
Speaker 7: Silly on a fault plot that's doing well the first
22:58
Speaker 7: few weeks of the season.
22:58
Speaker 4: I'm just kind of a hurry up and wait kind
23:00
Speaker 4: of guy.
23:02
Speaker 7: I mean, if you're one of those guys that's got
23:04
Speaker 7: a got deer on camera doing something in daylight, I mean,
23:08
Speaker 7: get after him, because well, the deer on the wall
23:11
Speaker 7: behind me, I killed him on September twentieth. You just
23:13
Speaker 7: got to have you just got to have the right
23:15
Speaker 7: cards played, and you know, the deer have to exist
23:18
Speaker 7: and be in order to be able to hunt a
23:20
Speaker 7: mature buck. So you know, if you're if you're getting
23:24
Speaker 7: consistent pictures of one even though it's hot, I mean,
23:26
Speaker 7: get out there, you know. But that's that's kind of
23:30
Speaker 7: what's you know, I've had limited early season success only
23:34
Speaker 7: because the opportunity was there. And if the opportunity is
23:37
Speaker 7: there and you got cameras out or any MRI, you know,
23:39
Speaker 7: get after him. But but I'm kind of My farm
23:42
Speaker 7: is mostly CRP and it got sixty acre September, but
23:46
Speaker 7: it's that's my home form. But it's just kind of
23:50
Speaker 7: one of those spots to where once I get those
23:52
Speaker 7: crops out, it really picks up after the first of
23:54
Speaker 7: October tenth of October, that's kind of when things start
23:58
Speaker 7: getting real. I just took my electric fin down off
24:00
Speaker 7: my beans last week, so and they're the beans. Did
24:03
Speaker 7: I mean the crop? The spring plots did incredible. I
24:08
Speaker 7: think we I don't want to speak for the whole
24:11
Speaker 7: entire area, but I lost something like twelve fourteen inches
24:14
Speaker 7: of rain in July in Missouri.
24:17
Speaker 4: It is like crazy, it's crazy.
24:19
Speaker 7: It's you know, so my soy beans are not up
24:24
Speaker 7: to my chin, but you know they're incredible. And those
24:27
Speaker 7: were late ones, just because I had I had a
24:32
Speaker 7: wrong variety.
24:33
Speaker 4: Of beans and I messed up and spray two four
24:35
Speaker 4: D on them.
24:36
Speaker 7: But just I when in the spring I'm like super
24:42
Speaker 7: busy with all the different plots and things, and.
24:46
Speaker 4: Draped the wrong bottle. That's all it was to it.
24:48
Speaker 7: So I smoked them and had to replant them. I
24:51
Speaker 7: replanted some for a buddy on July fourth, and they're
24:54
Speaker 7: up almost up to my waist. So just because I
24:57
Speaker 7: how much moisture and that's not very good dirt either,
25:01
Speaker 7: So but just go go ahead.
25:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you had to for someone listening, if there
25:08
Speaker 2: was one specific food source with you know this warm
25:12
Speaker 2: temperatures that's been dry or I guess one one terrain
25:16
Speaker 2: feature one one a focal point to fill a tag
25:20
Speaker 2: on a buck, and you had to and you had
25:22
Speaker 2: to look at it over the next seven days, you know,
25:24
Speaker 2: twenty second on what is the one thing that you'd
25:27
Speaker 2: be keenan on the.
25:28
Speaker 7: Most attentionally history in years past. If you've got that
25:32
Speaker 7: white oakridge just dropping acorns, do not overlook that without
25:36
Speaker 7: any MRI. If you're just one of those guys that's
25:38
Speaker 7: got to get in the woods even though you don't
25:39
Speaker 7: have any intel, got it, gostit and white overridge or
25:44
Speaker 7: something were historically you've had acorns drop. Because even though
25:48
Speaker 7: around here anyway, even though we didn't have a whole
25:51
Speaker 7: heck of a lot of rain recently, you know, we
25:54
Speaker 7: are still going to have a really good acorn drop
25:57
Speaker 7: on timber farms. I don't have a ton of timber
25:59
Speaker 7: on my form, but I've got some permission spots to do.
26:02
Speaker 7: And if I get a wild hair and the family's
26:04
Speaker 7: all good, you know, I'll still go sit in eighty
26:07
Speaker 7: five degrees on a white oak bridge on a spot
26:09
Speaker 7: that I got and which is actually not very far
26:13
Speaker 7: from where that deer came from behind me. So yeah,
26:19
Speaker 7: that's that's kind of something that I would key in
26:20
Speaker 7: on if you're somewhere that just got to get in
26:22
Speaker 7: the tree without the MRI so.
26:24
Speaker 2: Love it all right, So in the next seven days,
26:28
Speaker 2: ten being the best week of hunting of your entire
26:31
Speaker 2: life and one being yeah, you'd be just fine if
26:35
Speaker 2: you don't go.
26:36
Speaker 3: H that would be one one to ten. Where does
26:38
Speaker 3: the next seven days fall.
26:40
Speaker 4: For me or for everybody? For you?
26:42
Speaker 2: For you, and for Missouri. You're you're speaking for the
26:45
Speaker 2: state of Missouri right now.
26:47
Speaker 7: I mean three maybe, yeah, you know, I mean I did.
26:53
Speaker 7: I did get into recurve a little bit.
26:55
Speaker 4: I've got to recurve a.
26:56
Speaker 7: Few months ago, and I've been jam and arrows into
26:59
Speaker 7: the hay bill. With that, I might get a wild
27:00
Speaker 7: hair to go try and spek a dough, But other
27:04
Speaker 7: than that, I'm.
27:05
Speaker 4: Kind of I'm kind of laid back in the early season.
27:07
Speaker 7: You know, if something shakes out to where I got
27:09
Speaker 7: some MRI, I got to make sure that Jesus is
27:11
Speaker 7: worth the squeeze when I leave the family, you know,
27:14
Speaker 7: with a four year old and an eight year old
27:16
Speaker 7: to to finn for.
27:18
Speaker 4: Let my wife fends for so well. I love it.
27:21
Speaker 3: I love it.
27:22
Speaker 2: Joe, Well, good luck, appreciate the insight, and uh, it's
27:26
Speaker 2: gonna get better. So if so, hopefully someone doesn't get discouraged.
27:30
Speaker 2: It's a long season and we're gonna get some cold fronts.
27:33
Speaker 2: You know, everything's going to happen the way it's supposed
27:35
Speaker 2: to do. But you know, we're in the very first
27:37
Speaker 2: leg of the race here.
27:38
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I still got dear.
27:39
Speaker 7: They're packing velvet, so I mean, it's not you know,
27:41
Speaker 7: it's kind of one of those things that where you know,
27:43
Speaker 7: hurry up and wait and then go like hell when
27:45
Speaker 7: it gets you right for you in your particular situation.
27:48
Speaker 4: Love it.
27:48
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Joe. Good luck this season.
27:50
Speaker 4: You bet you too, buddy.
27:52
Speaker 2: Next up on the line, we have Mitch, and Mitch
27:55
Speaker 2: is fresh off killing a giant in Wisconsin. How does
27:59
Speaker 2: it feel, Mitch, You're kicking off the season with a
28:02
Speaker 2: lot of intensity.
28:04
Speaker 6: Feels pretty incredible and not gonna lie like getting her
28:07
Speaker 6: done on eighty three degree weather is almost unheard of
28:12
Speaker 6: without a cold front or anything that early. But got
28:14
Speaker 6: lucky that he was still sticking to that summer pattern
28:17
Speaker 6: kind of and got after him.
28:20
Speaker 2: I love it, so give us set the stage for us.
28:23
Speaker 2: So it was eighty eighty some degrees and he was
28:26
Speaker 2: sticking to a summer pattern. Where was he going to?
28:29
Speaker 2: How far do you think he was coming out of
28:30
Speaker 2: a bedding area? And I'd love to hear those details.
28:34
Speaker 1: Yeah.
28:35
Speaker 6: So actually the night before I was filming a wedding
28:37
Speaker 6: that Saturday of opening day, and he came through on daylight,
28:40
Speaker 6: about an hour before like last legal shooting light. So
28:44
Speaker 6: I'm sitting I'm like, oh man, he's still moving an
28:47
Speaker 6: eighty three degree weather. So that's it's good to know.
28:49
Speaker 6: I would get up there and maybe try to hunt him.
28:51
Speaker 6: So the next day we had a birthday party and
28:53
Speaker 6: I was trying to get my dad to go all day.
28:55
Speaker 6: I was like, Dad, I think we should go after him.
28:58
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, maybe we'll go.
29:00
Speaker 6: And then after a while it kind of got hotter
29:02
Speaker 6: and hotter out He's like you can go. I don't
29:04
Speaker 6: know if I want to go. I'm like, well, I'm
29:06
Speaker 6: gonna go after him. He's like, all right, well, good luck,
29:08
Speaker 6: and we went up. The spot is actually where I've
29:12
Speaker 6: killed my last couple of bucks. It's up on top
29:14
Speaker 6: of a ridge. This is in Buffalo County, so the
29:17
Speaker 6: infamous bluffs and everything around is pretty much right on
29:20
Speaker 6: the top of one of those. Got a water hole
29:23
Speaker 6: up there, and we have probably about a half acre
29:26
Speaker 6: food plot, and actually a tree just went down in
29:30
Speaker 6: that food plot. We had a big storm like a
29:32
Speaker 6: month ago or so and a huge oak tree fell over.
29:34
Speaker 6: So we had to get up there and reconstruct that
29:37
Speaker 6: whole food plot. I think it was like August twenty
29:40
Speaker 6: second or something like that. So we went in there
29:42
Speaker 6: and planted a bunch of rye and clover and got
29:45
Speaker 6: it coming up pretty well, and he was on it
29:48
Speaker 6: almost immediately and got pretty excited right after that because
29:53
Speaker 6: at Young Rye they love that this time year, especially
29:55
Speaker 6: when I mean the opening week, and there's a bunch
29:58
Speaker 6: not only that are or oak tree, there was a
30:01
Speaker 6: bunch of other oak trees around. And that night when
30:05
Speaker 6: I was sitting out there, there was six sols probably
30:07
Speaker 6: fifteen yards away from me, just lunching on acorns. So
30:10
Speaker 6: I'm sure that had quite a bit of a draw
30:12
Speaker 6: as well, because I could hear him the whole night
30:15
Speaker 6: when I was sitting there, just falling and hitting my
30:17
Speaker 6: blind the whole night. It was pretty pretty comical just
30:20
Speaker 6: hearing them just continue to hit the blind too.
30:23
Speaker 2: Man, So it was raining acorns, you had fresh, tender,
30:25
Speaker 2: new growth. How far do you think that buck went
30:28
Speaker 2: from when he got up out of his bed that evening.
30:30
Speaker 6: If you had a guess, Well, there's a huge cornfield
30:34
Speaker 6: on the neighbors to the south there, and I'm almost
30:37
Speaker 6: positive he came from out of there, And I wouldn't
30:40
Speaker 6: say if he was betting in there somewhere. I don't
30:44
Speaker 6: think he traveled less than one hundred yards. He was
30:47
Speaker 6: better in that cornfield, and I kind of rolled the dice.
30:50
Speaker 6: Normally we have a pond set up that we normally sit,
30:54
Speaker 6: like early season or whatever. But southeast wind is almost
30:58
Speaker 6: dead wrong for that spot, uh so, because of winds
31:01
Speaker 6: blowing right to that pond, and normally they like to
31:04
Speaker 6: come out on that point more.
31:06
Speaker 3: But I from.
31:07
Speaker 6: The pictures of the night before, I looked like he
31:09
Speaker 6: was coming from the corn the other way instead of
31:11
Speaker 6: that point. So I'm like, well, by go and sit
31:13
Speaker 6: in this blind instead of down by that water hole.
31:16
Speaker 6: I'll have a good shot at maybe seeing him, and
31:18
Speaker 6: the wind would be perfect for that.
31:20
Speaker 1: And ended up getting lucky.
31:22
Speaker 6: And came out and then within the daylight and had
31:27
Speaker 6: a quite the hassle getting drawn back in that blind.
31:30
Speaker 6: I had to draw back three different times before I
31:32
Speaker 6: shot him.
31:33
Speaker 3: But what was going on?
31:35
Speaker 6: Well, I was in this blind, It's well, this is
31:38
Speaker 6: pretty much my gun stand that I only sit in,
31:40
Speaker 6: and we have a tree stand probably fifteen yards away
31:43
Speaker 6: from it, but it's hard to sell film out of.
31:46
Speaker 6: So I was like, I don't know if on a
31:47
Speaker 6: roll the dice go up there and it's a little
31:49
Speaker 6: bit more self and the wind would have been a
31:52
Speaker 6: little bit more wrong. So I was like, I got
31:54
Speaker 6: a chance it out of that blind. And as soon
31:56
Speaker 6: as I got in that blind that night, I wanted
31:58
Speaker 6: to practice drawn back and everything. But twenty minutes probably
32:02
Speaker 6: after I got in a dough in a fawn came
32:04
Speaker 6: to that food plot and didn't give me a chance
32:06
Speaker 6: to mess around with anything or draw back, and that
32:09
Speaker 6: kind of screwed me over, but man, I got lucky
32:12
Speaker 6: that I was able to finally draw back and release
32:15
Speaker 6: an arrow at him.
32:17
Speaker 2: No, that's that is amazing what you've had success early.
32:22
Speaker 2: So for someone listening, you know, let's just say for
32:25
Speaker 2: the last eight days of September, so you know, picture
32:28
Speaker 2: the last eight days of September, last nine days of September.
32:32
Speaker 2: What's one thing that you think would be very important
32:34
Speaker 2: for people to key in on hopefully have a you know,
32:38
Speaker 2: similar success to yourself.
32:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely, Uh, this time of year, a lot of times,
32:43
Speaker 6: those Braskas are holding so much moistury yet in those leaves,
32:47
Speaker 6: and they don't really need to go to the ponds
32:49
Speaker 6: to get all that water but because they can just
32:51
Speaker 6: get it right from the braska leaves. And actually Friday
32:54
Speaker 6: night he was out daylight and a whole different food
32:56
Speaker 6: plot munched in front of a big old Braskat plot
32:59
Speaker 6: that we had. So I'd say definitely keying on those
33:02
Speaker 6: Braskas especially. I think there's a cold front coming through
33:05
Speaker 6: here in the next couple of days, so I'm sure
33:07
Speaker 6: they'll be moving pretty well there. And definitely the acorns
33:10
Speaker 6: were a drawing card. On Sunday night when I killed
33:14
Speaker 6: my buck too.
33:15
Speaker 2: How risky did the hunt feel based off of access?
33:18
Speaker 2: Were you were you nervous about going in there or
33:20
Speaker 2: did you feel that was a pretty bowlproof setup?
33:23
Speaker 6: I thought, I mean I was a little nervous because
33:25
Speaker 6: of where he was coming from the corn I kind
33:27
Speaker 6: of got to well, I literally gotta drive our ranger
33:30
Speaker 6: all the way up that bluff and come around from
33:32
Speaker 6: the opposite side. We park up kind of on this
33:35
Speaker 6: hillside and walk in that way. But I knew it's
33:39
Speaker 6: kind of hidden from the top of the cornfield. It's
33:42
Speaker 6: probably like thirty forty feet down below, so you can't
33:46
Speaker 6: really see the ranger if they're better than that corn there,
33:49
Speaker 6: And I had multiple different times we'd be out working
33:52
Speaker 6: this year. We made a new pond for him and
33:56
Speaker 6: put in a blind, and he seemed to not care
33:58
Speaker 6: at all. He came out a couple hours after after
34:00
Speaker 6: we were all messing around and digging in a new
34:02
Speaker 6: water hole. So I think he got pretty used to
34:04
Speaker 6: the ranger over time, because he just still come up
34:09
Speaker 6: and daylight and act like nothing was new. But uh, yeah,
34:12
Speaker 6: I think it was kind of risky, but I figured
34:15
Speaker 6: I had to give it a chance because the night
34:17
Speaker 6: before he was out there broad daylight.
34:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know, conventional wisdom would say, man, it's
34:22
Speaker 2: eighty some degrees, don't even bother. But you went out
34:24
Speaker 2: there and made it happen. You had really good intel
34:26
Speaker 2: that you had, You had a really real chance, and
34:29
Speaker 2: you made it happen. How have you measured the inside
34:31
Speaker 2: with it that deer yet?
34:33
Speaker 1: I did?
34:33
Speaker 6: Actually I took it over to a good friend of mine,
34:36
Speaker 6: Shane Innerbow. He does a lot of antler stuff with
34:39
Speaker 6: sheds and scores a lot of deer, and he I
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Speaker 6: think he got it at twenty five and seven a'es.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty unreal.
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Speaker 3: I called him.
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Speaker 6: I had nicknamed him the two footer last year when
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Speaker 6: I first got pictures of him, I'm like, holy crap,
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Speaker 6: that's got to be the widest deer I've ever had
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Speaker 6: on camera. And I guess I was underplane how wide
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Speaker 6: he was. It was pretty awesome getting that tape on
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Speaker 6: him after we got him all tracked down and got
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Speaker 6: him out of the woods. That's the first thing we
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Speaker 6: were we got to get a tape on him. See
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Speaker 6: how why this guy is?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Unreal, No, totally totally unreal.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations if you had to skit, you know, give a
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Speaker 2: scale one to ten on what the last eight days
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Speaker 2: of September may look like, ten being to kill a
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Speaker 2: deer's widest two feet wider than two feet wide, and
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Speaker 2: one being it's going to be really tough.
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Speaker 3: Where would you rank that one to ten September?
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Speaker 6: I mean they're still kind of in their summer patterns
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Speaker 6: before they start breaking up, and normally around this time
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Speaker 6: here we get new bucks that are showing up from
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Speaker 6: I don't know, a mile a mile and a half away,
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Speaker 6: kind of getting out of their summer ranges. But it
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Speaker 6: seems like there's another drawing card that I was on.
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Speaker 6: I put a mock scrape rub and got a couple
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Speaker 6: oak branches hanging off there too, And he was coming
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Speaker 6: line right for that scrape tree too, And I kind
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Speaker 6: of noticed in trail camera pictures that he was a
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Speaker 6: certain his dominance. Whenever he'd come up to the plot,
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Speaker 6: you get all a little bristled up and show off
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Speaker 6: the other younger bucks what he's made of.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, he game be lined right for that scrape
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Speaker 3: tree too.
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Speaker 6: So those scrapes are starting to heat up now too,
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Speaker 6: now that all the velvet's.
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Speaker 1: Gone and I don't know.
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Speaker 6: That's one thing that I know everybody's starting to key
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Speaker 6: in on more is those scrapes because they're not only
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Speaker 6: good for pictures and hunting over but they're just yeah,
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Speaker 6: they're a game changer.
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Speaker 3: So one to ten, you gotta give us a number.
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Speaker 6: If you get a cold, good cold front in late October,
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Speaker 6: late September, I give it's high up there. I give
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Speaker 6: it to probably a eight or nine. I really liked
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Speaker 6: late September.
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Speaker 3: Awesome man.
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Speaker 6: Well, I hadragulas, I had another buck that I shot
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Speaker 6: a couple of years ago. I probably had one of
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Speaker 6: my best hunts hover and that was on September twenty
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Speaker 6: second in a cloverfield on a cold front and probably
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Speaker 6: saw fifteen to twenty deer that night, including that giant buck.
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Speaker 1: Never got a shot at him that night, but it
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Speaker 1: was awesome night. O.
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Speaker 3: That's that's super cool.
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Speaker 2: Well, those great advice, congratulations once again, and yeah, just
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Speaker 2: an incredible deer. And I encourage everyone to go check
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Speaker 2: out that they have to see this deer to believe it,
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Speaker 2: because when I saw it, I said, I got to
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Speaker 2: talk to Mitch and thank congratulating, so thank you so much,
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Speaker 2: and good luck the rest of the year.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate it, Jake, thank you here. You guys have it.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to rtfresh.
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Speaker 2: We had some common advice of if you have a
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Speaker 2: buck that is doing the same thing, you can take
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Speaker 2: advantage of it. Go out and do it, even if
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Speaker 2: the conditions aren't perfect. Mitch is the example of this
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Speaker 2: and I hope you guys have a great week And
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Speaker 2: if you're waiting on the sideline for October first, your
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Speaker 2: time is coming.
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Speaker 3: Stay strong, keep scouting.
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Speaker 2: And get ready to enjoy a fun and exciting fall.
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Speaker 3: We will see you next week on retfresh. See you