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Ep. 451: Rut Fresh Radio 9/8/21 - Four Dead Bucks · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Wired Hunt's Rout Fresh Radio. I am spent
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  Speaker 1: a new war and joining me is Mark Kenyon. Mark,
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  Speaker 1: you are now back home in Michigan, but you are
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  Speaker 1: fresh off a trip. How did that trip go? And
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  Speaker 1: give me a rundown of the Dear activity that you saw. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so fresh off of public land hunt out in Idaho
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  Speaker 1: chasing white tails out there. Uh, you know, I will
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  Speaker 1: save I'm not gonna tell you whether I killed or
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  Speaker 1: not because the main episode I think next week will
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  Speaker 1: be all about that, So I'll leave a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of drama out there for people, but I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you that it was a good hunt. We had quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit of activity despite a lot of hunting pressure. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we're we're in Dear every night, just about every night,
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  Speaker 1: so um, it was interesting, a lot of interesting stories
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  Speaker 1: to share there. And uh, you know, I guess the
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  Speaker 1: theme of these episodes right is recapping what we saw
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  Speaker 1: and what we're expecting. So I can tell you that
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  Speaker 1: I was hunt that first week of September, and the
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing I noticed, Spencer was time of movement. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we had temperatures, you know, in the evenings ranging from
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  Speaker 1: like mid seventies to mid eighties, and even in spots
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  Speaker 1: where I actually thought we could get away from hunting pressure,
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  Speaker 1: and when it was cooling down in the evenings and
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  Speaker 1: shady way back in the cover, I was thinking, Mann,
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  Speaker 1: I bet you two hours before dayly, but they'll be
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  Speaker 1: moving here. I mean, we were tight in the betting
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  Speaker 1: are kind of stuff. And even then our movement super early, Um,
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  Speaker 1: it was almost to a t, you know, the last
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, last twenty minutes. Maybe I think there was
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  Speaker 1: one night that I saw stuff, you know, forty five
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  Speaker 1: minutes before dark, but but really it was an absolute
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  Speaker 1: last hour, last half hour of daylight kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: zero movement until the very end of the day. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And so that was something that was noticeable. And then
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  Speaker 1: I did hunt some mornings, and those mornings it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of the opposite. It was. It was morning activity
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  Speaker 1: for that first hour hour and a half. Maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit later in the mornings we saw
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  Speaker 1: some movement, but again I was hunting really far away
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  Speaker 1: from the food sources, way back in the cover, so
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  Speaker 1: it took a while for those deer to get back
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  Speaker 1: to me. UM. So as far as activity, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: what I was seeing there in Idaho temperatures, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: where we're right around average for this time of year.
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  Speaker 1: So there was no big fronts, you know, like we
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  Speaker 1: talked about last week. It was a kind of a
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  Speaker 1: standard week of weather across the lot of the country,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what experienced. It was. It was no big fronts,
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  Speaker 1: it was no big precipitation precipitation events, just kind of
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  Speaker 1: average temperatures and I would say average activity. We saw
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  Speaker 1: a deer every night. There was never a time when
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, that's the best night
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen. At the same point, there was never
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  Speaker 1: days where we were wondering, why are there no deer here?
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  Speaker 1: It was kind of what you expect in early September,
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  Speaker 1: moving on food sources, um. And then mostly it was
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  Speaker 1: it was trying to just backtrack. These are closer and
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  Speaker 1: closer to their betting years because of because of hunting pressure.
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  Speaker 1: So that was that was my high level overview. Without
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  Speaker 1: giving away too many details, I'd say activity was in
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  Speaker 1: that like five five kind of range. Um. I guess
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of like what I predicted last week, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think so, um, And and I wish you would
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  Speaker 1: give me more details. On the hunt. But I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: let you off the hook this week, Mark, Um, because
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  Speaker 1: we have a really exciting episode and we have multiple
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  Speaker 1: We have multiple firsts on this episode of rout Fresh.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready? What do you mean? My first cameras here? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: The first first that we have is we have our
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  Speaker 1: first ever rout report from Canada, which comes to us
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  Speaker 1: from Clay Newcombe. The other first that we have is,
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  Speaker 1: for the first time ever in rout Fresh history, all
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  Speaker 1: four of the people that we interview this week were
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  Speaker 1: successful in their hunts. So that's why, um, I think
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  Speaker 1: the meat of this episode is going to be as
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  Speaker 1: good as name we've had because we have four successful
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  Speaker 1: deer hunters. Is on nice. So what you're saying is
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  Speaker 1: that we shouldn't ramble on too long. We should just
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  Speaker 1: get into the real, fresh, exciting reports. That's right, I
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  Speaker 1: think so. And who are you going to hear from
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  Speaker 1: this week? Is Clay Nucome like we just talked about that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from the Mediator podcast and Very Grease podcast
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  Speaker 1: in Manitoba. And then Dylan Tramp from South Dakota, whose
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  Speaker 1: content you can read on Wired Haunt's website. And then
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  Speaker 1: Mark Haslem from Southeast Whitetail dot Com in South Carolina
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  Speaker 1: and then we end in Nebraska with Tyler Jones from
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  Speaker 1: The element Alright, cool, well, I'm excited to hear these.
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  Speaker 1: I I have one more question and then I'll stop badgering. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: when when is your first white tail hunt? Are you
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere? September? You gonnahit South Dakota here soon? Or
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  Speaker 1: what's what's going on? My season is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit delayed. Um. I'm gonna do my best, which
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  Speaker 1: is not very good at killing elk here in September,
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  Speaker 1: and then I have in animal punt in October, and
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  Speaker 1: then I I'm stacking like four hunts in like a
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  Speaker 1: six week period between the beginning of November, um and
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of December. So my reports are going to
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  Speaker 1: be a bit delayed this year. All right, man, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you get after those elk, get that off your minds,
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  Speaker 1: kill the antelope, check that box, and then get back
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  Speaker 1: to the white tech. That's right. Uh. And then some
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  Speaker 1: reading materials this week, um, if if you want more
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  Speaker 1: than just what you're gonna get on this episode, we
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  Speaker 1: have a couple of articles for hunters that are in
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  Speaker 1: the woods, right now where to find bucks after they
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  Speaker 1: shed Velvet from Dylan Tramp and then how volume hunting
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  Speaker 1: could save your season from Andy May. And then if
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  Speaker 1: you don't have an opener anytime, seem and say you're
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  Speaker 1: in a state like Michigan or Illinois and you're still
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  Speaker 1: about a month out from being in the woods, some
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  Speaker 1: offseason content be from Tony Hanson four tools every bow
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  Speaker 1: Hunter shadown, and then the best way to get bucks
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  Speaker 1: on trail cam without bait, an article that you wrote
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  Speaker 1: last year, Mark Kennan. You can find those articles just
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  Speaker 1: like last week in the description of the episode. A
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  Speaker 1: click over there, and you're gonna get more relevant stuff
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  Speaker 1: for this time of year. Beautiful. I gotta tell you, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: I read that article by Tony Hanson about the four
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  Speaker 1: tools every bow hunter should owned, and I felt really
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  Speaker 1: bad because I only owned one out of the four. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I can guess which one it was. You
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  Speaker 1: own a set of valen Ranches. Yes, okay, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we'll skip on over to that article if you want
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  Speaker 1: to find out the three things that Mark doesn't own
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  Speaker 1: in the four things that you should own. Alright, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like a good plan. We'll talk to you
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  Speaker 1: next week. Man looking forward to alright and joining us
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  Speaker 1: on the line. First, it's Clay Nucom, who you know
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  Speaker 1: from Meat Eater and the Bear Grease podcast. Who was
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  Speaker 1: hunting in Manitoba. Now, Clay in Manitoba, what would you
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  Speaker 1: say the buck activity has been lately on a scale
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  Speaker 1: of one to ten. So I've been in Manitoba for
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  Speaker 1: the last six days and I would rank it as
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  Speaker 1: a seven. We had no trouble seeing mature deer every day,
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  Speaker 1: but we were at an advantage in Manitoba where we're
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  Speaker 1: at in that you can see a long distance. You
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  Speaker 1: can see a long ways because we're hunting out falfa
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  Speaker 1: fields and oat fields and wheat fields, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: you see deer from a long ways off. So the
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  Speaker 1: deer we're moving, but the bigger deer typically we're not
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  Speaker 1: moving until the last thirty minutes of daylight on either
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  Speaker 1: side in the morning and in the evening. So you
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  Speaker 1: know we saw there, but they certainly were not moving
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  Speaker 1: all day. It was just kind of your typical early
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  Speaker 1: season feeding patterns. And you killed the buck a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days ago. Tell us about that set up. Why
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  Speaker 1: the deer we're traveling through that area, and why you
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  Speaker 1: were on that spot. There's a seventy acre patch of
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  Speaker 1: actri culture that typically is all in our falfa. This
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  Speaker 1: year about sixty acres of it was in oats and
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  Speaker 1: ten acres was in alfalfa, and they eat the oats,
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  Speaker 1: which it's not They weren't eating the grass from the
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  Speaker 1: you know, like the green part of the oats. These
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  Speaker 1: were dry oats that were about to be harvested, and
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  Speaker 1: they're actually eating the seed heads of these oats, but
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  Speaker 1: they preferred the alfalfa. So there was only ten acres
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  Speaker 1: of alfalfa, and it was kind of tucked back in
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  Speaker 1: this little pocket. And in the morning time we couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get on the alfalfa because we spooked deer. But they
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  Speaker 1: had a peculiar exit route where these deer were traveling
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  Speaker 1: about a half mile through open country and coming right
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  Speaker 1: past a little neck of woods and it was an
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  Speaker 1: obscure place, but just historical patterns, we just knew the
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  Speaker 1: deer cross there and it's really easy to get in.
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  Speaker 1: You don't bump any there, you come up in a tree,
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  Speaker 1: you think, what the heck am I doing here? And
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  Speaker 1: then as soon as it gets daylight, you you see
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  Speaker 1: deer coming towards you. Typically, you know, some percentage of
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  Speaker 1: the time that's the exit route they used some percentage
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  Speaker 1: of the time. You don't see deer at all from there.
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  Speaker 1: But um, the two mornings we hunted it, we had
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  Speaker 1: bucks and bow range just after legal light. And basically
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  Speaker 1: the second time we hunted in there, I had a
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  Speaker 1: deer come by that that I watched for several hundred
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  Speaker 1: yards and he came right into bow range coming off
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  Speaker 1: of alf Alpha. Now, how did your morning setups differ
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  Speaker 1: from your evening setups? Very different in that where where
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  Speaker 1: we were hunting, we could not get on the food
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  Speaker 1: in the morning without bumping deer, and so in in
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  Speaker 1: the evening time we were right on the food. We
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  Speaker 1: were basically playing the wind is to imagine a rectangular
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  Speaker 1: field ten acres, and the deer were where they came
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  Speaker 1: into the field was a gamble. It could be many
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  Speaker 1: different places, but we would hunt the most favorable side.
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  Speaker 1: We were using tree sticks and saddles, and then we
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  Speaker 1: actually eventually we're setting in a box stand that was
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  Speaker 1: on the property set up for rifle hunting. Because we
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  Speaker 1: watched deer feed within bow range of it all one evening,
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  Speaker 1: so we were flipping from end to end um hunting
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  Speaker 1: this field. And uh, we never that strategy never came
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  Speaker 1: to fruition because as we ended up killing one in
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  Speaker 1: the morning off the field as they were going back
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  Speaker 1: to bedding from the food source. But so we were
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  Speaker 1: on the food in the evening and then hunting travel
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  Speaker 1: corridors going back into bedding in the mornings. The buck
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  Speaker 1: that you killed was hard horned, but one percentage of
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the white tillers you were seeing, we're
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  Speaker 1: still in velvet. I would say we're in velvet on
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  Speaker 1: September one. That was the first day of our hunt,
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  Speaker 1: was September one, and yeah, eight of ten bucks would
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  Speaker 1: have had velvet. And it seemed to be like the
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  Speaker 1: more mature deer were the ones that were that had
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  Speaker 1: shed and we're hard horned. I would you know, we
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  Speaker 1: quit hunting after we killed the deer, so we were
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  Speaker 1: done hunting by September three. But I would suspect by
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  Speaker 1: next week it'll probably be opposite of that. I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine eight percent will be hard twenty we'll still be
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  Speaker 1: in velvet. It sounds like a lot of the activity
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  Speaker 1: that you were seeing, we're bachelor groups traveling together. Did
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  Speaker 1: that change it all? During your six days there, did
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  Speaker 1: you see those bachelor groups break up at all? Or
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  Speaker 1: were they still together the same way the first day
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  Speaker 1: is it was the last Okay, I saw no change
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  Speaker 1: in the way they operated. But it was surprising to
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  Speaker 1: you because there were there were bachelor groups of younger
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  Speaker 1: deer that stuck together pretty tight. But the big deer,
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  Speaker 1: he was all on his own like he One day
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  Speaker 1: we watched him walk a half mile across an open
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  Speaker 1: field by himself to come into the alfalfa to meet
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  Speaker 1: a younger bachelor group of deer. Um we also would
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  Speaker 1: see the odd just young two year old buck off
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  Speaker 1: by himself that would come into the alfalfa. So it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like they congregated all night together and then
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  Speaker 1: four or five or six my bed together. But the
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  Speaker 1: odd one would just spike out by himself and and
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  Speaker 1: and not be with that group for the majority of
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  Speaker 1: the day. So they were kind of broke up more
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  Speaker 1: than I anticipated they would be going forward. Then in
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  Speaker 1: the six week or so, what do you think that
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  Speaker 1: Bucket TV is going to be on a skill of
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  Speaker 1: one to ten in Manitoba? I think it'll I think
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  Speaker 1: it'll maintain in that seven range of what I said.
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  Speaker 1: It's just gonna keep getting cooler. That there are crops
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  Speaker 1: being harvested right now that is affecting deer movement. But
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  Speaker 1: the green, the green stuff is gonna be good. Um,
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  Speaker 1: probably even more after the frost with the with the
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  Speaker 1: green stuff that's cold tolerant like wheat mouth alpha. Um.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, I think it's gonna be I think it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna continue to be really good, especially in the next
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  Speaker 1: week before the bachelor groups really break up. I think
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  Speaker 1: after about septem through about October fifteenth, October up there,
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  Speaker 1: it gets a little bit harder, but right now they're
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  Speaker 1: just really predictable on these kind of late summer patterns,
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  Speaker 1: you know, So I next week would be a fantastic
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  Speaker 1: week up there, I think. Alright, Clay, congrats on the
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  Speaker 1: successful hunt. Thanks for joining me in. Good luck with
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  Speaker 1: the rest of your fall. Thanks Spencer, appreciate it alright
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  Speaker 1: and joining us on the line. Next is Dylan Tramp
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  Speaker 1: whose articles you can read on why You're hunt, Who's
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  Speaker 1: hunting in South Dakota? Now, Dylan in South Dakota, what
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  Speaker 1: would you say the buck activity is ben lately. On
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  Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten, scale of one to ten,
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we're still hanging on to about
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  Speaker 1: an eight. The bucks are kind of the bucks that
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  Speaker 1: are unpressured, I should say, are kind of sticking to
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  Speaker 1: their summer feeding patterns and are definitely still moving that
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  Speaker 1: last hour of light. So I think we're a solid
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  Speaker 1: eight still. Now, back on August, you wrote an article
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  Speaker 1: for Wire to Haunt that was about how to kill
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  Speaker 1: a white tail buck on opening day. You did not
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  Speaker 1: kill a buck on opening day this year, but you
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  Speaker 1: killed a buck on the second day of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about that haunt and how that went down. Um, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit of summer scouting. Went in new play,
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  Speaker 1: but knew his general area and had a really good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't have confirmation on his betting, but I knew within
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  Speaker 1: a hunter yard radius roughly where his betting would be,
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  Speaker 1: so I slipped in between the betting and his food source.
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  Speaker 1: On day one season evening hunt and I had an encounter,
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  Speaker 1: but the wind got a little swirly, set up pleasant
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  Speaker 1: perfect and he busted me, but returned two hours later,
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  Speaker 1: so he wasn't overly spooped. So I just I knew
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  Speaker 1: where he was going to end up the next day,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully and then that he wouldn't shift his pattern too dramatically.
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  Speaker 1: And about fifteen minutes prior to dark he shows up
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  Speaker 1: right on script and stuck in arrow in him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it was clearly no accident that you were in that
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  Speaker 1: area hunting that specific buck. Tell us about the scouting
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  Speaker 1: that went into that and the kind of encounters that
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  Speaker 1: you had leading into opening day. Yeah, I started my
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  Speaker 1: white tail scouting here in the Black Hills of South
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  Speaker 1: Dakota mid July. I don't remember the days, but just
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  Speaker 1: check my usual areas, did some glass thing, did some
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  Speaker 1: looking from the roads, and then stomped around a few
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  Speaker 1: new areas that that looked like they had potential. Saw
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  Speaker 1: this guy, kicked him out of his bed about eleven o'clock. Um,
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  Speaker 1: knew right exactly where he was betting that day, and
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  Speaker 1: he ran to a different piece of flour service and
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  Speaker 1: kind of adjusted his betting area, but he was still
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  Speaker 1: within two yards there. And then I would say six
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  Speaker 1: seven times throughout the month of July into August, some
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  Speaker 1: eating in the same creek drainage and had a mode
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  Speaker 1: pasture on some private and then a bunch of oaks
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  Speaker 1: that I think they were targeting, and they were feeding
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  Speaker 1: in the grasses, been hitting the oaks. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if the acorns from last year or if it was
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  Speaker 1: new newly fallen oaks, but for acorns, but he was
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  Speaker 1: pretty consistent there, so I knew roughly betting, and I
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  Speaker 1: knew pretty precisely feed in the evening, so at a
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  Speaker 1: pretty full picture on what to do for opening day.
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  Speaker 1: The buck that you killed was hard horned. But what
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  Speaker 1: percentage of other white tails that you were seeing We're
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  Speaker 1: still in velvet um, I think as soon as the
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  Speaker 1: season started September one, I don't know that I've seen
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  Speaker 1: a single puck in the hills on the hoof in
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  Speaker 1: Velvet anymore. So I think nineties some percent are definitely
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  Speaker 1: hard horned right now. How about with bachelor groups? How
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  Speaker 1: many white tail bucks were you seeing that we're still
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  Speaker 1: hanging out with other white tail box I would say
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  Speaker 1: that every buck that I had been targeting and watching
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  Speaker 1: over the summer was still hanging out with this bachelor
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  Speaker 1: group I do just a few days ago. Now, what
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  Speaker 1: other food sources besides the mode pasture that you were
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  Speaker 1: kind of hunting do you think are relevant right now
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  Speaker 1: in the Black Hills? From what I'm seeing just doing
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  Speaker 1: continue scouting for family, They're they're still hitting grasses, but
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  Speaker 1: any kind of bushes that are any kind of greenery
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of starting to change, appears to be pretty
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  Speaker 1: palatable right now because they're hanging out and kind of
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  Speaker 1: that north facing heavily vegetated brush they're they're like in
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  Speaker 1: that right now on top of the grass. And do
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  Speaker 1: you notice those beds or food patterns change as we
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  Speaker 1: get into October in the Black Hills or does it
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  Speaker 1: largely stay the same is what you're seeing in September.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I think these deer, since they're such big foragers, I
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: think their food sources are pretty consistent. So I would
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: expect that pattern to continue and then maybe once all
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: the leaves have fallen, and then to probably probably be
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: exclusively than maybe some make corns from here and there.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: But I think the patterns stays pretty consistent as far
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: as what they're feeding, and it's more or less dictated
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: by hunting pressure going forward. Then in the next week
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: or so, what do you think that buck activity is
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: going to be On a scale of one to ten
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: in South Dakota. In South Dakota in general, I would
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: say we're still hanging onto a seven. Buck patterns will
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: still stay consistent here for maybe another week or so
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: until bachelor groups are breaking up and bucks are kind
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: of establishing their new uh, their new pecking order and
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: kind of their new little core area. So I think
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: we'll still be at a seven. All right, Dylan, congrats
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: again on the awesome buck. Thanks for joining me, and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: good luck with the rest of your fall. Thank you
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: you too, alright and joining us online. Next is Mark
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Haslum from Southeast Whitetail dot Com in South Carolina. Now
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Mark in South Carolina, what would you say the buck
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten? Spencer,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I would say the past week in South Carolina, buck
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: activity has probably been them are around the three and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: somewhere around the three to four scale. Um Um, it
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: was a lot higher when the season opened AUGUSTUM. We
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: see a lot more mature bucks still on that summer pattern,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: but it's almost like clockworks. At about the third fourth
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: week in August, UM, they start to slow down coming
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: out in daylight hours, UH, start to shift out that
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: summer pattern and at the time that fourth week in
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: August rolls around, velvets starting to peel for most bucks,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and um, they are decreasing daylight act activity. And where
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: now that low period between velvet season and pre ruts. Well, Mark,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: you just killed a great buck in South Carolina. Tell
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: us about that set up, why you were in that area,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and why that buck was in that specific area. So
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: yesterday morning that that hunt worked out. I can honestly
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: say it worked out exactly how I had mapped out
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: in my head the night before, or waking up at
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: four am typically doesn't doesn't work that way. It hadn't
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: worked that way all seasons since the opener. Since the opener,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I've been hunting over um foods horses, destination foods horses
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: since then. Since since we're in that low period, what
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I decided to do is set up outside a good
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: bedding site that I know where bucks traditionally bed. It's
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a clear cut on the edge of a Carolina bay.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: It's about four years it was clear kind about four
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: years ago replanted and it's very thick and dense, and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: it's it's tall enough to shade out the sun and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: maturity or will bed in there. Uh, during the heat
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: of summer. So I knew traditionally they bed in this area,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and um, you know, being in a long period right now,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you don't really know when you don't know how often
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: bucks are going to get up and move early enough
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: in the evenings to possibly get on them. I don't
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: know if they're gonna move, you know, three or four
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: days a week or But what I do know is
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the temperature is the lowest temperatures you're gonna have every
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: single day at night. And so bucks they might not
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: get up, they might not start moving before the sun
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: goes down, but they're gonna be at out the middle
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: of the the night. Unless it's less as a trenial downpourse
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and heavy fog, they're gonna be feeding all night and
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna book it back to make it
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: make it to their bedding right before uh first light.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: So I went in about an hour before uh sunrise
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: got set up in about twenty five year old pine
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: stand that had been thinned several times, had been burnt,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: so it was good open woods for me to be
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: able to see uh, you know, two and three hundred
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: yards any which direction. But with that, with that T. S.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I work, um, the vegetations a foot the three ft
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: tall severe feel comfortable in it. And I was about
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: a couple of hundred yards from that bedding site that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I know bucks traditionally that ind and it happened. Happened
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: how I vision um. I think first flight was at
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: sixty eight and I think I shot by six fifty five.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: I had three bucks that came in small bachelor group.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The buck I shot it looked like a two year old,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: and then a spike that was behind it. They were
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: all hard horned and they were going right back to
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: betting right the first life. I know you've had a
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: lot of success in the past hunting mornings in early season.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I feel like you have a different mindset when it
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: comes to those setups than other hunters. Tell us about
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: what you like about hunting mornings in August and September.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: What I like about hunting mornings is is is can
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: it could? It will continue on. What I just said
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: is that the coolest people people that hung up with temperatures.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: The coolest part of every single day is gonna be overnight.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: And so, like I said, bucks might not get up
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and start might not start moving to like two am.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: But they're gonna be feeding, moving around all night. Um.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And then I had a lot of success climbing and
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: being mobile outside betting. Um. You know, if you can
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: get on some bots around the opening, you can catch
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: them on that summer schedule. But I feel like pretty
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: quickly mature bucks. You know, everyone in South Carolina's not
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: is not hunting that early. But what happens is, and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I think some hunters don't don't really connect the dots,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: is that Um, the full season hunting either either sucks
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: opens up September, but most people are hunting late late
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: September or at least the first October, when like pre
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: rutting rout starts kickles. So this time of year on September,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: hunters might not be out there taking the woods on
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the stand, but they're doing um proper work. They're planning
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: food plots, running trail cameras, hanging stands, trimming, trimming roads,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: bush holg and so there. Their presence is there right now,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and um, deer pick up on that. And so um,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: the most of the sex success I've had early season
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: has been climbing and being noble. And you've got to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: see as far as wind because in the in the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: With the warmer temperatures we have down here in the south,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: wind can swirl and it can be very very inconsistent
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: unless we have a cold front. But if you can
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: get tight on bedding with good wind, you can catch
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: box and moving back right there at first light. Um,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be about the first thirty minutes. And
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: that's really gonna be about it. It's given me very quick.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: But um, if you if you try to be too
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: aggressive and hunt that way in the evenings, you're probably
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: gonna blow the area out because you're gonna have a
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: lot of a ton of doves and a ton of
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: young bucks that are gonna wind you and U are
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: gonna blow them the shirt box out that aren't moving
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that early. What food sources do you think are relevant
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: for white tail hunters right now in that part of
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the country. Peanuts, soybeans are killer. Corn. Corn is good
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: as well. Oh, it depends on you know, if it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: if it's farm corn, they probably you know, they're not
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: gonna cut it. They're not gonna bush bush hall shooting
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: lanes points is me very tight. Most of the corn
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: has already been harvested because we've got some dry weather
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and the corn is dry enough, but soybeans and peanuts
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: right now are killer um. What I've noticed is not
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: many mature bucks have been coming out almost egg fields
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: um in the evenings and until late. So it's see
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: what I've been focusing on, and what I focused on
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: yesterday and the morning for that hunt was the food
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: source in the timber um. And as I meant before,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: if you hunt on ground the southeast, whether you know
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: the poppy owner or maybe see public land, or you
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: know the timber company if they're doing any kind of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: timber stand improvement, if there, if the pine trees have
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: reached at least fifteen years or more, it's probably ready
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: for a first Then if they've been thin, if they've
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: been burned, if you don't have food plots or fields,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: take a look at that native vegetation. Take a look
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: at the briars, American beauty berry, all those plants. Take
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a look at them, watch them, look for Brown's line,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and look for that native vegetation. Because with all this
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: killer rain we've had all summer, there are so much green,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: very tender, succulent plants out there where Dear, they're they're
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: gonna hit those areas from bedding and going to those
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: destination food sources that are wide open fields that they're
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: probably not gonna hit until later in the evenings going forward,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Then in the sext week or so, what do you
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: think that bucket activity is going to be on a
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: scale of one to ten in South Carolina? It will
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: begin spencer to slow slowly pick up This upcoming week
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: could be a five, maybe maybe push into a six. Um.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I'm still seeing some bucks in bachelor groups will start
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: to see um a lot more separating selves. UM. I
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: saw a good amount of scrapes and some fresh rubs.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I didn't do too much walk in the woods because
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I don't want to blow the woods up. UM. But
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: our pre run is going to start kicking off in
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: about week the week three and week four September. UM.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I had two young bucks that were sparring Saturday morning
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and I will routinely get them um and some sparring
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: light life fighting um that third fourth week in September.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: So bucks are gonna be out. They're gonna be hitting
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: those community uh signposts, making their making their presence known, socializing,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: establishing and making sure they know that dominant buck hierarchy
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna start seeing more and more buck activity
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: taking place, and they're gonna start show up back on
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: this destination food sourceness um. In about two to two
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to three weeks towards end of September, these mature bucks
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and I start showing up in these fields of food plants,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: making them presence known, showing themselves, making sign and um
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: as a repairs and he got testosterone players and they're
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: we're on the cusp of that first heat cycle. All right, Mark,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: great intel, great buck, Thanks for joining me, and good
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: luck with the rest of your fall. Thanks Spencer, good
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: luck in the season, all right, and joining us on
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the line. Last is Tyler Jones from The Element, who
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: was hunting in Nebraska. Now, Tyler in Nebraska, what would
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you say the buck activity is ben lately? On a
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: skill of one to ten, probably a five um. There
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: was times when deer or bucks in particular, we're moving
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: kind of late in the morning, which may be due
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to cool weather. And then there were times in the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: evenings where I saw the air moving pretty late as well.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Now I know you just had a successful hunting. There
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: was a great buck that you killed. Tell us about
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: that setup. Why you were in that spot and why
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: that buck was in that spot? Sure, um so you know,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: for one, the buck was in that spot because it
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: was very remote, um and hard to get to. I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: don't try to he man it to my but I
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: do like to, um kind of observe the situation. As
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: we got later in the hunt, I started seeing that
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: uh bucks uh in particular, and deer were kind of
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: scarce um near near the roads. A lot of that
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: stuff was getting hit. There was quite a few people
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: out there in the area hunting and um, so I
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: think that I just decided, well, as it gets later
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: in the hunt, you gotta you know, you don't have
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: an opportunity to kill a deer um close to the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: roads as easily. So ended up going back into a
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: remote section that had was pretty steep. Really. That was
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: another thing, you know. Um. And then on top of that,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the deer movement was somewhat predictable due to crop fields
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: that were several hundred yards away as well. What were
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the crop fields that you were focused on on that hunt?
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: You know, I actually never saw the what I assumed
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: was corn, but um, it was on a pivot and
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: it seemed like, according to on xit was corn in
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the past, um in the last year that being, and
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: so I assumed it was corn. It also looked different
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: color on the map than the other two uh small
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: pivots that I was seeing, and those were milo which
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I've seen in the past hunt Nebraska last couple of years.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: That they will definitely use that milow. I don't know
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: if they're eating it a bunch this time of year necessarily,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: but they're in it a lot because it's covered and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: um something about just agriculture and areas where there's not
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of it. It's just like something for them
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: to move to at night, whether it's highly preferential or not.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So how far off of the food? So the worse
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: were you actually hunting a little over a hundred yards
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: from the milo? The corn though, was probably closer to
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: a half mile away. And that's when I saw uh
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: that evening and I shot the buck. I saw two bucks,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: actually shot the smaller of the two that i'd seen,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: but they were probably forty five minutes apart, and neither
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: one of them really appeared to be heading to the mile.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: They were in the direction headed to the direction of
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the corn. But that was about as close as I
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: could get. I didn't want to get super close to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the fence line because I don't want to shoot a
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: deer that runs on to private really and have to
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: deal with all that. So that's probably a half mile
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: from the corner. So now, the buck that you killed
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: was hard horned. But what percentage of the other white
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: tails you were seeing were in velvet versus not in velvet?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Anything over a year and a half um or what
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I assumed was a year and a half old was
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: hard horned. Pretty much everything we saw. Um, we saw
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: a really good deer in the headlights one night as
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: we were driving in the first night actually was driving in,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: getting really close. I saw a big eleven point he
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: was hard horned. And then everything which we didn't see
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: a ton of bucks. UM. I don't know if they've
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: been hit with the HD or not. I hadn't heard
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: any reports really from that area, and it seemed like
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Nebraska didn't get hit as hard with drought this year,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: um overall as some of the other states up there.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: But um, I did have a buddy that was hunting
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: in the area that sent me a picture of a
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: velvet buck that was dead in near a swamp. UM.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: So kind of assumed HD, but maybe not. I don't
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: want to be a spearmonger, but um, everything other than
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: a little kind of innkers were pretty much hard horned.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I was kind of surprised. Actually were a lot of
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the bucks that you were seeing in bachelor groups. No,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: it's kind of the same thing. Um there was. It
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: was probably some of the biggest bucks that I saw most,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: it's not all. The biggest bucks that I saw were
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: pretty much in a loner state. Um. The smaller bucks
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: seemed to be a little bit more batched. I hunted
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: um a spot that had five bucks in the area. Um,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: three of them ran together, and they were all like
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: four keys or spikes pretty much. And then the other
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: two that ran together were two looked like eight points
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that were kind of basket eights. Um dear that I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: probably would have shot. But um, there's a good chance
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: that they were related of some sort. But outside of that,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: everything that we saw it looked like it was three
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: years or older seem to be um already broken up
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: from their bachelor status. Now, traditionally a lot of hunters
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: aren't hunting the mornings this time of year, But I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: assumed Tyler, since you were traveling out of state and
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you had a limited timeline that you guys were hunting
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: some mornings. Is that the case and what did those
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: setups look like? That is the case? Um. So we
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: we got rained out one morning, and not that we're
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: afraid to hunt the rain, but we had to rential
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: down for for four hours and in thirty or forty
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: mile winds and we just got soaked all night in
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a tent. So we decided to sleep in one morning. UM.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: But we tried to hunt as many mornings as possible. UM.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Because this time of year, I think that it can
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: be good. UM, because there's cooler weather. You'll get a
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: lot of bucks that will move later in the morning,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I feel like personally, and if you can get close
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: to what you assume is betting, um, you can have
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: deer come in at eight thirty or nine, nine thirty.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Even sometimes if it's cooler morning, you had a co
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: front come through. So we were focusing in kind of
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: we hunted a lot of more open country, UM, some
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: timber stuff. You know, with that tag, we can move
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: pretty much all over the state, and we did move
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: quite a bit, but UM and the open stuff, we
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: were focusing more on uh, you know, stuff in the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: bottom of draws or around lakes or ponds UM that
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: had willows around it, and also just high vegetation because
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: of the um because it has water near, you know.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And so you get these little pockets that have these
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: um really tall sunflowers and golden rod and all kinds
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: of different willows and stuff like that. UM and it
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: really I mean, especially in like a small young will thicket.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Those you are getting a lot of shade during the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: day as much as they need. Really they've got water there,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: and then they can move out to hay meadows or
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: whatever at night. And so we were focusing in the
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: mornings on those little kind of islands or habitat pockets
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: near lakes or ponds or you know, cattle tanks or whatever.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Going forward, Then in this next week or so, what
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: do you think that buck activity is going to be
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: on the scale of one to ten in Nebraska. I
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: think it's going to depend on the weather a little bit.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: And I, uh, kind of have unplugged from the weather
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: out there, so I'm not sure what that looks like.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: But I would assume if the weather stays pretty stable
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: to what it's been, which was kind of low to
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  Speaker 1: mid eighties. Um, I would assume that it just continues
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  Speaker 1: to uh uh pick up. The deer that I shot
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  Speaker 1: actually had some um little flakes of you know, tree
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  Speaker 1: barking his in his bases and all the birds and
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  Speaker 1: stuff like, not just that he had rubbed the velvet off,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: but that he had actually been rubbing a tree as well,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: just kind of that elevated testosterone is what gets them
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  Speaker 1: out of velvet and then eventually, you know, that just
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  Speaker 1: continues to rise. Um. I can see that being the case.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I can see the cool weather and the changing of
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the season, and the grass is turning different colors and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: so different things are coming into preference for the food
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  Speaker 1: and everything. And I would assume it would stay really
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: in that five or six rain one to ten, but
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  Speaker 1: it could be really focused with all the pressure they've
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  Speaker 1: had in the first week, so you might get sign
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: a pocket and really get into some bucks. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Will, congrats again on the great buck, Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: joining me, and good luck with the rest of your fall.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Thanks a bunch, Spinster, thanks for having me on again, man,
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  Speaker 1: And that concludes this week's episode of rut Fresh Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks to Clay Dylan, Mark and Tyler for joining me,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you guys for listening. Like I mentioned earlier,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: there are some reading assignments in the description of the
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  Speaker 1: episode on topics like where to find bucks after they
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: shed velvet, how volume hunting could save your season, four
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: tools every bow hunter shodown, and the best way to
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: get bucks on trail cam without bait. There's some really
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: good articles for some really good hunters, and I think
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: anybody who likes white Tail will find value in that content.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you give me a read before our next episode,
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  Speaker 1: and until then, stay Wired to Hunt.