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Ep. 429: Foundations - Scouting Summer Whitetails, Right Where They Live · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide
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Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, and now your host,
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Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast,
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Speaker 1: which is brought to you by First Light. On this episode,
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Speaker 1: it's time to set the phone down with the tablet
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Speaker 1: away and actually get into the woods to really scout. Listen,
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Speaker 1: the scouting is fun, getting trail camera picture sent to
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Speaker 1: your phone, that's fun. Hell, almost all scouting is fun,
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Speaker 1: but the most necessary scouting is the kind where you
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Speaker 1: get into the woods for a firsthand look at where
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Speaker 1: the deer actually live. This isn't that much fun this
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Speaker 1: time here, So I guess not all scouting is is
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Speaker 1: super fun. I like that doesn't matter, because despite the
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Speaker 1: heat and the bugs and the stinging nettles and probably
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Speaker 1: the bees or whatever, it's time to get out there
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Speaker 1: and really dig into the woods and see what it's
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Speaker 1: going to offer you this fall. That's what this week
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Speaker 1: show is all about. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Wire
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Speaker 1: to Hunt Foundations podcast. This is episode four and I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Tony Peterson. So far with Foundations, we've covered
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Speaker 1: developing and fostering a crazy love for all types of
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Speaker 1: deer scouting, and more specifically, we've gotten pretty deep into
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Speaker 1: the weeds on the topic of East scouting. Now we
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Speaker 1: need to get off the couch and we need to
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Speaker 1: get into the woods, which, to be honest, kind of sucks.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that scouting deer sucks generally. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I love it. But this time of year, you're going
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Speaker 1: to feed mosquitoes and ticks, You're going to fight the heat,
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Speaker 1: all while gleaning some knowledge that might help you out
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Speaker 1: this fall. This might not seem like a great trade off,
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Speaker 1: especially since I'm not really sugarcoating it a whole lot,
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Speaker 1: But the reality is that most of us are out
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Speaker 1: there trying to out hunt the other hunters as much
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Speaker 1: as we're trying to out hunt the deer. Most of
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Speaker 1: the people who are going to buy a deer license
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Speaker 1: this season are not in the woods right now doing
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of work besides maybe running a few
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Speaker 1: cameras or maybe putting out a mineral block to take
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Speaker 1: some inventory. There's nothing wrong with that. But the hunters
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Speaker 1: who are out there doing the ship that just needs
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Speaker 1: to get done, those are the hunters who will have
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Speaker 1: a real advantage when it comes to beating the crowds
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Speaker 1: and beating the deer this fall, So donating a little
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Speaker 1: plasma to the various bloodsuckers out there just part of
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Speaker 1: the deal. But before you head out, I would recommend
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Speaker 1: taking some protection against the ticks, since I'm a guy
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Speaker 1: who writes squirrel hunting articles for a living, which is
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Speaker 1: as far from having a medical degree as you can get.
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Speaker 1: Take this for what it's worth. You don't want lyme
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Speaker 1: disease or an alpha gal allergy. And now I know
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Speaker 1: alpha gal sounds like some hot superhero cost or whatever,
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Speaker 1: so I must apologize for getting a new comic book
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Speaker 1: geeks fired up. It's not that cool. It's actually a
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Speaker 1: weird reaction that springs up after an infected tick digs
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Speaker 1: into you that kicks off a red meat allergy. So
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Speaker 1: if you like venison backstraps or Ribby's, or cheeseburgers or
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Speaker 1: t bones, and you don't want to spend your life
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Speaker 1: solely eating fish and chicken, take some precautions against ticks.
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Speaker 1: But don't be so cautious that you never go into
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Speaker 1: the woods, because right now you've got all of those
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Speaker 1: interesting way points you've dropped from your east scouting efforts.
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Speaker 1: They're sitting in the back of your mind, and the
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Speaker 1: voice in your head is saying, you need to go
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Speaker 1: in and see if that pinch point is legit. You
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Speaker 1: need to walk that river to see what the crossings
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Speaker 1: really look like in person. You need to make that
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Speaker 1: three hour drive to that random chunk of public land
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Speaker 1: to see if it's really worth hunting. And unfortunately for
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Speaker 1: you and I, the window for easier winter scouting has
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Speaker 1: long since passed. That ship has sailed. But that doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean you shouldn't look at all those waypoints on your
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Speaker 1: own and make a rough plan to get in and
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Speaker 1: see them in person if you possibly can, or at
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Speaker 1: least see as many of them as you can. And
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Speaker 1: even though you called out some of your dad way
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Speaker 1: points already, you'll see in person others you were convinced
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Speaker 1: are going to be super amazing actually aren't. Others will
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Speaker 1: prove to be absolutely worth hunting. And no matter how
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Speaker 1: it shakes out, you'll still be in the woods looking around.
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Speaker 1: You'll be doing deer work. And this is a tremendously
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Speaker 1: beneficial thing to do. It's kind of like observing dear.
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Speaker 1: No matter when you can, it's just a great way
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Speaker 1: to increase your personal level of woodsmanship, and that undoubtedly
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Speaker 1: helps you make better in the moment scouting and hunting decisions.
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Speaker 1: Let me further illustrate this. Consider something I went through
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Speaker 1: on public land in South Dakota several years ago. I
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Speaker 1: had marked a bunch of spots on on X. I
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Speaker 1: showed up two days before the bow season was going
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Speaker 1: to open, and I was going to run through those
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Speaker 1: spots pick my best places to hunt, and I was
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Speaker 1: going to hit the ground running on opening morning. Problem was,
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Speaker 1: when I hiked into most of those way points, they
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Speaker 1: just didn't do it for me. Part of this was
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Speaker 1: due to the fact that there was a hell of
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Speaker 1: a lot more cattle around than I expected, and part
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Speaker 1: of it was due to the fact that the water
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Speaker 1: holes I wanted to hunt were bone dry, at least
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Speaker 1: most of them. In that depressing process of hiking through
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Speaker 1: the heat to see that my east cutting efforts were
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Speaker 1: really bad, I walked right past a pond that was
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Speaker 1: just ringed with deer tracks. It was covered in sign,
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Speaker 1: but it was also about two yards from the only
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Speaker 1: access on the entire walk in ranch that I was scouting,
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Speaker 1: so I wrote it off on opening night, bad wind,
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Speaker 1: directions that I didn't really plan for, and limited options
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Speaker 1: due to other hunters a lot more hunters than I expected,
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Speaker 1: just left me scrambling with nothing to lose. I hiked
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Speaker 1: to that pond and immediately jumped a bedded buck next
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Speaker 1: to it, and as soon as I got that stand
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Speaker 1: hung and stepped out of the platform, a different buck,
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Speaker 1: a bigger buck, ran over the hill and stopped at
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Speaker 1: the edge of the pond at twenty yards. He froze
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Speaker 1: right there. The problem was my bow was laying on
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Speaker 1: the ground, but I did get to bend down and
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Speaker 1: pick up my tow rope, and every time he shook
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Speaker 1: his head to get rid of the flies that were
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Speaker 1: really thick because it was so warm out, I pulled
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Speaker 1: that bow a little bit more and a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: When he finally dipped his head down to take a drink,
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Speaker 1: I had my bow in my hand, I had gotten
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Speaker 1: my release on, and so I got an arrow knocked.
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Speaker 1: And it ended up being the shortest out of state
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Speaker 1: public land hunt in my life. And it was made
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Speaker 1: possible by speed scouting a bunch of spots that I
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Speaker 1: had marked with way points, even though they were mostly turds.
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Speaker 1: The fact that they were turds didn't change the reality
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Speaker 1: that I had to walk through a bunch of deer
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Speaker 1: ground to see them, and in that process I stumbled
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Speaker 1: on a no brainer spot that produced a buck for
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Speaker 1: me literally within seconds of setting up. So it's time
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Speaker 1: to sweat, it's time to get bit up, it's time
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Speaker 1: to hike through the woods, slog through the swamps, across
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Speaker 1: the fields. But remember this is transition time for white tails.
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Speaker 1: There's brows everywhere, whether you're in Canada or Mississippi or
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Speaker 1: Georgia or Maine or wherever white tails live. They have
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Speaker 1: more food options than they'll have it any time of
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Speaker 1: the year, and they are dealing with the same crappy
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Speaker 1: conditions you'll be dealing with when you make a foray
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Speaker 1: into their world. And that discomfort comes in many forms,
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Speaker 1: and it portends a few things for you. And the
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Speaker 1: deer that nice deep in the woods hillside bench that
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Speaker 1: you think you could kill a buck on in November,
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Speaker 1: it's probably absolutely worthless. Deer wise, right now, he's not
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Speaker 1: going to go in there and live with the mosquitoes
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Speaker 1: and deer flies. He's going to bed out in some
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Speaker 1: finger of tall grass where the breeze is always blowing,
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Speaker 1: and the insects are kept at bay. This also means
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Speaker 1: that not all the sign in the deer sightings matter
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Speaker 1: right now or will be relevant to your hunting decisions
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Speaker 1: come fall. Take, for example, a pounded trail around a
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Speaker 1: swamp or some other wetland, which, because it's wet, will
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Speaker 1: look way more pounded than it probably actually is. That
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Speaker 1: trail might exist right now simply because the water level
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Speaker 1: rose back in May with a bunch of spring rain
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Speaker 1: and it hasn't totally dried out yet, and the deer
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Speaker 1: simply just had to go around upon that. They might
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Speaker 1: go through or around a wetland that they might go
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Speaker 1: through in October. Or you might jump a buck out
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Speaker 1: there in the middle of a patch of sumac in
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Speaker 1: a place you just didn't expect them, and you go,
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Speaker 1: I got that, some bitch now. But that spot might
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Speaker 1: serve as a one off betting area for a month
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Speaker 1: each summer and nothing more. Listen, this is no different
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Speaker 1: from your winter scouting efforts. If if you see a
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Speaker 1: sweet trail carved through the snow leading right to a
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Speaker 1: standing cornfield in the end of January, you don't think
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Speaker 1: to yourself that's going to be the ticket in September
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Speaker 1: at least. I hope you don't think that. I hope
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Speaker 1: that you look at that and say, hell, yes, I
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Speaker 1: might find a shed antler here. But I also know
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Speaker 1: that the wintertime movement to a prime food source doesn't
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Speaker 1: mean jack squad come hunting season when the conditions are
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Speaker 1: to really different. Actually, boots on the ground, summer scouting
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Speaker 1: is quite a bit different from winter in late spring scouting.
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Speaker 1: I just lied to you, and I'm sorry for that.
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Speaker 1: The truth is that when you're cruising through the March woods,
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Speaker 1: you're looking for rubs and scrapes, real bucks sign that
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Speaker 1: late winter scouting that's all about sign You want to
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Speaker 1: find a core area or a staging area, or just
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Speaker 1: the telltale rubs that show you a good dear fake
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Speaker 1: fota sapling in one specific area. There will be none
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Speaker 1: of that now in the middle of the summer, because
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Speaker 1: rubs and scrapes are going to be nearly unidentifiable. It's unfortunate,
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Speaker 1: I know, But as my kids like to say, and
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Speaker 1: I don't really know why it be like that. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: look at this type of scouting during this time of
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Speaker 1: year like it's an effort to just discover what is
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Speaker 1: actually knowable and usable, and to tell the rest of
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Speaker 1: the stuff to go kick rocks in the street. Let's
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Speaker 1: take my earlier river scouting example a step further here.
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Speaker 1: Imagine walking along the bank of a river or a
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Speaker 1: stream that flows right on through the ground you hunt.
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Speaker 1: Deer might cross it at different times of this season
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Speaker 1: for different reasons, but depending on the size and the
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Speaker 1: depth of the water, they might always cross in only
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Speaker 1: a few different spots out of convenience or just necessity.
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Speaker 1: In fact, even on smaller water that you can barely
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Speaker 1: submerge a juvenile frog in, deer have their preferences for
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Speaker 1: where they cross. This predictability has put more public land
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Speaker 1: books on my walls than probably any other tendency, even
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Speaker 1: more so than they're insane urge to pass on their
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Speaker 1: jeans with any remotely functional dough who will slow down
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Speaker 1: long enough for them to try to hop on. River crossings,
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Speaker 1: which we will get to way more extensively in future episodes,
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Speaker 1: are just one example of a season long deer spot
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Speaker 1: that you could identify right now. The same goes for
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Speaker 1: fence crossings. If there's one constant in the deer world,
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Speaker 1: it's the prevalence of barbed wire fences old and new.
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Speaker 1: They're out there, stitched across the country side, and deer
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Speaker 1: hate them as much as we do. But deer are
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Speaker 1: masters of finding the one anomaly in the fence that
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Speaker 1: allows them to jump over or go through. And if
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Speaker 1: you find a good fence crossing, just like when you've
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Speaker 1: got a good river crossing, you're looking at a spot
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Speaker 1: that could treat you well throughout the entire season. Of course,
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Speaker 1: looking at a well used crossing of any kind and
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Speaker 1: deciding it is, in fact a well used crossing doesn't
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Speaker 1: do you much good until you find a way to
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Speaker 1: ambush the eventual crossers. Take a look at the trees
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Speaker 1: around the area. Envision what they'll look like when they're
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Speaker 1: bar and you're hanging off the side of them, not
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Speaker 1: how they look now. Look for potential ground blind spots,
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Speaker 1: natural ground blinds, places you can pop up a ground blind.
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Speaker 1: Use your imagination here. I once killed a great buck
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Speaker 1: on a river crossing simply by hiding behind a giant cottonwood.
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Speaker 1: It was the scooby doo version of a hunting strategy,
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Speaker 1: but it worked because the deer can't see through trees.
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Speaker 1: If you can't find a suitable ambush spot within the
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Speaker 1: range within rain inge of the crossing, back off to
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Speaker 1: see how far you'd have to get away to reach
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Speaker 1: something workable. You might not be able to sit right
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Speaker 1: on the river bank and shoot them when they show up,
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Speaker 1: But what does the trail offer you a hundred yards
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Speaker 1: from the river. Maybe that super fence crossing is way
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Speaker 1: out on an open pasture and there's no conceivable set
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Speaker 1: up options, But some of the deer that crossed there
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Speaker 1: seem to originate from a point of woods a quarter
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Speaker 1: of a mile away. Perfect setups, especially on pressure deer ground,
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Speaker 1: are unicorns learn to adapt and scout with an eye
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Speaker 1: towards finding good as it gets set ups. This goes
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Speaker 1: for those random deer hotspots you find while looking for
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Speaker 1: something else, or for the way point you've dropped specifically
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Speaker 1: on a deer funneling terrain feature confirmed not only that
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Speaker 1: the spot will likely host some serious deer travel come
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Speaker 1: fall while you're out there right now, but really dig
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Speaker 1: in deeper to decide if the spots are unable, not
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Speaker 1: just whether they're going to host a whole bunch of deer. Truly,
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Speaker 1: hunt of spots have some kind of good access. They
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Speaker 1: don't necessarily have perfect stand trees, but they have good
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Speaker 1: enough stand trees, or they allow for a situation for
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Speaker 1: you to tuck into the ground somehow. It doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: Make sure you're looking for these at all of your spots,
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Speaker 1: and even the ones that seem easily huntrible, like destination
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Speaker 1: food sources where you think I'll just walk into the
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Speaker 1: corner of that field and set up, sometimes don't lend
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Speaker 1: themselves easily to a good tree stand or saddle set
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Speaker 1: up or a ground line as you think. Go in
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Speaker 1: there now and make sure that you actually know and
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Speaker 1: during those walks, at least if you hunt where farmers farm,
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Speaker 1: there should be another real opportunity for you to see
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Speaker 1: what crops are out there. Throughout much of the White
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Speaker 1: Tail range, the burning question a lot of us ask
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Speaker 1: is what's going to be growing in these fields this fall.
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Speaker 1: For example, here in my home state of Minnesota, I've
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Speaker 1: got a farm I have permission to bowl hunt. The
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Speaker 1: landowner runs a monster dairy operation, and he primarily plants
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Speaker 1: corn and alfalfa. Of the four acres of fields on
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Speaker 1: the property, most will always be corn, a few will
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Speaker 1: be alfalfa, and rarely he'll have soybeans planted. Because there
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Speaker 1: are quite a few hunters on the farm. I want
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Speaker 1: to know right away if there will be any soybeans
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Speaker 1: for the year, because that will always factor into my
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Speaker 1: early season strategy, and more often than not, that's where
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Speaker 1: I want to be posted up during opening weekend. Now,
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Speaker 1: of course the alfalfa will factor into the early season
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Speaker 1: strategy as well, and later the corn will come into play.
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Speaker 1: But the key is I want to know as soon
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Speaker 1: as possible what's growing out there, and you do too.
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Speaker 1: This up to the minute intel is something you can
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Speaker 1: just toss into the mix and it will really help
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Speaker 1: you tie up some scouting loose ends and build a
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Speaker 1: more actionable plan for the fall. And don't forget to
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Speaker 1: look at any of the fields near where you hunt
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Speaker 1: to even if they are on properties that you can't
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Speaker 1: set foot on, provided you can drive by or you
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Speaker 1: can see them maybe by glassing from ground you have
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Speaker 1: permission to be on. If the neighbors have the bean
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Speaker 1: fields or they have some other high draw food, you
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Speaker 1: want to know that because you know a certain percentage
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Speaker 1: of the deer that use the property you're gonna hunt
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Speaker 1: are going to go there and come back you can
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Speaker 1: factor that into your strategy. This plays out a lot
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Speaker 1: for public land hunters for one very obvious reason. Typically,
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Speaker 1: quality tillable land doesn't end up under government authority. It
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Speaker 1: stays private for food production, and that means a lot
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Speaker 1: of the public land has great betting cover but not
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Speaker 1: so great destination food sources, and the deer will often
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Speaker 1: travel from one to the other depending on whether they're
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Speaker 1: hungry or sleepy, and knowing where they're headed or where
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Speaker 1: they're going to come back from can tell you a
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Speaker 1: lot about why you should hunt certain spots at certain
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Speaker 1: times of the season. Whenever I travel out of state
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Speaker 1: to bow hunt public land, I always try to figure
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Speaker 1: out what the primary food situation is, and it's mostly
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Speaker 1: not on the land that I'm going to hunt. I've
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Speaker 1: killed an awful lot of deer staging on public land
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Speaker 1: that we're headed to or coming from nearby private ground. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you should set up on a
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Speaker 1: fence line like a lot of people do, but instead
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Speaker 1: just take into account how the deer are going to
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Speaker 1: fulfill their daily needs while you're hunting them, and work
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Speaker 1: with whatever you've got to work with there. It's also
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Speaker 1: worth noting that while I often talk mad shit about
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Speaker 1: egg fields and food plots on public land as being
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Speaker 1: idiot magnets, that's a gross generalization and I probably shouldn't
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Speaker 1: say it. I've killed great books on public land food
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Speaker 1: sources in a couple of different states. Sometimes, if the
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Speaker 1: pressure isn't terrible or the weather conditions conspire to keep
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Speaker 1: hunters out and put box on their feet, that gimme
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Speaker 1: stand site on a state planet food plot might be
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Speaker 1: the ticket. Even if it's a very very fleeting opportunity
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Speaker 1: to take advantage of that and file it away in
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Speaker 1: the maybe pile, you've got to know it exists, and
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Speaker 1: you've got to know what's currently planet in it, which
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Speaker 1: you can find out right now by getting out there
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Speaker 1: and putting on some miles. And no matter what else
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Speaker 1: you find while scouting right now that you deem worthwhile,
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Speaker 1: trust me on this, make a note of it in
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Speaker 1: your scouting app. I know you think you'll remember it,
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Speaker 1: but if you're like me and you pickled your brain
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Speaker 1: with Jim Beam for like twenty years before wising up,
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Speaker 1: you probably won't. And even if you didn't engage in
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Speaker 1: professional level drinking for like two decades, You've still probably
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Speaker 1: got a lot on your plate, and remembering exactly where
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Speaker 1: the best stand tree is on that one river crossing
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Speaker 1: on that wildlife management area that has a name that
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Speaker 1: starts with A or a C. It isn't so easy.
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Speaker 1: Take notes on your phone. That's my go to strategy.
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Speaker 1: For public land. For private land, I do the same
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Speaker 1: thing as well, But I also carry some biodegradable flagging
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Speaker 1: tape during all these scouting missions, I might just tie
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Speaker 1: a little orange bow on a pine tree next to
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Speaker 1: the tree I planned to sit. Or I might use
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Speaker 1: a little bit of flagging tape to mark the best
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Speaker 1: place to peel off an access road to get to
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Speaker 1: a specific spot. Just little clues to help me remember
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Speaker 1: how to hunt this after looking at it in person.
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Speaker 1: Scout this time of year as if at any moment,
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Speaker 1: someone could pick up a brick and toss it right
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Speaker 1: at your head, so that not only will you go
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Speaker 1: temporary night night and see some cartoon tweety birds circling
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Speaker 1: around your dome when you stop springing toward the light,
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Speaker 1: but you might also lose your ability to recall anything.
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Speaker 1: Look all I'm saying is, don't trust your memory, do
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Speaker 1: trust your ability to figure out something important about the
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Speaker 1: local deer movement. And if that's not enough to get
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Speaker 1: you to brave hordes of mosquitoes and some ticks, then
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Speaker 1: thinking about it this way, very few people will really
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Speaker 1: scout this time of year. To put a finer point
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Speaker 1: on it, consider this, Hunters asked me all the time
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Speaker 1: what the secret to killing more dear is, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know how to answer it any other way than
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Speaker 1: I explained in episode one. You've got to learn to
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Speaker 1: love scouting, even right now, even if it has to
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Speaker 1: happen when most folks are out throwing top waters for
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Speaker 1: summer's moallmouth or brushing up on their golf game. The
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Speaker 1: little sacrifice as it takes right now to ground through
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Speaker 1: some of your scouting findings will absolutely give you an
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Speaker 1: advantage of fall. So get out there and use those
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Speaker 1: waypoints you've agonized over. Hike into those spots, take a
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Speaker 1: look at them, try to understand if they'll be good
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Speaker 1: places to haunt or not. Factor in the summer foliage,
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Speaker 1: and deal with what Mother Nature is going to give you. Now.
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Speaker 1: It won't be the easiest time to decipher dear sign,
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Speaker 1: but the clues are out there. When you find enough
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Speaker 1: of them, commit those spots to your memory and to
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Speaker 1: your phone, and start to really develop a roster potential
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Speaker 1: ambush sites that you feel confidence in. If you do,
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Speaker 1: I'll make you a promise. Next week we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: something more fun, like trail cameras and how they can
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Speaker 1: help you kill super huge bucks even on the most
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Speaker 1: heavily hunted parcel in all of Pennsylvania, or at least
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Speaker 1: how they can complement a good scouting strategy. That's it
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Speaker 1: for this week, my friends. Be sure to check back
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Speaker 1: in next week as we keep this scouting ball roll.
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Speaker 1: I'm Tony Peterson and this has been a Wired to
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Speaker 1: Hunt Foundation's podcast. As always, thank you so so so
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Speaker 1: much for listening, and we will see you right here
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Speaker 1: next week