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Ep. 379: Rut Fresh Radio 10/14/20 · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wire to Hunt podcast, your home for
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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,
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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan, and this is episode number three
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Speaker 1: seventy nine, and today we're back for another fresh radio
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Speaker 1: episode in which we are getting reports from across the
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Speaker 1: country on the latest deer activity, how current conditions are
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Speaker 1: impacting things, and the tactics that are gonna help you
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Speaker 1: right now during the middle of October the quote unquote
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Speaker 1: dreaded October lull. All right, welcome to the Wire to
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Speaker 1: Hunt podcast, brought to you by on X. We're back
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Speaker 1: here for another fresh radio episode in which Spencer and
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Speaker 1: I are going to be setting us up to hear
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Speaker 1: from a handful of different hunters from across the country.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna get us the very most recent intel on
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Speaker 1: what deer doing right now. So what have they been
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Speaker 1: seeing over the last week, What kind of conditions are
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Speaker 1: impacting dear behavior, what are the tactics that are working
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Speaker 1: right now, and what should we expect over the next
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Speaker 1: seven days. Can we predict to a kind of movement
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Speaker 1: we're gonna see. Should we be thinking about different tactics, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
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Speaker 1: That's the game plan. Uh, this episode the day it
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Speaker 1: comes out. If you're listening to this on the day
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Speaker 1: it comes out, it's October fourteenth. We are just about
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Speaker 1: in the dead center of October, Spencer. What are your
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Speaker 1: thoughts out the gate on that dead center of October
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Speaker 1: time period? Well, um, referring to rud Fresh Radio. And
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Speaker 1: I say this every year, but these are my favorite
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Speaker 1: episodes of the podcast, from like that October tenth to
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Speaker 1: that October uh, like early twenties episodes. These are my
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Speaker 1: favorite episodes because I think there's so much to learn
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Speaker 1: and there's so many different ways that hunters across the country,
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Speaker 1: UM kind of approach what we consider to be the
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Speaker 1: October law. UM. And you always here in these episodes,
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Speaker 1: how you get this like super wide range of numbers
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Speaker 1: thrown out? Like we know, Mark, when we get to
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Speaker 1: you know, like the November fourth episode, everyone's going to
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Speaker 1: say that movement is an eight or nine or ten, um.
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Speaker 1: But right now you get this super golf, super wide
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Speaker 1: golf of numbers where someone might say a one, uh,
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Speaker 1: and someone might say it's an eight. And I think
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Speaker 1: that just speaks to how middle October and what most
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Speaker 1: hunters refer to you as the October law is quite
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Speaker 1: an enigma. Um So, while it might not be the
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Speaker 1: best hunting right now, these are my favorite episodes of
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Speaker 1: the year for that reason. Yeah. You know. Another big
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Speaker 1: thing is that whether you rate it as a one
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Speaker 1: or an eight might also depend, more so than any
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Speaker 1: other time of year, on what kind of hunter you are.
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Speaker 1: So are you the kind of hunter that likes to
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Speaker 1: play it safe and hunt the edges, or are you
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Speaker 1: really aggressive and pushing into core areas and and just
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Speaker 1: charity cover. If you're a conservative edge hunter, this is
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Speaker 1: a time of year that you're probably gonna think things
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Speaker 1: are pretty darn slow in a lot of cases. If
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Speaker 1: you're really aggressive and you're pushing the envelope and going
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Speaker 1: in deep, you might have some eight out of ten
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Speaker 1: nights this time of the year. Um you know, if
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Speaker 1: you're looking at a Mark Drewy at this time of year,
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Speaker 1: he's going to be telling you as the two or
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Speaker 1: three on a food plot edge. If you're talking to
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Speaker 1: a you know, Aaron Warburton from the hunting public who's
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Speaker 1: pushing into the middle of the buck nest, right now
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Speaker 1: he's gonna tell you, man, there's big Bucks. I'm seeing
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Speaker 1: big Bucks every day. So this time period, I think has,
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Speaker 1: as we've talked about, generically been labeled the October lull.
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Speaker 1: I'd like to call it the October shift because it's
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Speaker 1: simply a big change, a big change in dear behavior
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Speaker 1: and a big change in habitat and conditions, which just
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Speaker 1: requires a change in our hunting. And you can make
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Speaker 1: that change with them if you're willing to be aggressive.
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Speaker 1: If you don't want to be aggressive for certain reasons,
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Speaker 1: then then you're just gonna have to live with with
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Speaker 1: a slightly slower time period in those conservative stands. Um,
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Speaker 1: I guess Spencer, you tell me if you think this
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Speaker 1: is necessarily not because we've talked about this year after
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Speaker 1: year after years, so there might be people listening who
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Speaker 1: know this stuff, but at the same time it could
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Speaker 1: be new hunters. Is it worth me walking through the
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Speaker 1: high level? This is what the October shift is. This
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Speaker 1: is why I think it happens. Here's two things to
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Speaker 1: think about. Do you think we should still cover that? Absolutely? Um,
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Speaker 1: Because I think there's like two very popular ways of
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Speaker 1: thinking about this. One of them is that the lull
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Speaker 1: is real and box are nocturnal, um, and they're damn
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Speaker 1: near impossible to kill for a few weeks stretch. So
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Speaker 1: I think that's one way of think about the other
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Speaker 1: way of sort of thinking about is that, like you said,
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Speaker 1: there is a shift, but hunters may not look at
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Speaker 1: that shift beyond just what the food sources. Um. So
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Speaker 1: I think it is like still something that's really relevant
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Speaker 1: to cover again this fall. Mark. Yeah, and I'll tell you,
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Speaker 1: I'll run us through like the quick. You know, as
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Speaker 1: you pointed out the other day when you're hosting the
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Speaker 1: show by yourself, you said that here's the cliff notes version,
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Speaker 1: which is something Mark says a lot apparently. Um, I'll
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Speaker 1: give you the cliff notes version. Um. But you can
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Speaker 1: also go And there's actually two articles I wrote on
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Speaker 1: this in in quite a bit of detail over on
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Speaker 1: the Meat Either website. I wrote one article last year
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Speaker 1: called the October law is Real, and then I wrote
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Speaker 1: an article this year that I think we simply called
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Speaker 1: how to kill a buck in October, And in both
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Speaker 1: of these I addressed the October shift. Here's the high
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Speaker 1: level bit. At this time of year, many hunters experience
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Speaker 1: a decline in visible deer sightings because of these changes.
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Speaker 1: Number one, there is a change in food sources across
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Speaker 1: most places. Right We're seeing certain crops that are defoliating,
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Speaker 1: like soybeans dried down completely by now, and some are
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Speaker 1: being harvested. You've got corn that's drying down now, so
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Speaker 1: deer that maybe we're feeding on soybeans or shifting to
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Speaker 1: corn or whatever the crop is in near area. This
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Speaker 1: change is going on, some drying down, some being harvested.
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Speaker 1: There's leaves falling down, so the cover is changing across
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Speaker 1: most parts of the country. And then you also have
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Speaker 1: hunting pressure increasing significantly across the country. So all of
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Speaker 1: those things are changing the white tails world. So because
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Speaker 1: of that, white tails are going to adjust. So you
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Speaker 1: might have seen deer. Let's say you're your hunting season
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Speaker 1: didn't open to October one, maybe the week before September,
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Speaker 1: you saw a big mature buck out in a soybean
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Speaker 1: field that still had a few green leaves here and there,
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Speaker 1: and he was out there feeding in daylight. Now that
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Speaker 1: buck might not want to do that at all on
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Speaker 1: October because the beans are gone. There's been hunters running
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Speaker 1: around spooking him, and that little thick grassy area that
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Speaker 1: was next to the bean field, UM a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago is barren. There's no tree cover. Now, maybe
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Speaker 1: we'll say hypothetically, so to over generalize, these deer on
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Speaker 1: new food sources. They're readjusting to find spots that are
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Speaker 1: better cover wise even without leaf cover, and they're typically
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Speaker 1: spending more time in that security cover during daylight because
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Speaker 1: they don't want to move as far away from their
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Speaker 1: bedrooms with hunters around that they now are aware of.
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Speaker 1: So you've got one of two options. I see, and
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Speaker 1: this is oversimplified. There's always nuance. Everyone's got a different situation.
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Speaker 1: But I would put too general schools of thought to
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Speaker 1: consider for how to hunt this time period. If you
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Speaker 1: know your property really well, if you're experienced, if you
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Speaker 1: know where these bucks live, whether that be through observations
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Speaker 1: or trail cameras, or you've hunted here a lot and
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Speaker 1: you know, man, there's always a big buck. And these
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Speaker 1: couple betting areas in October, if you feel really confident
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Speaker 1: in that, or if you have seventeen different scouted out
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Speaker 1: public land locations that you're really confident with, and if
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Speaker 1: one doesn't work and move on to the next now
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Speaker 1: is still a time to get on a nice buck
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Speaker 1: if you're willing to be aggressive and pushing close to
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Speaker 1: their betting areas. This is the Dan in fault approach
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Speaker 1: or DeAndre Dequisto approach, where you push into that thick
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Speaker 1: stuff you go get those bucks, no matter what time
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Speaker 1: of year is um that would be one approach, and
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Speaker 1: it's kind of a swing for the fences approach because
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Speaker 1: by doing this at this time of year, there is
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Speaker 1: the high risk that you could push in close and
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Speaker 1: spook that deer or educate that dear and never even
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Speaker 1: see him. So if you only hunt a little tiny property,
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Speaker 1: or if you have not done this stuff before and
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Speaker 1: you don't know your areas or you're not confident as
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Speaker 1: a hunter yet because you're relatively and experienced, that might
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Speaker 1: not be the best thing to do at this time
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Speaker 1: of year. There's there's better, slightly more conducive to new
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Speaker 1: hunter or too small property hunter hunting coming up later.
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Speaker 1: So if you play it safe now and wait till
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Speaker 1: that better stuff comes in late October or November, you
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Speaker 1: could keep these deer uneducated and around for that better stuff.
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Speaker 1: So those are the two schools of thought. If if
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Speaker 1: you're in the less experienced or less opportunity small property.
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Speaker 1: If you're in that camp, now it's a good time
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Speaker 1: to you know, hunt some public land so you don't
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Speaker 1: mess up your little property. And now it's a good
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Speaker 1: time to be conservative and sit, you know, observation stands
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Speaker 1: that are on the edges. If you still want to hunt,
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Speaker 1: you just watch from afar and learn, but don't go
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Speaker 1: pushing into the good stuff. Um. Or this maybe is
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Speaker 1: the time to work on your honeydew list and get
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Speaker 1: some work done around the house or whatever. Um now
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Speaker 1: might be a time to do that. Um. So it
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Speaker 1: just depends on where you feel you are based on
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Speaker 1: those two sets of circumstances I described. Now there are
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Speaker 1: these different varying factors that can change all that, such
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Speaker 1: as if you happen to see a mature buck or
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Speaker 1: whatever you're after, if you see the kind of deal
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Speaker 1: you're after moving in daylight, go get him. If there's
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Speaker 1: a front pushing through, that can change things. Um, at
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Speaker 1: least I believe so that can change things a little bit.
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Speaker 1: So there's some nuance here. But that is my cliff
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Speaker 1: notes version of what this time period is all about. Spencer, Um,
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Speaker 1: what what are your what am I missing? Is there
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Speaker 1: anything important I'm missing there? Or is there anything that
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Speaker 1: our guests that you've talked to already, is there anything
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Speaker 1: that they brought up that we need to add to
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Speaker 1: this as a foundation. Well, it seems like something that
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Speaker 1: can you know, reverse the October law. As as we
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Speaker 1: talked about a few episodes ago and you just touched
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Speaker 1: on there is when you get a front to move through.
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Speaker 1: It seems like for most of the country, Um, there
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Speaker 1: is a cold front coming through between like Wednesday and
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Speaker 1: Saturday of this week, So the fourteen uh and the
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Speaker 1: seventeen between there a lot of the country is going
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Speaker 1: to have some cold front where you're looking at like
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Speaker 1: a forty to fifty degrees swing between the high on
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Speaker 1: one day and the low on the next day. Um.
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Speaker 1: And as we talked about on the September thirty episode, mark,
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Speaker 1: this is kind of like, you know, maybe the last
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Speaker 1: catalyst that we get to make dear movement go up
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Speaker 1: and get him ature Buck moving when he wouldn't be otherwise,
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Speaker 1: um until we get to November. So I think that's relevant,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's a reason that all of our guests
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Speaker 1: this week are really optimistic and who we talked to
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Speaker 1: you is Caleb Combs from Stewart Ranch Out Figures in Oklahoma,
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Speaker 1: Bo Mortonic from the East meets West Hunt podcast in Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 1: Parker McDonald and Alabama from Southern Ground Hunting, and then
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Speaker 1: Alex Gilstrom in Illinois from White Tailed Properties. Nice. It
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Speaker 1: sounds like a good slate. I'll tell you on my
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Speaker 1: end just to add a little bit of personal a
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Speaker 1: personal update off of what I just described as my
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Speaker 1: generic October shift perspective. UM, I used to find myself
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Speaker 1: in the latter camp, so I used to approach the
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Speaker 1: October laws. I was really conservative. I would leave my
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Speaker 1: best spots alone completely. I wouldn't even go into the
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Speaker 1: property I we usually hunt like October one and second,
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Speaker 1: and I wouldn't come back again to the almost November. Um.
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Speaker 1: And maybe that was the right thing to do at
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Speaker 1: that time. But you know, the more experienced and confident
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Speaker 1: I've become with what I'm doing, and the more people
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Speaker 1: we talked to, who are you know proving that the
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Speaker 1: October law, October shift or whatever to call it, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a bad time to hunt. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm gaining more and more confidence in taking some swings
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Speaker 1: at that time. So with this front, this is the
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Speaker 1: kind of thing that I think, you know, I'm willing
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Speaker 1: to do something that six years ago, seven eight years ago,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't have done. I might take a swing on
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Speaker 1: in October five or six hunt because of that, because
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Speaker 1: of that temperature, and because you know, check and trail
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Speaker 1: cameras some some spots, I'm seeing that I do have
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Speaker 1: bucks that are in the area still, that are moving
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Speaker 1: on the edge of daylight. I even had my number
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Speaker 1: one buck, Spencer tran Um. He was moving in daylight
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Speaker 1: after the hunting season opened on this property and I
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Speaker 1: was over on the back forty hunting with my dad
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Speaker 1: trying to get him a buck, and Tran was walking
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Speaker 1: around in daylight on the other farm. So that tells
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Speaker 1: me that at least up to that point he hadn't
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Speaker 1: been boogered. He was still feeling comfortable and Um, and
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Speaker 1: I know the general zone, one of a couple of
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Speaker 1: general zones where he spends a lot of time, and
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Speaker 1: I think we're beds. So with this front coming in,
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking I might take another crack at them. So
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Speaker 1: I'm interested to see what everybody else says. But as
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Speaker 1: of now I am cautiously excited. Spencer. I dig it
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Speaker 1: a dig andd Like you said, so much of your
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Speaker 1: outlook on this time of year has to do with
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Speaker 1: what properties you have available, what your style of hunting is,
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Speaker 1: what kind of time you have available, all those sort
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Speaker 1: of factors. And again that's why I love these middle
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Speaker 1: of October episodes. Um, but I think that's enough from
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Speaker 1: us this week. Let's get to our guests perfect alright,
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Speaker 1: and joining us on the line next is Parker McDonald
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Speaker 1: in Alabama from the Southern Ground Hunting. Now, Parker in Alabama,
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Speaker 1: what would you say the buck activity has been lately
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Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten, Man, I would
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Speaker 1: probably say, um, about as low as I've ever seen it.
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Speaker 1: I would say probably it's two or three, um, in
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Speaker 1: at least in the areas where I'm hunting at right now.
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Speaker 1: It's just it kind of seems like, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: hard to find it's hard to really even find a
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Speaker 1: lot of deer right now because just things are so
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Speaker 1: much different than they usually are every other year. Um,
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Speaker 1: and especially bucks Man, I'm I'm I'm not seeing even
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Speaker 1: a whole lot of tracks and some of the main
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Speaker 1: areas that I hunt, um, not even finding a whole
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Speaker 1: lot of buck tracks or sign or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: And so it's been pretty slow. The only reason I
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Speaker 1: give it as high as the three is because there
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Speaker 1: have been a couple of a couple of friends that
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Speaker 1: I know who have killed bucks um and seeing something.
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Speaker 1: But for me, it's been it's been pretty low, about
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Speaker 1: as low as I've ever seen it. Now, this is
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Speaker 1: one of the earliest openers that Alabama has ever had.
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Speaker 1: So what does that meant for haunters in your state
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Speaker 1: this year? Well, so the state of Alabama usually is
14:43
Speaker 1: about mid October, so sometime around October, and the majority
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Speaker 1: of the state is still following that um those season dates.
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Speaker 1: But there's actually like three different areas pretty much spread
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Speaker 1: across the state this year that opened up on October one,
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Speaker 1: And as far as I know, UM, that's the earliest
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Speaker 1: anybody has ever been able to legally hunt in Alabama.
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Speaker 1: So there's things are a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 1: things are just incredibly different um this year versus last year.
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Speaker 1: And that is like in in the areas that I hunt,
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Speaker 1: a lot of the akrons hadn't even started dropping yet
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Speaker 1: when the season opened, um, and so big woods areas
15:23
Speaker 1: like I hunt, Um, there's real big woods, very unforgiving terrain,
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Speaker 1: hardly any crops, especially on the public that I hunt. Um,
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Speaker 1: you just you're not gonna be able to key in
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Speaker 1: on like really consistent concentrated food sources. And so the
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Speaker 1: what I'm hearing from a ton of people. If you
15:45
Speaker 1: can find a hot speed tree, like just one of
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Speaker 1: the few oaks that have dropped, if you can find that,
15:52
Speaker 1: then you can find deer. But otherwise the deer pretty
15:55
Speaker 1: much sticking with just a lot of the natural brows,
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Speaker 1: and they're not really coming out of the fixed stuff.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I've seen. I've been lucky enough in
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Speaker 1: the last two weeks to kill a couple of dose
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Speaker 1: um and most of that is because I found a
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Speaker 1: tree that was dropping Acron's early. And I think within
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Speaker 1: the next you know, a couple of weeks, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: start seeing where a lot of the wide oaks have
16:17
Speaker 1: have already started dropping, and you're gonna start seeing a
16:20
Speaker 1: lot more activity. But for hunters, I'm hearing the same
16:24
Speaker 1: thing from most people. Unless you have private, private land
16:28
Speaker 1: a hunt where you've got um some type of food
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Speaker 1: plot or agg field or something like that, which is
16:34
Speaker 1: you know, pretty typical for a lot of people hunting
16:37
Speaker 1: early season openers. Um, you key in on those crops
16:41
Speaker 1: and those those those food sources like that, and so
16:44
Speaker 1: if you don't have that, it's been extremely tough. Besides
16:48
Speaker 1: big egg and acorns, are there any other food sources
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Speaker 1: that hunters in the big woods in the South can
16:54
Speaker 1: focus on for the month of October? Occasionally you can
16:58
Speaker 1: find things like per simmons or muscadines or or something
17:03
Speaker 1: like that. Uh, you know, a lot of on private land,
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys are able to hunt over you know, bait,
17:10
Speaker 1: hungover corn and things like that. But as far as
17:12
Speaker 1: natural I really struggle to say that there's anything better
17:18
Speaker 1: than a hot feed tree. You know, a good um,
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Speaker 1: a good area with you know, some some good acorns dropping.
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Speaker 1: That's about as good as I've been able to find
17:29
Speaker 1: out here. I know you do a lot of haunts
17:32
Speaker 1: where you do water access on your kayak. So how
17:35
Speaker 1: does that change or how is that different in October
17:38
Speaker 1: than it is saying November or December. When you're coming
17:41
Speaker 1: into those pieces of public land through water, it's actually
17:44
Speaker 1: pretty different, um than normal. So I was I was
17:48
Speaker 1: talking to a buddy of mine the other day when
17:50
Speaker 1: we were trying to figure out why all of the
17:52
Speaker 1: signs that I'm seeing, most of the tracks, most of
17:56
Speaker 1: the really heavy crossings that I'm finding, are right up
18:01
Speaker 1: against the water. A lot of these deer just hanging
18:04
Speaker 1: out right on the water. And the thing that we
18:08
Speaker 1: figured out and UM started trying to put the pieces together,
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Speaker 1: is that a lot of the area around that water,
18:15
Speaker 1: especially the um the slopes kind of that that don't
18:19
Speaker 1: really have any trees blocking them because the water is there,
18:22
Speaker 1: and so the sunlight is hitting the bottom and you're
18:25
Speaker 1: getting a lot of that undergrowth, which also includes a
18:28
Speaker 1: lot of natural brows and so a lot of these
18:31
Speaker 1: deer because the acorns haven't hadn't dropped yet, UM even
18:35
Speaker 1: for simmons and things like that, just a lot of
18:36
Speaker 1: the food sources that you tend to key in on
18:39
Speaker 1: early season in Alabama because those things haven't become available yet.
18:43
Speaker 1: These deer sticking close to the water because a lot
18:46
Speaker 1: of that browse is right there close to the water,
18:49
Speaker 1: and so it's made things a little more difficult. A
18:50
Speaker 1: lot of the areas that I typically would hunt in
18:54
Speaker 1: the early season, UM, they just they design has not
18:58
Speaker 1: started to open up even like just just not even
19:01
Speaker 1: buck sign, but just deer sign in general. I'm not
19:04
Speaker 1: seeing it like I normally do. And I think it
19:06
Speaker 1: has a lot to do with those deer just sticking
19:08
Speaker 1: right there close to the water, which makes things a
19:11
Speaker 1: little more difficult on your access. To be honest with you,
19:13
Speaker 1: if you're using water access, a lot of the deer
19:16
Speaker 1: are really close by right when you get out of
19:18
Speaker 1: the boat. So, um, you have to be pretty stealthy.
19:21
Speaker 1: You have to be pretty uh, pretty knowledgeable about your area.
19:25
Speaker 1: Otherwise you could go in there and potentially ruin a
19:28
Speaker 1: good area because you went into early and too aggressive.
19:32
Speaker 1: Going forward, Then in the six week or so, what
19:34
Speaker 1: do you think that buck activity is going to be
19:36
Speaker 1: on a skill of one to ten in Alabama? I
19:39
Speaker 1: think this. I think this coming weekend. Obviously it's the
19:42
Speaker 1: statewide over the ground. Um. But I killed a doe
19:47
Speaker 1: on Sunday. We're recording this right now on a Tuesday,
19:52
Speaker 1: And I killed a doe two days ago, and that
19:54
Speaker 1: was the first area that I started seeing that acorn
19:57
Speaker 1: crop really really start to be be good, I mean,
20:00
Speaker 1: and they were munching on them hardcore and there was
20:03
Speaker 1: a lot of tracks, a lot. I mean, it just
20:05
Speaker 1: looked like turkey scratching. So I think, Um, as as
20:09
Speaker 1: the week progresses this week, getting closer to that statewide opener,
20:13
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna start seeing a lot more buck activity.
20:16
Speaker 1: And also I think to um, you know, pressure really
20:21
Speaker 1: does tend to get deer on their feet more, at
20:23
Speaker 1: least in the areas that I like. I tend to
20:25
Speaker 1: see more deer when there's a little more pressure on them. Um,
20:28
Speaker 1: they're not just hanging out, you know, in their bedding
20:31
Speaker 1: areas and not moving around a lot. They're having to
20:33
Speaker 1: get away from from a lot of the pressure. So
20:35
Speaker 1: I think as the pressure increases, you're gonna see a
20:37
Speaker 1: lot more deer get on their feet, especially on these
20:40
Speaker 1: big public pieces. Um. But when the when the food
20:44
Speaker 1: source has become available and a lot of the deer
20:46
Speaker 1: are in the areas that you're used to them being in,
20:48
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna cause a lot of a lot
20:50
Speaker 1: of more a lot more bucks to be seen and
20:52
Speaker 1: killed this week. Um. So I would say within the
20:54
Speaker 1: next week it's probably gonna go up to about a
20:57
Speaker 1: six or seventh I part your great info. I like
21:01
Speaker 1: your optimism, good luck, and thanks for joining me. Thanks
21:04
Speaker 1: Spencer alright and joining us on the line. Next is
21:08
Speaker 1: Alex Gillstrom from white Tail Properties in Illinois. Now Alex
21:12
Speaker 1: in Illinois. What would you say the buck activity has
21:14
Speaker 1: been lately on the scale of one to ten, I
21:17
Speaker 1: would have to give it a I would say probably
21:20
Speaker 1: up to this point, to this week, I would probably
21:22
Speaker 1: give it about a six, at least in my specific
21:25
Speaker 1: region here in western Illinois. Yeah, I think a lot
21:27
Speaker 1: of I think a lot of it so far has
21:29
Speaker 1: got to do with it's been warm. We've had warm
21:31
Speaker 1: temps of varying wind conditions and and a lot a
21:36
Speaker 1: lot of it is I think what we'll I'm not
21:38
Speaker 1: alone and seeing this is is a lot of the
21:41
Speaker 1: has to do with acorn crops. So um. You know,
21:43
Speaker 1: I primarily hunt exclusively public land most most of my season,
21:48
Speaker 1: if not all my season, so um, you know, variables
21:51
Speaker 1: are working against me a little bit. I don't do
21:53
Speaker 1: anything with food plots. Uh. You know, it's not anything
21:56
Speaker 1: like guys I've I've been talking to, at least in
21:58
Speaker 1: this area. A lot of good activity on like you know,
22:01
Speaker 1: good clover plots or secluded um food plots that are
22:04
Speaker 1: close to like oaks or certain ridges or things like that. Well,
22:08
Speaker 1: for me, it's all based around bedding in those oak
22:11
Speaker 1: ridges because the food isn't isn't isn't really there, So
22:14
Speaker 1: um that that's kind of been the story of the
22:18
Speaker 1: season so far. Is is a lot of warm temperatures,
22:21
Speaker 1: which is slowed the movement made made. The movement that
22:24
Speaker 1: I have seen tend to be like right either last
22:26
Speaker 1: light or right at first light a couple of mornings
22:28
Speaker 1: that I've hunted, and they seem to be a little
22:31
Speaker 1: dispersed right now because at least in my exact area
22:35
Speaker 1: for the oaks, it seems to be pretty decent across
22:38
Speaker 1: the board, but there's definitely been hot spots where I've
22:40
Speaker 1: found concentrations of deer and in certain areas or portions
22:44
Speaker 1: of different um portions of public land that I've I've found,
22:48
Speaker 1: so it seems to have them a little bit scattered out.
22:50
Speaker 1: It always seems like in a good oak dear. It
22:52
Speaker 1: just it makes the early season tough because the deer
22:55
Speaker 1: just they're they're in the cover, they stay secluded, they're
22:58
Speaker 1: not moving as far from betting typically, and they can
23:01
Speaker 1: kind of scatter so that seems to at least be
23:03
Speaker 1: the case up to this point. How does acorn crop
23:07
Speaker 1: compared to recent years in Illinois? There was a better
23:10
Speaker 1: crop for acorns definitely this year than last year. I
23:14
Speaker 1: would probably say it's pretty close to um and and
23:19
Speaker 1: and kind of it's it's it's I guess it's remained
23:22
Speaker 1: fairly consistent with that other every other year pattern. Um
23:25
Speaker 1: and again it depends so much on the species of
23:28
Speaker 1: the oak and and kind of crecifit you know, rainfall
23:30
Speaker 1: and moisture levels and things like that in the soil.
23:32
Speaker 1: So UM. But I would say, you know, in a nutshell,
23:35
Speaker 1: that's kind of how I would stack it up. Is
23:37
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely heavier than last year, probably similar it
23:40
Speaker 1: wasn't and um and kind of seeing it evolve a
23:45
Speaker 1: little bit a little bit further um which it you know, conversely,
23:49
Speaker 1: it's it's made sign a little bit tougher to find,
23:52
Speaker 1: It's made a deer a little bit tougher to find.
23:53
Speaker 1: But um, I think you know, with just in the
23:56
Speaker 1: last five and five days or so last week, UM,
24:00
Speaker 1: finally starting to see more of that that ground sign
24:03
Speaker 1: you know, the scrapes open up and more rubbing activity
24:05
Speaker 1: and things like that, but prior to the last week,
24:08
Speaker 1: it's been pretty difficult to find even the sign. Um
24:11
Speaker 1: to this point, how much does seeing recent sign playing
24:15
Speaker 1: into your decision making hunting that public land in the
24:17
Speaker 1: Midwest in October? It's everything for me right now, it's
24:21
Speaker 1: it's it's especially for for October. Is I really try
24:25
Speaker 1: not to rely on historic um experiences now. Of course
24:30
Speaker 1: I factor that into the conditions, into the locations and
24:33
Speaker 1: things like that, but just because I had a good encounter,
24:35
Speaker 1: even had success in a specific area, it's like, I'm
24:39
Speaker 1: a firm believer that that you have to you know, scout,
24:41
Speaker 1: scout hunt, you've got you've got a scout twice as
24:43
Speaker 1: much as you hunt and um and go to the deer.
24:45
Speaker 1: I don't wait for the deer to come to me.
24:47
Speaker 1: That's that's my personal koun of philosophy and strategy. So um,
24:51
Speaker 1: it's been a struggle, but I've really it's really been
24:55
Speaker 1: great to see that kind of come to come to fruition,
24:58
Speaker 1: to see the sign kind of happening now and really
25:00
Speaker 1: starting to pop up a little bit more and and
25:03
Speaker 1: as you'd expect in a in a decent acorn crop
25:06
Speaker 1: area or year it's it's really happening on those transition
25:10
Speaker 1: lines from thick cover into those oak flats, or it's
25:13
Speaker 1: actually on the oak flats. Now a lot of it
25:15
Speaker 1: seems to be nighttime activity, so it's trying to factor
25:18
Speaker 1: in and kind of understand where that that movement is happening,
25:21
Speaker 1: when it's happening, how to capitalize on it. But but yeah,
25:23
Speaker 1: for me, understanding the sign, seeing where it pops up,
25:26
Speaker 1: and trying to factor in how uh to kind of
25:30
Speaker 1: set up my game plan around it is huge. Um
25:34
Speaker 1: and for me, the weather has affected that a lot,
25:35
Speaker 1: so we haven't had a lot of great gold fronts.
25:37
Speaker 1: We've had some. There's actually another really good one coming
25:39
Speaker 1: at the end of this week. But with this warmer weather,
25:42
Speaker 1: it's brought higher winds. So I've tried to use that
25:45
Speaker 1: to my advantage too, with these higher wind speeds and
25:48
Speaker 1: a little bit warmer weather to push back a little
25:50
Speaker 1: bit further than maybe I normally would this time of year.
25:53
Speaker 1: But I can do so with it with can kind
25:55
Speaker 1: of concealed access. So access is huge, especially when you're
25:59
Speaker 1: trying to navigate aroun on these different like isolated oak
26:01
Speaker 1: flats and things like that to where the deer kind
26:03
Speaker 1: of feeding is is trying to get in and out
26:05
Speaker 1: as clean as possible and in the higher wind speeds
26:08
Speaker 1: even though it's kind of accompanied by warmer weather. Uh.
26:11
Speaker 1: That's I've used that to my advantage to be able
26:13
Speaker 1: to kind of time my you know, time my attacks,
26:16
Speaker 1: if you will, to get in a little bit tighter
26:18
Speaker 1: on these deer to try to get more daylight movement. Um.
26:21
Speaker 1: And then the higher wind speeds have been able to
26:23
Speaker 1: help me do that going forward. Then in this next
26:26
Speaker 1: week or so, what do you think that bucket activity
26:28
Speaker 1: is going to be on a scale of one to
26:30
Speaker 1: ten in Illinois? You know, I'm hoping for I'm hoping
26:33
Speaker 1: for an eight. I'm gonna be optimistic and and and
26:35
Speaker 1: and kind of predict an eight. We've got another this
26:38
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday. Here. Um, there's gonna be another really
26:42
Speaker 1: good cold front coming in. Um. It doesn't look like
26:45
Speaker 1: precipitations accompanying it. Um, but it's gonna be another like
26:50
Speaker 1: windy day I think on Wednesday, and then kind of
26:53
Speaker 1: transition into bringing those on the back side of that
26:55
Speaker 1: front the lower tents. So it should be really good
26:59
Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday for some some colder temperatures. I'm hoping
27:01
Speaker 1: for earlier movement the evenings, a little bit later movement
27:04
Speaker 1: in the the mornings, and my concentration is going to
27:08
Speaker 1: be those secluded kind of what I call is like
27:11
Speaker 1: primary scrape areas, So the scrapes and the sign that
27:15
Speaker 1: we're seeing and I'm seeing back in the cover um
27:18
Speaker 1: more like transitional between leaving like really thick betting areas,
27:22
Speaker 1: um even on the edges of some uh and and
27:26
Speaker 1: really focusing on those areas and trying to see which
27:29
Speaker 1: is which are the you know, determined, which are the freshest,
27:32
Speaker 1: which are the most active and capitalized, and you do
27:34
Speaker 1: you don't you know, doubling up on that as as
27:36
Speaker 1: it gets a little bit closer into the pre rut
27:38
Speaker 1: at the end, you know, towards the end of the month,
27:40
Speaker 1: those becoming more active. The weather helping that with the
27:42
Speaker 1: cold front, and so I'm shooting for an eight here
27:45
Speaker 1: at the end of the week. Great info, Alex, Good
27:47
Speaker 1: luck with the rest of your season, and thanks for
27:49
Speaker 1: joining me. Thanks Spencer, as always appreciate it. Man alright,
27:54
Speaker 1: and joining us on the line next is Caleb Combs
27:56
Speaker 1: from Stewart Ranch Outfitters in Oklahoma, now Caleb in Oklahoma.
28:00
Speaker 1: What would you say the buck activity has been lately
28:02
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten one lately, I'm
28:06
Speaker 1: not one to be pessimistic, but it has not been good.
28:09
Speaker 1: Temperatures have been unusually high, uh, and sidings are low
28:13
Speaker 1: and trail cameras have basically been dead, so it has
28:16
Speaker 1: not been good. You mentioned your trail cameras there where
28:19
Speaker 1: are you running a lot of your cams in mid
28:22
Speaker 1: till late October? In mid October early October, I start
28:26
Speaker 1: transitioning towards scrapes. Uh. Those are just my favorite place
28:29
Speaker 1: to run cameras, So I run scrapes pretty much all
28:32
Speaker 1: a year. I still have some on food sources, uh,
28:36
Speaker 1: some on some acorn trees that have been hit really
28:39
Speaker 1: good lately, But for the most part, I'm always on scrapes,
28:42
Speaker 1: even on the edge of the food plots, scrapes everywhere.
28:45
Speaker 1: What food sources are you most keyed in on this
28:47
Speaker 1: time of year? Food plots haven't really started going yet,
28:51
Speaker 1: so if I'm near agriculture, I'm usually still on that.
28:54
Speaker 1: So it's still be beans right now or um alfalfa,
28:59
Speaker 1: but a corns a lot of the time as well.
29:02
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like it's gonna Last year was the
29:03
Speaker 1: most acorns I've ever seen, and this year seems like
29:06
Speaker 1: it came back down to actually huntable mostly red oaks
29:09
Speaker 1: where I'm hunting, not a lot of white oaks, so
29:11
Speaker 1: I'll be on the creek bottoms, actually the creek edges,
29:14
Speaker 1: hunting red oaks. Is there a time of year that
29:17
Speaker 1: those food plots are going to get better for you?
29:19
Speaker 1: Ideally it's gonna rain. Uh, it hasn't. For the last
29:23
Speaker 1: week and a half. They started out good. We usually
29:25
Speaker 1: plant ours trying to get our food plots going mid October,
29:31
Speaker 1: so we're not shooting for opening. We're shooting for mid
29:35
Speaker 1: October for them to really turn around. And everything started
29:38
Speaker 1: germanating popping out. So if it rains soon then we'll
29:44
Speaker 1: we should be all right. They're they're probably hitting them now. Uh,
29:48
Speaker 1: but I won't start hunting food plots real hard tell
29:51
Speaker 1: mid October when everybody's seeking. Are you seeing any signmaking
29:55
Speaker 1: yet in Oklahoma? Yeah, scrapes have been going. I've been
29:59
Speaker 1: getting real good pictures on scrapes since early October. UM.
30:03
Speaker 1: But like I said earlier, I run a lot of
30:05
Speaker 1: cameras on scrapes, so I'm usually pretty homed in on
30:09
Speaker 1: which scrapes are. Um community scrapes are the ones that
30:14
Speaker 1: get hit, the looking branches that get hit a lot
30:17
Speaker 1: of the season, like the majority of the season. But
30:19
Speaker 1: they're making new ones. There are some scrapes that I
30:22
Speaker 1: have made that have been going well, but I'm seeing
30:24
Speaker 1: scrapes pop up around my scrape so that they're really
30:28
Speaker 1: getting going. So when you say that movement has been
30:32
Speaker 1: really poorlyly, are you just saying that they're mostly moving
30:35
Speaker 1: at night or you're just finding that the deer have
30:38
Speaker 1: quite a small range right now. Small range. I'm never
30:41
Speaker 1: a big believer that they just move at night, just
30:44
Speaker 1: because I mean, I realized they go further. But if
30:47
Speaker 1: you're on top of them, if you know where the
30:48
Speaker 1: betting area is, if you've done your research, you can
30:50
Speaker 1: usually get in there might be the last ten minutes
30:53
Speaker 1: or whatever, but you can get close and you can
30:55
Speaker 1: get on do your during daylight hours. So it's just
30:58
Speaker 1: been dead as far as they aren't moving. They're not
31:00
Speaker 1: hitting scrapes because it's been so hot, So even the
31:02
Speaker 1: scrapes they had started they quit hitting the last week
31:06
Speaker 1: or so, but it'll it'll turn back around Thursday. If
31:09
Speaker 1: you've got a cold front in this next week and
31:11
Speaker 1: you're feeling optimistic, what would it set up look like? Uh,
31:16
Speaker 1: I don't know yet because I'm checked on my trail cameras,
31:18
Speaker 1: but I will probably be on scrapes. I don't think
31:20
Speaker 1: it's food plot time. If I can find a spot
31:23
Speaker 1: that they're hitting the acorns that's close enough to betting,
31:26
Speaker 1: it'll all depend on what my cameras tell me, I'll
31:29
Speaker 1: pull them this it's about to turn around. The week's
31:31
Speaker 1: about to be fantastic, So I would say Thursday Friday
31:35
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma, the weekend, and then from what I saw
31:38
Speaker 1: on the forecast, everything after that. But it's one of
31:41
Speaker 1: my favorite times to go, so acorns and scrapes. If
31:43
Speaker 1: you're not running a bunch of cameras, whatever, scraps probably
31:46
Speaker 1: will start getting hit again Thursday or Friday. What makes
31:49
Speaker 1: mid October one of your favorite times to hunt? I
31:52
Speaker 1: have O C D or not like a real bad
31:54
Speaker 1: like weird version, but you know, I like things organized,
31:57
Speaker 1: I like no one what I'm getting into. I like information,
32:00
Speaker 1: So I don't like November. I don't like hardcore rut
32:02
Speaker 1: when they're when they're stuck with dose, when they're pulling
32:06
Speaker 1: them off and they're just trying to get away from everybody.
32:08
Speaker 1: So October December my favorite because you're more predictable. But
32:12
Speaker 1: they're moving more during daylight hours. So October fift through
32:16
Speaker 1: the thirties I always love because they're starting to seek there,
32:20
Speaker 1: not like breaking up there. You can still get them
32:22
Speaker 1: in a bachelor group, but they'll push each other around
32:25
Speaker 1: a little bit. Things are getting more competitive, they're wandering more,
32:29
Speaker 1: but it's not to the point where they've lost their minds.
32:32
Speaker 1: Going forward, then a sex week or so, what do
32:34
Speaker 1: you think that bulk activity is going to be on
32:36
Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten in Oklahoma, I'm going
32:39
Speaker 1: straight back to optimistic and I think it's a nine ten.
32:43
Speaker 1: I mean, this is what you wait all year for.
32:47
Speaker 1: Our opening weekend was good because we had a little
32:48
Speaker 1: cold front. But this is it. This is when they
32:50
Speaker 1: start going. This is when opportunities will arise. If you're
32:54
Speaker 1: in the right spot. I would say put in some
32:57
Speaker 1: extra hours at work, you know, make your wife happy,
33:00
Speaker 1: because it's about to get serious. Everything i've seen on
33:03
Speaker 1: the weather pressures will be good. Moon is supposed to
33:05
Speaker 1: be good. October twenty, It's time to go alright, Caleb,
33:09
Speaker 1: I'm excited for you. Good luck with the haunts. Thanks
33:11
Speaker 1: for joining me. Hey, thanks good luck too, alright and
33:15
Speaker 1: joining us on the line. Next is Bow mar Tonic
33:18
Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania. From the East meets West Hunt podcast now
33:21
Speaker 1: Bow in Pennsylvania. What would you say the buck activity
33:24
Speaker 1: has been lately? On a scale of one to ten,
33:27
Speaker 1: I would say that the buck activity has been about
33:30
Speaker 1: a six, five to six in the last week. And
33:33
Speaker 1: and the reason why I would say that is it's
33:36
Speaker 1: it was the opening week of deer seasons. There hadn't
33:39
Speaker 1: been a ton of pressure yet, and the buck seemed
33:42
Speaker 1: to be hitting some of those mass crops and and
33:45
Speaker 1: seemed to be some deer hitting the ground. From from
33:48
Speaker 1: my own personal experience, I didn't have a ton of luck,
33:51
Speaker 1: and of still a lot of nighttime activity and some
33:53
Speaker 1: of my locations. But I from from what I've seen,
33:57
Speaker 1: I'd say give it about a fire steps As a
34:00
Speaker 1: public land hunter in the Big Woods, what sort of
34:03
Speaker 1: food sources are you keying in on in mid to
34:05
Speaker 1: late October. Uh, there's a couple of different food sources,
34:09
Speaker 1: and mostly I'm going to focus on some of the
34:11
Speaker 1: mass crops, So looking at some of your the acorns
34:15
Speaker 1: um whether that be white or red oak, depending on
34:18
Speaker 1: what in what are in the area that I'm in,
34:21
Speaker 1: If you can find any apple trees that haven't dropped already,
34:24
Speaker 1: the fact that they went through a few different frosts
34:27
Speaker 1: seems to almost make them more palatable for the deer.
34:29
Speaker 1: They seem to like those ones a little bit better,
34:31
Speaker 1: and then the early ones. I don't have a good
34:34
Speaker 1: reason for why that is, but it's just my observations.
34:38
Speaker 1: And then in addition to that, cherry trees are dropping
34:42
Speaker 1: black cherries like rain right now, and they're definitely focusing
34:46
Speaker 1: on those. So if you can find an isolated patch
34:48
Speaker 1: where they're they're dropping, that can be a very good
34:52
Speaker 1: food source. But as we start getting later into October,
34:56
Speaker 1: some of that brows and some of as the mass
34:58
Speaker 1: drops start to fall, some of that is getting wiped
35:01
Speaker 1: up earlier. Looking at some more of the brows features
35:05
Speaker 1: that you'll find in some clear cuts and that three
35:08
Speaker 1: to eight year old range can be really really good
35:10
Speaker 1: food sources when you're doing some in season scouting on
35:15
Speaker 1: public land, what are you looking for this time of year?
35:18
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm focusing very heavily on scrapes on the
35:23
Speaker 1: edge of any sort of bedding cover, in which in
35:26
Speaker 1: the big woods, you know a lot of things can
35:29
Speaker 1: place into bed but I'm kind of to have the
35:31
Speaker 1: highest the highest priority areas areas that look like they're
35:35
Speaker 1: in the thicker spots towards the edges of those. If
35:38
Speaker 1: I can find any scrapes on the transition, if there
35:41
Speaker 1: is a food source of some sort of mass crop
35:44
Speaker 1: you know, within reasonable distance of that, that just adds
35:48
Speaker 1: to the whole thing. But trying to figure out, you know,
35:51
Speaker 1: where where the potential betting areas on scrapes they start
35:55
Speaker 1: to really activate up here in uh in this time
35:58
Speaker 1: of year. And then also what the hot food sources.
36:01
Speaker 1: So those are the things that I'm trying to do.
36:03
Speaker 1: UM As far as in in season scouting, you mentioned
36:07
Speaker 1: that you're looking for good betting. What does that look
36:09
Speaker 1: like in big woods A couple of different things. So
36:14
Speaker 1: depending on the steepness of the terrain. If I'm in
36:16
Speaker 1: an area that has quite a bit of topography, more
36:21
Speaker 1: hill country type stuff, I'm looking for the points of ridges,
36:24
Speaker 1: UM where they'll use go around that ridge about a
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Speaker 1: hundred eighty degrees and where they might bet they're able
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Speaker 1: to use the prevailing wind and the thermal advantage to
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Speaker 1: their to their advantage as well as cover so and
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Speaker 1: some of the spots that may may not have as
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Speaker 1: much terrain um looking for some clear cuts or logging
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Speaker 1: cuts that might be anywhere even three years or older.
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Speaker 1: But mostly some of those eight fifteen year old cuts
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Speaker 1: can be really good betting for the box and does.
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Speaker 1: And mostly they're not going to be bedded on the
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Speaker 1: interior area of those, although they can be, but most
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Speaker 1: of the time they're going to be bedded on the
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Speaker 1: edge where they can see out into say the open
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Speaker 1: timber or an open field or whatever that might be.
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Speaker 1: So those are the couple of things that I'm looking
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Speaker 1: for as far as betting. What does a morning set
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Speaker 1: up look like for you this time of year? So
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Speaker 1: from morning setups, I don't hunt a ton um of
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Speaker 1: mornings in in early October, and but I will depending
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Speaker 1: on the weather. So if it's if we get a
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Speaker 1: cold front like we have coming through here this weekend,
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Speaker 1: then I'm definitely gonna be hunting mornings, especially when the
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Speaker 1: temperatures are getting down into the thirties. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: try to hunt scrapes, and I'm trying to hunt these
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Speaker 1: scrapes that are close to bedding and I at this
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Speaker 1: time of year, I'm trying to get in very early
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Speaker 1: in case you're coming back to that bed, you know,
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Speaker 1: ray around first light. But I'm hoping that with the
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Speaker 1: cold weather they might stay up on their feet and
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Speaker 1: feed a little bit later. Going forward. Then in the
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Speaker 1: six week or so, what do you think that BUKTIVT
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Speaker 1: is going to be on a scale of one to
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Speaker 1: ten in Pennsylvania. I would say that buck activity in
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Speaker 1: the next week or so it's going to be possibly
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Speaker 1: even up to an eight for the weekend, But I'd
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Speaker 1: say for the whole week is still We're not going
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Speaker 1: to get much better as far as a round of
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Speaker 1: five or six. So if you can hit this cold
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Speaker 1: front right, I think some big box are going to
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Speaker 1: hit the ground. But other than that, it's supposed to
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Speaker 1: warm right back up again, and I think activity will
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Speaker 1: be a little bit slower at that point. All right, bo,
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Speaker 1: I look forward to your videos and podcast from the
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Speaker 1: East meets West. Good luck and thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 1: Thanks Spencer and that concludes this week's episode of rut
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