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Ep. 554: Foundations - The Buck Bed Mystery · 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. Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt
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  Speaker 1: Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.
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  Speaker 1: Today's episode it's sort of a playoff the last week's show.
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  Speaker 1: This week in a weird connection to that, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about buck beds and some of the mysteries that surround me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty reluctant to get into this world of scouting
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  Speaker 1: and hunting buckbeds, or at least I have been. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I remember reading about Dan Infult and some
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  Speaker 1: of these other guys a long time ago, and they
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  Speaker 1: were always preaching the virtues of hunting buck beeds, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought, well, that doesn't make sense. Now. That was
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't really understand the value of buck beds.
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  Speaker 1: But you can't ignore it forever, no matter how stufforn
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  Speaker 1: you are. And I'm pretty stubborn. So lately, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years, I've been paying a lot
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  Speaker 1: of attention to specific buckbeds and trying to factor them
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  Speaker 1: into my scouting and my hunting strategies, which is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about right now. If you follow
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  Speaker 1: Mark on social media, you probably saw that he posted
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  Speaker 1: about a friendly fishing contest we had Back in June. He,
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  Speaker 1: along with fellow Metator Guy Corey Caulkins, challenged myself and
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  Speaker 1: other meat eat guy Garrett Long to a fishing contest.
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  Speaker 1: It was a dumb move on his part for so
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  Speaker 1: many reasons. First off, even though they enlisted the help
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  Speaker 1: of an ore man in Foundations podcast engineer Hayden Samack,
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  Speaker 1: they were fly fishing for trout. There's there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 1: with that, mind you. I love fly fishing, but you're
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  Speaker 1: not likely to stack up a bunch of big trout
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  Speaker 1: while fishing from a driftboat. You're just not, especially in
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  Speaker 1: about four hours, which is the time we gave ourselves. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if they were competing against other fly fishermen, of course
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  Speaker 1: they would have had a chance. But Garrett and I
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  Speaker 1: weren't fly fishing. We were bass fishing out of a
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  Speaker 1: bass boat with real fishing tackle, real gear. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying fly fishing isn't real gear. I'm just saying we
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  Speaker 1: had lots of advantages in our spinning and bait casting rods.
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  Speaker 1: We also happened to be on a lake that I
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  Speaker 1: fished an awful lot all summer long and have fished
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  Speaker 1: for years, And we also happen to have an amazing
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  Speaker 1: scenario where the water temperature had busted through the sixty
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  Speaker 1: degree mark and it stayed there, meaning the Smalley's were
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  Speaker 1: headed shallow to make new Smalley's. And when they do this,
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  Speaker 1: they're pretty easy to catch and they're pretty easy to find. So,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, Mark and Corey didn't stand a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Although they talked a lot of ship that they were
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  Speaker 1: going to stomp us, they didn't. Garrett and I had
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  Speaker 1: too many advantages, not the least of which is being
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  Speaker 1: a hell of a lot better at fishing. But we
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  Speaker 1: also had betted Smalley's to work with in a lake
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  Speaker 1: that I have fished for twenty years. And do you
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  Speaker 1: know where those Smalley's were bedded? Mostly, or a better
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  Speaker 1: question would be, do you know what I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: fishing and not betted bucks? Because those male Smalley's they
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  Speaker 1: sought out boulders and stumps to build their beds against.
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  Speaker 1: And do you know why? Because they are easier to
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  Speaker 1: defend if you don't have to worry about an approach
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  Speaker 1: from every direction. Let's say you're a smallmouth, you're a
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  Speaker 1: male smallmouth, and your bed is against a boulder, you
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  Speaker 1: you've already kind of reduced the area in which you
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  Speaker 1: have to watch for crayfish or perch or sunfish or
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  Speaker 1: any critter that might be looking for a little caviare
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  Speaker 1: now Bronze backs aren't building beds to lay down in obviously, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they kind of are, but not really.
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  Speaker 1: They use their tails and fins to create a spot
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  Speaker 1: that's just right for a big female to layer eggs in.
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  Speaker 1: Then the males do their thing on the eggs and
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  Speaker 1: they wait for the fry to hatch. But the design
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  Speaker 1: is meant to make survival of their offspring easier, to
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  Speaker 1: ensure simple stuff with deer beds serve a different function,
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  Speaker 1: but there are parallels. When you start paying attention to
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  Speaker 1: deer beds, you really start to see some patterns emerge. Rarely,
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  Speaker 1: maybe almost never, do you see a mature buck bed
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  Speaker 1: in a place that doesn't offer at least a few
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  Speaker 1: real advantages to him. I don't know. A simple example
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  Speaker 1: of this that relates to Smalley's is how often bucks
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  Speaker 1: bet up next to a dead fall or some other
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  Speaker 1: piece of structure. They seem to know that coyotes or
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  Speaker 1: wolves or Elmer Fudd types aren't going to crash their
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  Speaker 1: way through a dead fall to get to them in
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  Speaker 1: that situation. They're taking out the possible approach, or at
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  Speaker 1: least one possible approach of a editor, which narrows down
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  Speaker 1: the area they need to monitor with their senses. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty simple and it's pretty effective. You often see beds
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  Speaker 1: on benches or knobs or other terrain that offers a
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  Speaker 1: clear advantage, usually with elevation, because elevation is important, and
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  Speaker 1: bucks know this and they use it well. Just think
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  Speaker 1: about how hard it is to climb up a hill
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  Speaker 1: and surprise a deer that is halfway up at looking down.
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  Speaker 1: Then think about how hard it would be to approach
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  Speaker 1: from above if the wind was blowing downhill. Say you're
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  Speaker 1: like in a thermal situation. In those specific cases, good luck,
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  Speaker 1: you're not going to get the jump on that buck,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows it. That's why they bed where they do.
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  Speaker 1: It's why when you're taking a shortcut through the big
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  Speaker 1: woods and you cross a swampy meadow, you often find
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  Speaker 1: a random big oval on a high hummock that is
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  Speaker 1: tucked into a vast landscape that doesn't seem all that special,
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  Speaker 1: or why when you go peasant hunting you decide to
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  Speaker 1: let the dogs run through the overgrown homestead for a rooster,
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  Speaker 1: you often jump a big buck who waits until the
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  Speaker 1: labs are dang near sniffing his butt before he breaks free.
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  Speaker 1: Those bucks, they understand their world, each and every part
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  Speaker 1: of it. And you know what we really don't, well,
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  Speaker 1: not really, but finding beds, which you can do right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pretty good start. Now. The beds you find
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the summer, they won't necessarily be
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  Speaker 1: the ones that the bucks will use in October, but
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't make them valueless, and it doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: some of those beds don't transcend seasons. Understanding what dear
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  Speaker 1: choose to do in all facets of their life is
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  Speaker 1: a huge check in the wind calumn. This is something
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  Speaker 1: the industry, and by that I mean the hunting industry,
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  Speaker 1: hasn't done a very good job of talking about. But
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  Speaker 1: it is absolutely true. The path, or at least I
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  Speaker 1: should say, a good path to big dead deer on
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  Speaker 1: a consistent basis, isn't point a to be stuff. It
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  Speaker 1: involves a lot of side tangents and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time just looking around. Think about this when you're scouting now,
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  Speaker 1: and when you do find a buck bed or any bed,
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  Speaker 1: actually ask why why there? And then ask in what
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  Speaker 1: conditions would that be most beneficial? Ask yourself if you
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  Speaker 1: feel like maybe you're in a little micro climate where
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  Speaker 1: it stays cooler. That's good to know now, because it's
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  Speaker 1: good to know in September when the temperatures are high.
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  Speaker 1: Ask yourself what wind the buck or deer would probably
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  Speaker 1: prefer there, And when you get the answer, ask yourself
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  Speaker 1: how you'd use that knowledge to your advantage. If a
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  Speaker 1: west wind would give him a real edge in a
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  Speaker 1: specific bed that you found, how does that work for you?
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  Speaker 1: Can you set up on the down wind side to
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  Speaker 1: watch him leave? Can you maybe guess his approach trout
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  Speaker 1: from nearby food sources with that specific wind direction? What
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  Speaker 1: is it that he has working for him? And how
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  Speaker 1: can you use that against him? Ask yourself if I
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  Speaker 1: bumped him out of that bed, where would he go
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  Speaker 1: and how would he get back? I honestly think one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest mysteries in the white tailed world is
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  Speaker 1: buck betting. We see some of the evidence left behind,
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  Speaker 1: but have to fill in so many of the blanks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how often do you actually
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  Speaker 1: see a buck lay down in a bed. I scout
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  Speaker 1: and hunt quite a bit, and it does not happen
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  Speaker 1: to me very often. It really doesn't happen very often
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  Speaker 1: with big bucks, and when it does, I pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: How they behave in relation to betting tells you a
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  Speaker 1: lot about how secure they are in a spot. And
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  Speaker 1: finding places where big bucks are confident you won't kill
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  Speaker 1: them or even just come in and bother them is
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  Speaker 1: the secret to actually killing them with some frequency. I
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  Speaker 1: absolutely believe that now I should expand on something here,
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  Speaker 1: because I think a lot of the messaging around buck
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  Speaker 1: beds and hunting them is kind of incomplete, or at
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  Speaker 1: the very least we're exposed to sort of a highlight
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  Speaker 1: reel from the better buck bed hunters out there. The
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  Speaker 1: message is usually that you should find a specific buck's
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  Speaker 1: bed and then figure out the conditions in which he'll
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  Speaker 1: use it. Then you slip in as close as possible
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  Speaker 1: and you shoot him. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy. Right. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. I think that's wrong. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: so wrong, so very very very very wrong. Sneaking up
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  Speaker 1: on a bedded buck can absolutely be done with the
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  Speaker 1: right conditions, But then you've got to have the right
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  Speaker 1: conditions and the knowledge that he's actually in the bed
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  Speaker 1: when you want to stalk him, aside from running a
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  Speaker 1: cell camera over the bed, which would be at best
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  Speaker 1: in ethical gray area, in the legal gray area, I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't know how you would guarantee something like that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you could, in some situations glass up a bed you
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  Speaker 1: suspect has a sleeping buck in it to confirm your suspicion. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that would give you a hell of an advantage, but
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't make the final approach much easier unless you have
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  Speaker 1: some rain or wind or both to cover up your approach.
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  Speaker 1: And we all know that there's probably not that many
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  Speaker 1: situations where you're gonna easily be able to glass up
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  Speaker 1: a bed at buck. Maybe out west, maybe in a
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  Speaker 1: few more open areas, but in most places good luck.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe a better strategy is to scout your ass
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  Speaker 1: off and find some beds without thinking about hunting right
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  Speaker 1: over them. Scout them up now this time of year
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  Speaker 1: and throughout the season, mark the beds, you assume our buckbeds,
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  Speaker 1: drop away point, whatever you gotta do, and then factor
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  Speaker 1: that into a bigger strategy. Let's just say, like, for example,
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  Speaker 1: if you find a bed in a marsh on public
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  Speaker 1: land where you could slip in and saddle up close by,
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  Speaker 1: give that a shot. You'll learn a lot about your
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  Speaker 1: skills in that move, and a lot about whether the
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  Speaker 1: buck is actually killable that way or not. If you
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  Speaker 1: find a big oval next to a dead fall, you know,
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  Speaker 1: halfway up a bluff, side on a little bench, oh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you won't be able to get his close. Fine,
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  Speaker 1: what next? Then? Is he killable on top of the
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  Speaker 1: ridge or in the valley below? Is there a reason
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  Speaker 1: for him to side hill into or out of that
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  Speaker 1: bed that will give you some kind of ambush option,
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  Speaker 1: some kind of advantage. The benefit of focusing on beds,
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  Speaker 1: specific individual buck beds is that you might know exactly
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  Speaker 1: where a buck is going or exactly where he is,
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  Speaker 1: or exactly where he might be coming from. And that's
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  Speaker 1: not nothing, my friends. That's a big deal, and it
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  Speaker 1: is doable. And it's also important to note that trying
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  Speaker 1: new hunting styles and techniques and forcing yourself to think
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  Speaker 1: about deer in a new way is a true tremendous
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to actually grow as a hunter and get way better.
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  Speaker 1: Remember at the beginning of this podcast when I talk
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  Speaker 1: about how I kicked Mark's ass at a fishing contest, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I used to fish a lot of bass tournaments. I
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  Speaker 1: still fish a few, but I used to fish a
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  Speaker 1: lot that was in a past life, and I was
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  Speaker 1: as obsessed with it as I am with bow hunting
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  Speaker 1: white tails. Now. There are plenty of downsides to that
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  Speaker 1: life on the road chasing a little green and brown fish,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're a young, drunken idiot. But one of
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  Speaker 1: the upsides that I didn't see coming when I registered
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  Speaker 1: for my first tournament was that it would force me
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  Speaker 1: to get better, way better. And it did this on
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: two fronts. The first was that I started out on
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  Speaker 1: the amateur or co angler side. That man, I was
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  Speaker 1: paired up with a professional, and in some tournaments you'd
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  Speaker 1: work as a team, and in some tournaments you'd fish
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  Speaker 1: against each other out of the same boat. No matter
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  Speaker 1: the format, getting to fish with someone who was really
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  Speaker 1: good it was always a humbling experience. I learned a
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  Speaker 1: ton from some of those pros and It forced me
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  Speaker 1: to think about how much better I could be. The
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  Speaker 1: Other thing was that fishing new lakes and new river
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  Speaker 1: systems and new reservoirs meant that there were a lot
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  Speaker 1: of techniques that could work better than what I was
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  Speaker 1: comfortable doing. No, the problem would be like, say, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, the large mouth were schooled up on a
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  Speaker 1: sunken rock pile in July, or they were twenty ft
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  Speaker 1: deep on weed lines lounging out around the thermocline eating
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  Speaker 1: crayfish or whatever. Now, if you primarily love to throw
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  Speaker 1: spinner baits or some other chunk and wine lure, you
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  Speaker 1: might fish I don't know, eighteen feet above those large ease.
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  Speaker 1: But someone several someone's probably in a tournament. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to figure out how to drag a Carolina rig passed
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  Speaker 1: them and light them up. Getting your ass handed to
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  Speaker 1: you by someone who is better at a technique like
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  Speaker 1: that it really kind of forces you to want to
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  Speaker 1: learn it, or it should. I missed that aspect of
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  Speaker 1: tournament fishing, because if you don't like losing, and who
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  Speaker 1: really does, you're gonna work on some new stuff and
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get better. White tail hunting is no different
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  Speaker 1: and a great example of that just might be bed hunting,
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  Speaker 1: or at least focusing on finding and reading buck beds.
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  Speaker 1: While I'm far from an expert on this topic, I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to get better, and one thing I've learned is
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  Speaker 1: that beds become more important to me when I not
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  Speaker 1: only think about them, but give myself a good reminder.
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  Speaker 1: If I find a bed while scouting that I think
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  Speaker 1: belongs to a big deer, I immediately drop a waypoint
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  Speaker 1: in that exact spot, and then I usually key in
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  Speaker 1: a few notes as well to remember things like wind
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  Speaker 1: direction and what would you know the conditions most likely
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  Speaker 1: be for a buck to use that specific bed, And
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  Speaker 1: if you start to find a few of those beds
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  Speaker 1: on a specific property, you can really kind of begin
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  Speaker 1: to piece together an idea of what bucks are really
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  Speaker 1: doing throughout the daylight hours. Now it's worth saying that
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  Speaker 1: you might find three or four obvious buckbeds on property,
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  Speaker 1: and they might belong to three or four different bucks,
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  Speaker 1: or they might belong to one. The good news is
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  Speaker 1: it probably doesn't matter. If you know where a good
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  Speaker 1: buck likes to bed and what conditions he's likely to
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  Speaker 1: bed there, you have an advantage for the season, but
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  Speaker 1: also several seasons to come. This is one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that fascinates me most about buckbeds. Honestly, while food
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  Speaker 1: sources often changed from year to year, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: travel routes might change depending on a litany of factors,
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  Speaker 1: a good betting site often doesn't. This is because they
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  Speaker 1: are so closely tied to the terrain, which means it's
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  Speaker 1: not likely that the knob on the ridge is going
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  Speaker 1: to wash away in a huge rainstorm or become altered
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  Speaker 1: in some way from one season to the next. And sure,
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  Speaker 1: you know, logging activity could do it, and too much
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  Speaker 1: hunting pressure could convince bucks to look for better spots.
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  Speaker 1: But if nothing really big interferes with their betting spot,
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  Speaker 1: bus will keep using it. And why does that matter? Well,
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  Speaker 1: what if you scout your ass off this summer and
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  Speaker 1: you find, I don't know, six spots where the biggest
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  Speaker 1: buck on your property likes to bed. You probably think
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  Speaker 1: you got him dialed right like, you might as well
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  Speaker 1: just call a taxidermist now and tell him to order
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  Speaker 1: up a form because this is a done deal. But
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  Speaker 1: what if your neighbor goes out on opening night and
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  Speaker 1: kills the buck you've staked out for all you're scouting
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  Speaker 1: and hunting time, you've hung your you've hung your hat
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  Speaker 1: on that buck, and he's toast aside from sewing up
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  Speaker 1: a little voodoo doll to look like your neighbor and
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  Speaker 1: then spending your nights sticking hot needles into its delicates,
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  Speaker 1: and the hopes that you're no good buckshooting neighbor will
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  Speaker 1: suddenly get super sharp pains in his undercarriage. You also
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  Speaker 1: know that that big buck chose those spots for a reason,
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  Speaker 1: and you know who else is going to figure that out?
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  Speaker 1: The next buck in line. And I talked about this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit ago, and I really mean it. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: And while it might not be the second biggest on
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  Speaker 1: your ground, you know that it's highly likely that when
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  Speaker 1: King Kong gets arrowed and opens up a power vacuum,
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  Speaker 1: someone is coming in to take advantage of his spot.
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  Speaker 1: It's very likely that that someone is a buck who
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  Speaker 1: recognizes the same survival advantages that the previous buck did,
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  Speaker 1: and you know what, he's going to set up shop there.
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  Speaker 1: These generational findings are a gift to us white tail hunters.
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  Speaker 1: And while it's nice to figure out what apple tree
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  Speaker 1: is dropping during September, so you can set up there
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  Speaker 1: right now. By that, I mean in the season, not
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  Speaker 1: don't do it right now. It's also nice to find
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  Speaker 1: certain things in the woods that should be used by
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  Speaker 1: bucks consistently from year to year to year to year.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't take too many of those before you've always
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  Speaker 1: got a decent idea of what should be going on
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  Speaker 1: in the woods. And if you don't think that matters,
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  Speaker 1: hang out with someone who is a lot better hunter
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  Speaker 1: than you. If you can find one, they'll be thinking
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  Speaker 1: about that stuff all the time, and it'll factor into
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  Speaker 1: their scouting decisions and their hunting decisions. It will drive
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  Speaker 1: where they walk, where they hang cameras, and eventually where
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  Speaker 1: they hang their happy ass off a side of a
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  Speaker 1: specific tree throughout the fall. So go find some beds,
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  Speaker 1: mark them, think about them, consider why Buck would use
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  Speaker 1: them and when he'd be there. Don't rely solely on
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  Speaker 1: their locations to end your scouting efforts, but use them
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  Speaker 1: with your equipment throughout the summer shooting sessions is a
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  Speaker 1: sure fire way to screw up a shot on a
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  Speaker 1: deer come fall. That's it for this week, folks. I'm
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