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Wired To Hunt Podcast #91: Finding More Shed Antlers w/Ross Hausmann · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired 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. In this episode number nine ten
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  Speaker 1: the show, Dan and I are joined by my shed
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  Speaker 1: hunting fanatic friend Ross Houseman to discuss strategies for finding
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  Speaker 1: more shed andlers. All right, welcome to the Wire to
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  Speaker 1: Hunt podcast, brought to you by Sick of Gear. And today,
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  Speaker 1: as I just mentioned, we're talking shed hunting. And it's
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  Speaker 1: mid February right now at this moment. If you're at
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  Speaker 1: all like me, you're probably dying to get your hands
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  Speaker 1: on some antlers. Or maybe you've already had your hands
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  Speaker 1: on some antlers this year. I'm not sure. I certainly haven't,
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  Speaker 1: but either way, our plan for today is to talk
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  Speaker 1: shed hunting strategies and we're going to be joined by
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  Speaker 1: one of my good friends and one of the best
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  Speaker 1: shed hunters I know, Ross Horsman. So between Ross, Dan
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  Speaker 1: and myself, hopefully we'll be able to share a few
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  Speaker 1: tips that can help you have your best shed hunting
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  Speaker 1: season ever. So, Dan Johnson, are you getting the shed
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  Speaker 1: hunting at yet? Oh? Yeah. I let's see. My My
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  Speaker 1: plan was to go shed hunting Monday of this week
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  Speaker 1: and it's snowed six inches and as we all know,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to go. Hey, it's hard to go while
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  Speaker 1: it's snowing, and be it's even harder to go with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of snow on the ground. So I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get out, and it made me mad. How did you?
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  Speaker 1: How are you going to go on a Monday, dude?
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  Speaker 1: I work for a multinational court operation. I get every
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  Speaker 1: federal holiday off. It was President's Day. Was a President's Day. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so see my boss as a jerk. He doesn't let
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  Speaker 1: me take that day off. I totally forgot about. He's
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  Speaker 1: an a hole. Everybody know. Everybody knows it. That's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: So you didn't get to go shed hunting. Did you
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  Speaker 1: do anything? Did you get to dream about shut hunting
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  Speaker 1: or map searching or I did a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: podcast stuff. I did a little bit of writing. I
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  Speaker 1: did a little bit of um like daydreaming. I you know,
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  Speaker 1: you go to Google Maps and you can just spend
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  Speaker 1: hours on that. But I did go to Shields, which
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  Speaker 1: is the it's like a smaller version of Cabella's and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I shot a couple of bows, as in, like just
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  Speaker 1: shot for fun or do you think about buying it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a hunter percent sure yet. Um I went
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  Speaker 1: and I there's a couple of bows, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: on my podcast, I do kind of a bow review thing,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody's given this one bow a lot of props,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to go test it out and see
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  Speaker 1: what it was like. And I must be the only
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  Speaker 1: person in the world who doesn't like that bow, particular bow,
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  Speaker 1: because I wasn't a huge fan of of it. And
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  Speaker 1: but I shot a couple other ones. And then you
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  Speaker 1: walk around and you dream about, oh, man, that tent
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  Speaker 1: would be cool, or hey, those paraboots would be cool,
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  Speaker 1: or hey, I don't ever use a kayak, but I would.
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  Speaker 1: I would that would be cool if I had a kayak. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can relate to that. Those stores are dangerous, man,
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  Speaker 1: very dangerous. Most of the time. I leave my credit
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  Speaker 1: card in the in my car so I don't get
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  Speaker 1: tempted to buy to buy his stuff while I'm there. See.
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  Speaker 1: My biggest issue right now is, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: live close to any major stores or anything, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't leave the house all that much. But I've got
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  Speaker 1: Amazon Prime, and so it's just way too easy for
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  Speaker 1: me to buy anything I could possibly think cuff on Amazon.
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  Speaker 1: Just like I'll be sitting on my couch and if
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  Speaker 1: I pull up that Amazon app, I know I'm in
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  Speaker 1: I'm in trouble because it's just right, way too easy,
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  Speaker 1: just one button, it's bought, It's to my house in
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  Speaker 1: two days. It's it's not a good thing for my
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  Speaker 1: checking account. Yeah, I uh, I need to I need
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  Speaker 1: to shut it down for a while, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean. Like, I'm an impulse buyer, so it's it's
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  Speaker 1: not even close to season, and usually I try to
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  Speaker 1: you know, I do most to my my purchasing closer
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  Speaker 1: towards the season, which is dumb because then you're paying
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  Speaker 1: more for the product. But you know, here I'm going, man,
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  Speaker 1: I really wish I had this grunt call, or I
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  Speaker 1: really wish I had this, or I really, man, maybe
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  Speaker 1: I should buy another tree stand or you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: like one of those you can never it's like those
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  Speaker 1: those uh what's that one guy who's like, I'm Larry
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  Speaker 1: potter Field, thank you for your business. The Midway and
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  Speaker 1: the Midway USA guy, Right, Yeah, the Midway Usa. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I just every time that commercial comes up, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: how many guns do you need? Just one more? That's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like kind of like me with archery equipment
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  Speaker 1: many tree stands? Do you need just one more? That's
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  Speaker 1: a sickness dude. Yeah. So have you been out shed
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  Speaker 1: hunting yet? A little bit? Not like really seriously. I've
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  Speaker 1: just been walking my my couple of main spots in Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: kind of lightly taking taking my dog out for a
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  Speaker 1: walk and checking the food plots and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Um so far and nothing. Um yeah. But this spot
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't really expecting too much. The food plots I
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  Speaker 1: thought might pulling some deer. So there's a spot on
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  Speaker 1: one of the neighboring properties that usually get permission to
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  Speaker 1: shed hunt. So I just got a double check on
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  Speaker 1: that and get permission and then I'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: walk that. And and that's where a lot of deer
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  Speaker 1: that I think that are feeding in these food plots
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  Speaker 1: are probably betted. So if I can get permission to
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  Speaker 1: shed hunting there, I think I've got a chance. But
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the property, as far as food sources is,
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  Speaker 1: was all chiseled up. So there's the foods not there
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  Speaker 1: like it usually is, so I don't have the highest
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  Speaker 1: of hopes for that area. So so really I've got
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  Speaker 1: shed hunting plans for this weekend. We'll be hitting a
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  Speaker 1: buddies a couple of properties. They're supposed to be pretty good. Um,
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  Speaker 1: that'll be fun. And then I have got a couple
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  Speaker 1: of long weekend trips planned for the coming weeks and
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  Speaker 1: and that will really be probably the extent of of
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  Speaker 1: my of my shud hunting season. So, right, how how
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  Speaker 1: many times you gonna get to go out? Let's see,
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  Speaker 1: the Iowa Deer Classic is March fourth and fifth and
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  Speaker 1: sixth or something like that, somewhere that weekend, that first
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  Speaker 1: weekend in March. So I'm planning on going the weekend
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  Speaker 1: after that. That historically for me has been my the
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  Speaker 1: best times to go out as far as finding quantity. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest antlers I've ever found have been in mid
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  Speaker 1: to late February. I'd go out and you know, you
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  Speaker 1: find one or two. But as far as cleaning up shop,
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  Speaker 1: my best hunting shed hunting days, and I think I've
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  Speaker 1: found eight or nine sheds in one day and that
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  Speaker 1: was that was like mid early to mid March. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: hard to beat March, that's for sure. Yeah, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: got a question. I got a question for you. Of
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  Speaker 1: all the people that you've had, this is the kind
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  Speaker 1: of the funny question. I'm bringing it back today just
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  Speaker 1: for you. Okay, if you could have a beer with
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  Speaker 1: any any of the previous Wired to Hunt guests, who
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  Speaker 1: would it be? Oh? Man, uh wow, that was much
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  Speaker 1: spot you are? Uh uh you know, I guess I
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  Speaker 1: would go one of two ways. I think I would
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  Speaker 1: either go with and There's pretty much almost anyone we've
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  Speaker 1: had in the show. I would love to have a
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  Speaker 1: beer with There's I mean, I could pick almost anyone.
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  Speaker 1: But if I had to choose people, who I would
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  Speaker 1: I would really want to really really really want to
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  Speaker 1: pick their brain about some stuff. Probably one would be
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  Speaker 1: Donny Vincent, just because he's gone some crazy places, done
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  Speaker 1: some crazy things, you know, more non whitetail related, but
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  Speaker 1: I would love to pick his brain about some of
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  Speaker 1: those adventures he's been on. And then the other guy
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  Speaker 1: probably would just have to be the mad scientist mar Jurie.
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  Speaker 1: I just love his attention to detail with all the
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  Speaker 1: little things. You know. That episode was like so much
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  Speaker 1: fun for me just because I geek out about all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. So I think I would love to sit
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  Speaker 1: and have a beer and dive into more of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So that's me. What about you, dude, I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: After listening to Randy Newberg and then listening to his podcast,
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  Speaker 1: I think that dude would just be awesome to hang
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  Speaker 1: out with. You're right, I totally forgot about that he
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  Speaker 1: was he just he was just on the show and
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  Speaker 1: I already didn't even think about him. But you're right,
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  Speaker 1: Randy would be a good guy talked to and not
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  Speaker 1: even talk about no necessarily hunting per se, just hanging
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  Speaker 1: out with the dude. Maybe maybe eight hour car ride
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  Speaker 1: type deal. Yeah, he does seem like a fun guy
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  Speaker 1: to talk to, and he's got, you know, a great
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  Speaker 1: perspective on a lot of stuff too. Um got good
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  Speaker 1: the good old Minnesota accents still too. Hey, would you
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  Speaker 1: rather hang out with Randy Newburgh or Ross Hoffman? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta pick. I gotta pick Ross because
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  Speaker 1: he's on that because I don't want to offend him
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  Speaker 1: on this episode. I actually will be hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: Ross here in a couple of weeks, which is always
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  Speaker 1: good time. So so yeah, our guests. Ross Hossman, he is,
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  Speaker 1: like I mentioned, he's one of my good friends, one
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  Speaker 1: of my good hunting buddies. Um. He's been a serious
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  Speaker 1: deer hunter for as long as I've known him, and
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  Speaker 1: he moved to Iowa, I don't know, maybe a decade
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  Speaker 1: ago or something like that, and he's been pie end
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  Speaker 1: up really nice to hear and and films for Wire
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  Speaker 1: to Hunt for a number of years. So so some
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  Speaker 1: of you guys and girls listening might recognize him from
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  Speaker 1: some of our past video episodes. Um, but he is
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  Speaker 1: just a shed hunting fanatic. Like as soon as January hits,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like I'm just getting pictures texted to my
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  Speaker 1: phone every other day. It seems like if some other
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  Speaker 1: chetty phone, he's got a new pile of sheds. So
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  Speaker 1: he's Uh, He's someone I usually really hate at this
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  Speaker 1: time of the year because I'm really jealous if everything
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  Speaker 1: he's doing. But he's got a lot of experience with
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  Speaker 1: this stuff, so I think he'll he'll be able to
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  Speaker 1: share some good insight in some of his experiences I
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  Speaker 1: think will be helpful. So you excited to maybe learn
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  Speaker 1: a thing or two from Mr Ross hass I'm ready,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break then to hear
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  Speaker 1: then we will give Ross a call. Alright, So as
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  Speaker 1: we do every week, we're joined now by Sick of
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  Speaker 1: Dennis talk a little bit about the importance of keeping
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  Speaker 1: our hands warm during a hunt and how gloves or
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  Speaker 1: other apparel can help. Here's done us. Yeah, and the
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  Speaker 1: importance I mean, if you think about it, that last
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  Speaker 1: thing that makes that hunt come together is you being
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  Speaker 1: able to make a shot, you know, and use your
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  Speaker 1: you know, your hands are all part of that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and when you know, if you think about blood flow
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  Speaker 1: in your body, you know, the your hands are the
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  Speaker 1: furthest from your heart. So there's a little you know,
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  Speaker 1: the technical term is vase of constriction, but it's basically
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  Speaker 1: your body protecting itself and it will start stopping blood
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  Speaker 1: to your fingers, which is when that numbness sets in.
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  Speaker 1: And the longer that happens, you know, the harder it
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  Speaker 1: is to recover. So even if you start to get warm,
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  Speaker 1: it still keeps you cold, you know. So as hunters,
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  Speaker 1: we we roll in this world of a paradox between
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  Speaker 1: how do I keep myself warm yet how do I
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  Speaker 1: keep the tactility and the dexterity in place to be
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  Speaker 1: able to make that critical shot when I need to.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so we spend a lot of time in
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  Speaker 1: our peril development to thinking about you know, maybe a
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  Speaker 1: hybrid between the pouch we put in a product and
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  Speaker 1: then the flipments that we have in our fanatic city. Um,
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  Speaker 1: so we're always trying to think about how to wear
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  Speaker 1: in that paradox, but manage managing the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: have to keep your hand warm is and who who
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  Speaker 1: hasn't had a gear come in and grabbed their bow
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  Speaker 1: and had that really cold metal conduct into their hand
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  Speaker 1: for thirty minutes, you know, so thinking about that that
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  Speaker 1: contact point. You know, but your hands are absolutely a
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  Speaker 1: critical part of the equation, so important in fact, it
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  Speaker 1: was the foundation of our fanatic series. All right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: sick of gear dot com. And now let's give Ross
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  Speaker 1: a call. All right with us now? On the show.
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  Speaker 1: Is Ross Hossman. Welcome the show, Bud, Hey, good to
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  Speaker 1: be here. It's Helston. By the way, all these years,
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  Speaker 1: they still get it wrong. Are serious? I've always I
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  Speaker 1: like the way rhymes. Yeah, I know it's probably Peter
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  Speaker 1: says that. Still, so that that's funny. I want to
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  Speaker 1: call you Hoss Rossman. Yeah, that's all right, be glad
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do that. Still still getting wrong. I'll be
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  Speaker 1: completely honest with you. Ross. I when I when he
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  Speaker 1: said Ross hass like, I didn't know your last name
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  Speaker 1: was Hassman. If your name was Ross Hass I closed
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  Speaker 1: my eyes and I picture a competitive eater. Oh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's what it looks like. I
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  Speaker 1: guess there's the I mean, you definitely aren't the the
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  Speaker 1: Asian competitive eater type. Yeah. Yeah, so we're we're doing
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  Speaker 1: a very good job of dressing. Yeah, that's it's for today.
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  Speaker 1: What we're trying to talk about is shed hunting today. Um,
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  Speaker 1: And before you got on, Ross, we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about you and how I you know,
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  Speaker 1: we think you're a shed uting fanatic, one of the
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  Speaker 1: guys that I know that shed hunts the post um.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to try to see just how much
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  Speaker 1: of a ship anything like you are before we really
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  Speaker 1: dive into thing. So I want to bring up a
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  Speaker 1: story from last November. I was down in Iowa and
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  Speaker 1: we were at your campground before heading out to hunt
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  Speaker 1: one day at lunch, and we're sitting around there talking
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  Speaker 1: about how stressed we were about this and that and everything,
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  Speaker 1: and you said, I believe that you actually prefer shed
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  Speaker 1: hunting over hunting. Is that true? Yeah? I did say that,
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  Speaker 1: but I was thinking about that too afterwards. And did
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  Speaker 1: I shoot my DearS when I said that? Or was
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  Speaker 1: did I not have a deer? Then you had not
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  Speaker 1: shot your deer by then you shut your buck like
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  Speaker 1: two or three days later. Yeah, then it's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And then I was thinking I said that after I
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  Speaker 1: shot my deer, which would makes sense. But but I
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  Speaker 1: think the theories. And I like shed hunting so much
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  Speaker 1: is because I just get so sneak, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I get so stressed out when I'm bow hunting and
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  Speaker 1: during the season, and I just like shed hunting so
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  Speaker 1: much more because so much more laid back, and the
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  Speaker 1: weather is nice and it's just a good time to
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  Speaker 1: be out in the woods. But I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I could pick shed hunting over over bull hunting. Would
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  Speaker 1: be pretty tough. I know I said that, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it's I think it's pretty it's pretty tough to
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  Speaker 1: pick one over the other. They all have there, they're
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  Speaker 1: pros and cons. But I would I would say I
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  Speaker 1: love shed anything pretty much because it's good time to
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  Speaker 1: get get together with a bunch of buddies, have a
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  Speaker 1: good time and scout and then also of course Finne sheds. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you that I I definitely couldn't take
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  Speaker 1: shedding over regular bow hunting or deer hunting. But to
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  Speaker 1: your point, it's a lot of fun just from like
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  Speaker 1: the camaraderie standpoint, and it's a lot more relaxed, although
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I feel like it gets pretty intense when we're
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  Speaker 1: especially like towards the end of my towards the end
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  Speaker 1: of my trip, if I haven't found anything, I get
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  Speaker 1: get a little of that bow hunting stress. But uh yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: then then you'll pick bow hunting over shed hunting and
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  Speaker 1: you can go both. Yeah, that's the truth. I think Corey,
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  Speaker 1: our friend Corey, I think he I think he said
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  Speaker 1: before that he would almost shed hunt has given the choice.
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  Speaker 1: I think you said that in the past, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the only crazy one. Yeah, I've heard him
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  Speaker 1: say it too, like we'll be eating breakfast and he'll
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  Speaker 1: be gushing on about shed hunting and he'll start talking
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  Speaker 1: about it. But I think to your point, Ross, when
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  Speaker 1: it comes right down to it, I think, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's many guys that would actually choose it, but
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  Speaker 1: there's certainly some people that really really love it. And
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  Speaker 1: I get that. I love shed hunting too. Um. So
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  Speaker 1: that said, wanted to pick your brain a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: Ross about you know, how you've had so much success
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  Speaker 1: shed hunting in the past. But I guess to quantify
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit, how, I'm curious. I think I've
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  Speaker 1: got an idea of this myself. But how often do
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  Speaker 1: you shed on? How many days a year would you
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  Speaker 1: say if you had to guess you shed on a year?
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, I don't know how many days. I would
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  Speaker 1: say every weekend, um, from probably the second week of
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  Speaker 1: January two through March all the way up until Turkey season. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I've been I've had the luxury of having the chance
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get out every weekend. But now
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  Speaker 1: things are going to change because they have a baby
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  Speaker 1: on the way. She's here. He I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: it is, um just doing April, So things are going
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  Speaker 1: to change. But I know my wife loves doing it too.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I'm and I know we're still going to try to
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: get out as much as possible. But I would say,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I would say every weekend, my wife's Kendall and I
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: are are trying to get out and so for a
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: good good four months. Yeah so what that's almost four
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: months times for weekends a month, so that's all days,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: that's that's yeah, I would yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of ships, honey. So how many
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: do you know how many sheds you found last year?
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Last year we found last year we found fifty eight.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I believe every year we need to find a little
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: bit more. Do you have any idea how many total?
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: An anything? Actually, I have no idea, And I used
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: to I used to be able to pick up any
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: of the sheds, tell you exactly where it was from.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: I could picture where it was laying. But now it's
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: getting to the point where we have so many of
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: that that I don't even remember anything about some of
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: those sheds anymore. So I would that is probably somewhat
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: of a mental mental disease. They're knowing where all the
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: sheds came from and be able to picture it all
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But I just getting to the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: point now where I'm also a hoarder and I have
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: so many sheds that I can't remember where they're even from. So, so, yeah,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: we found a lot. We've found a lot over they
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: felt over the years, and we started now that we're
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: getting to know the deer better in the area where
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: we said hunting and we know where to focus, it's
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: getting getting to be easier to find them, and then
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: we're just certain find more too. So you found fifty
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: some last year, and I think, if I remember right,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: the year before that, you found over fifty um. And
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: it seems like every year you're finding somewhere in that ballpark. Um,
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: have you found an yet this year? I know the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: answer to that. How many of you found? Well, it's
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: been such a mile, it's been such a mile of
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: winter that we've gotten a pretty early start and a
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: lot of places like and I'm in Iowa, so obviously
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I have an advantage there as far as find sheds.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: But but where we're at in Iowa, far far Sunday
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: before far far northwest Iowa is where we live where
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: there's tons of bucks, just really really close to the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Minnesota border. And uh, there's a there's a lot of
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: deer up there. You're you're so, you're so generous of
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the information. Rock what county far county is it? What
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: would that be like Floyd or something like that, or
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you know there's there's like ten guys from Floyd, Iowa
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: right now just cursing at the podcast. Or yeah, I
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: go up we go up there a lot and let
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: me just go to see your you know, your southern Iowa.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: You know where Dans that we go down there all
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: the time too. Oh yeah, down there huge deer decline.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: You know what's you know what's funny, Dan, I don't
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: know if I don't know if I told you this
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: or connected the dots, but on one of our past
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: podcast episodes, you had talked about some specifics of some
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: spots that you hunt in the past, um describing some
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of your dear that you've seen, blah blah blah. So
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: just from the little bit that Ross had heard about
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: you from me and what he heard on the podcast,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: he pinpointed exactly where your property was, and he texted
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: me a picture and he says, is this dance property?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: And it was it was. Didn't didnt get up too
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: much info. Sometimes that is for sure out I'm actually
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: gonna make a game out of it too. Whenever whenever
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: people say stuff like that, I can try to find
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: and you got you gotta be more tight lipped in
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I have since that, since that happened, I have been
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: more tight lipped because I've had people message me going, hey,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: do you hunt on Zoe and So's property. I'm just like,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: uh no, And I don't want to be clear. I
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: would never be one of those guys that would just
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: show up and I just I just I'm all around,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: you know, like Google and all that stuff, and you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: if you know there, maybe I'll I'll swoop in and
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: hunt there fifty fifty fifty sheds a year, and you're
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: not you're not going on your buddies properties behind their back?
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah right, no, no, no, all permission I find it. Yeah, yeah,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I'll be clear that way to no trespassing whatsoever. That's
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a big problem with that. I definitely don't want people
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to say that. Although although I do wonder, you know, Dan,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: we had a rough go at shed hunting your place
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: last year. I wonder if someone might have gotten there
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: before us, Right, yeah, I think I know know what
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: his name is. It does not rhyme with hoss um Man,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: So Dan. Now that we're on the topic of how
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: many sheds a year, I think the most I've ever
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: found in a year is like twelve or thirteen. But
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that's because I live in Michigan and I only find
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: sheds when I go to other states for a day
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: or two. What's the most you've ever found in a year? Now, Ross,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: let me ask you a question real quick. Is that
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: fifty between a group of people or fifty you by yourself?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: No? No No, uh, my wife and I And then I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: have a yeah, I got you, I got you, all right.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So I think my best year I was unemployed in
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: living with my parents, and I I think I shed
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: hunted thirty days and I found I think thirty two
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: sheds and everything from the big boys to like a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: little fork four corns, So like thirty two. Did you
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: do you measure your antlers at all? I can't remember. Um,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: if if they're substantial, yes, but if they're average you now,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: do you remember the size of your biggest shed? Seventy
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: four and a half inches? Okay, think my biggest was
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the Mark Kenyon shed that I found in your place.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: And what was that was that? Is that right? I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: think it was sixty five on the dot? Yeah? What
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: about you? Ross? Um, I guess one that's seventy one,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and then Kendall's got the two big ones that are
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: right nice? Have you any No? Not really? Um, it's
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: on one seven inch and then I guess when she
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: hunting down here at least where we're at, like a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: six anything over sixty inches are pretty good shed, and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: you don't find too many of those every year where
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: we're at. Everything else is a lot of you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: like two year olds and then they'll be like the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: you know, fifty five injured or you know from the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: three year old and stuff like that. But like getting
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: up over sixty inches is getting it's actually pretty tough
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to find. And then a seventy inch or bigger side
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: in this and they right, I found it's pretty that's
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: a pretty nice shed. I'd love to find an eight
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: inch or something. That'd be I'd be awesome, that'd be crazy. Yeah,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: that's that's that's the goal. I think you have a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: pretty good chance to find and I think both of
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you too probably have a good chance of finding one.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I if I ever hit the seven inch mark, that'll
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: probably the best I could ever do. But if you
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: ever hit the seventy in markets because you cut in
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: front of one of us on the way back to
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the truck or something, yeah, you're probably right. Seventy inch
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: or last year? I are you talking about the infinite
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Ohio trip? Yeah, it wasn't. That's where that was. Wasn't that.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: It was pretty darn close. There's a guy that you know,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Dan named h a fellow named Corey who uh we've
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: all three joked about. I think I didn't. Did I
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: tell the story of how Corey shed poached me in
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Ohio last year? Oh? He oh in Ohio? So that
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: that's the second time he poached you? Yeah? Yeah, you
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: you know the one he said posted me and Iowa.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: We've we've talked about that. I witnessed it. You called
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: him out to Well, Okay, let's get this straight. I
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: think before we we throw a Corey under the bus,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: we got to talk a little bit about the rules
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: of shed hunting, right, we we do. We do have
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to do that. I suppose we we reviewed them last year,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I think. But it's always worth tossing out the rules
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: that at least that we generally follow, right right. You
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: want to you want to take take take it away, Mark,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I'll say you can. Well, I guess let me. I'll
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: throw out the ones I can think of right now.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I think these are pretty well in line with ross
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: what you guys practice. I think every different group of
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: people that shed hunt together have like some unwritten rules
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: of shed hunting, some basic kind of guiding principles UM
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: right to being like a fair shed hunter. So there's
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: kind of this basic thing, you know, you know, if
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: you're hunting, if you're shetting together, typically you'll pick Okay,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk here so and so I was gonna
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: walk there, so and I was gonna walk there, and
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: usually you try to follow that and not you know,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: too much encroach on your neighbors places, so they have
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: a chance to see something just as much as you do. Um.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Another popular rule is if you find one side of
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: an antler and your buddy found the other side of
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: that deer before you, you should give that antler to
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the first person who found it. Um, so they can
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: have that match set. Um. What else is there any
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: other ones? If you if you end up killing the buck,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: you gotta give the sheds back. Yeah, somebody kills the buck,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: you gotta give the sheds back. That's that's an important one.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: That's a good one for sure. Anything else for your
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: roster you got do we follow any other things that
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not thinking of? Uh not? Yeah, you don't pick
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: you gotta you don't pick it up until roster can
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: swim over and take a picture of it, different plane
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: on the ground. You gotta do that. That's true. That's
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that's another point. If if anybody saw the article I
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: posted on wired hunt dot com last week, it was
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: like it was I call it like training for shed hunting,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and it was forty pictures of sheds as they lay. Um.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Those pictures were yours ross Um. Of course you ask
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that no one picks up a shed until you get
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: a picture of it where it was. And you've you've
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: saved all those pictures over the years, haven't you. Yeah?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I have. I have tons of pictures. I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: don't know. This is my favorite, my favorite part about it.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: When you first see the shed, you know, so I
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: just like takeing a snap of a picture of where
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: it layed. I don't know, it's weird, but it's not weird.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: It's not weird. I do the same thing. Thanks. Thanks man,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: It's really appreciate. It makes you feel better. Do you
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: ever do you ever do what I told people doing
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that blog post? Do you ever look back at them
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: to like just kind of like re like before the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: shed season starts, just to kind of get your eye
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it tuned again to picking up the little things, you know.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I never like look back purposely, like I just I
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: look at those pictures all your round. I just like,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you know, every soft and I'll flip through room and
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: just kind of just remember all the sheds. I mean,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I'm always looking at that stuff all the time, always
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: looking to do You're always looking at maths, always looking
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: at sheds. So, yeah, we got the three of us
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: definitely have an issue, that's for sure. So I got
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: a question for your Ross. Since you've got a shed dog,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: has your shed fine totals gone up drastically? I mean,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: is this dog helping you pull a lot of bone? Not?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say drastically, you know, she she's getting better
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: every year, but I wouldn't say drastically, because most of
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: the sheds A lot of times when we're out, most
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: of the sheds um you know, if you're not in
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: like sick cover like sick, if you're not in like CRP,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: or if you're not in the cut corn field. A
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: lot of times you're spotting it before the dog or
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the dogs a lot of times out in the front
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: end picking up before before you do, and you usually
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: would probably pick it up anyways, like the only, the only,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know fairies. I think she does really well
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: in our like the grassy areas where you I can't
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: see very well see very far. She needs her nose
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: really well. And then the corn stubble. She does really
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: good in the corn because corn fields can be really
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: tough obviously shed hunting, and they can be a difficult
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to stay focused and find sheds. She does really well
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: when she she can work back and forth and use
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: your knowls to pick up any of the sheds that
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: you miss. Some corn fools, she's it's probably up to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: our total from more like the corn fields and the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: CRP or the grassy areas and stuff like that. But
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: but a lot of the sheds that we find you
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: are they're not like too difficult the spot, I would say,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: you know, if that makes sense, how how did you
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: go about training your dog? What was your what was
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: your kind of regimen to get her up to doing this?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: The first just playing such at first, you know, with
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: an antler, and then she only get the antler obviously
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: whenever we were working, and so she um. You know,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: after that, I just started getting better at that. I
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: mean we just kind of started in the backyard, just
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: hiding the shed, having her look for it and let
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: me just kind of progressed and made harder and harder
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and harder and harder. I don't know that I did
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it like you know, exactly how they would recommend. But
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: but she does really well now, and she is a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: she has a really um um. She gets really excited
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: about sheds. So like yesterday, for example, you get we
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: have some of our sheds that we found us here
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: laying out and the other night she was standing by him,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and she'll go over and she'll smell him and she'll
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: lick them, and she'll just stand there and You'll be
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: sitting and maybe sitting on the couch and she'll stand
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: there and look back at you and just stare at you,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: and then she'll look at the sheds and she'll look
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: back against stare at you. And then she'll lick the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: sheds and she'll smell them, and she'll look back at you,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: and she's just like, why are we sitting here when
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: we could be able to Like she's she's so funny.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: She'll stick her nose over in those sheds all day long.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: She can't have them unless she's working for him. But
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: but but that just keeps her. I guess her desire
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: for him pretty strong. I don't know. Yeah, I don't
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: let her. I don't let her chew on sheds or
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: anything like that or have them. I don't let her
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: have them all the time. I don't know if that's
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: something that was gonna do, but but she just seems
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: to want it more than Yeah, it's definitely nice to
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: have that just strong desire from the dog to to
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: find those antlers and just to associate that that thing
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the antler was like a good time. I know that
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: with Booner. With my dog, whenever I grab an antler
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: in the house, he just gets stoked. He gets psyched
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: out of his mind. He starts bouncing off the walls
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and he's like, all right, let's go time, and he'll
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: just be as soon as he opened the door, he
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: just tears outside and he thinks that shed hunting time.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: So it's it's fun to see how excited they get,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that's for sure. Oh yeah, she's she's she's pretty awesome.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: She's a she's a good dog. And the only reason
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: she would be way better if he the guy training,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: was better at it. So you said that you start
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: you started shedding pretty early this year because of how
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: mild it was, But when do you usually start shed
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: hunting and why do you start that time? Yeah, we
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: gotta I suppose I started talking, you know, he's we
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: started probably the middle January. Every area is a little
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: different one dear shed, but the region kind of where
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: we're at her that that area where we're at, well,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: it's times you're shedding pretty early. Um, and so we
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: we a lot of times find your best sheds or
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: some of our bigger sheds immediately following kind of the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: deer season. So like that mill of January, towards the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: end of January, we always usually pick up some really
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: nice sheds. So we um, we start around then and uh,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: in the in the early part, we usually just focus
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: more on like the the fields and the edges and
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. You don't really go into the timber
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: or anything like that, but we usually, um, you can
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: pick up some nice sheds pretty early on, at least
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: where I'm at. And then what time of year do
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: you think is this your best time of year in general?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Like if you could only pick like one week a
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: year to go shed hunting, what would be your top
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: week on average? Probably just you know, the first what
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: everybody says, the first couple of weeks in March whenever
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the snow melts pretty much. But this year we've been
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: this year, we found we've we're up to nine now
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: so far this year, but it's been so mild, so
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: we've been able to shed hunt and do a better
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: job because there hasn't been as much snow, um, so
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: they'll been able to cover a lot more ground and
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: in spot more sheds compared to like thoughts last year,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: years prior. There's a lot more snow in February, so
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: usually we find a bunch of January February starts to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: slow down a little bit because there's a lot of
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: snow usually and then coursing the snow melt it picks
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: up again. Do you speaking of snow, I'm curious what
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: you think about this too, Dan. But first Ross, I
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: guess do you think there's anything to shed hunting being
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: better on years where there's lots of snow because the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: deer will be, you know, kind of tighter in a
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: certain areas that won't be roaming as much first as
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: years where there's hardly any snow and then the deer
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: or just everywhere. Have you have you found that to
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: be true? Yeah, let's see, I don't know that two
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: years ago when it was really cold everywhere, like had
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: was two years ago when we had like twenty y
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: as blows of your or something like that for the
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: highest for the day or something like that, I don't
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: know what was in quite a bit snow and the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: deer were a lot more concentrated. And actually that year
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the difference from that year For other years, a lot
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: of times we don't find a ton of match sets,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: but that year we found a lot of match sets.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: So I just gathered from that that the deer we're
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: spending a lot more time, you know, in a smaller
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: area and not roaming as much. That's kind of what
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I figured from the ast. But and when it's when winters, yeah,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: when snows deeper, it's a little bit more predictable. I
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: guess you know, travel as far have you found out
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to be true? Dame Well, I tell you yeah. Obviously
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: they find the food source and they stick to where
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: it's at. But my my best, my best shed hunting
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: season ever was a mild, a real mild February, not
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: a lot of snow, and then towards the end of
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: February there was just like this giant in it temperature
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: drop and a ton of snow all at one time,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: and that made a lot of antlers pop off. And
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I found in a in a three week period is
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: when I found all my sheds all there at the
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: all at the beginning of March, all like the last
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: week of February, in the in the first two weeks
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: in March. Now, as as they started, as uh it
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: started winding down, they started to get chewed on, so
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I could tell they all dropped roughly at the same time.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: It's just I didn't find them all at that same time,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: right right, And I think all that makes sense. I think,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: like you saw ross that one year that we had
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: the huge snow, huge cold fronts and all that snow,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: that year was one of the best years I ever.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I think that was the year I had my best
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: shed hunting year, excuse me. And I think it was
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: because to your point, when you found one shed, usually
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: you were finding three or four or five six sheds
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: in that same general area, versus some years where it
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: seems there they're just scattered randomly all over the place,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and it's you find one and then you won't find
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: another one for five hours, and then you'll find one
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: and it will be then the next day or something
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: like that. While on that year it was like we
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: would find a dozen in or half a dozen in
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: an hour. So I kind of like year when you
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: were down right and we did really well. Wasn't that
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that year? Yeah? That was the year where Corey Corey
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: left the day before a really good day. Oh, that's
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: too bad more for us. Yes, we never we never
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: told the Ohio shed story, Dan, that we I alluded
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to it and then we got off topic. Um, if
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: we never did tell that, that was the one where
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: don't Dan, Dad, I tell you this me and Corey
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: were writing with a landowner we've just gotten permission to
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: shed hunt this property. And we were riding in the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: car with him, passed his property to to drop him
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: back off at his house, and then we're going to
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: go out of shed hunt. Um. And we're in the
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: car and we're driving down the road and I looked
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: to my side out the window and in this on
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: this grassy hillside, on the property we just got permission
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: to shed hunt, I see a giant shed like split
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: split g two split brow time, like awesome shed. And
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I'm just like oh, and I just stand there and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: just like staring at you know, usually when you're shed hunting,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: as you guys know, if you see a shed, you
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: call it out and say, hey, shout out, I got one.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: But since I was in the car and the landowners there,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to do that, and I don't know,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: just figured i'd wait till we got out of the
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: car and me and Corey were on our own, and
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: then said yes, I want to go get it. But
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: like a couple of seconds after I see it, Corey
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: yells up, shut shut shut, he sees it in the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: landowner season I'm like, oh, man, he turns. Corey turns,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: it looks at I'm like, yeah, I saw it like
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: two or three seconds ago. Um but right, well, I
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: just wanted to well, that's the thing. I couldn't prove
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: that I saw it before me, and I wasn't gonna
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: make a big deal. But I joke, I don't. I
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: don't really think Corey post a shed for me, but
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I'd like to give him a hard time about it,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: and uh, probably he It made for for a good joke,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: but it also it was a little bit of a
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: bummer because he found that we saw that shed, we
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: went to go grab it, and then not like ten
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: yards on the other side of that hill was the
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: other side. So it was like a really really nice
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: match that um I think it was seventy or right
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: real close to us. So it was a sweet match
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: that that's for sure. And that wasn't Yeah, and then
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: there's another time Corey found that thing was side Oh
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: and uh, you see thing that you were walking and
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: he tripped over it. Yeah, I found my biggest shed
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: ever I stepped on. There definitely are some people who
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: just have the luck, like we're walking through this whole
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: area together that we thought it was me really good,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: and we didn't find anything, and so we were walking
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: back to the car and we were just about back
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: to the car and we're right next to each other,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: and it had been one of those days where I
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: hadn't found anything all day and I was kind of
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: bumming about it. We've been walking for eight or nine hours,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: you know, and at that point it's kind of getting
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: to me, and I think Corey had found you know,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: several He's had a bunch and it just wasn't my day.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: As we're walking back, like fifty yards before the car,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: I just hear his boot hit something and here a
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: big clunk, and then he's like, oh, what's that? And
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: then in my head I just made it was like that,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: son of a we got a shed and it was
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: a nice one. That's the fun of it, right, Yeah. Yeah,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: So what about certain types of days or conditions? Are
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: there any types of days or weather conditions or things
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: like that that you have found are the best for
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: shed hunting? Ross? What do you think about that? Well? Yeah,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, of course, like cloudier days or days are
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: after a rain and it's cloudy, or when it's let
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: its cloudy, those are the best days. When you can
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: see him the best. I don't I have obviously, I
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: like when sunshine into it's just a nicer day. But
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: but to find shed there, to spot them, it's way more.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: It's it's just easier to just bottom when it's living cloudy,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: or if there was just a light rain, or if
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: it's just wet right after snow melts and they really
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: show up good time. Yeah, would would you agree to? Yeah?
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: What when it's wet, it's and they just kind of
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: pop out in the in the timber. Yeah. Now here's
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: a question. I've always wondered about this, you know, on
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: those days, on those sunny days, like you talked about ross,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: sometimes I'm thinking in my head, i'd like sunglasses because
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: maybe there's a little bit of snow. So there's the
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: bright snow and the bright sun, and it's hurting my
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: eyes a little bit. So I sit there and I think, though,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: does do the sunglasses impact my ability to spout the shed?
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: So I'll put the glasses on for a while, and
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: then I start getting paranoid about it. I take them off,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: and then I put them back on and take them off.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I haven't decided yet if I think sunglasses are hindrance
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: at all two spotting shows? Do you do either? You
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: guys have an opinion on that. I l or sunglasses
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: and they'll take them off to the mom, will take
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: them off up to the mom. I kind of go
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: back and forth, but I don't know a lot of
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: times I do that which one, which one is better?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: So I feel the same way that that's a question
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: for the audience. Then maybe some people, some other people
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: can shine in if if anybody else has that dilemma,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: and be curious to know, because you know, with certain
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: types of you know, when you're fishing and stuff, there's
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: certain types of sunglasses that help you see through water better.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I wonder if there's if sunglasses are certain lens will
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: help you will make the color of a shed pop
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: out against you know, against the background a little better.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know, there there could be something to that.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe someone could create shed hunting sunglasses. That's a product
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: that are right there. Yeah, they'll market right up there
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: with the acorn cruncher. So you're saying, so you're saying
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: you'd buy something right right, So, so Ross, you mentioned
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: that you shed hunt a number of different places, and
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: you mentioned you don't trespass. This all you know, it's
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: all legal. Um you Yeah, how do you get so
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: many different plays? Is the shd up? Um? You know?
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: Over the years, I just got to know people and
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: then just asking permission initially, just as you ask permission
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: from one person, you get to know him a little
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: bit better. Um. Then just by always wanting something a
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: little bit better, just wanting to be able to walk more,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: you know, and there's always this those fields and those
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: places where you want to walk, and then you know
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: you've got to get permission first. I just grew and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: grew and grew, and I just I don't know, I
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: just got to know people really well. And now fortunately, um,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I have permission on I probably over a thousand acres
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: where I do most of my shed hunting, and and
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: I'm really grateful for that. How many different properties is that?
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: That's I don't know, like three four or five somewhere there.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: And you assume every Yeah, I was gonna say, it
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: seems like every year I talked to years that you're
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: you're talent us like a permission on this new farm
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and that new farm and this new farm. Um, you
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: definitely go ahead. Yeah, it's it's good's it's definite getting
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: tougher now too. I'm so I'm so thankful as the
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: places to go now. Um, but yeah, just you know,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: like the problem is, like, especially this year in February,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: you're walking some stuff and you're you're trying to get
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: out there and pick up the sheds and kind of
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: beat the competition too. But then you you walk all
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: your stuff and then you run out of ground until
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: you gotta kind of scramble to find some more places
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: to go to. So I guess every year I just
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: kind of add on a place or two and just
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: kind of builds. Do you ever walk any pieces twice?
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Like you'll walk it in February, then you'll walk it
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: again in March. Yeah, everything walk all geez, the same
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: thing like jeez, for three or four or five times.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: So for example, how many how many times are you
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: coming back to a place and finding a shed as
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: opposed to like you walk it once, no sheds, you
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: walk it again. That's when you're finding them. I've got
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: a good couple of good examples this year. So I
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: walked let's see, end of January walks Cornfield picked up
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: three and then we just went there last week so
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: that event, it was probably like two weeks later, and
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: then we picked up two more in the same area. Um,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: and then we'll probably go do that again towards March.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: And these are areas, like, I'm not walking into areas
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: where I'm gonna be bumping deer or pushing deer out
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: of there. They are all areas where you can walk
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: regularly and not affect the deer movement at all. So
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: that's one thing. But so we'll go back there in
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: March and then we'll walk it again and I'm continent
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: will be able to find another one or two And
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: there's another another quarter Filly did the same thing this
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: year again. Wow, do you think that those are sheds?
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Do you think that you're actually those sheds weren't there
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: when you went the first time, or do you think
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: it's that just by doing it again you're able to
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: spot some of these that you just missed the last time.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Do you have any that Yeah, these were definitely fresh.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: And then just because the area is walking was pretty
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: a pretty specific area, and and the last two especially
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: where there's no way you would have walked past them,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: and then just you know, you can see the fresh
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: blood on the pedicle or whatever too. Um And this
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: morning I went out a couple hours before work actually,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: and uh driving down the driveway to the to the farm,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: and I saw only enough to off the road in
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: the hayfield that wasn't there. I think it's so this
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: must have fallen Saturday night because it's no Sunday and
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: was just under the snow and a head a bloody
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: basse and stuff like that. So they, I mean, they
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: can fall at any time right now. So so do
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: you check your trail cameras at all this time of
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: year to check for when most of the bucks are dropping?
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Or do you have most of your cameras pulled now? Yeah?
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I just pulled the last one day. You know, I
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: have problems getting bocks on camera and winter for some reason.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: I have no idea. They're all they're around, but I
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: cannot get pictures of bucks. It's weird. I have no idea,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: but there's there's still a lot of dear holding. But
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: I have troubles even getting pictures of bucks. So I
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: don't really do very well with them in winter for
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: some reason. I don't know why it is. Dan, did
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: you did you do your trail camera thing this year?
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: With the with the putting your corn out and putting
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: a camera on it. Yeah, but then things kind of
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: got busy, so the corn ran out and we just
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: put another bag or two on it this last week.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: So I've just been so busy this year that i
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: haven't got to do what I typically do, and that's
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: dropped like a thousand pounds of corn over a period
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: of two months, uh in one spot. And you know,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: you get a lot of deer that come up to him.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: But you know, just because it's a concentrated pilot corn
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the deer are going to visit it.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I mean two years ago it was a perfect example.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I think I all I did was feed doze. I
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: had one or two trail camera polls where I had
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: a couple a couple of big bucks, but then they
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: were gone. I mean they stayed there for like a
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: week and then they went somewhere else. There was that
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: one year. There's that one year where I came to
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: shed home with you and you found like three sheds
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: right by that pile, right, Yep. I did have a
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: I did have a year where um, well there was
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: a last year or two years ago, I think two
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: years ago and uh, I found two or three sheds
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: in the pile of corn, which makes shed hunting easy.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's what a him off, right. Yeah, it
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: never seems to be that easy for me. I I've
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I've had food plots. I've been planning food plots for
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: like I don't know, seven years an hour or something
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: like that, and most of the years I've put some
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: kind of good winter food source in there, always hoping
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: that you know, I'd find a shed in one of
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: those food plots someday, and deer are hitting these food
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: plots like crazy all January February, UM, year in and
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: year out. I always have great activity in these food plots. Um,
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: But I have yet to find a single shed in
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: one of my food plots, even though I see these
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: bucks out there every single stupid night, not in the
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: food plot and not next to the food plot. Hasn't
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: happened for me yet, But I swear one of these days,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: hopefully it'll pay off. But speaking of finding sheds in
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: certain places, UM, I'm curious ross you hunt so many
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: different You shed hunt so many different spots compared to me. Um,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: do you approach how you shed hunt a new property?
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: For the first time. I'm different than properties that you know. Well,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: do you have like a special strategy for your first
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: walk on a new property. I don't, you know, probably not,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: just because it's most times not because if I if
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: there's a new property to get permission on, I already
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: know kind of what the deer doing because I've seen
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: it from my road. Probably, so I would I probably
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: just do the same thing I do with all the
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: other properties in that sense. But if it was something
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: new that I never you know, I don't know what's
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: going on. Usually I just kind of do a walk
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: through first. Um, if it's early in the season, I'll
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: walk the fields and the field edges not to bump
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: the deer and just get an idea where the deer
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: at or where they're coming into the fields. And then
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: you can look at maps and things like that and
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: you can get an idea where the betting areas are
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: based on like maybe um, you know, self facing ridges
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: close to some of the food sources and stuff like that.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: So maybe what I would probably do is is bring
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: up a map, look at it, guess where the deer are,
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: and then go on foot without trying to bother hear
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: too much and then kind of try to confirm that
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: and then once I know kind of where the deer at,
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: then I go back in when the time's writer and
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: and walkt in that area. That's probably how I approach it.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: So then then you kind of spoke to a little bit.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: But then so for the properties that you do, know,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: what does your typical shed hunt look like? Do you
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: start a certain way and check out certain types of
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: features or do you just walk the entire property front
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: to back or how does that work for you? Usually?
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: First first thing I think I said before too, like
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: we'll walk the will walk the fields first, pretty frequent,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: so several times from January through through you know up
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: until like the snow melts and uh so fields a
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: lot field wise, we'll we'll focus a lot on from
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: shed hanging. Over the years I wasted I used to
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: waste a lot of time she hunting areas were you
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: know they like there were a lot of deer there,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: There were deer there, but it ended up just kind
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: of wasting time. And now I've shifted more towards focusing
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: on on the food sources and like so the corn
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: and bean fields and stuff like that, and I'm not
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: shed hunting like food plots or anything like that. They're
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: just like really big agricultural field. So so field wise
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: will focus a lot on like the whenever we have
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: a field focused on like those those grassy areas within
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: the field, or sometimes will be like terraces that farmers
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: will put in the fields and other areas like where
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of times deer will bed down at night
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: and shoot their cud and for some reason, it seems
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: like that's where deer shed the most. I mean you
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: can have you could have a bean field and then
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: you could have uh in an entire beet field and
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: details really easy to find shed in and you can
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: walk that whole field not find a single shed. But
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: then if you find that one area where the bucks
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: like to lay down at night after feeding, you can
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: just it's unbelievable how many sheds sometimes you can find. UM,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: So we like to focus on kind of those areas.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: If you can figure out where the dear bed at night,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: those areas are awesome. That's what I found. Are you
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: talking like buffer strips and field that hit Yeah, sometimes
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: like buffer strips and stuff like that, and a lot
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: of times will be slightly elevated. Um. Like, for example,
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: there was one the spot where ridge came off. You know,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: there's just a long draw finger kind of that came
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: into the field and then there was like a little
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: ridge that kind of jutted out. It was just like
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: a little finger of trees that jetted out into the
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: middle of a cornfield and then it kind of made
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: like a grassy little point on the end of it
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: that was slightly elevated from the field. Um, and we
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: walked that and I think was within probably a hundred yards.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: There was six sheds and that was that was January
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: like five, so that's not early in the year, and
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: there were six sheds later there. This is pretty crazy.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: And so like if you can find those areas where
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: fear bed at night, I love those areas and so
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: like or like rass stuff like that. I don't know
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: why they shed on those things so easily, seo, but
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: they seem just like the magnets for for sheds. And
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of farmers will tell you the same thing.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Have you found the same thing to be true where
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: you're at doan? Yeah? You know, I'll be honest, I
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: haven't found a lot of sheds in fields. I've found
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: some you know on some buffer straps. I found some
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: ONESO feel that just but a majority of the sheds
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: over the years that I've found have been in the
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: bedding areas or in the transition um pieces between the
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: food and bed Yeah, I've kind of found the same thing.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: I found handful in fields, but most of them tend
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: to be like you mentioned, and we'll both of you
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: where they're bedded seems you know, And I guess that
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: makes sense because these deer are probably spending the majority
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: of their time bedded. A greater portion of their day
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: is spent embedded than out on a food source or
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: right next to that food source. So it makes sense
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: that these deer finding those betting locations near the food
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: where they're bedded down for those longer periods of time.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: That's that's where it's most likely. Um. You know. Another
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: another type of spot that lots of people talk about
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: finding sheds are places where deer jump where if they
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: have to jump over fence or jump over creek. Um,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: have you ever found a shed in a situation like that? Ross? Yeah,
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: senses are great, but that doesn't mean they're like you know,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: you can check out several hundred fence crossings and not
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: find shed, but a lot of times they do shed
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: that fence jumps and fence crossings, and those are always
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: good places to look, but you got to check a
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: lot of them just to find that one. In most cases. Yeah,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, those are definitely great places of look. Yeah,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: it hasn't worked out for me yet, but didn't Wasn't
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: I with you Dan once when you found one like that? Yeah? Um,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: it was the same day you found your big one,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: your biggest shed. Yeah, it was like thirty or forty
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: minutes later when we were kind of, you know, saying
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: screw this area because there was still a lot of
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: snow on that north facing slope, Like, let's just get
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: to where this the field the field edges are and
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: we'll go from there. And sure enough, right where we
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: crossed was was it shed? Speaking of that speaking of like,
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: you know, when you start getting like a screw this area.
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: We've been walking forever, haven't seen anything or whatever. One
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: of my biggest challenges when it comes to shed hunting
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: is on those days or those long periods of time
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: where you're not finding anything. So like you've walked ten hours,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: you've walked from seven in the morning, until five at
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: night or whatever it is, and you've just put miles
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: on the boots and you haven't found a thing. And like,
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: at least for me, after so many I don't know,
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: after a certain period of time, five six, seven hours
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: somewhere around there, I start getting this voice in the
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: back of my head that starts getting me a little
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: frustrated or you know, stressed out that you're not gonna
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: find anything at all. You drove all the way to
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: Iowa and you're not gonna come home with a single antler,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And it gets it's it gets a
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: little bit hard sometimes to focus or stay positive. Um.
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: And I don't think I'm the only one that feels
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: that way. I've seen a lot of my other buddies
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: get frustrated or stressed out if things aren't going their way. Um,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: Do either one of you guys have any advice for
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: keeping keeping focused and having a positive attitude during shedding,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: Because if I found anything, it's that one of the
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: most important things to be successful as a shed hunter
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: is to maintain that positive attitude and focus because kind
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: of just like deer hunting, right, it's it always seems
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: to be right when you least expect it, when you've
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: been going forever and haven't found anything and think you'll
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: never find anything. If you end up being paying attention,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: that will be the chance you have to actually find
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: the big one. I've found that to be true. Have
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: either one of you guys internally developed some kind of
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: way to just stay positive or or do you guys
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: have the same issues I've had in the pastor probably
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: just changing it up if you started getting getting down
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: or having a bad streak. Usually just changing a change
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: of scenery helps tremendously. But there's been times when you
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: can walk certain properties and walcom and walk and walk
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: on the deer side everywhere. It's so discouraging because you're
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: not finding anything. And a lot of times the best
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: thing to do is just change it up instead of,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: you know, to keep walking and and maybe it starts
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: slacking on, you know, like you're searching and stuff like that,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: because i know I've I've gotten in, i know I've
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: gotten bummed out and discourage a lot of times, and
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure I've walked past a ton of sheds
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: because of that. So I would always say, just change
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: it up and just go somewhere else and do something different.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: That's a that's what I would usually do. Yeah, what
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: about your doing? I'm always thinking about I'm I'm It's
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: like in my brains running in at two different speeds.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: I have my shed hunting speed where I'm looking for
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: the characteristics of an antler the entire time. But then
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: I'm also start, you know, I start to look up
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: in the sky, like I'm looking for trees to potentially
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: if I see like a scraper. U I'm like, okay,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: well I'm gonna I start looking up and I I
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: switched my focus from shed hunting to deer hunting. And
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: then I got to refocused and be like, okay, well
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: you've walked fifty yards with your head in the sky.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: You're not gonna find any you know, you're not gonna
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: find anything or um or I you know, life is
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: busy these days. So I start, you know, you're thinking
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: about something that's completely not deer hunting or related. But
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's one reason I really like shed hunting
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: is for the pure fact to get outside, stretch your
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: legs and just lose yourself and you're not you're not
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: really thinking about anything for per se putting a lot
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: of energy and thought process to one particular thing. It's
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: just you're walking and it's almost like your zone and out.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: It's kind of therapeutic, exactly. Yeah, I you know, to
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: to I number one, I've definitely done the same thing
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: you've done. Dan. I always try to tell myself not
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: to do that, because, like you said, it's it's really
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: easy to walk by a shed if you're staring at
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: rubs and trees for potential tree stands. But it's hard
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: not to given the fact that you know where our
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: brains are always turned to deer hunting mode, trying to
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: think of whorse we hunt, whorse we hang, all that
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Um. But another small thing that helps
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: me sometimes is just taking not even necessarily changing scenery,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: although I agree with you Ross, I think that helps
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: a lot. Also, just like taking a break, like if
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: you're just like bumming out, like say, okay, you know,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: let's take fifteen minutes, sit on a log, have a
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: snack during some water. Just even a small thing like
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: that has a way of just kind of refocusing and
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: putting a pet back in your step after just taking
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: some time away from constantly scanning for sheds. And just
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: joking with your buddies and stuff. Um, it always seems
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: for me that I end up having that success after
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: a little break like that just kind of gives me
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: that extra burst, I suppose. So what what about you know,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: tips for just spotting sheds. I've heard a lot of
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: different things, different types of advice for actually just being
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: able to see these things. Um, do you have any
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: any advice? Have you found anything to help you ross
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: just in being able to see or spot more sheds? Man?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: I you know, I don't know. I just over the
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: over the years, you just get get the hang of
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: knowing what to look for. No, I don't know that
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: I have like any advice for spotting them necessarily. UM,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: maybe Dan has some some are better ideas than I do.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: I think I would. I can't say in like the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: best at spotting sheds, you know, because then I kind
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: of have a d D when I'm in the woods
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: and Kendall's I've kind of even been standing next to
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: sheds before when Kendall points them out at my feet,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: So if that that shows a thing, But I, I, uh, yeah,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: spotting sheds, I don't, I don't know. You can you
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: can just take an antler with you. Sometimes you can
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: throw it out in front of you and you can
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: just kind of see how lands and get an idea
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: of how it looks and stuff like that. And I know,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: I know Kendall and I have in the past, you know,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: even when we train our dogs, we'll put out I'll
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: put up some sheds and Kendall will you know, she'll
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: maybe but waiting with the dog, and then we'll let
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: the work for him, and Kendall kind of has to
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: get the hang of spotting them too. And or we'll
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: throw the the shed out in front of us when
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: we're walking and kind of get an idea of how
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: it looks, and you can practice, you know, you know
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: how ladies and spotting out in front of and stuff
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: like that. But but I don't know. Besides that, I
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: don't nor if I don't really have too many tips
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: as far as spotting them, I would say, I don't
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: know what about you, Dan, I just look for curves,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: like I don't know. It's hard, you know, it's it's
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: I think it's more difficult when their times up trying
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: to you know, it depends on where they're at, if
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: they're in grass or but if you really look at
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: the surrounding of where a shed falls, and if it's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I guess big enough to where the times are sticking up,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: you'll notice that it doesn't match anything that surrounds it
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: unless it's like a darker chocolate colored rack. I mean
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: the lines of the shed or a little curved or
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: or they got some kind of like smoothness roundness to
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: it where everything else is completely flat or straight, or
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the grasses. You know, it never really nothing really in
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: the timber grows really like curved or smooth. So for me,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: it's easier for me to find an antler with times
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: down because that main beam um just really gives it away.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: But when it's time times up, it gives me, you know,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: a little bit more problems. But I still really, I
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: still think that if you yeah, and it just takes
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: it's one of those things where it just takes time
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: time in years of experience doing it, that you can't beat.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like with with actually trying to spot deer.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: I always say, you know, as a young deer hunter,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: you know, I was out there trying to spot a
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: whole deer. I'd be out there skanning the woods looking
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: for an entire dear body, and that rarely, rarely ever happens.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Many times it's actually you spot an ear, or you
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: spot an eye, or you spot the white patch on
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: a throat or a flick of a tail. It's all
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: about spotting these little pieces of a deer or like
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: the flat horizontal back of the deer that stands out
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: within a forest. Um. And that's kind of how I
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: approached shed hunting, like you kind of alluded to, Dan,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: It's about spotting the certain unique aspects of an antler
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: that are different than the surroundings. So, like you said,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: the you know, the smoothness of an antler, or the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: unique curvature the antlers seem to have. Another thing that
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: always stands out to me is like the parallel. You know,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: if you've got like a three point side where there's
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: three times sticking up. You know, typically in nature you
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: don't see something that has three things all kind of
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: going at the same angle. Just like that. That kind
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: of stands out for me. Um. So, yeah, that's definitely
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: something I would recommend, is is trying to look for
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: pieces and parts of antlers and uh, not necessarily focus
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: on trying to see an entire antler, because lots of
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: times you're just not gonna see that. It'll be, you know,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: something poking up over some leaves, or that you know,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: that little shine in the middle of a pile of
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: brambles or whatever. Um another thing that hasn't well. I'm
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: not sure if it's ever worked for me personally, but
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: I've always tried it, and I know other people has worked.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: For our friend Peter Ross. One time we were out
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: there shed hunting, the three of us and Corey and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: Kendall and maybe someone else um, and Peter walks in
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: to a cornfield and hadn't seen anything, and then he said, hey,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that thing where I changed my perspective
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: and he knelt down on the ground to look, and
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, just by kneeling, he all
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: of a sudden spotted the shed that he didn't see otherwise.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: So I think that's actually a good idea, just changing
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: how you're looking at the area, like either getting up
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: high on something or getting down low, or turning around
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: and looking behind you. You know, you scanned the area
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: walking forward and you didn't see anything, but if you
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: turn around and look where you came from, sometimes you'll
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: spot a shed that you wouldn't have seen going the
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: other way. UM. So those are a few things I've seen.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: Help um just pick out some of those sheds that
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: you might not normally find. But to to your point, Dan,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of it just comes down to experience and
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: just developing that eye for it. It's it's becomes kind of,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: you know, uh, subconscious. You don't even think about it,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: just your brain instantly connects a certain shape or color
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: to a shed and then before you know it, you
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: you yell shed before you even really process the fact
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: that there's an antler, it just happens. Bingo bengo, Bingo bengo.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: There's there's nothing better than than hearing someone yell out
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: while you're shed hunting, or hopefully it's you find yelling
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: out and seeing that ship that is that is an
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: awesome feeling. So I don't know, Dan, do you have
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: any other questions for Ross or any other shed hunting
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: tips that we haven't covered yet that we should. It's
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: it's not really I guess it's more of an You
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: said your wife is pregnant right now? Yes, she is
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: doing April okay? Is she? And is she still packing?
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: On the miles with you right now. Oh yeah, she's yep,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: she's thirty three weeks and and uh, she's still walking
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: with me. So we're gonna still try to get in
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: as much as we can the next couple of weeks,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: the next few weeks, so she finds I mean, you've
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: got to come over and pick him up for No,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: she doesn't. She does really well. She's she can't go
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: quite as far as she used to, but she does
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: pretty pretty well. So it's been a lot of fun.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: I'm glad she got to. She loves shed hunting as
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: much as I do, so un glad she got to
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: enjoy some of it so far this year. And I
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: know that, I know the little one is going to
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: going to be finding some sheds that at a very
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: early age too. They'll be they'll be tagging along. That's
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: gonna be one lucky kid. He or she is being
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: born into a great white tail family. So I'm sure
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: they're gonna enjoy some great shed hunting and deer hunting
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: considering all the spots that you hunt and shed hunt.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: And I I certainly wouldn't mind being your kid, Ross,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: Will you adopt me? Yeah? So that's why I moved
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: on over the love Deer. Yeah. And you you you
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: could easily do that too, Mark. You know, I was
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: just gonna say, I was just gonna say you never
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: failed to mind me that I certainly couldn't move out there,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: which which I think about a lot, that's for sure.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: Just moved to north northwest Hella right there next to Minnesota, right, okay, yeah,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: really close, very right on the border. You can have
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: both states perfect. Perfect. So so here's my final question
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: for your Ross and and Youtuo Dan. Do you remember
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: your best day of shed hunting ever? And if so,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: tell me about that day. Ross? Can you think of that?
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: Do you have your best day top of mind? Yeah?
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: The best day was I say, the best weekend was
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: when you were down. That was awesome. That was an
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: awesome wee can we we did awesome that weekend. The
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: best day was last year, um kind of and I
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: had this spot we called the Glory Hole. That good.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: It's awesome and uh so so isn't in a truck stop?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: Was it? But it's good? H So? Yeah, we last year.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: And I guess one of my tips to since this
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: story has come up would be if people are looking
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: for places to look for sheds. You don't think you
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: have to be by timber. I don't think you have
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: to be by any cover woods because gear travel a
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: long ways at night sometimes and they'll even for some reason,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know exactly why, they'll bypass. There might be
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: a timber where they're betting. They'll bet in that timber
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: and they'll walk through, you know, a huge cornfield that
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: has plenty of waste, plenty of corn, fined tafeeda. They'll
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: travel through that cornfield to reach some different destination field.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: For some reason, they do it year after year after year,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: and I don't know why they do that. But there's
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: the Glory Hole and it's in the middle of the
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: middle of a couple of rows. There's no timber anywhere nearby.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: But just from getting to know the area of pretty
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: well and and learning it um a lot of the
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: deer travel proof. I mean they travel like a mile
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: maybe even some of these deer traveling and further than
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: that to get to this this cornfield. It's just like
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: a destination corn field. So last year we walked it
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: in the in the one afternoon. It was a great afternoon.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: It was sunny, which isn't ideal for fund sheds obviously,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: but it was it was warm, one of those days
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: where it's in March and you'll still get a sunburned.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: And we walked and walked and walked, and uh, we
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: just for picking up shed after shed after shed to
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: the point where it got to be mid day. We
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: had to walk back to the truck, dump all our sheds,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: eat some lunch, and then head back out, so we
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: had some hands that were free and then have to
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: carry as many things because the arms were getting tired,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: headed back out, picked up more sheds, and uh, that
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: day we ended up finding fifteen in one day, and
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: it was it was an awesome day and we had
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: to put in our work for like we walked. I
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: bet you man, I don't know how many miles we walked.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: UFI I walked eight miles. I would say it back
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: and forth, all this stuff, but it was it was
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: an awesome day. And uh, hopefully we're gonna walk the
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: glory hole. We're gonna walk the glory hole next this
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: coming Sunday, I think. And then um, it's beans though,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: but then the next year it's hopefully we'll repeat itself
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: and it will be another good day So that was
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: my That was my best day. How come Ross, how
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: come you never take me in court of the glory hole?
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know? Yeah, the only Yeah, okay, and I
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: know you got your sponse. Oh yeah, you guys are
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: more than what I'm gonna walk it Sunday, but you're
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: more than We'll all welcome to walk it the second time. Okay, Okay?
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: What about what about you? Dan? Do you have? Do
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: you have a day that stands out above all the rest? Yeah?
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: I tell you one of my best days I've ever
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: pad was I left work at about two o'clock and
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: it was probably in hour and a half shed hunt
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: and it was this like a peninsula that sticks out
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: into a corn field where the the deer come out
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: of this this bigger chunk of timber and this peninsula
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: kind of jets into a corn field. And I I
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: only walked for probably an hour and a half and
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: you know, got down there, got an hour and a
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: half walk in before um I had to head back
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: home because I was gonna shed hunt the entire next day.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: But I walked in and I found like my second
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: or big second or third biggest shed I've ever found,
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: and my biggest match shed, my biggest match set that
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: I've ever found, both in the same same walk, within
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: forty minutes of each other. And then I found one
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: other smaller shed, but as far as most amount of
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: inches and one walk that by far, I was like
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: two thousand and thirteen. I think, nice, that's that's pretty
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: good find some big ones like that. Yeah, so it was.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: It was a fun It was a fun day just
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: because it was such a short walk. It was like boom,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: you know, ten fifty minutes later, boom, ten fifty minutes later.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: That that's awesome. Yeah, So I gotta gotta appreciate those
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: days because they don't come too often for most of
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: us at least, that's right. Yeah. I still haven't had
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: any like crazy awesome day. Um. I think the most
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: I've ever found in a day was one of those.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: Maybe that year two years ago with you Ross again,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: I think I think maybe I pulled like four or
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: five that day. Um, that's probably my best day. But
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: my my day with you Dan where I well, the
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: day before I fell through the ice into a river,
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: and then the next day I found my biggest show.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: That was a pretty good trip. That one stands out
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: for me too, so yeah, good times, that's for sure. Well, uh,
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking I'm thinking we should wrap this up so Ross,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: we appreciate you joining us here on the show to
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: share your shed hunting expertise and all that. And uh,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: I hope one of these days that the three of
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: us can get together and do a shed hunt at
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: some point. Wouln't that be a good good idea? Sounds
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: good to me? Oh yeah, of course, looking forward to
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: to Uh, you guys coming down to here soon and
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: get not walking and be a good time. Absolutely, I'm
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for you know, but more more more for
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: the rest of us. You never know, stuff up, Yeah, definitely,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: all right, Ross, Well, thanks so much. We'll we'll hopefully
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: bring on next time after we all found a whole
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: bunch of sheds on one of these trips in the future.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: Have a good one, Ross, alright, sounds good, I guess.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed that conversation
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: as much as we did. It was just a lot
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: of fun talking sheds with Ross, and I gotta be honest,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: it's got me pretty fired up to start walking. So
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: I'll actually be heading out this Saturday and I'm pretty
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: pumped now. Before we do wrap things up, though, we
• 1:16:03
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• 1:16:05
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• 1:16:08
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• 1:16:12
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• 1:16:14
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• 1:16:17
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• 1:16:19
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• 1:16:22
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• 1:16:36
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• 1:16:38
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• 1:16:41
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• 1:16:44
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• 1:16:47
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• 1:16:50
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• 1:16:54
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• 1:16:58
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• 1:17:21
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• 1:17:23
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• 1:17:25
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• 1:17:42
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• 1:17:44
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• 1:17:48
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