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Ep. 448: Rut Fresh Radio 9/1/21 · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Wired to Hunt's rut Fresh Radio, bringing you
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Speaker 1: the latest reports from the White Tailed Woods and now
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Speaker 1: your host, Spencer new Hearth. Welcome to Wired to Hunt's
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Speaker 1: rut Fresh Radio powered by First Light. I have Spencer
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Speaker 1: new Hearth and this is the kickoff episode to season
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Speaker 1: six of the miniseries. Welcome to episode four of the
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Speaker 1: Wired Hunt podcast. And this is the first episode of
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Speaker 1: season six of our rut Fresh Radio miniseries six seasons. Mark,
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Speaker 1: can you believe it? It's crazy. I can't believe what
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Speaker 1: we've been doing this that long. We're we're getting old,
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Speaker 1: my friend. Yeah, And the same conversation happened last s
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Speaker 1: at the beginning, it was like, is it season five? No,
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Speaker 1: now it's season four. Now it's season five, and it
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Speaker 1: was the same sort of realization. So season six, September
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Speaker 1: one is when this episode will drop. And this is
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Speaker 1: the earliest we have ever released a rut Fresh Radio episode. Um,
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Speaker 1: if you are not familiar with the podcast, this is
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Speaker 1: something that's going to come out every single Wednesday from
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Speaker 1: here until the end of one and on a traditional episode,
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Speaker 1: which this is not, you're going to hear a little
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Speaker 1: intro from Mark and I where we talk about what
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Speaker 1: we've seen in the woods recently and maybe some historical
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Speaker 1: patterns that we've noticed around this time of year. And
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Speaker 1: then you're gonna get interviews from four or five white
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Speaker 1: tail hunting experts, from voices that you're probably familiar with
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Speaker 1: um that span across the country, and you're gonna hear
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Speaker 1: what they've seen for the last week and what their
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Speaker 1: preview of the haunting activity to come is and some
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Speaker 1: of the things that you're gonna here talks about our
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Speaker 1: moon phases, weather patterns, crop status, browse status, hunting pressure signmaking,
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Speaker 1: anything that a whitetail hunter cares about. And you're gonna
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Speaker 1: hear from public land hunters and private land managers and
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Speaker 1: bow hunters and gun hunters and aggressive hunters and patient
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Speaker 1: hunters and mobile hunters in a tree and still hunters
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Speaker 1: on the ground and traveling hunters that are out to
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Speaker 1: state and those that are on their own turf. The
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Speaker 1: idea is to like bring you the most timely deer
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Speaker 1: reports available anywhere in our space. And this is just
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Speaker 1: you know, a preview of what's to come for the
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Speaker 1: week and what these hunters have already seen. And we're
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Speaker 1: gonna wrap the whole thing up in twenty five minutes,
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Speaker 1: so you can listen to this on your lunch break
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Speaker 1: at work, or on your commute to work, or wherever
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Speaker 1: you can find just twenty five minutes in your weekly schedule.
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Speaker 1: Mark anything to add to to what rout Fresh is, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would just add my goal every week will be
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Speaker 1: too stress you out by using some kind of law
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Speaker 1: drawn story to really really push it tight to that minute.
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Speaker 1: Let it and see if I can stretch out longer.
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Speaker 1: But I think you nailed it. I think you nailed that.
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Speaker 1: We we want to help people with in the field
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Speaker 1: insights that they can put into action themselves the very
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Speaker 1: next day. And uh and that's what we've been doing
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Speaker 1: now for five years, and this will be the sixth.
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Speaker 1: And I think the one thing that's a little bit
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Speaker 1: different this year, Spencer, that you know, of course, you know,
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Speaker 1: is I've got a crazier than usual travel schedule this year.
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Speaker 1: I've got nine out of state hunts, So I think
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be gone eight or nine weeks this fall
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Speaker 1: and sometimes completely off the grid for a long period
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Speaker 1: of time. So I think there's gonna be more weeks
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Speaker 1: than usual that I'm just not going to be able
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Speaker 1: to join you for the intro, so you have the
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Speaker 1: keys to the castle. My friend. I'm gonna let you
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Speaker 1: run with this h as much as you want, and
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Speaker 1: I'll be here when I can be there. If not, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure you will handle these episodes beautifully.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you can bring a friend along or two as well,
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, the show will go on. So
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Speaker 1: I'm excited that we're in a position now that you
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Speaker 1: you have put together a beautiful a beautiful thing here
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Speaker 1: with Refresh Radio Spencer, and I know that the listeners
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Speaker 1: out there know you and are excited to hear from
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Speaker 1: every week. So that's the only thing that's really different. Otherwise,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna keep on getting great up to date from
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Speaker 1: the Fields reports, and uh we don't have those today,
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Speaker 1: they'll do a spencer today. Is a little bit different
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Speaker 1: because we are you know, seasons have only opened maybe
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Speaker 1: today or yesterday or tomorrow in the states that are
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Speaker 1: opening this week. But I did feel like, shoot for
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Speaker 1: people that do have a season right now at hate
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Speaker 1: Ken not to have anything for him, you know. Yeah, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're recording this on August thirty one, and I feel
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Speaker 1: like some of the only states open the country an
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Speaker 1: hour maybe, Like there's a very early season in Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: very early see in South Carolina. Florida of course has
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Speaker 1: has a weird brought that starts earlier than the rest
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Speaker 1: of the country. Uh. But then the day that this
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Speaker 1: episode drop September one, you have a whole bunch of
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Speaker 1: states west of the Missouri River that are opening. Um,
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Speaker 1: you have like Kentucky that opens, So this is a
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Speaker 1: podcast for them. What you're gonna miss on this episode, Like,
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Speaker 1: like we've said, you're not getting those interviews, Um, so
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna get these one to ten questions that
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Speaker 1: I ask everybody, and what that is At the beginning
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Speaker 1: of every interview I ask every guess, I say, in
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Speaker 1: the last week or so, what has been the buck
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Speaker 1: activity on a scale of one to ten? And to
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Speaker 1: the end of the interview, I asked the same question
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Speaker 1: this coming week, what do you predict the activity is
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Speaker 1: going to be on a scale of one to ten.
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Speaker 1: So hopefully if you're sort of passively listening to this episode,
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Speaker 1: you're in your garage working on some wrenches or something,
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Speaker 1: you pipe up for those two questions. UM, so you
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Speaker 1: can either get excited or feel pessimistic about the movement
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Speaker 1: to come. How do you you how do you see
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Speaker 1: people using this on a week to week basis, Spenser,
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Speaker 1: Because we've got talked to a lot of people, and
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Speaker 1: we've got to hear stories and things. And when I
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Speaker 1: hear that, you know, when I listened myself, and I
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Speaker 1: listened oftentimes when the new episodes dropped to hear all
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Speaker 1: the interviews that you do, um and it often it
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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily make me feel pessimistic if I feel if
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Speaker 1: we hear bad reports and people, but it does change
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Speaker 1: my plans a little bit, you know, if maybe you
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Speaker 1: know there might be something new coming down the road
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Speaker 1: in the forecast, or there might be something you know,
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Speaker 1: when we get in October and we're talking about prerode
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Speaker 1: activity things and it might just be the little edge
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Speaker 1: I need to say, you know what, I do want
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Speaker 1: to get aggressive and jump in on this crazy thing
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Speaker 1: I was gonna do, or maybe you know what everyone
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Speaker 1: west to me over the last couple of days, we've
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Speaker 1: been seeing a really slow activity. Maybe I should pull
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Speaker 1: back and just hunt does and the edges tomorrow. It's
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. It just kind of slides my
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Speaker 1: reactions a little but this way or that, or sometimes
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Speaker 1: they'll spark a little idea that gives me this kind
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Speaker 1: of creative you know, push to try something new or
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Speaker 1: to consider this idea that so and so recommended. Um, well,
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Speaker 1: are there any other ways you've been seeing the stuff
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Speaker 1: being useful for you or your listeners now and that's
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Speaker 1: you put it really well there, Mark Um. Pessimism probably
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Speaker 1: isn't the right word for it. It's probably just adjusting
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Speaker 1: your hunting style for what's to come. If if it
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Speaker 1: is uh an episode that drops on October and you
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Speaker 1: have yet to be in the woods this fall, but
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Speaker 1: you are going to be in the woods on October
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Speaker 1: fifte and sixteenth and seventeen, hopefully what you hear from
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Speaker 1: our guests can give you uh like an idea of
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Speaker 1: what you should be doing this weekend. If you should
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Speaker 1: be really aggressive and you should be hunting and cover
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Speaker 1: around acorns or um, the weather has been stagnant um
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Speaker 1: and and it's going to be even hotter this coming weekend,
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Speaker 1: and so maybe you should do something untraditional like hunting
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Speaker 1: near water, or you should play it safe and hunting
8:02
Speaker 1: observation stand and sort of get ready for pre rout
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Speaker 1: that's to come in a few weeks. So you're right,
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Speaker 1: it's not it's not so much about being optimistic and pessimistic.
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Speaker 1: It's just about like appropriately adjusting your hunting style. Um.
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Speaker 1: And so, because we don't have these four guests he
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Speaker 1: talked to you you this week, I sort of went back
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Speaker 1: and looked at what we've maybe heard from in other
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Speaker 1: early September episodes and what sort of success is we've
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Speaker 1: seen with those folks. And there was one thing that
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Speaker 1: really jumped out to me when I was talking to
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Speaker 1: hunters that were successful, whether it was in North Dakota
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Speaker 1: or Kentucky or Nebraska. Um, and one of them is
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Speaker 1: that they rarely entered the woods blind on September one
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Speaker 1: and then had success. UM. We we published an article
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Speaker 1: recently on the media dot com by Sam Lungri and
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Speaker 1: that talked about how to kill a bowl elk on
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Speaker 1: opening day. We also published an article from Dylan Tramp
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Speaker 1: about how to kill a white tail bucking opening day.
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Speaker 1: And it was really eye opening that the sentiment from
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Speaker 1: sort of both of them was like, you have to
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Speaker 1: know where the bulls and the box are. It's this
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Speaker 1: isn't the rout, this isn't like November six where you
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Speaker 1: can enter the woods and just like pick up on
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Speaker 1: some fresh sign and then have really good odds at
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Speaker 1: killing a deer. You need to have some intel, whether
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Speaker 1: that's from boots on the ground scouting or long distance
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Speaker 1: glassing or trail cameras or just knowing historical patterns. That
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Speaker 1: is like sort of the difference maker this time of
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Speaker 1: year between somebody like having good bucks in the area
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Speaker 1: and they kill one or they don't. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: you're right. This is the time for surgical strikes. This
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Speaker 1: is the time for careful thought through hunts. You know,
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Speaker 1: going in for a reason to a spot for a reason,
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Speaker 1: with a plan in place, expecting a specific movement pattern
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Speaker 1: that's definitely going to give you your best chance. There's
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Speaker 1: there's very little that willynilly movement right now. Deer doing
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Speaker 1: things and specific places for specific reasons, and you gotta
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Speaker 1: know that. You gotta know where that's at. And if
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Speaker 1: you don't know where that's that when you start your hunt,
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Speaker 1: I think you need to spend some time on the
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Speaker 1: front and figuring that out. So for example, I'm out
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Speaker 1: here on an early season white till hot myself right now,
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Speaker 1: which which I'll talk a lot more about next week.
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Speaker 1: But the first day we got into this area, we
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Speaker 1: weren't hunting, we were scouting. We got out and last
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Speaker 1: and observed, and then the next day we went in
10:29
Speaker 1: slipped in some spots and are hanging cameras. So it's
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Speaker 1: all about getting that intail so that we can start
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Speaker 1: making thoughtful strikes. So make a really good point, I
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Speaker 1: think that is that's key. And you know the great
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Speaker 1: thing about these really really early seasons, and really a
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Speaker 1: great team about any opening day is that these deer
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Speaker 1: have not been pressured for months and months and months, right,
10:50
Speaker 1: so they are operating normally. But that will only last
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Speaker 1: so long. So you get a handful of hunts before
10:55
Speaker 1: they catch onto you. So you want to make sure
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Speaker 1: those first few hunts, those first few days, you know,
11:00
Speaker 1: are are smart there can take an advantage of them,
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Speaker 1: because you know, three or four or five days in
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they know, hey we're getting hunted.
11:09
Speaker 1: Time switch it up. So be smart with those first
11:12
Speaker 1: times and take advantage of these patterns that are still there. Yeah,
11:17
Speaker 1: and another common denominator from the early September rut fresh
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Speaker 1: successful hunts that we've talked about and this will come
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Speaker 1: as surprise, and nobody that food was a common denominator. Um.
11:30
Speaker 1: Of course, you have your obvious food sources that any
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Speaker 1: hunter can identify, like corn or beans or hay fields.
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Speaker 1: But what are maybe some of the less obvious food
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Speaker 1: sources Mark Um, that hunter should be looking for this
11:42
Speaker 1: time of year. You know, it's so location dependent. There's
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Speaker 1: not any one thing. But I do think a very
11:50
Speaker 1: generality or a generality to keep in mind is simply
11:54
Speaker 1: the importance of brows and the importance of native vegetation.
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Speaker 1: You know, there's some places that I remember one year
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Speaker 1: on a September hunt. Um, I was assuming that the
12:04
Speaker 1: deer would be keen on alfalfa fields, but they're pretty
12:07
Speaker 1: far away, and I saw there'd be this big, long
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Speaker 1: travel pattern back and forth thoself alfa fields. What turned
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Speaker 1: out to be the case is that there was actually
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Speaker 1: this really lush food right along the river bottom, right
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Speaker 1: on the river's edge, and more deer we're just going
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Speaker 1: and hang out right on the river edge and feeding
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Speaker 1: on that vegetation, then traveling half a mile to the alfalfa.
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Speaker 1: So that was all of a sudden something I didn't
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Speaker 1: really pick up until the end of the trip. But
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Speaker 1: once I did, well, here it is, here's the bed
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Speaker 1: defeed pattern. They're just traveling right to the edge of
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Speaker 1: the water and walking along and feeding on that. So
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Speaker 1: it's just something to keep an eye on, find out,
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Speaker 1: you know, watch the deer, watch what they're doing, observed,
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Speaker 1: and take notice of that. If there's certain types of
12:47
Speaker 1: you know, there's certain types of things they're browsing on
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Speaker 1: more than others, go take a look at that the
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Speaker 1: next day and see if that's something you can key
12:54
Speaker 1: in on elsewhere. Or little openings in the timber, little
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Speaker 1: spots for more stun that gets down there, and there's
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Speaker 1: a diverse mix of vegetation. Those are simple things, especially
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Speaker 1: if crops fields are not available in your spot in
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Speaker 1: your area that are worth Keevan tabs them because that's
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Speaker 1: sometimes the best too available. Another thing which super dependent
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Speaker 1: on what's going on in your area, but any kind
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Speaker 1: of mass tree, fruit, trees, per simmons, if there's anything
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Speaker 1: that's dropping early, um, you know, obviously key in on
13:25
Speaker 1: something along lines those lives, but that would have to
13:27
Speaker 1: be you know, what's happening in Florida will be very
13:29
Speaker 1: different that what's happening Kentucky, what's really very different than
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Speaker 1: what's in North Dakota. So the key thing I think
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Speaker 1: is be watching and be very very attentive to what
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Speaker 1: those deer feeding on. So when you're glassing or if
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Speaker 1: you've got a camera that's overlooking the field, pay attention
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Speaker 1: to what those deer are keying in on right now.
13:50
Speaker 1: Once you know that, then that's what you need to
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Speaker 1: key on. But you got to connect those two dots. Yeah. Um,
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Speaker 1: there's just a ton of food available right now. And
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite articles that we've published so far
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Speaker 1: in something you wrote Mark, it was ten natural food
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Speaker 1: sources every deer hunter should know and if you are
14:08
Speaker 1: a white tail hunter in September October, you should go
14:10
Speaker 1: check that out. Um, because everything in there, or most
14:15
Speaker 1: of this stuff and there is relevant to hunters across
14:17
Speaker 1: the country. They're trying to kill a white tail. There's
14:19
Speaker 1: a ton of options right now, so it's worth knowing
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Speaker 1: what those options are besides the corn, soybeans and hay fields. Yeah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I will say you know, if you do have fields,
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Speaker 1: it's it's pretty hard to beat alfalfa or clover right now.
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Speaker 1: Or if you've got green soybeans, I mean, if you
14:40
Speaker 1: do have those, just don't forget about how effective those
14:43
Speaker 1: can be. Yeah, and then the the third um factor
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Speaker 1: that's come up in early September successful haunts that we've
14:52
Speaker 1: talked about in the past on Red Fresh Radio, and
14:55
Speaker 1: this has been less of a theme, but it's still
14:56
Speaker 1: something to consider, especially this year. But that's hunting water.
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Speaker 1: This is specifically relevant for hunters in the Dakotas or Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho,
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Speaker 1: which are also all states that have early September openers.
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Speaker 1: But if you look at the drought monitor map for
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Speaker 1: every single one of those states, pretty much anything west
15:18
Speaker 1: of the Mississippi is in like a D three or
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Speaker 1: a D four level drought, which is like extreme level droughts.
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Speaker 1: And so maybe water hasn't really been part of your
15:30
Speaker 1: game plan in the past when you're hunting in early
15:33
Speaker 1: September to early October, but for hunters in that part
15:36
Speaker 1: of the country, that should absolutely be part of the
15:39
Speaker 1: playbook this year. You brought up a really good point
15:43
Speaker 1: where that drought, I mean, water can be so the
15:48
Speaker 1: effectiveness of hunting water can be so dependent on the
15:51
Speaker 1: availability of it, right, And so when it's a rare
15:53
Speaker 1: commopity all of a sudden really focuses that movement to
15:56
Speaker 1: the few places where its found. So our mutual friend
16:00
Speaker 1: Tony Peterson and uh fellow water to Hunt podcaster, actually
16:04
Speaker 1: is doing a series the talking about water right now
16:07
Speaker 1: on his Foundations miniseries. So if folks haven't been listening
16:11
Speaker 1: to that, make sure you pull up the episodes of Foundations,
16:14
Speaker 1: which to come out every Tuesday and this month, I
16:18
Speaker 1: think this week and last week or this weekend, next
16:21
Speaker 1: week or come out here soon. He's got several episodes
16:24
Speaker 1: all about this very topic. So how to take advantage
16:26
Speaker 1: of hunting water, standing water, moving water, all that kind
16:30
Speaker 1: of stuff. So if you want to deep dive on
16:32
Speaker 1: that aspect, tune into that because Tony is a master
16:35
Speaker 1: using water, especially at early season public Land White Till Hunts,
16:38
Speaker 1: He's really figured it out. Yeah, and a spoiler, but
16:41
Speaker 1: this is something that's going to be a theme for
16:44
Speaker 1: probably every episode going forward of Rod Fresh this year.
16:47
Speaker 1: If you hunt left of the Mississippi River, Um, you're
16:51
Speaker 1: probably dealing with this drought that makes an impact right
16:54
Speaker 1: now where water sources are limited. In a few weeks
16:56
Speaker 1: from now, we're probably going to know what the damage
16:59
Speaker 1: has banned from e h D. A few weeks after that,
17:02
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about how it's been a really
17:04
Speaker 1: early harvest because these places didn't get a lot of rain. Um.
17:08
Speaker 1: So that's something that, uh, despite deer huntings, maybe deer
17:12
Speaker 1: hunters maybe not paying attention to the weather in June, July, August,
17:15
Speaker 1: it's gonna have an impact for the rest of the fall. Yeah. Yeah,
17:20
Speaker 1: it's a really really interesting point. And now that we've
17:23
Speaker 1: kind of done this so many years, we can sort
17:25
Speaker 1: of see how there are those trickled own effects where
17:29
Speaker 1: one thing impacts the whole season kind of unexpectedly. But
17:33
Speaker 1: now we're can I can see those patterns now you
17:35
Speaker 1: bring that up. It's interesting. Yeah. And so looking specifically
17:39
Speaker 1: at the forecast for this weekend, I'm not seeing anything
17:43
Speaker 1: out of the ordinary for weather. It's not gonna be
17:45
Speaker 1: really hot, so I can be really cold for in
17:47
Speaker 1: these states that have the early September opener. But I
17:50
Speaker 1: have noticed like really erratic wind directions that I normally
17:54
Speaker 1: don't associate with this time of year. Um. And that's
17:57
Speaker 1: something that can really benefit mobile hunters that have the
18:00
Speaker 1: pility to hunt a southwest wind one night tear down
18:02
Speaker 1: and then hunted northeast wind the next night, tear down,
18:04
Speaker 1: then hunting west wind the next night. I know that's
18:07
Speaker 1: the strategy that you're going to be using here, Mark, So, like,
18:10
Speaker 1: what is your early September gear list look like now
18:15
Speaker 1: versus how is it different in October and November specifically
18:19
Speaker 1: with your mobile hunting gear. Yeah, you make a good point. Um,
18:24
Speaker 1: I've noticed the same thing, pretty standard. Pretty um oh,
18:28
Speaker 1: what's the we'd' looking here for? Temperatures that are all
18:31
Speaker 1: kind of average temperatures right now pretty stable as what
18:34
Speaker 1: I'm looking for, but the wind not as much, which
18:36
Speaker 1: is kind of funky. And so yeah, being mobile is
18:39
Speaker 1: a great Um, it's a great tool to have in
18:42
Speaker 1: your toolbox when you have a hunting situation like that.
18:45
Speaker 1: And I am, like I mentioned hunting that style right now.
18:49
Speaker 1: I don't think my gear looks terribly different right now
18:52
Speaker 1: than at other times of the year, with a few exceptions. Um,
18:55
Speaker 1: but you know, the key for me is having a
18:57
Speaker 1: good silent, lightweight pair of tin sticks and some kind
19:02
Speaker 1: of you know, elevated hunting tools. So for me, that
19:05
Speaker 1: means the saddle. Some people would use a mobile tree stamp,
19:08
Speaker 1: but The big thing is just making sure that you
19:10
Speaker 1: have that system dial so being very comfortable with getting
19:14
Speaker 1: up in the tree quietly, quickly, and efficiently. That's something
19:19
Speaker 1: that you know, if you've got to hunt. Come up
19:21
Speaker 1: this weekend and you're listening to this on a Wednesday,
19:23
Speaker 1: and you plan on being out there on Saturday and
19:26
Speaker 1: you are gonna be hunting mobile, here's one piece of
19:29
Speaker 1: advice I can give you. Take an a half hour
19:33
Speaker 1: tonight or an hour tomorrow and go practice climbing up
19:36
Speaker 1: in a tree in the yard. Do it quietly, do
19:38
Speaker 1: it with all your gear, use the whole thing, and
19:42
Speaker 1: just get the kinks out of your system. Make sure
19:44
Speaker 1: you remember that, oh yeah, I gotta make sure I
19:45
Speaker 1: clip on my stick to my right hip, and don't
19:47
Speaker 1: forget to tie my bowl roper. All these little things
19:50
Speaker 1: I mean for me every year, the first hunt of
19:53
Speaker 1: the year, the first couple of hunts of the year,
19:55
Speaker 1: there's just always something stupid. I forget, something silly that
19:59
Speaker 1: I do wrong. So get a practice run before you
20:02
Speaker 1: start hunting. Make sure that when you get out there
20:05
Speaker 1: on that first hunt, that that first ton is as
20:06
Speaker 1: good as it possibly can be. Because we alluded to earlier.
20:09
Speaker 1: You know, we only get a few first tons of
20:11
Speaker 1: the year, so you want to take advantage of them.
20:14
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm going in there with my lightweight climbing sticks,
20:16
Speaker 1: going there in my sattle. I can slip in, you know,
20:20
Speaker 1: just yesterday, this is what I did on our opening day.
20:22
Speaker 1: We're slipping in quietly and got set up in a
20:25
Speaker 1: brand new spot and didn't turn out the way I wanted.
20:27
Speaker 1: So I pulled everything down after dark and I'm slipping
20:31
Speaker 1: out again. And now today I can set up in
20:33
Speaker 1: a brand new place just based off wind direction, just
20:36
Speaker 1: based on sightings. Um. And you're not beholden to anything.
20:39
Speaker 1: You can constantly be on the best sign with the
20:43
Speaker 1: best wind every single day. It's it's a great way
20:45
Speaker 1: to do it. It is a little extra work, um,
20:49
Speaker 1: but it's one of those things that I always think
20:52
Speaker 1: it's worth it. So highly recommend that mobile system. When
20:55
Speaker 1: you've got wonky wins like this. It's really easy if
20:58
Speaker 1: you're just stuck on per minute sets to say, well,
21:02
Speaker 1: when is not quite right, But I've got that set
21:04
Speaker 1: already set up, so might as we was hunt again. Um.
21:07
Speaker 1: You don't have that temptation when you're constantly adjusting based
21:11
Speaker 1: off what's there with a mobile set up, So highly
21:14
Speaker 1: recommend it. Definitely good tool with this forecast coming up,
21:17
Speaker 1: and you've already been in the field mark and has
21:20
Speaker 1: some intel in a way that most hunters across the
21:23
Speaker 1: country probably don't. So although this isn't the traditional episode
21:27
Speaker 1: of the four guests lineup and talking to hunters from
21:29
Speaker 1: across the nation, I do want to ask you, like,
21:31
Speaker 1: what is your prediction for the coming week on a
21:34
Speaker 1: scale of one to ten for buck movement. Yes, I'm
21:38
Speaker 1: glad we get at least one of these predictions in here. Um.
21:41
Speaker 1: You know, as you mentioned, we have a relatively unexciting forecast,
21:47
Speaker 1: and you know, both in the West where I am,
21:51
Speaker 1: as well as over in Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota.
21:54
Speaker 1: A bunch of these states that checked their forecasts and
21:57
Speaker 1: pretty much everyone has the same thing. Stable temper, sure's
22:00
Speaker 1: kind of average warm stuff, no major precipitation events. UM.
22:06
Speaker 1: So because of that, I'm not super duper. You know,
22:10
Speaker 1: shooting the star is optimistic. I'm kind of the middle
22:13
Speaker 1: of the road right now, So I think it's like
22:14
Speaker 1: a five, five or six. Um. I say that because
22:17
Speaker 1: there's no weather that makes it extra special. But at
22:20
Speaker 1: the same time, it's not bad because this is the
22:22
Speaker 1: beginning of the season and opening days, opening weekends, opening weeks.
22:26
Speaker 1: You know, as we've mentioned, they can really be a
22:28
Speaker 1: great opportunity to catch a deer unaware, a deer still
22:32
Speaker 1: on their major bad to feed pattern, and if you
22:35
Speaker 1: know it, this is a great time to get out
22:37
Speaker 1: there and move. And a lot of times that these
22:39
Speaker 1: deer they're moving a lot in daylight still regardless of
22:42
Speaker 1: how warm it is, because they've been doing that all summer,
22:45
Speaker 1: and until they have a reason to change, you know,
22:48
Speaker 1: hunting pressure, or once we get later into the year,
22:51
Speaker 1: they do start adjusting and reacting to hop whether differently.
22:54
Speaker 1: But right now, I'm not too concerned about being eighty degrees.
22:57
Speaker 1: That's okay. Five days, three eighty degree is you know what.
23:00
Speaker 1: I love a coal front shirt. But I still think
23:03
Speaker 1: I got a chance, and I think everybody else out
23:05
Speaker 1: there does too. So you know, a five or six
23:07
Speaker 1: to get out there, make your own stars and uh
23:11
Speaker 1: get that, get that opening with buckets. Yeah, and you
23:13
Speaker 1: can tell me this is hyperbolic, Mark, but I consider
23:17
Speaker 1: like this first week in September to be maybe like
23:20
Speaker 1: the best stretch for the next eight weeks until we
23:23
Speaker 1: get to like October UM. And this is sort of
23:27
Speaker 1: ignoring the like perfect cold front that might land on
23:31
Speaker 1: October eight um, and like what your crop status is
23:35
Speaker 1: on October fifteenth and stuff like that. But I think
23:39
Speaker 1: this first week in September is like maybe your best
23:42
Speaker 1: shot at a mature buck for potentially like the next
23:45
Speaker 1: two months or so. Yeah, you know, I don't think
23:50
Speaker 1: you're too far off. I think um, I think it
23:53
Speaker 1: really is. And and that same thing could apply to
23:56
Speaker 1: anyone's first week to a degree. Right, whatever the first
23:59
Speaker 1: week you're see in the first few days of your
24:01
Speaker 1: season will be one of your best chances until late October,
24:04
Speaker 1: whether that's now or mid September or a little later
24:07
Speaker 1: in September. But if you do have that first week
24:10
Speaker 1: right now, it is probably the best of the opening
24:13
Speaker 1: weeks because of all things we just talked about. There's
24:17
Speaker 1: there's no better time to catch them on their bed
24:18
Speaker 1: feed pattern. There's no better time to catch them still
24:21
Speaker 1: in those summer kind of stupid phase, or they move
24:24
Speaker 1: as much as they do and they're as active as
24:26
Speaker 1: they are in that rowed up still and unaware and
24:29
Speaker 1: and not too concerned about what's going on. So so yeah,
24:32
Speaker 1: it is. It is a good time to be in
24:34
Speaker 1: the tree. I think a lot of people are gonna
24:36
Speaker 1: pass some success this week despite the kind of blah
24:40
Speaker 1: whether well said, all right, Mark, let's do a preview
24:44
Speaker 1: of the Wired Hunt content that's to come for the
24:48
Speaker 1: rest of the fall. And I am like a big
24:51
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings fan, but when the season ends in like January,
24:54
Speaker 1: I don't usually start listening to Vikings podcast again until
24:58
Speaker 1: like August. And I think there's a lot of hunters
25:00
Speaker 1: that are in the same boat. So maybe we have
25:02
Speaker 1: some listeners that stepped away, uh from listening to hunting
25:05
Speaker 1: podcasts since like December, and they're just now getting back
25:08
Speaker 1: into it and they've maybe missed all the news that
25:11
Speaker 1: we've talked about for the last few months. So what
25:13
Speaker 1: should folks know about for Wired to Hunt this fall?
25:18
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Spencer. First off, shame on anyone who
25:21
Speaker 1: stopped listening until now, but welcome back, um, But you
25:27
Speaker 1: make a great point. Uh, there's been so much man,
25:30
Speaker 1: we as you know. Obviously, we've kind of relaunched Wired
25:33
Speaker 1: to Hunt this year in a big new way, so
25:36
Speaker 1: there's a lot. We've got our own website now of sorts.
25:38
Speaker 1: It's it's the v meat Eater dot com slash wired
25:42
Speaker 1: and that's the Wired to Hunt website homepage now, and
25:44
Speaker 1: there's dozens of new articles, lots and lots and lots
25:48
Speaker 1: of new content from some really great hunters, covering off facets,
25:52
Speaker 1: covering hunting, scouting, management, uh, habitat work, public land, private land,
25:59
Speaker 1: every thing you could think. We've got to cover now.
26:02
Speaker 1: So there's these new articles on the wire to the website.
26:05
Speaker 1: We have the Wired to Hunt Weekly newsletter which comes
26:09
Speaker 1: out every Monday, which has kind of an update for
26:12
Speaker 1: me and then links to the best of our new articles.
26:16
Speaker 1: We relaunched the wire Dunk YouTube channels. We have new
26:19
Speaker 1: how to videos coming out every Monday there which are
26:23
Speaker 1: coming from folks like me, Tony Peterson and guests, guest
26:27
Speaker 1: contributors like Levi Morgan, who just posted one from Levi.
26:30
Speaker 1: He's a like seventeen time world champion archer talking about
26:34
Speaker 1: how he fine tunes his bowl accessories. Tony his covered
26:38
Speaker 1: stuff about staging areas, and I've covered stuff up betting
26:41
Speaker 1: areas recently. And these are short, punchy, helpful how to
26:44
Speaker 1: so definitely check that out. Um, we have a new
26:48
Speaker 1: podcast mini series which I alluded to earlier, which is
26:51
Speaker 1: Tony's Show. So we've gotta we've gotta pack podcast schedule.
26:56
Speaker 1: Every Tuesday is the Foundation's mini series and that's this
27:00
Speaker 1: episode was Tony breaks down one specific foundational whitetail topic
27:06
Speaker 1: in detail and kind of gives you like a college
27:09
Speaker 1: masterclass lecture on that for about fifteen minutes every week
27:13
Speaker 1: every Tuesday, and they're they're great. And then Wednesday, of
27:16
Speaker 1: course is this one the rough Fresh podcast mini series,
27:19
Speaker 1: would you Spencer? And then every Thursday is the main
27:22
Speaker 1: episode with me and my guests in the kind of
27:25
Speaker 1: long form conversations we've traditionally done. So that's the podcast.
27:30
Speaker 1: Those are the videos. Um. You know, of course you
27:34
Speaker 1: are helping manage a lot that's going on with the website,
27:37
Speaker 1: and we've got a lot more contributors there. Um myself,
27:40
Speaker 1: you play newcome Tony. We've added some new contributors people
27:45
Speaker 1: at Bomartonic, John Eberhart, EMILEC. Kantner, uh Andy May, Tony Hansen,
27:50
Speaker 1: El Gilstrom and more. Um, there's a lot, so so yes,
27:55
Speaker 1: in short, be checking out what we've got going on
27:59
Speaker 1: at Wired to Hunt because if you love white tail hunting,
28:02
Speaker 1: we are pumping it out for as a rate that
28:04
Speaker 1: has never been done before. Um, and it's keeping you
28:07
Speaker 1: and me very busy, isn't it. Yeah? And then the
28:11
Speaker 1: Back forty though is over with, So is there something
28:16
Speaker 1: that's like taking its place, mark or anything you can
28:18
Speaker 1: talk about on that front? Yes, good point, Back forty.
28:22
Speaker 1: The Back forty show is done. Um, although I am
28:25
Speaker 1: going out there and helping with some of the new
28:27
Speaker 1: hunter mentorship programs out there. Um, so we're actually gonna
28:30
Speaker 1: do a hunt a couple of hunts this year there
28:33
Speaker 1: where I will be mentoring some new hunters, which would
28:35
Speaker 1: be cool. But yeah, we're actually working on a couple
28:38
Speaker 1: of new shows. UM. Too soon to announce all the details,
28:42
Speaker 1: but I can tell you one of them is going
28:45
Speaker 1: to be filmed this year and released this year, and
28:49
Speaker 1: that is actually gonna feature YouTube. My friend, you and
28:51
Speaker 1: me and a couple of our friends will be going
28:54
Speaker 1: and chasing some running white tails across the country and
28:58
Speaker 1: we will be documenting that for a new show that
29:02
Speaker 1: super excited about that will be coming out later this year.
29:05
Speaker 1: So stay tuned. You will have some some exciting time
29:09
Speaker 1: in the tree or in the field with Spencer new
29:12
Speaker 1: heart to watch very soon. So not only so you
29:15
Speaker 1: get to watch Spencer in his apron took an up
29:18
Speaker 1: tasty coyote me, you can now watch Spencer chasing white
29:21
Speaker 1: tails so big hear my friend, I'm stoked. It's it's
29:25
Speaker 1: the thing I have been most excited about all year
29:28
Speaker 1: from medory content, So I'm really excited to get started
29:32
Speaker 1: on that. But the takeaway messages that there is like
29:34
Speaker 1: an overwhelming amount of Wired Hunt content being made. Um
29:39
Speaker 1: whether you want to read what we have to say,
29:42
Speaker 1: listen to what we have to say, or watch this
29:44
Speaker 1: new stuff. Uh there there is more than ever. And
29:49
Speaker 1: then specific assignments Mark if if you're hitting the woods
29:52
Speaker 1: this weekend, I want you to go to the media
29:55
Speaker 1: dot com backslash Wired and to check out some articles
29:58
Speaker 1: that we have if you are going to be hunting
30:00
Speaker 1: this weekend, we have some really useful material like how
30:03
Speaker 1: to kill an early season buck in September from Tony Peterson,
30:06
Speaker 1: the best setups for killing a Velvet buck from Tony Peterson,
30:09
Speaker 1: how to kill a white tail buck in Opening Day
30:11
Speaker 1: from Dylan Tramp, and how to kill a white tail
30:13
Speaker 1: buck hunting water, which we talked about earlier. Mark, why
30:16
Speaker 1: that's gonna be so relevant again from Tony Peterson. Now,
30:19
Speaker 1: if you don't have an opener this weekend, say you
30:21
Speaker 1: gotta wait like another four or five or six weeks.
30:24
Speaker 1: The hunters that can't hunt quite yet, we have a
30:27
Speaker 1: ton of useful material for you as well, like a
30:30
Speaker 1: Beaumartonic piece on how to how to eat scout big
30:33
Speaker 1: woods for white tails, the best archery advice I've ever
30:37
Speaker 1: gotten from Mark Kenyan, how to chum white tails, which
30:40
Speaker 1: is something that is very seasonal right now from Alex Gillstrom.
30:43
Speaker 1: And then three mods that will improve your mobile hunting
30:45
Speaker 1: setup from Andy May. Now those are are written things
30:50
Speaker 1: that are gonna help folks out right. Now, what about
30:52
Speaker 1: Mark for old videos or old podcasts that you would
30:55
Speaker 1: recommend for white tail hunters in early September. Yeah, h
31:03
Speaker 1: you got a lot there on the written side. And
31:05
Speaker 1: it's funny you bring it up because I actually was
31:07
Speaker 1: working on a new episode of the wire Time podcast.
31:10
Speaker 1: It's gonna go out tomorrow, So if you're listening to
31:13
Speaker 1: them on Wednesday on Thursday, you're gonna hear this new
31:16
Speaker 1: episode that I'm working on, and I was going to
31:18
Speaker 1: do a compilation episode in which I go back and
31:21
Speaker 1: pull all of the best insights from previous podcasts about
31:25
Speaker 1: Honey in September, because I thought for sure there must
31:28
Speaker 1: be a lot of great stuff that we could point
31:29
Speaker 1: back to. And I went and looked, and we didn't
31:31
Speaker 1: have anything. I have no good September podcasts, so I
31:36
Speaker 1: don't have anything good to point people towards. But I
31:39
Speaker 1: do I can tell you that we created new stuff
31:43
Speaker 1: for tomorrow. So everything you know what we covered here
31:46
Speaker 1: today is going to be like really nice appatizer for
31:49
Speaker 1: tomorrow's episode in which we do a really deep dive
31:53
Speaker 1: into a bunch of these topics with A self and
31:56
Speaker 1: Tony Peterson and four other guests. So we kind of
32:00
Speaker 1: have a best of September full month strategy conversation that
32:06
Speaker 1: I think, Um, if you if you got excited what
32:08
Speaker 1: we're talking about here today, you're really gonna like tomorrow's
32:11
Speaker 1: as we get kind of an expanded view of all
32:14
Speaker 1: these ideas and more so, So I would just stay
32:16
Speaker 1: tune in for our main episode coming in hot It's
32:19
Speaker 1: called Mastering September, So tune into that as soon as
32:23
Speaker 1: it drops. I like it. That is going to be
32:25
Speaker 1: a fun listen any other final words of wisdom Mark
32:28
Speaker 1: before we get out of here. You know, the only
32:31
Speaker 1: thing I would say is you listed a whole bunch
32:33
Speaker 1: of homework for us UM with all those articles sensor. Uh,
32:38
Speaker 1: and that's I love it. I think we should drop
32:41
Speaker 1: all the links for those in the show description so
32:45
Speaker 1: that people can have a place to go find them.
32:47
Speaker 1: So let's try to do that. Let's try to put
32:50
Speaker 1: this in the show notes. Like so if you were
32:52
Speaker 1: to go to Spotify you click the link for the information,
32:55
Speaker 1: or if you just go to the podcast page on
32:58
Speaker 1: our website, the media to dot com and navigate to
33:01
Speaker 1: this episode, you know website, you would be able to
33:05
Speaker 1: see the links so that you know, I don't think
33:07
Speaker 1: anyone's can remember all those nine different articles, but just
33:09
Speaker 1: go to the website to the podcast for this episode,
33:13
Speaker 1: you'll see the links there and there's all the reading
33:14
Speaker 1: that Spencer mentioned. I think that's probably the easiest way
33:17
Speaker 1: for people to do that, don't you. Yes, I like it.
33:20
Speaker 1: That is something that we will try to do on
33:22
Speaker 1: every episode is drop some relevant links in the description. Uh.
33:26
Speaker 1: And I genuinely mean it. That these are like some
33:29
Speaker 1: of the best white tailed white tail killers I know. UM,
33:32
Speaker 1: and they're writing about their specialty, whether it's Tony Peterson
33:36
Speaker 1: hunting water Baumartinicke scouting big woods UM or Andy May
33:41
Speaker 1: talking about mods to a mobile hunting setup. UM. I'm
33:46
Speaker 1: really excited about this content. To go to the show
33:48
Speaker 1: notes and you'll find what we have available there. Um
33:52
Speaker 1: alrt Mark, Well, let's get out here. Good luck in
33:55
Speaker 1: the woods this weekend, and until we talk next time,
33:58
Speaker 1: stay Wired to Hunt.