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Ep. 437: Foundations - Trail Camera Recon Realities · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide
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  Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, and now your host,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt
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  Speaker 1: Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.
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  Speaker 1: This week's episode is all about parsing through your trail
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  Speaker 1: camera data to start building a viable hunting plan. There
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  Speaker 1: have been different points in my hunting life where I've
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  Speaker 1: used cameras mostly just to get pictures a deer without
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  Speaker 1: really thinking about what that meant. I just wanted velvet
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  Speaker 1: buck images and I didn't really think to use them
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  Speaker 1: to inform my hunting strategies. That was obviously a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: It's much better to analyze the imagery and videos to
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  Speaker 1: try to develop a clear picture of deer usage on
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  Speaker 1: your ground and then figure out what that means to
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  Speaker 1: your season, or what the hell you should do. If
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  Speaker 1: you're just not getting any decent pictures, how do you
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  Speaker 1: reset your strategy? These issues, which we all deal with
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  Speaker 1: at some point, are the thread that winds through this
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  Speaker 1: entire episode. Today's episode is all about what to do
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  Speaker 1: with all of those images, or the lack of images
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  Speaker 1: you're getting throughout the summer. What's the inventory look like,
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  Speaker 1: and what does this mean for your late summer scouting.
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean for your potential ambush sites. How
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  Speaker 1: do the images you're capturing now influence your stand hanging
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  Speaker 1: missions later. I'm going to answer all of these questions,
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  Speaker 1: I hope, But first, let's consider that at this point
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  Speaker 1: of the year, your trail cameras have been soaking for
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  Speaker 1: at least a few weeks, if not more. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you're running cell cameras, you're probably getting some images of
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  Speaker 1: big velvet box, or at least hopefully you're getting some
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  Speaker 1: images of big velvet box, and hopefully they're stuck to
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  Speaker 1: a sweet summer pattern that will carry right on through
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  Speaker 1: until the bow opener. But if you're running traditional cameras,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know what's going on out there, and you're
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  Speaker 1: probably getting the itch to get out there and check them,
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  Speaker 1: but you might be wondering if they've been out there
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  Speaker 1: long enough. Trail camera soak times are just up to
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  Speaker 1: the individual. Personally. I base how long I leave mine
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  Speaker 1: out on how easy they are to get to and
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  Speaker 1: how likely it is that I'll spook a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: deer by going in. Sometimes, like on properties that aren't
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  Speaker 1: very close to home. You just have to check cameras
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  Speaker 1: whenever you can actually like these the best, because then
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  Speaker 1: I can I can stay disciplined on this just by
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  Speaker 1: sheer geographic logistics. There's other times where your cameras are
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  Speaker 1: closer to home, where it's best to make a calculated
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  Speaker 1: approach and wait for the conditions that might favor you
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  Speaker 1: a little better. Now this might seem like overkill, but
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  Speaker 1: if I have a chance to try to get in
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  Speaker 1: and check my cameras right before a rainstorms forecast, That's
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  Speaker 1: when I'll go. This is one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: has probably never helped me actually kill a buck, but
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  Speaker 1: it makes me feel better. It also makes me feel
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  Speaker 1: better when I've gone in to hang a few stands.
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  Speaker 1: As I'm walking out of the woods, I see a
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  Speaker 1: cloud bank building in the west that looks ominous. It
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  Speaker 1: can't hurt to wash away a little human scent after
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  Speaker 1: an intrusion, can it. Now. Some folks will only check
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  Speaker 1: their trail cameras by driving in on an a t
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  Speaker 1: V or when the wind isn't blowing the likely betting areas.
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  Speaker 1: Others will wipe or spray down their cameras after checking
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  Speaker 1: them to try to eliminate their human scent. Listen, As
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  Speaker 1: someone who has messed around with good bird dogs a lot,
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  Speaker 1: I'd have to say that if you're trying to wipe
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  Speaker 1: down your cameras or spray them down after touching them,
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  Speaker 1: and then you believe that they're pulling a fast one
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  Speaker 1: on the deer, you're probably not. I wouldn't, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: bother with this unless it just makes you feel good. Then,
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  Speaker 1: if it does go nuts, no matter how careful you
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  Speaker 1: are with your camera checks or totally care free, if
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  Speaker 1: that's your jam, you're going to have to do something
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  Speaker 1: with the images and the videos you captured. Now this
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  Speaker 1: may seem straight change, but the easiest results to deal
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  Speaker 1: with are the duds. If your camera has been out
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  Speaker 1: for three weeks and it's just not showing much, you
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  Speaker 1: know you've got it wrong. As I've stated in previous episodes,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay, you're eliminating dead spots. It's probably time to
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  Speaker 1: just move your camera and reset. But before you do,
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself what you got wrong? Why did that fence
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  Speaker 1: crossing that is pounded with tracks and little puffs of
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  Speaker 1: white belly hair stuck on the barbs just not produce.
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  Speaker 1: Is your timing is wrong as far as maybe summer
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  Speaker 1: range or nearby food sources, or is the sign old
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  Speaker 1: and not as great as you really believed. Is there
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  Speaker 1: a new break in the fence a hundred yards away
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  Speaker 1: that they're likely using because they can walk through instead
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  Speaker 1: of jumping over. Maybe something as simple as the landowner
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  Speaker 1: coming in and cutting an alfalfa field for his cattle.
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  Speaker 1: It's changed things around where they've got multiple food sources.
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  Speaker 1: Something like this can reduce deer traffic on a specific
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  Speaker 1: field by quite a bit, but it's often something that
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  Speaker 1: lasts only for a few weeks and then they return
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  Speaker 1: to normal or better than normal. Now, good card pool
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  Speaker 1: is fun, but sometimes the worst card pools are the
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  Speaker 1: ones that teach us the most. If you've absolutely flamed
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  Speaker 1: out trying to figure out why, and I mean really
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  Speaker 1: really try to figure out why, is the sign you
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  Speaker 1: set up on older deceptive. This might seem weird, but
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  Speaker 1: there are spots, like river crossings with certain kinds of
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  Speaker 1: mud or sand that will look like absolute deer highways
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  Speaker 1: because the accumulation of weeks of tracks, But they really
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  Speaker 1: aren't that great. It's more likely just a couple of
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  Speaker 1: deer walking through there a lot over a long period
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  Speaker 1: of time. The same goes for wetlands. If you hunt
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  Speaker 1: swamps or boggy territory, the trails will often look like
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  Speaker 1: cattle paths. The problem with this is that you might
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  Speaker 1: be looking at a trail that just maintains the beat
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  Speaker 1: down look due to the soft, sponging nature of the ground.
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  Speaker 1: I see this in northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and while the trails all look amazing, they really aren't.
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  Speaker 1: They just formed forty years ago and have been walked
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  Speaker 1: on randomly since while being further carved into the ground.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you just might be off Seasonally. A hillside
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  Speaker 1: bench that was covered in rubs and March might seem
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  Speaker 1: like a no brain or camera spot, but unless you
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  Speaker 1: plan to set it in July and leave it until Halloween,
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  Speaker 1: you're probably in for a few months of disappointment. Bucks
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  Speaker 1: have summer ranges and clear summer patterns. Depending on your
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  Speaker 1: hunt region, they might closely mirror fall ranges and patterns,
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  Speaker 1: or they might not be barely on the same planet.
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  Speaker 1: You might have a great spot for the camera, just
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  Speaker 1: really bad timing with it, or you might go the
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  Speaker 1: opposite road and have a camera up over a mineral, liquor,
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  Speaker 1: a bait site, or maybe even a mock scrape. The
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  Speaker 1: pictures you get on these attractions might cloud the reality
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  Speaker 1: of your deer movement or the numbers. By showing multiple
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  Speaker 1: visits each day by all the deer in your neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: For inventory, this is incredible because you get to see
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  Speaker 1: everybody who's living there right now. For actionable hunting intel,
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  Speaker 1: it's not so great unless you can keep the mineral
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  Speaker 1: or the bait out. And as for the minerals, they
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  Speaker 1: often become much less of a draw come fall, so
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  Speaker 1: you might see that anyway. For bait sites where they
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  Speaker 1: are legal, you probably don't really need to think too
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  Speaker 1: hard about your trail camera recon to be honest, because
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  Speaker 1: you know you're gonna hunt over that bait and you
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  Speaker 1: know how it's going to play into your hunting strategies.
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  Speaker 1: What if your trailcameras show I don't know, a decent
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  Speaker 1: amount of traffic, but it's mostly nighttime movement. This is
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  Speaker 1: a tricky one. Nocturnal movement in the summer doesn't portend
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  Speaker 1: great daylight movement in the season usually, so think about it.
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  Speaker 1: This way, my friends, when you train a bird dog,
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  Speaker 1: whether you've got a German short hair who specializes in
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  Speaker 1: roosters or roughs, or you've got a black Lab that
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  Speaker 1: you're molding into a duck hunting machine, a dog that
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  Speaker 1: is like at nine percent in training will seem like
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  Speaker 1: a dog that is going to be near perfect in
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  Speaker 1: the field or in the blind. But there is an
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  Speaker 1: attrition rate with performance when the big show opens, and
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  Speaker 1: that super steady lab will suddenly start breaking the moment
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  Speaker 1: the first Lotus steel head skyward, that GSP that locks
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  Speaker 1: so beautifully in a tripod point for your planted wings
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  Speaker 1: and planet birds, he's now creeping in on the roosters
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  Speaker 1: and blowing them out as you hoof it over to him.
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  Speaker 1: What does this have to do with trail cameras well?
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  Speaker 1: Those bucks aren't going to get less nocturnal when the
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  Speaker 1: season opens and they start feeling the pressure. What does
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  Speaker 1: this have to do with trail cameras well? Those bucks
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  Speaker 1: aren't likely to get less nocturnal when the season opens
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  Speaker 1: and they start feeling the pressure. It's going to go
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  Speaker 1: the other way, and you can count on there being
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  Speaker 1: some attrition and daylight movement from what you saw in
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  Speaker 1: your summer scouting efforts to what you'll see when you're
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  Speaker 1: actually hunting. This means that if your spot you're monitoring
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  Speaker 1: in midsummer shows mostly nighttime bucks, it's time to reverse
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  Speaker 1: engineer those images and find the spots where they might
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  Speaker 1: get their picture taken when the sun is still up.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's easy to look at a bunch of nighttime
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  Speaker 1: photos and think that the bucks must be totally nocturnal.
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  Speaker 1: So what good does it do to move a camera
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  Speaker 1: to capture more nighttime image? Is of them in a
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  Speaker 1: different spot. That might be the case where you're hunting,
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  Speaker 1: although it's probably not. They're moving somewhere in daylight, and
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  Speaker 1: if you don't find that spot now, you'll have a
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  Speaker 1: hell of a time finding it during the season. I've
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  Speaker 1: only encountered one book that I really got obsessed with.
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  Speaker 1: It convinced me he was nearly always nocturnal in the summer.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't, although he was damned close in the season.
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  Speaker 1: He had a routine that was so predictable and totally
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  Speaker 1: reliant on the cover of darkness. Every other deer I've
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  Speaker 1: ever taken a fancy too, which is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: deer at this point has offered up some level of
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  Speaker 1: daylight movement in the summer and throughout the season. That
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  Speaker 1: movement is what matters. So pay attention to the ratio
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  Speaker 1: of daylight to nighttime photos on your card checks and
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  Speaker 1: react accordingly. Those bucks are probably out there walking around
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  Speaker 1: in daylight somewhere, and your job is to find it,
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  Speaker 1: find those spots. And you might think if I go
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  Speaker 1: in there and mess around, now, won't I make them
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  Speaker 1: more nocturnal? Maybe? But what other choice do you have
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  Speaker 1: and how nocturnal do you think one midsummer visit or
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  Speaker 1: a couple of midsummer visits is really going to make
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  Speaker 1: the bucks? Nighttime photos in the summer are probably way
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  Speaker 1: more likely a result of your camera just being in
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  Speaker 1: a spot where they move at night, versus them being
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  Speaker 1: nocturnal due to pressure. Now, what if your camera poll
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  Speaker 1: shows day after day of monster bucks walking past. This
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  Speaker 1: is the other end of the spectrum. What if when
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  Speaker 1: you're scrolling through images it's just big velvet rack after
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  Speaker 1: big velvet rack. The first thing you'll be tempted to
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  Speaker 1: do is look at the real frequency and the consistency.
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  Speaker 1: Did a bachelor group cruise through the first thing in
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  Speaker 1: the morning five out of the last seven days, or
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  Speaker 1: did a solo stud show up randomly multiple times on
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  Speaker 1: multiple days without a seeming care in the world. To
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  Speaker 1: better recognize these patterns and see them fully, you need
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  Speaker 1: to organize your photos. I tend to go through the
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  Speaker 1: full card pool. First, I look at everything, and then
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  Speaker 1: after I've looked at every single image, I start hauling
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  Speaker 1: out all the non deer images. From there, you can
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  Speaker 1: decide how far you want to take it Personally. Some
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  Speaker 1: folks keep all of their dear images, Others pair them
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  Speaker 1: down to just mature bucks. If you run a pile
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  Speaker 1: of cameras, this is a good way to go so
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  Speaker 1: that you don't lose sight of the actionable intel in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of tons of images and videos. If your
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  Speaker 1: date and time is set correctly on your camera, whittling
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  Speaker 1: down the imagery to the bucks you're most interested in
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  Speaker 1: will really clarify their patterns and simply declutter this aspect
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  Speaker 1: of scouting. This also gives you a real honest look
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  Speaker 1: at what's going on buck wise, and often shows you
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  Speaker 1: that good things are happening where your cameras are placed.
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  Speaker 1: When this happens, it's fun and it's easy to think,
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  Speaker 1: as long as you've got promising images, most of the
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  Speaker 1: work is done. But there's a common sentiment in investing
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  Speaker 1: where you should ask not what could go right with
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  Speaker 1: a company you're planning to make a bet on, but
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  Speaker 1: what could go wrong? How can they screw up their business?
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to white tails, don't get blinded just
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  Speaker 1: by the good stuff like tons of sweet trail camera
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  Speaker 1: images and videos. They've definitely answered some questions for you,
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  Speaker 1: like who is living there and what they like to
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  Speaker 1: do at certain points of the day. But this is
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  Speaker 1: a starting spot. Where are they coming from and where
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  Speaker 1: are they going? Are they likely to stay on that
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  Speaker 1: pattern throughout the fall? When they shed their velvet and
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  Speaker 1: they start getting hunted hard, My experience with that is
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  Speaker 1: almost always a hard no. It happens, but not that often.
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  Speaker 1: The reality was summertime trail camera images is that you
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  Speaker 1: are getting a good look into a small part of
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  Speaker 1: the deer's life outside of the hunting season. This just
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  Speaker 1: helps you make more accurate predictions on what might happen
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  Speaker 1: when you can actually hunt them. It also informs your
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  Speaker 1: scouting strategies from here on out. When I set a
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  Speaker 1: camera that is just a winner. Buck wise, I get
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  Speaker 1: in with a few more cameras and try to piece
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  Speaker 1: together a bigger part of their travels. Sometimes it's as possible,
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  Speaker 1: other times, like on small properties, it's not really feasible.
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  Speaker 1: You'll have to gauge that for yourself. But remember knowledge
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  Speaker 1: is key here. Even if you can see what those
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  Speaker 1: bucks are doing a hundred and fifty yards down the
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  Speaker 1: trail or where they tend to filter through in the
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  Speaker 1: morning after they leave your food plot, you're narrowing down
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  Speaker 1: so much of the important stuff, like, for example, instead
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  Speaker 1: of just pinning your hopes in the back corner of
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  Speaker 1: a field where you're getting tons of images during the evenings,
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  Speaker 1: now figure out where those bucks are coming from. Try
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  Speaker 1: to figure out where they stage now, so you'll know
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  Speaker 1: where they stage when the season opens up and they
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  Speaker 1: shed their velvet. You might kill a buck in a
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  Speaker 1: field on opening night, but if you don't, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to know where he's most likely to be killable after
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  Speaker 1: he figures out where the danger zone is, which is
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  Speaker 1: on the edge of that field. In my experience, this
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  Speaker 1: tends to take no more than a week on pressure
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  Speaker 1: ground before you have to adapt to it, and on
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  Speaker 1: some properties it feels like they have the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: dialed in even before the season opens up because of
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  Speaker 1: the increased amount of scouting and stand hanging going on.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like hunting elk in an O. T.
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  Speaker 1: C unit these days, and over the counter unit. By
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  Speaker 1: the time the actual season opens, half of the tag
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  Speaker 1: holders out there have hiked into every meadow and wallow
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  Speaker 1: and push the elk to their secondary spots, into their
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  Speaker 1: security cover. If you don't believe that's possible, drive out
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  Speaker 1: there a west sometime and sit on a beautiful meadow
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  Speaker 1: on public land within five miles of a trailhead on
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  Speaker 1: opening night. It is not a guarantee that the bulls
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  Speaker 1: will be wise to the pressure, but it's damn close
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  Speaker 1: these days. Do you react the same way elk do,
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  Speaker 1: even if they might not go as far. They back
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  Speaker 1: off the open food sources and they travel routes in
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  Speaker 1: response to the pressure. And knowing where those spots are
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  Speaker 1: is huge for staying in the game past opening week,
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  Speaker 1: and you can figure those spots out now by running
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  Speaker 1: trail cameras with a plan. If you absolutely have to
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  Speaker 1: run your cameras on those food sources, that's fun, but
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  Speaker 1: run a second set farther in the woods, along trails,
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  Speaker 1: or along season long pinch points, try to figure out
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  Speaker 1: where the bucks are coming from. Even if you don't
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  Speaker 1: dial in specific betting sites, you just want to know
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  Speaker 1: those travel routes right now so that if opening week
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  Speaker 1: doesn't pan out, you've got a set of images and
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  Speaker 1: videos that can inform your decision on where to go next.
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  Speaker 1: And this might sound crazy, but I'm actually convinced that
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  Speaker 1: the least dangerous trail camera check is the one with
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  Speaker 1: the least exciting amount of deer pictures. I mentioned this before.
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  Speaker 1: Those duds are okay because resetting is often a simple process.
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  Speaker 1: The card polls that actually get us into trouble are
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  Speaker 1: the good enough and the freaking unbelievable. In either case,
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  Speaker 1: it's like license to stop looking, with the freaking unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: poll being the most dangerous because not only of the
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  Speaker 1: attrition rate and movement as the season opens, but it's
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  Speaker 1: also a safe bet no matter when you're opener is,
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  Speaker 1: but especially if it's a little later that those bang
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  Speaker 1: in summer spots might not be so great by the
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  Speaker 1: time you can hunt. It's also dangerous because when you've
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  Speaker 1: got a trail camera that is just filling up with
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  Speaker 1: images of toads all summer long, and you can convince
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  Speaker 1: yourself you don't need to do a bunch of other work.
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  Speaker 1: You know where the bucks are, you've seen them, You've
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  Speaker 1: seen a ton of pictures of them. You've got this.
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  Speaker 1: This is a false sense of security issue, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to fall for it. Enjoy those card pools
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  Speaker 1: and the anticipation of great hunts in that location, but
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  Speaker 1: don't take it for granted that it's a done deal,
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  Speaker 1: that it's a done deal in a few months when
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  Speaker 1: you can actually hunt. If you're not creating deer draws
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  Speaker 1: like food plots or ponds or bait sites, then you
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  Speaker 1: have to work under the assumption that a great spot
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  Speaker 1: is a moving target. It might be where your camera
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  Speaker 1: showed tons of evening movement throughout August, but only for
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks of September. Or it might be the
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  Speaker 1: acorn flat the bucks filter through in the morning on
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  Speaker 1: their way back to bed that actually turns into the winter.
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  Speaker 1: Even that will last for a week and then die off,
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  Speaker 1: leaving you looking for a third location. To paraphrase a
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  Speaker 1: quote that has been adopted by Corporate America to the
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  Speaker 1: point of nausea. You've got to skate where the puck
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  Speaker 1: is going, not where it has been. That Gretzky guy
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  Speaker 1: was onto something there hockey wise, and it applies to
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  Speaker 1: white tail hunters as well. Only we have the chance
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  Speaker 1: to hang some technology in the woods that just might
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  Speaker 1: prove to be the crystal ball that tells us where
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  Speaker 1: the tall time pucks are going to be at certain
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  Speaker 1: points of the season. Now, if you're running cell cameras,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a blockchain style amount of data coming your
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  Speaker 1: way every day. Use it to decide what's next camera wise,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: if you need to go in and check your cameras
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: like you're running traditional cameras, look at the forecast and
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  Speaker 1: then head in when a major frog choker is set
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  Speaker 1: to hit and wash away all your scent. Pay close
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  Speaker 1: attention to your digital clues and use them not to
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: reinforce what you know, like dear, sure eat a lot
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: of soybeans in the summer, but what you don't know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: like exactly how do the bucks get to the soybeans
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: in the summer, and how often do they stop at
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: a small pond on their way there or maybe hop
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: across an old barbed wire fence that bi sets the
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  Speaker 1: biggest chunk of woods on the property three yards away
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  Speaker 1: from the groceries. Check those cameras when you can, when
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  Speaker 1: you're confident you won't blow the woods out, and then
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: filter the imagery through your personal system. Keep the keepers
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: ditched the rest, pay attention to win deer showed up
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  Speaker 1: and why? What does those images mean to your future
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: scouting efforts, and eventually you're staying hanging missions. Be realistic
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: about them and what they show, and try to anticipate
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: what images this week mean to you in two months.
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  Speaker 1: Organize this knowledge and you use it to flavor your
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: back half a summer scouting plans to complete a fuller
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: picture of how you can put yourself on quality dear
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: movement as soon as the starting pistol goes off, especially
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: if you pair this trail camera strategy with some old
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: school scouting that involves sitting back on the glass and
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: going full voyor on the deer, which is the topic
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: of next week's episode. That's it for this show, my friends,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to tune in next week for more white
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  Speaker 1: tail hunting advice, strategies, tips and stories. I'm Tony Peterson
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  Speaker 1: and this has been the wire to Hunt Foundations Podcast.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: As always, thank you so much for listening, and we
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  Speaker 1: will catch you right here next week.