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Ep. 918: Foundations - Summer Deer Scouting Mistakes Nearly All Whitetail Hunters Make · 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: First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host
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  Speaker 1: Tony Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundation's podcast,
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  Speaker 2: which is brought to you by first Light.
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  Speaker 3: I'm your host, Tony.
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  Speaker 2: Peterson, and today's episode is all about summer scouting and
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  Speaker 2: the mistakes we almost all make.
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  Speaker 3: This is an easy one for me.
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  Speaker 2: I love summer scouting, and I'm acutely aware of the
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  Speaker 2: ways in which I've messed it up over the years.
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  Speaker 2: There are a couple of different ways to summer scout.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to cover them all along with sort of
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  Speaker 2: the typical pitfalls that come with each. Plus I might
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  Speaker 2: dive into a few more issues we create for ourselves
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  Speaker 2: with this crucial time of year and our deer strategy.
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  Speaker 2: So buckle up, because it's time to talk white tails.
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  Speaker 2: There is often a disconnect between what we think something
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  Speaker 2: is and then what it actually is. We like linear
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  Speaker 2: connections in our brains because we just don't have the
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  Speaker 2: mental horsepower to consider the nuance of everything all the time.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to summer scouting, it used to go
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  Speaker 2: like this, Load up a day pack with a spot
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  Speaker 2: or in a tripod, spray down with some mosquito repellent,
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  Speaker 2: and then go post up somewhere to watch a hayfield
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  Speaker 2: or a beanfield or.
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  Speaker 3: Some other food source.
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  Speaker 2: Watch a bachelor group come out of the cover, make
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  Speaker 2: note where they feed, set up there, kill them in
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  Speaker 2: a month or two. Easy peasy, right Quite Today summer
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  Speaker 2: scouting goes more like this. Load up a couple of
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  Speaker 2: trail cameras, deploy them in the usual hotspots, build that
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  Speaker 2: hit list from the comfort of an air conditioned house,
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  Speaker 2: and then go kill them sometime this fall. There are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ways in which we screw up summer scouting,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to get into that, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: nitty gritty of the whole thing. But first off, there
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  Speaker 2: is the question of frequency and intention and efficacy of
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  Speaker 2: summer scouting. When it comes to the last one, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of hunters focus much of their actual hunting efforts
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  Speaker 2: on the pre rut and the rut, and so there's
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  Speaker 2: this disconnect between July bucks and the November bucks. We're
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  Speaker 2: hunting that keeps them from going, you know, too deep
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  Speaker 2: in summer scouting, and why not if you live in
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  Speaker 2: Iowa and you have a sweet property to bohunt all
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  Speaker 2: of November, you don't really need to go scout bachelor
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  Speaker 2: groups in July only to watch the early October open
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  Speaker 2: or come and go and then get ready to hunt
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  Speaker 2: when things start getting a little feisty.
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  Speaker 3: In the woods.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty easy for a lot of us in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of states to look at the opening dates of our
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  Speaker 2: deer seasons and not be able to make a strong
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  Speaker 2: connection to summer scouting and the likelihood that it'll have
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  Speaker 2: us tagged out in the first few days of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Couple that with the fact that you know, most of
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  Speaker 2: us expect hot, buggy weather for our openers, and it's
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  Speaker 2: easy to phone it in summer scouting wise. But how
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  Speaker 2: effective some are scouting can be is up to us,
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  Speaker 2: and it's very easy to believe it won't work that well.
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  Speaker 2: And when we believe that, we don't want to put
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  Speaker 2: in any effort. It's kind of like if you know
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  Speaker 2: you'll never get a raise at work, no matter how
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  Speaker 2: many extra projects you could tackle or overtime hours you
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  Speaker 2: could put in if the precedent is set that you're
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  Speaker 2: worth x amount of money to the C suite team,
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  Speaker 2: you'd be a sucker to suddenly put in a ton
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  Speaker 2: of extra effort on top of your normal duties. Now,
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  Speaker 2: with deer, we sort of look at this as a
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  Speaker 2: transactional thing in a similar matter, but also with deer,
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  Speaker 2: it's often just the difference between how we perceive the
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  Speaker 2: benefits of summer scouting. For example, I'm really bad at maths,
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  Speaker 2: but here is an equation that might work. When you
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  Speaker 2: take frequency and intention of summer scouting and increase them,
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  Speaker 2: how effective it'll be well skyrocket or at least point
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  Speaker 2: up into the right. On the frequency front. There's a
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  Speaker 2: balance to be struck. Too little and you won't learn
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  Speaker 2: anything actionable, or you'll only learn a tiny bit that
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  Speaker 2: you need to know, which won't influence your actions the
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  Speaker 2: right way, or could give you a false read on
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  Speaker 2: the deer situation. Too much, which almost no one does,
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  Speaker 2: and you can put the deer off long before you
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to hunt them. Now, while most hunters
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  Speaker 2: aren't in danger of summer scouting too much, it can
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  Speaker 2: be done, and I know that because I've done it
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  Speaker 2: many times. I'm not in danger of this now because
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  Speaker 2: where I live, in my general life schedule, but there
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  Speaker 2: were quite a few years of my life where if
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  Speaker 2: I found a bachelor group somewhere that I could hunt,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't not go watch them. It's like an addiction, which,
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  Speaker 2: if you know me, makes a hell of a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sense. But those relaxed, easy to find bachelor groups
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  Speaker 2: are only relaxed and easy to find if they don't
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  Speaker 2: know they are constantly being monitored by one of their
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  Speaker 2: scariest predators. And by that I don't mean me specifically,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, but humans in general, the presence of
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  Speaker 2: us in their world is tolerable to some extent, but
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  Speaker 2: when you cross that line, it gets a hell of
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  Speaker 2: a lot tougher. Most people won't cross that line, but
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  Speaker 2: that's also highly dependent on how much pressure the deer
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  Speaker 2: get where you hunt, and how small of a property
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  Speaker 2: you're working with. On a twenty five acre parcel, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't take too much to do some damage with your
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  Speaker 2: summer scouting, just like with your hunting frequency in the fall. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you have two hundred and fifty or twenty five
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  Speaker 2: hundred acres to work with, that's different. If your deer
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  Speaker 2: only get hunted by you, then their tolerance level will
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  Speaker 2: be higher than if you're on public land and they
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  Speaker 2: get hunted by you and a revolving cast of other people.
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  Speaker 2: We almost all know this on a fundamental level, which
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  Speaker 2: is one of the reasons trail cameras have become so popular.
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  Speaker 2: But they've also become popular because they are fun, relatively effective,
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  Speaker 2: and while a hell of a lot easier than any
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  Speaker 2: other form of scouting, they literally do the scouting for
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  Speaker 2: us all day long, for months, without us having to
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  Speaker 2: do anything more than look at our phonees or walk
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  Speaker 2: into the woods to swap out an SD card. There's
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  Speaker 2: a thing about that. If you have a shitload of
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  Speaker 2: cameras out and can saturate the woods, you can learn
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  Speaker 2: an awful lot about your deer. That's the shotgun approach
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  Speaker 2: that some hunters take, but that's mostly hunters who have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of land to work with and not a
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  Speaker 2: lot of competition, because those hunters also generally have some
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  Speaker 2: money to work with. If you don't have that option,
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  Speaker 2: a targeted approach to trail cameras is a better idea,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you use them to complement a glassing strategy
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  Speaker 2: or a boots on the ground strategy. This is where
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  Speaker 2: one of the biggest mistakes comes into play. We use
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  Speaker 2: one tool in the kit mostly always, but not all
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  Speaker 2: of them more evenly, but all of them together are
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  Speaker 2: what gives us the best intel.
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  Speaker 3: Think about it this way.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to catch a limit of walleyes this
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  Speaker 2: summer on whatever lake or river you live by, will
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  Speaker 2: you go out with only slip bobbers and a couple
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  Speaker 2: scoops of fat head minnows? You could, and you could
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  Speaker 2: catch walleyes in that setup in a hell of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of lakes and rivers all summer long. Fish eat
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  Speaker 2: fish and minnows are always on the menu. But what
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  Speaker 2: if there's a fish fly hatch going on and the
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  Speaker 2: walleyes are thinking about a very seasonally limited food source,
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  Speaker 2: or the crayfish are molting so they are nice and
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  Speaker 2: soft and good to eat. What if the walleyes are
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  Speaker 2: eating minnows like crazy, but instead of hanging around a
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  Speaker 2: couple of big bowlders and fifteen feet of water off
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  Speaker 2: at some point, they are cruising the shallows, weaving in
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  Speaker 2: and out of cabbage and other mergent vegetation. It's snacking
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  Speaker 2: on balls of shiners. A slow approach like a slipbubber
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  Speaker 2: set up just may not cut it.
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  Speaker 3: Most people wouldn't limit.
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  Speaker 2: Themselves super tightly to one sole presentation in one bait
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  Speaker 2: when they want a fish fry for the fourth of July,
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  Speaker 2: and that just makes sense. And when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: deer scouting, we are often very content to limit our
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  Speaker 2: options and then we just deal with the results later.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is where the intention part of summer
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  Speaker 2: scouting comes into play. What are you actually trying to
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  Speaker 2: learn with your efforts? If it's nothing more than some
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  Speaker 2: big bucks are around, and then they might be there
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  Speaker 2: again during the rut, that's one thing, But the rut
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  Speaker 2: isn't so easy. And who wants to miss out on
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  Speaker 2: the early season hunting on the off chance that things
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  Speaker 2: will come together later? Also, and I say this because
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  Speaker 2: I believe it. If you want to become a better
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  Speaker 2: hunter and kill more big bucks, you can't ignore the
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  Speaker 2: early season. I don't care if that means the September
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  Speaker 2: one opener where you live or a mid October opener
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  Speaker 2: where you live. There's no denying the simple advantage of
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  Speaker 2: deer not having been hunted for several months. I don't
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  Speaker 2: care where you live. The dumbest deer in the woods
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  Speaker 2: often aren't the ones that we want to find during
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  Speaker 2: the rut. They're the ones that we can find in
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  Speaker 2: the first week of our season. Now, I know a
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  Speaker 2: lot of folks will disagree with me on that, but
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  Speaker 2: I also know that a lot of folks think that's
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  Speaker 2: true about the rut, and they still don't kill mature
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  Speaker 2: bucks done. And it's also undoubtedly true that a lot
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  Speaker 2: of hunters put way more effort into their rut hunts
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  Speaker 2: than the first week or so the season, So there
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  Speaker 2: is some sampling bias there. I know this varies a
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  Speaker 2: lot by hunters and individual situations, but I believe it
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  Speaker 2: would be way easier for most of us to kill
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  Speaker 2: mature bucks if we put rout effort into the first
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  Speaker 2: week of the season, especially if that effort comes on
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  Speaker 2: the heels of proper summer scouting. Now here's another way
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  Speaker 2: to look at this stuff. The more you learn about
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  Speaker 2: all deer, the more you can predict where they'll be
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  Speaker 2: when you can hunt them. So you think that the
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  Speaker 2: bachelor group in July and what those deer do doesn't
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  Speaker 2: relate to October hunts, for example, But what if you
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  Speaker 2: glass those bucks from a safe distance during a heat
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  Speaker 2: wave and then during cold fronts throughout the summer. You'll
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  Speaker 2: learn a thing or two about where they enter the
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  Speaker 2: food during different conditions and can make an educated guess
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  Speaker 2: on where they might be betting, or at least how they
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  Speaker 2: travel through the cover. You can drop a few cameras
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  Speaker 2: in the woods to check your work on specific trails,
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  Speaker 2: which is a great idea and can help you put
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  Speaker 2: many of the pieces together. But you say, so what,
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  Speaker 2: it's all change once they go hard antlerd and the
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  Speaker 2: hunting pressure hits. That's not true, at least not entirely,
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  Speaker 2: and this is where a lot of people make their
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  Speaker 2: biggest mistakes on summer scouting. You're not going to get
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  Speaker 2: all the answers on deer no matter what you do.
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  Speaker 2: You could glass every night for three months and run
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  Speaker 2: fifty trail cameras and you'd still have an incomplete view
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  Speaker 2: of what bucks are doing on your property. But that's
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  Speaker 2: not a reason to not scout. It's a reason too scout.
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  Speaker 2: You're looking for an edge on predicting deer movement in September,
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  Speaker 2: October and November, whenever you can hunt until at least
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  Speaker 2: you'd consider the late season anyway, you want to be
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  Speaker 2: able to make an educated guess on where they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be. And on that note, I'll say this. If
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  Speaker 2: you do glass, that's great. If you run some cameras,
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  Speaker 2: that's great. But also you need to just get out
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  Speaker 2: there and look around. Nothing beats boots on the ground
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  Speaker 2: because it puts you where the deer actually walk and
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  Speaker 2: lets you take in the entirety of the situation. It's
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  Speaker 2: a reality check and it's the most thorough method of
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  Speaker 2: recon you can make. Now, let me frame this up
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  Speaker 2: the best way I can by telling you a not
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  Speaker 2: so secret secret about myself. I am a second guessing machine, literally,
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  Speaker 2: a self doubt filled fool. When I walk a field
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  Speaker 2: edge looking for a spot to hang a stand, I
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  Speaker 2: will look at one hundred and twelve different trees and
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  Speaker 2: consider them all, and I'll fret over every single trail
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  Speaker 2: that comes in the field, and I'll consider natural blinds
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  Speaker 2: for every wind direction. But I don't get to run
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  Speaker 2: through all of those options. When it's September fifteenth and
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  Speaker 2: the season is just oping up. I have to pick
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  Speaker 2: one and put my faith in it. That's a hard
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  Speaker 2: test for me. I need information to make that decision.
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  Speaker 2: So I have to consider my access in my wind direction.
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  Speaker 2: I have to consider what my trail cameras have shown me,
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  Speaker 2: and when my glassing has shown me. I have to
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  Speaker 2: ponder the tracks on the edge of the field, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the ones leading into and out of the bedding
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  Speaker 2: or staging cover. I have to make a decision with
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  Speaker 2: as much info as possible to try to maximize my
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  Speaker 2: chances of an encounter that day. Now, the reason I'm
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  Speaker 2: so neurotic about the choice is because the consequences of
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  Speaker 2: getting it wrong mean the next time I have to
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  Speaker 2: make that choice it'll be some order of magnitude more difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Most likely, my presence in that carefully scouted spot is
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  Speaker 2: not going to make the deer more comfortable. So there's
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  Speaker 2: something at stake now. I don't want this to be
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  Speaker 2: like overly dramatic, because we are talking about hunting rabbits
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  Speaker 2: with antlers here. It's not that important. But to me
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  Speaker 2: in some ways, and to you too, it kind of is.
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  Speaker 2: More information is always better, as long as you know
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  Speaker 2: how to make it coalesce into a confidence based plan.
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  Speaker 2: This was really hammered home to me when I started
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  Speaker 2: taking my daughter's deer hunting. You know, they're a limited
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  Speaker 2: amount of time in the field, and their limited experience
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  Speaker 2: being in the woods and in close proximity to white
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  Speaker 2: tails meant that the odds of something going wrong, or
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  Speaker 2: at least not enough going.
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  Speaker 3: Right, they were pretty high.
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  Speaker 2: It helps that my daughters want to shoot any deer,
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  Speaker 2: which opens the aperture up quite a bit, at least
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  Speaker 2: more than what a lot of.
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  Speaker 3: Us are looking for.
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  Speaker 2: But it was still a good lesson on how to
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  Speaker 2: approach this stuff throughout the summer. Scouting for them mattered.
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  Speaker 2: It was important to me. I had to get it right,
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  Speaker 2: so it made me think about the little things. But
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  Speaker 2: it also made me scout whenever I could. And this
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  Speaker 2: is the last thing I really want to touch on.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I just wrote a piece about this for
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  Speaker 2: the Meat Eater dot com, but I think it's worth
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  Speaker 2: saying here too. The best way to summer scout is
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  Speaker 2: to think about the conditions and how they relate to
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  Speaker 2: your findings.
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  Speaker 3: This is kind of hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: With trail cameras, you know, because we get a pick
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  Speaker 2: on our phone and think it's cool. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: a nice buck whatever, But we aren't out there to
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  Speaker 2: realize that the reason he walked by right then was
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  Speaker 2: because the wind switched to the southeast, or the mosquitoes
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  Speaker 2: got so bad that he decided to switch bedding areas
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  Speaker 2: to some grassy swale on a hilltop that catches some
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  Speaker 2: wind and probably isn't nearly as full of biting and
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  Speaker 2: buzzing insects as the wooded valley. That's more like a jungle.
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  Speaker 2: When we glass, we look at the forecast and we think, well, shoot,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be nice and cool tonight for the
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  Speaker 2: first time in a week, so I'll grab the spotter
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  Speaker 2: and head out to watch the soybeans. That's great. But
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  Speaker 2: what if it's not nice and cool on opening weekend?
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  Speaker 2: But if it's eighty degrees and the sun is blazing away,
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  Speaker 2: will the buck movement be the same then as it
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  Speaker 2: was a month earlier with vastly different conditions. Probably not.
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  Speaker 2: What about if it's raining a little bit, What if
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  Speaker 2: it's prefrontal post frontel, What if it's the fifth day
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  Speaker 2: of a heat wave. What if you got a north
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  Speaker 2: wind or a south wind, whatever. The difference between scouting
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  Speaker 2: for fun and scouting with intention is literally between our ears.
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  Speaker 3: On a lot of this stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So not only just taking notes on when and why
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  Speaker 2: and what was going on when you saw the big
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  Speaker 2: one or you know you got the pick of him
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  Speaker 2: or found that monster set of tracks on the logging
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  Speaker 2: road leading to the pasture with the pond in it,
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  Speaker 2: but also putting yourself out there when you know the
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  Speaker 2: weather is going to be something other than perfect. This
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  Speaker 2: is the last thing, and it's honestly one of my
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  Speaker 2: favorite things. I love glassing. When it's raining in the
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  Speaker 2: summer and when it's just dead calm and a billion degrees,
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  Speaker 2: I know that weather is going to position deer in
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  Speaker 2: certain ways, and they'll show me something actionable when it
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  Speaker 2: gets a little uncomfortable out there. That stuff matters because
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  Speaker 2: you can't pick the weather on the days you can
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  Speaker 2: hunt usually, and if you can hunt during.
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  Speaker 3: The season, then you should now.
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  Speaker 2: I also know that scouting to intentionally learn something in
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  Speaker 2: the summer often gives me something to use later in
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  Speaker 2: the season if I strike out on my early season plan,
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  Speaker 2: which happens a lot. The buck you see approach a
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  Speaker 2: pond a certain way in the middle of summer, he
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  Speaker 2: might approach that pond in the exact same way in
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  Speaker 2: the end October when he started chasing a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and spar and he's just a little bit thirsty. Or
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  Speaker 2: that island of cover between the fields that only does
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  Speaker 2: seem to bed in during the summer. They might also
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  Speaker 2: bed the in the fall, and you know who might
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  Speaker 2: swing in on the downwind side descent check it, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe cut straight through it like the deer you watched
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  Speaker 2: in August as they browsed around whatever it is. The
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  Speaker 2: more you think about what you see, or what your
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  Speaker 2: trail cameras show you, or the fresh tracks or the
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