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Ep. 253: Rut Radio 11/23/18 · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for
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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,
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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyon's episode number two and fifty three,
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Speaker 1: and we are here today for another episode of our
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Speaker 1: Rut radio mini series, in which we're chatting with hunters
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Speaker 1: all across the country to get the latest on what's
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Speaker 1: happening in the white tailed world, progress of the rut,
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Speaker 1: and the tactics that are working right now. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: the Wired to Hunt Podcast. I am your host, spent
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Speaker 1: to New North and this week we are without our
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Speaker 1: fearless leader, Mark Kenyon. Mark and I just couldn't put
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Speaker 1: it together this week forward getting on a call. Uh,
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Speaker 1: just with the holidays and as I am traveling and
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Speaker 1: he's been traveling. Um, it just didn't work out. So
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Speaker 1: I am going to take you guys through the intro solo. Ordinarily,
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Speaker 1: one thing that Mark would ask me in the intro
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Speaker 1: is if there are any themes from this week's episode.
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Speaker 1: I would say this week that theme would be that
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Speaker 1: we are coming back to food sources. If the RUT
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Speaker 1: is a bell curve, then we are now on the
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Speaker 1: other side. For most of the country, we're on the
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Speaker 1: other side of the top of that bell curve. So
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Speaker 1: the buck movement is going to be on the way down.
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Speaker 1: But with that, you're still gonna have bucks that are
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Speaker 1: very interested in doughs, and where the doughs want to
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Speaker 1: be right now is going to be on that food
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Speaker 1: in the evenings. So this is really exciting if you
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Speaker 1: were someone who has a quality food source, or if
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Speaker 1: you are a hunter prefers sitting field edges. Uh, those
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Speaker 1: evenings on field edges are going to be really good
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Speaker 1: right now and probably for this next week or so
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Speaker 1: as we get into December. Something else from this week's
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Speaker 1: Seat of Callers is that you hear a few people
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Speaker 1: talk about calling right now using some rattling, grunting, etcetera. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Most folks don't think of like November and think of
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Speaker 1: using some different calling strategies, But that could be a
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Speaker 1: good technique for getting a buck to show himself. Whether
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Speaker 1: you're gun hunting or bow hunting, looking to close the
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Speaker 1: distance on a specific deer or just get one to
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Speaker 1: step out of the timber. That is something that you
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Speaker 1: could be doing even as the best running is behind us. Now,
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Speaker 1: if Mark was here, he would also compliment me and
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Speaker 1: be fawning over the two deer that I just killed. Um.
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Speaker 1: If you go to Instagram and check out a few
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Speaker 1: of my latest posts, you'll see the buck that I
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Speaker 1: just killed in South Dakota on Saturday and then the
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Speaker 1: buck that I just killed in Kentucky on Wednesday. So
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Speaker 1: if you head over there to at Spencer new Hearth
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Speaker 1: on Instagram, you'll see why Mark was so jealous and
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Speaker 1: why he did not want to join me on the
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Speaker 1: podcast this week. If Mark were here, he would also
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Speaker 1: be complimenting me on this week's sleight of guests and
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Speaker 1: how great of a job I did covering the entire country.
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Speaker 1: So for this week on the podcast, we have Todd
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Speaker 1: Pregnant's from White knucle Productions in Iowa, and then in
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Speaker 1: Virginia from Aero Addicts TV is Erran Lee, and then
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Speaker 1: we talked to Scott Spitzley in Michigan from Dirt Nap Gear,
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Speaker 1: and then from Louisiana. Bow Hunter in Louisiana is Kyler Moppert.
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Speaker 1: tail hunters. That's enough for me, though, let's go to
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Speaker 1: our first color. I have to say, I think this
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Speaker 1: has maybe been the best intro that radio has ever had,
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Speaker 1: and uh, I'd have more proxy, and so I'm going
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Speaker 1: All right and joining us. The line first is Todd
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Speaker 1: Primants from White Knuckle Productions in Iowa, not Todd in Iowa.
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Speaker 1: What would you say the buck activities been lately on
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Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten, one to ten, probably
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Speaker 1: about a five to a six. A lot of it
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Speaker 1: really depends on hot dose this time year. I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of times we get caught into this generalization
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Speaker 1: about the rut, but the fact of the matter is
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Speaker 1: when it dough comes in the heat, it really does
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Speaker 1: change everything in that area. Um. And from around here
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Speaker 1: we have a we do have an older age class
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Speaker 1: of deer that are kind of like the dominant deer
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Speaker 1: that usually this time year, if there's a doll that hot,
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Speaker 1: they will shall be with a mature deer. UM. Not always,
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Speaker 1: but oftentimes this is the time here where I guess
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Speaker 1: the bigger, more dominant animals kind of succeed. But this
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Speaker 1: is actually my favorite time of year to catch bucks
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Speaker 1: because not only is the ruts still going on, so
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Speaker 1: they still got that vulnerability, so to speak, but they're
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Speaker 1: also starving at that so a lot more starts transferring
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Speaker 1: back to food, which actually makes it easier to hunt
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Speaker 1: these big bucks. So is food something you'll focus on
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Speaker 1: in the morning as well? This time of year, I
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Speaker 1: kind of start ease and back from morning sets. Um.
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Speaker 1: If I am going to be hunting mornings, I will
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Speaker 1: only go into spots that I really believe are right
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Speaker 1: next to their bedding area. Um. I'm just not a
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Speaker 1: huge fan of hunting food in the mornings. I think
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Speaker 1: most of the time we're hunting specific spots based on
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Speaker 1: the wind. So like let's just say, for example, you're
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Speaker 1: waiting for that cold front or that northwest wind to
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Speaker 1: come in, so when you finally get it, I kind
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Speaker 1: of would rather put all my eggs in one basket
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Speaker 1: and try one good evening set on the food as
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Speaker 1: opposed to trying to go in in the morning. Um,
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Speaker 1: because I think a lot of times you do more
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Speaker 1: damage than good, particularly this time of year where they're
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Speaker 1: just not up traveling as much during daylight. So what
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Speaker 1: kind of food sources do you prefer to focus on
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Speaker 1: this sabby year. Well, we are fortunate here and I
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Speaker 1: We've got lots of beans and corn and agriculture just
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Speaker 1: kind of everywhere, So there's a lot of good food
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Speaker 1: supply there. If you have standing corner beans the since
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Speaker 1: the time here, they'll really start hitting it for that
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Speaker 1: higher protein count. And just last week I hunted a
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Speaker 1: spot that had a bunch of saving beans, and literally
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Speaker 1: it had been almost dead the entire rut, but we
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Speaker 1: got a little bit of snow, about two inches of snow,
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Speaker 1: and it changed everything. Like within twenty four hours, pretty
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Speaker 1: much every deer in the neighborhood was hitting that standing
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Speaker 1: bean plot. And I think a lot of it just
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Speaker 1: comes with the cold because they have to produce so
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Speaker 1: much more energy to stay warm. Uh, they go to
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Speaker 1: the highest benefit beneficial food sources, which are beans and corn.
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Speaker 1: It fills them up, makes them feel warm, and has
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Speaker 1: lots of protein. Uh, just basically allows them to produce
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Speaker 1: more heat. Um. However, green food sources can still be
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Speaker 1: really good too. I'll be hunting tomorrow night. I'm actually
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Speaker 1: planning on going hunting green food source, but it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a little bit a little bit warmer conditions about
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Speaker 1: fifty degrees. So I actually kind of like hunting my
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Speaker 1: green plots when it's a little bit more mild, and
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Speaker 1: then as soon as the cold, cold, whole weather comes,
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Speaker 1: hunt starts coming in. That's when I really like to
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Speaker 1: focus on the beans and corn. But the big thing is,
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Speaker 1: you know, no matter what time of year it is,
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Speaker 1: you've got to have fresh areas to move into the hunt. Um.
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Speaker 1: You can't keep pounding and pounding and pounding the same spot.
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Speaker 1: So UM, I kind of like to use the holidays
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Speaker 1: to spend some time with my family, whether it's Thanksgiving
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Speaker 1: or Christmas. Kind of let some of your areas die
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Speaker 1: down a little bit, give them a break, and then
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Speaker 1: kind of playing your next hunts based on the weather
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Speaker 1: and the front. But then that that next series of
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Speaker 1: hunts right after Thanksgiving can be absolutely fantastic. This window
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Speaker 1: of the rut then where you can still find some
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Speaker 1: mature bucks that just have one thing on their mind
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Speaker 1: and they're harassing those doves in the food. How long
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Speaker 1: do you think that last I've had really good rock
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Speaker 1: hunts all the way through. Um. The end of November
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Speaker 1: usually usually a brown December one is when they pretty
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Speaker 1: much most of the doughs have been bred. There will
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Speaker 1: still be one or two that will come in here
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Speaker 1: and there, but you just won't find the bucks out
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Speaker 1: track link. But all the way through. I mean, just
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Speaker 1: for example, last year, I went out and filmed on
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Speaker 1: a green food plot after Thanksgiving and ended up seeing
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Speaker 1: one of the biggest bucks in our whole territory. And
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Speaker 1: he was out in broad daylight feeding but it was
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Speaker 1: an area that hadn't been hunted hard um, and so
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Speaker 1: he had kind of been left alone there, so he
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Speaker 1: had no reason to not be outfeeding during daylight. But
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Speaker 1: through the any time in November is really good, and
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Speaker 1: I've had some excellent late season rott hunts, and even
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Speaker 1: just this last week, some of our team members in
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Speaker 1: Illinois and different places have been out and seeing tons
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Speaker 1: of actions. UM. Because I think something about this rot
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Speaker 1: was weird because it was so brutally cold in early
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Speaker 1: November when it usually is pretty mild. It seemed like
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Speaker 1: the brought was really suppressed. So I don't know if
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Speaker 1: biologically if the dose just didn't come to heat or
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Speaker 1: if it delayed the coming to heat or we just
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Speaker 1: didn't see the movement because of the cold. But this
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Speaker 1: could be an interesting light rot. I'm kind of curious myself.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be hunting hard in the next week as
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Speaker 1: we have some fronts and snow things coming in. Um,
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Speaker 1: but dude, if it's November, there is always a chance
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Speaker 1: of catching a buck with a hot dog and it
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Speaker 1: could be a monster and boy, they just they have
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Speaker 1: no choice but to follow that hot door where she goes.
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Speaker 1: Now that we're on the other side of maybe like
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Speaker 1: peak running, is there any calling or decoin strategies that
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Speaker 1: you'll use here at the end of November. Oh absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm always calling throughout the year. I'll just kind
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Speaker 1: of raise and lower my aggression levels accordingly. But I'm
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Speaker 1: a big fan of single grounds throughout the season, and
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Speaker 1: like this time of year. Like, as an example, if
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go sit out on a food plot or
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Speaker 1: an area in your food you know, if there's no
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Speaker 1: deer around, I will not hesitate to put a single
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Speaker 1: loud grunt out there. But every thirty minutes giver take
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Speaker 1: and then as you get closer to prime time, I'll use.
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Speaker 1: We have a tree trash or call I developed which
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Speaker 1: attracts all dear, but it doesn't spook everything like rattling. UM.
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Speaker 1: So I'll throw out a thrash session here and there
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Speaker 1: just to see if I can peak the interest of
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Speaker 1: the deer or a buck that's laying nearby, um, if
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Speaker 1: they're not out moving, just to try to get them
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Speaker 1: up a little bit early, to get them out on
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Speaker 1: the field or out in the open early. UM. But
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Speaker 1: rattling this time of year, I'm just not a big fan. Now.
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Speaker 1: Some guys love it, some guys love decoin and doing
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Speaker 1: all those things. But for me, hunting this area year
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Speaker 1: after year, chasing the same dear year after year, I found, UM,
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Speaker 1: that type of aggressive, aggressive calling is is it does
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Speaker 1: a little bit more damage than good. In my opinion,
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Speaker 1: it can work, but I think if you're hunting the
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Speaker 1: same dear, you don't want to necessarily completely educate them
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Speaker 1: in the process because there's always you know, next week
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Speaker 1: or next hunt or next year. So I kind of
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Speaker 1: like to go a little bit more subtle. But I
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Speaker 1: absolutely call all the way through the season. Uh. And
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Speaker 1: deer are just generally so generally attracted to that social
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Speaker 1: sound of a grunt gear making noise, rubbing and antlers
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Speaker 1: thrashing trees and all those things send a calming message
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Speaker 1: that hey, it's safe over here, and you basically create
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Speaker 1: the next destination they want to come to going forward.
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Speaker 1: Then this s next week or so. What do you
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Speaker 1: think that bucket activity is going to be on a
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Speaker 1: scale of one to ten in Iowa? I'm gonna say
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Speaker 1: a seven coming up, because we've got a major cold
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Speaker 1: front coming with some big time snow, and I think
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Speaker 1: most of the Midwest is gonna get hit, or at
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Speaker 1: least the upper Midwest where they're looking at. We have
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Speaker 1: eight inches predicted and for us, dude, that's a lot
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Speaker 1: of snow. So that's gonna push a ton of deer
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Speaker 1: onto the plots. Now, whether it's a real running activity
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Speaker 1: or not, mostly they'll be out there to feed and
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Speaker 1: they'll be checking every other dough that's out there. All right,
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Speaker 1: Todd Will, congrats on that great buck you just killed.
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Speaker 1: Good luck with the rest of your season, and thanks
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Speaker 1: for joining me. Hey, thank you very much, and good
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Speaker 1: luck to everybody out there hunting. Be safe and enjoy
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Speaker 1: the holidays. Happy. Thanks for giving everybody alright and joining
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Speaker 1: us on the line. Next is Aeron Lee from Aero
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Speaker 1: Addicts TV in Virginia. Now, Aaron in Virginia, what would
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Speaker 1: you say the bucket activity has been lately? A skill
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Speaker 1: of one to ten one ten probably be about six
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Speaker 1: or seven. It's gonna start to slow down, uh, stay
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Speaker 1: of the bucks are starting to catch on to the
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Speaker 1: dogs running around, all the clubs running dolls around. But
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Speaker 1: other than that, buck activity has been pretty good for
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Speaker 1: the still hunters. That's what we do. We still hunt. Um.
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Speaker 1: A lot of books have been kind of moving around
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Speaker 1: more at night times, in the morning times or afternoons,
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Speaker 1: but we have we do still have some activity. Um,
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Speaker 1: some you know, decent bucks in the afternoon. So I
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Speaker 1: will give you about six or seven and what phase
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Speaker 1: of it? What would you say the deer in in
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Speaker 1: Virginia right now we are I would say probably towards
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Speaker 1: the end post runts. Um. They were rutting real good
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Speaker 1: a week or two ago, and I have notice activity,
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Speaker 1: you know, rutting kind of gone down the past week. Um.
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Speaker 1: I haven't seen as many doors running around or many
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Speaker 1: bucks chasing. I have seen you, but it's not as
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Speaker 1: you know, as hot as it was two weeks ago,
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Speaker 1: so giving those factors that were maybe on the other
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Speaker 1: side of the huts. And there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: dogs in the wood from from hunt clubs. Where are
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Speaker 1: you focusing on to find some mature bucks on their feet? Um? Well,
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Speaker 1: right now as we speak on certain as deep as
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Speaker 1: you can on the property that was leasing. Um, I
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Speaker 1: gotta swamp. It's stick, it's not down here, but there's
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Speaker 1: a few openings. Um, we're basically planning on cassing big bucks,
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Speaker 1: kind of slipping out of the native properties. Um that
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Speaker 1: they wanted dogs and stuff like that, trying to get
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Speaker 1: big bucks slipping um the tickets and afternoons kind of
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Speaker 1: going towards the bean field. We've got a bean filled
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Speaker 1: right up the road from us, actually right outside of
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Speaker 1: the right on the woodline for where we hun at um,
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Speaker 1: and we're kind of just seems to come out there
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Speaker 1: and eat the beans, the beans around beans pretty much
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Speaker 1: all we got as the fruit source where we're hunting
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Speaker 1: at right now. Do you notice the change in bedding
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Speaker 1: this time of year when the woods get a little
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Speaker 1: bit chaotic. Yeah, they'll um if they could find a
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Speaker 1: short Most short time tickets tend to be a good uh,
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Speaker 1: betting ground for bucks, and those are pretty much anything
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Speaker 1: around this time of year, or a little this small
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Speaker 1: little thicket they've just got enough from curl up then
15:22
Speaker 1: anything real sick. I think um that they fill a
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Speaker 1: lot of protection with. There's pretty good pat and grounds
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Speaker 1: right now. How about the signmaking. Are you still seeing
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Speaker 1: any fresh rubs or scrapes in the woods. Actually, I
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Speaker 1: saw a fresh rub walking into the path, but all
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Speaker 1: the other ones are from earlier this year. I have
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Speaker 1: seen a couple of scrapes um with some like fresh
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Speaker 1: buck tracks in it. I guess you come back and
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Speaker 1: checked one, um, but nothing nothing too fresh other than
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Speaker 1: that other buck blow lessow earlier this this morning. And
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Speaker 1: where are you using your trail cameras is time of
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Speaker 1: year they focused on some specific trails or food sources
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Speaker 1: or what are you doing? We got I got a
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Speaker 1: trail camera right in the corner of this bean field
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Speaker 1: where we knows a good Uh. It's a hot travel
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Speaker 1: path of deer use UM comes right out of the corner,
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Speaker 1: right through the bean field, and it's pretty much a
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Speaker 1: path that was cut through a thicket. UM, So we've
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Speaker 1: placed the trail camera there. We got a couple of
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Speaker 1: trail cameras throughout the woods, just around the tree stands
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Speaker 1: and um, big bottoms. You know where we think hot
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Speaker 1: travel is um coming out of betting areas. We've got
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Speaker 1: a couple of trail cameras where we think they're betting
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Speaker 1: at UM. That's pretty much it for the trail cameras
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Speaker 1: going forward. Then in the next week or so, what
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Speaker 1: do you think that bucket activity is going to be
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Speaker 1: on a scale of one to tend in Virginia for
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Speaker 1: this area southeastern Virginia, buck activity probably about a seven
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Speaker 1: or eight. They're still on their feet, they do looking
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Speaker 1: for a nice mature buck. You're not gonna find one
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Speaker 1: every single hunt. They are on their feet if you
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Speaker 1: give it the time and you put some effort in,
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Speaker 1: and I know the season is kind of coming not
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Speaker 1: towards an end. But dogs, the dogs, the shotgun seaton
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Speaker 1: just started, but we only got about another month some
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Speaker 1: change left. But if you give us some time and
17:18
Speaker 1: you give us some patience, you'll you'll definitely get a
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Speaker 1: nice buck. Even though it's hard with the betting area
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Speaker 1: and dogs running around. The big bucks are trying to
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Speaker 1: find a place, you know, just to kind of hang
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Speaker 1: out at not moving around too much. With the rep
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Speaker 1: coming coming towards an end. Um, I still definitely think
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Speaker 1: you have a good chance of get in piecent book
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Speaker 1: if you put the time, you know determination into it.
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Speaker 1: Are Darren, good luck with your hunt that you're currently on.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me new problem alright and joining us
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Speaker 1: on the line. Next is Scott Spitzley for the Dirt
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Speaker 1: Nap Gear in Michigan. Scott in Michigan, what would you
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Speaker 1: say the bucket activities been lately on a scale of
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Speaker 1: one to ten? You know, I'd probably give it a
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Speaker 1: roll of seven. Now through my observation and lack of
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Speaker 1: sign I've been seeing, I think we've been pretty much
18:06
Speaker 1: well past the peak of their up for a little
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Speaker 1: bit now. However, I have had some good friends of mine,
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Speaker 1: uh put some great bucks down was in the last
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Speaker 1: couple of days. I think they're finally getting out of
18:17
Speaker 1: that lockdown phase and looking for that next hot dough.
18:21
Speaker 1: One of them actually shot their buck after we chase
18:24
Speaker 1: a dough right under his tree. So when Michigan the
18:27
Speaker 1: gun season has been going on for about a week now,
18:30
Speaker 1: I believe what is your strategy for finding bucks that
18:33
Speaker 1: are maybe avoiding those gun hunters, you know, I try
18:37
Speaker 1: to set up close to dough bedding, UM nearer in
18:41
Speaker 1: a travel corridor on the down wind side. UM. If
18:45
Speaker 1: putting in the time in I think you could have
18:47
Speaker 1: a chance at a mature buck cruising through there looking
18:49
Speaker 1: for another hot dough. And if you do, and if
18:53
Speaker 1: you are near doe bedding and you do happen to
18:56
Speaker 1: catch one still lockdown, that could put you in the
18:58
Speaker 1: game as well, you know, depending on where the doe goes.
19:00
Speaker 1: So this time of year, the end of November, do
19:03
Speaker 1: you have a preference for morning or evening sits. I
19:07
Speaker 1: tend to focus more on evening sits just in my experience.
19:12
Speaker 1: The mornings just not a lots going on. UM. I
19:16
Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily favor the evenings. Um, if you're in the
19:19
Speaker 1: right spot, you can you can catch them in sure
19:21
Speaker 1: buck on his feet in the morning. So don't get
19:23
Speaker 1: me wrong, UM, but if you're the type of funner
19:26
Speaker 1: that hunts over food, I would definitely favor the evening.
19:29
Speaker 1: You know, on a big cold front day with some
19:31
Speaker 1: perfect weather conditions. So what food sources specifically are you
19:36
Speaker 1: looking for right now in Michigan? UM? Where I hunt,
19:41
Speaker 1: I don't really have much availability to food sources. UM,
19:47
Speaker 1: so I'll hunt a travel cord or leading into the food. UM.
19:52
Speaker 1: But if someone did have that, I mean that access,
19:55
Speaker 1: I would definitely say to sit up your food because
20:00
Speaker 1: they're not going to be betting far from it, and
20:03
Speaker 1: they're gonna you know, try to get that that winter,
20:08
Speaker 1: you know, get built up for the winter. So you
20:11
Speaker 1: mentioned before that you know, if the right weather comes along,
20:15
Speaker 1: what is the weather that you're looking for this time
20:18
Speaker 1: of year. I'm typically looking for a huge cold front day.
20:23
Speaker 1: You know. Actually yesterday I ended up sitting most of
20:26
Speaker 1: the day. The pressure peaked up to about thirty point six. Um.
20:32
Speaker 1: Just high pressure days, cold, little wind um, sunny days.
20:38
Speaker 1: I mean, just anything that you feel that gets the
20:42
Speaker 1: deer on their feet in your area. Uh, that's that
20:45
Speaker 1: would be the right time to sit up on it.
20:48
Speaker 1: How about with calling a deco and those strategies that
20:50
Speaker 1: you'll use in late November. UM. I do typically like
20:54
Speaker 1: the rattle a little bit. You never know, if a
20:57
Speaker 1: buck you know, just got done with the dough in
20:59
Speaker 1: the area. Uh, if he hears two bucks fighting, it
21:02
Speaker 1: might pique his interest a little bit. You know, get
21:05
Speaker 1: close enough to come check it out. So, um, I don't.
21:09
Speaker 1: I don't try to blind call much. I haven't had
21:13
Speaker 1: good luck with it. If I do have a buck
21:15
Speaker 1: out of range, I'll try calling or grunting to it, um,
21:20
Speaker 1: but I don't go to to overboard with the calling
21:24
Speaker 1: going forward. Then, in the sixt week or so, what
21:26
Speaker 1: do you think that bucket a TV is going to
21:27
Speaker 1: be on a scale of one to tend in Michigan.
21:30
Speaker 1: You know, I'd probably give it about a five within
21:33
Speaker 1: the next week, you know. I hate not to feel optimistic,
21:36
Speaker 1: but I think within the next week or so their
21:40
Speaker 1: focus is going to be on the greens again, you know,
21:43
Speaker 1: before her hard winter hits, which can hurt the guys
21:46
Speaker 1: that don't have access to that. Excuse me. I can
21:50
Speaker 1: imagine the mature bucks not moving too far during daylight
21:54
Speaker 1: and betting fairly close to food, and that can all
21:57
Speaker 1: depend on the deer hurt as well. You know there
22:00
Speaker 1: are still hot dolls in the area. All right, Scott, Well,
22:03
Speaker 1: good luck with what's left of your season. Thanks for
22:05
Speaker 1: joining me. I appreciate the sponsor alright and joining us
22:08
Speaker 1: on the line. Next is Kyler Mompert from Louisiana bow
22:11
Speaker 1: Hunter in Louisiana, now Kyler in Louisiana, what would you
22:14
Speaker 1: say the buck activity has been lately on a scale
22:17
Speaker 1: of one to ten. Block activity for US so far
22:20
Speaker 1: this year has been so far this week has probably
22:23
Speaker 1: been about a seven. Um. We've got some parts of
22:25
Speaker 1: the state that is uh kind of falling into that
22:28
Speaker 1: pre rut time frame, especially in the northern part area
22:32
Speaker 1: to northwest and also the northeast parts of the state
22:36
Speaker 1: are are definitely in pre rut. Um. I think it's
22:40
Speaker 1: gonna get pretty hot and heavy here in the next
22:42
Speaker 1: two or three weeks. So, so you're part of the
22:45
Speaker 1: state specifically, what stage of they wrote, would you say
22:47
Speaker 1: you're in there? Uh, We're We're still very early for
22:51
Speaker 1: us here. Um. I'm an area six outside of Baton
22:54
Speaker 1: Rouge and we're just starting to see a couple of
22:58
Speaker 1: scrapes and rubs nothing um, nothing too aggressive, and not
23:01
Speaker 1: a whole lot of daytime activity right now. Our rutt
23:05
Speaker 1: is really around Christmas to at the beginning of the
23:08
Speaker 1: new year, and sometimes going as as late as uh
23:11
Speaker 1: end of January early February. So your setups, what are
23:16
Speaker 1: you focusing on then? Right now? Are you doing some
23:18
Speaker 1: mornings as well as evenings. Are you looking at food sources,
23:21
Speaker 1: water bedding? Uh? What is your strategy this time of year? Yeah?
23:26
Speaker 1: For for right now, what I'm focusing on. Number one,
23:29
Speaker 1: any anytime I can get out in the woods is
23:31
Speaker 1: a is a good time to hunt, So I'll hunt
23:33
Speaker 1: morn again. E of then I'm mainly focusing on on
23:36
Speaker 1: pitch points and travel routes. Um. You know, some of
23:39
Speaker 1: our acorn trees, some of our oak trees have dropped out,
23:42
Speaker 1: but a lot of the white oaks are still dropping.
23:44
Speaker 1: Red oaks still have a lot on them, so that's
23:47
Speaker 1: always great for an afternoon hunt to get on a
23:49
Speaker 1: red oak flat and uh make sure you're playing the
23:53
Speaker 1: right wind. Um. I killed a few bucks last year
23:56
Speaker 1: on on on some oak flats that uh that produced
24:00
Speaker 1: ellen in the you could say the mid to late
24:03
Speaker 1: winter and get some good activity in the evenings. You
24:08
Speaker 1: mentioned signmaking a little bit before. Um, what is your
24:11
Speaker 1: strategy around signmaking right now? Are you just running cameras
24:13
Speaker 1: on there or is that part of your hunting as well? Um,
24:19
Speaker 1: you know this time of year, I'm running cameras. Uh.
24:22
Speaker 1: When I find a scrape, I'll try and hang a
24:24
Speaker 1: camera high and angle it down and just see what's
24:26
Speaker 1: hitting it, because you know, this is the time of
24:29
Speaker 1: year where you start getting bucks you've never seen before. UM.
24:32
Speaker 1: So every once in a while I'll hang a camera
24:35
Speaker 1: over a scrape and check it just sequence in the
24:37
Speaker 1: area and then depending on which standard is trying and
24:40
Speaker 1: hunt a little downwind of it, um, try and catch
24:43
Speaker 1: something coming in and checking it before dark. Um. But uh,
24:47
Speaker 1: you know, I had a few new bucks show up
24:49
Speaker 1: this week. UM, some of them are it's kind of
24:52
Speaker 1: confirming to me that I don't want to hunt the
24:54
Speaker 1: area because I don't have anything substantial checking. Um. But
24:57
Speaker 1: one of the cameras, I've got a nice buck that
24:59
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start targeting here as soon as as soon
25:01
Speaker 1: as he starts making some daylight appearances between now in
25:05
Speaker 1: the rut. H if you're trying to find a buck
25:08
Speaker 1: on its feet during daylight, are there any specific weather
25:11
Speaker 1: patterns or moon phases that get you excited about maybe
25:14
Speaker 1: seeing some more daytime movement? Absolutely? Uh. I always trying
25:19
Speaker 1: and hunt the back half of a rain storm, especially
25:23
Speaker 1: if it's uh, if I'm checking the checking the weather,
25:26
Speaker 1: if I see it's gonna stop raining raining about two
25:28
Speaker 1: or three o'clock, UM, or sometimes even as late as
25:31
Speaker 1: as four or five o'clock. I might go throw my
25:34
Speaker 1: rain gear on, climb up in the rain, just to
25:36
Speaker 1: be there next to the betting area when he decided
25:39
Speaker 1: to stand up and start walking. You know, will you
25:42
Speaker 1: see any kind of shift in bedding between now and
25:46
Speaker 1: maybe peek rut hitting now? Our our our betting staves
25:50
Speaker 1: about the same all year long. I mean, we're such
25:52
Speaker 1: a sick, sick state to hunt anyway that. UM, I don't.
25:56
Speaker 1: I don't generally see a whole lot of shift in bedding.
25:58
Speaker 1: Every once in a while you'll see um bed down
26:01
Speaker 1: under the oaks or in the oak flatts, and you'll
26:03
Speaker 1: push them out in the morning when you go to hunt. UM.
26:05
Speaker 1: But typically some of your thickets that you would imagine
26:09
Speaker 1: there would be a deer staying in there, there's uh,
26:11
Speaker 1: they're gonna be in there from the beginning of the
26:13
Speaker 1: season until the end. You mentioned before that you think
26:16
Speaker 1: we are even ahead of pre route right now? Does
26:20
Speaker 1: that mean you're part of say you're still seeing some
26:22
Speaker 1: bachelor groups. Maybe absolutely, Yeah, A couple of others are
26:26
Speaker 1: still seeing baschlor groups because like I said, I mean
26:29
Speaker 1: there was even um, there was a buck killed in Velvet.
26:33
Speaker 1: I want to say at the very beginning of November,
26:35
Speaker 1: UM up on the northern part of the state, kind
26:37
Speaker 1: of an intention Tinsaw Parish, there was a buck killed
26:40
Speaker 1: in killed in Velvelle on public land. And I mean,
26:44
Speaker 1: you've got buck You've got bucks in Velvet, You've got
26:46
Speaker 1: bucks that are still traveling together in groups of two
26:48
Speaker 1: to five, um, you know the the rest so long
26:51
Speaker 1: ways off, you know, going forward. Then in this next
26:54
Speaker 1: week or so, what do you think that bucket activity
26:56
Speaker 1: is going to be on a scale of one to
26:58
Speaker 1: ten in Louisiana. So for the next week, I think
27:02
Speaker 1: it's gonna say about the same. We're not gonna start
27:04
Speaker 1: heating up UM for some really good hard pushes at
27:08
Speaker 1: you know, rut movement until UM until probably the week
27:12
Speaker 1: week or two before Christmas. So we're probably two or
27:14
Speaker 1: three weeks out. So the next week I'm gonna leave
27:16
Speaker 1: it at the seventh UM and uh, you know, I
27:19
Speaker 1: would say, if you can get near some betting areas
27:21
Speaker 1: or you know, you have a travel trail where you've
27:24
Speaker 1: got some bucks walking and they're feeling pretty confident that
27:27
Speaker 1: they're not going to get pushed around or be pressured,
27:29
Speaker 1: then I would hone in on that. Alright, Kyler, good
27:32
Speaker 1: luck with the long season head, thanks for joining me,
27:36
Speaker 1: Thank you have a good day. And that concludes this
27:39
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27:44
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