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Wired To Hunt Podcast #180: Rut Radio 11/1/17 · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for
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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,
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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan. This episode number one eight and
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Speaker 1: today we are back with another Rut Radio episode in
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Speaker 1: which we're getting from the field reports on the progress
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Speaker 1: of the white tail Rut. And today we've got updates
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Speaker 1: from states such as Michigan, Tennessee, New York, Ohio, Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: and Moore. All Right, welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast,
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Speaker 1: brought to you by Sitkin Gear. And I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: say that sweet November is here, the rut is finally
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Speaker 1: and we'll well, hopefully the rut is finally here. I
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Speaker 1: think it should be because November is here, and this
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Speaker 1: is one of our Rut radio episodes, which is why
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Speaker 1: I'm so excited about this. And if you're not familiar,
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Speaker 1: On each of our Rut radio episodes, we chat with
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Speaker 1: a handful of different hunters from all across the country
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Speaker 1: to hear about current dear behavior, current conditions, the progress
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Speaker 1: of the rut, different things like that to find out
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Speaker 1: what's happening right now and what we wish as deer
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Speaker 1: hunters should be doing right now as well. So that's
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Speaker 1: what we've been doing since the beginning of the hunting season,
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Speaker 1: and now it is November and the RUT Radio. I
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Speaker 1: think the whole idea we had here is um is
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Speaker 1: really going to be I think exceptionally helpful as we're
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Speaker 1: trying to track that progress of what's happening across the country,
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Speaker 1: what's happening in our neck of the woods, and my
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Speaker 1: buddy Spencer here you are the man that helps make
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Speaker 1: it all happen, right, and uh, how was how was
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Speaker 1: uh this past week for you out there shooting swans?
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Speaker 1: Just a lot of shooting swans. That's it. Still on
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Speaker 1: the sidelines until we hit November as far as deer hunting,
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Speaker 1: so I gotta past time in other ways, and that
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Speaker 1: has been tundra swan hunting and waterfall hunting. Do you
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Speaker 1: do you regret filling your tag so early? Now you're
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Speaker 1: missing out on the pre rot and all this good
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Speaker 1: stuff sometimes and then like I see that it's snowing
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Speaker 1: out and thirty five wins, This is okay, all right? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: not to mention the deer your shot was was decent, right,
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Speaker 1: it was okay? Yeah, that makes it easy to cope
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Speaker 1: with two. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Well, have you
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Speaker 1: been hearing anything about what's happening in South Dakota or
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Speaker 1: have you noticed anything out driving around or trout cams? Do?
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Speaker 1: Do you have a rut radio or port of any sort? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so both of those things you just mentioned. I have
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Speaker 1: spent a lot of time checking cameras and just out
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Speaker 1: glassing because I do have a rifle tag that comes
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Speaker 1: up in about three weeks for this area, so I'm
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Speaker 1: still interested in in what the deer are doing. But
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Speaker 1: trail cameras. Um. Number one thing is scrapes. Right now,
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Speaker 1: they are on fire and we're getting some daylight movement
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Speaker 1: on them as well. I don't know how long that
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Speaker 1: will last, that scrapes will be that productive, um, but
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Speaker 1: right now there's a good time. And then just movement.
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Speaker 1: I've been seeing a lot more movement in the mornings
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Speaker 1: when I'm all driving around. Just see bucks hanging out
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Speaker 1: and cut bean fields at sunrise, which is a week ago,
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Speaker 1: you know, unheard of for the most part. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: where I feel like we're seeing similar things in my
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Speaker 1: neck of the woods to um. You know, I've been
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Speaker 1: hunting for the last week. UM, most of that time
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Speaker 1: has been in Michigan, although I spent two and a
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Speaker 1: half days down in southern Ohio to UM and in Michigan,
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Speaker 1: it's been a little bit slower than I was expecting. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, we had that great cold front the hit
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Speaker 1: last week that we talked about, UM, and I just
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Speaker 1: in my spots. I didn't see the increased activity I
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Speaker 1: was expecting. UM, I still don't have any daylight photos
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Speaker 1: of any mature bucks or holy Field. Still haven't seen him. Well,
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Speaker 1: I still hadn't seen him until UM a little something
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Speaker 1: that happened tonight. Um, but the only thing I've seen
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Speaker 1: otherwise had been some two year olds in one and
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Speaker 1: a half old bumping a few doughs around. But UM,
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Speaker 1: pretty minimal on that front. So UM that said, I
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Speaker 1: think things are you know, things are starting to shift. Um,
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Speaker 1: tonight I did see another two and a half year
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Speaker 1: old chasing and UM, I'm gonna keep this minimal because
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Speaker 1: I'll go into the whole story in the next episode
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Speaker 1: of the podcast. UM, but I'll throw a little teaser out.
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Speaker 1: I did I think have an encounter with holy Field tonight.
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Speaker 1: It was very, very brief. Um, but in that brief
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Speaker 1: few seconds about sure, I did see him tonight, um
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Speaker 1: during daylight, a couple hours before dark. So that's a
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Speaker 1: really good sign um of hopefully much more or many
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Speaker 1: more good things to come here soon. Who is holy
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Speaker 1: Field again? He's this he's this one buck that I
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Speaker 1: kind of have been hunting for a little while that
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Speaker 1: probably everybody listening to the podcast is just sick of
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Speaker 1: hearing about. So I just need to get that hunt
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Speaker 1: done and over with. Some people can move on to
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Speaker 1: something more interesting, I think. Um, but but that's Michigan
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Speaker 1: and um. Yeah, am I allowed to give in Ohio
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Speaker 1: report even though that's not my home state. Yep. We
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Speaker 1: will hear some more Ohio later. But let's uh compare
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Speaker 1: your report to days al right, So my my little
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Speaker 1: uh cliff notes version of the Ohio report. From what
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Speaker 1: I was seeing, um was I was seeing some cruising bucks. Um.
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Speaker 1: I had one evening where I saw three different bucks cruising,
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Speaker 1: all probably three year olds or older. Um. And then
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Speaker 1: yesterday morning I saw a three or four year old
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Speaker 1: buck cruising late in the morning. Um. A night a
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Speaker 1: pretty nice buck that I passed on. So that was
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Speaker 1: good to see decent bucks up on their feet moving UM.
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Speaker 1: The first night, it was probably about and I saw
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Speaker 1: the first one about an hour before dark, and then
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Speaker 1: the second two around half hour before dark. And then
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Speaker 1: that buck I passed yesterday that was a couple hours
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Speaker 1: after daylight. He was still on his feet moving around. UM,
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Speaker 1: So I think that makes sense. This is kind of
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Speaker 1: that time of year where your start you're seeing those
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Speaker 1: bucks cruising around late in the morning checking dough betting
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Speaker 1: areas and everything. And that was exactly where I was at.
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Speaker 1: I was tight to a thick, nasty patch of cover
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Speaker 1: that lots of does tend to bed in, and he
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Speaker 1: was cruising through their checking it out. So that kind
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Speaker 1: of is exactly what you'd expect to see. So that
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Speaker 1: that was basically the extent of what was going on
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Speaker 1: for me. I do have a mature buck on trail
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Speaker 1: camera in daylight down there, um twice in the last
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Speaker 1: week I had him, So that's another sign of these
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Speaker 1: deer starting to get a little more active. And let
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Speaker 1: me take that back. There was another picture of him
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Speaker 1: during daylight. UM. The time stamps around on the camera,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not exactly sure when it was UM, but
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it was within the last week and
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Speaker 1: a half if I like trying to backdate it. Um, so, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's a good sign. Yeah, and uh like the best
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Speaker 1: sign for me that the road is here is that
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Speaker 1: it is really hard to get people on the phone
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Speaker 1: because everybody is either in a tree stand or on
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Speaker 1: their way to retree stand. But who we did connect
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Speaker 1: with this week was David g. A Rizzo with Tag
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Speaker 1: and Bragg in New York, and then Byron Horton with
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Speaker 1: the white Tail Experience in Ohio. Do we have Jeff
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Speaker 1: Simpson with Sick of Gear in Kansas? That we have
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Speaker 1: Jake Terry and outdoor photographer from Tennessee. And then we
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Speaker 1: talked to Alex Comstock of white Tail DNA in Minnesota. Excellent. Well,
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Speaker 1: sounds like a good slate of states for us to cover. Um,
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Speaker 1: I'm interested to hear what everyone's seeing. Any big takeaways
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Speaker 1: after you've talked with everybody now, or you're gonna make
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Speaker 1: us way. Well. Another thing to to listen for this week,
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Speaker 1: I guess is besides the regular questions on the scale
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Speaker 1: of one to ten, thing I also asked everybody what
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Speaker 1: their ideal set up is for like this coming weekend,
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Speaker 1: in a hypothetical where we get a cold front and
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Speaker 1: there's a north wind on November four, a Saturday, Like,
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Speaker 1: what is your ideal rut set up? And I think
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Speaker 1: that's fun to hear because I have in my head like, well,
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Speaker 1: my ideal rut setup is, and I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of people envision their own, you know what tree they
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Speaker 1: want to be in. So it was fun to hear
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Speaker 1: um what these five had to say. What what would
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Speaker 1: you say your market ideal rut setup is? Ignoring that
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Speaker 1: holy Field is in the picture. If you were hunting
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Speaker 1: like Ohio right now? Where anything else in Michigan that
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Speaker 1: wasn't holy Field specific? What would be like your ideal
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Speaker 1: November four hunt looked like, Well, in a perfect world,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to be um a morning hunt. Um, I'd
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Speaker 1: like to be tucked right up tight to the downward
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Speaker 1: side of a dough betting area that also happens to
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Speaker 1: be a bit of a pinch point. If you can
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Speaker 1: get a pinch, If you can get a terrain funnel
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Speaker 1: some sort, do some knock on my micro on here,
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Speaker 1: if if you can get the two things combined, a
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Speaker 1: little tightening down of cover or something like that to
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Speaker 1: pinch down movement and then also have that be downwind
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Speaker 1: of dough bedding. That's like an absolute dynamite rout hunting
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Speaker 1: set up. So if I can like try to think
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Speaker 1: of a setup of my own like this, um, okay,
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Speaker 1: I kind of do have a good setup like this.
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Speaker 1: So there is on one of one of these Michigan
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Speaker 1: farms a hunt. Um there's a big swamp and then
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Speaker 1: there's a sort of a ridge of high ground along
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Speaker 1: the far edge of this swamp, and then on the
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Speaker 1: other side of the um of that ridge is open
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Speaker 1: field and open field. So what you basically have is
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Speaker 1: is this wide open field, then there's like a forty
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Speaker 1: yards strip of high ground, and then you've got thick
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Speaker 1: swampy water and stuff. So what happens is there's a
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Speaker 1: great dough bedding just on the edge of that high
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Speaker 1: ground in the swamp, So there's a bunch of bedding
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Speaker 1: going on right there. And then because there's that open
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Speaker 1: field on the other side, you basically have all the
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Speaker 1: movement down window that doe betting are squeezed into that
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Speaker 1: little thirty five to forty yards stretch of high ground,
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Speaker 1: so I can hunt there with a west wind, so
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Speaker 1: it blows from the doe betting area out to me
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Speaker 1: and out across that open field, and all these bucks
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Speaker 1: come down and they start cruising that edge in the
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Speaker 1: mornings when they're coming back checking those betting areas. UM.
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Speaker 1: And it's it's kind of a bulletproof set from a
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Speaker 1: wind standpoint, because I can blow my winds straight into
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Speaker 1: the open field that very few deer going into. UM
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Speaker 1: And then you know, it's got those both of those
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Speaker 1: two things going for. It's got the doe bedding and
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Speaker 1: it funnels down that deer room into a small area,
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Speaker 1: so I can get a shot at basically anything that
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Speaker 1: tries to go through there. UM. So that's the spot
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Speaker 1: I'm planning on hunting, you know, over the next week
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Speaker 1: and a half here or so. When I get that
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Speaker 1: that you know the wind I'm waiting for. So that's
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Speaker 1: what I would go for. What would you do, Spencer,
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Speaker 1: I would primarily focus on the same thing that you're
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Speaker 1: looking for as far as doll bedding. But my setup
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Speaker 1: would look like, UM, where I hunt, there's a horseshoe
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Speaker 1: in the river, and at the back of the horseshoe
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Speaker 1: is where a lot of the dear bed UM. But
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Speaker 1: typically I don't push back there until in November. So
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Speaker 1: if it was coming up on November four for me
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Speaker 1: and I still had a tag, um, I'd be hunting
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Speaker 1: in in the middle of that horseshoe where there's sure
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Speaker 1: to be a lot of traffic um and and likely
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Speaker 1: try to stick it out all day if possible, but
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Speaker 1: for sure there in the morning. Um. And And that's
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Speaker 1: similar to a lot what a lot of these guys
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Speaker 1: are looking for on two things, pinch points and does
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Speaker 1: So is it a great thing to focus on, you
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Speaker 1: know as we go into this weekend. Yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 1: not you know, hunting the rut isn't rocket science. There's
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Speaker 1: just a couple of core things to think about, which
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Speaker 1: we just talked about there, and then it's just a
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Speaker 1: matter of can you put in the time, can you
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Speaker 1: tough it out and be out there for long hours
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Speaker 1: and just wait till the opportunity presence itself. So I
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Speaker 1: think that's what we all gotta do, right. Yeah, And
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Speaker 1: unless you have another Don Higgins interview for this week,
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Speaker 1: I think let's get in the podcast. Don has done shooting,
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Speaker 1: so yes, let's let's carry on and uh, hopefully next
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Speaker 1: week I'll have a good holy Field story for your
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Speaker 1: something All right, talk to you then, Mark. Before we
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Speaker 1: get to our first update, though, let's positive thank our
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Speaker 1: booner while wearing his tennis shoes. It was a couple
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Speaker 1: of years back. I think it was November eighteens actually,
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Speaker 1: Um that I was out chasing. I had a couple
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Speaker 1: of big deer on contreil camera that were actually on
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Speaker 1: some public ground here in Kansas, and we've been waiting
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Speaker 1: for a cold front to hit. It was staying pretty warm,
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Speaker 1: but I was picking those two deer upquote a bit,
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Speaker 1: and uh got up real early, headed out there, about
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Speaker 1: a three hour drive. Get out there, got all the
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Speaker 1: way into to the point where I parked and started
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Speaker 1: to get ready to walk in and realized that, Um,
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Speaker 1: I had forgotten my boots. Um, I had all this,
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Speaker 1: stay warm on a cold day, but um, lo and behold,
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Speaker 1: I forgot my boots. But anyway, I slipped into the
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Speaker 1: stand with with with the tennis shoes on, and I
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Speaker 1: think I had my fanatic bibs on and unzipped. Luckily
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Speaker 1: for me, by the time I got up the tree
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Speaker 1: and zip my pants up, I had heard something and
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Speaker 1: looked up and saw Doe I'm kind of making its
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Speaker 1: way to me, and right behind her was the buck
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Speaker 1: I was chasing. So they came in nice and quick,
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Speaker 1: and I was able to make a good shot. He
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Speaker 1: ended up going down about twenty yards in my tree
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Speaker 1: joining us on the line first is David g Arizzo
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Speaker 1: in New York from Team Tagging breg Now David in
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Speaker 1: New York. What would you say? The buck activity has
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Speaker 1: been leately on a scale of one to ten um Man,
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Speaker 1: the buck activity probably about an eight um There's a
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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of younger bucks cruising right now,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of two and three year olds that
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Speaker 1: we've you know, that we're seeing that we don't typically see. Um.
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Speaker 1: And the reason I say an eight and not anything
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Speaker 1: higher than that right now, it's just because we haven't
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Speaker 1: seen a ton of we haven't seen like the mature buck,
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Speaker 1: you know, the four or five six year old bucks
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Speaker 1: on their feet um, at least this past week in
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Speaker 1: the daylight. There's a lot of trail camera videos of
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Speaker 1: them on scrapes, but nothing in the daylight yet. Um.
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Speaker 1: But the younger bucks are on their feet, it seems
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Speaker 1: like all day long and looking, begging, hoping for that
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Speaker 1: first though to come into Astris. Well they are you're
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Speaker 1: picking up any new bucks yet this time of year
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Speaker 1: is it's still kind of the same group of you
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Speaker 1: you've been seeing all fall. No, you know what it's
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Speaker 1: it's pretty crazy. It's it's probably about six forty two
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Speaker 1: bucks that we saw all summer compared to the new
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Speaker 1: bucks that are on here now that are that you know,
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Speaker 1: and that's just trail camera stuff that we're seeing, um
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Speaker 1: and and a few new bucks that we just randomly
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Speaker 1: see while we're in the woods. But we've had a
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Speaker 1: lot of new bucks move into the area, A couple
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Speaker 1: of really big Bucks move into the area, so we're
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Speaker 1: really excited about that. How about was signmaking Um, do
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Speaker 1: you still see bucks they're working rubs and scrapes um?
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Speaker 1: Or are they doing it as much as they were
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Speaker 1: you know a week ago? Yeah? Yeah, if if, if not, um,
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Speaker 1: even more than they were a week ago. I mean,
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Speaker 1: with New York being a little bit more north, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, you know how that kind of shifts the movement,
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Speaker 1: But it seems like over this last week the scrape
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Speaker 1: activity has literally picked up every day, um and and
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Speaker 1: to where it's gotten more daylight every day more more
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Speaker 1: like even towards the middle of the day hours you
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Speaker 1: know that eleven two o'clock hours and stuff. Um. So,
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Speaker 1: so yeah, the scrape activity right now, I think is
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Speaker 1: that its peak at least by us up in New York.
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Speaker 1: How About with the deer movement that you've been seeing
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Speaker 1: in person, as far as have you seen any bucks
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Speaker 1: that are really dug in some does or have you
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Speaker 1: seen bucks fighting yet? Yeah, we've we've seen the box
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Speaker 1: if if we're sitting on a food plat or even
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Speaker 1: in the hardwoods, um and there's two bucks. Uh, you
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Speaker 1: know in the area together. They're there banging horns together
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Speaker 1: at least a little bit um, and it really seems
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Speaker 1: like the does are not ready at all and the
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Speaker 1: box are just literally begging for somebody to be ready. Um.
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Speaker 1: The bucks are chasing the dose all over the pust,
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Speaker 1: tormenting the crap out of them, you know, but there's
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Speaker 1: no none of the does are an asterisk yet. So
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Speaker 1: they'll kind of you know, check a group and run
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Speaker 1: them around for five, ten minutes whatever, and then get
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Speaker 1: lost and going to try and find another group. Or
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Speaker 1: if we're on a food plot, even although we'll be
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Speaker 1: running five or on one side of the food plat,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you know, they'll move
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Speaker 1: to the other to see, if you know, see if
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Speaker 1: anybody's ready yet. But the box seem to be ready,
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Speaker 1: like beyond belief, and the Does are not anywhere near yet.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about this coming weekend, Um that around that
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Speaker 1: November four time period. Let's say that we get a
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Speaker 1: cold front and uh, you were going to be in
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Speaker 1: your absolute best stand. Tell me about that set up.
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Speaker 1: What is your best rout set up look like? Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, we we've got the stomacking new York we
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Speaker 1: call four Corners, and it's it's kind of set up
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Speaker 1: in the hardwoods, up on the top of this ridge.
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Speaker 1: And what I like about it is it's just it's
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Speaker 1: just a main travel area between bed and food and
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Speaker 1: and and it's kind of big picture. It's a huge
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Speaker 1: travel area between the neighboring properties and ours. So what
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Speaker 1: I like about it most is you're when you see
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Speaker 1: the deer, you're not going to see him for a
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Speaker 1: long time. But especially in the rout if we got
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Speaker 1: a cold front and you know, a lot of these
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Speaker 1: bucks are gonna be on their feet. It is a
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Speaker 1: major cruising area. We've seen a lot more activity in
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Speaker 1: this last week in the hardwoods as opposed to sitting
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Speaker 1: on the food cloth, um, like we were a little
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Speaker 1: bit earlier in the season. So my perfect scenario is
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Speaker 1: going to be up on that ridge, you know, up
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Speaker 1: on a big ridge where these deer are cruising back
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Speaker 1: and forth, you know, from betting area to betting area,
18:23
Speaker 1: just just checking does well going forward then to this
18:26
Speaker 1: next week or so, David, what do you think the
18:28
Speaker 1: bucket activity is going to look on the s one
18:30
Speaker 1: to tend in New York? You know, I think this
18:33
Speaker 1: week coming up is going to be the best week
18:35
Speaker 1: of the year personally because the bucks are not going
18:38
Speaker 1: to be like locked down chasing, but they are gonna
18:41
Speaker 1: be like that. The energy is going to be ramped
18:44
Speaker 1: up for them. They want to find a dough um
18:47
Speaker 1: and and you may get you know, one or two
18:49
Speaker 1: of the doughs that are just starting to come in.
18:51
Speaker 1: So if you have a hot dough in the area,
18:53
Speaker 1: it's gonna I think it's gonna explode. Um. I think
18:56
Speaker 1: the buck activity is going to ramp up more to
18:58
Speaker 1: like a nine, maybe even at ten. But this week
19:02
Speaker 1: of this week of the season is my personal favorite
19:05
Speaker 1: week of the year. And based off of the interaction
19:08
Speaker 1: that we saw this past week, UM, that's really been
19:12
Speaker 1: the biggest, the most pre rod activity that we've seen
19:15
Speaker 1: on our land up in New York probably ever. UM,
19:18
Speaker 1: I have I have high anticipations going into this week.
19:22
Speaker 1: All Right, David, We'll see in you guys this trail
19:23
Speaker 1: camp pictures. I'm confident that Tag and Braggy will get
19:26
Speaker 1: something done. So good luck and thanks for joining me.
19:29
Speaker 1: Thanks Spencer, I appreciate you having us on alright and
19:34
Speaker 1: joining us on the line. Next out of Ohio, is
19:36
Speaker 1: Byron Horton, the owner of white Tail Experience Now Byron
19:41
Speaker 1: in Ohio. What would you say the buck activity has
19:43
Speaker 1: been lately on a scale of one to ten, I'd
19:45
Speaker 1: say over the weekend we definitely got into the six
19:48
Speaker 1: point five range. We're starting to see morning movement on
19:51
Speaker 1: buck when you're able to jump into betting areas real early, um,
19:55
Speaker 1: starting to see him kind of cruise around a little bit. Obviously,
19:58
Speaker 1: trail camp sidings were starting to get a few daytime photos. Uh.
20:03
Speaker 1: In the evenings, we're starting to see, oh, a lot
20:06
Speaker 1: of two and a half year old starting to cruise um.
20:09
Speaker 1: And obviously all of the smaller bucks are are on
20:12
Speaker 1: their feet as well, looking lost and just looking for love.
20:15
Speaker 1: So any mature buck movement then out of Ohio there
20:18
Speaker 1: that you've witnessed. As far as personally, the best mature
20:21
Speaker 1: bucks movement I saw was Saturday night, about two hours
20:25
Speaker 1: before you know, um sundown. I was getting into a
20:28
Speaker 1: set and I actually had a dough blowing at me
20:31
Speaker 1: before I was able to get my standing sticks up,
20:34
Speaker 1: and she sat there and blew for oh three to
20:37
Speaker 1: five minutes, just not getting my win, but definitely saw
20:40
Speaker 1: me walking in and sure enough, I saw three and
20:43
Speaker 1: a half year old cross the ridge at about sixty
20:45
Speaker 1: seventy yards, no real concern for for the threats she
20:49
Speaker 1: was seeing, but he knew there was a dough there
20:51
Speaker 1: and he was definitely in to check her out. And uh,
20:54
Speaker 1: he actually took off after her. Oh her exit trail. Um,
20:58
Speaker 1: after everything kind of settled out. So that's kind of
21:02
Speaker 1: my first real good siding of the year. Well, Byron,
21:05
Speaker 1: you hunts a lot of public ground there in Ohio,
21:08
Speaker 1: and how do things change for you come the rout
21:10
Speaker 1: on that public ground versus if you were hunting private. Yeah,
21:14
Speaker 1: the public ground, especially here, we've noticed in the last
21:16
Speaker 1: just a few days, we're seeing a lot more license
21:19
Speaker 1: plates from out of state guys. We're seeing more tire
21:22
Speaker 1: tracks in and out of the common parking lot. So
21:24
Speaker 1: at this point, it's the years of scouting, knowing areas
21:29
Speaker 1: that don't get hit as often and finding more of
21:32
Speaker 1: these overlooked type areas. Um, sometimes you gotta go deeper,
21:36
Speaker 1: sometimes you gotta Um, I'm planning on taking a boat
21:39
Speaker 1: in this weekend, so trying to separate ourselves from the
21:42
Speaker 1: average individual. Well, with that said, then let's say this
21:46
Speaker 1: weekend like November four, we get a good cold front
21:49
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be in your absolute best set up.
21:51
Speaker 1: What does that look like as far as stand location,
21:54
Speaker 1: time of day, topography, stuff like that, it's gonna be uh,
21:59
Speaker 1: definitely an early entrance into an area near a dough
22:03
Speaker 1: betting area. I'd like to be on the down wind
22:06
Speaker 1: side um. In a perfect world, I'd even be on
22:09
Speaker 1: maybe a military crest where I could maybe catch UM
22:12
Speaker 1: cruising from down wind and maybe you know, having a
22:15
Speaker 1: deer working both a thermal and the um the wind
22:20
Speaker 1: tunnel effect. In a very perfect world. I'm not sure
22:23
Speaker 1: that scenario that I've got, but that's where i'd love
22:26
Speaker 1: to be. Well, what does the signmaking look like? You know,
22:29
Speaker 1: Ohio that you've seen everything's picked up or slowed down
22:31
Speaker 1: as far as scrapes and rubs. Scrapes are definitely a
22:36
Speaker 1: hot place to be. We're catching a few daytime trail
22:38
Speaker 1: camp picks on on that end. I personally saw a
22:41
Speaker 1: two and a half year old work a rub on
22:43
Speaker 1: Saturday night, oh probably hour and a half before sundown.
22:46
Speaker 1: So they're definitely starting to make their rounds and and
22:49
Speaker 1: that sign is definitely picking up. Well, you've referenced trail
22:53
Speaker 1: cameras a couple of times. Where do you have them
22:55
Speaker 1: at now? And will that change anytime in these next
22:58
Speaker 1: couple of weeks as far as trail came location. Yeah,
23:02
Speaker 1: I've placed a few cameras obviously over scrapes in October.
23:06
Speaker 1: Some of the cameras were pulling now have been placed
23:08
Speaker 1: in Betting area in an entrance and access routes that
23:12
Speaker 1: we placed in August and now on the first entry
23:16
Speaker 1: um into those locations we're pulling and seeing women may
23:19
Speaker 1: be using those areas over Oh, the the October period
23:24
Speaker 1: going forward down this next week or so, Byron, what
23:27
Speaker 1: do you think that buck activity is going to look
23:28
Speaker 1: like on a scale of one to ten in Ohio? Oh,
23:32
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna ramp up. We've got a couple
23:34
Speaker 1: of front systems pushing through, so temperatures are staying low.
23:38
Speaker 1: Uh that we've also got some precipitation, so uh, dear
23:42
Speaker 1: do love to get up and move after the fronts
23:44
Speaker 1: come through. So I gotta think we're gonna get into
23:46
Speaker 1: the seven eight some of the best activity of the year.
23:49
Speaker 1: For sure. Well, good luck Byron in the Buckeye stay
23:52
Speaker 1: and look forward to seeing some pictures from the White
23:54
Speaker 1: Deal experience. Absolutely thanks a lot of Spencer all right
23:58
Speaker 1: enjoining us on the line. New is Sitka athlete and
24:01
Speaker 1: YETI athlete Jeff Simpson out of Kansas. Now Jeff in Kansas.
24:06
Speaker 1: What would you say the buck activity has been lately
24:08
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten, Oh, I'd have
24:11
Speaker 1: to go with probably a six. Right now. It's the
24:15
Speaker 1: time of year where we're all pretty excited. We've got
24:18
Speaker 1: some cold fronts moving in, but it's also warming up
24:20
Speaker 1: in the days in between, and it really depends on
24:22
Speaker 1: when you catch it. Um. You know, it can be
24:26
Speaker 1: really good, but it can also be really slow this
24:27
Speaker 1: time of year because one little thing that triggers them
24:30
Speaker 1: to lay down and and uh they typically will. So
24:33
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of hot those running around yet
24:35
Speaker 1: um if any um, there's very few. So if they
24:38
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of reason to move around during
24:40
Speaker 1: the daylight hours right now because they know they know
24:42
Speaker 1: the main events coming. So you think a good weather
24:45
Speaker 1: front right now would get them moving it out a
24:47
Speaker 1: little more though, Yeah, I think it is. It's it's
24:50
Speaker 1: actually snow and here today in Kansas. Um, and I'm
24:53
Speaker 1: sitting here in my office, watching my trail cameras light up,
24:57
Speaker 1: so you know they're they're moving around a little bit.
24:58
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of activity. I'm a lot of
25:00
Speaker 1: younger year, a lot of those, but I'm still that
25:03
Speaker 1: upper age class is not real active. Um. But with
25:07
Speaker 1: that said, over the last week, I have seen a
25:10
Speaker 1: lot of times getting broken off on that that middle
25:13
Speaker 1: age group, that hundred forty hundred fifty in class deer um,
25:16
Speaker 1: they're all starting to break some time. So I think
25:19
Speaker 1: everybody's starting to get a little serious. Speaking of Jeff,
25:22
Speaker 1: would you do any calling right now, if if you
25:24
Speaker 1: were hunting, we're speaking on Halloween right now, would you
25:27
Speaker 1: be using any rattling or grunting a few out? Oh well,
25:31
Speaker 1: if anyone knows me, they know that I can scare
25:33
Speaker 1: any deer in the country with rattling. So I don't
25:36
Speaker 1: care what time in the year it is. I don't rattle.
25:38
Speaker 1: That's a personal preference. Um. You know, I will grunt,
25:42
Speaker 1: I will snort. We'se And I feel like you can
25:44
Speaker 1: almost use that from now all the way to Thanksgiving
25:49
Speaker 1: somewhere in there pretty easy. And you can grunt all
25:50
Speaker 1: your all your long atom snort where you can get
25:53
Speaker 1: you in trouble if you're doing it too early or
25:54
Speaker 1: too late. But um the one thing I do right
25:57
Speaker 1: now is it's prime prime time for a decoy. So
26:00
Speaker 1: I will put a decoy out from now, probably the
26:03
Speaker 1: next ten fifteen days or maybe not even that long
26:06
Speaker 1: at this point. But UM, I do like to run
26:08
Speaker 1: a decoy right now. We'll tell me what that decoy
26:11
Speaker 1: set up I would look like. Is it a single
26:13
Speaker 1: buck decoy using a pair of decoys? It kind of depends. Um,
26:18
Speaker 1: I like using a buck decoy, But a buck decoy
26:20
Speaker 1: can can make and break you. Um. I had one
26:23
Speaker 1: of my largest typicals I could have ever shot coming
26:25
Speaker 1: right to me, and the dough in front of him
26:27
Speaker 1: hated my duck buck decoy. And yeah he followed her
26:30
Speaker 1: as she ran off, snort and m me. So you know,
26:33
Speaker 1: it can break your heart, but can also have had
26:35
Speaker 1: it work really well to where they come right in
26:36
Speaker 1: if their cruising alone, and you can give them that
26:39
Speaker 1: grunt call and get him to look and then they
26:40
Speaker 1: have a visual queue as well. You've got to really
26:42
Speaker 1: get a chance with them coming over. Now, let's say
26:45
Speaker 1: we get a cold front this weekend, like on November four,
26:48
Speaker 1: then there's a north wind. Where are you going to
26:52
Speaker 1: be sitting, Jeff? And what does that set up look
26:54
Speaker 1: like this time of year? You know, pretty much all
26:58
Speaker 1: all times a year. I really I'm a brat. Um.
27:01
Speaker 1: I've only killed one or two deer on the edge
27:03
Speaker 1: of the field. UM. So most of my deer have
27:06
Speaker 1: come in to timber. I like getting getting in there
27:08
Speaker 1: and finding the shelves and finding the pinch points and
27:11
Speaker 1: finding areas that they feel really comfortable and move around. Um.
27:14
Speaker 1: It seems like when they're my food plots, or when
27:16
Speaker 1: they're out now fausa fields, or when I catch them
27:18
Speaker 1: out in big egg fields, they're always on edge and
27:21
Speaker 1: they almost treat it like geese, you know, they stealing
27:23
Speaker 1: from the edges and they stay out in the middle. Um.
27:25
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of really nice bucks stand right
27:27
Speaker 1: out in the middle fields and really never got a
27:29
Speaker 1: shot at him with a bow. So UM, I like
27:32
Speaker 1: to get in where they're at, where I can get
27:33
Speaker 1: them into tight quarters. And other thing is I think
27:36
Speaker 1: that allows you to call better. Um you start calling
27:39
Speaker 1: at them, drowning at him or anything else in the field.
27:42
Speaker 1: If you're not running a decoy, they have no visual
27:44
Speaker 1: cue so it can sometimes that just gets up to
27:47
Speaker 1: your location. Well, Jeff, do you put any stock in
27:50
Speaker 1: what the moon is doing this time of year as
27:52
Speaker 1: if we go into November. Yeah, I look at it. Um.
27:56
Speaker 1: You know that this Saturday is a full moon. So
28:00
Speaker 1: you know, you look at it and you kind of
28:01
Speaker 1: base it off of temperature, um and everything else. What
28:04
Speaker 1: kind of sky you have, if you've got clouds, if
28:05
Speaker 1: it's clear and you can, they're gonna move no matter what.
28:09
Speaker 1: So um, the survival of the species depends on the rut.
28:12
Speaker 1: So they're not going to skip out on it. Um.
28:16
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of if they're going to do
28:17
Speaker 1: it during the daylight hours, if they're gonna do it
28:18
Speaker 1: at night and with the full moon. You know, I
28:21
Speaker 1: really like that late morning sit um seems like that
28:25
Speaker 1: early sit Sometimes it's really slow because they've already bettered up,
28:28
Speaker 1: but you know, if you can get in there. I
28:31
Speaker 1: like to slip into my stand somewhere around nine o'clock
28:33
Speaker 1: and it sits one or two, and during full moon phases,
28:36
Speaker 1: I like to do that a lot. Now going forward
28:38
Speaker 1: in the sex week or so, Jeff, what do you
28:40
Speaker 1: think the buck activity is going to be on the
28:42
Speaker 1: scale of one to tending with Kansas. Oh, I think
28:45
Speaker 1: we'll creep up to seven, a solid seven, maybe maybe
28:48
Speaker 1: an eight. Um. I think we're still a good ten
28:51
Speaker 1: days away from it getting really good. So if you
28:53
Speaker 1: look at the wind and you look at the tendencies,
28:56
Speaker 1: you know, and get a sixteen day forecast and look
28:58
Speaker 1: at that in with the moon and kind of everything
29:02
Speaker 1: that's going on, I think we're this Sunday were predicted
29:04
Speaker 1: to be almost eighty degrees. So it's gonna shut everything
29:07
Speaker 1: off really bad. So it'll take take a good three
29:12
Speaker 1: or four days of cold weather to kind of kick
29:13
Speaker 1: that back off. But once it gets going, I think
29:15
Speaker 1: it'll ramp up pretty quick. So I would say next
29:18
Speaker 1: week we're looking okay, the week after that we're probably
29:20
Speaker 1: looking really good. All right, Jeff, Well, I hope you
29:23
Speaker 1: get to spend more time and in trying less time
29:25
Speaker 1: launching websites in the next couple of weeks, and good luck,
29:28
Speaker 1: that's why we're doing it today. Yeah, thank you, all right,
29:31
Speaker 1: And joining me on the line next is Jake Terry,
29:34
Speaker 1: an outdoor photographer from Tennessee. Now, Jake in Tennessee, what
29:38
Speaker 1: would you say the buck activity has been lately on
29:40
Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten. Hey Spencer, thanks for
29:44
Speaker 1: having me. I would have to write the activity, um
29:48
Speaker 1: right at it about a seven right now. Ums, it's
29:51
Speaker 1: just jumped up to a seven here lately, but I
29:53
Speaker 1: would have to go with the seven. So in the
29:55
Speaker 1: last week here what I've really been noticing. UM, So
29:58
Speaker 1: we got a cold snap here in to see last week.
30:01
Speaker 1: UM that put the lows down in the upper thirties. UM.
30:05
Speaker 1: It had been pretty slow activity up until that point. UM,
30:09
Speaker 1: this was about five days ago. The deer activity after that,
30:12
Speaker 1: of course skyrocketed. UM. That's when I started seeing new
30:15
Speaker 1: bucks on on you know, most of my cameras. UM,
30:19
Speaker 1: starting getting daytime picks of UM, lots of my younger
30:22
Speaker 1: bucks two and a half and three and a half
30:23
Speaker 1: year old deer UM in the daytime on on scrapes
30:27
Speaker 1: and scrape lines. UM started started seeing a lot of
30:31
Speaker 1: those newer bucks showing up. Still haven't had any of
30:34
Speaker 1: my shooters, but I would say, um, older deer are
30:38
Speaker 1: still mostly nighttime activity. UM. But that's kind of where
30:43
Speaker 1: I'm where I'm coming from the last four or five days,
30:45
Speaker 1: just going from UM, that cold spell that that happened
30:49
Speaker 1: last week really bumped it up to to what I
30:51
Speaker 1: would call us seven. Um, it's it's not not prime yet,
30:54
Speaker 1: but it's really all the scrapes are are wide open. Um,
30:58
Speaker 1: a lot of buck activity the um just still those
31:01
Speaker 1: three and a half and younger bucks, in my opinion, UM,
31:04
Speaker 1: is kind of what I'm seeing. I've noticed the last
31:07
Speaker 1: four or five days out of stands, most of those
31:09
Speaker 1: younger bucks, those two and a half and three and
31:10
Speaker 1: a half year old deer are being um, you know,
31:13
Speaker 1: super call responsive is one thing I'm seeing. So most
31:16
Speaker 1: of them definitely want to come inspect a grunt call
31:19
Speaker 1: right now. UM. Seeing a lot of the smaller bucks,
31:21
Speaker 1: of course, that's some of the smaller bucks been pushing
31:24
Speaker 1: uh those around for you know for probably two weeks now,
31:27
Speaker 1: but especially in the last four or five days, a
31:30
Speaker 1: lot of that happening. Let's talk about those scrape lines
31:33
Speaker 1: for a minute. You said they're really starting to open up,
31:35
Speaker 1: and are those like field edge scrapes or are you
31:38
Speaker 1: seeing some self along pinch points in the timber. Yeah,
31:41
Speaker 1: I've I've really been seeing, really been seeing the field
31:43
Speaker 1: edge scrape you know, you know for some time, those
31:46
Speaker 1: are those are the ones that you'll seems like you'll
31:48
Speaker 1: always notice first. Um, but going into some of those
31:51
Speaker 1: little deeper areas, those pinch points and and kind of
31:54
Speaker 1: surrounding those those betting areas without going without going too
31:58
Speaker 1: far into them. Uh, you know, I've got some cell
32:01
Speaker 1: cams and things hung over some of those scrapes in
32:03
Speaker 1: those wooded areas and starting to see a lot of
32:06
Speaker 1: that daylight activity in the woods. I'm not necessarily saying
32:09
Speaker 1: that daylight activity on those field edges yet, Um, still
32:13
Speaker 1: a lot of nighttime activity on those and newer bucks
32:15
Speaker 1: are showing up on those scrapes, but I'm still seeing, um,
32:18
Speaker 1: you know, most of that in timber, and whether you
32:21
Speaker 1: know it be pinch points are kind of the edges
32:25
Speaker 1: of thick cover where it opens into, um, you know
32:28
Speaker 1: some prettier hardwoods that have a lot of acorns. Right now,
32:32
Speaker 1: But Jake, let's talk about this coming weekend. Let's say
32:34
Speaker 1: we get a cold snap and you know there's a
32:37
Speaker 1: north wind on like September excuse me, November four. What
32:42
Speaker 1: is your rut set up going to look like you're
32:44
Speaker 1: gonna be hunting all day? Are you hunting your bedding?
32:46
Speaker 1: What are you gonna be doing there. Yeah. Um, Unfortunately
32:51
Speaker 1: the reality is probably that that's not gonna happen, but
32:55
Speaker 1: I wish. But and if that happened, um my go
32:59
Speaker 1: to on November fourth, Um, I would crash into some
33:01
Speaker 1: of my better spots that are gonna be on the
33:04
Speaker 1: edges of betting. Um, you know, and I'm I'm I've
33:08
Speaker 1: got to be in stand all day. If it's November four,
33:10
Speaker 1: it's November four, then you see that kind of colde front. Um,
33:13
Speaker 1: you know, it's definitely something I want to spend as
33:15
Speaker 1: much time as possible. Um, you know, this week coming
33:18
Speaker 1: up and and the ten days coming up, it's kind
33:20
Speaker 1: of everything we dream about and talk about all year. Um,
33:24
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna spends as many hours in the stand
33:27
Speaker 1: as possible because, um, those daylight pictures of activity that
33:31
Speaker 1: I've kind of been seeing these last five days are
33:34
Speaker 1: just gonna multiply over these next few days. And and
33:38
Speaker 1: like I said, a colde front of course, you know,
33:41
Speaker 1: we all know it's going to help even that much
33:43
Speaker 1: more so was sticking with talking about these next couple
33:46
Speaker 1: of days. Um, what do you think this next week
33:48
Speaker 1: is gonna look like? In Tennessee? On a scale of
33:50
Speaker 1: one to ten for buck activity. I'm hoping that it
33:55
Speaker 1: jumps up from a seven that we're gonna be in
33:57
Speaker 1: an eight or nine. Uh. The The only thing i'm
33:59
Speaker 1: we're about a little bit as far as activity goes,
34:02
Speaker 1: would would be, you know, this next week, the forecast
34:05
Speaker 1: right now, and of course that that seems like it
34:07
Speaker 1: changes all the time these days. But all of us
34:09
Speaker 1: that our hunters are kind of uh you know, part
34:12
Speaker 1: time weather weather men also, but it's looking pretty warm
34:15
Speaker 1: right now. Um. But because of the days that are
34:18
Speaker 1: are coming up, I believe there's still gonna be good activity. Um.
34:22
Speaker 1: And with the moon phase and everything, I still can
34:25
Speaker 1: believe that it's going to be an eight or nine, um,
34:28
Speaker 1: going into going into this next week. UM, I think
34:31
Speaker 1: this these next seven days or some of my favorite
34:33
Speaker 1: to hunt as as I'm sure that it's the same
34:37
Speaker 1: for a lot of a lot of us. All Right, Jake, Well,
34:40
Speaker 1: I hope you get that cold front and good luck
34:42
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Thank you. I appreciate that. Good luck to
34:45
Speaker 1: you guys too, alright. And joining us on the line
34:48
Speaker 1: next is the founder of white Tail DNA, Alex Comstock. Now,
34:53
Speaker 1: Alex in Minnesota, what would you say the buck activity
34:55
Speaker 1: has been lately on a scale of one to ten,
34:59
Speaker 1: I'd say over all, it's probably been somewhere around the
35:01
Speaker 1: two or three. It's been pretty dead out there. Yeah,
35:04
Speaker 1: I just haven't been able to I just haven't been
35:06
Speaker 1: seen any mature bucks, I mean, younger bucks and some
35:10
Speaker 1: dope movement, but it's really just been pretty dead, even
35:13
Speaker 1: with the told front that we just recently got. Well,
35:17
Speaker 1: everyone else I've talked to alex Is, you know, said
35:20
Speaker 1: upwards of seven or eight. Why do you think it's
35:22
Speaker 1: been so dead for you in Minnesota? You know, I
35:26
Speaker 1: think it might be even uh me, not everyone else,
35:31
Speaker 1: just because I just moved back to Minnesota and I'm
35:33
Speaker 1: kind of behind the game a little bit trying to
35:35
Speaker 1: play catch up. I do know a couple of guys
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Speaker 1: in the area that shot Bucks recently, so maybe the
35:40
Speaker 1: buck activities been a little higher for others. But I
35:44
Speaker 1: think hopefully in the next week I can start to
35:46
Speaker 1: figure things out. I've been kind of just bouncing around,
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Speaker 1: um like between dope betting areas or where I proceed
35:53
Speaker 1: to be dope betting areas, kind of like little pinch points.
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Speaker 1: I've done about nine percent running guns, um so and
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Speaker 1: just trying to focus on the doors right now. I
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Speaker 1: mean we're trying to the next couple of weeks is
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Speaker 1: gonna be more and more. I'm gonna be focusing on
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Speaker 1: the doughs more and more. Alright, Alex, Well, I know
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Speaker 1: you've been hunting two very different setups, one of them
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Speaker 1: being the Big Woods, the other one some urban hunts.
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Speaker 1: How are those different for you here at the end
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Speaker 1: of October. Yeah, the urban hunting has been in the city,
36:23
Speaker 1: it's been a little more dear movement, but out in
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Speaker 1: the Big Woods has just been I mean, cameras are
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Speaker 1: shown all nighttime. And so I'm hoping that in the
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Speaker 1: next really next weekend and the next week or so,
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Speaker 1: that the Big Woods is going to start to get better.
36:37
Speaker 1: Because we did some scouting and hung some stands out
36:40
Speaker 1: there with I mean, there was just tons and tons
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Speaker 1: of rubs and scrape, so I know they're there. What's
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Speaker 1: going forward in this weekend like November four, say we
36:50
Speaker 1: get a good cold front and you know, ten million
36:53
Speaker 1: hour north wind, what is your ideal set up around
36:56
Speaker 1: the loose on that public land and those urban hunts.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get between two dough bet in
37:03
Speaker 1: areas and some type of funnel or pinch point where
37:05
Speaker 1: I'm perceiving bucks to be traveling trying to check out
37:08
Speaker 1: going from one bedding area to the next. I'd buckling
37:10
Speaker 1: and just sit all day. Yeah. I think what sometimes
37:13
Speaker 1: people just forget about is really the dough is drive
37:15
Speaker 1: the rut. I mean, you know, I know if you
37:18
Speaker 1: guys are asking me that, you know they haven't had
37:20
Speaker 1: any mature buck pictures and where should they hunt? And
37:23
Speaker 1: you know, I always say, just where the doughes are
37:26
Speaker 1: the bucks are going to be, especially the next couple
37:28
Speaker 1: of weeks, So I'd be like, my big thing. We
37:30
Speaker 1: talked about your trail cameras a little bit. What are
37:32
Speaker 1: those focused on right now? Are you looking at scrapes
37:36
Speaker 1: or just on trails? Yeah, I still have all my
37:39
Speaker 1: cameras pretty much over scrapes. Um, I'll probably start to
37:42
Speaker 1: transition some of those in two funnels. But I really
37:45
Speaker 1: don't rely on trail cameras as much as I do
37:47
Speaker 1: earlier in the air during the rut is more historical
37:50
Speaker 1: and just trying to get in those funnels and pinch
37:53
Speaker 1: points and kind of your classic rut setups. Will you
37:56
Speaker 1: try any calling in that time period. As far as grunting,
37:59
Speaker 1: salt wheezes, addling, Yeah, I'm usually pretty hesitant on the
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Speaker 1: blind colling, but I will, especially once we get into,
38:07
Speaker 1: you know, first second week in November, I'll definitely do
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Speaker 1: some rattling sequences and some grunting and whatnot. So it
38:12
Speaker 1: can definitely work well going forward and early over here.
38:16
Speaker 1: What do you think that bucket TV is going to
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Speaker 1: be on a scale of one to ten in Minnesota?
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Speaker 1: I hope in this next first week or so we
38:22
Speaker 1: have November, we can get it up to a six
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Speaker 1: or seven or at least. I'm scene. I think temperatures
38:27
Speaker 1: are supposed to be staying cold. We already have snow
38:29
Speaker 1: on the ground up here, so I'd like to think
38:31
Speaker 1: that these bucks are going to start chasing here pretty soon.
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Speaker 1: All right, Alex, Well, good luck in Minnesota. If if
38:37
Speaker 1: you can't get it done there, then I hope don't
38:38
Speaker 1: let the coda works out for you. Yeah, me too,
38:41
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. And that concludes this week's episode of
38:46
Speaker 1: Wired Haunts Radio. At the end of this week, I
38:49
Speaker 1: am hopping on a plane to go to Texas and
38:52
Speaker 1: hunting deer. So my early November is going to be
38:55
Speaker 1: very different than one of the past. However, I'm excited
38:59
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