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Ep. 477: Foundations - The Beginning of the Rut Grind · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide
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  Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, and now your host,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Hey, everyone, welcome to the wire to Hunt
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  Speaker 1: Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.
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  Speaker 1: Today's episode is all about staying in the deer hunting
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  Speaker 1: game during the middle of November. Remember that kid in
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  Speaker 1: high school who was a rock star in football or
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  Speaker 1: basketball in like fifth grade, but never really grew much
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  Speaker 1: beyond middle school, so eventually everyone passed him by peaking
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  Speaker 1: too early As a problem in sports, but also in
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  Speaker 1: deer hunting, it's easy to go all in on the
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  Speaker 1: rut in the first week in November, but an almost
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  Speaker 1: equally promising week is upon us now. But this is
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  Speaker 1: also the time when you see a little transition happening,
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  Speaker 1: and it's really the time to keep your head in
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  Speaker 1: the game. This isn't as easy as it sounds, but
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  Speaker 1: it is important. It's also the topic of this old show.
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  Speaker 1: There's a strange sinking feeling that can creep into us
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  Speaker 1: deer hunters about this time of the month. The days
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  Speaker 1: leading up to November and the first week those suckers
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  Speaker 1: were all promised any second it was going to happen,
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  Speaker 1: and for a lot of lucky hunters it did, but
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  Speaker 1: not you. If you're listening to this, probably and that sucks.
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  Speaker 1: What sucks worse is that you can feel the old
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  Speaker 1: clock ticking away, taunting you. How many more days do
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  Speaker 1: you have left until lockdown sets in and the woods
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  Speaker 1: go from crazy too empty? Maybe none, depending on where
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to this. Now, it's not all dooming him.
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  Speaker 1: That buck that checks up with his new lady friend
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  Speaker 1: for a day, she'll eventually have enough a hymn and
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  Speaker 1: he'll have to go back on the dear version of
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  Speaker 1: Tinder to see if any other doors are ready to
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  Speaker 1: swipe right. There's still plenty of rut to work with.
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  Speaker 1: It's just going to be a little different from the
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  Speaker 1: cruising and chase fest that you just had a few
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  Speaker 1: days ago. But before we get into that, though, ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: why am I still sitting on an unfilled buck tag?
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  Speaker 1: Have you had exciting hunts so far that just didn't
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  Speaker 1: come together with a good shot opportunity for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: or if it did, did you just blow it? If
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  Speaker 1: you've been around plenty of deer, and if witnessed an
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  Speaker 1: exciting amount of rut action, you're probably on the right
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  Speaker 1: path still. The spots that produced a few days ago,
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  Speaker 1: they probably still produced for the next week or so.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've had a kind of a disappointing rod
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  Speaker 1: hunt so far, then it might be time to re evaluate.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you spend most of your time sitting on
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  Speaker 1: a field edge over a buck decoy hoping to rattle
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  Speaker 1: one in from the neighbor's property, Or did you ride
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  Speaker 1: out all day sits in a stand you thought was
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  Speaker 1: positioned over a good funnel, only to see a couple
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  Speaker 1: of dinks? And does what happened to your plan? As
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  Speaker 1: important as it is to develop a plan for the future,
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  Speaker 1: reflecting on the failure of the past, even the very
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  Speaker 1: very very recent past, is necessary, even if it's not
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  Speaker 1: much fun. How many times did you get busted? How
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  Speaker 1: many times did you walk in get a little sloppy
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  Speaker 1: with the wind thinking the rut was gonna save you.
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  Speaker 1: We've all been led to believe the rut is the
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  Speaker 1: answer to all of our deer hunting problems, but it isn't.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly helps, and it sure makes it fun to
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  Speaker 1: sit in the woods, but it doesn't always make it easy.
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  Speaker 1: If we don't do enough to take advantage of it,
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing is usually a lost cause. Think about
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  Speaker 1: what went wrong and what to do with the remaining
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  Speaker 1: days of the rut that you can work with. This
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  Speaker 1: is important because it is about to get a lot
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  Speaker 1: more difficult if this week doesn't go your way, and
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  Speaker 1: it will really get difficult if you keep writing a
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  Speaker 1: dead program. Now you might be thinking, we've only got
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  Speaker 1: twenty acres to work with, so I do have to
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  Speaker 1: keep sitting in the same stands. That's the case for
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  Speaker 1: some folks, But I'll kindly refer you to a pile
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  Speaker 1: of earlier episodes where I begged and pleaded for you
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  Speaker 1: to find a new spot or two. And I'll say
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  Speaker 1: it again. We limit ourselves to ground because it's easy,
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  Speaker 1: or it's all we think we need. But has this
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  Speaker 1: week proven that to be true for you? If it hasn't,
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  Speaker 1: when this deer hunt is in the rear view mirror,
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  Speaker 1: start the hunt for a new spot for next year.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that a lot in future episodes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to be limited to a small property
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  Speaker 1: to ride a dead rut program either. The biggest mistake
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  Speaker 1: many of us make, which I mentioned in last week's
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  Speaker 1: episode is that we don't think we need to go
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  Speaker 1: look for deer. We don't think we need to move
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  Speaker 1: during the rut. I'd say, out of all the November
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  Speaker 1: bucks I've killed, all but a handful died after I
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  Speaker 1: made at least one move. Only a few died in
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  Speaker 1: easy spots or spots where I decided it was worth
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  Speaker 1: sitting for days and days and days and not moving.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure that dead program reality doesn't happen. Think about
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  Speaker 1: what you did that didn't work, and try also to
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  Speaker 1: think about what is going on out there. There's still
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  Speaker 1: plenty of chasing to be had as well as breeding.
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  Speaker 1: That's just a given. The days of seeing six bucks
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  Speaker 1: going nuts might be gone, but the days of putting
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  Speaker 1: in serious effort on a perfect funnel to have one
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  Speaker 1: good encounter, those are still alive and well. This is
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  Speaker 1: my strategy for this time of year, and it always
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  Speaker 1: involves the absolute most likely travel spots. Notice I didn't
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  Speaker 1: say spot, burnout, wind weather, and just the vibes of
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  Speaker 1: the woods. I'll dictate that one funnel today might be
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  Speaker 1: the best choice, bal tomorrow it won't be. And whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a pinch point of funnel a certain ridge, near
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  Speaker 1: a dough betting area, or just a really well used
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  Speaker 1: fence crossing somewhere. I try to think about everything that
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  Speaker 1: will work in my favor and with the likelihood is
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  Speaker 1: that it's worth it to devote an entire dark to
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  Speaker 1: dark sit to that spot. You see, some spots are
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  Speaker 1: still morning or evening spots. Some of those stand sites,
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  Speaker 1: they're only going to be good for the first few
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  Speaker 1: hours of the day or the last few hours of
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  Speaker 1: the day, while others can produce at any second of
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  Speaker 1: the day. Now, you could go sit a field edge,
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  Speaker 1: or a food plot, or that brows line along a
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  Speaker 1: fresh clear cut where the does like to go at
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  Speaker 1: some point low light. All of these could produce, but
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  Speaker 1: they might not be the best options for all days sits.
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  Speaker 1: Now you could go sit where three ravines meet and
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  Speaker 1: there's only one small land bridge for most of the
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  Speaker 1: bucks to get from one side to the other. That's
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  Speaker 1: an all day spot. A single sliver of timber that
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  Speaker 1: connects to larger wood lots. That's another one. River systems,
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  Speaker 1: which if you've listened to the earlier episodes of this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: you know I'm a ginormous ban of them. They are
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  Speaker 1: nature's funnels do you just like to travel along them
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  Speaker 1: and they cross where the crossing is easiest or makes
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  Speaker 1: the most sense for their intentions. Wherever you live, even
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  Speaker 1: in swampy unbroken timber, you can find rut travel routes
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  Speaker 1: that could and should produce all day long. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite November strategies is to post up
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a figure eight of high ground
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  Speaker 1: in swampy territory where neck down movement is going to
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  Speaker 1: happen at some point. I'll explain this so I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: offer up a pro tip for all of you big
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  Speaker 1: woods hunters out there in the northern of the southern
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  Speaker 1: fringes of the White Tail Range, if you're hunting around
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  Speaker 1: spots with wetlands, use your on X to look for
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  Speaker 1: a low ground shaped like a figure eight. The middle
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  Speaker 1: part of that eight that's high ground, or I should
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  Speaker 1: say high your ground. Usually the circles they're the wetland.
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  Speaker 1: There there are the swamps that the deer don't want
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  Speaker 1: to cross. Now, rarely does nature offer up a perfect
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  Speaker 1: looking pattern of low and high ground to form an eight,
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  Speaker 1: but it often gets closer than you'd expect. I have
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  Speaker 1: found these spots in several states, and they can be
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  Speaker 1: dynamite locations for all day sits because they forced deer movement,
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  Speaker 1: They allow for near perfect wind setups, and they often
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  Speaker 1: offer the deer two types of habitat, which makes edges
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  Speaker 1: which we know the dear like. In other words, with
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  Speaker 1: low deer densities and a lot of cover. This is
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  Speaker 1: a kind of spot that can really put you in
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  Speaker 1: dear when most of the woods seem empty. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: offer up another pro tip that has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with dear. These figure eight spots and swamps phenomenal places
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  Speaker 1: to bait bears because you can play the wind, you
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  Speaker 1: can predict travel routes, and you're around wetlands and swamps,
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  Speaker 1: so you know you're in a place where bears live.
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  Speaker 1: If you ever have a chance to do a d
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  Speaker 1: I Y baited bear hunt, those spots can be money.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Back to the thinking about developing a milk
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  Speaker 1: run of spots that forced deer movement. Whether you've got
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  Speaker 1: one or ten, ask yourself, what does the wind do
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  Speaker 1: in these spots? You see, we often think about wind
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  Speaker 1: only in the context of not getting busted. This is good,
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  Speaker 1: it's white tail one on one stuff, but it's good,
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  Speaker 1: but it really sells the dear short sells the wind.
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  Speaker 1: Short bucks traveling during the rut are living off of
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  Speaker 1: their noses. They are efficient ground covering machines that only
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  Speaker 1: appear to be randomly traversing the countryside. This isn't random.
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  Speaker 1: They aren't random. They almost always travel with the wind
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  Speaker 1: in such a way that it allows them to scent
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  Speaker 1: check specific areas while using their eyes to look ahead
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  Speaker 1: for dose and danger. To frame this up, the wind
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  Speaker 1: might be perfect for you in a spot you want
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  Speaker 1: to hunt, but what is it doing for the bucks?
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  Speaker 1: Can they use it to scent check a certain flat
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  Speaker 1: or overgrown homestead for dose? If they can, can you
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  Speaker 1: hunt there in a way where you won't get busted.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons that hunting bluffy or
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  Speaker 1: hilly terrain is generally easier than flat ground. I say generally,
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  Speaker 1: because there's a lot of variables out there, folks. When
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  Speaker 1: you're in the hills, a buck can have a great
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  Speaker 1: wind for safety or finding dose or both, while you
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  Speaker 1: can have nearly as great of a wind for your
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  Speaker 1: ridge top setup that won't allow him to smell you
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  Speaker 1: in a flat swamp or in just flatter timber, the
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  Speaker 1: options for them to get behind you or use the
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  Speaker 1: wind in a way that you simply can't. It's much greater.
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  Speaker 1: This requires more thought and more planning, and is one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons why it's often more challenging. Now there
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  Speaker 1: are some spots where this really doesn't matter. A really
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  Speaker 1: great pinch point, like those swampy figure eights I just mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: a force movement no matter what the wind is doing.
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  Speaker 1: As long as the bucks are likely to want to
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  Speaker 1: get from point A to B, those routes are the
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  Speaker 1: ones they have to take. These are the best. They're
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  Speaker 1: my favorite spots, and they can be super productive oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: a non swampy ground. They consist of a small patch
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  Speaker 1: of timber connected to a larger track, or two tracks
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  Speaker 1: of timber, i should say. And while bucks might pull
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  Speaker 1: a crazy move on you and sprint across a wide
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  Speaker 1: open field to get from one side of the other,
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  Speaker 1: most will stick to the cover fairly well, especially if
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  Speaker 1: you're hunting pressure. Dear, they are even more likely to
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  Speaker 1: do this than they were a week ago as the
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  Speaker 1: rut rages through and the hunting pressure gets to them.
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  Speaker 1: Because don't forget, even though the ruts awesome and it's
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  Speaker 1: burning really hot. Everybody knows that, and your competitions out
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  Speaker 1: there sitting harassing those deer as well. So you've got
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  Speaker 1: to really think through your setups because honestly, time is
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  Speaker 1: kind of running out for a lot of hunters. I
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  Speaker 1: know it's different if your way down self, but in
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  Speaker 1: much of the White Tail territory clock is ticking. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want to go to a default stand right now
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  Speaker 1: simply because you think the rut will save you. This
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  Speaker 1: is a time when you can still have a crazy,
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  Speaker 1: action packed hunt, but can also sit all day and
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  Speaker 1: not see a deer that last one. It's a real
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  Speaker 1: kick to the delegates, but it happens, and when it does,
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  Speaker 1: you'll find out what kind of a rut hunter you
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  Speaker 1: really are the next time your alarm goes off. Despite
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the rut is supposed to be awesome,
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  Speaker 1: it can be a real grind. This goes for all hunters,
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  Speaker 1: but it's nearly a given. If you're hunting pressure ground
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  Speaker 1: or low density terrain big woods, rut hunting can be
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  Speaker 1: a mental challenge. And I don't care if that happens
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  Speaker 1: in Michigan's up or somewhere down in Louisiana in a
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  Speaker 1: month or two, when those Southern bucks are getting randy.
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  Speaker 1: It can even happen in great states like Iowa, where
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  Speaker 1: there are supposed to be booners hiding in every wood lot.
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  Speaker 1: There aren't, of course, and there are just days and
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  Speaker 1: scenarios that don't work for you very well when they're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to. This is one. A midday mover just might
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  Speaker 1: save your butt, and you had better be there to
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  Speaker 1: intercept him. I had one of these experiences the second
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  Speaker 1: time I Drew and Iowa tag. My hunt was time
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  Speaker 1: from like I think November six through the twelfth and
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in that range. The first few days were a bust,
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  Speaker 1: likely due to hot weather and a lot more hunting
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  Speaker 1: pressure than my hunting partner and I anticipated. On the
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  Speaker 1: farm that we were hunting with nothing to go on,
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  Speaker 1: he and I decided we better drop down into a
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  Speaker 1: valley with a small stream in it, figuring that was
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  Speaker 1: where the best cover was and the least likely chance
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  Speaker 1: to run into other bow hunters. We figured they would
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  Speaker 1: stay on top on the fields. The first morning, I
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  Speaker 1: posted up in a spot where a steep creek bank
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  Speaker 1: met the hillside. This forced deer to either go up
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  Speaker 1: over the bank or drop down and cross. I was
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  Speaker 1: hoping they'd be adverse to getting their feet wet and
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  Speaker 1: they would come up on my side. As the woods
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  Speaker 1: woke up, a small six pointer started chasing a dough
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  Speaker 1: all through the valley. They ran up and downstream, they
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  Speaker 1: ran up the sides of the bluffs. They made a
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  Speaker 1: ton of noise. They couldn't have made more noise if
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  Speaker 1: they tried, and I felt at any second they'd call
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  Speaker 1: him a big buck, but they didn't. Eventually they ran off,
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  Speaker 1: and that scrapper lost his V card to that dough,
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  Speaker 1: right in front of my hunting partner. As the morning
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  Speaker 1: started to give away to the midday, it got warmer
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  Speaker 1: and more still, and started to feel way less likely
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  Speaker 1: that a deer was going to come in for Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: It was a huge disappointment until I randomly looked up
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  Speaker 1: and just down the creek from me, I saw rack
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  Speaker 1: bobbing my way. When he got to twenty yards, he
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  Speaker 1: busted me drawing, but it was too late. The buck,
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  Speaker 1: one of my biggest ever even to this day, piled
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  Speaker 1: up fifty yards away and made me realize how much
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  Speaker 1: I had been considering heading in to take a nap,
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  Speaker 1: and how little I had actually been paying attention. It's
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  Speaker 1: one thing to believe you'll be on your a game
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  Speaker 1: throughout the entire rut. It's another to wake up for
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  Speaker 1: days in a row and then stay sharp on stand
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  Speaker 1: when the action is just gone. This is one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that separates the deer hunters from the dear killers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: everyone in either category believes they are die hard and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get up every morning and hunt every chance possible.
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  Speaker 1: But deer hunters often don't do that. Dear killers do.
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  Speaker 1: They keep going, and they keep hunting even when they
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  Speaker 1: are tired and ready to quit, even when they're coming
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  Speaker 1: off two or three days of really really dead action.
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  Speaker 1: They do this because they know it's worth it to
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  Speaker 1: be there in a spot they really believe in. It's
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  Speaker 1: also worth it to not give the lockdown much credit. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know when bocks hole up with the doze it
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  Speaker 1: can get pretty slow, but I always look at it
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  Speaker 1: like fishing. There are conditions where anglers will swear the
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  Speaker 1: walleye or the small mouth or the muskies or whatever
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  Speaker 1: they're just not biting. Sure, there might be a half
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  Speaker 1: day or maybe a full day where they just aren't
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  Speaker 1: too ambitious, but not a week. They have to eat,
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  Speaker 1: and they will eat. You just have to figure out when, where,
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  Speaker 1: and on what they will nom nomb away on with deer.
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  Speaker 1: During mid November, they're gonna rut. They have to, and
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  Speaker 1: that means that even though the experts are going to
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  Speaker 1: tell you there will be days with no activity, those
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  Speaker 1: bucks are still out there doing their thing, even in
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  Speaker 1: low density areas. If half of your bucks are locked
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  Speaker 1: up by the end of this week, that leaves at
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  Speaker 1: least one or two in your area, at least one
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  Speaker 1: or two still looking on good dear ground. That might
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  Speaker 1: mean six or seven bucks in your section are still
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  Speaker 1: out or more and they're covering ground and putting themselves
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  Speaker 1: in a position to be shot, even if only one
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  Speaker 1: or two is actually the size that you're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: All I'm saying here is it can start to really
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  Speaker 1: feel hopeless, but it's not. Stay out there, keep hunting
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  Speaker 1: if you have the chance. That's all I'm saying. This
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  Speaker 1: is important, but only if you take this and keep
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  Speaker 1: grinding it out. And even as I say that, I
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  Speaker 1: cringe a little. The hunting industry has pushed this blood,
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  Speaker 1: sweat and tears mentality on us as if we're storming
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  Speaker 1: the beach at Normandy or one lab experiment away from
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  Speaker 1: carrying cancer and children. We're not. We're just hunting deer.
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  Speaker 1: So to be successful this week, we often just need
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  Speaker 1: to get out of our own way and realize that
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  Speaker 1: even a slow day in the woods with low odds
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  Speaker 1: is a hell of a lot better than most of
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  Speaker 1: the other stuff we could be doing. After all, you
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  Speaker 1: get to scroll through Instagram and check out how narcissistic
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  Speaker 1: your buddies are with their NonStop selfies. Get to drink
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  Speaker 1: some coffee, maybe read a book, watch nature do its thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a punishment, my friends, it's a gift, and
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  Speaker 1: it only gets better when you have those glimpses of
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  Speaker 1: action or those moments in the woods that make an
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  Speaker 1: entire season. There's still time for those, my friends. Decide
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  Speaker 1: if you need to make a real move right now
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: or if your previous hunt's portends solid action for the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: remainder of mid November. Factor in the wind and how
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: it works for you, and how it will work for
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the buck who wants to sniff some butts. Put in
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the time you have to put in in spots that
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: make the most sense. For what should be happening with
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: the deer right now. Forget the locked down, forget the
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: horror stories about dead rots or bad timing or rots whatever.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do about that but to keep hunting.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: And remember if it seems hopeless, it's not. There's time
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: left for great hunting. And really we're only starting to
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: get into the land of hopelessness as a white tail hunter.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Believe me, it's gonna get a hell of a lot worse. Now.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: We won't get there next week yet, but we will
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: get a little closer. We also get the chance to
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: bring out the boomsticks and get revenge on all the
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: deer we try to kill with archery tackle but couldn't
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: because they stayed out of range. That's the topic of
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: next week's episode, so make sure you give it a listen.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: That's it for to show my friends, I'm Tony Peterson
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: and this has been the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: If you're looking for more white tail advice, head on
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: over to our Wire to Hunt YouTube channel, see Yours Truly,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon and a few other deer junkies giving how
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: to deer hunting advice. You can also visit the Meat
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: eater dot com slash wired to read up on what's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: new in the white tailed world.