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Ep.575: Rut Fresh Radio 9/21/2022 - Good ACCESS = Great BUCKS! · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to wired to hunts, Rut fresh radio, bringing you
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Speaker 1: the latest reports from the White Tail Woods, and now
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Speaker 1: your hosts, Casey Smith Tyler Jones. This is Rut fresh
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Speaker 1: radio powered by vortex. I'm your host, Casey Smith, and
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Speaker 1: this week we're talking about how good access can get
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Speaker 1: you on a big buck. What's up, y'all? This is
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Speaker 1: rough fresh radio, powered by VORTEX, and today we're talking
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Speaker 1: to hunters from all across the country who've got some
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Speaker 1: pretty slick tactics. I mean even some stuff you've never
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Speaker 1: heard of. flactics, slactics, baby. That helped them getting on
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Speaker 1: some giant bucks and have some really great hunts. So
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Speaker 1: look forward to that. But right now I am actually
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Speaker 1: in the room with one Tyler Jones, the mountain man himself,
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Speaker 1: Tyler Jones, Mr Mule deer splitter, Tyler Jones. Man, how
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Speaker 1: are you feeling, tyler? Are you black back over two
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Speaker 1: hundred yet? Are you still slim pickings? I'm two tents
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Speaker 1: of a pound over two hundred. All right, just wait, man. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so been hogging out southern the last week or so.
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Speaker 1: My goal is to be the second heaviest person on
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Speaker 1: the element team and I've been that quite a few times.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I am right now after my hunt.
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Speaker 1: I'm still a little higher than you were because only
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Speaker 1: hunting for two days, so I got to pig out
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Speaker 1: on the way home and eat some Chil eyes, Um Buds.
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Speaker 1: When you're a good hunter, man, no, you don't have
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Speaker 1: to hunt very hard. Uh, I wouldn't. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if to say that, but no matter what, our buddy
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Speaker 1: mark Kenyon will never weigh as much as you right,
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Speaker 1: even though he's taller. He's he is what what did
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Speaker 1: y'all call him? PENCILMAN's mark? Is Uh in Um Ottaho
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Speaker 1: hunting hard right now. So he's not on the show
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Speaker 1: with us today, but we'll have him and Josh on
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Speaker 1: the show next week to discuss all of their adventures
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Speaker 1: in Idaho and get the low down on what it's
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Speaker 1: like hunting bucks in the West and what you can
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Speaker 1: look forward to now. But, Tyler, last week we talked
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Speaker 1: a little bit about your mule to your hunt, and
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Speaker 1: this is all sharpening us, getting US ready for up
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Speaker 1: and and why tell hunts. But why don't you tell
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Speaker 1: me a little bit about how you changed as a
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Speaker 1: hunter hunting that mule, Deier um? Well, so actually the
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Speaker 1: preparation of of like leading up to that hunt changed
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Speaker 1: me as a shooter really. Um, I knew that this,
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Speaker 1: that I would draw this tag Um, that I had
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Speaker 1: the points to draw it and would draw it. And so, basically,
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Speaker 1: since I've known that, even before I drew the tag
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Speaker 1: probably I started really like dialing in my shooting and
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Speaker 1: being very consistent day in and day out with shooting. Um,
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of guys out here that
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Speaker 1: I understand this when I say this, but prior to
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Speaker 1: Um doing this, I guess you could say full time,
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Speaker 1: I um sometimes would pull out the bow about August
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Speaker 1: and start shooting for the first time since November pretty much.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean, and I think a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys do that and I don't think it's I
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Speaker 1: don't feel like for me there's a lot like riding
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Speaker 1: a bike. I could literally pull my bow out and
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Speaker 1: shoot accurately out to forty, which is all I mean,
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Speaker 1: like really accurately out to forty, which is all I
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Speaker 1: needed to shoot at deer Um back then. But Um,
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Speaker 1: we do a lot of different things across the country
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Speaker 1: now that might require different uh positions to be in
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Speaker 1: when you shoot slash different distances. Um. And I did
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Speaker 1: shoot this melder at a long distance, and I did
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Speaker 1: that I actually was ten yards inside of what I
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Speaker 1: felt was good. Um. And I shot a group, a
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Speaker 1: very tight group. My last group that I shot at distance, Um,
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Speaker 1: was it was what I basically decided that was gonna
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Speaker 1: to be. Um, you know what I end up shooting at.
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Speaker 1: I actually talked to a guy last night at a
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Speaker 1: fish fry and, uh, this isn't a fish boil, for
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Speaker 1: all you wisconsiners out there, and that was what they
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Speaker 1: call it. A boyl. It's what a boy it's a boil, right,
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Speaker 1: a bowl, when they like do like and stuff? No,
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Speaker 1: I think they do. They have like a deal. They're
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Speaker 1: probably yelling at me right now, but it's like a
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Speaker 1: deal where you throw fishing to a boil instead of like, ah,
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Speaker 1: I think so. It's definitely, you know, a little so. Uh. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: at the fish fry this guy told me, you know,
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Speaker 1: he said, Um, he was shooting good out of eight,
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Speaker 1: and I was like really, he goes, yeah, I wan't
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Speaker 1: good enough to kill a deer. And I started thinking
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Speaker 1: about it and I'm like, well, some people think that
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Speaker 1: if you're shooting at the range, you know, inside of
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Speaker 1: a deer's lungs, then you're good to go at that range.
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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you right now. You guys know that
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Speaker 1: is blackout city whenever a deer comes in. Sometimes. I
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Speaker 1: believe it was Tony treach that said. You can have that. that.
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Speaker 1: I was reading. What's his name? They got kills big
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Speaker 1: mule deer. UHMER Omer, that's it. UH, he says. That's
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Speaker 1: what he says too. So yeah, I've heard him said
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Speaker 1: it too. As you said, half of that or whatever,
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Speaker 1: which I don't actually agree with either, but it's a
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Speaker 1: good principle to possibly live by. But I would say, Um,
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Speaker 1: before you answered the question, that was what I was
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Speaker 1: going to say. Is The answer for you is, and
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Speaker 1: knowing you for a while like that's the thing that
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Speaker 1: has changed the most I've seen in you as a
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Speaker 1: hunter is your comfort at longer distances, and I think
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Speaker 1: it comes from just some dedication to shooting, for sure,
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Speaker 1: and you're good at it. I mean you shot a
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Speaker 1: really awesome white til last year at uh, pretty long range,
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Speaker 1: and I say it, yeah, and then you shot, you
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Speaker 1: know that's so relative for people, you know, but uh yeah,
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Speaker 1: fifty and then you shot, because I know there's a
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Speaker 1: people out there I think I'm an idiot for doing that,
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Speaker 1: you know, but it was perfect. I mean, would you
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Speaker 1: say leave is an idiot for shooting fifth a deer
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Speaker 1: at fifty leave? I was the man. Believe I could
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Speaker 1: put it through his eyes. I guarantee you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, but you're not. But I practice a lot
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Speaker 1: of people and I learned like what I where I
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Speaker 1: can put it, you know, and I feel like if
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Speaker 1: I'm shooting a four inch group at a distance, that
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Speaker 1: I should be able to shoot a white tell at that. Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: All in all, ethics are literally based on yourself and
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Speaker 1: what you think. Absolutely and if y'all are interested in
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Speaker 1: watching that multary hunt, it's absolutely awesome. It is on
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Speaker 1: the element Youtube Channel. Go check that out if you haven't.
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Speaker 1: Uh that that uh, that hunt is epic and I
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Speaker 1: can't wait to see that deer. But back to your
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Speaker 1: thing about like how it's on you. I just went
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Speaker 1: to Arizona shot cal there Um and on the pack
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Speaker 1: out with meat, I had my bow in a hand,
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Speaker 1: in my hand and I rolled off of, you know,
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Speaker 1: a rock and fail on my bow and we were
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Speaker 1: just shooting out here today and I wouldn't shoot at
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Speaker 1: a deer at fifty. Right now. I can shoot good enough,
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Speaker 1: but I need to go do a little work, you know,
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Speaker 1: like inside of forty I would feel pretty good. But like,
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Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff is gonna change throughout the
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Speaker 1: season or even on a hunt. Like, for instance, in
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen I drew a really awesome tag for elk
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Speaker 1: and that was a nine day hunt you and I
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Speaker 1: were on. And at the beginning of that hunt I
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Speaker 1: felt really good at seventy, but by day about day
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Speaker 1: five or six, you haven't shot your bow much. You've,
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Speaker 1: you know, been doing whatever. Had that thing fall off
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Speaker 1: a tree or whatever. You know, you know how I am.
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Speaker 1: I like to kind of balance my both places like uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, you need to be mindful of that kind
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Speaker 1: of stuff while you're on a hunting trip, whether it's
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Speaker 1: banged around on the truck, it's been on a horse
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Speaker 1: and a pack in whatever it might be. Like things
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Speaker 1: changed throughout a hunt. So like on day seven of
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Speaker 1: a hunt, maybe you range isn't quite what it was
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Speaker 1: because you have been practicing it much, or maybe you're
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Speaker 1: diligent and you do your practice midday or maybe at
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Speaker 1: the time for that. I don't know. It's scenario specific
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Speaker 1: and like the ranch buck, which was the year before,
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Speaker 1: I had him at forty nine, completely calm, nothing, didn't
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Speaker 1: know anything was going on. He was out there like
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the open and I'm sitting like
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Speaker 1: ten foot up in a tree, so good angles and everything.
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Speaker 1: At forty nine. Didn't take the shot and I say
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Speaker 1: in that video like, man, I just haven't been shooting.
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Speaker 1: It's no, it's late November and I haven't been shooting
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Speaker 1: and I just didn't feel comfortable with it, you know.
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Speaker 1: So it really is specific and I try to make
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Speaker 1: the best decision I can in the moment. Man, that
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Speaker 1: was that was one of the biggest bucks, maybe the
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Speaker 1: biggest buck I'd ever would have shot at the time.
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Speaker 1: It just happens, man. You just gotta you gotta play
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Speaker 1: it by a here and make the best decision you can.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you live with it. Mark knows. Marks had his
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Speaker 1: ups and downs over the years too, man, and that's
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Speaker 1: what it is when you dear hunt a lot, and
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Speaker 1: that's one of the things that makes bow hunting out
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Speaker 1: siding is that it's not a for sure deal, even
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Speaker 1: whenever you pull the trigger you know, whenever you've got uh,
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Speaker 1: a rifle or a muzzled or whatever, you know, within
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Speaker 1: a close range, it's still not add p crazy things happen.
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Speaker 1: But like you and I know we we grew up
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Speaker 1: doing a lot of riffle huning. Like it's uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: if you gotta deer a hunter yards of the rifle,
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Speaker 1: it's dead rights. Usually, you know, with a with a bow,
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Speaker 1: especially in the East Texas, white tail twenty yards ain't nothing.
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Speaker 1: Songs might be in the next county by the Americans there,
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Speaker 1: you know. So it's a it's a it's a cool
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Speaker 1: thing and it makes bow hunting super exciting. And today
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Speaker 1: on the rout fresh portion of this podcast, we're actually
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Speaker 1: gonna talk to some dudes who are really excited about
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Speaker 1: things because some exciting things are happening in the woods.
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Speaker 1: You've got Brent Purvis from Georgia, we've got Brett joy
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Speaker 1: from just Hunt Club in New Hampshire, we've got Jeff
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Speaker 1: Danker from buck ventures in Kansas and we've got grant forny,
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Speaker 1: the everyday outdoorsman in Maryland, and these dudes have been
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Speaker 1: doing some really good hunting a lot of success in
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Speaker 1: there's some big bucks going down for like mid September,
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Speaker 1: which is I would almost call this like the second lull,
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Speaker 1: or the first of the second you know, people talk
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Speaker 1: about the October lull, which is controversial in itself. But
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Speaker 1: like when the velvets on the deer on summer patterns
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Speaker 1: vellow starts coming off, everything goes haywire right like you
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Speaker 1: and I have cameras across the country and all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden we aren't seeing the same bucks. Once the
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Speaker 1: velot comes off, everything goes crazy. So be able to
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Speaker 1: get on a big buck right now, once the velvet
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Speaker 1: is off, is like a pretty tough thing to do,
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Speaker 1: but it sounds like these guys haven't figured out and
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Speaker 1: I do think that if you listen to kind of
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Speaker 1: some of their tactics and some of the things they employed,
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Speaker 1: as crazy as they might be, you just might be
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Speaker 1: able to get on a big buck yourself. Now we've
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Speaker 1: got Brent Purvis from Georgia on here. He's a pastor
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Speaker 1: down there and Georgia. Brent. What's been going on? Man? Man,
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Speaker 1: it's been fun. I've got a good one. This week
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Speaker 1: the deer been running kind of together, as you guys know.
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Speaker 1: They've been in velvet. But, Buddy, I just missed it.
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Speaker 1: So I just missed a velvet which has been a
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Speaker 1: dream of mine. But yeah, I got got some velva
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Speaker 1: still hanging off this deer, but got a good one
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Speaker 1: the other night. That's cool, man. Yeah, I saw a
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Speaker 1: picture of that deer actually on Philip culpepper's story. Apparently
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Speaker 1: he'd been, you know, talking to you about it and stuff,
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Speaker 1: and that was really awesome, man. And I don't know,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of cool to see him just out of
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Speaker 1: velvet too, because those antlers look so fresh. They're so sharp,
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Speaker 1: you know that haven't been rubbed up too much. Uh.
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Speaker 1: So how are you uh kind of patterning these deer
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Speaker 1: going into this hunt? So this here, you know, early
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Speaker 1: season pattern. Some of my favorite stuff early and then
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Speaker 1: you got the road. We've got two different opportunities here.
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Speaker 1: But early season. Um, what I did is I kind
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Speaker 1: of did a scarcity tactic. I usually dumped out a
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Speaker 1: lot of corn the first month and but the problem
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Speaker 1: is they turned nocternal before opening day here in Georgia
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Speaker 1: and it's hot. So I did scarcity. I put a
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Speaker 1: little bit of corn out and I let it go
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Speaker 1: dry for four or five days. A little bit of corn,
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Speaker 1: let it go dry. And what happened is that dominant
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Speaker 1: buck wanted to come into the fastest and get that
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Speaker 1: corn before those other little eight corners and four corners.
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Speaker 1: So bottles my tactic and it and it paid off.
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Speaker 1: And then I did something a little bit crazy. I
11:43
Speaker 1: I got winded on my first hunt and he was up,
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Speaker 1: up when. So, I mean I had everything covered, sprayed
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Speaker 1: down everything. So the next night I've been pouring acorn
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Speaker 1: rage in there with my corn. This sounds crazy, but
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Speaker 1: I took a bag, trash bag nonsending, poured acorn range there.
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Speaker 1: Let it sit for twenty four hour or so when
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Speaker 1: I got up there. All the since we're familiar for
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Speaker 1: this book, I I guess I've heard uh, during the Rut,
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Speaker 1: you gotta be careful of stuff like that. You know
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Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, you gotta be careful. That's right. Don't.
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Speaker 1: Don't be using that tactic in November. Yeah, you may
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Speaker 1: get more than what you want. I'm telling you, dude,
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Speaker 1: it's all right to go into wood smelling like a
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Speaker 1: snack in September, man, but you do it November, it's
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Speaker 1: gonna be rough. That's right then, so so let's talk
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Speaker 1: a little bit about that. You know, you you said
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Speaker 1: that the that you got winded. Did it? Do you think?
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the things we've been talking with
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Speaker 1: some of these guys about this week is the access
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Speaker 1: uh that they've used. Is Did did that have to
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Speaker 1: do anything with access? And talk a little bit about
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Speaker 1: how you were access in this. You know, I had
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Speaker 1: good access. I was fortunate enough. We cut trails all
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Speaker 1: throughout here, so I would ride my range or right
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Speaker 1: down to the spot right even to feed, and I
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Speaker 1: only did it at noon. So I stayed away from
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Speaker 1: their their hour or that they would feed. But what
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Speaker 1: happened is this deer, we actually called him Johnny Ringo off.
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Speaker 1: You Remember that movie Tu Song that was remember Johnny Ringo.
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Speaker 1: He talked about that he was high strung. After thought
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Speaker 1: killed and he said he to poor Solo. It was
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Speaker 1: just too high strung. This there is for we've watched
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Speaker 1: him for four and a half years. He's a five
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Speaker 1: year old deer, or five and a half year old deer,
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Speaker 1: and he was high strung. So he felt something was off.
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Speaker 1: So I feel my access was good. We even moved
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Speaker 1: the stand where he comes in, the entry point. He
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Speaker 1: would come in and not get around me. That's what
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Speaker 1: was amazing about it is that he was fifty yards,
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Speaker 1: you know, up wind of me and just felt something
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Speaker 1: off that this deer has always been high strung. so
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Speaker 1: Um that that was something I think that I talked
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Speaker 1: to Philip culpepper, my buddy off hunt club, and I
13:47
Speaker 1: was talking to him every evening. He said, man, got
13:50
Speaker 1: to change your tactics a little bit up and and
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Speaker 1: that's where I started adjusting and adjusting with the corn
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Speaker 1: some more, feeding up a little bit more, and then
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Speaker 1: I actually came up with a crazy tag to the
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Speaker 1: smelling like food and that night I killed him, he
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Speaker 1: came within fifteen yards and never smelled. Oh Wow, that's cool, dude.
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Speaker 1: So tell me more about that hunt that you were
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Speaker 1: able to capitalize on. Yeah, you know, I knew he
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Speaker 1: had been coming in there a hunting. I gave him
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Speaker 1: rest after he busted me, so I said right, this
14:17
Speaker 1: was smart deer. I gave him two days rest but
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Speaker 1: kept feeding him. Then came back in and the wind
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Speaker 1: died down a little bit that night, which was perfect.
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Speaker 1: It was cool for Georgia. That's odd donea that that
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Speaker 1: is in Texas is high and Um, he got in
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Speaker 1: there and to eight pointers came out first and I thought, man,
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Speaker 1: that's strange. And they started getting weird. He started doing
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Speaker 1: the whole thing when they started, you know, kind of
14:39
Speaker 1: kneeling down and backing away, and I knew I had
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Speaker 1: him then and he came up fifteen yards from me,
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Speaker 1: hung behind a tree for it felt like an eternity.
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Speaker 1: He probably wouldn't fine minutes and then he took out
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Speaker 1: two couple of steps at twenty yards and I just
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Speaker 1: made a bus of perfect hard shop but weird. It
14:57
Speaker 1: came out the front of the Um, the front, in
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Speaker 1: front of the opposite leg, but it blew his hard
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Speaker 1: out and he didn't go to yards down the heell.
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Speaker 1: I mean, but choosing a g five and one of
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Speaker 1: the g five mega meats and I have never seen
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Speaker 1: so much blood. I mean I've shot here six is
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Speaker 1: not seen that much blood. Like a door post in Egypt. Man,
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Speaker 1: you know, just you ain't kidding. I'M gonna have to
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Speaker 1: use that on video this year. Man. Yeah, that's awesome, Dude. Man,
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Speaker 1: it just feels so good when they're in tight and
15:33
Speaker 1: you know the shot is such a big deal, especially
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Speaker 1: on the southern Jumpie deer, you know, like just the
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Speaker 1: the Uh, I don't know, the UH, the calmness that
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Speaker 1: there is and just knowing it's a shot that you
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Speaker 1: for sure can make comfortably. You know, like anything out
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Speaker 1: past thirty. I mean I practice in the yard so far,
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Speaker 1: you know, but anything out past thirties is you're really
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Speaker 1: kind of a I toss up a little bit on
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Speaker 1: white tell. You know, when you got them that fifteen
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Speaker 1: twenty range, it's like they're they're dead meat, as you
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Speaker 1: said with of the yeah. So, and it's so difficult
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Speaker 1: too because the other side of that as they can hear,
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Speaker 1: this deer is on edge that he could hear that,
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Speaker 1: you know, be pulling back that bow and it got
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Speaker 1: his attention and I knew how big he was already.
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Speaker 1: He should score number three in the county, Muskoga County,
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Speaker 1: on boat kills and the history of the county. We're
16:21
Speaker 1: kind of a near city limits, but we got like
16:24
Speaker 1: thirty acres right outside the city limits. So he should
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Speaker 1: score number three. But he was so on edge. I
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Speaker 1: had he was so big. I knew he was gonna
16:32
Speaker 1: be a record. So I had to not look as
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Speaker 1: at his antlers. I've been looking at that. I'm just
16:38
Speaker 1: looking at how do I touched this thing in your
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Speaker 1: as might as possible, as quick as possible, cause the
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Speaker 1: moment I pulled he looked. Man, we don't bust the
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Speaker 1: tapes out real often, but it sounds, you know, on
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Speaker 1: a really big deer like that, it's definitely something to consider.
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Speaker 1: I'm assuming you've measured him already. What did you tape
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Speaker 1: out at? He taped out at like one forty two
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Speaker 1: and some change. And of course they gotta let a
16:57
Speaker 1: sixty day period and go by then to send the
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Speaker 1: you know, official measures. But for around here, you know,
17:04
Speaker 1: that's not that's not a giant. I've killed one sixties
17:07
Speaker 1: in my bow and stuff like that. But in the
17:09
Speaker 1: city limits like this, he's gonna hit the record with that.
17:12
Speaker 1: Georgia boys like him urban bucks, it seems. Man. It's
17:15
Speaker 1: a that's cool, dude. Yeah, yeah, so if you were
17:19
Speaker 1: to look at the upcoming forecast and just all the different,
17:23
Speaker 1: uh you know, uh situations that are going on out
17:27
Speaker 1: there in the white tailed woods, what would you rate,
17:28
Speaker 1: on the scale from one to ten, what you expect
17:30
Speaker 1: the deer movement to be like, specifically buck movement in
17:33
Speaker 1: the next week and the next week, I would say
17:36
Speaker 1: there's still in that pattern stage. If if you're feeding up,
17:39
Speaker 1: they're still good. It's cooling down here in Georgia, so
17:42
Speaker 1: it's kind of getting exciting. Usually it's hotter than this.
17:45
Speaker 1: So I'd say the movement probably I'd say a six
17:48
Speaker 1: or seven, but you still can patterned these deer right now,
17:51
Speaker 1: which is exciting. It hasn't lost that. Y'All know how
17:53
Speaker 1: it is the first two to three weeks. You know,
17:56
Speaker 1: it's just as exciting as the Rut and here in Georgia,
18:00
Speaker 1: southern Georgia, when it dies, it dies off. So you
18:03
Speaker 1: you go dead there for, you know, a little while
18:05
Speaker 1: before November comes and thanksgiving. Then it kicks back up.
18:08
Speaker 1: So right now is the time to be in the woods. Man,
18:11
Speaker 1: Awesome Day. Well, that gets me pump for sure, and
18:15
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna leave and go hunting somewhere here
18:17
Speaker 1: pretty soon. But Hey, I appreciate you hopping on with
18:20
Speaker 1: this man and giving us the rundown there in Georgia
18:22
Speaker 1: and hopefully you'll get some more time in the stand
18:25
Speaker 1: this year. Absolutely, man. I look forward to it. Thank
18:28
Speaker 1: you all for what Y'all do. We Got Brett joy
18:32
Speaker 1: on the phone now. He is from just hunt club
18:35
Speaker 1: and he is in New Hampshire. Brett, what's going on? Man? Oh,
18:39
Speaker 1: just at work today, waiting on the next col front
18:42
Speaker 1: and hopefullsh and good truck CARC picture stuff. Point. That's cool.
18:46
Speaker 1: So your day to day is going to work and
18:49
Speaker 1: just checking that APP the whole time looking for deer. Well,
18:53
Speaker 1: that's what I'm what's ends up happening more. Will tell
18:56
Speaker 1: him he gets you need to get some work done too. Well,
18:58
Speaker 1: one of the owners of the business. So only have
19:00
Speaker 1: myself look at, and that's self. Accountability is tough, man.
19:06
Speaker 1: That's cool. Man. So Um here lately. What's U? What's
19:09
Speaker 1: been the vibe up there in New Hampshire? You know,
19:13
Speaker 1: it's a it's a funky time. It always is this
19:15
Speaker 1: time of year. You go kind of a you're we're
19:18
Speaker 1: in sort of the transition phase from the summer patterns
19:21
Speaker 1: to fall patterns. You of deer. They're in velvet, deer
19:23
Speaker 1: that are shed velvet Um. Some of that are really
19:26
Speaker 1: starting to feel that spike and testosterone. Some of that aren't.
19:29
Speaker 1: So it's it's kind of highly variable Um this time
19:32
Speaker 1: of year. But we're kind of like I said, in
19:34
Speaker 1: that transition phase. We opened the fifteenth of September. So, Um,
19:39
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting phase. It can be kind of
19:41
Speaker 1: feast or famine, if you will. Um, if you're on
19:43
Speaker 1: a deer that is kind of in his patterns. So
19:45
Speaker 1: or maybe he's he's changed the new pattern. You've figured
19:47
Speaker 1: him out. Um, he's gonna be on it for a
19:49
Speaker 1: bit and you have a really good opportunity to kill
19:51
Speaker 1: him there. I think the general theme is that most
19:53
Speaker 1: of these deer are still pretty relaxed, they're still pretty
19:56
Speaker 1: daylight active and uh, you know there were they favor
20:00
Speaker 1: more to a consistent pattern than other times in the season. Sure. So.
20:04
Speaker 1: So what's the weather like and how does it compare
20:06
Speaker 1: to normal weather patterns? Um, you know what, had an
20:09
Speaker 1: extremely hot summer, but it seems like those cooler, cool
20:12
Speaker 1: attempts you just started to move in. We had a
20:14
Speaker 1: good cold front uh, the last few days, Um, right
20:19
Speaker 1: for the opener. Actually they're kind of Thursday, Friday Saturday,
20:22
Speaker 1: which the first three days of the season. We had
20:24
Speaker 1: a good cold front. Our team killed a buck and
20:27
Speaker 1: a bear Um, and it had some good hunts. So yeah,
20:31
Speaker 1: that the TUMPS are good. Looking out it did warm
20:33
Speaker 1: up a little bit, but we look like we have
20:35
Speaker 1: another really good cold front coming in the end of
20:37
Speaker 1: the week. So I would say you can't really ask
20:39
Speaker 1: for much more than that. Cold Fronts, the two cold
20:42
Speaker 1: fronts the first ten day of the season that happened
20:44
Speaker 1: to fall on weekends for the guys that can't, you know,
20:47
Speaker 1: during the week. So yeah, we should be that's cool.
20:51
Speaker 1: So with the hot weather is that? Does that make
20:54
Speaker 1: water a scarcity or um? Is it? Are you okay there?
20:58
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like it. You have a lot of
21:00
Speaker 1: ponds and we have a lot of lakes, streams. Uh,
21:04
Speaker 1: it seems like waters everywhere. Um, I'll be honest, I
21:07
Speaker 1: haven't focused a kind of on water in the past,
21:10
Speaker 1: watering holes are building and anything like that, because I
21:13
Speaker 1: just haven't seen much on water whenever on cameras on
21:17
Speaker 1: water in the past. So immittally it's been, you know,
21:20
Speaker 1: a few years since I've tried, but I just haven't
21:22
Speaker 1: seen a huge, huge draw there. I feel you. I'm
21:25
Speaker 1: the same way. Man Like water is. Water is tough
21:28
Speaker 1: for me. I got a buddy, Tony, who knows a
21:30
Speaker 1: lot about that stuff and tries to convince me all
21:32
Speaker 1: the time that I need to be hunting on the
21:34
Speaker 1: water hole. But it's tough for me, you know, even
21:36
Speaker 1: hanging cameras, I don't see super consistency that that makes
21:39
Speaker 1: me want to be there, you know. So No, no,
21:42
Speaker 1: not to say that in different areas or different situations
21:45
Speaker 1: that could be the ticket, but it doesn't seem like
21:47
Speaker 1: it quits in our circumstance. What is the ticket right
21:50
Speaker 1: now in New Hampshire? Um, I think the ticket is
21:54
Speaker 1: Um finding. Well, I would say, given you're targeting your
22:01
Speaker 1: chure back, which I know not every listeners, you know,
22:03
Speaker 1: really focused on that, but we are, is finding one
22:06
Speaker 1: of these deer and then trying to hone in on
22:08
Speaker 1: exactly is like small pattern, because they're not moving terribly
22:11
Speaker 1: far right now. So I think the biggest challenge right
22:14
Speaker 1: now is finding one in this kind of the landscape
22:17
Speaker 1: we hunting is big timber, lots of mountains, thousands of
22:21
Speaker 1: thousands of eight or no eggs, so finding one can
22:23
Speaker 1: be probably at least half the battle was locating where
22:26
Speaker 1: that buck is in this this period of the season
22:29
Speaker 1: and then, once you do, trying to get tight to
22:31
Speaker 1: where's moving and manage your entry your exit. Um Manage
22:35
Speaker 1: your wind and hunt them accordingly. We like to try
22:37
Speaker 1: to hunt and focus on cold fronts. That seems like
22:40
Speaker 1: that's the trigger that gets these mature deer moving in
22:42
Speaker 1: daylight earlier in the season. Um, you know, it's tough
22:45
Speaker 1: in the mountains to sit right on top of a
22:47
Speaker 1: bed like you may and different, you know, different regions
22:52
Speaker 1: of the country. A betting area maybe a thirty or
22:54
Speaker 1: forty Acre area on the mountain rather than, you know,
22:57
Speaker 1: one or two acres. So it's tough to kind of
22:59
Speaker 1: calibrate how close you can get to that bed. So
23:01
Speaker 1: if you're hunting in a bedding area, you have a
23:03
Speaker 1: high probability of potentially bout me that here. So we're
23:05
Speaker 1: trying to stay on the edge and what that means
23:07
Speaker 1: is we may need a deer move a hundred yards
23:09
Speaker 1: and we may need them to move five hundred yards.
23:11
Speaker 1: So we're looking for those cold friends to get them
23:13
Speaker 1: kind of out of that bedding area. You know, the
23:15
Speaker 1: areas that we think are you know that they could
23:18
Speaker 1: be in and moving. So that's kind of the ticket. Um.
23:21
Speaker 1: As far as food sources, it seems like there's food
23:25
Speaker 1: everywhere this time of year. We did have a great
23:28
Speaker 1: hunt on a buck coming to a food plot, but
23:30
Speaker 1: that's kind of the exception. We don't have many food
23:32
Speaker 1: plots and we don't have many bag areas, so that,
23:35
Speaker 1: I'd say the number one food source right now is
23:37
Speaker 1: red oaks. You have at least an areas. We hunt
23:40
Speaker 1: abundance of them. They're everywhere. As long as you have
23:43
Speaker 1: some in the area, you're in good shape. I think
23:45
Speaker 1: trying to identify like a feed tree is probably pretty
23:47
Speaker 1: useless because we have thousands upon thousands of them pretty
23:51
Speaker 1: evenly distributed across there is these deer in so if
23:54
Speaker 1: you can find, you know, some of them in the
23:57
Speaker 1: vicinity of where this buck side, now you're in good shape.
23:59
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, okay, well, you know he's he's
24:02
Speaker 1: in here, there's food. What do you think he's betting?
24:04
Speaker 1: And then what we like to focus on is even
24:06
Speaker 1: scrapes this time of yere close to it. You know
24:08
Speaker 1: where we think is a betting here and food source
24:10
Speaker 1: and hunt those scrapes because the most cold fronts hit,
24:13
Speaker 1: triggers movement and they kind of hit those scrapes and
24:15
Speaker 1: we can be in good buck, in good shape, I
24:17
Speaker 1: should say. Man, this does sound like some pretty kilar
24:19
Speaker 1: tactics there. If you were to look at the next
24:22
Speaker 1: week upcoming, I know you mentioned that cold front is
24:24
Speaker 1: kind of gonna hit here later in the week. What
24:27
Speaker 1: would you product to the buck movement being like? In
24:29
Speaker 1: a scale of one to team, I would say it's
24:32
Speaker 1: probably again to be and we get some really good
24:35
Speaker 1: weather coming in. I think it could be an eight
24:38
Speaker 1: cos that's an exciting number. Yeah, no, it really is,
24:41
Speaker 1: because you know, if if these bucks start to fall
24:44
Speaker 1: under these ED fall into an early season pattern, um
24:48
Speaker 1: you can get on him. And then we have these
24:50
Speaker 1: temperatures which here I'm looking at like at the end
24:52
Speaker 1: of this week we have highs in the little fifties.
24:55
Speaker 1: That's below average for sure for this time of year. Um,
25:00
Speaker 1: northwest winds, high pressure. Yeah, it could be really good
25:03
Speaker 1: if you're in the right spot. If you're not on
25:04
Speaker 1: the right spot, you're not on that deer. You'RE NOT
25:06
Speaker 1: gonna YOU'RE gonna be crying. But if you you are,
25:09
Speaker 1: you could be in the money. So that's on the
25:11
Speaker 1: spot you could be it could be a could be
25:14
Speaker 1: an eight plus. Yeah. Well, maybe, if you put your
25:16
Speaker 1: work in and know where one is, it's a good
25:17
Speaker 1: time to get in the woods there in New Hampshire. Brett,
25:19
Speaker 1: we really appreciate it, man. I hope you have a
25:21
Speaker 1: really great season. Thank you too, you guys as well.
25:38
Speaker 1: Now we've got Jeff Danker from buck ventures. Jeff has
25:41
Speaker 1: been doing some hunting over in Kansas. Jeff, how are
25:44
Speaker 1: things going, man, well, we got a big buck in
25:47
Speaker 1: the bike and we're heading home. So, Casey, I think
25:50
Speaker 1: you're doing pretty good. It sounds sounds pretty skippy man.
25:53
Speaker 1: That's cool. So, uh, how'd that go down? Man? You
25:56
Speaker 1: were y'all seeing quite a bit of Buck Movement there
25:58
Speaker 1: for the Kansas opener. Well, you know, we uh we
26:02
Speaker 1: got some farms up there that we've been really babying
26:04
Speaker 1: all year and actually for the last three or four years.
26:07
Speaker 1: So great farm but um man, weather has really put
26:11
Speaker 1: a damper on things and uh, you know, it wasn't
26:15
Speaker 1: the regular type punt. We had to kind of adjust
26:17
Speaker 1: on the fly. So so when you say baby and
26:19
Speaker 1: what exactly you mean, well, I just man, I think
26:23
Speaker 1: more I love shooting big deer, but I think I
26:25
Speaker 1: love more than that. It is fixing up farms for
26:27
Speaker 1: big deer and just having those you know, whitetail haven
26:30
Speaker 1: type stuff. So just babying with food plots and, you know,
26:33
Speaker 1: keeping out there, just keeping these deer, these these farms
26:36
Speaker 1: just right for deer with water, food, everything that I
26:40
Speaker 1: can do. Yeah, so you're you're and you're probably pretty
26:43
Speaker 1: particular about what what are shot off that at that
26:46
Speaker 1: farm right, like it's gotta be a certain age or
26:48
Speaker 1: something like that. Man, absolutely, we're shooting definitely age on
26:51
Speaker 1: on on what we call special deer. We do shoot
26:54
Speaker 1: some four year olds of times that we think aren't
26:57
Speaker 1: gonna be much Um, but other than that, yeah, we
27:00
Speaker 1: definitely have a strict game player. So y'all Z owned
27:03
Speaker 1: in on one of those special deer this past week,
27:05
Speaker 1: I'd imagine. Can you tell us little bit about that? Well, so, basically,
27:08
Speaker 1: we had, as we at this eight point last year,
27:10
Speaker 1: there was probably a hundred forty years deer and he
27:12
Speaker 1: was a five year open. Really we kind of had
27:14
Speaker 1: him on the list to shoot him and he he
27:17
Speaker 1: got by. You know, some of our guys went after
27:19
Speaker 1: a different deer or whatever and uh, but he broke early,
27:22
Speaker 1: got a fight, broke early, didn't think a lot of it,
27:25
Speaker 1: but then he shed early and we're like man, what
27:28
Speaker 1: happened to this deer and and all of a sudden
27:30
Speaker 1: he comes back this year and he's got a big
27:31
Speaker 1: old double main beam and junk going everywhere and just
27:35
Speaker 1: turned into a brute Um. And so yeah, my dad
27:39
Speaker 1: definitely picked him out and said, yeah, let's go see
27:41
Speaker 1: we can kill him, and that's what we've been doing
27:43
Speaker 1: this week. Man, that's cool. So you've mentioned the weather
27:46
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. How are the crops there in Kansas?
27:49
Speaker 1: Is Is it a good year for crops? And Heaven
27:52
Speaker 1: Whitetail Movement to agriculture? Well, so this is my ideal.
27:56
Speaker 1: My thoughts on that is we we had a good spring.
27:59
Speaker 1: We had some some Ain in the spring and end
28:01
Speaker 1: up there. We're at, you know, around medicine lode in
28:04
Speaker 1: that area. But then it went into the worst drought
28:07
Speaker 1: we've ever seen. So crops, you know, we had some
28:10
Speaker 1: good soy beans started and this NASS or deer, we're
28:13
Speaker 1: getting some things. But uh now, guys, it's awful. It
28:17
Speaker 1: is as bad as I've ever seen it. And and
28:19
Speaker 1: again that's got me in a little bit of of
28:22
Speaker 1: a whirlwind on on my stuff up there. I mean, basically,
28:25
Speaker 1: we killed this deer. We we basically targeted water. Everything
28:30
Speaker 1: was about water, Um, and and even you know, obviously
28:33
Speaker 1: you can bait in Kansas and they're just not one corn.
28:37
Speaker 1: It's a real weird deer guys, M man. So that
28:41
Speaker 1: does count sound a little bit depressing, tell you the
28:44
Speaker 1: truth of matter. I know it's tough sometimes, but it
28:46
Speaker 1: makes it kind of fun, as long as the animals
28:48
Speaker 1: are in good shape. You know, to to have challenges
28:50
Speaker 1: like that come along. As you kind of look forward
28:53
Speaker 1: this season, like in the next week or so, as
28:57
Speaker 1: we have these openers. Happened across the country. You know,
28:59
Speaker 1: Kansas just opened up. What do you predict dear movement
29:02
Speaker 1: to be like and what are they going to be
29:04
Speaker 1: focusing on? Well, if I was to predict that right now,
29:07
Speaker 1: and I mean obviously, I looked at the fifteen day
29:09
Speaker 1: forecast every day and Um, you know, I live by guys,
29:14
Speaker 1: truly lived by Co Fronts, you know, drops and broometer
29:19
Speaker 1: rises and when you get, I don't care if you
29:21
Speaker 1: get a steady thirty two degrees, that thirty two degrees,
29:25
Speaker 1: that just stays thirty degrees and it's the same day
29:28
Speaker 1: every day. It gets hard to kill deer because it's
29:31
Speaker 1: just a it's a it's hard to get a change.
29:33
Speaker 1: And then you multiply that. When you get just a
29:36
Speaker 1: you know obviously we're gonna be a hundred one up
29:38
Speaker 1: there on Monday. I mean, when you get that kind
29:41
Speaker 1: of stuff going on and it's and that's all it is.
29:43
Speaker 1: When you look at fifteen days, it's just hot, hot,
29:46
Speaker 1: hot and dry, hot, dry, hot, dry brometer staying the same.
29:49
Speaker 1: So as long as that stays it's gonna be tough stuff.
29:53
Speaker 1: I mean, you know you're sneaking in. I mean we
29:56
Speaker 1: shot this deer in the morning. Usually this time year
29:58
Speaker 1: weren I ain't hunting in the morning. We're, I can
30:00
Speaker 1: weigh off the alfile fields and UM, getting these deer
30:03
Speaker 1: right where they're fixing to lay down. Um. And so
30:08
Speaker 1: again I'm hoping it'll snap out of it. When I
30:10
Speaker 1: talked to all the farmers, you know they're looking at
30:12
Speaker 1: the farmers farminact. You know they're predicting that it ain't
30:15
Speaker 1: gonna rain and it's the first moisture room get up
30:18
Speaker 1: in that area. You know, Fifteen, sixteen is Um snow,
30:23
Speaker 1: and so you know, you don't know how much take
30:25
Speaker 1: into that, but you sure want to listen to these
30:28
Speaker 1: wise old farmers. You know, YEP, Yep, they've been there,
30:32
Speaker 1: hadn't they? They they're they're all the all year long.
30:34
Speaker 1: They kind of know what's going on in those areas.
30:37
Speaker 1: You know, typically the farmers are good people for that
30:40
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Did Uh now when you, when you
30:42
Speaker 1: guys were able to shoot this deer? Was that? was
30:44
Speaker 1: that based off of a uh, you know, a changing
30:47
Speaker 1: weather pattern? No, it really was, and we just we
30:51
Speaker 1: knew what the weather was gonna be. I mean a
30:53
Speaker 1: lot of times when we're afterving and Biggins, we we
30:56
Speaker 1: see that weather coming up and we leave alone, even alone,
30:58
Speaker 1: and we don't hunt, hunt, you know. But I just
31:00
Speaker 1: had a feeling that this deer was gonna come to water.
31:03
Speaker 1: We had a big water tank out and we had
31:05
Speaker 1: I hadn't checked his cameron about three weeks and but
31:08
Speaker 1: last time I checked it. We we knew that he
31:10
Speaker 1: was there a bunch and we knew that he was
31:12
Speaker 1: laying down somewhere under grass there. And Uh, it was
31:15
Speaker 1: a great access with a good wind. I mean that
31:18
Speaker 1: was the key to this place, is is that? And
31:20
Speaker 1: then could just slip in and getting the tree staying
31:22
Speaker 1: there and that's what happened. They just we just had
31:25
Speaker 1: a hunch and and hunting him again. You know, when
31:27
Speaker 1: he hunt over bait or something like that, a lot
31:30
Speaker 1: of times you put pressure on him real quick. But
31:32
Speaker 1: when you're when you're hunting back and you ain't gotta
31:34
Speaker 1: worry about coming into Bait in the morning and that
31:37
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and you're just going to get the
31:38
Speaker 1: tree and that know that he probably won't be there
31:40
Speaker 1: he's out on Halfi field for a while, you can
31:43
Speaker 1: get by with some stuff. And that was just what
31:44
Speaker 1: we were hoping and that's what happened, man. So going
31:47
Speaker 1: forward for the next week, what are you protecting buck
31:49
Speaker 1: movement being like on a scale from one to ten? Well,
31:53
Speaker 1: I'm hoping right now bucks are real or staying real close.
31:57
Speaker 1: You either got a big buck or you don't. You know,
31:59
Speaker 1: you ain't getting a whole lot of new stuff showing
32:01
Speaker 1: up yet. So I'm hoping that that'll start. You know,
32:04
Speaker 1: we'll start kind of gathering some new bucks. But again,
32:07
Speaker 1: with the weather, Um, you know, we're gonna sit here
32:10
Speaker 1: on her thumbs a little bit at the House and
32:13
Speaker 1: watch this weather and and you know that would I
32:15
Speaker 1: if I was telling anyone if they had a big buck,
32:17
Speaker 1: you know, be careful, you don't leave him alone and
32:20
Speaker 1: let him feel comfortable and tell us time to go
32:22
Speaker 1: kill him. And that's that's what we're fiction to do.
32:25
Speaker 1: We're not going to get ahead of herself here and
32:27
Speaker 1: see if this weather will come and take shape force
32:29
Speaker 1: and maybe get a you know, a twenty degree drop somewhere,
32:32
Speaker 1: and then we'll pounce. That's great, man. That's good advice. Jeff.
32:36
Speaker 1: What's the best way for people to connect with you?
32:39
Speaker 1: If they want to see what's going on? Check out
32:40
Speaker 1: that big yeah, man, we have we've ramped up our youtube.
32:45
Speaker 1: I'd love to tell everybody about our youtube. I mean
32:47
Speaker 1: we've just started our youtube last year. You know, I
32:49
Speaker 1: still have been done tell this for years, but our Youtube,
32:52
Speaker 1: Bill we we you know, cocaine and heads that up
32:55
Speaker 1: as a great editor and these acts of the guys
32:57
Speaker 1: over my shoulder night e. A the time. so He's
33:00
Speaker 1: running that. We're putting some good stuff out live. This
33:02
Speaker 1: hunt will be out in just a few days. Um,
33:05
Speaker 1: that we just talked about on it. You know, obviously
33:07
Speaker 1: you come find me and Buck pincher's on instagram and
33:11
Speaker 1: facebook and all that stuff. And we'd love to hear
33:13
Speaker 1: from anyone. Awesome, man. Well, thanks for hopping on the
33:17
Speaker 1: phone and giving us some advice there, and I'm sure
33:19
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you some other time this year. Well,
33:22
Speaker 1: Try Outer Casey, I'm sure if I appreciate you guys
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Speaker 1: and even thinking about me, and just know that I'm
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Speaker 1: here at any time, you aren't gonna Talk. We have
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Speaker 1: got grant forney with the everyday outdoorsman. Grant has been
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Speaker 1: hunting in Maryland, way up there in the northeast. Grant,
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Speaker 1: how are you doing, man? Pretty good. It's, uh, my
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Speaker 1: favorite time of the year, hunting season this year, so
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Speaker 1: I'm having fun getting my season started here. How about
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Speaker 1: you guys? We're doing good. We've been doing other things
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Speaker 1: than white tell lately. We've been doing elk and mule
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Speaker 1: hear and stuff, but got white telling the brain right now, Dude.
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Speaker 1: And you have already done the UN thing do well,
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Speaker 1: you've put a nice Maryland buck down and it ain't
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Speaker 1: even October yet. Man. How did that go? Yeah, it
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Speaker 1: was honestly an awesome hunt. I I couldn't believe it either,
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Speaker 1: to to put a buck down that early. This is
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Speaker 1: the earliest in the year that I've ever been fortunate
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Speaker 1: enough to take a book. So Um, yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: a really good, uh, really good early season hunt. Very
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Speaker 1: thankful to to kill a pretty good buck this early
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Speaker 1: in the season on public there in Maryland. Oh Dude,
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Speaker 1: that's awesome. I don't even realize I was on public grounds.
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Speaker 1: So this earlier in the year, do you see a
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Speaker 1: lot of hunter pressure there on public grounds? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a pretty good amount of pressure, uh, on the
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Speaker 1: pieces of public that I hunt, especially opening weekend the
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Speaker 1: first two days. The first day of the season was
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Speaker 1: last Friday, so lots of guys in the woods Friday
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Speaker 1: and Saturday. So usually my strategy for that is, number one,
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Speaker 1: to try to get away from guys and number two,
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Speaker 1: to really try to be as close to betting areas
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Speaker 1: as I can be. H and that's kind of how
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Speaker 1: that's kind of how my hunt was on Saturday morning.
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Speaker 1: It was just a pretty classic example, I would say,
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Speaker 1: of a buck coming back off of food, heading back
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Speaker 1: to the betting area and uh, I was able to
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Speaker 1: catch him, you know, on his way back to bed. Uh.
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Speaker 1: The other thing I had going for me was just
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a cooler morning. It wasn't super cold.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't really necessarily call it a cold front, but
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Speaker 1: that early in the year, if you can just get
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Speaker 1: like a morning that's just cool enough, especially because of
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Speaker 1: how hot of a summer we've had. Um, you know
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Speaker 1: the deer, the deer gonna be on the feet and uh,
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Speaker 1: that's what I had going for me Saturday morning. So
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Speaker 1: I got lucky and it worked out for me. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's that's dude. You put the pieces together and that
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Speaker 1: is awesome. I know that some of the other guys
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Speaker 1: we've talked to see you to be saying that weather,
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Speaker 1: it has played a huge part of what they're doing.
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Speaker 1: Do you foresee that whether being an issue like throughout
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Speaker 1: the season here? Is that something that's happening to you
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Speaker 1: up there in the northeast? Yeah, yeah, for sure it's. Um,
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Speaker 1: it's such a huge part of of the deer movement here,
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Speaker 1: as you know, I did, as I'm sure everywhere. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a huge factor, I think. Um, you know here
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Speaker 1: in the early season, uh, the temperature is just it's
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Speaker 1: such a big deal. Of course, for me during Maryland,
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Speaker 1: the hunting pressure is also a big deal, but I'm
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Speaker 1: looking to get out on those days where the temperature
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Speaker 1: is uh is lower, you know, relative to uh the
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Speaker 1: days before or the days after it. This time of year,
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Speaker 1: that's really what I'm looking for. You know, I might
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Speaker 1: get a day or two of the week to hunt
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna pick the day or two where the
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Speaker 1: temperature is is really looking the lowest. Pretty much the strategy.
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Speaker 1: So are there any like unique challenges or tactics that
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Speaker 1: you have for access during the early season that you
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Speaker 1: may not use as much during, you know, the Rut
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Speaker 1: or colder months? Yeah, I mean, nothing really too specific.
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Speaker 1: I would just say in general, like I'm very, very
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Speaker 1: much in tune and very cautious about my access this
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Speaker 1: time of year compared to what it would be during
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Speaker 1: the Rut. Uh, in the Rut, you know I'm really
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Speaker 1: not always careful, because you can just get away with
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Speaker 1: a lot more, I would say, but this time of year,
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Speaker 1: I mean like slipping in, slipping in there for a
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Speaker 1: morning hunt. Really my strategy for access. It's just to
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Speaker 1: try to to try to stay off of food on
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Speaker 1: my way in and then, even more specifically, not do
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Speaker 1: my best to not put my grounds in uh, on
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Speaker 1: the side of the tree where the deer are going
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Speaker 1: to be coming in from. Yeah, is that something that
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Speaker 1: you do? Is the ground set thing something you think
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Speaker 1: about much, or is that like a because you're sweating
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Speaker 1: this time of year going in? You're really really worried
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Speaker 1: about it? Yeah, yeah, for sure. This time of year,
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Speaker 1: even more worried about that. With H with the ground
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Speaker 1: sent Um, I really yeah, because of like long walks
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Speaker 1: in the heat, I'm sweating a lot. Uh, I'm really
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Speaker 1: not doing a lot for sent control for this style
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Speaker 1: of hunting this time of year. So, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm really paying attention to win direction on my access
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Speaker 1: and then and then, like we said, where I'm putting
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Speaker 1: my grounds and all my way into the tree. Yeah, man,
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Speaker 1: that totally makes sense. Whenever it's so hot, ground or
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Speaker 1: sink control kind of can be a moot point at
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Speaker 1: that at that point. So, Um, you were talking about
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Speaker 1: food sources quite a bit here. You're referring to agricultural
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Speaker 1: food sources or natural food sources. UH, some of both,
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Speaker 1: mostly agriculture. Uh. There's some skinning corn that butts up
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Speaker 1: to some of the public I hunt right now. That
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Speaker 1: you're hitting pretty good. And then, Um, there also is, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there also is some natural with the horns and crowds
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Speaker 1: right now. So, Um, the year that I killed on Saturday,
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Speaker 1: where he came from. He was probably actually coming off
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Speaker 1: the Bait Worns on his way back to bed. So Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, definitely some things to think about this time
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Speaker 1: of year. Yeah, man, that's awesome. So going forward, as
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Speaker 1: we look towards like the next week of hunting, you
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Speaker 1: know is uh, kind of the years starts to push
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Speaker 1: on and we swing from kind of the warmer temperatures
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Speaker 1: into the fall. What do you expect the buck movement
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Speaker 1: to be over the next week? I would say over
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Speaker 1: the next week it's gonna be. It's gonna be okay.
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Speaker 1: I would say, probably not as good as last week
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Speaker 1: because of, in my case, the Hind pressure that it
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Speaker 1: started to take effect on them, that opening weekend pressure,
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Speaker 1: but it should be. It should be okay. I think
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Speaker 1: if we can uh, you know, it got some cooler evenings,
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Speaker 1: which looks like we have some okay temperatures coming up,
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Speaker 1: it should be uh, it should be decent. You guys
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Speaker 1: want me to to yea, yeah, the ten. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: if you were to, let me just say the question,
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Speaker 1: if you were to rate it on a scale of
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Speaker 1: one to ten. Looking forward. What you think that would be?
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Speaker 1: I would say I'll give it a six here for
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Speaker 1: this upcoming week versus maybe an eight last week got you.
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Speaker 1: So a little lower, but still definitely optimistic looking forward. Uh,
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Speaker 1: maybe with, you know, not quite as much pressure in
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Speaker 1: the woods because people are just not want to get
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Speaker 1: out there and hunt in the heat, I would imagine. Right. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, the later part of the
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Speaker 1: week will be better as the hunting pressure starts to
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Speaker 1: tie off, but right here, early in the week, it
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Speaker 1: might be a little tougher because of the heavy hunting
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Speaker 1: pressure that we've seen here opening weeks. But I would
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Speaker 1: say optimistic towards the end of next week with the
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Speaker 1: hunting pressure starting to die down a little bit and
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Speaker 1: slightly cooler attempts coming in. Cool, cool man. So right
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Speaker 1: now you were actually headed to go hunt some more.
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Speaker 1: You're in a different state and we want to wish
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Speaker 1: you the best hunt of your eason right now. I
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Speaker 1: really appreciate you hopping on here to to talk and
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Speaker 1: kind of hope a little bit before you hit out
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Speaker 1: to the woods. If people want to see more of
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Speaker 1: what you got going on, what should they check out?
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Speaker 1: They can check out the everyday outdoorsman on Youtube, instagram
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Speaker 1: and facebook. Awesome Grant. Thanks. Hey, thanks a lot, guys.
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Speaker 1: To really appreciate it. Guys, is sounding like a great
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Speaker 1: week to get out in the woods and chase white tails,
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