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Ep. 308: Rut Fresh Radio 10/16/19 · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wire to Hunt podcast, your home for
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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,
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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wire to Hunt podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan, and this is episode number three
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Speaker 1: and eight and we're here today with another Fresh Radio
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Speaker 1: episode in which we are getting the most recent intel
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Speaker 1: from deer hunters all across the country about what's happening now,
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Speaker 1: how our conditions at pacting deer, and how can you
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Speaker 1: get one killed? Right now? Welcome to wire Hunts Love
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Speaker 1: Fresh Radio. I'm your host. Spent a new more flying soul.
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Speaker 1: This week is Mark Kenyon heads for the Boundary Waters
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota and I had to South Dakota on a
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Speaker 1: Musloder hunt. If you're not familiar with this show, each
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Speaker 1: week I talked to different hunters from across the nation
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Speaker 1: get the latest intel on buck movement in their area.
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Speaker 1: The idea is then for hunters to then take that
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Speaker 1: info and apply it to their strategies, to their setups,
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Speaker 1: to their properties to help them get a buck on
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Speaker 1: the ground. Now. Ordinarily Mark and I would open up
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Speaker 1: the show with a bit of banter and talk about
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Speaker 1: some big picture themes. For this time, of year and
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Speaker 1: sort of preview what you're going to hear from our guests.
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Speaker 1: If Mark were here, I think we would touch on
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Speaker 1: the October Law because it's October and if you think
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Speaker 1: of like the October Law date, that's what you would
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Speaker 1: have in your mind. And I'm not going to break
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Speaker 1: down the entire October Law for you, but Mark Kennyon
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Speaker 1: just wrote an article for the Mediator dot com titled
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Speaker 1: why the October Law is Real. As a defender of science,
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Speaker 1: it bothers me to kind of say that, yes, the
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Speaker 1: October Law is real, but you need to go and
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Speaker 1: read Mark's work like I did, and you'll see what
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Speaker 1: point he's making about how what hunters are seeing and
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Speaker 1: what the science is reporting are different things. So I
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Speaker 1: think there's a lot to be learned from that article,
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Speaker 1: and that's kind of a good precursor for hunting this
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Speaker 1: time of year. We have four guests for this week's show,
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Speaker 1: and we start off with Josh Smith from wildcaret Sinse
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Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Then we talked to Kevin Mistison from the
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Speaker 1: Deer Hunter Podcast in Michigan, and then we talked to
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Speaker 1: Beaumartinic in Pennsylvania from East meets West Hunt podcasts, and
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Speaker 1: then we go to Kansas and talked to Nate Craik
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Speaker 1: from Identical Draw for this week's show. We've got a
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Speaker 1: mix of public land hunters and private land hunters, and
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Speaker 1: Southern hunters and northern hunters, and aggressive hunters and passive hunters.
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Speaker 1: So I think there would be something for everybody on
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Speaker 1: this episode of rut Fresh Radio. Now we're gonna kick
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Speaker 1: it to the interviews alright, and joining us on the
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Speaker 1: line first is Josh Smith in Tennessee from wildcaret Sense. Now,
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Speaker 1: Josh in Tennessee, what would you say the bucket activities
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Speaker 1: been lately the scale of one to ten, I'd say
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Speaker 1: lately we've probably been at a three. Uh. I would
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Speaker 1: go even lower than that, Um, if it weren't for
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Speaker 1: a little bit of cold front we had pushed over
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Speaker 1: this past weekend. I got the year up on their
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Speaker 1: feet a little better. So that was nice to see. Um.
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Speaker 1: Other than that, we just had some really hot temperatures
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Speaker 1: and it's suppressed dear movement overall. Um, I've been seeing
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Speaker 1: dose out and about a little more UM than the
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Speaker 1: box obviously, so, but overall it's been pretty slow. Just
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Speaker 1: with the heat with the exception of this past weekend
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Speaker 1: where we had about a twenty four degree drop Saturday night,
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Speaker 1: so uh it made for a little better hunting Saturday
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Speaker 1: Eve and Sunday morning, but still pretty well as far
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Speaker 1: as buck movement, What do your strategies look like this
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Speaker 1: time of year? Kind of an awkward time of year
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Speaker 1: when you don't want to be too aggressive, but you
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Speaker 1: should still be in the woods because bucks can still
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Speaker 1: be caught moving. Yeah, for sure, um, mostly right now. Um,
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Speaker 1: keeping tabs on acorns. Um, that's a big thing for me. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, just singling out any white oaks that I
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Speaker 1: can find and hunt those as hard as possible. We
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Speaker 1: don't have a lot of agriculture, so that's the best
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Speaker 1: bet for right now. There's not really any any sort
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Speaker 1: of rud activity taking place yet obviously, so uh, just
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Speaker 1: figuring out where the best food sources are and sticking
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Speaker 1: tight to them. As somebody who owns a dear year
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Speaker 1: in company, what is your strategy with sense this time
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Speaker 1: of year and how does that evolve as we get
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Speaker 1: into the rud. Sure, well, right now I'm using a
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Speaker 1: buck basic bucking doll urines as a cover. With the
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Speaker 1: heat that we've got it's pretty hard not to be
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Speaker 1: stinking up the area, so I want to use those
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Speaker 1: in the cover, um, just kind of cover my tracks basically,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sweating him stinking, So that's very helpful.
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Speaker 1: And as we start to close in on pre Rod
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Speaker 1: a little more, um, I'll get a little more addressive
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Speaker 1: with do estris and some of our rutting buck lures,
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Speaker 1: and I do use those right now, uh while I'm
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Speaker 1: making mock scrapes. Uh, we do have quite a few
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Speaker 1: cameras out um sitting over mox scrapes, just kind of
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Speaker 1: keeping inventory. So I'll use our sense that way right now. Um,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not really doing much as far as a
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Speaker 1: drag or anything like that yet. I say that for
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Speaker 1: a little bit later, probably a week or ten days
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Speaker 1: from now, maybe I'll start, uh start to utilize those
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Speaker 1: a little more. You probably run more trail cameras than
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Speaker 1: most hunters. Where those trail cameras at this time of year?
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Speaker 1: And how does that change over these next few weeks.
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Speaker 1: Do you have any specific mock scrape sites that you
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Speaker 1: find or security others right now? Any any mock scrapes
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Speaker 1: that I've set up are generally gonna be on any
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Speaker 1: corridor going from bad food, anywhere that I can find
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Speaker 1: a high traffic area where deer coming out of the
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Speaker 1: thick petting area and moving towards U. Those those oak ridges,
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Speaker 1: like I talked about, those are primarily where cameras are
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Speaker 1: set up, you know, and I'll have some random thrown
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Speaker 1: out there just to maybe catch something I'm unaware of.
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Speaker 1: But as far as target those are, those are my
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Speaker 1: hot spots, trying to catch a good high traffic area,
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Speaker 1: maybe a bottleneck of some sort between a betting area
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Speaker 1: and food, which is primarily the acorns. Are you concerned
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Speaker 1: with moon phases it all the time of year? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I am. You know, we just kind of approach the
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Speaker 1: full moon. I think deer tend to move quite a
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Speaker 1: lot more in the evening hours, you know, at night. Um,
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Speaker 1: they're not up under feet as much in the daytime
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Speaker 1: because they don't have to be. They feel a little
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Speaker 1: more security curson around at night. Uh So, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: think it does have an effect. Um. I'm excited to
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Speaker 1: see as we taper off into a little cooler weather
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Speaker 1: here in the next week. I'm excited to see what
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Speaker 1: takes place as far as you know, having a new Moon,
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Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll be up on their feel little more
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Speaker 1: in a day like going forward. Then in the sext
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Speaker 1: week or so, what do you think that buck activity
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Speaker 1: is going to be on a scale of one to
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Speaker 1: ten in Tennessee. Oh, I think we'd get up to
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Speaker 1: probably a six a little higher after that as prey
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Speaker 1: up picks up a little more. But we're Wednesday night,
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Speaker 1: this is where gonna drop down to lows in the
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Speaker 1: upper thirties. Thursday is gonna be uh high in the
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Speaker 1: low sixties as opposed to like the upper seventies. We're
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Speaker 1: averaging right now, so I think that's gonna help a
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Speaker 1: little bit. So I'm I'm optimistic. I think traffic, deer
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Speaker 1: traffic is gonna pick up a little bit and hopefully
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Speaker 1: bucks get to move in a little bit more. Ore Joshua,
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Speaker 1: good luck to you and everyone else from Wildcare since
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Speaker 1: thanks for joining me. Thank you sir, all right and
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Speaker 1: joining us on the line. Next is Bow Martinic from
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Speaker 1: East meets West Haunt Podcasts in Pennsylvania. Now Bow in Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 1: What would you say the bucket activity has been lately
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Speaker 1: on the scale of one to ten. I would say
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Speaker 1: that the buck activity is somewhere around a five currently.
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Speaker 1: And the reason why I say is it's been if
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Speaker 1: we've had some good some cold mornings, some things that
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Speaker 1: a corn crops have been good, and a little bit
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Speaker 1: of movement. But still I think here in the coming ones,
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Speaker 1: it's it's going to get better as as scrapes and
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Speaker 1: rugs or start and to pop up, as well as
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Speaker 1: my drope cameras are starting to light up a little
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Speaker 1: bit more. And you just briefly touch on food sources,
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Speaker 1: but tell me about what kind of food you're focused
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Speaker 1: on this time of year. So right now, the hot
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Speaker 1: ticket item is the acorns. The red oaks have done
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Speaker 1: really well dropping in this this part of the state.
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Speaker 1: Um white oaks for a little bit, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: harder to come by, but acorns have been the ticket.
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Speaker 1: Apple trees seem to have lost a lot of apples
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Speaker 1: early and but nonetheless acorns have been the hot ticket
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Speaker 1: item right now. What are your strategies in mid October
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Speaker 1: as a public land bowl hunter in Pennsylvania. So honestly,
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to, you know, be close to the food
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Speaker 1: source in this case being acorns. In the in that
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Speaker 1: that I'm hung there's not a whole lot of food
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Speaker 1: plots of other food sources besides in the timber. And
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Speaker 1: to do that, I'm trying to set up as close
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Speaker 1: as I can to cover where they're potentially betting and
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Speaker 1: and start to utilize scrapes and the scrapes right on
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Speaker 1: the edge of the cover going in some of these
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Speaker 1: sources will really start to the late up in the
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Speaker 1: next week will be my strategy going forward with signmaking
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Speaker 1: increasing and the abundance of acorns. What is your trail
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Speaker 1: camera strategy like right now? So I run probably of
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Speaker 1: my cameras on scrapes, and they and I mean they'll
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Speaker 1: use the licking branches year round, but really starting to
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Speaker 1: potter ground and start, you know, working in scrapes like
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Speaker 1: you typically see in October. So that's where I'm getting
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Speaker 1: the best intel is on those scrapes. When you see
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Speaker 1: an approaching cold front like we have coming in a
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Speaker 1: few days here in that part of the country, how
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Speaker 1: do your strategies change on public land? So I'm really gay.
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Speaker 1: What that's really gonna change for me is I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: try to get into some of my with the cold fronts.
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Speaker 1: I don't like to put any unnests or pressure in
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Speaker 1: spots that, you know, with the warmer weather, when I have,
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Speaker 1: you know, a bundant locations to go to, but really
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Speaker 1: they're cold front. Would would make me go into, you know,
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Speaker 1: some of my better areas going forward than this next
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Speaker 1: week or so. What do you think that bucket activity
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Speaker 1: is going to be on a scale of one to
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Speaker 1: ten in Pennsylvania? I think they're the buck activity. If
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Speaker 1: we get the cold front like we're supposed to, I
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Speaker 1: think it's gonna jump to around the seven. I would say, still,
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Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be, you know, anything great, but
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Speaker 1: I think it's going to start to increase and as
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Speaker 1: we start getting towards the latter part of October. Our Bob,
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Speaker 1: good luck in Pennsylvania. Congrats on your ELK success in Idaho,
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Speaker 1: and thanks for joining me. Thanks Spencer alright enjoining us
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Speaker 1: on the line. Next is Kevin musus In in Michigan
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Speaker 1: from the Deer Hunter podcast. Kevin in Michigan, what would
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Speaker 1: you say the bucket activities Familey, on the scale of
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Speaker 1: one to ten, one to ten, I'm gonna go uh,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go two to three. The only reason I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying one or zero is because it is deer season,
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Speaker 1: and anything can happen. The reason I'm going two and
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Speaker 1: three and staying really low is because I think, uh,
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Speaker 1: incomplete honesty right now, you know, potentially the past week
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Speaker 1: and this coming week are probably as hard a time
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Speaker 1: as possible as you're going to have getting on a
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Speaker 1: buck here in Michigan, because they are now pretty much
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Speaker 1: off their summer patterns. They're fully off their summer patterns.
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Speaker 1: Everything's hide hard, horned, and the small game hunters are out,
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Speaker 1: waterfowl guys are out. The deer are very alert to
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Speaker 1: that it is hunting season, and they're basically going to
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Speaker 1: be in their beds before daybreak. And most of these deer, yes,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna stand up out of their beds during the
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Speaker 1: course of the day and maybe shift their beds, but
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Speaker 1: they're not going to move, you know, likely more than
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Speaker 1: twenty five to seventy five yards outside of their primary
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Speaker 1: bed in daylight. So unless you're um slipping in right
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Speaker 1: in too tight to their bedding area, it is your season.
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Speaker 1: Anything can happen to coyote can bump the bed, but
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Speaker 1: they're not getting up in the middle of the days
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Speaker 1: going on now, there's just no reason to be doing
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Speaker 1: that um buck movement is that, I would say pretty
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Speaker 1: low from what I've seen over the course of the
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Speaker 1: past week, and I expect that to continue through the
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Speaker 1: next week. Do you think this is a tough time
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Speaker 1: of year for all Michiganders or do the guys that
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Speaker 1: private land have it that much better? Uh? You know,
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Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I don't know that too
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Speaker 1: many private landowners have a big advantage um over public
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Speaker 1: land hunters here in Michigan. Sometimes the public land hunter
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Speaker 1: actually are the guys that are switched on and understand
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Speaker 1: potentially how to hunt these parcels a little bit better
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Speaker 1: because they're used to dealing with the pressure. But here
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Speaker 1: in Michigan, we have a lot of small parcels you
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Speaker 1: might be dealing with, uh, you know, five to forty acres,
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Speaker 1: And as much as you like to think you can
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Speaker 1: control what happens on that private property, there's elements that
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Speaker 1: are outside of your control. For instance, last weekend, one
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Speaker 1: of our neighbors his his young son shot a dough
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Speaker 1: They didn't think before they acted, and they just went
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Speaker 1: and looked for it and then notified us later that
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Speaker 1: would probably be on there. They'd probably be on our
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Speaker 1: trail cameras, and so you know these deer, they just
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Speaker 1: there's people in the woods and they know it. And
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Speaker 1: sometimes those big public parcels are much larger tracks with
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Speaker 1: bigger betting areas than what you could even have on
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Speaker 1: a small private land parcels. So I think either one
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Speaker 1: has their challenges this time of year here and in
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Speaker 1: any other pressure state as well, knowing that these next
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Speaker 1: few weeks you're going to be really tough in a
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Speaker 1: state like Michigan. Uh, say you did have the ideal
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Speaker 1: conditions you were looking for and whatever that might be
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Speaker 1: for a cold front, parametric pressure and moon phase, what
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Speaker 1: would your strategy then be to get a buck on
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Speaker 1: the ground. So it's um very similar to what it
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Speaker 1: is the the rest of the year. I'm getting in
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Speaker 1: tight to um to cover, you know, thick cover, betting cover, stick,
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Speaker 1: dense understudy. The deer are browsing, just natural brows. There's
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Speaker 1: still a lot of green foliage in the under story,
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Speaker 1: so the deer are very much just feeding where they
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Speaker 1: are betting. They're not really moving to destination food sources
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Speaker 1: until under the cover of darkness. Also, we have a
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Speaker 1: lot of acorns on the ground, so these dear, you know,
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Speaker 1: they'll bed in proximity to where they can visually see
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Speaker 1: where they're gonna, you know, be feeding before they move
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Speaker 1: out to destination feed. And it's pretty tough to get
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Speaker 1: in and on them. I mean, they're they're very savvy
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Speaker 1: when they bet, they put everything in their favor and
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Speaker 1: against you. But being a mobile hunter, being adaptable, and
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Speaker 1: then what I really love this time of year, uh
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Speaker 1: is just being able to get out there too and
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Speaker 1: hike around and check out some new spots and you're
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Speaker 1: you're kind of doing some in season scouting. Um. I
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Speaker 1: try to stay out of my historic places that I
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Speaker 1: know are going to be red hot come the beginning
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Speaker 1: of November. I don't want to put human intrusion in
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Speaker 1: those spots right now, so I'll let those dear kind
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Speaker 1: of have those spots. And by staying out of those spots,
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Speaker 1: other people that are hunting and applying pressure to other
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Speaker 1: areas are just gonna force more dear into of those
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Speaker 1: spots so that when the time is right come you
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Speaker 1: know a few days before leading up the Halloween all
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Speaker 1: the way to the opener of our gun season around November.
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Speaker 1: You know that that will be my highest opportunity spots
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Speaker 1: that I'll save for now. So right now, Uh, just
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Speaker 1: being open minded, being flexible, looking at new stuff. Uh,
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Speaker 1: whend is your friend and rain is your friend this
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Speaker 1: time of year, because everything's getting crispy and crunchy, and
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Speaker 1: the deer, like I said, are on high alert. It's
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Speaker 1: pretty hard to get within their you know, their safety
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Speaker 1: zone without alerting into your presence. So if you get
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Speaker 1: a good windy day or a good rain where you
16:43
Speaker 1: can slip in somewhere quiet more, you know, with less
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Speaker 1: intrusion than what was normal, and those deer can't pick
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Speaker 1: you up. I think that's a pretty major asset to
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Speaker 1: be able to get right in and on top of
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Speaker 1: them this time of year. As someone who does a
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Speaker 1: lot of mobile haunting, There anything with your setup or
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Speaker 1: your gear that changes from now until that November gun season. Uh,
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Speaker 1: the only thing that will change for me is that
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Speaker 1: basically my layering. You know, right now, it's been pretty warm.
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Speaker 1: We've had temperatures all the way up you know, to seventy.
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Speaker 1: The lowest we've really seen when I've been out hunting
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Speaker 1: is you know, upper forties. So I'm pretty much wearing
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Speaker 1: what I'm hunting in but I'll be adding a lot
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Speaker 1: of layering. I'll keep a pair of bibs in my
17:32
Speaker 1: bag as well as a puffy jacket and a shell
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Speaker 1: and some thicker gear so that when I do get
17:40
Speaker 1: into my spot and I get my stand situated, I
17:43
Speaker 1: go in and very light clothing, just some hiking pants
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Speaker 1: typically or a light pair of hunting pants, and maybe
17:49
Speaker 1: a hood, a sweatshirt or even just a bass layer top.
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Speaker 1: And then when I get to my stand and I
17:54
Speaker 1: get everything situated, I'll give myself five minutes to kind
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Speaker 1: of cool off before I put my warmth and layers
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Speaker 1: on and climb up and and other than that, Um no,
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Speaker 1: not really, not much changes for my gear set up
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Speaker 1: for being a hunt or other than you know, stuff
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Speaker 1: that I need to stay warm. And you know we
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Speaker 1: can be single digits come here in November, so you'd
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Speaker 1: almost have to be trusted for two separate things to
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Speaker 1: hike in and out and then the set going forward.
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Speaker 1: Then in this next week or so, what do you
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Speaker 1: think that bucket activity is going to be on a
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Speaker 1: scale of one to ten in Michigan. I think we're
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Speaker 1: gonna stay low. Um, we do have a cold front
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Speaker 1: moving in that I believe that will uh definitely definitely help.
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Speaker 1: So you know, coming by next weekend, we could be
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Speaker 1: up you know, two or five or six. But I
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Speaker 1: don't think it gets good until, you know, October ish,
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Speaker 1: when some of the foliages down and those first dose
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Speaker 1: you know, and start coming into ask. So those more
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Speaker 1: mcture deer are aware of that and start to have
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Speaker 1: a reason to get up on their feet a little
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Speaker 1: bit earlier and uh go against their better judgment on
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Speaker 1: uh traveling through the woods that they know people are
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Speaker 1: hunting in. All right, Kevin, I'm looking forward to following
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Speaker 1: in hunts this fall. Good luck this season. Thanks for
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Speaker 1: joining me, Thanks Spencer Alight and joining us on the line.
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Speaker 1: Next is Nate Crick in Kansas. Now Nate in Kansas.
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Speaker 1: What would you say the buck activities been lately? On
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Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten, I would say the
19:32
Speaker 1: buck activity has been around a six or seven um.
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Speaker 1: It has been hired though Kansas and part has been
19:41
Speaker 1: getting pretty good cold fronts. We've had actually some a
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Speaker 1: few bounts of really cool weather and so during we
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Speaker 1: had won during the beginning of October and then justice
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Speaker 1: last weekend, and during those cold fronts, I've seen significant
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Speaker 1: increase in gear movement, and I would say during those
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Speaker 1: cold fronts it could be even up to an eight
19:57
Speaker 1: or nine out of ten. Now, you guys just recently
20:00
Speaker 1: a new property there in Kansas, how is your strategy? Uh,
20:04
Speaker 1: kind of hunting a property for the very first time
20:07
Speaker 1: in mid October, you aggressive where you sit back and
20:09
Speaker 1: waiting for the end of the month. We've been we've
20:12
Speaker 1: been sitting back pretty heavy. Um. We have a soybean
20:17
Speaker 1: plot with some radishes nix in there as well, and
20:20
Speaker 1: that's on just the west side of our ground, so
20:23
Speaker 1: we can access that pretty easily without worrying about bumping
20:26
Speaker 1: deer getting their betting. UM. We also set up cameras
20:30
Speaker 1: in the summer months when we were doing some some
20:33
Speaker 1: other work in there, and we've read a lot of
20:35
Speaker 1: cameras actually just just keep going throughout the year that
20:38
Speaker 1: we haven't even touched in the middle of our ground
20:40
Speaker 1: where we know those deer betting. UM. So we've been
20:43
Speaker 1: we've been hanging out on the edges really not pushing
20:45
Speaker 1: in deep. UM. We got lucky just the beginning of
20:48
Speaker 1: October with UM my brother killing a nice candice buck
20:52
Speaker 1: and we were just hunting that that bean field. Um,
20:55
Speaker 1: it was kind of interesting. Our beans were a lot
20:58
Speaker 1: more green than the properties around us. Think I was
21:00
Speaker 1: a big help with killing that. He was still kind
21:04
Speaker 1: of focused on those beans. But um, yeah, we've been
21:06
Speaker 1: hanging out on the perimeters and we're lucky we have
21:09
Speaker 1: some cell cameras that are kind of doing the work
21:11
Speaker 1: in the middle of our property. But yeah, we're really
21:13
Speaker 1: hanging out until we really see that that buck activity increase.
21:18
Speaker 1: Are you seeing a lot of signmaking right now? And
21:20
Speaker 1: what do you do with that info when you find
21:22
Speaker 1: an area on that property that has a lot of
21:23
Speaker 1: rubs and scrapes. Yeah, So we actually didn't have like
21:27
Speaker 1: any sign until um this last weekend when we hunted
21:31
Speaker 1: that cold front and when I was walking she stands
21:33
Speaker 1: a few times, I was seeing a lot more rubs,
21:35
Speaker 1: a ton more basically just flipped on in the last week. So,
21:39
Speaker 1: um that with that info, I've been moving some some
21:43
Speaker 1: cameras around from food sources to like more of the
21:46
Speaker 1: timber on our property. Um. Just this last weekend, I
21:51
Speaker 1: moved one of our cell cameras to creek crossing with
21:55
Speaker 1: a lot of rubs around it. Um. And since I've
21:58
Speaker 1: put that camera out. It has just been it and
22:00
Speaker 1: lit up all the time by a lot of dos
22:02
Speaker 1: and bucks using it. So I've really been moving to
22:04
Speaker 1: cameras around. Um, I haven't been seeing a bunch of
22:08
Speaker 1: scrapes on our ground more more of the rubs, and
22:11
Speaker 1: that's been really good info. Um Again, right now, we
22:14
Speaker 1: haven't really been hunting those areas. We've really been letting
22:18
Speaker 1: the cameras do the work, like I said. But um,
22:20
Speaker 1: we know that eventually, once, once it really starts to
22:22
Speaker 1: amp up and and the russ is gonna be here
22:24
Speaker 1: before we know it, then we'll be we'll be hanging
22:26
Speaker 1: the new stands and hunting those rugs and scrape lines,
22:29
Speaker 1: hunting an area that's so heavily dominated by big agri culture.
22:32
Speaker 1: How do you say the food source has changed from
22:34
Speaker 1: now until the rut. Yeah, so we've got we've got
22:39
Speaker 1: corn and beans around us, a lot of it. Um.
22:42
Speaker 1: We have a small and plover and turn up a
22:45
Speaker 1: little food plot, and then we have a bean and
22:48
Speaker 1: radish plot. And we're gonna leave our beans and rashes
22:52
Speaker 1: go let them stay all the way through the winter.
22:54
Speaker 1: But the corn and beans will get harvested, and there's
22:57
Speaker 1: always a little shift in the deer movement when that happens.
22:59
Speaker 1: But really, the majority of the property that we hunt
23:03
Speaker 1: cans is timbered besides our couple acre bean plus, so
23:07
Speaker 1: we're really gonna be hunting the thick timber. Um. We
23:10
Speaker 1: have a stream that works through our property as well,
23:13
Speaker 1: and we know that mature gear bucks will want to
23:17
Speaker 1: use that as well as to travel travel routes. So
23:20
Speaker 1: we're really going to move off of the food sources
23:23
Speaker 1: and into that that thicker, bigger timber where the the
23:25
Speaker 1: does will be, the betting will be in those bucks
23:27
Speaker 1: will be uh in there trying to find some doughs. Um.
23:29
Speaker 1: We also do have um a few stands in the
23:33
Speaker 1: timber just off of that being field a little bit
23:35
Speaker 1: because I know big big Bucks won't necessarily want to
23:39
Speaker 1: be opened in that being field. They want to be
23:41
Speaker 1: in the timber a little deeper, um, but they want
23:43
Speaker 1: to get a nose on that being filled for the
23:45
Speaker 1: doughs that are out there feeding and things like that.
23:46
Speaker 1: So Yeah, definitely gonna be moving more into the timber
23:49
Speaker 1: in the next few weeks going forward. Then the next
23:52
Speaker 1: week or so, what do you think that Bucket TV
23:54
Speaker 1: is going to be on a scale of one detend
23:56
Speaker 1: in Kansas. You know, over next week, looking at the weather,
23:59
Speaker 1: it's not going to be anything crazy for this time
24:02
Speaker 1: of the year, so I I I'm gonna keep it
24:04
Speaker 1: at probably about a six or seven. UM. But again,
24:07
Speaker 1: if if that weather does change, if we see some
24:09
Speaker 1: cold weather come in and they'll be moving, Um, that's that.
24:12
Speaker 1: Like I said, that's that first cold front that that
24:15
Speaker 1: came through early October. Ya, my brother killed a nice buck,
24:18
Speaker 1: and then just this last weekend there were a lot
24:21
Speaker 1: of big bucks on the the move and I saw
24:23
Speaker 1: I saw a really nice buck in our neighbor's field
24:26
Speaker 1: on on a tree edge. Um, just out in the daylight.
24:29
Speaker 1: So I don't see it being crazy this week. UM.
24:33
Speaker 1: I know a lot of guys can't get out and
24:35
Speaker 1: hunt during the week, but UM, if if it was
24:38
Speaker 1: up to me, I'd say, hey, this might be a
24:40
Speaker 1: good week to kind of stay off the ground if
24:42
Speaker 1: you're not seeing crazy buck movement because I don't see
24:44
Speaker 1: um any super cold tempts and it might be a
24:47
Speaker 1: good week to leave that pressure off there for later
24:50
Speaker 1: October and into the rut. All night. We'll congrat see
24:53
Speaker 1: you guys for that awesome Kansas Buck he already got down.
24:55
Speaker 1: Good luck with the rest of the season and filling
24:57
Speaker 1: another tag. Yeah, thanks, Man's appreciate. And that concludes this
25:01
Speaker 1: week's episode of Wired Haunts rot Fresh Radio. Thanks it, Josh, Bo,
25:06
Speaker 1: Kevin and Nate for joining me, and thank you guys
25:09
Speaker 1: for listening. Good luck to everyone out there trying to
25:11
Speaker 1: kill wondering this quote unquote October Lowell, I'll be in
25:15
Speaker 1: the woods and I'm really excited for some of my
25:17
Speaker 1: first white tail haunts of the season. We'll talk to
25:20
Speaker 1: you guys next week, but until then, stay wired to hunt.