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Ep. 854: Rut Fresh Radio - December Deerfest · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Wired to Hunt's rut Fresh Radio, bringing you
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  Speaker 1: the latest reports from the White Tail Woods, presented by
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  Speaker 1: now your hosts ca C. Smith and Tyler Jones.
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  Speaker 2: The year's final month is here, But do you have
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  Speaker 2: the information it takes to make it in December?
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  Speaker 3: To remember this is Retfresh. Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Howdy everybody, Welcome to Retfresh Radio. Brock you a first
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  Speaker 2: slide year.
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  Speaker 3: I'm your host k C. Smith.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Jones is riding in the Captain's chair.
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  Speaker 3: Captain Jones, that's him. We are headed out on it
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  Speaker 3: another deer hunt.
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  Speaker 2: See here's a little little refresh for the ret Fresh.
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  Speaker 2: Texas and the South in general is a wonderful place
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  Speaker 2: to be for many reasons, all right, But one of
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  Speaker 2: the ones in particular we're gonna discuss right now is
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  Speaker 2: that it's December.
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  Speaker 3: And we're still thinking about rutting deer. It's pretty cool, man,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm wearing shorts.
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  Speaker 2: You are wearing shorts, which I am surprised because it's
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  Speaker 2: it's not that warm. Honestly, we actually have a really
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  Speaker 2: good cold front that just came through and it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: the cold temps are gonna stick, which is really exciting
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're looking at mid fifties in the.
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  Speaker 2: Day and low's around frost, and that's that is some
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  Speaker 2: good hunting weather. And honestly, I'd say anywhere in the
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  Speaker 2: country that's pretty good hunting weather.
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  Speaker 4: I like it because if your rifle hunting, then it's good.
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  Speaker 4: If you're bow hunting, and you see just this nice, cool,
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  Speaker 4: high pressure days over and over again, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: times you just get them swirly little light and variables, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and bow hunting in those conditions tough.
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  Speaker 3: I will say, what about your shotgun hunt, dude, or
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  Speaker 3: straight wall hunting?
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  Speaker 4: I want a shotgun hunt? How about all these I
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  Speaker 4: want to buck shot some deer that are running, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Baddy, that would be cool. That would be cool. I've
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  Speaker 2: done a little bit of it. It's pretty fun.
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  Speaker 3: We do, so we do.
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  Speaker 4: We pig hunt that way a lot. It's just kind
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  Speaker 4: of the way we do it most time. As we'll
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  Speaker 4: drive to find these big brier thickets. And that's what
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  Speaker 4: some people might call pushing pushing, Yeah, pushing pigs and
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  Speaker 4: shooting them with shotguns and buckshot, and it is super
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  Speaker 4: effective and super fun. Actually have a bunch of those
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  Speaker 4: videos on our channel or a few of them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: if you're interested in watching.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of our channel, if you are interested in some
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  Speaker 2: deer hunting, we just put out a video that I
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  Speaker 2: would love to have you go watch. It's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a video where I shot a really great Texas buck
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  Speaker 2: during the Texas Rutt.
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Jones himself rattled this deer in for me. It
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  Speaker 3: was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I shot it with a thirty thirty that my granddad
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  Speaker 2: bought for my dad's like eleventh birthday or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: It was, And it's just like a really cool legacy hunt.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of things really come together. It is a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful thing. So we'll link that in description below. But
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  Speaker 2: I think that that whole thing kind of goes to
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  Speaker 2: show that man, just because November is done does not
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  Speaker 2: mean that the deer action is done.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's right, you killed that deer on what the twelfth, twelfth?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I realized we were in Texas in the south,
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  Speaker 2: but we were pretty far north in Texas. Honestly, Like,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at some if you were to draw
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  Speaker 2: a line straight east, we probably would be hitting Missouri
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  Speaker 2: at some point in time on that latitudinal line.
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  Speaker 3: So it's definitely not over.
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  Speaker 2: And there's some second rut stuff that maybe out there
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  Speaker 2: that we'll ask some guys about a little bit today,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, we're kind of all interested in that, everybody,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just like the deer, we don't want to
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  Speaker 2: miss out on the good opportunities to be able to
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  Speaker 2: still get a big buck on the.
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  Speaker 3: Ground, and there is a lot of them out there
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler, Yes, just because you do, you know your way
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  Speaker 2: around a white tailed deer. How are you say you're
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  Speaker 2: a Midwest hunter right now? Are you swapping over to
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  Speaker 2: food yet? Are you still thinking about like buck stuff?
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  Speaker 4: I hunt food a lot man, so I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 4: afraid to to hunt food or deer moving to food,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't necessarily be on a field edge right now.
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  Speaker 4: I think if I was on private, I could be
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  Speaker 4: for sure. But I think if I was on public,
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  Speaker 4: i'd probably be. I would be sitting a closer to
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  Speaker 4: I'd be sitting closer to dough betting probably and and
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  Speaker 4: or buck betting. If I knew where bucks were betting,
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  Speaker 4: But I think that I would be hunting deer knowing
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  Speaker 4: that the main, the main angle for that deer that
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  Speaker 4: day is to go find food and then he's going
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  Speaker 4: to harass stoves while he's there or whatever, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, that sounds like a pretty good plan, man.
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  Speaker 2: And also like, because we had kind of warmer temperatures
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  Speaker 2: around the country, it would seem for the month of November.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I saw Mark post about it and how
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  Speaker 2: it's been a tough November for him, and I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 2: and I feel like there's some people out there that
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  Speaker 2: had tough Novembers. You and I particularly had great Novembers,
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  Speaker 2: and it kind of might just be kind of to
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  Speaker 2: lean towards the kind of the areas that we hunt
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  Speaker 2: and the deer that we hunt or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But it was great for us.
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  Speaker 2: But the cold temperatures that December usually brings, it's almost
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  Speaker 2: guaranteed that we'll have some cold mixed with you know,
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  Speaker 2: the food sources that you're talking about is a recipe
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  Speaker 2: for success for sure, because those deer get on their feet,
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  Speaker 2: and deer a lot like humans. It seems like to
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  Speaker 2: me they acclimate a little bit so like if it's
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  Speaker 2: the first really good cold snap of the first you know,
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  Speaker 2: temperatures you're going to see in the teens, even if
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  Speaker 2: it's later in the year, then normal those deer really
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  Speaker 2: going to react to that. So it's a great, great
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  Speaker 2: time to make sure you can get out in the woods.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, I think that. I think you know.
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  Speaker 4: One thing to think about here is I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: I haven't kept too big of a pulse on what's
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  Speaker 4: been going on outside of this ret fresh stuff as
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  Speaker 4: far as like nationwide and what people have been doing.
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  Speaker 4: But if you've had if a lot of people you know,
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  Speaker 4: you know in your area have had a rough November
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  Speaker 4: because it was hot, then December could be the new
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  Speaker 4: thing to do right now, like get you know, if
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  Speaker 4: if November was tough, and then that means there's potentially
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  Speaker 4: a lot of stillure mature bucks still on the landscape, right.
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  Speaker 2: And then also you pair that with the fact that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people have taken vacation time to go
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  Speaker 2: do their hunts already, So you're hunting public land or a.
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  Speaker 3: Piece of private that you don't have exclusive access to.
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  Speaker 2: You could have the woods potentially to yourself and there'd
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  Speaker 2: be a plethora of target animals.
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  Speaker 3: Still lands to.
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  Speaker 4: Do, for sure, those deer if you've got say you're
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  Speaker 4: hunting a place like we do. We have leases here
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  Speaker 4: in Texas, a lot of lease. It's kind of a
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  Speaker 4: cultural thing. And you'll lease it with mostly guys, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes you'll lease it with people you don't know. But
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  Speaker 4: even if you got like, you know, six or seven
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  Speaker 4: guys on a place that you know, those deer in
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  Speaker 4: December can the big bucks can still be killed on
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  Speaker 4: that lease if they haven't been killed. And a lot
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  Speaker 4: of times they're going to be in the place that
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  Speaker 4: like you have to open the most gates to get there,
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  Speaker 4: you know, or the place that's the furthest back from
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  Speaker 4: the from the ranch house or the or camp or
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  Speaker 4: whatever you're staying, you know. So like think about especially
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  Speaker 4: as we gets later in the year, people get a
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  Speaker 4: little bit lazier. Sometimes the tiredness of the season starts
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  Speaker 4: to set in. And and if you work hard in December,
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  Speaker 4: especially after a warm November, I think it can be
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  Speaker 4: a recipe for good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, man.
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  Speaker 2: And speaking of laziness, the guys that we have on
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  Speaker 2: the rough fresh today are not that they're.
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  Speaker 3: The guys that are still out there getting after it. Tyler,
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  Speaker 3: Who do we have on the go today?
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  Speaker 4: Man, We've got uh, you know, one of our former
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  Speaker 4: own Michael Stole up in Ohio. He's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I thought he's gonna retire once he retired from the Element,
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  Speaker 4: but he has been doing some deer hunting up there
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  Speaker 4: in Ohio, which is a good place. I think a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people kill eate season deer up there too,
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  Speaker 4: because they allow corn and things like that. Uh, And
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  Speaker 4: there's just so many deer right up there. So we've
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  Speaker 4: got him. We've got Justin Henry. If you go way
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  Speaker 4: down south from there, from Ohio to the East coast
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  Speaker 4: and south, what's gonna see, You're gonna see Florida And
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  Speaker 4: Justin Henry's comments there and he's he's always out doing
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  Speaker 4: something down there in that nasty deer hunting country of Florida.
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  Speaker 4: And then uh, you know Michael Huntsucker, who usually we
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  Speaker 4: see him once or twice a year on retfresh. He's
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  Speaker 4: in Missouri, which is a place that you know, is
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  Speaker 4: just right in the mix of great deer hunting, has
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  Speaker 4: a great heritage there. And then another place where there's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of deer hunters, and a guy that's very
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  Speaker 4: familiar to a lot of people be cuz Strickland. Ronnie
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  Speaker 4: cuz Strickland been in Mississippi and he's been having some
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  Speaker 4: success with his grandchildren. So we'll get all those guys
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  Speaker 4: on the podcast this week.
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  Speaker 2: On the phone, I've got Element correspondents from Ohio. Michael Stole.
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  Speaker 2: He's been doing some hunting up there. Man, what are
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  Speaker 2: you seeing in the woods, Jim Christmas.
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  Speaker 5: I'm seeing a whole bunch of public land.
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  Speaker 6: Tiny's that's what are you? I sure? Am? Why didn't
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  Speaker 6: you never thought?
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  Speaker 5: I never thought i'd be the person to say I'm
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  Speaker 5: passing deer, But I've been passing some deer, have you?
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  Speaker 5: But I think I think you guys, I think you
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  Speaker 5: guys would agree on these passes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm trying to give you art of a time.
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  Speaker 3: Good job. Just because you miss the spike doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: you passed him.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't miss Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 7: True.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So what I mean it's kind of later right.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio has a very traditional rut. But so what if
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing a bunch of deer, you're still on You're
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  Speaker 2: on something that's going on.
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  Speaker 3: What are they doing.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of a movement.
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  Speaker 5: Is it's starting to shift back at least I feel
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  Speaker 5: like to bed to feed. But I've kind of been
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  Speaker 5: hunting it all along, just because I'm hunting like either historical,
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  Speaker 5: like I.
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  Speaker 6: Know there's been a lot of deer in the area.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to.
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  Speaker 5: Find the most like the highest concentration of deer and
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  Speaker 5: then just try not to screw the area up pretty much.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just trying to get a cruising buck to come
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  Speaker 5: through checking dose and.
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  Speaker 6: Hoping not to blow the entire area up. It's so
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  Speaker 6: much I've done to a couple of places.
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  Speaker 2: As access kind of the big thing then, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's probably got to be a big deal for public
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  Speaker 2: land in general, right.
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  Speaker 5: Access is it's kind of something that I'm I've I
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  Speaker 5: think I've kind of figured something out. And the bigger
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  Speaker 5: terrain stuff, which I've been using a lot of creek access,
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  Speaker 5: which has.
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  Speaker 6: Been helping a whole bunch.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like, I don't know if I was crossing
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  Speaker 5: a bunch of trails and some of the other big.
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  Speaker 6: Timber stuff is still kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Foreign to me, so I don't know exactly how the
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  Speaker 5: deer moving and the creek kind of lets me, you know,
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  Speaker 5: scout my way in still hunt. Really all the above,
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  Speaker 5: so water access has been kind of big for me.
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  Speaker 3: Are you doing that when you say creek? First of all,
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  Speaker 3: why aren't you saying creek? And second of.
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  Speaker 2: All, is that something that has a lot of water
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  Speaker 2: in it or is that like just like a drainage
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  Speaker 2: When you.
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  Speaker 6: Say that, I'm saying like you need knee highs.
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  Speaker 3: To go in? Gotcha? Okay? Cool?
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  Speaker 5: So not nothing like too crazy, but just enough, you know,
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  Speaker 5: water to wash away my scent pretty much. And I
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  Speaker 5: can really, I can really just walk kind of carefree
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  Speaker 5: through it as long as I'm staying quiet.
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  Speaker 3: Got you. But you're saying exactly so, uh, do you
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  Speaker 3: feel like mornings and evenings are still effective?
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  Speaker 5: I've shockingly enough seen I feel like usually my brain's
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  Speaker 5: working more in an evening type of thing, but I've
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  Speaker 5: been having a lot more encounters in the morning for
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  Speaker 5: whatever reason. I think it has something to do with
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  Speaker 5: the main area I've been focused on. I think it's
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  Speaker 5: just it kind of is harder to hunt in the
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  Speaker 5: evening just because it's further away from AG so in
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  Speaker 5: the morning it kind of gives them a second to
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  Speaker 5: come back into it, and I'm not, you know, walking
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  Speaker 5: in while they're in there.
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  Speaker 4: So if you're you're worried about blowing this place out,
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  Speaker 4: at what point do you get aggressive and just do
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  Speaker 4: what you need to do to get work.
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  Speaker 5: We're getting there, I mean we're I'm tonight, I'm going
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  Speaker 5: in for a more aggressive sit that could possibly blow
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  Speaker 5: it up. And that's the only reason I'm really getting
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  Speaker 5: more aggressive now is because I've gotten some trail camera
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  Speaker 5: pictures up a deer that I would one.
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  Speaker 6: Shoot, and he is.
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  Speaker 5: He's been decently consistent, not saying he's he's gonna get
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  Speaker 5: shot tonight.
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  Speaker 6: But I feel pretty.
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  Speaker 5: Good about getting more aggressive now that I know there's
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  Speaker 5: for sure a shooter in the area.
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  Speaker 3: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 4: So as you get more aggressive, is that because things
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  Speaker 4: are changing on the deer's end, or just that you're
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  Speaker 4: getting to the point where something needs to happen.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like the clock is ticking, not.
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  Speaker 5: You know, on Deer season as a whole, you can
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  Speaker 5: shoot deer in the in the later seasons, but I
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  Speaker 5: just feel like as November is winding down, it's just
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  Speaker 5: it's time to get you know, start throwing some hail.
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  Speaker 5: Mary's out and if I I burn the spot, go
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  Speaker 5: find a different spot that's on a more traditional bed
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  Speaker 5: to feed type pattern.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So you're saying that deer deer is still on their
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  Speaker 4: feet really well right now, and that it's it's going
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  Speaker 4: to start winding down here and being a lot more.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna be a little more reclusive in December.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's how I feel They're just gonna keep I
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  Speaker 5: feel like as December goes on, I feel like they're
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  Speaker 5: just gonna keep getting closer and closer in on food.
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  Speaker 5: And then that makes your access even even more to
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  Speaker 5: some of these areas well.
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  Speaker 2: If it makes you feeling better your frid your Saturdays
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  Speaker 2: are going to clear up some with.
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  Speaker 6: Another you're definitely gonna have to worry about watching. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: that's right. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So uh seriously, though, as we look forward to the
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  Speaker 2: next week, you know, you definitely have a pulse on
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  Speaker 2: it because you you feel like there's like a chicken
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  Speaker 2: time bomb here. What are you going to give buck
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  Speaker 2: movement on a scale of one to ten for the
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  Speaker 2: next week in Ohio?
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  Speaker 5: If I was to say ten is the best day ever,
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  Speaker 5: probably six point five.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, man, I gave it a six.
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  Speaker 2: That's it's just well you just being more precise, kind
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  Speaker 2: of like the age. We call them six, but they're
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  Speaker 2: actually six and a half. Yeah, I hope that's what
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  Speaker 2: you kill out there. Man, appreciate the report for Ohio.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, all right.
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  Speaker 4: We've got our Florida correspondent justin Henry here, and he's
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  Speaker 4: been hunting there in Florida where it's the wild East Man,
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  Speaker 4: and there's all kinds of different ruts and all kinds
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  Speaker 4: of different habitats and all that kind of stuff and
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  Speaker 4: weather patterns and everything. Justin tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 4: about what's been going on in your neck of the
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  Speaker 4: woods in Florida and what the deer been doing.
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  Speaker 7: I think they've actually been on the freaking out a
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  Speaker 7: little bit. We've gotten some cold weather, though we don't
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  Speaker 7: normally get this early in the year. Usually it's about
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  Speaker 7: January before it breaks forty degrees. And we've had a
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  Speaker 7: couple or high thirty low forty degree tempts back to back.
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  Speaker 4: So man, it's been interesting, so interesting, And has that
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  Speaker 4: done good things to the deer movement or bad?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 7: I think it's a fifty to fifty truthfully, especially down
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  Speaker 7: here in this South. I mean, uh, I think the
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  Speaker 7: first day or two of the cold front, I think
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  Speaker 7: it kind of freaks them out a little bit. Maybe
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  Speaker 7: on that third day, once the temperatures are a little
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  Speaker 7: more Uh, I don't know, maybe predictable, I guess, you know,
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  Speaker 7: because it warms up pretty good in the afternoon still,
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  Speaker 7: I mean it's sixty five seventy degrees, mornings are in
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  Speaker 7: the forties.
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  Speaker 4: So so what uh, what would the what would be
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  Speaker 4: the biggest change when that stuff happens, in your opinion,
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  Speaker 4: into your movement.
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  Speaker 7: I just think back to food. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 7: think there's any different than out in the Midwest. You know,
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  Speaker 7: they get a little cold, they get hungry, you know,
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: and our rut, as you said before, rut balances back
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: and forth in between. I mean, the best is still
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: to come up in the Panhandle of Florida. You know,
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: they still got another couple of weeks and it'll fire
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: up from them. But where I'm at, where pretty much
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: we're over it, back to that bed to food pattern
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: for the most part.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: So are you hunting mostly evenings? Then are you hunting
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: some mornings too?
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: Or is this kind of depend on what you got
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: on depending on schedule.
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: Really, I mean, mornings are always good.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: I don't ever steer away from mornings, even in any
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: part of the year. I don't steer away from mornings,
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: especially down here on public land, big woods.
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: You know, it's not that big of a deal.
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: Maybe on some more managed area properties it might make
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: a bigger difference, but I don't see a difference in
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: the mornings.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Do you have to adjust for hunting pressure on that
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: public stuff down there?
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, especially since gun season rolled in. The Orange Armies
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: out in full, so it's it's definitely the pressure's in there.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: So just you know, I mean the sign is still
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: there a little bit off and on. I mean you
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: can still see, you know, more just left over acorns
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: are starting to hit. Cameras are fired up on some
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: of those old acorns that are still on the ground. So,
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: like I said, food bed getting there tight to them
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: and catch them in between.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: How much in season scouting are you having to do
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: right now to to find deer.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: I'd say not that much. I'm at least recently.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: I mean I do think, I mean, I know, I said,
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: with the colder temps that kind of freaks them out.
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: But I do believe that with just the coolish temps,
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: it does keep them on their feet a little bit earlier,
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: or getting on their feet a little bit earlier in
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: the evenings.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: What what other food sources besides acrens, anything that you've seen.
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: Uh, there's I don't know the name of this, these bushes,
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: but I can't I need to figure it out. There's
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: a bush that I've noticed quite a few deer chewing on.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: It's more like it's almost like a vine, uh, single leaf,
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: single leaf vine on the ground around the pine trees
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: I've been noticing. Uh, I probably ought to do some
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: research and figure out what that is. But just browse
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: does it have thorns? It does have thorns, which is shocking. Okay, Okay,
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: that may surprise me. Yeah, that may give give somebody a.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Yea, yeah cool. So in the next week, do you
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: expect anything to change? What's the weather?
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: You know, you have an idea what the weather is
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: going to look like, and if that's an effect dear
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: movement in your area.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean we got another big cold front pushing in.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: I think I want to say Tuesday, Tuesday ish, So.
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: Just cold weather. I don't know if it's really going
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: to change much of anything.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Okay, So in the next week or so, if you
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: had to rank buck movement on a scale of one
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: to ten, what would.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: You put it at?
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: Probably go with a solid four and a half.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, not bad. It's worth being out there then.
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: You think absolutely anytimes it's a good time.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, Well, justin thanks so much for the report. I
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: look forward to maybe hearing from you from a different
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: state in the southeast at some point before the year's
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: over with.
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: Sounds good, Thank you, gentlemen.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Now on the phone, I've got Mike Hunt Sucker and
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: I can call him Mike this time around because I
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: heard his voicemail and he introduced himself as Mike on
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: his voicemail this a second ago. So really, yeah, yeah.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: So he's from Hartland bow Hunter and he's been up
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: in Missouri. Tell us how the deer movement is looking
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: at Missouri there, Mike, Man.
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: It's been pretty good this last week. Seems like a
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: lot of deer. It seems like, at least, you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: the places I've been hunting. The rut was a little
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: bit later, and so it seems like they're coming off
• 20:45
  Speaker 9: a lockdown this past week and still see some running
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: activity for sure, but definitely seeing a transition to food
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: sources as well.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: So when you say the food source transition, you would
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: be including like mature but in that.
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, especially mature bucks that are that are run
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: down and have been just just abusing their bodies the past,
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: you know, six weeks.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: So what kind of food sources are doing best right now?
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: You know, I tell everybody that corn is no matter
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: what time of the year, Like in Missouri, we can
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: manipulate a crop. So we leave standing corn, we can
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: mow it whenever we want it. Uh and uh, there's
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: just not a single thing that competes with it. But
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: that said, standing beans are great right now. We just
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: got about three inches of snow today here in Missouri,
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: and so having that food above the above the snow
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: is crucial as well. So I really like grains late
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: season obviously, you know, we do a lot of eagle
• 21:42
  Speaker 9: seed fall plots as well. It's been it's been an
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: interesting year, several years, I should say, for the fall plots.
• 21:50
  Speaker 9: You know, just we've had just terrible late summer droughts
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: and so our plots have been pretty brutal. But we
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: got a bunch of rain in October and into November,
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: and a bunch of my plots have just exploded the
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: past few weeks, and so excuse me, they're not gonna
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: have like the you know, the big bulbs, you know,
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: like like they would have had they matured into proper
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: time of year. But nonetheless it's some some green tonnage
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: in the deer being those pretty good too.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: So you're talking about mature bucks who run down their
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: bodies and then that in turn, you know, makes you
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: really hunt food sources, which uh kind of sounds a
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: lot like October type stuff. Do you shift back to
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: kind of even evenings only at this point in the year.
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean definitely more key, more on the evenings,
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: but I do have some spots that are great morning
• 22:39
  Speaker 9: spots where you can catch them coming back off those
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: food sources if they are kind of lingering into the
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: daylight hours, you know, with it's really similar to the October,
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: like you said to where those mature bucks, you know,
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: they're starting to care about food, but they still know
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: that they might catch you know, one of those later
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: doughs that are that are still an asteris and so
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: same thing as the pre run you know, early when
• 22:59
  Speaker 9: they're their number one spot to check is going to
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: do those those food sources that are holding a bunch
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: of does. So anytime I've been hunting this past week,
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: the does, man, they just I feel so bad for them.
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: They come out, they want to get some food, and
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: then they just get harassed by every single Buck in
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: the area. And so we watch Bucks, you know, chase
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: does in and out, in and out, in and out
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: of the plots, you know, the past, the past few
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: hunts for sure.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: So talk about like access and set up and all
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: that is. I mean, I would assume with the snow,
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: are these going to be betting closer to those food
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: sources in all overall? Are they going to still be
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: uh generally in the areas they've been kind of spending
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: time in during the early run.
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, they like to be closer to the food sources.
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: And obviously we have over the years strategically placed those
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: food sources you know near you know, known solid betting
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: area areas that we work in, trying to improve the
• 23:51
  Speaker 9: habitat and try to make it more attractive as well.
• 23:53
  Speaker 9: So you know, you want those those high quality betting
• 23:56
  Speaker 9: sources close to the food if you want to see
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: good daylight activity, and a lot of them primarily are
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: set up on the south wind side or of the
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: south side of that betting area. So you're, you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: we're we're banking on north wind coldfronts this time of year.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: So are you thinking at all about any type of
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: rut activity or are you kind of looking forward to
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: a second rut or what's that look like?
• 24:18
  Speaker 9: Yeah, actually, somebody who's asking me about the second rut
• 24:20
  Speaker 9: just just the other day, and like, you know, I
• 24:22
  Speaker 9: don't think I've ever like banked on any sort of
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: second rud activity, Like even on these farms. You know,
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: there's these farms that we have in Missouri. A lot
• 24:30
  Speaker 9: of them are higher deer densities to where some of
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: the does don't get bred for sure, And so I
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: always see some sort of you know, a buck lockdown
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: with a dough in December that time of year. But
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: it's just like you're not banking on it and the majority,
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: you know, you're focusing your efforts on the majority of
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: the deer movement. But that being said, sometimes you know,
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: if you do catch a buck that is locked down
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: that time of year, it might you know, be a
• 24:51
  Speaker 9: susceptible window to you know, get aggressive on him and
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: and you know, do something spot in stock or or
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: you know, set up you know where he's he's dough
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: kind of pushed away from the major herd.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: So in the next week or so, do you expect
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: that like bucks, will you know, the buck movement will
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: be essentially very similar to what it is in the
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: last week or is it gonna change much You're still
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: gonna see that rut in action that's going to be
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: very similar or is it gonna Is it gonna start
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: to dwindle?
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: No, I think it'll be good. I think it'll stay good.
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: Especially we got a cold front coming through. We've had
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: a couple of nice, nice little cold snaps and so
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: we had a crazy mild fall in the Midwest, and
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: uh so getting this cold weather now is really really
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: nice in the deer, Like I said, I've used to
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: wandering around aimlessly during the daylight. So you'll see that
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: morning activity die off a little bit, I feel like,
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: But man, if we get some good cold weather, it
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: just it's timed perfectly. You're not gonna see like, you know,
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: the super early like best piration late season movements you
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: see of like deer that have to feed but like
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: you know, if you get that cold weather, they still
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: they still definitely need to feed and and they're working
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: on building bodies back up like I was saying, So
• 26:02
  Speaker 9: it can be a great time to capitalize on one
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: for sure.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Cool.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: So we do have a little bit of cold weather here,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: uh coming up in the in the next week. Uh
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: So taking that and applying what you just talked about,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: what would you rank the Bug movie on a scale
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: of one to ten for the next week in Missouri?
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: Man, I think it's gonna be like a nine.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be Wow.
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: It's gonna be as good as I think, as good
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: as you know Dayanaire, as good as it gets. It's not,
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: like I said, not that crazy late seasons that, but
• 26:30
  Speaker 9: I think it's gonna be great. You know, just a
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: combination of you know, bucks need to need to rebuild
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: like I was saying, but also a chance of potentially
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: catching a dough that's still in heat.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Awesome.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Well, I look forward to some slow motion you know,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: arrow entering deer during a snowstorm in the next you know,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: year or so, So I hope.
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: So, Man, I'm heading out. I'm getting ready to head
• 26:54
  Speaker 9: out now. The snow literally just stopped. And the buck
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: I've I was hunting that I'm hunting late season is ancient,
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: just an ancient old buck that I literally have never
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: laid eyes on ever in my life. But he's like
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: ten or eleven years old. And I saw him just
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: two nights ago and had him come in and we
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: did not have that cold front, you know, we was
• 27:13
  Speaker 9: just starting to hit and so we had a little
• 27:16
  Speaker 9: rain come through and he came in and we had
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: twenty minutes left of legal light, but he was thirty
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: five yards and just too dark. I just wasn't comfortable shooting.
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: And he ended up getting to twenty and there was
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: still like four or five minutes left, and it was
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: but it was like basically pitch black, and I was like, man,
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: I'm just there's a bunch of doughs in the plot
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: and he was moving around bumping them and it just
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: wasn't wasn't one of those situations. But obviously we had
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: Thanksgiving and then I went to tick the family to
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: the Chiefs game yesterday, and I'm just kicking myself, you know.
• 27:41
  Speaker 9: We had all these plans and like, he daylighted both nights,
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: but I knew to night was going to be just
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: just as good, not better with the snow coming in,
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: so hopefully didn't miss my window of opportunity.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Well I bet you, I bet you find a way, man,
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: go get him and have great rest of your season.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Mike.
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks, thanks, guys, good catching up.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: I'm talking to a very familiar guy for a lot
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: of you hunters out there, Ronnie Couz Strickland. Ronnie, what's
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: going on?
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: Well, you know, we got our first official cool snap
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: down here. And this is of course in Mississippi. We
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: have two seasons summer in February.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, hey, we get you on that.
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: The low last night was twenty five and oh man,
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: it's just an awesome and we just got there with
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: Thanksgiving and after the big spread, my oldest granddaughter, who's
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: a senior in Mississippi State, that's how old I am,
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: we went and sat in a ground line that I've
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: had up for three years on food plot, seeing we
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: could get her to get her a dough and a
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: ten point walked out at four point fifteen and I
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: was in absolute utter shop and she ten ringed it
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: with a crossbow and then all three grandsons, you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: blood trailed it and kept loaded up and all. So
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: I'm doing pretty good.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good stuff, man.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: I tell you, we're here in kind of northeast Texas
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: and we have had some decent weather as well, good
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: cold morning temps and stuff. And I have seen so
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: many dead deer on the road, and it seems like
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: it's in the South and the Gulf States. It's starting
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: to pop off a little bit. How's that cold weather
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: affecting the deer movement for y'all.
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: You know, I got out my little pass this morning
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: and I got an electric buggy I can ease around on.
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: I don't have a ton of trail cameras, but I
• 29:31
  Speaker 10: can get to them all with that buggy, so I
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: don't have to get out and leave scent and all
• 29:36
  Speaker 10: that stuff. And I saw eight or ten scrapes. I've
• 29:40
  Speaker 10: only seen one in the last couple of weeks, So
• 29:44
  Speaker 10: you're will aware. In Mississippi, depending on where you're at,
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: the root can be different. Right here on my farm,
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: I'm kind of a straight north a little bit northeast
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: of the state, and it's always the same. It's generally
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: the week before Christmas.
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: So the four.
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: Biggest deer we've killed on this place since I've had it,
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: three of them ron Christmas Eve, and uh, these these.
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: Bucks are just different.
• 30:12
  Speaker 10: And I know everybody says that, but I'm telling you
• 30:16
  Speaker 10: the terrain, you know, is so thick, the ruts less
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: defined if you would, and uh so that that December
• 30:24
  Speaker 10: the fifteenth to the end of the month is uh,
• 30:28
  Speaker 10: it's when you're gonna probably get some daylight pictures. I saw,
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: Like I said, I was stunned when that that ten
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: point walked that the other day. I was like, what
• 30:35
  Speaker 10: are you kidding? But it's it's just now when you
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: start seeing scrapes like I saw some this morning, which
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: fired me up. But it's uh that cold weather I
• 30:46
  Speaker 10: think helps them, uh and get them up on their
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: feet a little bit. And it's, uh, it's a different
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: deal in Mississippi. You know, you see all the pictures
• 30:56
  Speaker 10: on Instagram and all this or these giants there hitting
• 30:59
  Speaker 10: the ground and where you go, where are these guys
• 31:01
  Speaker 10: hunting out?
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: So speaking of that cold weather that you're talking about,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: you know that twenty five is going to kill a
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: lot of the native brows and stuff, and those deer
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I'd imagine they're going to be really looking for some
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: of those green food sources. How are the food plots
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: and how are the deer hitting them right now?
• 31:18
  Speaker 10: Well, food plots was just drama for me because we
• 31:22
  Speaker 10: were in a drought, and you guys in Texas, you
• 31:24
  Speaker 10: know all about droughts. Anyway, I saw a big rain
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: event coming in late August, which is really early for
• 31:33
  Speaker 10: us to plant down here. But I rolled the dice
• 31:36
  Speaker 10: and I planted all my food plots and got four
• 31:39
  Speaker 10: inches of rain on them. And they wow, nothing short
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: of magnificent. And I left to go to North Carolina,
• 31:46
  Speaker 10: made a little run up there, dropping food and stuff off,
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: and came back and I checked them before I left,
• 31:52
  Speaker 10: and when I got back, I checked them thirty four
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: days later. This would have been I don't know. They
• 31:58
  Speaker 10: were four or five inches high, absolutely demolished by the
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: army worms. Everyone up except one. It was nothing but dirt.
• 32:07
  Speaker 10: But I redrilled. I just drill this time with a
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: cheaper seed, and they popped right back up and they.
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: Look really, really good.
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: And I saved managed to save some of the turnips
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: and stuff. And that's a big deal. You get, you know,
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: you get turnips and stuff like that when they get
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: a heavy frost. A couple of days in a row,
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: they started getting that sugar content up. So I'm getting
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: at Lancey to see if they're gonna start hitting it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: I'm pretty excited.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: That's awesome, man. So here in the next you know,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: a week or so, is it? Do you expect any
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: any weather or anything to affect the deer movement and
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: positive trajectory as we get a little bit closer to rut.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: I know we're still gonna be early for you if
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: your Christmas Eve is your kind of your date.
• 32:54
  Speaker 10: Yeah, the extended wather for cass has has it cold
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: the next two days and then I'm sure it'll warm up.
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  Speaker 10: You know where I'm at the same way in Texas,
• 33:03
  Speaker 10: I mean Christmas Day you can be in shorts and
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: a T shirt. It may be eighty so you never know.
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: And these deer, yeah, I don't know. If you're ever
• 33:12
  Speaker 10: hunted in Alabama and what they call the Black Belt,
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: those are the most weather fickled deer on the planet.
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: You just absolutely will not see really any buck movement
• 33:22
  Speaker 10: until it starts getting down low. And these are about
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: as bad. You know, my farm isn't gigantic, so I
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: don't put a lot of pressure on it, and I
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: wait for the exact right wind. And I don't have
• 33:35
  Speaker 10: a ton of cameras out, so I missed some of it.
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: But I can tell you if we get any cold
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: weather and I hadn't looked at the past ten days,
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: they're extremely affected by that word down here, they will move.
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: And I've got my calendar wide open. I ain't going
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: anywhere between now January the first.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, So if we're looking at the next week here,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: with all that in mind, if you had to rank
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: buck movement on a scale of one to ten, what
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: would you call.
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: It this coming week? Yes, sir, on my farm, I
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: on a scale of one to ten, I put it
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: at about a six or seven.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: That's pretty good.
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: Sounds like it's getting close.
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: And my little place doesn't get a lot of pressure,
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: so they keep I keep plenty of dose around. That's
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: a whole nother you know podcast saying about you know,
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: get getting your buck to dough ratio down. I believe
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: in keeping everything here, farm sanctuary, food, water cover, and
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: plenty of doors so they don't have to go far.
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: So the dose come to the food plot. So I'd
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: say I'm getting close to that seven mark.
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: Next week.
• 34:49
  Speaker 10: I'm I'm I may be a little apprehensive, but I'm
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: I'm telling you about to get there, all.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Right, man, Well cause I appreciate it. Sounds like you
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: got it going on, dude, and I appreciate you coming
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: on and sharing all that information with the listeners.
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: Well, thank you guys, Happy Thanksgiving, task and happy Mary Christmas.
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: I appreciate you giving me a holler and good luck
• 35:10
  Speaker 10: on your road trips.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, thank you.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Still some pretty encouraging reports from around the country if
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: you haven't tagged out yet.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Believe me, I know I say this all the time.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: There's like two motives for what I do. It's like
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: deer seasons almost here and then it ain't over.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: You know. There's like this thing that gradiates from the
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: element that's called optimism, and sometimes it's you know, a
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: little bit naive, but it's kind of fun being naive from.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Time to sure.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: You know, I've forgotten how much I love Michael stole Man,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: funny guy. I feel bad for him with that OSU
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: loss Man. Do you yeah I had it coming? Do
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: you think I'm actually really glad that they did? Because
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: my ponies were at number nine last week? And I'm
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: interested to see where they end.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Up this week. Well, my eggies didn't even show up
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: for the biggest game of the decade, so I know
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: guys were there. Hey it makes all better, thanks Ty,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: But I do love those guys too. But yeah.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Anyways, guys, if you do need some inspiration, some optimisim
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: maybe even some naivety, go check out the links below.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: We have got a really awesome hunt from last.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Year that I talked about earlier. It's gonna be linked
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: in the stuff below.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: And there is an article from Tony on how to
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: kill a buck from a natural ground blind, which I
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: think is pretty applicable for a lot of people.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: You know, if you're running gun hunting.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: One of the things about that needs to be that
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: you need to be okay with hunting on the ground
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: too sometimes and oftentimes natural cover is really great.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: So good article. Go check out as well. Did Greg
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: read that.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Article Maybe not yet, but I'll make sure he gets
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: the link to the podcast he.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Does, Manny Hunting.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: One this week he showed me, dude, he had like
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: shooting windows that were the size.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Of great fruits.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Man, I'm like, oh, my goodness, that gives me anxiety,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: bad but I bet you Tony gives.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: You a little bit more clue into that kind of stuff. Yeah,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: for sure. He's a really knowledgeable guy. For sure.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: It's worth going and checking out, guys. I hope you
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: guys have a great week. It's a good week to
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: be in the woods. I think we're all getting a
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: little bit colder weather and we're gonna have a good
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: shot at killing deer this week, including k C and myself.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: We all remember this is ret fresh, Keep it fresh.