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Ep. 1076: Rut Fresh Radio - October 1 Game Plan: Fresh Buck Sign and Food Sources · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: What is going on, everyone? This is Jake Hofer and
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Speaker 1: welcome to another fresh episode. This is we're getting into
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Speaker 1: the October 1st range. So if you've been sitting on
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Speaker 1: And jumping into the Whitetail weather report, this week, September
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Speaker 1: 30th to October 7th, the main weather story this week
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Speaker 1: is a system moving through the Midwest and Great Lakes
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Speaker 1: as we head into October. Ahead of the system, winds
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Speaker 1: will turn more southerly across portions of the Midwest on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: bringing warmer air and increasing moisture north. Rain chances begin
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Speaker 1: increasing Wednesday afternoon and evening with widespread rain expected across
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Speaker 1: portions of the Midwest today. and Great Lakes Wednesday night
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Speaker 1: into Thursday. As the front moves through, winds will shift
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Speaker 1: and cooler, drier air will begin filtering into the region.
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Speaker 1: By Friday and into the weekend, temperatures across portions of
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Speaker 1: the Midwest are forecast to fall back into the 60s
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Speaker 1: during the day, with overnight lows reaching the 40s and 50s.
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Speaker 1: Barometric pressure will generally fall as the system approaches before
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Speaker 1: beginning to rise again behind the frontal passage. Further east,
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Speaker 1: rain chances increase across the Ohio Valley late Thursday into
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Speaker 1: Friday as that same system progresses east. So a lot
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Speaker 1: of potential movements and weather fronts coming in here to
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Speaker 1: make the most out of the first week of October.
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Speaker 1: That is your Whitetail Weather Report for this week. Picking
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Speaker 1: off our guests this week, we have Josh Telker from
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Speaker 1: Before the Echo in Indiana giving us his opening day
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Speaker 1: forecast and game plan. And then we move over to
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Speaker 1: Minnesota with Alex Comstock. And lastly, with Josh Proffitt out
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Speaker 1: of Kentucky. So I hope you guys enjoy this week's
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Speaker 1: episode of Rut Fresh presented by Moultrie. Let's get into it.
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Speaker 1: All right, kicking off the show, we have Josh Telker
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Speaker 1: from Before the Echo. Picking off this week's episode in Indiana.
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Speaker 1: How are we doing, Josh? Good, man.
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Speaker 2: It's opening week, so things are looking up, man.
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Speaker 1: It's here. It's officially here. Sound the alarm, and you're
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Speaker 1: in Indiana, and we were just talking about the weather
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Speaker 1: and everything else, but how excited are you even before
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Speaker 1: we flip the calendar to October 1? What are you
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Speaker 1: feeling going into this season? Expectations, you know, is it
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Speaker 1: going to be a tough year, a bad year? Cause
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Speaker 1: I think you guys got hit by EHD last year.
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Speaker 1: Is that right?
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Speaker 2: We did.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Pretty bad last year. Um, talking to, uh, I talked
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Speaker 2: to game warden this summer and he was, you know,
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Speaker 2: he kind of confirmed, confirmed that this was one of
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Speaker 2: the far County in Indiana here. Uh, it's the worst
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Speaker 2: year on record for EHD that he's, he's been a
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Speaker 2: part of. So the rough year on the deer herd.
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Speaker 1: And so inversely this year, like, is there any sort
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Speaker 1: of rebound or does it, still feel like there's skeletons
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Speaker 1: in the closet.
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Speaker 2: No, yeah, it's definitely, you know, it's going to take
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Speaker 2: a couple years to get kind of back to par,
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Speaker 2: I guess, if you want to say. Definitely not as
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Speaker 2: many deer running around as there had been. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you guys know the silver lining of EHD is you
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Speaker 2: reduce the deer herd, there's more resources for the.
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Speaker 1: Deer that do make it.
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Speaker 2: So I'm kind of hopeful that there is some some
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Speaker 2: good ones running around. And if there is some good ones, then, uh,
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Speaker 2: we'll definitely be chasing after them. Uh, but yeah, we'll see.
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Speaker 1: Did you, did you recognize, like some people always say that,
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Speaker 1: you know, the year after EHC there's, you know, with
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Speaker 1: the lack of pressure, uh, on the resource, you know,
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Speaker 1: some deer just make it absolute giant jump. Have you
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Speaker 1: recognized that at all to any degree of, of a
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Speaker 1: survivor from last year that made a really impressive jump?
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Speaker 2: No, not particularly this year. I have not recognized it. Um, but,
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Speaker 2: there's people that way smarter than me that, that say that.
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Speaker 2: So I'm sure it does happen. It makes logical sense
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Speaker 2: that it, that it would. I mean, I think one
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Speaker 2: of the, as far as deer management goes, one of
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Speaker 2: the things that hurt your herd the most is overcrowding,
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Speaker 2: you know, too many does too many small bucks and
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Speaker 2: all that stuff. So, um, it can't, it can't hurt
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Speaker 2: as far as the deer that do make it. I'm
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Speaker 2: sure they're less stressed from those natural stresses that deer
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Speaker 2: deal with outside of us chasing them around and predators
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Speaker 2: and whatnot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, so, October 1.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: It's, it's, you know, the first, the first set, is
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Speaker 1: your first set going to be October 1? Are you
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Speaker 1: going to wait to, to watch the weather? I don't know, man.
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Speaker 2: So here, this year I've been in, I've been in
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Speaker 2: the weirdest funk this summer. Like I'm usually like all
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Speaker 2: about it and I, I am for, you know, an extent,
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Speaker 2: but it has been so miserably hot down here in
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Speaker 2: Southern Indiana this summer. And so it was just really
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Speaker 2: hard to get in the mood to go out in
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Speaker 2: the woods and, you know, and mingle with the ticks
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Speaker 2: and the, Chickers and everything else this summer. Um, but
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Speaker 2: the last week we had a, a extreme cool off
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Speaker 2: and it really got me in the mood. Now, unfortunately
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Speaker 2: come Thursday, which is October 1st, um, we're back up
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Speaker 2: in the nineties here in Southern Indiana, but, um, so
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Speaker 2: what we will see, we will see TBD.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So looking, you know, through the rest of the week,
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Speaker 1: let's say the, the first to the seventh, um, yeah.
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Speaker 1: What is jumping out at you right now, like a
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Speaker 1: must-sit evening in your neck of the woods based off
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Speaker 1: the weather conditions? Because obviously it can't be hot forever.
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Speaker 1: Usually there's a rain front that comes in. What has
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Speaker 1: you excited looking at the calendar for this first week
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Speaker 1: of Indiana archery season?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, Monday looks– I mean, we're going from
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Speaker 2: 90s and then rain all weekend to Monday we got
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Speaker 2: the high– um uh you know in the in the
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Speaker 2: mid 60s in you know lows in the low 40s
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Speaker 2: which is a significant switch from 90s you know um
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Speaker 2: so that's the day i'm really looking looking forward to
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Speaker 2: something else is like we got pretty significant showers friday
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Speaker 2: saturday sunday morning and then we're quitting sunday uh morning
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Speaker 2: sometime i don't know exactly the hour but Um, man,
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Speaker 2: I could see Sunday evening being a decent time to
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Speaker 2: be in the woods too. Maybe getting over, getting over
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Speaker 2: a scrape or something that is opened up.
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Speaker 1: What's, um, as far as food sources go in your,
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Speaker 1: your neighborhood too. So like, let's say, let's say you
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Speaker 1: go hunt Sunday evening. Are you going to set up
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Speaker 1: on a scrape that you, that you have some history
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Speaker 1: on or, or are you going to scout in the
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Speaker 1: rain at all over the weekend to try to find
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Speaker 1: some sign? Like, what does that look like for, you know,
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Speaker 1: that Sunday, Monday game plan and how, how different is
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Speaker 1: Sunday evening to Monday strategy?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm probably going to get out and check some...
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Speaker 2: I got some regular SD card cameras on public land
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Speaker 2: around here. Probably going to go and kind of flip
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Speaker 2: some of those and just get some intel. And then
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Speaker 2: based on what I find there, that's probably where I'm
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Speaker 2: going to... I have a few spots in my head
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Speaker 2: right now that I've been running cameras on since this
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Speaker 2: winter that are historically pretty good early season for a
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Speaker 2: couple of reasons.
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Speaker 1: One is.
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Speaker 2: The crop rotations. For October 1 openers, I forget about
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Speaker 2: beans and I love cornfields. Provides a lot of cover
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Speaker 2: for deer. And I've had some pretty good luck setting
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Speaker 2: pretty close to some cornfield edges, whether that be stuff
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Speaker 2: that butts up on public or uh, or private. I just,
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Speaker 2: I think that's a, a.
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Speaker 4: Really good tactic.
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Speaker 2: And, you know, and right now we're, we, uh, harvest
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Speaker 2: kind of started fairly early this year. So, um, we
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Speaker 2: are getting corn out, you know, pretty heavily right now.
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Speaker 2: So it's, there's not as many, uh, available as cornfield
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Speaker 2: edges as there was two weeks ago here in Indiana,
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Speaker 2: at least. Um, so I got a couple spots in
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Speaker 2: mind there. Um, and then you're obvious, you know, I
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Speaker 2: know everybody talks about acorns this time of year, but,
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Speaker 2: it still can be good.
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Speaker 1: So if you can find a spot along a cornfield
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Speaker 1: edge with a wide oak drop in acorns, that would
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Speaker 1: be a spot that you really want to focus on.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Particularly like if you've got a big wide oak overhang
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Speaker 2: in a cornfield edge or something.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: On the inside corner. Yeah. That's where you want to
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Speaker 1: try to sit. Yep. Yep. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Deer, there's no question they'll live in that corn until
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Speaker 2: they get pushed out of there. And luckily, I mean,
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Speaker 2: this year, you know, sometimes there can be a problem Um,
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Speaker 2: in big ag areas where there's too much corn in, right.
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Speaker 2: And it's kind of hard to hunt them. Um, but
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Speaker 2: with harvest kind of starting early this year, it seems
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Speaker 2: to maybe some of those, these sanctuaries that they have
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Speaker 2: will push them off into some of the public or
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Speaker 2: wherever you're, you're hunting at, you know?
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Speaker 1: What about for someone, um, that didn't, let's say they,
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Speaker 1: they were just as busy and not as excited to
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Speaker 1: go fight with ticks all summer too, but they didn't,
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Speaker 1: they didn't lay cameras out in spring or the winter.
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Speaker 1: And they're listening to this and with this weather that
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Speaker 1: came in last week, they're like, oh my God. i'm
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Speaker 1: ready to go deer hunting i did not do the
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Speaker 1: groundwork uh life was busy what what advice do you
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Speaker 1: give those folks to to still proceed in a positive
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Speaker 1: fashion but not be scrambled or feel like they're like
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Speaker 1: i don't know anything i gotta go do this i
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Speaker 1: gotta do that like Where, what, what would you say
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Speaker 1: to them? And maybe it is like, dude, just carve
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Speaker 1: out an afternoon and go, go crazy and hang cameras.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I think some of that anxiety
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Speaker 2: we have for not being prepared is probably, uh, you know, in,
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Speaker 2: in your head, like there's still something to be said about,
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Speaker 2: even if you're prepared for a spot, like you still
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Speaker 2: got to have your eyes open, uh, and, and be
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Speaker 2: looking for sign as you're walking through the woods. Even
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Speaker 2: if you got a spot in your head, you know, like,
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Speaker 2: you could walk through some great sign or the deer
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Speaker 2: have changed since last winter. And, um, if you're not
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Speaker 2: paying attention or, or you're kind of have a one
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Speaker 2: track mind, you get to your spot that you think
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Speaker 2: is good and you've walked over the good spot, you know? So, um,
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Speaker 2: I think if you, if you aren't prepared or you
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Speaker 2: didn't do any scouting this year, not the end of
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Speaker 2: the world, like get a, get a, get a good
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Speaker 2: spot on a map, or maybe you think folks won't be, or, um,
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Speaker 2: you've historically known have been good for early season and
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Speaker 2: just go in there and, and scout your way in
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Speaker 2: and throw sits at places. Um, it's kind of, that's
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Speaker 2: kind of an exciting way to hunt anyway, you know?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think if we're being honest, most people
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Speaker 1: fall in that category of, I mean, I, I feel
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Speaker 1: like I laid a pretty good framework for this season,
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Speaker 1: but I still feel underprepared. I'll be honest. Like there's
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Speaker 1: stuff I wish I would've got done and, uh, different,
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Speaker 1: you know, leaves I wish I would've flipped over, but
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Speaker 1: it's also a very long season, but it's a delicate
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Speaker 1: balance of it's a long season, but also not striking
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Speaker 1: when the opportunity is here. Cause I do think, um,
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Speaker 1: there's some really good weather coming in like for this
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Speaker 1: first week.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. And that's what I think maybe
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Speaker 2: just not getting over, you know, overexcited this first couple
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Speaker 2: of days when it's going to be kind of nasty and,
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe it's best not to screw around in
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Speaker 2: the spots that you want to hunt until that Sunday night, Monday,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Um, instead of going and
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Speaker 2: getting a bunch of scent in my best spot that
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Speaker 2: I want to hunt opening week on, on Thursday, whenever,
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Speaker 2: you know, the, not that the deer couldn't walk through there,
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Speaker 2: but they may not walk until right before, right after dark,
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Speaker 2: since it's so hot, um, might be best just to
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Speaker 2: kind of put those spots on a back burner and
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Speaker 2: go hit those when it's a little more, uh, weather conducive,
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Speaker 2: you know?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Anything else that jumps out to you for this
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Speaker 1: first week? Any advice, anything for people to key in
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Speaker 1: on floors yours? Hmm.
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Speaker 2: I think, I think this first week is one of
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Speaker 2: your best opportunities to kill a buck throughout the season.
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Speaker 2: Minus maybe catching one during that rut time frame, obviously.
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Speaker 2: But to have it calculated, this is a buck that
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Speaker 2: I know about and he's on some type of a
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Speaker 2: patternable pattern right now. This is your opportunity.
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 2: The biggest thing is, is like be calculated this time
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Speaker 2: of year, like figure out what they're, what they're, you know,
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Speaker 2: the deer aren't overly complicated. They're betting somewhere and they
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Speaker 2: want to get up and go somewhere, you know, typically
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Speaker 2: food right now. So, um, this time of year, like
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Speaker 2: slow down, don't go into your, um, you know, if you're,
13:31
Speaker 2: if you've got a good rut spot, don't be setting
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Speaker 2: it this time of year, uh, set by even, even this,
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Speaker 2: this first couple of days, it might be, um, I
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Speaker 2: don't know if you could, if you can shine it,
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Speaker 2: you know, the, some states you can go and shine and,
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Speaker 2: and get your eyes on a deer, um, or go
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Speaker 2: in glass in the couple of days when it's kind
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Speaker 2: of nasty weather, um, might be a good opportunity to
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Speaker 2: do that, to, to catch them, um, on this cold
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Speaker 2: front we're going to have after this, this hot, uh,
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Speaker 2: weather and the, and the rain come through and then.
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Speaker 4: Make a move on them.
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Speaker 2: But the pressure is coming there. The deer hunters are
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Speaker 2: going to be in the woods and things are going
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Speaker 2: to change after this, this week. So, get out there
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Speaker 2: and make a move on one of them is what
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Speaker 2: I would tell people.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. There's going to be a
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Speaker 1: lot of change every single week, and that's why we
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Speaker 1: do Rough Fresh every week because things change so quickly
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Speaker 1: from here on out. And one thing that– do you
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Speaker 1: have any– do you agree or disagree with this philosophy? So, like,
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Speaker 1: if Sunday or Monday evening potentially is, like, a pretty
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Speaker 1: high-odd sit if you know of a deer in an area,
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Speaker 1: do you dare go to a burner spot Thursday or
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Speaker 1: Friday as a dry run– Cause I know every year
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Speaker 1: when I go out for the first time, I forget,
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Speaker 1: I forget this or like, I forgot my pull up
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Speaker 1: rope or I forgot my range finders. Like maybe I'm
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Speaker 1: projecting here, but it's like, you almost need one like
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Speaker 1: dry run walkthrough practice to really be ready when the
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Speaker 1: time comes.
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Speaker 2: That's funny.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you got the time and stuff, then yeah, sure. Go,
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Speaker 2: go for it. You know, or if you want to
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Speaker 2: go shoot a doe somewhere, you know, something like that,
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Speaker 2: a hundred percent, you can go do that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: you could do that in your backyard.
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Speaker 1: That's true.
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Speaker 2: That's true. So, I mean, in my former life before
15:07
Speaker 2: kids and two jobs and everything, I would have no question.
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Speaker 2: I'd be hunting somewhere, but now it's like, okay, I
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Speaker 2: could probably spend my time this weekend, uh, a little more, uh,
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Speaker 2: for family man wise, um, than just going to sit
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Speaker 2: to sit, you know? Um, but yeah, man, if you
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Speaker 2: got the time and never going to tell you not
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Speaker 2: to go hunting, you know?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I appreciate it. Josh scale one to 10,
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Speaker 1: 10 being the best week of the year. One being
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Speaker 1: one of the worst weeks of the year. Where do
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Speaker 1: you put the next seven days? On a scale of
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Speaker 1: 1 to 10.
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Speaker 2: So, like, probably for me, opening week would be like
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Speaker 2: maybe an 8. Okay.
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Speaker 1: For a couple reasons.
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Speaker 2: Like, the reasons I just kind of rattled off about,
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Speaker 2: you know, being a good time to catch a deer
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Speaker 2: off guard. But also, like, you haven't hunted for all year,
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Speaker 2: and you're just excited, and it's just a fun time
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Speaker 2: of the year because deer season has started, you know. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: 8 out of 10 for me.
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Speaker 1: 8 out of 10. I like it. And then incredible podcast,
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Speaker 1: new episodes every week. Where can people find that?
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Speaker 2: Over on Before the Echo on YouTube. And then we're
16:15
Speaker 2: on Apple and Spotify as well if you want to
16:17
Speaker 2: listen to.
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Speaker 4: Them while you're driving down the road or anything.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I encourage everyone to go check it out. It's
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Speaker 1: a great show. I thoroughly enjoy it. Thank you so much, Josh.
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Speaker 1: Good luck this season. And you'll have to text me
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Speaker 1: Sunday or Monday evening on how your first set goes.
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Speaker 2: Will do, man.
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Speaker 1: Good luck. All right, next up, we have Alex Comstock
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Speaker 1: from Minnesota. How's it going? Doing good.
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Speaker 4: How are you doing, Jake?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing really solid here. You guys have been open
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Speaker 1: here for a little bit, so this is more of a,
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Speaker 1: for a lot of folks, it's the first week of
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Speaker 1: the year, and people are just getting the cobwebs off
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Speaker 1: and maybe making a big swing, but you guys have
16:51
Speaker 1: been going at it here for a little bit. What
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Speaker 1: has been cooking in Minnesota here in the last week
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Speaker 1: or so?
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Speaker 2: Not much.
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Speaker 4: How about that? We had.
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Speaker 5: Um you know we've got a couple different bucks we're
17:04
Speaker 5: kind of targeting we've got one in particular that our
17:07
Speaker 5: team member jeremy lopez has been after and i've been
17:10
Speaker 5: uh following them around with the camera um playing cat
17:12
Speaker 5: and mouse with the buck but we had a buck
17:15
Speaker 5: that was daylighting dang near every day up and it's
17:18
Speaker 5: like they know deer season starts and then they stop
17:20
Speaker 5: and so they're trying to figure that out and weather
17:23
Speaker 5: hasn't been the best but yeah it's pretty much what
17:25
Speaker 5: we've been dealing with.
17:26
Speaker 1: Yeah so um here recently hunting with jeremy what has
17:30
Speaker 1: been like describe the setup as you guys go in
17:32
Speaker 1: is it over a green food source is it I
17:34
Speaker 1: mean kind of paint us a picture of where you
17:36
Speaker 1: have been taking a few stabs at so far early
17:38
Speaker 1: this season.
17:40
Speaker 5: Yeah so we're hunting this deer in a suburban area
17:42
Speaker 5: so you know pretty much in town and we've got
17:46
Speaker 5: Jeremy's got a really cool private piece that we've found
17:48
Speaker 5: a spot in the summer it's a pretty much two
17:51
Speaker 5: trees next to each other we got an apple tree
17:53
Speaker 5: and an oak tree and they're dropping apples and acorns
17:56
Speaker 5: and we figured we literally had a tree with one
17:59
Speaker 5: camera point at the apple tree, other camera pointed at
18:01
Speaker 5: the Oak tree. Um, but the, I think what happened
18:05
Speaker 5: is we ran out of food pretty much as season
18:09
Speaker 5: acorns were dropping early apples were dropping. And now they're like,
18:13
Speaker 5: it's weird. It's like super small crab apples. I like
18:15
Speaker 5: the big apples. And, um, I mean, literally the day
18:19
Speaker 5: before season, that buck was in there at five 30. Um,
18:24
Speaker 5: and then Jeremy couldn't hunt opening day, but the second
18:26
Speaker 5: day we hunted and we're, you know, on pins and
18:29
Speaker 5: needles and that deer just became, we've got quite a
18:32
Speaker 5: few cameras in a, it's like a little 12 acre piece. Um,
18:35
Speaker 5: and I think we have like now 11 cameras in
18:39
Speaker 5: the 12 acres. Like it's, we're putting a lot of
18:41
Speaker 5: resources and he's like hitting camera every day now, but
18:45
Speaker 5: it's very sporadic middle of the night. Um, you know,
18:49
Speaker 5: here and there in daylight, but nothing consistent. And I
18:52
Speaker 5: feel like if season had opened a week earlier, it
18:54
Speaker 5: would have been a different story, but that's just pretty much.
18:57
Speaker 1: How it goes.
18:57
Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of time.
19:07
Speaker 1: Now that there's a lot of truth that it does
19:09
Speaker 1: seem like things always make a quick switch, right? When
19:11
Speaker 1: you're ready to take a swing and that is early
19:14
Speaker 1: season hunting in a nutshell. So Um, beyond that here looking,
19:18
Speaker 1: you know, September 30th to October 7th. Um, what's kind
19:21
Speaker 1: of your strategy, you know, weather considered food sources considered what, what,
19:27
Speaker 1: you know, for anyone that's undecisive and maybe in the
19:29
Speaker 1: Minnesota area, Wisconsin, maybe parts of North Dakota, what, what
19:34
Speaker 1: has you excited or not excited here for the next
19:36
Speaker 1: seven days?
19:38
Speaker 5: Um, what, I don't love is the stagnant warm weather.
19:42
Speaker 5: It's not like hot, but it's going to be up
19:44
Speaker 5: where I'm in very northern Minnesota. It's going to be
19:46
Speaker 5: low 70s, high 60s, which I don't love. And just
19:49
Speaker 5: looking at the forecast here, peeking at it, the temps
19:52
Speaker 5: look pretty much the same every day. What I'm looking
19:55
Speaker 5: for this year is that little shift in temperature, even
19:59
Speaker 5: if it's like, call it 71 to 54.
20:02
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess that's a pretty big swing when
20:03
Speaker 4: you think of it.
20:04
Speaker 5: But like looking for those shifts and we still think,
20:07
Speaker 5: I mean, We know of a couple of spots where
20:10
Speaker 5: like this deer in particular, he's on, you know, like
20:12
Speaker 5: legit big apple trees where he's mowing apples down. So
20:15
Speaker 5: if you've got a good food source and have that
20:18
Speaker 5: slight shift of temperature is kind of what we're looking
20:20
Speaker 5: for because you get through this first seven days of
20:22
Speaker 5: October and you don't have that good weather shift, then
20:25
Speaker 5: everything for us shifts from the food sources to scrapes
20:29
Speaker 5: as you get.
20:29
Speaker 4: In past, you know, that October 7th timeframe.
20:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you bring that up. I think now
20:34
Speaker 1: is an excellent time for that predictable food source, which, um,
20:39
Speaker 1: there's so much happening, you know, maybe you're in the
20:40
Speaker 1: Midwest and maybe they're getting ready to pick, pick a
20:42
Speaker 1: cornfield or a bean field or whatever the case may be.
20:45
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a lot of shifting or maybe the farmers
20:47
Speaker 1: get one last cut of alfalfa and that changes things. So,
20:50
Speaker 1: you know, the window is pretty tight, uh, based off
20:54
Speaker 1: of your experience there. It's like you're in it or
20:55
Speaker 1: you're not, uh, for this next seven days.
20:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, I totally agree.
20:59
Speaker 5: I mean, if you've got, I think the best time
21:01
Speaker 5: to start is if you've got a deer that, you know,
21:04
Speaker 5: or a food source that you know is hot, you know,
21:07
Speaker 5: and you can just get that. And even if it's like,
21:09
Speaker 5: you know, you go from, you know, even if you
21:11
Speaker 5: get like an 8 to 10 degree drop in your
21:13
Speaker 5: first north wind in four days or something, that's when
21:16
Speaker 5: I would look at, you know, if you've got, you know,
21:19
Speaker 5: in the next seven days, if you've got, you know,
21:21
Speaker 5: maybe a day you can leave work early or something,
21:23
Speaker 5: you know, look for that slight shift in weather, I
21:25
Speaker 5: think is just like your best time to make that
21:29
Speaker 5: calculated strike if that's.
21:30
Speaker 4: What's going to happen.
21:31
Speaker 1: Yeah. So for someone that's like, man, this sounds great.
21:33
Speaker 1: You know, if you have a buck to hunt right now,
21:35
Speaker 1: but maybe they've been busy, maybe they don't have anything
21:38
Speaker 1: on camera right now. What would you say to them?
21:39
Speaker 1: Like starting from scratch and trying to still make the
21:43
Speaker 1: seven days productive for setting up success for the rest
21:46
Speaker 1: of the season, but they don't, you know, they kind
21:48
Speaker 1: of feel behind the eight ball right now. What would
21:50
Speaker 1: be your, you know, maybe one or two or three
21:51
Speaker 1: step process of getting pointed in the right direction, you know,
21:55
Speaker 1: for the remainder of the month?
21:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, depending on what your situation is. If you can
21:59
Speaker 5: sit somewhere you can see a lot, like if I
22:01
Speaker 5: were out in North Dakota right now, I'd sit where
22:05
Speaker 5: I could see the maximum distance and hopefully you can
22:08
Speaker 5: catch a buck leaving what you would presume to be
22:11
Speaker 5: a bedding area at the last minutes or something and
22:13
Speaker 5: then make a move from there. Or if you're more
22:16
Speaker 5: in the northern Minnesota hardwoods, I wouldn't be opposed to
22:20
Speaker 5: scouting my way into a piece and like you know
22:22
Speaker 5: hopefully you've got areas where you think maybe deer are
22:24
Speaker 5: bedded and then if you can find even right now
22:27
Speaker 5: as we're still in the september the first few days
22:28
Speaker 5: of october find a fresh scrape you know i think
22:31
Speaker 5: they're just really starting to we've had on camera scrapes
22:34
Speaker 5: getting opened up and if you can find that spot
22:37
Speaker 5: and i think you just got to get as tight
22:39
Speaker 5: as you can or however comfortable you are depending on
22:42
Speaker 5: your style of hunting you know to those bedrooms is
22:44
Speaker 5: going to be your best.
22:45
Speaker 1: Bet Yeah, I think that's great advice. And there's scrape
22:50
Speaker 1: activity here in Illinois. Weather's been actually pretty unseasonably cool lately,
22:55
Speaker 1: and scrape activity has been picking up pretty drastically. Obviously,
22:59
Speaker 1: we don't open until October 1, so it's been watching
23:01
Speaker 1: from the sidelines right now. But I think that's a
23:04
Speaker 1: great way to utilize that time and shift resources. As
23:09
Speaker 1: far as for the next seven days, do you think
23:12
Speaker 1: you're going to be able to start tracking down your
23:14
Speaker 1: own deer, or are you pretty much focused on helping
23:17
Speaker 1: Jeremy pull this together on a more sporadic buck that
23:19
Speaker 1: was once, you know, felt very predictable.
23:22
Speaker 5: I think we, you know, have enough cameras in the
23:26
Speaker 5: woods and I'm not going to say that I fully
23:28
Speaker 5: rely on them because they can definitely be a crush,
23:30
Speaker 5: but like, I only need to get a picture of
23:33
Speaker 5: a deer. I don't care if it's middle of the
23:34
Speaker 5: night before I like go after them and stuff like that.
23:36
Speaker 5: And I've just got absolutely nothing right now to go after.
23:40
Speaker 5: So as long as that stays the case, I'm going
23:42
Speaker 5: to keep helping Jeremy just because for what we do,
23:45
Speaker 5: I'd love to, to get that on camera and the
23:48
Speaker 5: highest way possible opposed to sending himself filming. So, you know,
23:53
Speaker 5: I've got a deer that I was hoping I had
23:55
Speaker 5: them all summer and he disappeared mid August and hasn't
23:57
Speaker 5: shown back up. And, um, I've got enough Intel on
24:01
Speaker 5: that deer from other people that you set pictures of
24:03
Speaker 5: them too, that haven't that I'm starting to get worried
24:05
Speaker 5: he's dead. But other than that, yeah, it's kind of
24:08
Speaker 5: follow Jeremy around. And, uh, until we get into, you know,
24:12
Speaker 5: more of this October and like, middle of October, cold fronts,
24:16
Speaker 5: I might buzz out to North Dakota here and there
24:18
Speaker 5: and see what happens.
24:20
Speaker 1: I like it. All right. So all things considered, weather,
24:23
Speaker 1: time of year, everything else, scale one to 10, 10
24:25
Speaker 1: being the best possible week of the entire year, one
24:27
Speaker 1: being one of the worst. Where do you put the
24:30
Speaker 1: next seven days, September 30th to October 7th?
24:34
Speaker 5: You know, I feel like every time I've done these
24:35
Speaker 5: in the past, I try to be optimistic, but I'm going,
24:38
Speaker 5: I'm going to go with like a three over the
24:40
Speaker 5: next seven days.
24:41
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't love it.
24:42
Speaker 4: I don't love how the weather looks.
24:44
Speaker 5: And it's probably one of my, you know, I like September,
24:49
Speaker 5: but that like this time to the first few days
24:52
Speaker 5: of October, if you don't have.
24:53
Speaker 4: The right weather, I don't love it. So I'm going
24:54
Speaker 4: to give it a three.
24:56
Speaker 1: All right. I respect the honesty, Alex. We got to
25:01
Speaker 1: make it a reality. If that's what it is, that's
25:03
Speaker 1: what it is.
25:04
Speaker 4: Yeah.
25:05
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, well, so if, if people want to follow
25:08
Speaker 1: along with the rest of your season and everything else
25:11
Speaker 1: that you guys have going on, what is the best
25:13
Speaker 1: place to do that?
25:15
Speaker 3: Yeah.
25:15
Speaker 5: If you just type in whitetail DNA to YouTube, that's
25:17
Speaker 5: where we're releasing hunt videos, um, and educational videos on Instagram,
25:22
Speaker 5: whitetail underscore DNA between those two platforms.
25:26
Speaker 4: You know, that's pretty much where you're going to find
25:27
Speaker 4: all the best stuff.
25:29
Speaker 1: Awesome. Thank you so much, Alex. Good luck this season.
25:31
Speaker 1: Tell Jeremy, good luck.
25:32
Speaker 2: All right.
25:33
Speaker 1: Will do.
25:33
Speaker 4: Appreciate it, Jake. Good luck to you too.
25:35
Speaker 1: All right, we got Josh Proffitt from Kentucky. Josh, how's
25:38
Speaker 1: it going?
25:39
Speaker 4: It's good, man.
25:40
Speaker 3: It is great, man. God's good.
25:42
Speaker 4: How are you?
25:43
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. We're getting into the second week of
25:46
Speaker 1: Rough Fresh here for the year. And last week, the
25:48
Speaker 1: theme was pretty heavily about acorns. And there was a variety.
25:54
Speaker 1: Ohio opened this past weekend. Much of the rest of
25:57
Speaker 1: the country is going to be opening October 1st. So
25:59
Speaker 1: we're in it. And Kentucky's been open. And I know
26:04
Speaker 1: you haven't had a chance to hit it extremely hard yet,
26:07
Speaker 1: but kind of looking at the weather and conditions and
26:09
Speaker 1: everything else, like what are we looking at here for
26:11
Speaker 1: the next seven days, September 30th to the 7th? What
26:14
Speaker 1: has you excited?
26:15
Speaker 3: Man, so like today, we're on a warming trend today.
26:20
Speaker 3: High is 80. By Wednesday, we got 91. And then somewhere,
26:27
Speaker 3: I don't know what date Saturday falls in, but– We
26:31
Speaker 3: got rain coming in for three days is what the
26:33
Speaker 3: weather's showing. And then early next week, like the 5th
26:37
Speaker 3: and 6th, it's dropping 25, 20, 25 degrees. You know, sunny,
26:42
Speaker 3: hot pressure days, everything that you would dream of as
26:46
Speaker 3: an opening week of bow hunting.
26:48
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's going to be a lot of
26:50
Speaker 1: really great hunts for a lot of people across the country.
26:53
Speaker 1: I mean, looking here in Illinois, somewhat of a similar
26:56
Speaker 1: weather pattern on the first here. It looks like we're
26:58
Speaker 1: supposed to get an inch of rain and then a
27:00
Speaker 1: cool off. And man, I can remember a lot of
27:04
Speaker 1: first of October's where it might as well be 95 degrees.
27:07
Speaker 1: Cause it felt like that. So this is a nice
27:09
Speaker 1: change of pace.
27:10
Speaker 3: What, um, that's the recipe, dude.
27:13
Speaker 1: That is the recipe. The weather is key here. What, um,
27:16
Speaker 1: what have you been, what do you think the deer
27:18
Speaker 1: are feeding on and your neck of the woods in Kentucky?
27:20
Speaker 1: Do you think they were switched over to acorns? Is
27:22
Speaker 1: there still some green soybean fields? Are they still in alfalfa? Um,
27:26
Speaker 1: or are they deep in the timber?
27:28
Speaker 3: Man, uh, I really think it's all about the acorns,
27:31
Speaker 3: no matter where you're at right now. They say that's
27:34
Speaker 3: their number one food source, and I believe it. It
27:37
Speaker 3: was so weird. We had such a wet summer here,
27:42
Speaker 3: but towards the very end of it, we had no rain.
27:46
Speaker 3: So they're getting the crops out like crazy. Corn, beans.
27:51
Speaker 3: The bean fields have turned, I don't know, probably a
27:55
Speaker 3: month ago, every one that I've seen. So that's kind
27:58
Speaker 3: of out of the game here. But we do have
28:00
Speaker 3: some cut cornfields, I mean, literally popping up everywhere every day. But, man,
28:06
Speaker 3: you just can't beat that mass crop and the timber
28:08
Speaker 3: from those white oaks.
28:12
Speaker 1: Last week it was kind of all over the place
28:14
Speaker 1: in terms of the production of the mass crop. We
28:19
Speaker 1: had Maryland, we had Wisconsin, we had Ohio, and we
28:23
Speaker 1: had one other state that I'm– and I think North Carolina.
28:27
Speaker 1: And there was quite a variety of what the mass
28:30
Speaker 1: crop scout was. Have you paid any attention to see
28:34
Speaker 1: if this is going to be a bumper crop, average crop?
28:37
Speaker 1: Hard to tell.
28:39
Speaker 3: No, I really haven't, other than around my yard. I've
28:43
Speaker 3: got about five acres of timber right there at my house,
28:47
Speaker 3: and it is white oaks, nothing but white oaks, and
28:50
Speaker 3: they all are good. They're all in my yard right
28:53
Speaker 3: now and all over my driveway. So I'm assuming... it's
28:56
Speaker 3: going to be a good year.
28:57
Speaker 1: Yeah. Have you had deer eating, eating in your yard?
29:01
Speaker 3: Man, every day. I've got food plots in my yard.
29:06
Speaker 1: Okay. So that's, this is a good, good, uh, in
29:09
Speaker 1: the evening. Are you seeing them stand underneath the Oak trees?
29:11
Speaker 1: Are you seeing them hit your food plots or both?
29:14
Speaker 3: Man, it's, I'm going to say it's more than that
29:17
Speaker 3: and more than the Oak trees. Yeah, for sure. Um,
29:20
Speaker 3: I know it's probably what everybody's talking about right now
29:22
Speaker 3: because that's, you've been deer, deer hunting very long. That's,
29:26
Speaker 3: Really what they're going after. And I'm not saying they
29:30
Speaker 3: won't change it up here on some of these ag fields,
29:33
Speaker 3: especially like the cornfields. I do think that you could
29:37
Speaker 3: catch one slipping out to an ag field. It's just
29:41
Speaker 3: such a toss-up, man, because I know how it is
29:43
Speaker 3: when the acorns start falling. Yeah.
29:46
Speaker 1: Let's say for someone that is newer to hunting and
29:49
Speaker 1: they're hearing this now and they're like, oh my gosh,
29:51
Speaker 1: I've paid attention to the row crops, I've found thick
29:54
Speaker 1: bedding areas, I've done all these other things, but I
29:57
Speaker 1: haven't identified... white oak trees to where i don't know
30:01
Speaker 1: if there's acorns i think there's some acorns potentially or
30:04
Speaker 1: white oaks on on this particular piece of public or
30:06
Speaker 1: property that i hunt but i don't know that for
30:08
Speaker 1: sure would you encourage them to go out on maybe
30:11
Speaker 1: one of those rainy days or really hot days and
30:13
Speaker 1: and do a speed scout to try to figure out
30:15
Speaker 1: where they may or may not be feeding i would.
30:17
Speaker 3: Probably choose a hot day in the middle of the
30:20
Speaker 3: day you know try to stay out of there when
30:21
Speaker 3: it's real wet just you know you're gonna leave a
30:23
Speaker 3: lot less scent when it's dry and um But you
30:27
Speaker 3: can slip in there and just look around, and it's
30:30
Speaker 3: real easy to find where they're eating at, if they
30:34
Speaker 3: are eating it. It makes it real hard when all
30:36
Speaker 3: the trees are raining down. It really does. But, I mean,
30:40
Speaker 3: they will literally turn the leaves up. And from my experience,
30:44
Speaker 3: the most I can tell, they spit like that whole
30:47
Speaker 3: of the acorn out. Like you can physically find where
30:51
Speaker 3: they've chewed them and spit them out.
30:53
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've never paid close enough attention to that.
30:56
Speaker 3: A lot of times, you know, you got the perfect recipe.
30:59
Speaker 3: You'll find some fresh rubs or scrapes right there, you know,
31:03
Speaker 3: the droppings. But for me, like I've found some over
31:08
Speaker 3: the years that were really close to bedding, like where
31:10
Speaker 3: the deer had advantages for whatever reason, and they really
31:14
Speaker 3: would just be tore up. It'd look like, you know,
31:17
Speaker 3: turkeys were in there scratching around, if that makes sense.
31:19
Speaker 1: Yeah. So that's probably the biggest thing for someone to
31:23
Speaker 1: do this upcoming week for folks that are having an
31:26
Speaker 1: opening day season. I know you had success early last
31:29
Speaker 1: year in Kentucky. I feel like there's two philosophies when
31:33
Speaker 1: it comes to early season. It's swing for the fences
31:37
Speaker 1: or play a little defensively. Where do you fall on that?
31:42
Speaker 3: I've always swung for the fences. I'll always go down swinging.
31:50
Speaker 3: If I strike out, I'm going to go down swinging.
31:52
Speaker 3: I'm not going to let the ball come, but I've
31:54
Speaker 3: always hunted, so, you know, been on the public ground.
31:56
Speaker 3: I've always had thousands and thousands and thousands of acres.
31:59
Speaker 3: And if I bumped a deer, I would just move
32:01
Speaker 3: on to the next one because I always had an
32:04
Speaker 3: A plan, a B plan, or, you know, a C plan. And,
32:07
Speaker 3: you know, even though I'm grateful and I have a
32:10
Speaker 3: couple thousand acres of private ground to hunt now, I
32:14
Speaker 3: definitely can, I'm being way more cautious. Way more cautious.
32:21
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's a good example of those two
32:24
Speaker 1: different almost hunting styles, too, of when you have plan
32:28
Speaker 1: A to Z. You can afford to swing really hard
32:32
Speaker 1: every time or if you need to be a little
32:34
Speaker 1: bit more methodical. Based off the weather and everything else,
32:37
Speaker 1: on a scale of 1 to 10, how are things
32:39
Speaker 1: shaping up for the 30th to the 7th with that
32:42
Speaker 1: front that rolls in, the rain's going to stop, temperature's
32:45
Speaker 1: going to drop, pressure's going to increase? Sounds like a
32:47
Speaker 1: pretty good recipe here. Scale of 1 to 10, where
32:50
Speaker 1: do you put it?
32:51
Speaker 3: And I put it, I put it up there. I
32:53
Speaker 3: really do just because like right now, you know, it's
32:57
Speaker 3: today probably wouldn't be a bad day, but you know,
33:00
Speaker 3: come Wednesday when it's 90 at right at the 1st
33:03
Speaker 3: of October, I think the 1st is Thursday. Dude, it's
33:05
Speaker 3: just no good. Um, then you put a little rain
33:09
Speaker 3: in there and five days later it drops 20 or
33:11
Speaker 3: 25 degrees. And you know, the parameters, uh, you know,
33:15
Speaker 3: I really do think the sunny high pressure days are
33:18
Speaker 3: the best. That's just me. But, um, Man, I don't
33:21
Speaker 3: see how for an evening set, or even if you
33:24
Speaker 3: were set up in the morning in the right position,
33:26
Speaker 3: I don't even see how it could be any better
33:28
Speaker 3: this time of year. I really do think there'll be
33:31
Speaker 3: some big deer die, especially in Southern Illinois, places that
33:34
Speaker 3: are close to me that have real similar weather, because
33:37
Speaker 3: deer just haven't had any pressure yet.
33:39
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah. So, great opportunity to capitalize on that, depending
33:42
Speaker 1: on what state you're in. It's exciting, man. This is
33:47
Speaker 1: like the October 1 episode, so that means... We're all
33:51
Speaker 1: really excited and giddy and a lot of opportunity, and
33:54
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a great year for
33:56
Speaker 1: people to learn, get better, and ultimately just enjoy this
34:00
Speaker 1: time that we've been waiting for all year because it
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Speaker 1: goes by fast. We were just talking before, and the
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Speaker 1: year flew by, and now the rest of the year
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Speaker 1: is going to go even faster because things get crazy busy.
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Speaker 3: You know, life, it goes fast. When I was a
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Speaker 3: coal miner, I used to wish my life away, you know,
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Speaker 3: like can't wait for the weekend or can't wait for– November,
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Speaker 3: can't wait for vacation. And, you know, now that I'm
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Speaker 3: in here in this barbershop, you know, my kids are
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Speaker 3: pretty much grown up and the weekend's here. And, you know,
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Speaker 3: I wish things could slow down a little bit. I
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Speaker 3: guess it shows you how precious life is. But, man,
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Speaker 3: for everybody that's listening, like if they could take advantage
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Speaker 3: of this time frame around in here, like today, for
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Speaker 3: an example, if you could get out and glass like
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Speaker 3: some of these ag fields, that have been harvested or
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Speaker 3: maybe even an observation set and spend a couple of
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Speaker 3: days doing that. And then maybe take advantage of a
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Speaker 3: day that you can slip in there and maybe look
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Speaker 3: for some white oaks. That might even give you a
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Speaker 3: little better idea, you know, and where to be because
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Speaker 3: over the years, it's weird how I've changed and how my,
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Speaker 3: my views have changed. And like, I look at it now, like,
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure there's a wrong way to deer hunt.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think there's better ways. Sure. You know,
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Speaker 3: I do think there's better ways. So, man, if I
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Speaker 3: was going to tell anybody, I would get out glass
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Speaker 3: and fields a couple days, and then if you could
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Speaker 3: get in there before the rain, you know, that way
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Speaker 3: you're sensing all over the ground, I would get in
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Speaker 3: there and I would check some white oaks. I really
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Speaker 3: would look for whether they chew those holes out because
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Speaker 3: they really do. They'll spit them out, and there'll be
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Speaker 3: droppings in there. And, you know, this time of year, man,
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Speaker 3: if there's some bucks in there, There's going to be
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Speaker 3: some sign.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, perfect. Well, Josh, if people want to swing in
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Speaker 1: and get a fresh cut for deer season, where do
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Speaker 1: they do that?
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Speaker 3: The big buck cuts are at Seabree Barbershop here in
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Speaker 3: western Kentucky.
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Speaker 2: Awesome.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much, Josh. Good luck this season. Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: all right folks there you guys have i hope you
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Speaker 1: guys enjoyed this week's episode of rut fresh the season
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Speaker 1: goes fast so get out there enjoy this opening week
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Speaker 1: if you're in one of the lucky states opening october
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Speaker 1: 1st and if you've already been open hopefully you're building
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Speaker 1: up a case to strike and have an opportunity at
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Speaker 1: whatever type of deer you're after so we'll see you
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Speaker 1: next week on rut fresh once again if you guys
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Speaker 1: want to be featured on rut fresh shoot me a
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Speaker 1: try to get as many different states as we can
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Speaker 1: get on here this season so we'll see you
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Speaker 5: Thank you.