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BONUS: Wired To Hunt’s Rut Radio 10/19/2016 · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, this is Mark Kenyon of the Wired Hunt podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm here today to introduce you to something new.
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  Speaker 1: As you might be able to tell, this isn't a
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  Speaker 1: regular episode of the Wired Hunt podcast. In fact, you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to the very first episode of a bonus mini
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  Speaker 1: series that we're going to be running over here over
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  Speaker 1: the next few weeks that we're going to be calling
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  Speaker 1: Wired Hunt's rut Radio. And here to help me with
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  Speaker 1: this new project is Weird Hunt contributor and now producer
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  Speaker 1: of this mini series, Spencer new Hearth. How you doing, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm excited that we're getting closer to November. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: me too. I'm really excited about that. And I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: about this podcast, especially kind of in relation to that
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  Speaker 1: whole time period of November, because I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 1: but when I think of that month, I think about
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  Speaker 1: the rut am. I right, yeah, absolutely, And and this
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  Speaker 1: has been a really strange set of interviews that we've done. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I reached out to to five contexts that
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  Speaker 1: spread across White Tail Country from Minnesota to North Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I opened it up asking him all
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  Speaker 1: the same thing our scale one to ten, what would
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  Speaker 1: you say the bucket activities right now? And I heard
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  Speaker 1: everything from a seven down to it too. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't think there's any other time of year that you
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  Speaker 1: would get that kind of response besides mid October. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the dreaded October level. But let's let's rewind a little
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  Speaker 1: bit because you came to me earlier this year with
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  Speaker 1: this idea for this kind of mini series related to
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  Speaker 1: the run. Um. But but Phil, fill our listeners in
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  Speaker 1: what is this? What is this all about? What are
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  Speaker 1: we gonna be hearing today? What are we gonna be
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  Speaker 1: hearing over the coming weeks? So I think every fall
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  Speaker 1: um me, just like any other you know, archery white
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  Speaker 1: tail hunter is dying to hear reports of what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in the woods. And we want to have our
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  Speaker 1: thumb on on the pulse of, you know, what the
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  Speaker 1: white tail are doing, and uh, this is one way,
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  Speaker 1: uh for white tail hunters to confirm or deny what
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  Speaker 1: they're seeing in the woods. And so each week I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk to four or five or six you know
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  Speaker 1: white tail hunters that kind of spread throughout white tail
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  Speaker 1: country and you know, get get a sense of what
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  Speaker 1: they're seeing. In the woods and hopefully help us piece
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  Speaker 1: together of what exactly is going on right now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: are they hitting soybeans right now? Are they really nocturnal
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  Speaker 1: or they working up scrapes? Um? You know, are they
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  Speaker 1: seeking and chasing it? All that kind of information that
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  Speaker 1: can make us better hunters. Um. You know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: great for that guy who maybe hasn't been out in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks and um, you know, needs to
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  Speaker 1: pick a stand to hunt and he's not sure what
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  Speaker 1: you go into, but he's hunting North Dakota and he
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  Speaker 1: just heard somebody from Minnesota on the podcast say that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're seeking and chasing really hard right now,
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  Speaker 1: and you should be hunting aggressive. You know, that's just
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  Speaker 1: one example of what this podcast is intended to do.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I'm excited about that because I think
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  Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of value to that. As you
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  Speaker 1: just said, you know, if you're not able to be
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  Speaker 1: out there, you want to know what's happening in your region.
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  Speaker 1: And what I like about what you're putting together with
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  Speaker 1: this series here is the fact that you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: talking to people all over the country and getting different
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  Speaker 1: perspectives and updates from everywhere from you know, the northeast
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  Speaker 1: down to the south like could be, so we could
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  Speaker 1: hear someone from North Carolina, we could hear someone from Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: We could hear from someone from Wyoming or Maine or
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  Speaker 1: Michigan or all the way across the board. So I think,
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  Speaker 1: no matter where you live and hunt, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to hear some updates throughout these coming weeks
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  Speaker 1: that are relevant to you. And hopefully you can take
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  Speaker 1: some of these things you here here and say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's what's happened near me, I should try X
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  Speaker 1: or Y and um. You know, as you know, Spencer,
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  Speaker 1: at this time of year, white tail behavior and activity
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  Speaker 1: changes so dynamically over this next kind of six week period.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, things are going to go from zero to
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  Speaker 1: a hundred pretty fast here, and it's as far as
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  Speaker 1: I'm concerned, it's important to know where we are on
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  Speaker 1: that acceleration and and be able to then apply the
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  Speaker 1: right tactic to the right time. Um. So I think
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  Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna be achieve here right you With
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  Speaker 1: this time of year, it's still strange because I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's one overarching theme, you know, that fits the
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  Speaker 1: whole country. Because I was talking to you know, our
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  Speaker 1: listener from North Carolina, Haynes Shelton, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was completely agreeing with what he was saying. And
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  Speaker 1: then I would talk to uh Trent Siegel from Kansas,
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  Speaker 1: who's much closer to my homestate of South Dakota where
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm hunting, and uh, I felt it was very
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  Speaker 1: different than when I was seeing and so it's it's
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  Speaker 1: just a weird time of year, but it's still really
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  Speaker 1: cool to to hear those reports and how guys are
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  Speaker 1: using tactics right now to you know, help their success rates. Yeah. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to be having a new episode every
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  Speaker 1: week for at least the next six weeks, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna be covering this type of stuff right
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking to, like you mentioned, three or
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  Speaker 1: four or five six different guys from across the country
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  Speaker 1: getting their updates. And that said, you know, we shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: beat around the bush, I don't think, Spencer, because I
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  Speaker 1: know we have some great stuff the cover today. So
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  Speaker 1: so who are we talking to today and what regions
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  Speaker 1: are they covering. We started off in Minnesota with Tony Peterson.
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  Speaker 1: He's a gear editor for bow Hunter magazine. Uh. Then
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  Speaker 1: we have in Kentucky Josh Honeycutt with real tree dot Com.
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  Speaker 1: In North Carolina, we have editor of North American Whitetail
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  Speaker 1: Haynes Shelton. In Illinois, we have bow Hunting dot COM's
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  Speaker 1: Justin Zaar. And then to end the podcast, we talk
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  Speaker 1: with Trent Siegel of Heartland bow Hunter in Kansas. And
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  Speaker 1: Trent just had an amazing hunt last week. Um, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to that at the end of the episode.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't seen what happened yet, go to Heartland
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  Speaker 1: bow Hunters Facebook page and check out his recent pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that dear is insane, incredible, incredible buck. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was. He was excited to talk about it, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: just you know how he went into the hunt. He
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  Speaker 1: said he was literally a hundred percent confident he was
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  Speaker 1: going to kill that deer. Um. And it's just so
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  Speaker 1: different than when I out to like Justin from Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: who said, you know, this is just terrible. Right now
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  Speaker 1: he told me it to two out of ten for hunting,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's just completely different. It's still exciting to
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  Speaker 1: hear what tactics these guys are using and just how
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  Speaker 1: different it can be from one stage to the next. Definitely. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to hear because I haven't got to hear
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  Speaker 1: from these guys yet, so correct me if I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But the way this is going to work is we're
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  Speaker 1: going to jump right into that first interview and then
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna go you know, one, two, three, four,
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  Speaker 1: five or and here the mall and then that'll be
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  Speaker 1: our show. Right. Yeah. Absolutely. We talked about four or
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  Speaker 1: five minutes with each guy, uh, you know, get a
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  Speaker 1: pulsible what's going on, and then it's onto the next interview,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll wrap up the whole thing and you know,
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  Speaker 1: around thirty minutes with these guys. Awesome. Well, this sounds
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  Speaker 1: like an exciting new series, Spencer. I'm pretty pumped about it.
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  Speaker 1: I know you are too, and I guess without further ado,
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  Speaker 1: let's just get right into it, all right. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to the first caller, but quickly before we get our
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  Speaker 1: first update. As all Wired Hunt podcasts are, this episod
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  Speaker 1: and now onto the show alright, and joining us on
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  Speaker 1: the phone first is Tony Peterson. Tony is a notorious
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  Speaker 1: public land killer and gear editor for bow Hunter magazine. Tony, No, No,
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  Speaker 1: you just spent some time hunting in your home state
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  Speaker 1: of Minnesota. On a scale of one to ten, how
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  Speaker 1: would you say the buck activity was? Um, I would
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  Speaker 1: probably go with about a five five And so is
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  Speaker 1: that kind of what you expected for this time of year? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't bad. I ended up seeing two
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  Speaker 1: bucks in the last couple of days that are both
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  Speaker 1: pretty good ones, um and some other buck activity. Actually
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  Speaker 1: saw my first chase of the year, I think Saturday morning,
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  Speaker 1: and I saw two bucks going after a dope pretty hard.
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  Speaker 1: But it's this this time is just up and down.
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  Speaker 1: If you get the right weather, it can be really good.
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  Speaker 1: And if it gets hot, like we just got it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it slows down a little bit. So it
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  Speaker 1: was it was probably about what I expected. And so
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  Speaker 1: before it got hot, re seeing a little better activity
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  Speaker 1: or about the same. I was seeing better activity with
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  Speaker 1: that big front that came through. Um, you know it
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  Speaker 1: was it got real windy or we were fighting thirty
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  Speaker 1: mile our winds, but the deer were moving and you know,
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  Speaker 1: once it once it came through and those temps got
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  Speaker 1: about you know, we were sitting at about twelve degrees
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  Speaker 1: above normal. Um, it's it's shut down for me, pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I still saw some deer, but not not the way
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  Speaker 1: it was. And what type of an area you know,
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  Speaker 1: have you been hunting lately? Are you pretty aggressive right now?
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  Speaker 1: I was? You know, I'm hunting staging areas. I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of trying to get between betting and food sources, um,
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  Speaker 1: in the mornings and the evenings. Um, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I tried to hunt water a little bit when it
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  Speaker 1: got hot, and it just it just didn't play out
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  Speaker 1: for me that well. Um. But I'm kind of my
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  Speaker 1: treatment Minnesota a little differently because it's my home state
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  Speaker 1: and I'm I'm working on some really big bucks. I'm
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  Speaker 1: kind of playing it a little safer than I would
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  Speaker 1: in some other states. Um, but you know, there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of transition routes for me right now.
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  Speaker 1: And so outside of the bucks, you know, with with
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  Speaker 1: the does and even the younger bucks, are you seeing
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  Speaker 1: them about the same activity level as it was a
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  Speaker 1: bigger deer you're targeting or is it different for them?
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  Speaker 1: You know, like you see more of those deer because
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  Speaker 1: there's more of them out there. But the you know,
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  Speaker 1: the activity in general was just okay. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: saw some does, I saw some young bucks, um, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't I never had one of those sis where
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  Speaker 1: I was seeing deer left and right and it was
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  Speaker 1: just on fire, you know. I mean, it was pretty
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  Speaker 1: typical mid October type of stuff. M sure. And what
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  Speaker 1: what about first sign right now? I mean, are you
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  Speaker 1: are you seeing some scrapes popping up or or some
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  Speaker 1: being active? They're laying down sign everywhere. Um. I took
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  Speaker 1: a little walk on Sunday afternoon just to check some
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  Speaker 1: areas that I haven't been hunting, and I found so
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  Speaker 1: many rubs and scrapes. Um. They're really really laying down
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  Speaker 1: some sign hard. So it's getting pretty cool out there
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  Speaker 1: right now in the woods. There's a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of signs showing up, and you know, we're getting
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  Speaker 1: pretty close to one. It's gonna get really good. And
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  Speaker 1: and how can you use that to your advantage right now?
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you find it a couple of good
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  Speaker 1: scrape lines, um, you know, is there anything you can
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  Speaker 1: do that to help you kill a buck right now?
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  Speaker 1: With that? Um? You know, scrapes are good right now, um,
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  Speaker 1: and they will be for you know, a couple more days.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm I'm I'm looking at rubs because rubs tell
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  Speaker 1: me an awful lot about wear bucks like to travel
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  Speaker 1: and where they like to kill times. So I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: for a staging area with a ton of random rubs
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  Speaker 1: in it right now, and I found a few of
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  Speaker 1: those places. So as soon as I get the chance,
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  Speaker 1: which will probably be about Thursday, I'm gonna go back
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  Speaker 1: in and start hunting some of that sign I found
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  Speaker 1: this past weekend, get right on top of it, and
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  Speaker 1: hope to catch those bucks moving in the cover sure
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  Speaker 1: in and going forward, say you were going to be
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  Speaker 1: hunting these next you know, ten days or so, what
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  Speaker 1: would you expect on a scale of one to ten
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  Speaker 1: for the buck activity to be? Then, well, you know
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  Speaker 1: it's going to get better here, I would say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: within the next few days, we're kind of stuck in
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  Speaker 1: a warm weather holding pattern, so that's gonna stay pretty consistent.
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  Speaker 1: That maybe a five or six, But you know, as
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  Speaker 1: we push on here a week down the road, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, ten days down the road, it's gonna get better.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we'll be well, we'll be pushing up on
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  Speaker 1: Halloween and it's going to get good, you know, seven
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  Speaker 1: or eight, I'm sure. So that's that's pretty exciting, alright, Tony. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be hoping that a cold front rolls through before
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  Speaker 1: you and you can get back in the woods. Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks man, Thanks for your time. We'll connect again in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. And joining us on the line
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  Speaker 1: now is Haynes Shelton, Associate editor for North American Whitetail. Haynes,
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  Speaker 1: I know you were just hunting in your home state
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  Speaker 1: of North Carolina and targeting a big buck. UM. So,
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  Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten, what would you
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  Speaker 1: say the buck activity was while you were there? Oh? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, you know, buck activities were still relatively
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  Speaker 1: low during daylight hours. You know, it's fortunate enough that
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  Speaker 1: I I saw the buck I've been after on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: evening during daylight during shooting hours, you know, so that's
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  Speaker 1: a major plus. Um. But other than yesterday afternoon, all
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  Speaker 1: the buck activity I've had has been on trail camera
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  Speaker 1: and it's all been nocturnal, but you know, I am
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  Speaker 1: getting regular movement, So I would say four to five
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  Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: bucks are moving, but like I said, I'm not getting
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  Speaker 1: I'm not getting any consistency on my buck movement during
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  Speaker 1: daylight hours yet. Sure. So what I just talked to
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  Speaker 1: Tony Peterson from Minnesota and he told me that up
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  Speaker 1: there it's like a five, um, you know right now,
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  Speaker 1: and and so it's pretty incredible. The same thing down there.
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  Speaker 1: Is that typical for this time of years that we'd
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  Speaker 1: expect to see a lot of nocturnal movement. Sure, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, yes, you know, we're hunting, uh in Davy County,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina. You know, it's Piedmont area, central North Carolina. UM,
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  Speaker 1: And I hunted there, you know since I was a
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  Speaker 1: little kid. You know, I grew up on there, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm really familiar with kind of what those deer do.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it can be largely weather dependent, but
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  Speaker 1: we traditionally have an extremely good muzzloader season that comes
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  Speaker 1: in that first week in November. You know, you can
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  Speaker 1: almost always bank on that November muzzloader being really good
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  Speaker 1: for rud activity. Usually by that part of the year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the bucks have really started rubbing good. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they've laid down a lot of scrapes and that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're starting to see and chase a bunch of those.
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  Speaker 1: You know that that's one is really on fire. Um
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  Speaker 1: as far as bow hunting up until they're you know
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  Speaker 1: kind of point in time we're in right now. I've
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  Speaker 1: killed there, you know, I've killed big bucks during this time.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a lot harder. You know, you can kill
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  Speaker 1: them on scrapes. You know, you can go out and
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  Speaker 1: put down some mocked scrapes and you can get some
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  Speaker 1: bucks coming in to check them. But I've never killed
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  Speaker 1: I'm screaming hot. Rut during this time is still still
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  Speaker 1: a little early, you know, at least a week or
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  Speaker 1: two early, that's a sure. And sot with with the hurricane,
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  Speaker 1: they just moved through that area. Um, did you notice
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  Speaker 1: a change in jew behavior during that time? And do
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  Speaker 1: you think they will have any repercussions going forward or
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  Speaker 1: right now? Yes, you know I did notice. Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: did notice some some really cool things to going on
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  Speaker 1: with that hurricane. And that's the reason I went back home,
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  Speaker 1: uh to hunt this weekend or this past weekend. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a long drive from Georgia and you know, really
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  Speaker 1: not gonna make it unless I think it's a good shot.
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  Speaker 1: But with the hurricane that came in last week, you know,
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  Speaker 1: checking my trail cameras, I saw, you know, really great
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  Speaker 1: deer movement and excellent buck movement. We actually had three
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  Speaker 1: um new bucks coming on camera that we have not
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  Speaker 1: had a photo of all year. And we ran cameras
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  Speaker 1: all summer. You know, we've got these deer patterned and
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  Speaker 1: you know, we've got a great feel for what bucks
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  Speaker 1: are in our area. They want to check cameras two
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago and saw all of a sudden these three
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  Speaker 1: new bucks that were all good, big bucks, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: two of them were solid shooters. Um. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think that hurricane what it did was it probably you know,
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  Speaker 1: had the bucks hunkered down, had all the deer hunker
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  Speaker 1: down while it was happening. We had two or three
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  Speaker 1: inches of rain, you know, in in one evening and
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  Speaker 1: then again the next day. And I think after the
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  Speaker 1: storm rolled out, I think it got the deer on
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  Speaker 1: their feet and got them out to feed. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had a big high pressure front, which is typical
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  Speaker 1: on the back side of one of those storms, and
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  Speaker 1: you know it was good. You know, we had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of deer on camera, but once again still primarily nocturnal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's really that's the kicker, as you don't
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  Speaker 1: know if these deer are gonna get out during daylight
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  Speaker 1: or you know, during legal shooting time because they're almost
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  Speaker 1: always moving right on the cusp of that, you know, right,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: but right at dark sure, and and going forward, I mean,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: do you think that will change you in the next
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: ten days? You know what, what would you say on
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten, that buck activity is
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: going to be in North Carolina? Oh? Yeah, you know,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I think uh, I think in the next week, you know,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: it could get a lot better, especially depending on the weather.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: You know, if you get, uh, if you're lucky enough
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: to get a good cold front coming in on the
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: back side of October, you know, you can really do
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: some good because those you know, those big mature bucks
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: are gonna get have they want to be the first
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: one to lay down the scrapes. Man, they're gonna hit
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: the rubs and you know they're gonna start cruising and
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: kind of getting ready to start finding those does, and
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: they just get fired up. You know. I'd say the
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: next week it could be a lot better. Next two
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: weeks it could be awesome, you know, just hopefully we'll
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: get some good weather. Man, we can get one killed. Sure,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: all right, Haynes, Well, I'll be following along in North
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: American White Hill. I hope to see you with that
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: big eight point in your hands. Oh yeah, I appreciate it, man.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: It's good talking to you, Spencer. Joining me online now
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: is Justin Tsar, general manager of Bowl hunting dot Com.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Great forum, great blog, check it out, guys. So, Justin,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I know you've been hunting in Illinois lately. What do
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: you gotta tell me? What's the activity been like? On
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten, I'd say maybe a
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: two at least in the areas that myself and most
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: of my guys uh have been hunging here lately, it's
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: been pretty slow. So that's devastatingly low. What what factors
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: are contributing to that, you know, terrible activity? Um, My
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: best guess is probably going to be weather. You know,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: it's been unseasonably warm, I think throughout probably most of
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the country I know, definitely here in the Midwest for sure,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: this warm. Whether it's certainly you know, kept the buck
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: movement subdued. We've had a few little pulled fronts have
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: pushed through, and I I don't even know if you'd
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: call them cold fronts. There are more like cool fronts
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: that came through, and you know we'd see a little
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: bit of buck activity. Um. But I mean today it's
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: almost eighty degrees here and you know, buck activities pretty
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: much down to zero from what I'm seeing. Sure, And
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: you're you know, getting that information from from your hunts
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: or from your trail cameras or what are you seeing
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: out there? Sure. I mean i'd say a combination of things.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: You know, my hunts personally, UM, pretty much just you know,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: all dough activity, dough sightings during the daylight. UM, trail
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: cameras you know, obviously it's a big thing. We run
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: a lot of cellular cameras. UM, you know, my self
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: and some of the guys that I hunt with, UM
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: swinging between the five or six cell cameras that we've
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: got out. UM. I'm not sure we've had a daytime
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: picture of a shootable book you know, on his feet
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: in probably a couple of weeks now, UM. And then
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: you can just look through our forum you know, see
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: what guys are doing on the forum, and you know
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: you see a deer here and they're getting getting shot,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: but you know, nothing with any sort of real regularity.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: It seems like, sure, So what is your hunting tactics
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: beend then lately? With you know that terrible movement? Have
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you been addressed at all? You know, I haven't been
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: super aggressive yet. You know, I'm kind of just gonna wait. Um,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: you know, another week or two here, we'll start getting
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: real aggressive with them. But you know, with these warm temperatures,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, unless you're right on top of one, or
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you've got some areas and maybe that are super super
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: low pressured, um, it's gonna be hard to get you know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: get them on their feet and and get a shot
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: at them. So we're kind of staying out of some
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of our better areas. Most of our evening hunts have
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: been over some sort of green food source. Uh. You know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: one of my protraft guys actually shot a real nice
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: buck here over the weekend Saturday evening here in northwest Illinois. Um,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: that deer just hammered him mock scrape, uh and then
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: stuffed out in one of his green food plots before
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: he shot him, so definitely doable. You could kill him. Um,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: just a hard thing to do right now, right, So
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: what about other deer sign Are you seeing a lot
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: of scrapes up right now? Yeah, the script activity is
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: definitely starting to pick up. You know, we're starting to
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: transition a lot of our trail cameras over onto some
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of those scrapes, you know, to try to monitor that
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: buck activity, and they're definitely hitting them. Um, I'd say
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: almost on a daily basis. The scrapes are getting hit
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: right now, but it seems like most of that activity
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: is still after dark. Sure, So do you think there's
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: any information you've gathered from this last week or so
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: that would, you know, help you kill a buck in
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: these coming days or is it just a bat tough
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: right now that you don't think so? Yeah, I mean
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I've gathered any information that I
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: didn't already know, um about most of the deer that
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I'm hunting. If anything, you know, the few trips out
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to the field and the trail cameras have just confirmed
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: what I kind of thought was going, which is, you know,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: movement is going to be a little slow. But again
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: we got another front pushing through here in a couple
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of days. And you know, as we get further into October,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: even if these fronts aren't quite as cold as we
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: want them to be, I definitely think they're going to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: be more effective at getting these bucks up on their feet. So,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: you know, over the next seven to ten days, I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: would imagine we start seeing people harvesting bigger deer on
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: probably a more regular basis, right, I mean, it sounds
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: like it just you know, pretty much can't get any
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: worse than it is right now. Man, it's been brutal.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. Then it's pretty tough.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You know, most of them, I said, seeing some younger
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: deer a year and a half, two and a half,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of dose hitting, the hitting the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: food before dark. But the bigger deer just don't seem
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: like they're moving a ton right now. And so going forward,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you know, like in these next ten days, what do
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you think the buck activity would be then, on the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: scale of one to ten, Is it gonna be pretty
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: low yet? Or do you think I gotta imagine what's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: gonna start picking up? I mean, just given the time
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of the year, you know, we got another front pushing
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: through later this week. So I mean, let's got to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: ramp up to a five or six at the very least,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe even the seven. You know, hopefully you know,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the evening haunts really start to pick up. Um, you know,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: front pushes through, we got some high pressure on the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: back side. Temperatures are gonna be down probably degrees from
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: where they're at right now. Um, so yeah, we wish
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: just to hopefully start seeing some year on their feet
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: right on. Well, I'll be hoping for a cold front
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: for you, justin, not just for me, for everybody, right
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: So thanks for your time. Justin will connect against noon
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: sounds good. Thanks and joining me on the phone now.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Is associate editor for real tree dot Com. Josh Honeycutt. Josh,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I've seen the pictures of one of your recent hunting Kentucky.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Why don't you tell me about what the buck activity
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: has been there on a scale of one to ten
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and a little bit about the pictures you sent me,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I would probably a six to a seven. Um, you
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: know last week I shot the deer last Thursday afternoon. Um,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you know they're in south central Kentucky and uh, we're
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: kind of moving into that period A lot of people
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: like to refer to as the October October law, which
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: is actually one of deer hunting the biggest uh largest
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: misinterpretations in all of deer hunting. Um, it's actually just
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: just shift in in in how the deer behavior where
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the where they go, the big shifts and food sources
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: and key and on that is is pretty much how
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: relocated the deer that I shot last week. Um, you know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: they're shifting off of those agg fields of soybean fields,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and they're they're hitting the mass crops hard right now
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: that we've had a big the biggest acre and crop
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: um that we've ever had at least in in recent
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: years that I can remember. And so the deer hunting
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: is gonna be tough. Uh from from here on out,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit tougher than it usually
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: is because the deer aren't gonna have to move much.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Uh you know, they're pretty much gonna get out of
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: their bids and they're gonna move very little to get
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: to where they're gonna feed, especially right whenever they get
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: up um, because they just don't have to move as
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: far um. And and for the field hunters, it's gonna
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: be a little bit more difficult because the deer just
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: aren't going to make it to the fields until after dark.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: So I'd say last week we had that cold snap
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: around Thursday Friday, and and that's wherever I was able
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to get on that deer that I shot. I'd set
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: up right off the edge of a betting area, and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I've grown up thick at area, a lot of grasses
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and a lot of brush, and the deer is just
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: feeding through that, eating akers and uh you know, I'd
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: say last week, like I said, it's probably a six
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: or seven, maybe five, depending on what day it was.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: But I was hunting right there on that cold front,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and that's what had the deer up on their feet
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: last week. And so how confident were you going into
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that one? Did you have a pretty good idea of
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: what this buck was doing? Well? I had a pretty
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: good idea. He'd been hitting my trail cameras at at night,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: because I had my trail cameras right off the the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: edge of a green uh soy being filled. But but
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: he wasn't making it to him in daylight because that's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: about the time those acren started dropped and kept my
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: ground pretty hard. So he was getting up out of
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: his bed. He was feeding on uh acrons, acorns however
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you want to say that, depending on what part of
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the country areaIn. But he was feeding through. He was
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: feeding through there, but he wasn't making it out. So
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I had to kind of get back off of those,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: uh the green soybean fields, you know. I got it
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: back further away from those and get closer to of
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: course they weren't green at that time. They leaves it
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: started dropping stuff like that, but you know, those dear
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: will feed on those at least where I hunt. I've
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: seen the dear hit those even after those leaves start
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: to fall off, you know, but there comes a time
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: whenever though those beans they just they aren't hitting them
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: like they were. So they were still going towards those fields,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: not like they were back in September obviously in August,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: but they were feeding mostly on acrons. So I had
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to back further away from the field edges, back further
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: away from the green food plot which I had positioned
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: between those soy being filled in the betting area, and
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: get closer to those acrens. And uh so, yeah, I
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: had an idea of what they were doing. I had
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: an idea of how I needed to change my tactics
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: based on what the deer were doing and where they
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: were going and how they were using the land. I
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: didn't know if i'd seen the deer or not. Of course,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you just you never know how things will pan out.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: But but he did. He did slip up. That cold
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: front had him up on his feet a little bit
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: earlier than normal. I shot the here about forty five
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: minutes before the end of legal shooting light, which is
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: pretty rare for uh, middle October to see a deer
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: on it facing like that. But I just had to
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: get close to his betting area, and I'd say I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: was within about a hundred to a hundred and fifty
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: yards where he was laying down at and still going forward.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Do you think those field hunters could find success here
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: again shortly? Or is that time of the year pretty
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: much over with and you should be hunt think a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: little bit of that thicker stuff like you are. Well,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: it just depends. Every place is going to be different.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: That's a hard question to ask, is where everybody hunts
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: different places with different train I mean, obviously they're gonna
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: be off those soy beans now because they're the beans
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: haven't quite ripened up yet. You know that it's not
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that the soy beans aren't in a stage really where
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: where the deer are hitting them hard. And actually a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: lot of the farmers are coming in and starting to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: harvest those uh soy beans. Of course most all the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: corns out by now. But uh, it's possible to hunt
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: on the edge of the agg field that's uh, that's
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: that's near harvest or has already been harvested, find success.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: But it's gonna be a whole lot more productive if
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: you back off of those fields and you kind of
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: get in somewhere where it's in a staging area where
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the deer kind of staging before the head out into
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the big agg fields or into the big food plots
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: that you planted, or whatever the case um. For me,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: at least for the next two weeks prior to the rut,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: before you start hitting, you know, hunting your traditional rutstand
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: locations um for the next two weeks, you know, through
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the to the end until the end of October, at
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: least the last few days of October. I would back
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: off and try to figure out if you've got a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: deer on camera, figure out where his core areas, figure
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: out where he's betting, and I would set up between
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: where that deer is betting and the best a mass
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: crop that you've got available for where you hunt, because
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: that for now, that's where those deer are going to
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: be going to. And still on the scale of one
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to ten UH, going forward, what do you think that
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: buck activity will be well, I mean, based on the science,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: is should only increase. And that's kind of going back
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: to the October law I mentioned earlier that it's it's
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: one of the biggest misinterpretations in all of deer hunting.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: There's plenty of data and research out there that biologists
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: have conducted that shows that the deer activity, both buck
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and though activity only increases from summertime all the way
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: through September October and into the rut UH. That's daylight
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: activity to The biggest thing is that a lot of
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: times the hunters don't transition with the deer as they
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: transition from food source to food source, and so that
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: lack of sighting, lack of activity is just because the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: hunters aren't set up in the right places. But based
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: on the size that it should only get better because
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the daylight movement with it. Like I tell, deer only
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: increases as as we progressed through October. Um it all.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: But obviously you've got to look at other things too,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: like weather temperature. And it's hot right now, but it's
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: very hot right here in Kentucky. Right now, it's warm.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It's you know, recognized this week. So but we've it's
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: supposed to cool off again towards the end week, around Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: So as we move deeper into this week and get
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: closer to the weekend, if you're hunting that cold front,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: you should see a spiking increase in daylight activity because
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: even though even though that daylight activity and deering activity
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: increases through them mysth October, that hot weather does have
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the ability to suppress that daylight movement. So I wouldn't
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: hunt if you've only got a couple of days in
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the up this week, I wouldn't hunt, you know, early
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: this week, I wouldn't hunt me all the week out,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: hunter round, wait untill that cold front yips toward the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: latter half. So this week, moving into the week right on, well,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I think everybody's getting more excited. You don't as we
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: get closer to November, but you got it done early
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and congrats on the buck, Josh, thank you. And finally
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: joining us on the phone is Trent Siegel heart Lamb
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: bow Hunter team member. Trent just shot a buck that
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: broke the internet. If you haven't seen yet, go to
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: heart Lambo Hunters Facebook page and check it out. Uh,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: it's going to correct, yes, sir, all right, tell us
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit about that man. It was the buck
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I've had on camera for the last few years, actually,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: just kind of sporadically. He shut up late season last year,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: after I'd already filled my canvas bag. H put some
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: more cameras up trying to figure him out, UM, little
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: bit more up this summer and got him. Was getting
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: him about once a month and once every three weeks um.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: And then came out and he just was everywhere on
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: all the cameras I had. UM. And then actually we
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: it was last Friday, um, the Friday before I shot him.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: On a Wednesday, the Friday before I hunted. We didn't
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: see him. And then he was out in daylight Saturday
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and Sunday on um some scrapes. Uh. And so the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: wind was right on Wednesday and we had a high pressure.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: The pressure was rising and we had a cold front
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: come through, the temperature drop twenty degrees from Tuesday, and like, man,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: we gotta get out there and share enough. He came out. Um,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: we watched him his three scrapes out in front of us,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: and we had some little bucks bumping some does just
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: kind of you know how they are starting to see
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: me and the doors are ready, and um, he was
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: making scrapes and came into twenty yards and shot them
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and he went about sixty yards and piled up just
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: an incredible hunt. Well that's awesome, But how about overall
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: in Kansas right now in your area, what would you
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: say the bucket activity is on a scale of one
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to ten Um as far as activity, I would say,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I mean we're probably sad, and I mean the bucks
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: are really starting to move around, and a lot of
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: it has to do with, um, some of these colds
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: weather systems that are pushing down and then all the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: crops are finally getting out, so they're they're getting a
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: little more concentrated. Start to see a lot more activity
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  Speaker 1: on on the trail camera. And so how confident were
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  Speaker 1: you going into that hunt, you know, with that buck?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: MoU Fassa, I mean I don't. I don't want to
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: sound bad, but I mean, I mean I was confident.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: It was. It was a weird feeling that day, um,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I told I told my wife second the second day,
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  Speaker 1: where that I knew was going to be the best
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  Speaker 1: day of my life, where I could kind of see
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: ino the future. I told her that morning, Uh, it
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  Speaker 1: felt like our wedding day. I just knew it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be one of the best days of my life.
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  Speaker 1: And I could see everything happening before it. I just everything,
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  Speaker 1: you know. We had a rising moon, we had the
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: weather system push it down, and the pressure was rising.
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  Speaker 1: U it was like thirty points three that day or so.
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  Speaker 1: It was just everything was lining up where we were
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: going to see a bunch of deers tear enough. Uh.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: We saw him and I actually actually grunted him in Um,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I grunted at him because he the second scrape he made,
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  Speaker 1: he started to turn away and walk away from us,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, well, I don't know really what
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  Speaker 1: else to do. I mean, we have a twoundred inch
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  Speaker 1: white stail in front of us. Beginning kind of the
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: first part October. Ive never grounded at a buck in October,
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  Speaker 1: but I've never had that big one out in front
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  Speaker 1: of me either, and so I had to dig my ground,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: call out on my back and grounded at him. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean just instantly he snore wheats right back at
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: me until I snore wheats to him. Then about a
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: minute or two later he came on. It made it
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: very like soas twenty yards. So it's pretty awesome. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, that's that's a complete change of pace
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  Speaker 1: from the other guys I've talked to, you know, Minnesota, Illinois,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: North Carolina. They're all reporting you know, really uh lack
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: of deer activity right now. And so would you say
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  Speaker 1: this is typical for your area this time of year.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just something you could expect to happen
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: again next year or the year after. Yeah, I from
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: what I've seen in the past, and yeah, I mean
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: it seems like the harvest moon. Um, and we started
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: getting crops out in some of those cooler nights that really, um,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the buck activity really starts to pick up. And I
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: started to get a lot more new boxer. I mean,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: it's bucks. I've had it's creepy years, but they won't
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: show up until you know, October November. So I started
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: picking up those bucks um that don't summer on some
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: of the properties. I huh, I started picking them up
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: this time of year, so it is an exciting time, uh,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: checking cameras and stuff like that, and getting out in
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the stands. I mean, like I said that there was
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: bucks little bucks grunting and trying to they were buff
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: them some dose out of the field the other night.
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  Speaker 1: So sure in going forward, do you think it's only
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: gonna get better? I mean, what would you say that
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: that deer activity level is going to be on a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: scale of one to ten for like these next ten days,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the next ten days, I don't know here we have
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a it's heat back up here. I mean I would
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: say it's probably gonna stay the same I mean for
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the next ten days. But I mean then after that,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: it's it's only going to get better. I mean, don't
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: get me wrong, I'm ecstatic. I shout it to its
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: rights over at the same time, like bumps, because I
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: don't have attack here um in campus anymore left to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: go hunt the red I mean, the run is the
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: rud is this magical here? I mean to watch you
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: never know what's gonna come chasing under your stand or
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: anything like that, but um, and I mean we're only
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: just you know, less than two weeks away really from
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: that kicking getting wild. Sure, well, congrats on the deer
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: of a lifetime, Trent, and uh, we'll look for the footage.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Uh you got it on footage right, Yes we did,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: we did. Okay, well, we'll definitely be watching for that.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: So thanks again, and congrats on the kill. Yeah, thanks
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: for having me. I appreciate it man. And that wraps
• 36:23
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• 36:31
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