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Ep. 453: Foundations - Big Buck Setups on Moving Water · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide
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  Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, and now your host,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundations podcast,
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by First Light. Today's show is all
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  Speaker 1: about moving water and how it can and should play
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  Speaker 1: in dear white tail hunts throughout the season. Last week
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  Speaker 1: on this podcast, we switched gears from NonStop scouting to
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  Speaker 1: talk about hunting strategies built around standing water. I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: many times how I love hunting deer on water patterns,
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  Speaker 1: and that's true. I'm not lying to you, but there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing I love more than when I've got a chunk
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  Speaker 1: of deer ground to work with that has a stream
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  Speaker 1: or a river flowing through it. That's dreamy stuff for
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  Speaker 1: so many reasons, and many of which you'll hear about
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  Speaker 1: on this show. Pull on your knee highs or your
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  Speaker 1: hip waiters and get ready to hear a strong case
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  Speaker 1: for hunting flowing h two. Oh if it's not dear
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  Speaker 1: season in your state yet, it's coming. This is like
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  Speaker 1: the adult version of Christmas Eve, and it is freaking awesome. Now,
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  Speaker 1: last week I covered mosquito factories are also known as
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  Speaker 1: standing water. There is nothing I love more than water
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to consistent white tail hunting. And while
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  Speaker 1: I've got a soft spot in my heart for a
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  Speaker 1: nice pond that is situated deep in the best cover,
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  Speaker 1: I think moving water is where I really belong as
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  Speaker 1: a deer hunter. This is because a good streamer river
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  Speaker 1: offers up so many things to the white tail and
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  Speaker 1: the white tail hunter. It often combines several reasons for
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  Speaker 1: a white tail to be an exact, very specific spot,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the secret sauce to not only killing
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  Speaker 1: more dear, but hunting the most enjoyable locations possible. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to look at moving water like it's just
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  Speaker 1: another water source, and in some ways it is, but
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  Speaker 1: it's also likely to feature some of the best security
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  Speaker 1: cover around. That's two checks in the wind column, my friends.
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  Speaker 1: Moving water also almost always is framed in quality food
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  Speaker 1: as well. That's three solid reasons for white tails to
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  Speaker 1: be there, and often be there in good numbers for
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  Speaker 1: the white tail hunter. Moving water that isn't so big
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  Speaker 1: it requires a boat or water wings to get across.
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  Speaker 1: You've got all of those deer coming there for various reasons,
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  Speaker 1: but you've also got incredible access opportunities, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times my favorite reason of all concentrated travel. If
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  Speaker 1: this sounds too good to be true, it's not. Quit
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  Speaker 1: being such a pessimist. Well, actually, sometimes it is too
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  Speaker 1: good to be true, and I apologize for that unwarranted
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  Speaker 1: outburst right there. We will get to reality later after
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  Speaker 1: I win you over with my argument for why there
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  Speaker 1: is no better situation upon which to arrow a monster
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  Speaker 1: whitetail than moving water of the right size and shape.
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  Speaker 1: The absolute best rivers to hunt are those that are
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  Speaker 1: big enough to concentrate deer on certain crossings, but not
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  Speaker 1: so big that you can't walk them in knee high boots,
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  Speaker 1: or do most of your ninja work on the banks
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  Speaker 1: too small, like dealing with little, tiny streams is a
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  Speaker 1: different story. If a deer can hop across anywhere, they
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  Speaker 1: probably will. They might have a few crossings they favored
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  Speaker 1: due to the terrain, but most of the time a
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  Speaker 1: really tiny trickle isn't all that great. I have seen
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  Speaker 1: if creeks are just big enough where deer will get
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  Speaker 1: in the water and use them as travel corridors, just
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  Speaker 1: like we use them to get into and out of
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  Speaker 1: our stand sites that can be an asset and with
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  Speaker 1: something I ran into in Nebraska a few years ago
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  Speaker 1: while trying to arrow a velvet buck. The stream running
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  Speaker 1: right through a chunk of public land I was camped on,
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  Speaker 1: was maybe ankle deep at its deepest point. At its
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  Speaker 1: widest between the banks, we were talking maybe twenty ft.
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  Speaker 1: Since it was about a million degrees out during that
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  Speaker 1: September hunt, I figured that if I spent enough time
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  Speaker 1: on some of the crossings, I'd get a shot. What
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  Speaker 1: I didn't expect was that the deer would get in
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  Speaker 1: and randomly walk upstream and downstream, tucked in below six
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  Speaker 1: ft tall banks where I couldn't shoot him. There wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really any pattern to their movement as far as I
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  Speaker 1: could tell. They just got in after walking down off
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  Speaker 1: of this great big bluff, entered the water, and messed around.
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  Speaker 1: They were there for the water, of course they were
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  Speaker 1: going to go in there and drink, but they were
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  Speaker 1: also in there kind of staging before they headed to
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  Speaker 1: the neighbor's property to hit some groceries. There wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of concentrated movement, kind of just went everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: That stream was just a little bit too small, and
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  Speaker 1: even though on my on X. It looked like it
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  Speaker 1: should set up right, and even when I looked at
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  Speaker 1: it in person, I thought it was pretty good. It
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  Speaker 1: just didn't work out that well for that hunting trip.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe if I'd have stayed longer, I had have figured
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  Speaker 1: it out, but I ran out of time. Not. The
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  Speaker 1: other end of the spectrum is a good sized river.
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  Speaker 1: I hate this scenario the most out of all moving
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  Speaker 1: water hunting conditions. Now. I know deer swim across big
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  Speaker 1: rivers from time to time. I've seen it, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they make a habit out of it. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like nature's version of a busy interstate. It
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  Speaker 1: functions pretty well as a wall to those deer, even
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  Speaker 1: though once in a while they will get across it.
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  Speaker 1: This size of river, it kind of takes the crossing
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  Speaker 1: situation right out of the equation. And while they might
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  Speaker 1: dip down to drink, bigger rivers often have steep banks.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think dear much prefer the feeling of being
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  Speaker 1: trapped by water on one side and a fifteen foot
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  Speaker 1: bank on the other. They don't seem too happy about that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, I have seen flats along big
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  Speaker 1: rivers that were full of deer, usually out west, where
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  Speaker 1: quality white tail habitat isn't overly abundant. Some of those
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  Speaker 1: spots can be amazing, but you're really not hunting a
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  Speaker 1: water pattern there. You're hunting a concentration of deer nearer
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  Speaker 1: where the water helped produce some brushing, gnarly habitat that
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  Speaker 1: drew white tail's in. There are a few silver linings
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  Speaker 1: with this scenario, which is that if you can find it,
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  Speaker 1: it's usually highly observable. You can post up and glass
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  Speaker 1: the bottom to see who's filtering in and out of
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  Speaker 1: the willows and cotton woods, and see if the landscape
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  Speaker 1: offers you up any good pinch points or ambush spots there.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing is that while a tight valley with
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  Speaker 1: a river in it is usually challenging windwise, a truly
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  Speaker 1: big river with a sandy acre flat along it tends
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  Speaker 1: to exist in a place where the ground has been
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  Speaker 1: ironed out, so to speak. Playing the wind along a
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  Speaker 1: spot of a river like that can be pretty easy
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  Speaker 1: and very effective. Now, even with tiny streams or giant
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  Speaker 1: rivers that aren't ideal are often easy to hunt. You
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  Speaker 1: at least know that water equals white tails. That's a
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  Speaker 1: good start, gives you something to work with. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the best moving water, this can be tricky.
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  Speaker 1: I like a river that is big enough where I
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  Speaker 1: have to be a little careful about waiting it in
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  Speaker 1: the dark, because even though I can swim just fine,
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  Speaker 1: I don't like to surprise myself with a few laps
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  Speaker 1: in the dark while clutching my bow and having a
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  Speaker 1: daypack strapped to my back. In my life of fishing
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  Speaker 1: and hunting, I've fallen in a few rivers, and I've
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  Speaker 1: been swept away a few times, and it's like car
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  Speaker 1: accident level as far as narrowing down your focus to
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  Speaker 1: the here and now. Trust me, it might sound kind
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  Speaker 1: of funny, but once you've been through it, I promise
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to go through it again. Also understand
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  Speaker 1: that a river that has maybe I don't know, twenty
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  Speaker 1: yards to a hundred yards across will likely feature enough
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  Speaker 1: deep water and steep banks to concentrate crossings. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: with satellite imagery you can damn near see them sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: If you know how rivers function with long straight stretches,
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  Speaker 1: bends and rapids, you can zoom in and often see
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  Speaker 1: white water or at least a bit royaled up surface
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  Speaker 1: where the river is shallow and rocky. That is often
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  Speaker 1: where the crossings will be, especially if there are deep
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  Speaker 1: stretches upstream or downstream, or for preferably both. If you're
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  Speaker 1: researching huge chunks of federal land or walk in ranches,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be able to see crossings very easily because the
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  Speaker 1: cattle will use them. Trails deeply gouged in the bank
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  Speaker 1: trails that often splay out on the flats are highly
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  Speaker 1: visible via satellite imagery and can provide one hell of
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  Speaker 1: a starting point if you're trying to figure out new
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  Speaker 1: deer ground. The key to hunting these types of crossings, however,
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  Speaker 1: is to suss out whether you're dealing with one major
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  Speaker 1: crossing or a stretch of river with multiple crossings. A
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  Speaker 1: major crossing that's easy enough, just set up down wind
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  Speaker 1: and wait. A stretch with multiple crossings requires a different strategy,
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  Speaker 1: and this is very very common on smaller to mid
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  Speaker 1: sized rivers. If you can glass this kind of river
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of nights, you can usually pin down
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  Speaker 1: which trails bucks are using and then go mobile to
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  Speaker 1: get on top of them. If you can glass it.
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  Speaker 1: I like to sneak in and set the farthest down
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  Speaker 1: wind crossing. What I'm hoping is that something comes down
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  Speaker 1: and I can shoot it, But if not, I can
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  Speaker 1: see some of the other crossings upstream or downstream from
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  Speaker 1: my stand. If the deer don't cross at my spot,
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  Speaker 1: I might see them use one farther up or farther down.
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  Speaker 1: If the wind stays consistent, which it often does, it's
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  Speaker 1: an easy move to the next crossing as soon as
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  Speaker 1: I can hunt it. This is my absolute favorite hunting
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  Speaker 1: scenario because even on public land, you rarely blank. If
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  Speaker 1: you can see enough river, you'll see deer. I see
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  Speaker 1: this even in low density areas. You also get actionable
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  Speaker 1: sightings and clues from the deer on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 1: which gives you the confidence that you're in the game
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  Speaker 1: every day. That between the year's happiness is important when
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  Speaker 1: you're engaged in days of mobile hunting, particular laterally on
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  Speaker 1: pressure deer. I also love this scenario because it gives
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  Speaker 1: me a good chance to hunt mornings, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: time of the season it is. This isn't something you
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  Speaker 1: can find everywhere, and morning sits in September can be
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  Speaker 1: absolutely deadly if you can get in and actually hunt effectively.
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  Speaker 1: The access that rivers often provide allows for that. Rivers
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  Speaker 1: are corridors where you can get low out of the wind,
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  Speaker 1: cover up some of your noise just by blending into
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  Speaker 1: the sounds of rushing water, and you can stay out
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  Speaker 1: of site if you're below the banks. With specific crossings.
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  Speaker 1: This means you can get in in the dark before
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  Speaker 1: first light and be where the deer will come to
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  Speaker 1: as they head back to bed. Oftentimes they'll use the
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  Speaker 1: same crossings at night and in the morning, which simplifies
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing, but that's not always the case. I
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  Speaker 1: got on a buck one time in North Dakota that
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  Speaker 1: I saw crossing the river one evening, and then the
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  Speaker 1: next morning I watched him half a mile upstream crossing
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  Speaker 1: back to my side. I sat one crossing and my
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  Speaker 1: buddy sat the other. The first night of the season,
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  Speaker 1: that buck came down to the water, crossed and posed
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  Speaker 1: up at twenty yards, which would have been ideal for
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  Speaker 1: someone not falling apart from buck fever on a hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty inch velvet buck. I missed that dude clean,
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  Speaker 1: but the wind was howling and he didn't catch onto
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  Speaker 1: the situation. My second shot was much better and proved
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  Speaker 1: to be my biggest velvet buck ever and one of
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  Speaker 1: the biggest deer I've ever shot. My buddy then narrowed
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  Speaker 1: a great deer on the downstream crossing, which meant we
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  Speaker 1: went to for two on public land on deer that
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  Speaker 1: went straight to the taxidermists, thanks in large part to
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  Speaker 1: just being able to glass and hunt river crossings. So
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're getting fired up to sit some river
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  Speaker 1: crossings this season if you have the chance. But you
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  Speaker 1: should also think about dear travel, not only as they
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  Speaker 1: go from bank to bank, but how they travel the
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  Speaker 1: length of the river. It's a rare day when I
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  Speaker 1: go into scout or haunt a new stream or river
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  Speaker 1: where I don't find trails that run parallel to the water.
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  Speaker 1: As well, in the right setup, where your wind can
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  Speaker 1: blow out over deep water that the dey aren't likely
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  Speaker 1: to enter, this provides another option for potential antlered visitors
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  Speaker 1: to show up. It's also a reliable scenario for rut
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  Speaker 1: hunting when bucks are cruising, because they sure seem to
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  Speaker 1: like to follow waterways when their loins are burning and
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  Speaker 1: their mental faculties are dimmist. This is reason enough to
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  Speaker 1: get along a river, but can be unreal when the
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  Speaker 1: temperatures are unseasonably warm during November. Do you remember back
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and sixteen when much of the early
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  Speaker 1: November rut was just stupid hot? I do, because I
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  Speaker 1: was in a tent of Nebraska trying to arrow a
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  Speaker 1: public land buck. My usual strategies were proving unbelievably turd like,
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  Speaker 1: so I figured I'd head down to the trout stream
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  Speaker 1: that bisects the property and play the water game. What
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  Speaker 1: I didn't expect was that I did encounter a micro
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  Speaker 1: climate at the bottom of that valley that was just
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  Speaker 1: a bit cooler and everywhere else. I also didn't expect
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  Speaker 1: to set a stand up in a T shirt and
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  Speaker 1: spot a cruising buck within a few minutes. Settling in
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  Speaker 1: that gnarly six by four was the most miserable looking
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  Speaker 1: buck I've ever seen, But he had cruise because it
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  Speaker 1: was early November, and he did it in seventy five
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  Speaker 1: degree heat. His mouth was literally hanging open and his
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  Speaker 1: lips were covered in froth. But he was out there
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  Speaker 1: looking to pass on his jeans, and I was lucky
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  Speaker 1: enough to put an end to his reproductive dreams, and
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  Speaker 1: it was again because of a river, but not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: due to a crossing. Now I'm telling you about my
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  Speaker 1: winds in the white Tail Woods when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: honey moving water. But really there are no perfect scenarios
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  Speaker 1: out there. The downside to playing this parallel travel is
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  Speaker 1: that due to the nature of valleys where rivers tend
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  Speaker 1: to exist, so two doesn't often unpredictable wind pattern. Whether
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  Speaker 1: it's blowing up or down the valley. You'll often find
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  Speaker 1: the wind regardless of forecasted direction. We'll get into the
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  Speaker 1: valley with the river and take your set up stream
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  Speaker 1: or down swirl around. That means that anything coming from
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  Speaker 1: the wrong way on that parallel trail has a chance
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  Speaker 1: to get a snoot full of danger. Think about this
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  Speaker 1: when your eyeballing your setups. I often find myself in
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  Speaker 1: stands right over the water in trees that are rooted
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  Speaker 1: in the banks. This puts me inside the parallel trail
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully within shooting distance of the best crossing. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: it puts you in shooting distance of the parallel trail
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  Speaker 1: on the opposite bank as well, which is another check
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  Speaker 1: in the wind calm and with the right wind. I've
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  Speaker 1: beat the deer coming straight down to the water in
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  Speaker 1: these scenarios, but also traveling right along it on both sides.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you might not have a perfect tree for this,
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  Speaker 1: so you have to make some concessions. Sometimes. Oftentimes it's
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  Speaker 1: best to just sit on the ground and tuck into
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  Speaker 1: a dead fall or deep below a steep bank. And
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  Speaker 1: this might sound stupid, but I've hidden right below where
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  Speaker 1: the deer are likely to walk in spots where the
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  Speaker 1: bank has fallen away and created a little Heidi holes.
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  Speaker 1: You feel stupid in these spots, but the deer don't
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  Speaker 1: have much of a chance to smell you, and they're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna see you, or if they do, it's too
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  Speaker 1: late for them because they're already down on the crossing.
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  Speaker 1: Another rough situation while hunting moving water happens when you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at satellite imagery and you're seeing everything you need
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  Speaker 1: to see to know you've got a good hunt coming up.
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  Speaker 1: The water is there, the potential crossings are there, and
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  Speaker 1: the trees are there for you to set up him.
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  Speaker 1: But when you walk into hunt for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: you realize the trees are forty seven times the size
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  Speaker 1: that would fit your standard your saddle strap and you've
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  Speaker 1: grossly underestimated your ability to read cotton woods via satellite imagery.
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  Speaker 1: This happens on away from home trips, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: one of those situations you have to adapt to. For
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  Speaker 1: anything closer to home or anything you've got the chance
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  Speaker 1: to scout in person, this shouldn't happen. You should already
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  Speaker 1: know where your best stand trees are in the best crossing,
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  Speaker 1: so you don't run into any surprises like this on
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  Speaker 1: those away game hunts. It's also important to note that
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  Speaker 1: regulations surrounding water very greatly from state to state. You
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  Speaker 1: might live in a state where legal access exists between
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  Speaker 1: the banks or the high water mark, or you might
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  Speaker 1: have to get into the water at a legal access
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  Speaker 1: point and not get out until you're on land you
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  Speaker 1: can hunt. You might realize that the state you're heading
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  Speaker 1: to has very strict water access rules and that the
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  Speaker 1: landowners own the surface water and anything beneath the surface,
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  Speaker 1: meaning if you wage in you're in trouble. Some states
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  Speaker 1: treat navigable water as a resource to anyone can use.
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  Speaker 1: Others don't. In some cases, you might need to use
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  Speaker 1: a kayak to get to your hunting grounds. This has
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  Speaker 1: become more and more popular lately and can be an
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  Speaker 1: excellent means of navigation. It's stealthy, fairly quick, and while
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  Speaker 1: somewhat of a pain in the acid in general, also
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  Speaker 1: one hell of an option if you have the right situation.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't have a kayak, you might just consider
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  Speaker 1: a hip or chess waiters as well, if the knee
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  Speaker 1: highs won't cut it. I've done both, and here's a
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  Speaker 1: note of caution. I'm not sure which, and I hate more.
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  Speaker 1: If I can't just use knee high boots, it's almost
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  Speaker 1: not worth it for me to hunt unless I just
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  Speaker 1: need to cross maybe one time. Maybe it's just me,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't put on a pair of waiters without
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  Speaker 1: immediately filling them with water. I also can't pour myself
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  Speaker 1: a cup of coffee in the morning without spilling some
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  Speaker 1: of it, or point out when I think my wife
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  Speaker 1: is wrong, despite the fact that I've had twenty years
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  Speaker 1: to learn that there will be consequences for it. You're
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  Speaker 1: probably better at life than me, so maybe you can
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  Speaker 1: make waiters work if you need to in order to
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  Speaker 1: get to a river crossing. I just know I personally
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  Speaker 1: don't like it. I don't like filling out my waiters
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  Speaker 1: in the dark and having wet clothes all day long
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  Speaker 1: when I try to sit on my stand. So with
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  Speaker 1: all that out of the way, I'll say this, I've
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  Speaker 1: hunted just about every white tail situation out there, from
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  Speaker 1: Texas on up to nearly Canada and east and West.
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  Speaker 1: And while hunting styles and strategies differ by region in
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  Speaker 1: the time of year, one of the most consistent things
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  Speaker 1: I've noticed out there, no matter where I am hunting,
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  Speaker 1: is the connection of white tails to water, specifically moving water.
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  Speaker 1: If you're planning a hunt or hunting near home and
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  Speaker 1: you've got some flowing water, figure out how to hunt it.
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  Speaker 1: It might be the best white tailed draw from the
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  Speaker 1: early season to the late season. That's it for this week,
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  Speaker 1: my friends, be sure to tune in next week for
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  Speaker 1: more deer hunting strategies so that you can keep filling
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  Speaker 1: tags and making your hunting buddies jealous. I'm Tony Peterson
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  Speaker 1: and this has been the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast.
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  Speaker 1: As always, thank you so much for the support. We
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate it, and we will see you here next week.