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Wired To Hunt Podcast #193: Rut Radio 12/20/17 · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for
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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,
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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan. This is episode number one, and
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Speaker 1: today we are back with another RUT Radio episode in
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Speaker 1: which we are catching up with a handful of hunters
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Speaker 1: from all across the country this week to hear the
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Speaker 1: latest on dear behavior, activity conditions, and the tactics that
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Speaker 1: are working right now in the late season. All right,
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Speaker 1: welcome to another episode of the Wired to Hunt podcast,
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Speaker 1: and today, as we do each week during the hunting season,
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Speaker 1: we are here with a RUT Radio episode in which
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Speaker 1: we are checking in with a bunch of different hunters
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Speaker 1: across the country to get the latest on deer activity,
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Speaker 1: dear behavior, uh, you know, how different sets of conditions
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Speaker 1: are impacting deer hunting, and then find out what kind
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Speaker 1: of tactics, what kind of strategies these guys and girls
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Speaker 1: are trying out in the field right now. And uh
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Speaker 1: it's we're kind of edging into late December almost now, um,
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Speaker 1: getting into the real tail end of the late season,
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Speaker 1: I suppose. And um I'm sitting over here in Michigan
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Speaker 1: having just one heck of a hunting season. Here Batten
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Speaker 1: zero on everything I've tried to do. On the other
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Speaker 1: side of the line with me, as he always is
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Speaker 1: for ut Radio is Spencer new Hearth, who has batted
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Speaker 1: a thousand um. He doesn't seem to miss on any
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Speaker 1: hunt he goes on. And uh, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you remember this. You know we've talked recently about all
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Speaker 1: the different ungulates he's killed. He's killed every different hooved
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Speaker 1: for legged animal there is out there this season, but
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Speaker 1: earlier this spring, if I'm getting this right, he killed
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Speaker 1: a a state record turkey of some sort, and I'll
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Speaker 1: have Spencer laver in this a bit out in the spring.
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Speaker 1: And then this son of a gun thinks, hey have
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Speaker 1: already killed all these other animals as fault, why not
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Speaker 1: try to kill another turkey? And he goes and kills
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Speaker 1: the number three bird in the state. So Spencer, I
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Speaker 1: I I feel like I just need to like rub
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Speaker 1: on your forehead or something like figure out some way
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Speaker 1: to get your karma to rub off on me. Um,
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Speaker 1: because every week I feel like I give you the
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Speaker 1: same crap about this happening, whether being an elk or
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Speaker 1: a white tail or whatever, a mule deer. Um. So
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Speaker 1: now I don't know it's it's it's uh, it's absurd, Spencer,
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Speaker 1: It's just absurd, but it's amazing. What exactly did you
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Speaker 1: do here? We'll back up to the spring in South
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Speaker 1: Dakota were unique and then we have the three main
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Speaker 1: species of these. We have Rio's, Miriam's, and Easterns. And
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Speaker 1: so I think it was it was right around Easter.
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Speaker 1: It might have been Easter Day. Um in the spring,
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Speaker 1: I killed the state record real grand turkey with my boat.
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Speaker 1: It was it was a triple beard and stuff. And
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Speaker 1: then just it was like four days ago I killed
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Speaker 1: an Eastern with my shotgun, which will be number three
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Speaker 1: in the state for firearms Easterns and so that was
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Speaker 1: a double beard. And uh, they're like once in a
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Speaker 1: lifetime turkeys, but especially for someone like myself. I'm kind
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Speaker 1: of a lukewarm turkey hunter. Like I I'm a much
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Speaker 1: better deer hunter. I think that I am a turkey hunter,
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Speaker 1: and I think about white tails year round. I don't
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Speaker 1: think about turkeys year round until I have a turkey
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Speaker 1: tag in my pocket, and so I almost feel a
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Speaker 1: little bit guilty that I probably don't appreciate these birds
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Speaker 1: like somebody who is a turkey nutwood, And it's how
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Speaker 1: someone feels who haunts white tails hard and then sees
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Speaker 1: the neighbor who goes out, you know, twice a year
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Speaker 1: in your cover rolls and then kills a booner. I
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Speaker 1: I feel like that's kind of what's happened here. So
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Speaker 1: these were just very lucky encounters for me to get
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Speaker 1: those two turkeys. And I don't want anyone to come
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Speaker 1: away thinking that like, I'm an exceptional turkey hunter. This
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Speaker 1: was my fifth turkey. I guess I am proud of that,
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Speaker 1: but it was just ship chance that they had five
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Speaker 1: between the two of them. Yeah, that's that's crazy, man,
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Speaker 1: that's awesome. I'm excited for you. Um, I think there's
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Speaker 1: just a lot of people that listen to this show
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Speaker 1: that don't like you anymore. But I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 1: Here's the issue is that I've got all these like
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Speaker 1: sponsors of the Wired Hunt podcast, and I think coming
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Speaker 1: up in two thousand and eighteen, there will be no
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Speaker 1: sponsors related to Mark Kenyon. Everyone's gonna expense The new
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Speaker 1: Heart is gonna be decked out with brand new Camo,
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Speaker 1: new bows, new ouck. You're gonna have like a new
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Speaker 1: ram truck and uh like a U TV from Yamaha,
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Speaker 1: and uh, everyone's gonna catch on to the fact that
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Speaker 1: you put them down, Spencer, So get ready for a
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Speaker 1: flush of new emails. Well, they're gonna be disappointed because
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Speaker 1: I don't see another booner next year or anymore state
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Speaker 1: record turkeys. Well, enjoy it while you got it then,
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Speaker 1: right will well Mark, you were just you know, Ohio hunting. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I am jealous. You still get to do some deer hunting.
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Speaker 1: So how was that for you? You know what? As
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Speaker 1: my season goes, Uh, there was no tag failed. Um,
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Speaker 1: but you know, I actually did see a little bit
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Speaker 1: of something of interest to you and to our listeners.
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Speaker 1: Two things actually. Number one, I saw quite a bit
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Speaker 1: of mature buck activities still on trail camera over the
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Speaker 1: past week. So um, that would be like the tent
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Speaker 1: through the eight or something. I had quite a bit
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Speaker 1: of movement on trail camera, including three, no two different
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Speaker 1: mature bucks still moving in daylight. Um. And actually in
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Speaker 1: the morning, I was getting am daylight pictures. One buck
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Speaker 1: had uh if I'm remembering this right, one of the
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Speaker 1: mature bocks a four year old had him coming through
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Speaker 1: one spot at like probably forty five minutes to an
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Speaker 1: hour after daylight in the morning one day, and then
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Speaker 1: another time I had another mature buck this was the
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Speaker 1: day beforehand, coming through like two and a half hours
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Speaker 1: after daylight in the morning, which I was kind of
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Speaker 1: surprised by. Lots of times these big bucks are you know,
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Speaker 1: back to bed very early in the morning in December,
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Speaker 1: but this was not the case. Um So that was
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Speaker 1: one thing of interest. Now, I will say that that
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Speaker 1: movement coincided with a big cold front hitting a very
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Speaker 1: cold front. Um that that brought the coolest temperatures of
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Speaker 1: the year yet I think for this area, um so
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Speaker 1: that maybe has something to do with it. Possibly also
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Speaker 1: the first snow of the year down there, not a
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Speaker 1: lot of snow, but a little bit of snow um
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Speaker 1: right around that same time period. UM. The second thing
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Speaker 1: I noticed this was on the second day of my
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Speaker 1: hunt down there. Um. I saw a lot of deer
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Speaker 1: activity this evening. Um. And what I think I saw
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Speaker 1: was a fawn that was either in estris or smelling
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Speaker 1: enough like she was an estres because I had some
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Speaker 1: like of that second that second rut activity that you
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Speaker 1: hear about in December sometimes where you get a fawn
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Speaker 1: that's coming into estres finally you know late, Um, she's
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Speaker 1: finally mature enough. I think that's what I was seeing,
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Speaker 1: because I saw six or seven different bucks all chasing
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Speaker 1: these doughs around, like bumping dos all over the place.
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Speaker 1: There was two bucks fighting. Um, it was like a
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Speaker 1: little rut fest right in this little area. I was
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Speaker 1: watching all these deer start piling in and buck started
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Speaker 1: coming out all over the place. All came into the
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Speaker 1: spot where these doughs were, and Um, this little dough
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Speaker 1: fon wherever she was going, there are these bucks coming.
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Speaker 1: And then after dark, I had another buck coming and
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Speaker 1: you saw him come across this field follow the exact
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Speaker 1: trail that dough took and followed her. I mean, like
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Speaker 1: for three yards. I watched him follow the exact path
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Speaker 1: that doe took all the way past my tree. Stan. Um,
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Speaker 1: So that was an interesting thing to see. Um. I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying that that's absolutely what was going on there, Um,
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Speaker 1: but it sure seemed like that. Um. You usually hear about,
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Speaker 1: you know, this kind of thing happening in early December. Um,
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Speaker 1: if at all many cases, you don't see it at all. Um.
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Speaker 1: In this case, it was like December sixteenth, I think
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Speaker 1: was the night that I saw this happening. So I
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Speaker 1: don't know what was going on there, but it was
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Speaker 1: an interesting observation. What we'll hear a little bit of
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Speaker 1: that secondary rod talk this week, but primarily a lot
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Speaker 1: of it is about what food sources to focus on
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Speaker 1: right now. And who we talked to in Minnesota is
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Speaker 1: Mike Fitzgerald with bow Hunting dot Com. And then we
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Speaker 1: go to New Hampshire and from the white Tail factor
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Speaker 1: is Brett Joy. Then we talked to Lindsay Thomas Jr.
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Speaker 1: Of q d M A in Georgia, and then we
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Speaker 1: talked to Mike con Suctor of Hartland bow Hunter in Missouri. Excellent. Well, Um,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm excited to hear what's what we
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Speaker 1: got going on. I I don't know if I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: have any good news to share anytime soon. It's just
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Speaker 1: not been in the cards for me this season. But
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Speaker 1: I am going to try to get after some does
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Speaker 1: here soon. Um, So that will be my next exciting
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Speaker 1: hunt I think will be finally hopefully putting deer on
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Speaker 1: the ground and putting some in the freezer, so look
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Speaker 1: out for that spencer. My next exciting story will will
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Speaker 1: hopefully be a big mature dough soon. Do you have
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Speaker 1: any advice for me? Uh? No, listen to listen to radio.
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Speaker 1: That that's my best advice. There, you go, okay, Well then,
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Speaker 1: uh then I guess I'm gonna stop talking now. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna let you keep this show rolling and I will
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Speaker 1: tune in once it's finished and learn a thing or
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Speaker 1: two about how to actually kill a deer, because I'd
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Speaker 1: love to figure that out before the end of two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen. All right, Well, that this should turn
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Speaker 1: things around for you. Then talk to you, thanks buddy.
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Speaker 1: Before we get to our first update, they'll let's pause
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Speaker 1: to thank our sponsors at sick ge Gear. And for
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Speaker 1: this week's SI story, we're joined by Brad Joy, who
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Speaker 1: tells us about a memorable white tail hunt that didn't
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Speaker 1: go as planned. Well, Ross and I have had a
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Speaker 1: really challenging season this year, and I think one of
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Speaker 1: the fining moments of that season was in the counter
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Speaker 1: we had with a five or six year old bluck
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Speaker 1: in Kentucky that we called K two Um. I was
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Speaker 1: actually filming Ross we went into a specific area after
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Speaker 1: K two. Um, we hanging hunted right there and actually
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Speaker 1: we had that gear comes straight into the grunt call
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Speaker 1: um probably an hour after we got there, and he
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Speaker 1: came straight into five yards and stopped and Ross is
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Speaker 1: a full draw on them, and uh, you know, in
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Speaker 1: my head, I'm running the camera thinking this is a
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Speaker 1: done deal. We just you know, killed Ross's number one
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Speaker 1: Hitlassuck in Kentucky this year. And I'm sure Ross had
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Speaker 1: some similar thoughts in the said and we just needed
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Speaker 1: them to turn broadside, and he did turn broadside, and
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Speaker 1: as he did, Um, Ross didn't want to take a
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Speaker 1: walking shot, which is totally understandable from my perspective, and
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Speaker 1: he just kind of had him real quick to stop him.
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Speaker 1: And the second he heard that, he took off running
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Speaker 1: and Ross didn't get the shot. And we've never ended
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Speaker 1: up killing that deer. So it just shows you, uh,
11:05
Speaker 1: you know, if you think you got all figured out
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Speaker 1: and you think you got one on the bag and
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Speaker 1: you know both, the fact of the reality of bow
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Speaker 1: hunting is that that's not the case and you should
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Speaker 1: never think like that. And um, it's a game of
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Speaker 1: extreme highs and extreme lows and that was definitely an
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Speaker 1: is Mike Fitzgerald in Minnesota with bow Hunter Die and
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Speaker 1: bow Hunting dot Com. Now, Mike in Minnesota, what would
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Speaker 1: you say the bucket activity has been lately on a
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Speaker 1: scale of one to ten? Uh skill one to ten,
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Speaker 1: I'd probably say the last a couple of weeks, i'd
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Speaker 1: put it probably five or six. Um, it has been slow,
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Speaker 1: but we're starting to see a little bit of maybe
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Speaker 1: secondary road activity. I was visiting something emily down in
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Speaker 1: this Deluse area and we actually watched a young buck
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Speaker 1: chase a doll red through my brother's backyard. So, um,
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Speaker 1: there's there's still a little bit of activity going on,
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Speaker 1: but we're definitely shifting into those late season patterns. Now,
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Speaker 1: you live in northern Minnesota in the Big Woods. What
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Speaker 1: does the wintering ground there look like for deer and
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Speaker 1: what do those food sources look like as to pull
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Speaker 1: some what they look like back in October or November. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: the you know this time of year, they were starting
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Speaker 1: to get snow depps where it's harder for them to
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Speaker 1: paw their way down to the ground. So um, even
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Speaker 1: in areas where there are food plots, the ground getting frozen,
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Speaker 1: getting harder for them to attain those food sources. So
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Speaker 1: we're starting to switch over to uh, really woody browse. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, clear cuts are golden this time of year.
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Speaker 1: If you get a three or four year old clear cut,
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Speaker 1: there's a ton of brows in there for him. Um.
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Speaker 1: And then there's usually along those edges you get some
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Speaker 1: copper too. And so when the cold weather moves through. Um,
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Speaker 1: that's that's a great place to be. Now in the
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Speaker 1: big woods. Do you see the deer bunch up as
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Speaker 1: they would in some place like Iowa or Illinois. Uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it can be you know, it can be very very
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Speaker 1: different in a small geographical area. Um, right where I am,
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Speaker 1: which is just a couple of miles south of the
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Speaker 1: town of Ely, we have a bunch of these clear
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Speaker 1: cuts around here. There's a ton of good white tail
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Speaker 1: habit a lot of prowds for them. Um. But you
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Speaker 1: go ten fifteen miles north of me, towards into the
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Speaker 1: boundary waters, and there's areas that the deer completely vacate
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Speaker 1: during the winter. Um. And then you get some big
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Speaker 1: wintering yards. Um. There's a couple of different big wintering
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Speaker 1: yard areas nearby here too, and so some of the deer,
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Speaker 1: some of the deer stay put um. But but there's
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Speaker 1: a number of them that all that will completely migrate
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Speaker 1: out of an area for the entire winter. Now, with
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Speaker 1: the big woods hunting bigger than they are, do you
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Speaker 1: have trouble with gun pressure? Really surpris ive seen the
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Speaker 1: deer movement or is you don't feel that as much
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Speaker 1: there in northern Minnesota. Um. I wouldn't say it's as
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Speaker 1: much up here. I mean relative to during the bow season.
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Speaker 1: It's it's you know, it's definitely an increase. But Honestly,
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Speaker 1: in the nine ten years that I've been hunting exclusively
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Speaker 1: up here, UM, I've only seen while I've been out hunting,
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Speaker 1: I've only seen a rifle hunter in the woods probably
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Speaker 1: three times that whole time. So UM, I've certainly compared
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Speaker 1: to the vast majority of hunters across our beautiful country.
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Speaker 1: I don't have much to complain about, but it's still
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Speaker 1: definitely it's more pressure than they're they're used to getting,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of times they can be a lot
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Speaker 1: more susceptible to that pressure too, they you know, and
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Speaker 1: they they just have a lot of areas to rome,
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Speaker 1: So if they have a bad encounter somewhere, they can,
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Speaker 1: you know, just as easily take a half mile route
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Speaker 1: different direction to get to wherever they're going. So, but
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Speaker 1: you guys are capable of reaching some really uncomfortable temperatures
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Speaker 1: up there. Uh, how do you think that affects the
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Speaker 1: deer movement when you hit those negatives and everything blows zero?
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Speaker 1: You know, like any creature, they acclimate to um the
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Speaker 1: temperatures around them, so you know, late in the winter
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Speaker 1: it doesn't affect them nearly as much. But this coming
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Speaker 1: week we have a big cold front moving through. UM.
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Speaker 1: This morning when I woke up, it was thirties degrees.
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Speaker 1: By Tuesday are high is negative ten, So we got
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Speaker 1: a big cold front. It's going to be the first
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Speaker 1: real deep freeze that we've had for the season. UM,
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Speaker 1: and for those first few it's kind of like the
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Speaker 1: first snowfall of the season. The very first one. A
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Speaker 1: lot of times bill shut down for you know, a
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Speaker 1: short period of time. UM, So they're gonna hold tight.
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Speaker 1: They'll find some sit cover that helped keep the wind
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Speaker 1: off of them, to help keep the snow off of them. Um,
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Speaker 1: and that helped maybe retain a little bit of heat. Um.
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Speaker 1: And they'll start betting more on those uh self facing slopes.
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Speaker 1: So when the sun does come up, they warm quickly,
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Speaker 1: but it flows it down. But it's only temporary. And
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Speaker 1: like I said, by the you know, another month from now,
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Speaker 1: we get those temperatures and they won't think anything of it. Well,
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Speaker 1: you just reference this coming week. How do you think
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Speaker 1: that's going to look on a scale of one to
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Speaker 1: ten for buck movement there in northern Minnesota. UM, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna probably say this next week, despite the cold, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna say probably a seven. Um. Like I said, we're
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Speaker 1: starting to see a little bit of evidence of maybe
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Speaker 1: a secondary rock going on. And once they you know,
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Speaker 1: bunker down, hunker down for that first twenty four hours
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Speaker 1: or so that cold snap. Um, it's just gonna concentrate
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Speaker 1: their movement following that. So UM, I think it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a good week to get out there and and
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Speaker 1: still that freezer alright, Mike, Well, good luck with those
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Speaker 1: last tags that you have in good luck staying warm
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Speaker 1: as well. Thanks for joining me. I appreciate it, Spencer,
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Speaker 1: I have a good one alright, and joining me on
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Speaker 1: the line. Next is Brett Joy out of New Hampshire
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Speaker 1: from Parallel for the three in the white Tail factor. Now,
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Speaker 1: Brett in New Hampshire, what would you say the buck
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Speaker 1: activity has been lately on a scale of one to ten,
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Speaker 1: Let's say it's about the five. I think it's it's
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Speaker 1: we're especially in New Hampshire, We're gonna an interesting time
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Speaker 1: frame because the deer have been pressured for the better
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Speaker 1: part of six weeks with musloader and rightful season. UM.
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Speaker 1: I will say the season just ended, so UM just
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Speaker 1: may not be super pertinent to this year, but maybe
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Speaker 1: next year or if there's some surrounding states that are
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Speaker 1: still open, might be ultimate information. But I think a
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Speaker 1: lot of the surrounding states are in similar situations. The
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Speaker 1: Northeast traditionally has very long done seasons to the rut
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Speaker 1: that extended in December UM with no break. So I
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Speaker 1: think that there's kind of three key things here. The
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Speaker 1: person's pressure is trying to find areas that haven't been pressured.
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Speaker 1: Um where the deer movie uh naturally in and you
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Speaker 1: know what's out without the intense pressure. If you can
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Speaker 1: find those areas, UM, the buck activity is going to
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Speaker 1: be definitely higher. UM. My property I hunt in New Hampshire,
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Speaker 1: I had uh a few mature bucks using using that
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Speaker 1: property here at the end of the season and using
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Speaker 1: my food plots, but there was all after dark or
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Speaker 1: right at dark. So UM, I have a lot of
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Speaker 1: gun pressure on that area and that definitely had an
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Speaker 1: impact on that movement. So UM, if you're hunting pressured
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Speaker 1: areas and you can't find out of those boxes are unpressured,
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Speaker 1: your movement is probably gonna be lower than five. UM.
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Speaker 1: If you can find an unpressured pocket a good food source,
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Speaker 1: your activity contentionally higher than five. The other thing that
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Speaker 1: I've got some reports on his second run activity, which
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Speaker 1: does occur, and so that kind of throws a curveball
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Speaker 1: of the mix. But the good thing about that is
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Speaker 1: I think that most of that centered around at the
18:39
Speaker 1: food patterns anyway, So those bucks are gonna be coming
18:41
Speaker 1: to food to check, you know, funds that might be
18:45
Speaker 1: coming in for the first time. Um So, if you can,
18:48
Speaker 1: I don't think you your your strategy will change much.
18:52
Speaker 1: That's just something to be aware of. You might see
18:54
Speaker 1: some activity. And actually I just funded in Ohio this
18:57
Speaker 1: past weekend. I see a lot of the same stuff
18:58
Speaker 1: in the northeast I do. In all Iowa, we saw
19:01
Speaker 1: multiple blocks checking does and coming to food sources following does.
19:04
Speaker 1: Even I stoppix five little deer that I was trying
19:06
Speaker 1: to kill and he was on a dough and this
19:08
Speaker 1: was two nights ago. Um So I've heard similar reports
19:12
Speaker 1: to that. So you can still get some of that
19:13
Speaker 1: daylight activity if you if you get a bucket clocked
19:16
Speaker 1: on the dough or coming to check on the dough,
19:17
Speaker 1: so that may be a factor will get them to
19:20
Speaker 1: come come to food. Uh and during daylight, especially if
19:23
Speaker 1: you don't have a scen area, that's one highly pressured.
19:26
Speaker 1: Well let's say hypothetically that you have a tag and
19:29
Speaker 1: there's just a couple of days of the season coming
19:31
Speaker 1: up here near in the Northeast and you have not
19:34
Speaker 1: been out hunting since maybe like Thanksgiving. What would your
19:37
Speaker 1: set up look like and how did would it differ
19:39
Speaker 1: from you know, like three weeks ago versus now, if
19:42
Speaker 1: you haven't been out in a while, UM, I would
19:45
Speaker 1: be focused on food sources. UM. Food and betting. Betting
19:50
Speaker 1: may come into account if the deer on getting to
19:52
Speaker 1: the food sources during daylight hours. If they aren't doing that,
19:56
Speaker 1: then I'd be trying to backtrack them during betting. The
19:58
Speaker 1: really really great thing we have a lot of the
20:01
Speaker 1: northeast has right now with snow cover snowfall. UM. So
20:06
Speaker 1: if you can get to a food source and maybe
20:08
Speaker 1: a field, maybe a crop field, UM, probably not a
20:10
Speaker 1: crop field if you're in New England, but um a
20:13
Speaker 1: food plot or uh an oak flat or an oak
20:16
Speaker 1: ridge or anything maybe even a clear cut that's grown
20:18
Speaker 1: up with you know, good brows. If you can find
20:20
Speaker 1: that preferred food source, you're gonna see a ton of tracks.
20:23
Speaker 1: It's on droppings in those right in the food source. UM.
20:26
Speaker 1: And if you're not seeing it, maybe STI at a
20:28
Speaker 1: night or two. If you're not seeing anything there during
20:30
Speaker 1: daylight and you know it's been pressure, I could backtrack
20:33
Speaker 1: those tracks back to the betting or and you're gonna
20:35
Speaker 1: find pretty quickly where they're coming from. This time of year,
20:38
Speaker 1: they're not going to be moving that far um from
20:40
Speaker 1: food to bed. So it's gonna be pretty easy to
20:42
Speaker 1: figure out, I'd say, And if you can get in
20:44
Speaker 1: between the food and bed, you're gonna be in good shape. Um.
20:48
Speaker 1: And the closure to bedding on pressure geer the better.
20:52
Speaker 1: I'd also be watching the window obviously, but i'd be
20:54
Speaker 1: very aggressive. It's on a deer on a battern. Um,
20:57
Speaker 1: you don't have much of the season left to go,
20:59
Speaker 1: and after maybely don't wait. This is not the time
21:01
Speaker 1: where you can wait if you you don't have a
21:03
Speaker 1: limited days left. And here in a pattern, so a
21:05
Speaker 1: little bit different situation than maybe if I was in
21:07
Speaker 1: the Midwest where it had several weeks left and um,
21:11
Speaker 1: you know, ample time to hot well this year or historically,
21:15
Speaker 1: have you seen much for scribing for signmaking in mid December?
21:19
Speaker 1: I do. I do see UM signmaking uh fox making
21:23
Speaker 1: sign in December mid December traditionally that's actually been a
21:28
Speaker 1: fairly good time year to see that. Maybe not as
21:30
Speaker 1: prevalent as late October, but UM our rout in New
21:34
Speaker 1: Hamps are our primary writer, our first rout. Usually I
21:36
Speaker 1: won't say it's later than anywhere else, and we see
21:38
Speaker 1: a lot more activity later maybe than some other places.
21:41
Speaker 1: So you know, it's really hot from Thanksgiving through the
21:44
Speaker 1: first few days of December. Um, so you're gonna we
21:47
Speaker 1: see a lot of signs. Then there may be a
21:49
Speaker 1: little all there, but then you have kind of the
21:51
Speaker 1: dose that have coming late and then those those yearlines
21:53
Speaker 1: coming in mid December again for the second rut, so
21:56
Speaker 1: they almost kind of run together. So you'll see activity,
22:00
Speaker 1: uh you know, right, activity as far as signmaking, rubs
22:02
Speaker 1: and scrapes really through most of December. Obviously that can
22:07
Speaker 1: be anecdotal. Not every property is going to have that,
22:10
Speaker 1: but I'm not at all surprised to see you know,
22:11
Speaker 1: a fresh scrape in the snow or rub um with
22:14
Speaker 1: you know, hemlock, uh shavings on the top of the snow.
22:17
Speaker 1: I found that all the time at the summer going forward.
22:20
Speaker 1: Then in this next week or so, what do you
22:22
Speaker 1: think that buckettvity is going to be on a scale
22:24
Speaker 1: of one to ten, I think it's gonna probably remain
22:29
Speaker 1: pretty consistent for the next week or so. Like I said,
22:31
Speaker 1: that second right, activity will still be there. Um, it's
22:34
Speaker 1: still gonna be of you know, the name of the
22:36
Speaker 1: game will be finding food and bed and trying to
22:38
Speaker 1: figure out how they're relating to each other and how
22:41
Speaker 1: they're moving between the two and obviously whether it will help.
22:43
Speaker 1: The more snow and the more cold, the more of
22:45
Speaker 1: a pattern they're gonna be on, and I think the
22:47
Speaker 1: more daylight active will be all right, Brett will great,
22:51
Speaker 1: intel and good luck and whatever's left to your season.
22:53
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24:27
Speaker 1: Out of Georgia, the director of communications with q d
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Speaker 1: M A. Now, Lindsay and Georgia. What would you say
24:33
Speaker 1: the buck activities been lately on a scale of one
24:35
Speaker 1: to ten uh Spencer where I've been over the last
24:39
Speaker 1: two weeks, it's been fairly low. UM, like a two
24:43
Speaker 1: or three. We're post rut at this point in most
24:45
Speaker 1: of the areas of of the of Georgia that I
24:48
Speaker 1: hunt in Southeast Georgia, Central Georgia and North Georgia. UM,
24:52
Speaker 1: and it's UM, it's been very low buck activity. Um, yeah,
24:57
Speaker 1: it's been kind of tough. Actually, Well, lindsay, how about
25:00
Speaker 1: the rest of the state or there's some areas that
25:02
Speaker 1: should be expecting to see some rutting activities soon. Yeah,
25:06
Speaker 1: in southwest Georgia, the southwestern corner of the state, it
25:09
Speaker 1: kind of blends in with some of that late rut
25:11
Speaker 1: activity you see in Alabama and into Mississippi. Most folks
25:15
Speaker 1: know that, um patches of those states see a very
25:18
Speaker 1: late rut often even into January and even February in
25:20
Speaker 1: some areas. So Southwest Georgia uh fits into that that
25:24
Speaker 1: puzzle and has kind of a December rut. So even
25:28
Speaker 1: right now is we're speaking, they should be based on
25:30
Speaker 1: all the data I've ever seen on that, you know,
25:32
Speaker 1: the ruts should be happening in some of the southwestern
25:34
Speaker 1: Georgia counties. I haven't hunted down there or talked to
25:37
Speaker 1: anyone there this year, but um, they should be right
25:40
Speaker 1: on uh schedule right about now, or if not, maybe
25:44
Speaker 1: you know a little behind the peak of the rut there.
25:47
Speaker 1: But for most of the state, we are well into
25:50
Speaker 1: to post rut at this point. For the rest of
25:53
Speaker 1: the state that's in that post rut. What are some
25:56
Speaker 1: of the favorite food sources to focus on this time
25:58
Speaker 1: of year? You know, uh, that would be any of
26:01
Speaker 1: the cool season plots that that have been planted for deer,
26:04
Speaker 1: particularly the brassicas like rape kale, turnips, radishes, um which
26:11
Speaker 1: most folks that do food plots know that those leafy
26:14
Speaker 1: green plots uh tend to become more attractive to deer
26:17
Speaker 1: after they've been hit by a good hard frost, and
26:19
Speaker 1: most of the state at this point has had that.
26:23
Speaker 1: Even in South Georgia where my family's farm is, we
26:26
Speaker 1: got some pretty good frosts a couple of weeks ago
26:28
Speaker 1: in uh in late November. It's gotten a little warmer
26:31
Speaker 1: here lately, but those those crops, if you have them,
26:34
Speaker 1: are now coming into the you know, pretty well attractive phase.
26:38
Speaker 1: You know, if you planted win or wheat, or oats
26:41
Speaker 1: or rye, it would be the same. If you have
26:43
Speaker 1: standing soybeans you left, or standing corn, of course those
26:46
Speaker 1: are gonna be attractive to um. Another food source right
26:50
Speaker 1: now that deer seemed to be turning back to in
26:52
Speaker 1: many areas are any acorn in the red oak family,
26:56
Speaker 1: which would be your southern red oaks, water oaks, laurel oaks, uh,
27:01
Speaker 1: cherry bark oak things like that, UM, white oaks. Of course,
27:05
Speaker 1: as we know acorns and the white oak, they tend
27:07
Speaker 1: to be more attractive to deer and get gone faster.
27:10
Speaker 1: They are gone now, UM, and or they are beneath
27:14
Speaker 1: the leaf leader and have germinated, so they're not of
27:16
Speaker 1: interest to dear anymore. But those red oak acorns are
27:19
Speaker 1: still in the ground, still viable. UM. They have not sprouted,
27:23
Speaker 1: They don't sprout to the spring, and they keep longer
27:25
Speaker 1: because they have a higher tannic acid level. So now
27:28
Speaker 1: deer are turning to those where they have them. So
27:31
Speaker 1: if you've got water oaks or other red oak species
27:34
Speaker 1: uh in your hunting area, check those areas out again
27:38
Speaker 1: and see if you aren't seeing some patterns there with
27:41
Speaker 1: all of these food source of spencer. Though, the key
27:44
Speaker 1: now is going to be hunting pressure. If these areas
27:47
Speaker 1: that I'm talking about, if you've got brassicas or winter
27:49
Speaker 1: wheat or an area with red okay corns or whatever
27:53
Speaker 1: that might be, but you've been hunting it all the
27:56
Speaker 1: past several weeks through the rut and everything, UM, I
27:59
Speaker 1: really doubt them. See much activity in those areas you
28:02
Speaker 1: you really need to find some food horses now that
28:04
Speaker 1: have not been hunted or or at areas that have
28:07
Speaker 1: not been hunted, because you know, late season like this
28:10
Speaker 1: pressure becomes a big factor. Um, I'm I'm looking, you know,
28:14
Speaker 1: basing that on several food plots that I've got uh
28:18
Speaker 1: cameras and and been hunting. You know. My I've got
28:21
Speaker 1: a multi mobile album on one food plot that I
28:23
Speaker 1: hunted over the weekend. Uh and and some other friends hunted.
28:26
Speaker 1: No daylight deer activity was seen in those plots that
28:30
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, But I'm getting trail camera pictures as
28:32
Speaker 1: soon as we get in to camp of deer coming
28:36
Speaker 1: in after dark and through the night. So, but those
28:39
Speaker 1: plots were hunted, you know, through hunting seasons. So again
28:42
Speaker 1: I think back over your historical pressure this season, try
28:45
Speaker 1: to to you know, over these for the rest of
28:48
Speaker 1: the season. Really the patterns should be any food sources
28:52
Speaker 1: you can find that have not already been heavily hunted. Well, Indy,
28:56
Speaker 1: there's a lot of theories and a lot of lower
28:58
Speaker 1: out there from hunters on this secondary of rods. Now,
29:01
Speaker 1: what is science and qtmy say about the secondaria rod. Yeah,
29:05
Speaker 1: it's it's a real thing. Generally, what it is spencer
29:08
Speaker 1: is doe fons those that were born this year, that
29:12
Speaker 1: were born early enough or had good enough resources where
29:16
Speaker 1: they lived to reach a critical body weight uh during
29:20
Speaker 1: fall and and even during December. And in the south
29:24
Speaker 1: that's about seventy pounds on the hoof. In the north
29:26
Speaker 1: it's more in the range of about eighty pounds. Doe
29:30
Speaker 1: fonds that again had the right conditions and we're able
29:32
Speaker 1: to hit that body side before we really get into winter,
29:36
Speaker 1: will come into estrus for the first time, and it
29:40
Speaker 1: is often late. It doesn't usually happen with the peak
29:42
Speaker 1: of the rut. It's usually in December, UH for areas
29:45
Speaker 1: that normally have a November peak rut, and that can
29:49
Speaker 1: often create a you know, little flurry of rut activity.
29:53
Speaker 1: Bucks can you know, even though their testosterone levels might
29:56
Speaker 1: have been beginning to drop off, the present of those
30:00
Speaker 1: estrus dough pons will spike their interest again physiologically, they
30:06
Speaker 1: can kind of crank back up. So you might see chasing, uh.
30:10
Speaker 1: You might hear grunning and vocalizations and does running from
30:13
Speaker 1: bucks and and bucks even fighting over these do phons.
30:17
Speaker 1: So generally, when hunters are seeing that. Uh, it's not
30:20
Speaker 1: so much a true second rut as it is these
30:22
Speaker 1: do phons coming into estrus. You can have adult does
30:25
Speaker 1: that did not get bred on the first cycle coming
30:28
Speaker 1: back in thirty days later. But generally in most areas,
30:31
Speaker 1: bucket do ratios today are are in pretty good shape.
30:34
Speaker 1: And most of the quote second rut that you're seeing
30:37
Speaker 1: is those do phons, you know, particularly in areas where
30:40
Speaker 1: you've got good habitat and good herd management. That's that's
30:43
Speaker 1: what is causing that. All right, lindsay, well, good luck
30:46
Speaker 1: and what's left for your season, and thanks for joining me, Spencer,
30:49
Speaker 1: thanks so much. Good luck to you too, alright and
30:52
Speaker 1: joining us on the line. Last is Mike han Sucker
30:55
Speaker 1: from Hartland bow Hunter in Missouri. Now Mike in Missouri.
30:58
Speaker 1: What would you say the bucket he has been lately
31:00
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten, Oh man, it's
31:04
Speaker 1: been pretty pretty poor. I would say, uh, maybe a three.
31:08
Speaker 1: I price say, yeah, I mean the main thing this time, Yeah,
31:11
Speaker 1: you know that we need for buck activities cold weather.
31:14
Speaker 1: We got the food and they're you know, they're trying
31:18
Speaker 1: to get built back up from the long rut um.
31:21
Speaker 1: But if we don't get the cold one. At the book,
31:22
Speaker 1: activity at least in daylight is pretty minimal, So I'm
31:27
Speaker 1: looking forward to some cool weather on the way. Right now.
31:29
Speaker 1: We just touched on food sources there. What are some
31:32
Speaker 1: of your favorite food sources to haunt this time of
31:34
Speaker 1: year in Missouri? Uh? Really, you know, my favorite food
31:40
Speaker 1: towards this time of year is probably corn. Um. We
31:42
Speaker 1: leave a lot of corn standing. And it's been five
31:45
Speaker 1: or six years ago Missouri, Uh, changing the regulations to
31:48
Speaker 1: where you could have can manipulate the crops so we
31:50
Speaker 1: can plant corn and then brush hucking down. And that's
31:54
Speaker 1: been a really effective statisy for us trying to sew
31:57
Speaker 1: white season with a bow and arrow. Um, you know
31:59
Speaker 1: we can. We can put a hay bail blind and
32:04
Speaker 1: put in the corn. We can mow about you know,
32:06
Speaker 1: fifty black fifty square and and uh, you know most
32:09
Speaker 1: of you are gonna be within bow range. So it's
32:10
Speaker 1: pretty effective way to give him a nice and close
32:13
Speaker 1: way season. No, have you noticed the change in bedding
32:16
Speaker 1: this time of year as supposed of what it was
32:18
Speaker 1: back mid November during their run. Uh, God of depends
32:21
Speaker 1: on the area. Um. The food sources that do have
32:25
Speaker 1: quality bedding close by. Um, the here seem to be
32:28
Speaker 1: betting there, you know, not moving to terribly far from
32:30
Speaker 1: from from those food sources, but um, the food sources
32:34
Speaker 1: where you know, there's not a great the best bedding
32:36
Speaker 1: due to all the fours being off the trees, they're
32:39
Speaker 1: still still sticking to you know, some of the tighter,
32:41
Speaker 1: a little sick areas. But you know, they definitely this
32:44
Speaker 1: time year, they definitely prefer to travel less. It seems
32:47
Speaker 1: like well from your social media, looks like you've been
32:50
Speaker 1: on some dope patrol lately and on those haunts. Have
32:53
Speaker 1: you seen any kind of secondary rutting activity. Um, I've
32:57
Speaker 1: seen a little bit, a little bit of a little
32:59
Speaker 1: bit of bumping around chasing UM nothing the we need
33:02
Speaker 1: to pick that it was a dough. There was in
33:04
Speaker 1: heat for sure, maybe mainly just you know, younger blocks
33:06
Speaker 1: messing around. But UM, I have on some sail cameras.
33:09
Speaker 1: UM it's been I don't know, probably a week or
33:12
Speaker 1: ten days ago. UM had a buck that that was
33:15
Speaker 1: locked down with the dough that wouldn't leaving her. UM,
33:17
Speaker 1: and she was it was actually a faun. So assuming
33:19
Speaker 1: she was coming coming in the heat for the first
33:21
Speaker 1: time this year. Uh, and uh he was on her
33:25
Speaker 1: when wouldn't I wouldn't leaving her aside? So what weather
33:28
Speaker 1: patterns in particular? Are you looking forward late season like
33:31
Speaker 1: this just cold weather in general, or would you like
33:33
Speaker 1: some snow as well or maybe some wind? Yeah, I
33:37
Speaker 1: mean cold cold weather is is the number one thing
33:40
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Um. But also it doesn't hurt to
33:42
Speaker 1: have snow, especially we we have a lot of standing
33:45
Speaker 1: beans as well, and and um, you know, anytime he
33:48
Speaker 1: gets any time to get over the snow cover, it
33:51
Speaker 1: covers up all the other available food sources that it
33:53
Speaker 1: is laying on the ground. And so standing crops really
33:55
Speaker 1: good hot that time of year. So um, you know it.
33:58
Speaker 1: It just depends on what you have available with food sources.
34:01
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean cold and snow, and in high
34:05
Speaker 1: pressure you get a combination of all those and and
34:08
Speaker 1: it's magical. Uh be touched on the wind to the
34:10
Speaker 1: wind is another big thing that that. Uh, it's just
34:14
Speaker 1: it's been been brutal lately for us. We've had some
34:17
Speaker 1: you know, decent steady winds and then last night I
34:19
Speaker 1: just die And then, um, I mean good deer are
34:22
Speaker 1: so skinnis this time of year. You know, everything's loud
34:24
Speaker 1: and cutchy, and there's no vegetation and they've been hunted
34:27
Speaker 1: all year and so you know, really having a nice
34:29
Speaker 1: steady wind it really will help, um cover up some
34:33
Speaker 1: of that any noises and help us make the deer
34:36
Speaker 1: feel more comfortable for whatever reason, you know, you think
34:39
Speaker 1: they would be, Um, you know, you think they'd be
34:42
Speaker 1: more calm when it's when the wind is calm and
34:44
Speaker 1: they can hear really well. But when you know, a
34:46
Speaker 1: nice steady ten mile r wind or whatever, that seems
34:48
Speaker 1: to be the the time when there's you know, the
34:50
Speaker 1: most the most calm, and they're in there in their elements. Well,
34:54
Speaker 1: I know you still have a buck tag and your
34:55
Speaker 1: wife and and Sean as well, and with us approaching
34:58
Speaker 1: you know the last thirt is it the season? Will
35:01
Speaker 1: you do anything really aggressive like hunting mornings at this point?
35:04
Speaker 1: Will you stick strictly with the evenings? Yeah, we don't.
35:08
Speaker 1: I don't mess with the morning's really really much this
35:11
Speaker 1: time of year. Um, I would if I had something
35:14
Speaker 1: to leave me to believe that, you know, be able
35:16
Speaker 1: to kill a buck in the morning. Um, it's just tough.
35:19
Speaker 1: Like I said, with a short travel from food to bed. Um,
35:23
Speaker 1: and a lot of times you know they're they're going
35:24
Speaker 1: back to bed not as before before daylight. So um,
35:29
Speaker 1: it just makes it difficult. So um, don't mess too
35:32
Speaker 1: much with the mornings. But as far as getting aggressive,
35:34
Speaker 1: I mean, um, you know, yeah, we we definitely you know,
35:37
Speaker 1: when it gets down to the wire, we try to
35:39
Speaker 1: try to make it count. But uh, you know, a
35:41
Speaker 1: lot a lot of times we're relying heavily on trail cameras,
35:44
Speaker 1: are just waiting for everything to be right because access
35:47
Speaker 1: is super cup this time of year without bumping the year.
35:49
Speaker 1: So um, you know, got hunt hunt smarter, not harder.
35:53
Speaker 1: We're going forward. Then is next week or so? I'm like,
35:55
Speaker 1: what do you think that bucket activity will be on
35:57
Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten in Missouri over the
36:01
Speaker 1: next week. I would say it's gonna skyrocket. Um, we
36:04
Speaker 1: have our first real solid told front coming through looks
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Speaker 1: like and uh, I have to say it's probably gonna
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Speaker 1: be probably an eight. I'd give it a nine or
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Speaker 1: ten if we had a bunch of snow coming. But um,
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Speaker 1: you know, highs in the thirties, loads and the tunes
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Speaker 1: um all coinciding with Christmas so we're gonna be uh
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Speaker 1: having a dip out on some Christmas parties and stuff,
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Speaker 1: but no, uh, we'll uh, we'll make sure that we
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Speaker 1: do our best to get get get in the roads
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Speaker 1: to capitalize on the cold front. But hopefully it's not
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Speaker 1: gonna shoot back up. I mean we've had some you know,
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Speaker 1: the past couple of weeks and fifty sixty degree days
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Speaker 1: on on a regular basis. I mean it's just now
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Speaker 1: dropping into the upper forties right now, and the fun
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Speaker 1: has been down for about an hour, so it's uh,
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Speaker 1: it's been unfeasibly warm. Alright, Mike, Well, I like your
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Speaker 1: optimism and I hope that translate to some tags paunch
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Speaker 1: for for Harlem bow hunters. So thanks for joining me. Yeah,
36:54
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Luck everybody, all right, before we move on,
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