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Ep. 1087: Foundations - Rut Calling Tactics That Actually Work on Mature Bucks · Wired To Hunt Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired2Hunt Foundations Podcast, your guide to the
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  Speaker 1: fundamentals of better deer hunting. Presented by First Light, creating proven,
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  Speaker 1: go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Tony Peterson.
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  Speaker 2: Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired2Hunt Foundations Podcast, which is
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  Speaker 2: brought to you by First Light. I'm your host, Tony Peterson,
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  Speaker 2: and today's episode is all about rattling, grunting, bleeding, and
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  Speaker 2: snort-wheezing during the rut. When it comes to turkey hunting,
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  Speaker 2: spring and fall, I'm more of a more is more.
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  Speaker 3: Guy when it comes to calling.
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  Speaker 2: I love saying a lot to turkeys, and I honestly
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  Speaker 2: don't think you can over call if you know what
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  Speaker 2: you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: But when it comes to deer, I'm not so vocal.
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  Speaker 2: I don't love making audio contact with bucks until it's
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  Speaker 2: the right situation. But when it is, it can be
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  Speaker 2: almost unfair to them. Knowing the difference is important, and
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  Speaker 2: it's what I'm going to talk about right now. I
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  Speaker 2: think there is a world of animal communication that we
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  Speaker 2: can't possibly begin to understand.
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  Speaker 3: Think about vervet monkeys, for example.
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  Speaker 2: These little primates have different alarm calls that they use
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  Speaker 2: when they see eagles or leopards or snakes. So when
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  Speaker 2: one of them sounds a specific alarm, say the eagle alarm,
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  Speaker 2: other monkeys will instantly look up to the sky. If
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  Speaker 2: they sound the snake alarm, they'll look toward the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Chimpanzees produce a variety of different calls too, some of
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  Speaker 2: which are tied to food sources. They will vary the
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  Speaker 2: frequency and tone of their grunts to signal different types
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  Speaker 2: of food and even the quality of the foods they find.
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  Speaker 2: Chimps also use contact calls to help individuals maintain some
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  Speaker 2: cohesion in their groups when they're out in thick vegetation
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  Speaker 2: or they have some distance between one another. They often
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  Speaker 2: seem to coordinate movements by calling to one another, which
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  Speaker 2: if you think about it is pretty freaking cool. Primates
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  Speaker 2: of all stripes use a variety of vocalizations, but what's
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  Speaker 2: interesting is that they also use a hell of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of inflections. Now, you know, kind of a half-assed,
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  Speaker 2: there's a leopard around type of warning won't get the
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  Speaker 2: group's attention quite like one that is full of obvious excitement.
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  Speaker 2: Think about how humans communicate and how much tone and
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  Speaker 2: inflection can change the meaning of words. Language isn't just
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  Speaker 2: a static way to communicate some information. It's a way
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  Speaker 2: to influence others to do things and react. Whether that's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get the hell out of somewhere or purely
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  Speaker 2: for entertainment. Now think about deers. Have you ever heard
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  Speaker 2: a buck grunting as he, you know, kind of cruised
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  Speaker 2: along searching for does? It's pretty cool, but it almost
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  Speaker 2: sounds involuntary, like a dog whining, you know, maybe a
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  Speaker 2: lab whining in a duck blind. Like someone talking to themself,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as he walks down the sidewalk. The words
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  Speaker 2: are there and they might convey something, but in the
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  Speaker 2: overall context of the situation, it seems like they're almost meaningless.
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  Speaker 2: Now imagine a buck standing in the timber who sees
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  Speaker 2: a different buck or maybe a sexy doe in a
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  Speaker 2: field and and he grunts directly at that other deer,
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  Speaker 2: that call is going to sound different because it has
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  Speaker 2: some inflection to it. It has intention to it. I
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  Speaker 2: guess maybe another way to look at this is a
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  Speaker 2: light sparring session between two bucks versus a full-blown buck brawl.
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  Speaker 2: You can mimic either with a set of rattling antlers,
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  Speaker 2: but you're definitely not conveying the same message. There is
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  Speaker 2: nothing more exciting than trying to call in a buck.
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  Speaker 2: I truly believe that. It's so rare and so surprising
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  Speaker 2: and so dang exciting. It's also much easier to call
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  Speaker 2: and get either no response or a negative response than
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  Speaker 2: it is to get a positive one. There's also sort
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  Speaker 2: of a hierarchy to calling that should be understood. And
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  Speaker 2: the lowest tier there is a doe bleat. I've killed
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  Speaker 2: a lot of young bucks with a doe bleat and
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  Speaker 2: have never killed a big buck with one. But I
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  Speaker 2: also don't doe bleat two big bucks hardly ever. So
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  Speaker 2: that's probably why. A doe bleat or a plaintive little
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  Speaker 2: fawn bleat is the safest call you can make. It's
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  Speaker 2: non-threatening to all bucks, and is a call that doe
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  Speaker 2: groups make to one another fairly often. If you see
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  Speaker 2: a little buck any time of the season that you
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  Speaker 2: want to kill, or any buck in any phase of
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  Speaker 2: the rut, this is the easiest call to test the
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  Speaker 2: waters with. Now, you can make these with commercial calls,
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  Speaker 2: or you can simply use your voice and go, meee.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: When I was younger, I bleated like that to every
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  Speaker 2: little buck I saw, and a lot of them came in.
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  Speaker 2: I've had some does come into it too, but not
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  Speaker 2: very many. And I will say this, if you do
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  Speaker 2: run into a doe that has either lost her fawns
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  Speaker 2: or a fawn that has lost its mama, a bleat
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  Speaker 2: is almost like cheating. When I was in college, I
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  Speaker 2: ran into a doe that I can only assume had
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  Speaker 2: just lost her fawn because I bleated at a little
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  Speaker 2: buck while I was sitting on the ground and a
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  Speaker 2: doe that I didn't know was up the bluff from
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  Speaker 2: me came running in full tilt and I actually had
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  Speaker 2: to recoil after I drew because I thought she was
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  Speaker 2: going to go full linebacker on me. It was one
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  Speaker 2: of the wildest responses to calling I've ever had. and
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  Speaker 2: it didn't work out very well for her. If you
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  Speaker 2: want to test a buck's, or I guess any deer's,
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  Speaker 2: willingness to come into your calling, a doe bleat can
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  Speaker 2: be a good first move. Doe bleats can also really
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  Speaker 2: help you sell a calling sequence. The buck I killed
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  Speaker 2: in northern Wisconsin last year took a lot of bleats
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of grunts and a lot of snort
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  Speaker 2: wheezes to come in. And honestly, after using our Dave
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  Speaker 2: Smith doe decoy the last few seasons, I'm kind of
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  Speaker 2: wondering if I don't mostly just need to use it
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  Speaker 2: and some bleats to talk bucks in. Now either way,
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  Speaker 2: Out where the wild rut chases happen, a common scenario
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  Speaker 2: is when fawns will get separated from mom by bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Doe groups that are separated often get back together by bleeding,
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  Speaker 2: and you can bet your favorite bow that bucks know
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  Speaker 2: that dynamic well.
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  Speaker 3: And you also have grunting, which to me is somewhat
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  Speaker 3: kind of a mystery.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a ton of love for grunting, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm being honest, and that is entirely from my personal experience.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lot of people who live by grunt calls,
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  Speaker 2: and their results tell me I'm missing something. And don't
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  Speaker 2: get me wrong, I've killed some bucks by grunting at them.
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  Speaker 2: But what has never worked very well for me is
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  Speaker 2: the tending grunt. You know the one that you see
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  Speaker 2: all of the TV guys use like crazy, but you
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  Speaker 2: never actually see real bucks do? I think I've heard
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  Speaker 2: more actual buck roars than I have tending grunts. And
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  Speaker 2: believe me when I say this, I have not heard
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  Speaker 2: very many buck roars in person. Grunting is a higher
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  Speaker 2: risk proposition. but can definitely work. Now, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: hunters use it to blind call. And in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of situations, I'm sure that causes no harm. I don't
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  Speaker 2: feel like I'm in those situations very often, though. And
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  Speaker 2: I'd much rather call to deer I can see so
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  Speaker 2: I can tell if I'm doing it correctly. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: I see a buck out of range who doesn't look
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  Speaker 2: like he's going to come in and it's rut time,
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  Speaker 2: I'll give him a grunt. If he doesn't immediately start
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  Speaker 2: to walk away or look a little wiggy, I'll wait
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  Speaker 2: for him to put his head down or look away,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll grunt again. We play this game until he's
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  Speaker 2: sick of me or he comes in. I don't try
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  Speaker 2: to make it sound like a chase is happening in
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  Speaker 2: front of me, in this situation at least, because when
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  Speaker 2: deer chase, they make a lot of extra noise. I
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  Speaker 2: just feel like a buck that hears obvious tending grunts,
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  Speaker 2: but none of the other associated sounds is one that
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  Speaker 2: might have a little warning signal go off in his brain.
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  Speaker 2: I did kill a buck one time in Minnesota by
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  Speaker 2: doing some blind tending grunts because I had to break
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  Speaker 2: a branch off my tree to be able to shoot,
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  Speaker 2: and it actually worked out super well. Now, I've tried
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  Speaker 2: to repeat that performance about 10,000 times since then, and
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  Speaker 2: it hasn't worked.
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  Speaker 3: So take that for what you will.
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  Speaker 2: Grunt all you want, but maybe think about the tone
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  Speaker 2: of your grunt, the inflection you're putting into your calling sequences,
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  Speaker 2: and the fact that if you do get a response,
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  Speaker 2: he's most likely going to come in downwind. Now we
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  Speaker 2: have a contradiction that I want to talk about here,
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  Speaker 2: which is how I feel about snort wheezing versus pretty
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  Speaker 2: much everyone else I talk to or hear from. I
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  Speaker 2: don't believe for a second that snort wheezing is only
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  Speaker 2: a dominant buck call. I've seen way too many scrappers
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  Speaker 2: come into it to believe that. I don't believe it's
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  Speaker 2: only a rut call either because I've called in bucks
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  Speaker 2: in September and October and November with it. I do
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  Speaker 2: believe it is a higher risk call, but a higher
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  Speaker 2: reward call. But I wouldn't honestly say in my personal experience,
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  Speaker 2: it's any riskier than grunting at a buck. I snort
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  Speaker 2: wheeze with my mouth and it sounds like this.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. I use it a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And when I look at the racks in my trophy room,
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  Speaker 2: I can definitively say that snort wheezing has helped me
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  Speaker 2: kill more big bucks than bleeding, grunting, and rattling have combined.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably because I believe in it. But I also
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  Speaker 2: believe it's the easiest call to talk a deer into
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  Speaker 2: committing with. I have never had a buck come in
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  Speaker 2: from one snort wheeze. It has taken anywhere from probably
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  Speaker 2: five to dozens and dozens. But a buck that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get boogery by the second or third one is a
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  Speaker 2: deer that will often eventually come in. I've had multiple
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  Speaker 2: times where I've watched bucks go from seeming very natural
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  Speaker 2: and relaxed and uninterested to suddenly bristling up, turning sideways
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  Speaker 2: like a moose that's about to fight, and coming in.
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  Speaker 3: I have to say this too.
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  Speaker 2: I've had plenty of bucks just nope right on out
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  Speaker 2: when I snort wheezed at them as well.
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  Speaker 3: It's a crapshoot.
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  Speaker 2: But it's my highest confidence call, so I use it
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  Speaker 2: a lot. I think it's probably the least understood vocalization
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  Speaker 2: with deer, to be honest. I think that it's a
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  Speaker 2: challenge call, sure, but that it doesn't quite signal what
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  Speaker 2: we think it does. To me, it almost seems like
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  Speaker 2: a taunting, you want to go type of call that
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  Speaker 2: once repeated enough will spark something in bucks that they
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  Speaker 2: can't ignore. So I guess it is a challenge call,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe not the way we think. Nature is violent
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  Speaker 2: and deer are part of nature. They may look all
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  Speaker 2: passive and Bambi-like, but they have weapons on their foreheads
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  Speaker 2: for a reason. If you have a loner buck cruising
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  Speaker 2: out of range and he is not going to come in,
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  Speaker 2: give him a snort wheeze provided he won't be able
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  Speaker 2: to tell instantly that there isn't actually a deer where
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  Speaker 2: he hears the sound coming from. If he doesn't freak out,
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  Speaker 2: keep him coming. If he starts looking around and licking
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  Speaker 2: his nose, grab your bow.
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  Speaker 3: If he keeps going on his way, let him go.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how to put it any other way,
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I'm talking about calling here, and I need
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  Speaker 2: to talk about rattling. I have almost no confidence in rattling.
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  Speaker 2: I used to do it quite a bit when I
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  Speaker 2: was younger, and one time, I had a buck walk
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  Speaker 2: right up to my tree, and when I killed that
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  Speaker 2: little eight-pointer, I thought I had the.
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  Speaker 3: Whole thing figured out. Boy, was I wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I almost never get any type of reaction out of rattling,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also the call that I use blindly the most,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't really use it very often. I do
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  Speaker 2: try to sell the whole ruse when I'm rattling by
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  Speaker 2: breaking branches and making some real noise, but thus far,
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  Speaker 2: it's something that is fun to do, but mostly very unproductive.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen a noticeable difference between, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: a rattling bag and actual antlers, but some hunters swear
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  Speaker 2: by the real thing.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: I do know that when I hear other hunters rattle,
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  Speaker 2: which happens more than I'd like when I'm hunting public,
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  Speaker 2: I can almost instantly always tell that it's not real deer.
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  Speaker 2: A real buck fight contains a whole soundscape that is wild.
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  Speaker 2: I once watched two bucks fight in a valley in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 2: and it sounded like two bull moose going at it.
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  Speaker 2: They broke every branch in the valley, and honestly, the
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  Speaker 2: sounds of their bodies moving around in that timber was
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  Speaker 2: as much a part of the whole thing as the
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  Speaker 2: sound of their antlers clacking and grinding together was. I
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  Speaker 2: also had two very good bucks fight in a river
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  Speaker 2: behind my stand in North Dakota one time, and I
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  Speaker 2: still think it was the loudest thing I've heard game
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  Speaker 2: animals do besides.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe elk bugling.
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  Speaker 2: The splashing in the rocks clanking during that fight was
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  Speaker 2: just amazing, and to this day it's the one encounter
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had on film more than any others
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  Speaker 2: that I've had. So here's where we get to the
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  Speaker 2: part that I think matters the most about calling to deer.
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  Speaker 3: You have to learn what works for you.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you're in southern Texas, for example, and you
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  Speaker 2: rattle in the mesquite all day long, you might believe
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  Speaker 2: that rattling is the answer to all of your deer
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  Speaker 2: hunting woes because of the response rate. But being in
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  Speaker 2: an area with tons of bucks per square mile that
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  Speaker 2: just seem to like to scrap is a far cry
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  Speaker 2: from trying to rattle all day long on public land
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  Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania, you know, for example.
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  Speaker 3: Can that work? Sure.
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  Speaker 2: But what are your success rates really going to be like?
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  Speaker 2: That's what I want to get into to wrap this
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  Speaker 2: episode up. The things I do, I do because they've
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  Speaker 2: worked for me. It's part confidence, but also part reality
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  Speaker 2: to the places that I'm hunting. The doe decoys I
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  Speaker 2: use in northern Wisconsin might not move the needle in
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  Speaker 2: higher density areas. But where there are very few deer,
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  Speaker 2: if I can get a buck to lay eyes on
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  Speaker 2: my fake doe, he's very likely to come in. All
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  Speaker 2: this stuff's situational. I have buddies who hunt land close
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  Speaker 2: to land that I hunt. But their situation is different,
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  Speaker 2: and their calling response rate is way better. I think
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  Speaker 2: that deer that live on pressured ground hear a lot
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  Speaker 2: of calling, and they aren't nearly as likely to respond
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  Speaker 2: positively as deer on unpressured ground. I know that's not
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  Speaker 2: anything revolutionary, but think about how often we listen to
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  Speaker 2: someone call on social media or on some kind of
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  Speaker 2: video we're watching, and we try to emulate that sound
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  Speaker 2: in our home woods. We might barely be hunting on
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  Speaker 2: the same planet, metaphorically speaking. So why would our deer
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  Speaker 2: react the same way their deer do?
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  Speaker 3: They might. But what do the deer actually tell you?
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  Speaker 3: That's the most important part.
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  Speaker 2: I think back to my seminar speaking days when I
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  Speaker 2: had someone ask me if I ever used deer scents.
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  Speaker 2: I said not much because I just haven't had that
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  Speaker 2: much luck with them. And as soon as I said that,
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  Speaker 2: a guy in the crowd raised his hand and then
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  Speaker 2: told a story about how he killed a giant buck
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  Speaker 2: that walked right up to the scent wick he had
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  Speaker 2: under his stand. I asked him how many times that's worked,
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  Speaker 2: and he said, well, just that one time. and then
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  Speaker 2: he admitted that he does it every single season without
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  Speaker 2: much luck. Now, is there any harm in trying something
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  Speaker 2: like that? Maybe not, but there can certainly be harm
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  Speaker 2: attached to calling to the wrong deer. I think most
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  Speaker 2: bucks on public land, or, you know, in places with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of hunters, they're more likely to run away
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  Speaker 2: from rattling than run toward it, just as I think
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  Speaker 2: that a lot of them would be pretty skeptical to
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  Speaker 2: hear a whole bunch of grunts coming from a thicket
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  Speaker 2: with no other noise associated with it. I could also
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  Speaker 2: be wrong here. But I also believe the reason that
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  Speaker 2: I have had pretty good success nortweezing is just because
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  Speaker 2: most people don't do it very often.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody groans. Everybody rattles. But what are the deer telling you?
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  Speaker 3: How do they respond?
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  Speaker 2: And if it's using a call like that that other
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  Speaker 2: people aren't using and you get a good response rate
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  Speaker 2: out of it, you just keep going. Now, if you
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  Speaker 2: have a pretty good response rate from rattling during morning
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  Speaker 2: sits in the pre-rut, then you don't need to listen
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  Speaker 2: to what I'm saying about rattling because you have your answer.
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  Speaker 2: The deer have answered it for you. But that's different
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  Speaker 2: from trying some type of calling because it's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: work now. I don't think I could stress that enough,
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  Speaker 2: but I'll try. If you're calling because it's supposed to
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  Speaker 2: work and it mostly doesn't, or always doesn't, then the
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  Speaker 2: deer are telling you that it's the wrong thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: If you think you have your timing right and the
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  Speaker 2: conditions are decent and you still get no positive feedback
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  Speaker 2: from them, pay attention. This is no different from blind
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  Speaker 2: calling to whoever might be around to hear it on, say,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: A field edge.
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  Speaker 2: Versus getting into the thick stuff and calling to a buck,
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  Speaker 2: you can see that it's 75 yards away making a rub.
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  Speaker 2: This is stuff I talked about last week. The response
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  Speaker 2: rate will likely be much higher from one.
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  Speaker 3: Scenario over another.
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  Speaker 2: And if you want to call in bucks, you might
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  Speaker 2: have to facilitate that scenario in which calling has a
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  Speaker 2: much higher chance of working instead of using it as
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  Speaker 2: a band-aid on a sit where the odds are just
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  Speaker 2: lower for a variety of reasons. Now, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to discourage anyone from trying different calls because that's how
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  Speaker 2: you learn.
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  Speaker 3: But do yourself a favor.
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  Speaker 2: And actually try to learn from your attempts. Figure out
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  Speaker 2: what works and when, and then try to expand on that.
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  Speaker 2: That's honestly one of the coolest things about deer hunting,
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  Speaker 2: and the opportunity to go really deep on this stuff
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  Speaker 2: is right now for a hell of a lot of us,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: because the rut is fully and truly about to kick off.
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  Speaker 2: So think about that as you head into the woods,
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  Speaker 2: and think about coming back next week, because I'm going
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: to talk about why the rut is actually really spotty,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: and why even if it should be happening everywhere, the
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: best action is usually isolated to highly specific spots.
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  Speaker 3: That's it for this episode.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Tony Peterson. This has been the Wired to Hunt
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