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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, and this is episode number one Tay.

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Speaker 1: In the show, Dan and I are sharing with you

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Speaker 1: are hunting experiences from the past couple of weeks, the ups,

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Speaker 1: the downs, and the lessons learn All right, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by Sitka Gear.

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Speaker 1: And today in the show, we have two stories of

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Speaker 1: the two thousand sixteen white Tail rut. One is of

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Speaker 1: resounding success and the other is of utter despair. Come on, man,

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Speaker 1: it's not that bad. One is Dan Johnson's and one

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Speaker 1: is mine. But quickly, before we get to these stories

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Speaker 1: and lessons learned, we need to thank our partners at

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Speaker 1: podcast will be a sick of story, as all the

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Speaker 1: hunts you'll hear about today from Dan and I took

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Speaker 1: Gear dot com and now, Dan, tell me, how are

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Speaker 1: you feeling right now? WHOA yes, sir, No, man, I'm happy.

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Speaker 1: It's it's when it's just it's crazy, just so many emotions, um,

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Speaker 1: and you know things that go through your head after

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Speaker 1: you after you shoot a deer, and you know, you

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Speaker 1: think about what you've done the past, what you've done wrong,

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Speaker 1: what you've done right. Um, you know what you've you know,

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Speaker 1: and then it's like the day passes and now I'm

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Speaker 1: already thinking about two thousand seventeen. So it's just it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm I'm super excited for you. And if

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Speaker 1: anyone hasn't been following social media, they're probably freaking out

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Speaker 1: right now and wondering what exactly happened. And we will

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Speaker 1: get to that. Um, but I don't know, Dan, I

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Speaker 1: kind of want to hear about what's going on with

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Speaker 1: you first, because you've got the best stories to share.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to start from the beginning with like

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Speaker 1: way back since we last talked, and then just like

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Speaker 1: take us up through what's happened most recently with your hunts. Right. Um, sure,

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Speaker 1: oh man, when was when was the last time we talked?

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Speaker 1: Because I actually missed a buck or hit a limb

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Speaker 1: I think we we haven't talked since like the end

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Speaker 1: been like a good ten to fourteen days since we've

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Speaker 1: I go into into that one I had. I had

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Speaker 1: and she was hanging out with my mom, her grandma,

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Speaker 1: and my my stepdad that morning shot a buck on

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Speaker 1: the property that they live on. It's only seven acres

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Speaker 1: and there it was just it's just a little you know,

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Speaker 1: so I can't. I can't let you know, I can't

426
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,160
Speaker 1: get called out. You can't let that happen. I can't.

427
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 1: I can't let that happen. So luckily I did, and

428
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:49,440
Speaker 1: it was I didn't get set up until four o'clock.

429
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,880
Speaker 1: You know, I waited until the rain stopped. I left

430
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,640
Speaker 1: the house at three. I got into the stand at

431
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: four fifteen is when I looked up and I was

432
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: set up because that stand was already there. So all

433
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,040
Speaker 1: I did to climbing, climb up, strap in, and hang

434
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: my bow, and I end up seeing two doors work

435
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: their way in as I'm hooking up, but it's still

436
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: kind of missing, and they're looking up at me, but

437
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: they're not doing anything. They're not blowing, they're just kind

438
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 1: of looking up at me and they're not I think

439
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,959
Speaker 1: they're just kind of disoriented because of all the strong

440
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 1: winds and rains that had just happened, and they didn't

441
00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: really know what I was. And I was in my

442
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 1: camel up in a tree, you know, And unlike the

443
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,160
Speaker 1: other property that I hunt, these deer can be kind

444
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: of dumb when they see people in the trees because

445
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,359
Speaker 1: it's not a high pressure farm, so to speak, and

446
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 1: they end up kind of getting really really really kind

447
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: of spooked out and then not I guess, not really,

448
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: but they're getting kind of spooked out, so they're they're going,

449
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,639
Speaker 1: they're bounding away and whatever. And so I'm texting my

450
00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: buddy right here as it's drizzling, and he's like, I'm

451
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: in a I'm in a ground line right now, and

452
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: I am seeing a couple dear kind of spawn their

453
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 1: spawn with each other, kind of spar with each other.

454
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, you're you're probably hearing a kid cry

455
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 1: in the background, all right. The life of a podcaster

456
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 1: whose wife also does a daycare out of the house.

457
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: But but anyway, this um my buddies like, yeah, I'm

458
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of a lot of deer sparring. And

459
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: I text another buddies like, yeah, I just watched, you know,

460
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: to to dear kind of tickle each other's antlers. I'm like,

461
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,119
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rattle blindly, right, this is gonna be a

462
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: blind rattle. This this this uh cold front just kind

463
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,120
Speaker 1: of came through, and it wasn't really even a cold front.

464
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 1: It just rained right because the temperature stayed the same

465
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:52,880
Speaker 1: before and after it happened. And I throw the antlers

466
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: together real hard for about two minutes, and I hang

467
00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: them down. I sit down. About two minutes later, I

468
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: look over and this buck is standing at the end

469
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: of this finger in this marsh, and he's working his

470
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: way right towards me. And at that moment, at that moment,

471
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: first stop. First off, the first thing that went through

472
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: my head is you missed a buck earlier because you overreacted.

473
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: Get your ship together, right, grab the buyos. Identify the buck. Okay,

474
00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: I see it was a see it's a ten pointer alright.

475
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: Look at his body. Okay, that's a four year old. Okay,

476
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: that's the buck on the trail camera that you said

477
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: you were going to shoot buyos down. Grab the bow.

478
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this kid's going bananas room next. All right,

479
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Do you have an editing editing tool for

480
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: editing out crying babies. We don't have a crying baby

481
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:54,520
Speaker 1: edit tool, but we have we have understanding listeners. So okay,

482
00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: so this buck is is on a on a frozen

483
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: rope right right to me, like he's not trying to

484
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: walk around anything. He's he's walking back and I'm looking

485
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: at him, and then I still start to get excited

486
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: because he's bristled up, his ears are back, and he's

487
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: drooling like he's licking, licking his lips, not just coming

488
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: out of him, and he's he's just hunched over and

489
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: he's not a long bodied buck, but he looks like

490
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 1: a pit bull right. He's all shoulders, all neck um.

491
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: And it was one of these one of these deer

492
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: that just makes you look at him, go, he's mature, right,

493
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 1: He's a mature buck. And so he's getting ready to

494
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: at about twenty yards step out into this into this

495
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 1: one of the shooting lanes. And I didn't trim any

496
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: shooting lanes. It was just kind of a get up there,

497
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: see what happens. And I'm I'm getting ready to draw back,

498
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: but he does a hard right turn and he walks

499
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: the fence line of this marsh or he he kind

500
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: of steps over the fence first and then takes this

501
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: hard right turn and he's walking right to me. So

502
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: my twenty five yard shot now becomes he's head on

503
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: and there's like three trees in this fence row, So

504
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: I have no shot. The next time I have a shot,

505
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna be five yards if not closer to me.

506
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: So he stops and he he stops first just a

507
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 1: second to the point or just long enough to where

508
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: I'm going, Uh, oh boy, what did he catch my scent?

509
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: Because I had it. I had it angled to where

510
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 1: if he would have walked past that initial shooting lane,

511
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: he would have caught me. Right. So it was a

512
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 1: north northwest wind, and if I had a straight north wind,

513
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: it would have been blowing right down into the shooting lane. Now,

514
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: me and you talk a lot about about cutting the

515
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: wind right, So you have to you have to be

516
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: aggressive to the point where the shot has to come

517
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: right before you get busted. Right. And that's how I

518
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: that's how I set up this particular tree stand and

519
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: hunted this particular wind. And he's he's standing there and

520
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, oh boy, did he smell something? Did he

521
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 1: smell me? But he's just kind of observing his body.

522
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: His body didn't change like he was still in that

523
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: aggressive state. His ears came forward a little bit to

524
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: look around but he was still drooling and slobbering, and

525
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: he's still bristled up. Now you weren't drawn back yet, right,

526
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: not yet? What were you waiting for? What was your

527
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 1: He was behind behind something or he was the only

528
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: point At this point. He was about ten yards from me,

529
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: but the only spot I could see was his left

530
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: antler in his hind quarters. I had no vitals, and

531
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: he was still hard quartering towards me. Right. So he

532
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: he keeps walking all the way back to this uh,

533
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: all the way back to the um or like, past

534
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: these two trees, and I'm I'm excited right now. I'm

535
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: pumped because I'm reliving this this moment. Uh. He walks

536
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 1: out of this tree, he walks out, he goes he

537
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: after he walks by that tree, he walks into this

538
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: little green shrub. No shot. He steps out, and he's

539
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,479
Speaker 1: five yards from my tree stand. So I'm shooting straight

540
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: down at him right, almost let the arrow go. I

541
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: didn't even try to stop him because he was walking

542
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: really slow, and I spined him and he dropped straight

543
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: down in his tracks. I freaked out for like one second, like, oh,

544
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: just shot a buck, And then then I saw him

545
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: flopping and then I turned back into finish him off mode,

546
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: you know, grabbed another arrow, knocked it, launched it right

547
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: in his heart dead, and I sat down. I hung

548
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: first time, hold my bow up. I sat down. I'm like,

549
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: oh boy, oh boy, Like what do I do? Like,

550
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: because I haven't shot a buck since two thousand and twelve,

551
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 1: I think it was, and like all this I kind

552
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: of had like flashbacks of all these mineral stations, all

553
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: these trail cameras, all these running gun sets, all of

554
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: all the years past, right, and it finally kind of

555
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: clicked for me. It's like, put up your trail cameras,

556
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: find where the action is, and go set up on

557
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: the action. It's like it's that simple, you know form

558
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: for me anyway, right, I don't know. And so I

559
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: pick up the phone. I called my wife, and my

560
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: wife is just you know, like she's just this year,

561
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: she was more. She was really supportive of me. Um,

562
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: and I had, you know, going into this this rut.

563
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: I had until November seventeenth until I had to go

564
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: back to work, so I was ready to grind it,

565
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: you know. And I killed two days into my rutcation.

566
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: So it's like I called my stepdad he helped me

567
00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: drag it out and he was he it up dying

568
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: right there where I shot him, and I to the

569
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 1: you know, it's just he's not a giant antler deer,

570
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: which I don't even care about. He is a mature deer. Uh.

571
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: I thought he was a four year old. But I

572
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: took him to the taxidermist, and his head is gigantic. Right,

573
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: he's got a the biggest neck of any deer I've

574
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: ever shot saw in the picture. I was like, man,

575
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: he's got a big old, big old neck on him right,

576
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: his body short. Uh, he's he's a brute. He's still

577
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: a heavy deer. He's well over to fifty. But I

578
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: take him to the taxidermist, and the taxidermists like, holy cow,

579
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 1: that's a big, big, big deer, like big body deer.

580
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: His head is huge. It's kind of funny. I don't

581
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: know if you've ever walked into a taxidermist and with

582
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: your you're so proud of your buck. You're walking in there,

583
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: you're walk in the door and everybody else is dropping

584
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: their deer off or he's got mouths there, and you're

585
00:33:56,120 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: just like, oh, you know, just kind of a oh,

586
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: there's a there's a booner, there's a booner, there's a booner.

587
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: You know. A guy walks in with like eighty class

588
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: non typical while I was there, and I'm just like, yeah,

589
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: this guy was mature, right, Like I don't know, I

590
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: just I thought that was funny. But in Iowa you've

591
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: got some serious competition to stack up against, right. But

592
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: the guy's looking at it and he goes, man, I

593
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: don't think a regular mount is gonna be good. Like

594
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: a regular amount we're gonna So he shows me. He

595
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: opens his catalog, right, and he's he's flipping through these

596
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,400
Speaker 1: uh these forms that the hide goes over, right, and

597
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: he's like, I think we're gonna need one of these

598
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: these mounts. And it is amount specifically for Canadian deer,

599
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: who are like bigger net, bigger body an. So I'm

600
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:57,439
Speaker 1: just like yes, like that that to me jacked me up.

601
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,439
Speaker 1: And it was like, yeah, you may have big rack,

602
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: but my bucks a badassid right, So that is awesome.

603
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: And other than that, you know, it's just like get

604
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: the pictures done. You know, we had them processed, uh,

605
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: all the way processed, and you know, the end of

606
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: the next day and I got a really bad case

607
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: of poison ivy because of dragging him out of the

608
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: thick stuff. But it's all worth it, right, So what's

609
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: what is your base lesson learned from this whole thing? Oh? Man,

610
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: For me, it was I'm I'm starting to understand, especially

611
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: for for a family man, that there are times where

612
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: you want to hunt but you probably shouldn't. That's just

613
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,959
Speaker 1: that's one thing. It's like, Okay, I went out this year,

614
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 1: and I love hunting and I love being outside, and

615
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: I've had some encounters, some good encounters in off what

616
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: we would consider off conditioned days. But you know, I

617
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: think I'm learning this year that you know, we talked

618
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: a lot about first time in best time in I

619
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: only sat that particular tree. That was the second time

620
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: I sat in that tree. And that was the first

621
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: time all year I sat in a tree stand more

622
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: than two times. Yeah, So I didn't ever double up

623
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,359
Speaker 1: on tree stands or locations. I didn't ever, you know,

624
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: I was going where the sign was at. I was

625
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:40,359
Speaker 1: being as mobile as possible. Um, I was doing what

626
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: I had taught conditioned myself to do throughout the years,

627
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: and that was you know, you have your trail cameras

628
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: tell the story where are the deer at Okay, if

629
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: there's nothing showing up, you gotta go somewhere else. On

630
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: these trail cameras, you know, if if there's you know,

631
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: bucks that are coming through in the middle of the night,

632
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: it pointless to hunt that area because there's no sign

633
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:08,360
Speaker 1: of them coming in during shooting light anyway. So a

634
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: picture at midnight is like no picture at all when

635
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 1: you're trying to hunt him. I saw this picture of

636
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: this buck. It was at last light on Halloween, meaning

637
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna make himself visible in this marsh before then,

638
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 1: and that was my best intel. So I set up

639
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: in that area and lo and behold he he he

640
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: was there before you know, he was pulled away by

641
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: a hot dough and I had the opportunity to capitalize

642
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: because of the information my trail cameras told me. If

643
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: that makes sense, well that's awesome, man. So come together

644
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: and it's it's not like there was even a plan.

645
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: It was. It was literally the starting point of what

646
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 1: I wanted to do for the next you know, seventeen days,

647
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: for you know, fifteen sixteen days, I just started. I

648
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: there's a lot of luck in what happened to me

649
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,120
Speaker 1: as well. I luckily ran into a place where a

650
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: buck walked in front of my truck camera I climbed

651
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: up in after a rainstorm, and that buck just so

652
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: happened to be betted in that marsh. But I think,

653
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: I think when you look at these types of situations

654
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: like this, there's always gonna be an element of luck.

655
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: But the luck wouldn't have been able to play its

656
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,280
Speaker 1: part if you hadn't done a whole bunch of little

657
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:31,240
Speaker 1: things that allowed that happen. So, for example, you hunted

658
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: on a day when it was rainy, and a lot

659
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: of people maybe wouldn't have gone on and hunt that day,

660
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: but you did, and you were there after the front

661
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,359
Speaker 1: passed and that dealers on his feet. You you know,

662
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 1: you planned your wind right, and you made sure that

663
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: you weren't going to be blowing your wind into that

664
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: swamp and stuff. You know, some guys might have tromped

665
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: in there and didn't care about the wind and would

666
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,439
Speaker 1: have blew them out before you even had a chance

667
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:53,280
Speaker 1: to shoot him. Um, I bet you the true you picked,

668
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: there's probably some experience and some things you learned in

669
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 1: the past that helped you pick the right treatise in

670
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: that night. I bet all of your experience, the things

671
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: you've done doing so many running guns set ups. You know,

672
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: the day before when you set that stand up, you

673
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: probably did it really quietly and slowly enough that you

674
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: didn't spook that deer that maybe it was betted close by.

675
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: I bet there's so many little things like that. I

676
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: always try to look at my hunts, you know, when

677
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 1: I have like a close en counter that goes wrong

678
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,399
Speaker 1: versus a close en counter where I actually steal the deal.

679
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: And when you start looking at all these tiny little things,

680
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: there's usually a bunch of these things that if I

681
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: hadn't done this one little thing, I never would They'll

682
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: kill that buck, you know. It's like that one limb.

683
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: You know. Sometimes you you don't trim the one tiny limb,

684
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 1: and that's why you couldn't kill him. And then sometimes

685
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 1: you do trim that one little limb, and then that's

686
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: where you got the shot. I think there's a lot

687
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: of things like that, probably, and I guess I didn't

688
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: really think about it, but and and I have a

689
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 1: problem with over analyzing things too much. This year, my

690
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: goal was to be more fluid in my approach And

691
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is, let the sign or

692
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: the information you have dictate where you're gonna hunt. Right.

693
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: Don't don't say, oh, man, but this area looks good

694
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: or this area looks better, or if I go one

695
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,879
Speaker 1: tree over, maybe i'll maybe I'll do it, but it's

696
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: a little bit more risky, or you know, it's like

697
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: it just for me, it just happened this year. I

698
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: didn't put a lot of thought into anything that I

699
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: was really doing. I knew I used the information that

700
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: I had from you know, seasons past, um and what

701
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: I've conditioned myself to do over my years as a

702
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: bow hunter. Um. You know, I'm not trying to make

703
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: myself sound like this God's gift of bow hunting. But

704
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: for me, it just it just it it happened, right,

705
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 1: If that makes sense. It does. Sometimes it just that's

706
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 1: how it goes. Right. Sometimes you just have to be

707
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: out there and play as many of your cards right

708
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 1: as you can and then hope it works out. Yep,

709
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: that's a fact, man. So yeah, I'm I'm pumped. Uh,

710
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out I got a couple of

711
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: months to figure out where I'm going to hang him,

712
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: and uh, I just I'm just so blessed, you know.

713
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: And like I said to you, you know after when

714
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 1: I called you that night or that that next day,

715
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: I shot that buck and I almost had this feeling

716
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 1: of remorse, you know, I shot him. I love these

717
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,760
Speaker 1: animals so much. You get a little bit of this remorse.

718
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,920
Speaker 1: So you're like, oh, man, that sucks that I had

719
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: to take a life. But I'm a hunter. That's what

720
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: we do. He's gonna feed me, and I executed the

721
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 1: plan perfectly. That's why he's dead. Then the next thought

722
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: is like, man, my season for the most part is over. Well,

723
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you you about that. Yeah, because

724
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: in Iowa, you guys can get a second tag for

725
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 1: muzzleloader or shotgun right right, And yes, yes that's true.

726
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: But where I hunt, man, this isn't like a managed

727
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: farm where these you know what you see on TV,

728
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: these guys like, oh, late season success, Yeah, late season

729
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 1: success on a highly managed farm with forty acres of

730
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 1: standing corn. Nobody leaves forty acres of standing corn up

731
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: around here or around where my farm is. Yes, there

732
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: are times where maybe a cold front can move through,

733
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: and I'm talking in extreme cold front. We're we're talking

734
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,399
Speaker 1: twenty five degrees below zero type of weather that gets

735
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: these feet on their on their daylight, you know, daylight moving.

736
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: It's just very, very hard to locate those deers. And

737
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna say it here, but you

738
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: know my situation, there's other people in the area who

739
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,560
Speaker 1: who have tons of food plots, and so when winter

740
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: hits and after shotgun season comes through this these properties,

741
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: these deer leave my property and go to safe havens

742
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: on other farms where there is that forty acres of

743
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:54,960
Speaker 1: standing food. What about the little property. Yeah, that's uh,

744
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 1: that's a good point. Um. I had some good, good

745
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: quote unquote luck there last year. As far as seeing dear, however,

746
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: they're all to the north and I just it's like

747
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: I would be shooting through two properties with my bow

748
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: two to to get a shot at him. It's just

749
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: it's very hard. They don't tend to use that pinch

750
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: point as much. They use the field edge on the

751
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: north side of the creek, and it's just it's it's

752
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: very difficult. And to be honest with you, that's you know,

753
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: that's time for me to be doing other things to

754
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: allow me to hunt the rut. You know, it's they

755
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: allow me to hunt, maybe go on that western trip,

756
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 1: and that you're telling me. No, I know what you're saying.

757
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 1: I'm giving up, Yeah, given up? No, No, how can you?

758
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: How can you not hunt from November two through the

759
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,720
Speaker 1: January and it'll be a two and a half months

760
00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 1: where people could be deer hunting and you're gonna be

761
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 1: able to sit in your house and not Felix scratching

762
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: your eyeballs out. No, I'm gonna hunt, don't get me wrong,

763
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 1: but I'm saying that it's very difficult and very hard

764
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: to do. I have three dough tags left that I'm

765
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: by playing to fill uh in the next couple of weeks. Actually,

766
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: so I'm still going to get out and enjoy some

767
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: of this you know, this rut. But I'm you know,

768
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: I'm saving my vacation so i can go to some

769
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: trade shows. Uh, you know, I'm I'm only gonna I'm

770
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: going back to that weekend warrior type status. And it's

771
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: it's very hard late season when you know, if that

772
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: cold front doesn't land when you're in your cubicle or

773
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: when you're not in your cubicle, then you're kind of

774
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: you're kind of just you know, you gotta hit that

775
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: luck stage again. You know, I gotta that luck has

776
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: to that cold front has to come through on a

777
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: on a Saturday or Sunday, and if it doesn't, then

778
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: you're set sitting there hunting. UHT. Five degree December days

779
00:44:54,440 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: and those aren't fun to hunt. But but I uh,

780
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 1: it's not that I'm not gonna be hunting. It's just

781
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,760
Speaker 1: that it's just changes. You know, You've got two kids,

782
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: and you know I can't sit here and say I'm

783
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: not I'm not gonna hunt, because I will. It's just

784
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 1: that the opportunities as the season goes on become less

785
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: and less. Yeah, alright, Well, I just wanted to make

786
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: sure you weren't thrown on the towel completely. No, no,

787
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: because there's still an opportunity. I'm gonna be running a

788
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: lot of trail cameras on my buddies, and if a

789
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: big boy starts coming through, I'm gonna be on him right,

790
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: go get him, you man. I mean, I'll tell you

791
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: what's a good feeling when you're out there hunting and

792
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:36,839
Speaker 1: you already have your pet, your tag field, and you've

793
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: got you know, none of that like monkey on your shoulder.

794
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: Type pressure. It's all bonus from here. So that'll be

795
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: a nice relaxing sit when you get back out there

796
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: next time. All right, mark uh speaking of monkeys on backs. Yeah,

797
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 1: speaking of monkeys on backs and trying to relax. Oh man,

798
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: you want to talk like you know how I was

799
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: saying the definition. I was prepared to grind it out

800
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: and I had success early. You actually are grinding it

801
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: out right now. Yeah, it's it's talked to us. Yeah,

802
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 1: grinding That is exactly what it is. And um, it

803
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: started a lot earlier this year than most years for me.

804
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,759
Speaker 1: You know, usually my grind starts, you know, Halloween or

805
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: something like that. But you know, last time we actually

806
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: talked about my hunts that you know, I had that

807
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: encounter on the October where I got to folder on

808
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: holy Field, you know, and that whole thing kind of

809
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 1: set into motion my hunting marathon earlier than usual, because

810
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,439
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I started seeing holy Field daylight

811
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: all the time, and so I was like, well, I

812
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: saw him daylight last night, better hunt tomorrow. And I

813
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: saw him daylight that night, so I better hunt the

814
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 1: next day. So since October, I think I've only taken

815
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: two days off from hunting. Um, so I'm whooped, like,

816
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: I'm I'm tired. I'm I'm just leveling with you. I'm

817
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: just like, I'm exhausted right now. What is it, Tay's

818
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: November eight? Is that right? So since that time since

819
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: I've been after one deer and one deer only Mr Holyfield,

820
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: and he continues to evade me. So you know, we

821
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:18,920
Speaker 1: talked about it. Came full draw on him, but it

822
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: was just too dark. The next day he came into

823
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: the field but got spooked by something on the road

824
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: ran back in the cover. Um. The next day hunted

825
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: a different spot. I didn't see him. I went back in,

826
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:36,239
Speaker 1: I saw him again. Um. I took two days off

827
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: because of warm weather, was back in there and saw

828
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: him again. Um, all right, I got a question. Yeah,

829
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: I know you we've talked about this a little bit,

830
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: but tell us where he where this buck is living,

831
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: and and why maybe you're not able to get any

832
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: more cracks at him on on the property that you're

833
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: actually hunting. Yeah. Yeah, that's important for me to talk

834
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: about because I feel like everyone's like, how come you

835
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: don't just move and kill this buck every time you

836
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: see them? And then like gosh, I wish I could.

837
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: So here's a situation. Imagine like like a like a

838
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: checkerboard or board, and you break it up into four

839
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: four squares, all right, the four quadrants. Okay, So the

840
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: line that runs right down the middle, that is my

841
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: property line. I've got the two quadrants on the left side.

842
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 1: My neighbor has the two quadrants on the right side.

843
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 1: So in the bottom left quadrant is the only cover

844
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,280
Speaker 1: I have on my side of the property in this area.

845
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: I've got that food plot I planted, and I've got

846
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: tall grass, and then a strip of timber behind me.

847
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: Now adjacent to that on the neighbors side of the

848
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: line to the right. So the right bottom right quadrant

849
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: is some cover like some timber. The upper right quadrants

850
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: that would be the northeast quadrant that is this stellar bedding,

851
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: really tall grass, the brushy bushes. Don't know what they're called, um,

852
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:06,880
Speaker 1: but just like tremendous. And then the top left quadrant

853
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: is my property. But it's just a cut bean field.

854
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: It's a wide open bean field, and my property line

855
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: is on the edge of that bean field. I have

856
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,399
Speaker 1: one tree on my side. Everything else is the neighbors.

857
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: So where I see him all the time is in

858
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: the upper right quadrant in that really great bedding, and

859
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: from my tree stand in the bottom left quadrant, I

860
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,000
Speaker 1: can see in there really well. So on night number one,

861
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: I saw him in the right quadrant top right. He

862
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: came into the wide open bean field chase a dough.

863
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: I've snort wheels to him. He came down into the

864
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: bottom left where I'm at. But you know what happened there.

865
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: That's the only time he's come down to my quadrant

866
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: since that was October. All the other times I've seen

867
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,840
Speaker 1: him back on the neighbors in that cover um, except

868
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: for one time November November three, he actually showed up

869
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: directly next to me in that bottom right quadrant in

870
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: the on the neighbors in the thick cover though at

871
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,240
Speaker 1: sixty yards. That's the closest he's been to me recently.

872
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,399
Speaker 1: And he was just staring into the food plot and

873
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: there was two little button bucks that had just come out,

874
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: and so I was like, first of my crap as

875
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 1: he did he bust me. He's staring at me, and

876
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,560
Speaker 1: like for like several minutes, he was just frozen, and

877
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: I just barely inched my binoculars up and it looked

878
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: at him, and he was looking straight ahead. He wasn't

879
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: like looking up at me. He was just looking into

880
00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: the food plots. I think he was looking at those

881
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: two deer. And he just sat there for a couple

882
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,600
Speaker 1: minutes and then turned and walked away. Now, so why

883
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: I can't move is because I've got one tree in

884
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: my food plot in the bottom left quadrant, and there's

885
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: one tree in the top left quadrant, but it's just

886
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:43,799
Speaker 1: on this wide up and bean field right. So my

887
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: thought process was, all right, I've got a great set

888
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: up here in this food plot. Does are still coming

889
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: out to feed? I just needed him to come out

890
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: and following these doughs when these times and I'm seeing

891
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: him chasing does back in the cover. He chased the

892
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: dough once out into the open bean field at one time. Um,

893
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: and issue here is I can only hunt here with

894
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: like north northwest winds something like that, because if I

895
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: have anything that blows from the east or south, it

896
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: blows up into all that cover. So long story short,

897
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: I'm stuck with this spot and I see him all

898
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: the time, but he's on the neighbors back in this cover,

899
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: and I obviously can't hunt there. So long story short,

900
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: you know, I saw him multiple times. I saw him

901
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:29,879
Speaker 1: the morning of and then the third was the time

902
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,680
Speaker 1: when he was at sixty yards. I watched him then

903
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 1: go back into the upper right quadrant, run around, chase

904
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 1: some dose in there. Then he actually though did pop

905
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,439
Speaker 1: out into the upper left quadron. He popped out into

906
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: my bean field at the very top northern border for

907
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: like ten yards and then walked into the north neighbor's property,

908
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 1: which was the cut cornfield. Um so that was the third.

909
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: My issue was, I was at this point, I was, Okay,

910
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: I want to sit up in that one tree up

911
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 1: in that ud because there are a bunch of does

912
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: that are coming out to feed in there. And he

913
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: has popped out there once right by that tree, and

914
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: then October he popped out and then worked south one time,

915
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: came in my food plot one time, spoot something. Okay,

916
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,919
Speaker 1: these are my only options. I've hunted the food plot

917
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: stand so many times, like the exact opposite of what

918
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,760
Speaker 1: you've done. You've hunted only you know, everything once or twice,

919
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: and that's what I want to do. But I've kept

920
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: hunting this stupid stand because it's the only place I

921
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: can see him like he's nowhere else on my farm.

922
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,319
Speaker 1: I'm not getting trail camera pictures of him anywhere else.

923
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing him anywhere else. But every time I

924
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: go here, I'm seeing him. But you're seeing him on

925
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: the neighbor's farm, right, Yes, except for three times, three times,

926
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 1: three times he's come onto my farm, but just in

927
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,399
Speaker 1: the edges of it. Um. I take that back. One

928
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: morning he was right in the middle of the field

929
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,239
Speaker 1: running around. Um. And then earlier in October I had

930
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,719
Speaker 1: seen him in front of my food plot. Um. But

931
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: most everything was on my neighbors. So my thought process

932
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: kept on me, Okay, this isn't a great situation. You've

933
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: hunted this stand so many darn times. You know, I'm

934
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 1: hunting a stupid field. It's not what I want to

935
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: be doing. But I don't have any better option on

936
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: this property, like I'm not. There's no other reason to

937
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: hunt anywhere or place else. If he's the only buck

938
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,359
Speaker 1: I'm trying to kill, and if I don't think he's,

939
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:21,360
Speaker 1: if he doesn't know him here yet, which I don't know, um,

940
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 1: maybe he'll follow a doe. So that was my thought process,

941
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: and that was kind of like kind of the news

942
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: I've hung myself on is that I've just stuck with

943
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: this one area because it's the only place I think

944
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 1: there's a small chance of him maybe making a stake

945
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: mistake and I could hunt it, and I knew he

946
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: wasn't winning me, and that the one thing that I

947
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: told you before is that I've convinced my wife to

948
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: come with the fore wheeler to this property and pick

949
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:45,839
Speaker 1: me up every evening. Okay, so I'm not spooking these

950
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: deer as a person at all, And so I think

951
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: because of that, I'm still seeing a lot of activity

952
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 1: every single night. There's still deer feeding out in these fields.

953
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:56,240
Speaker 1: If he's still very close to my property or popping

954
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: into my property for brief periods of time. I think

955
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 1: that if I had been walking out of this area

956
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 1: even once or twice, I don't think that would still

957
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: be happening. But I think with her driving in there

958
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 1: and spooking these deer off with the a TV, they're

959
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 1: just so much more forgiving of that. So then day

960
00:54:12,280 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: of the November four I finally had a wind that

961
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: I could go hunt that tree stand up in the

962
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 1: top left quadrant, because again, like I said, anything westerly

963
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: blows into the bedding, so I had to wait till

964
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: it's something that would either be straight south so I

965
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: go straight at the edge or something easterly. So I

966
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: finally got that the night of the fourth I snuck in.

967
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,800
Speaker 1: I did a running gun set. It was an absolute disaster.

968
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:35,840
Speaker 1: I got to my tree well, so first it was

969
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: like it was a quiet It wasn't windy. It was

970
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: super crunching the leaves. I'm like, okay, how do I

971
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 1: get to this tree which is right on the edge

972
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:44,319
Speaker 1: of betting. I mean, the tree is right on the

973
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: edge of the stuff. So I'm like, how do I

974
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: get in here without spooking deer there? Bed in there? Well,

975
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: luckily the neighbor was combining his fields, so I'm like, okay,

976
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 1: I am going to wait and I'm gonna time my

977
00:54:55,160 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: walk into the stand with when the combines nearby so

978
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: that they can't hear me. So I walked to the

979
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: edge of the field and I see the combine has

980
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: stopped and he's waiting to dump off his little corn.

981
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna sit here and

982
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait. He'll be ready to go. Well half

983
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,839
Speaker 1: hour passes and he still hasn't started going. So I'm like, well,

984
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: son of a gun, I need to get set up.

985
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,799
Speaker 1: But luckily he gets going. So finally gets the combine going.

986
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:19,839
Speaker 1: I've wasted half an hour, but okay, I'm gonna make

987
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 1: sure I get in here quiet. I don't have a

988
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: good set up. I'm not going to spook dear. So

989
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 1: as the combine is getting close, I scurry in there.

990
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 1: I get to the base of my tree. I'm like, okay,

991
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: nothing spooked. Nothing knew I was in here, at least

992
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,760
Speaker 1: not that I think of the winds, great combines going by.

993
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,719
Speaker 1: Let me hang these sticks, yep. And I look at

994
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,279
Speaker 1: my backpack and I realized I forgot to bring my

995
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: climbing sticks. Oh boy, oh boy. Mark. Yeah, so I

996
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,320
Speaker 1: had like an aneurism, and I was at what in

997
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 1: the world, Like I am the biggest idiot in the world.

998
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: I got so mad at myself. I was, okay, I'm

999
00:55:57,719 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: not like, I'm not gonna go all the way back home.

1000
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,799
Speaker 1: So then again, we have to give props to my

1001
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 1: blessed angel of a wife. I called her and said, hey, honey,

1002
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 1: I know I don't deserve this, but can you do

1003
00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: me a favor, and I had her drive my climbing

1004
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: sticks to the tree while the combine was nearby. Again,

1005
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 1: so again hoping that you know, this vehicle coming up

1006
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: to the edge of this field will be just like

1007
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: another piece of farm equipment. So she drops off my

1008
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,840
Speaker 1: climbing sticks. I try to hang up in the tree.

1009
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,239
Speaker 1: The first tree I tried to hung that I thought

1010
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: I was gonna get hanged up in. I realized I

1011
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:36,120
Speaker 1: can't because there's two big trees that are grown together.

1012
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: So I didn't realize this. I can't get straps around it.

1013
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:42,479
Speaker 1: So I'm like, well, son of a gun, so longs

1014
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 1: for short because this could go on and on. It

1015
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 1: was just a complete disaster. I tried to get up

1016
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 1: in like this tree, and then I realized was one

1017
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: other trick and maybe get into. So I tried to

1018
00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:52,919
Speaker 1: get into that one. I couldn't get into that one

1019
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: because it's kind of just a little cluster of trees

1020
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: like right in this area. Um. And while I'm pulling

1021
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: the sticks down from one tree, I look over. Here's

1022
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: a big buck coming and it's Frasier three and a

1023
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 1: half year old. Um. He walks within ten yards of me.

1024
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: I filmed it on my phone and then he kind

1025
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:12,439
Speaker 1: of realized something's wrong in boogers out of there, finally

1026
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: getting a tree, and well, just you know, it was

1027
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: a disaster. But I got in the tree for the

1028
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,320
Speaker 1: last hour of daylight and I saw Holy Field come

1029
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 1: out of where I think he was betted. But he

1030
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: walked by like a hundred yards still in the neighbors,

1031
00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: popped out around the other side of the field. The

1032
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: combine starts back up, spooks him, disappears, and well that's

1033
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 1: basically it. I went back again last night. I didn't

1034
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:43,160
Speaker 1: see him. Um, And that's you know, that's that I've

1035
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: been hunting some different places in the mornings. This stand.

1036
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: This property just is not good for the rut unless

1037
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: they're hitting my food. So I've got I've got one

1038
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: chunk of timber that's like my sanctuary. So I just

1039
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 1: it's a it's kind of a swamp and I just

1040
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: never go in there. Um. Otherwise it's just field that's

1041
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: kind of and um, you know, for whatever reason, they're

1042
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:05,080
Speaker 1: not in my food plots as heavy as they usually

1043
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: are this time. I think it's because there's been no frost.

1044
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: We haven't got a frost yet. So they're not hitting

1045
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 1: my braskas because they usually don't hit those till it's

1046
00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: cold and frosty. So you know, they've been hitting the

1047
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: neighboring corn field and my bean fields and UM, I

1048
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: don't know, it's been tough. I can't get in the

1049
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 1: cover he has been that. I've been hoping, you know,

1050
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: maybe he'll be cruising in the morning. Um, that hasn't happened.

1051
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: I've never seen them on the main body of my property,

1052
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 1: just up in that one little corner. Um. The one

1053
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,400
Speaker 1: interesting thing that did happen to me is on our

1054
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: last podcast where we were talking about um our rut

1055
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: stands that we're looking forward to, there was one stand

1056
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: I told you about this in the back side of

1057
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: the swamp, on a little piece of of high ground

1058
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: that runs between CRP and the neighbors and my little

1059
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: swamp sanctuary. And I had set a stand on the

1060
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: back side of right in that piece of high ground

1061
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: that runs in the between, and I hunted that a

1062
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, and that was an awesome morning

1063
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: and I actually saw two of the bucks that I

1064
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: was considering shooting this year. Um that we're what I

1065
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:04,640
Speaker 1: believe to be three and a half year olds Frasier,

1066
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: and then another buck I'm calling Foreman, and Uh. I

1067
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: had both of them at ten yards, and I decided

1068
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: to pass on both of them, um, because it's just

1069
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: at this point, it's it's holy feeling. Nothing else is

1070
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: getting me excited, Like I just want to kill this one.

1071
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: Dear so had really cool counters with them though, and

1072
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 1: that was fun. And then I actually saw Foreman again

1073
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: last night and I passed on him at ten yards,

1074
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: and I saw him again this morning and I passed

1075
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: on him about twenty So you know, I've it's been

1076
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 1: great Michigan. Actually it's been really cool. Like I'm seeing

1077
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: these bucks and like a lot of these nights, I've

1078
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:43,520
Speaker 1: seen holy Field, I've also seen Foreman. I've also seen Frasier.

1079
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 1: I've also seen this other buck I'm calling Mayweather. So

1080
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: I'm seeing a bunch of NICs three and a half

1081
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: year old bucks, more than I've ever seen. So Like,

1082
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: even though I've hunted the same place over and over,

1083
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: I'm seeing way more relatively mature deer and that's exciting

1084
00:59:56,240 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: for the future for sure. Um, it's just been frustrating

1085
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: because my hands have been tied trying to get on

1086
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 1: this deer, and it's basically just been hoping to get

1087
01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 1: lucky hunting these fields and just hoping that maybe tonight

1088
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 1: he makes a mistake and it hasn't happened. Okay, I

1089
01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 1: have a couple of questions. Yeah, I rambled there. Sorry, No,

1090
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 1: you're fine. Question one, calling at him? Have you grunted?

1091
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: Have you snort wheezed? Have you done anything to try

1092
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: to get him to come to you? Yes? Good question. Okay,

1093
01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 1: So the very first time I saw him, I snort

1094
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: wheezed and he came into the food plot, but he

1095
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: was falling two doughs, so I don't know if he

1096
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 1: was falling if he came in because of the caller

1097
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: her cannon, because of the does So. Night number one,

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01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: he responded to the call Night number two. I tried

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01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: grunting and he the only thing about this. I grunted

1100
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,760
Speaker 1: once or twice, and he looked with din Karen kept

1101
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: walking by. I tried snort reis again and he kind

1102
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: of just like turned and tried it away, So he

1103
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 1: wasn't feeling at all. So I'm okay, I'm like, okay,

1104
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 1: I kind of blew it um. The next time I

1105
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:02,760
Speaker 1: tried calling to him was when he was at six,

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01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 1: that sixty yard encounter when he was right next to me. Um,

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01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: and okay, so I'd grunted at him and I snort

1108
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: reased at him and it kinda he didn't like it

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01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:11,479
Speaker 1: so much. So I was like, okay, I'm not gonna

1110
01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: try that. I'm gonna try doblate maybe. So I tried

1111
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 1: the can call. He didn't care for that. He turned

1112
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: and walked away. Another time I saw him pop out

1113
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 1: a little ways off the one other time when he

1114
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:23,640
Speaker 1: popped out into my field north of me a couple

1115
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 1: hundred yards, I was like, okay, I've tried all these

1116
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 1: different things. He's not feeling it. But Dan Johnson told

1117
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: me I need to try rattling, and even though I

1118
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: don't like to rattle in Michigan, damn it, I just

1119
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 1: need to try something. So I was like, I'm gonna

1120
01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 1: try a little light rattling maybe you know who knows.

1121
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: So I tried that. He looked and then turn and

1122
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: walked straight back into the woods. So no call has worked. Um.

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01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: I considered trying a decoy, but I've watched him around

1124
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: other bucks and he's not like super aggressive with other bucks.

1125
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: And I don't have a good spot to hunt with

1126
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,000
Speaker 1: the decoy, like the food plot stand. He wouldn't be

1127
01:01:58,040 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: able to see it until he's in the food plot

1128
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 1: because I've got this tall food plut screen all around

1129
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 1: it so you can't see in or out of it.

1130
01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 1: So I could hunt that bean field edge with it.

1131
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: But the issue of that is that he needs to

1132
01:02:08,320 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: come into the field to see it, And if that

1133
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: ever happened, it would be with a bunch of doughs

1134
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,280
Speaker 1: out there and around here. I think if I put

1135
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: that decoy out, I'd get blown at by all those

1136
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 1: doughs before he'd ever pop out. And any deer that

1137
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: came out would probably be surprised because they'd come right

1138
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 1: out where they come out that all of a sudden

1139
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 1: see this decoy ten yards away from him. So it's

1140
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:29,160
Speaker 1: not like they show up on the other side of

1141
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 1: the field and you could see it. He could come

1142
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 1: my way. So so yeah, I mean, calling hasn't worked.

1143
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: The decoy just doesn't seem like the smart move. Um

1144
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: and here I am, yep. Well, it sounds to me

1145
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 1: like two things are going to happen. Well, first off,

1146
01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 1: when is Michigan's gun season start Novema. So that's a

1147
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: week from today, and when people hear this, you will

1148
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:00,640
Speaker 1: already be on the road or have already hunted in Ohio,

1149
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 1: right yea. I'm leaving for Ohio tonight after the hunter

1150
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: or after the podcast that we're recording right now. I

1151
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 1: don't know. I was planning on hunting tonight because I

1152
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: thought I could hunt that corner stand one more time,

1153
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 1: the new one I hung, because it was going to

1154
01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 1: be a west southwest wind, which would kind of cut

1155
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:20,160
Speaker 1: the edge a little bit. I thought it might be

1156
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 1: able cut the corner, But now it shifted to a

1157
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 1: northwest or west northwest, which just blows out the entire

1158
01:03:26,240 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 1: bedding area, and some like I just can't, Like, there's

1159
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 1: just no way that will work. If it was southwest,

1160
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: there was a small chance I could work with anything northwest,

1161
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: just like there's I can't even get in there without

1162
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:41,479
Speaker 1: everything smelling me um. So I can hunt the food plot, fine,

1163
01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 1: but that will be like the bajillion time of hunted there,

1164
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: and that seems like low odds now, And so I

1165
01:03:47,200 --> 01:03:49,480
Speaker 1: don't know. Part of me says I should hunt just

1166
01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 1: because you never know. Part of me says that I

1167
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 1: should just get to Ohio and get a good night's

1168
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 1: sleep so I can try to turn the page and

1169
01:03:57,560 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: trying to make the best of this rut. Still, I

1170
01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 1: think you should hunt tonight. I think you should hunt

1171
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:07,520
Speaker 1: Michigan and be as aggressive as you possibly can, knowing

1172
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 1: that there's there's a period of time between now and

1173
01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:15,680
Speaker 1: the time that the gun season starts. So I know,

1174
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 1: you remember how Jim Shocky talked about pressure on a

1175
01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: deer like ripples on a pond. Eventually they go away

1176
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:28,200
Speaker 1: and everything becomes normal again. I think that if you're

1177
01:04:28,240 --> 01:04:31,840
Speaker 1: aggressive tonight and you potentially spook him, you know, like

1178
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna spook him or you're gonna kill him type ods. Right,

1179
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:38,000
Speaker 1: So let's say you spook him, by the time the

1180
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: gun season starts, he's going to be back to his

1181
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 1: normal routine, and there's that chance that he's still working

1182
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: his way on your property. So and by that time

1183
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: you're gone anyway, and then by the time you come back,

1184
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, the rut could be over. It could be

1185
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: that post rut where they're looking for that last dough,

1186
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:58,960
Speaker 1: or you know, anything could happen between now and then. Yeah,

1187
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 1: So I'm my I don't know about you. But I'm

1188
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 1: that kind of person who's like, I'm gonna be knowing

1189
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: what I know and knowing that you're going to leave

1190
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:10,200
Speaker 1: for Ohio in a in a day or two, be

1191
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:15,480
Speaker 1: aggressive and if you fail, you tried. Yeah, you know.

1192
01:05:15,480 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: It's funny you mentioned that because I have been sitting

1193
01:05:17,480 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 1: here thinking about the same thing too, and like I

1194
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 1: don't want to sound like, um, well, let's just be

1195
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: a well, I don't want to sound like a winner,

1196
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 1: but I want to kill this buck to be selfish.

1197
01:05:32,080 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 1: I want to be the person to kill this buck,

1198
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: and I almost want to spook him because if he

1199
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 1: keeps acting like he's acting right now, as soon as

1200
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: my neighbor or one of these guys goes in there

1201
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 1: and gun season, he's dead. Like he's so killable, Like

1202
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: if I could hunt this stupid property, he would be

1203
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 1: so dead right now with a bow, I believe. So

1204
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 1: let alone when these guys start going on there with guns,

1205
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:56,400
Speaker 1: so I almost, you know, maybe it's not a batty

1206
01:05:56,440 --> 01:06:00,800
Speaker 1: to hunt there tonight, knowing that probably chance I will

1207
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 1: blow out any deer in there and he will probably

1208
01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: smell me. But maybe that's what they need to do

1209
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: to smarten this deer up a little bit, and then

1210
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: by the time I come back and try hunting him

1211
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:14,600
Speaker 1: again later in November, he'll love you know. You know,

1212
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 1: that's the thing I'm worried about, is he's gonna get killed.

1213
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 1: But if he doesn't get killed, maybe then I do

1214
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,200
Speaker 1: feel good. If he survives gun season. I feel very

1215
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 1: good about my late season chances because I have by

1216
01:06:25,480 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 1: far the best late season food I've got two really good,

1217
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: great big Braska food plots that are lush and huge,

1218
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 1: and they haven't really been touched very much yet because

1219
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 1: of the fact we haven't got a frost, so I

1220
01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,439
Speaker 1: gotta believe as soon as we get cold weather, they're

1221
01:06:38,520 --> 01:06:41,520
Speaker 1: just gonna hit them so hard. And last year I

1222
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: had him Montreal camera during daylight in December on my

1223
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: late season food plot ten times in daylight. So so

1224
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 1: if I can get this buck through gun season, I

1225
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 1: think he's very killable in the late season. So that's

1226
01:06:56,720 --> 01:07:00,200
Speaker 1: my one silver lining. So maybe I should just be

1227
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 1: aggressive tonight, maybe just going there and it's it's it's

1228
01:07:04,040 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 1: a rattle for four straight out. Give him a fair

1229
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:15,160
Speaker 1: warning before the Orange Pumpkin Brigade comes in. That's right, Yeah,

1230
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 1: you know, maybe You're right. I know that if I

1231
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: was planning a hunting the night, but then just this afternoon,

1232
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 1: like when I was coming in to do this, I

1233
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: was like, man, tonight, the drive's gonna suck tonight, and

1234
01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in it like midnight. I'm gonna four

1235
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 1: hours of sleep. But I know, I knew i'd feel

1236
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:36,400
Speaker 1: bad about not trying. Still, does this make you feel better? Mark,

1237
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to work tomorrow, so how about you stop winding? Yeah,

1238
01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 1: that's a good point. It's a very good I'll tell

1239
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 1: you what. I'll go to Ohio and you can sit

1240
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 1: in my cubicle. Okay, point well taken, Point well taken.

1241
01:07:53,040 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 1: So all right, I'm gonna go in there and set again,

1242
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna try to kill him, and if I did,

1243
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:04,160
Speaker 1: like I might cry, I'm gonna be so happy. Call me,

1244
01:08:04,480 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: call me and I'll say, Okay, stop being a baby

1245
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 1: for a second and thank me, and just say thanks Dan,

1246
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 1: because you told me to rattle when I thought I

1247
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: should know for for four for an hour, just I mean,

1248
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 1: get get two decoys out there, have your wife dressed

1249
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,679
Speaker 1: up as a deer. I have her bite that decoy,

1250
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:33,759
Speaker 1: and just rattle and rattling, rara, snort, we'se the entire time.

1251
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:37,520
Speaker 1: He's gonna come out purely just based on like insatiable curiosity,

1252
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:39,840
Speaker 1: Like he just has to see what's going on over here.

1253
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: You know I've got enough to see it. You kill

1254
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: him right, doing something so stupid like I rattled and snort,

1255
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 1: reason and grunted and rattled some more, which nobody ever does.

1256
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 1: And he comes in that night and you kill him.

1257
01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 1: And then I can see some article written by Mark

1258
01:08:56,080 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: Kenyon how I conquered the rut by actually give an

1259
01:09:00,360 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 1: advice to people. You know it was. It was nothing

1260
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 1: but my my genius strategy of very specific calling tactics.

1261
01:09:11,840 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yeah, I don't know, man, I guess you know,

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Speaker 1: we'll see who knows. You never know. Um, So that's

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01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 1: my story. That's been my run. I'll tell you good luck,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. You know, I had one other thing

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01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 1: that's worth mentioning. On one of the hot days we had,

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01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:33,679
Speaker 1: like a seventy degree seventy degree day that I didn't

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01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: want to hunt here, I went to one of those

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Speaker 1: other farms of hunting, and I ended up having a

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Speaker 1: really close call there too. Um. You probably saw on

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Speaker 1: social media. Maybe we talked about on text. But at

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Speaker 1: ten o'clock I spotted a shooter bock back in this

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01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:49,360
Speaker 1: big timber I was hunting, and I watched him for

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01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:52,559
Speaker 1: four hours, locked on a door. He betted at a hundred.

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Speaker 1: Then I watched him get up and stalk around, and

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01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:57,439
Speaker 1: then betted down again and stalked around. I tried calling

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01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 1: to him a couple of times, and he wouldn't come

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Speaker 1: my way. And then finally, like one thirty year, between

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01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,680
Speaker 1: one thirty and two, the dough got up and she

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01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:08,559
Speaker 1: came my way. She passed a fifty through my shooting land.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I can do that. If he

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01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 1: passes right through there, this is game over. But he

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01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,639
Speaker 1: hung back like twenty yards further back or thirty yards

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01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:19,559
Speaker 1: further back, and he passed the seventy seven yards um.

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Speaker 1: And he was a four and a half year old

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Speaker 1: buck for sure, like just a really solid, big, nice

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Speaker 1: eight pointer. Ah. So that was a cool encounter for

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Speaker 1: like a seventy of your day. I wasn't really expecting much, um,

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Speaker 1: And that just goes to show you that you never

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01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 1: know during the rut. So it's the rut. Yeah, you

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01:10:36,080 --> 01:10:37,759
Speaker 1: gotta give it a shot, and they're gonna rut because

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01:10:37,800 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: anything can happen, right throw try throwing hill Mary's if

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01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 1: it's you know, like I'm telling people out there, no, hey,

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01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:46,960
Speaker 1: what about this. I only have one day left to

1294
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:50,600
Speaker 1: hunt or my vacation or I have you gotta do

1295
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:53,599
Speaker 1: whatever you can. Tear your tree, stand down, go go

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01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 1: dive into that bedding area down wind, and you know,

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Speaker 1: if you see him and he's walking away from you,

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01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: run at him. If he doesn't respond to a grunt, snort,

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Speaker 1: weeez at him, if he doesn't snort, if he doesn't

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Speaker 1: respond to that rattle at him. I mean, what do

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01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:09,200
Speaker 1: you have to lose? Yeah, if you're if you're down

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01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: to the end of your trip, or if you don't

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01:11:11,240 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 1: get to hunt a bunch more or whatever, I mean, yeah,

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01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:17,559
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta go out swinging. Right So there,

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01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: get pays to be safe and conservative and smart, but

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01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:24,720
Speaker 1: only to a point, you know, like if your opportunities

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01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:26,640
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be there anymore after this, then go

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01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 1: for it. So so that's kind of where I'm at

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Speaker 1: in Michigan for the time being. So I guess on swing, Hey,

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01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:38,599
Speaker 1: swing for it, all right? Well, any other final thoughts

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Speaker 1: from you just you know, all the people who are

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01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:44,559
Speaker 1: out there grinding, man, good luck and you know, be

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Speaker 1: safe and man, I don't know. I think I can

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Speaker 1: speak for Mark when I say we we really hope

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01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:54,680
Speaker 1: as many of the listeners out there are as successful

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01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:58,799
Speaker 1: as humanly possible. Unless you share the same de farmancy

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01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:04,599
Speaker 1: as Yes, I gotta tell you that it's been super cool,

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01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:06,519
Speaker 1: Like we've been getting a lot of tweets and Facebook

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01:12:06,520 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 1: messages and stuff with people thanking you and me um

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01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 1: for the podcast, but because you know, help them in

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01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,439
Speaker 1: some way kill this book or the biggest book or

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01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: or stuff like that. And that's that's really cool to see,

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01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 1: so very very exciting to see that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I agree, good luck to everyone out there. And um,

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01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 1: I guess as we do. I'm just gonna shut her down.

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01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 1: We do need to thank our partners who help us

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Speaker 1: keep this podcast going so big. Thank you too, Si Gear, Redneck, Blinds,

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Speaker 1: Hunter a Maps, Yetie Coolers, Ozonics, Carbon Express, maybe an optics,

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Speaker 1: white Tail Institute of North America, and uh, I think

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Speaker 1: that's every one. And I guess then finally, yes, thank

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Speaker 1: you all Ford listening for tuning in for for kind

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Speaker 1: of joining us as we kind of share all of

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Speaker 1: our ups and downs here during the rut. We'll have

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Speaker 1: a new guest on here soon, so enough of me

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01:12:56,560 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 1: and Dan blabbing and until next time, good luck, luck,

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Speaker 1: and stay wired to hut m m mmmm