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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, home of the

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Speaker 1: modern white tail hunter and now your host, Mark Kenyon.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyan and tainting the show. I am joined by

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Speaker 1: Georgia Hunter and host of Realtree Road Trips Tyler Jordan's

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Speaker 1: to discuss exactly how he'd handled some of the most

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Speaker 1: challenging deer hunting scenarios in the white tail woods. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you

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Speaker 1: by First Light, and today we are in week three

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Speaker 1: of our what would You Do series, in which we

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Speaker 1: a series of difficult hunting scenarios, all sorts of different stuff.

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Speaker 1: Some of these are the same questions I asked the

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Speaker 1: guys over and over again. Sometimes there are questions more

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Speaker 1: ciffic to their unique experiences. But the main thing we're

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Speaker 1: how they deal with tough hunting situations, how they make

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Speaker 1: their decisions, how they deal with adversity. That's the kind

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Speaker 1: And today Tyler Jordan's gonna help us do that. I

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Speaker 1: think you probably know what Tyler Jordan is. He's the

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Speaker 1: son of Bill Jordan, the founder of Real Tree, the

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Speaker 1: host of a whole bunch of hunting shows and films

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Speaker 1: and videos over the years, and Tyler has taken the

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Speaker 1: the interesting things that Tyler brings to the table is

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Speaker 1: that he hunts a whole bunch of different places across

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Speaker 1: and he's been on kind of all points in between.

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Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot of people who probably have

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Speaker 1: he's been with very very good hunters too. He's been

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Speaker 1: And what I really like about Tyler is that he's

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Speaker 1: through the what would you do? Gauntlet, going to get

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Speaker 1: traveling hunts. You're going to try to pick a few

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Speaker 1: things from him. From someone who gets a chance to

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Speaker 1: you know, what can you learn from somebody like that

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Speaker 1: good one. It was a fun one. I appreciate Tyler

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Speaker 1: jourding this and uh I think you guys will enjoy

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Speaker 1: it too. Now, real quick, before we get to the

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Speaker 1: main show, I want to give you a couple of

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Speaker 1: latest content from meat Eater and Wired Hunt's whitetail world.

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Speaker 1: So we've got all of our podcasts on there are

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Speaker 1: to date on all of those things. Now, a couple

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Speaker 1: of the things in our world this past week, our

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just so tough. I mean, you know,

431
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:37,199
Speaker 1: you know, you just never know. And like I was

432
00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 1: doing the same thing, you know, the night before the season,

433
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,439
Speaker 1: I was like, what do I do? And then I

434
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,520
Speaker 1: looked at the forecast for the next ten days and

435
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,719
Speaker 1: we had predominantly east wind the whole time, east southeast,

436
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,520
Speaker 1: which is the worst win you could have. So I said,

437
00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,199
Speaker 1: you know, if if I'm gonna try it, maybe go

438
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,120
Speaker 1: ahead and try it early and then hopefully I can

439
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:56,680
Speaker 1: you know, recover if if things don't go according to plan,

440
00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:58,639
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I can give it some time and

441
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,479
Speaker 1: in that area, will you know, the uh, just not

442
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,760
Speaker 1: put any pressure in there for a while until things

443
00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 1: are just right. And so you know, Luckily it worked

444
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,800
Speaker 1: out in that deer. Um. I think it took us

445
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,399
Speaker 1: four days to have that deer showback up on camera,

446
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 1: you know, and he that's a deer that was regular

447
00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,000
Speaker 1: every single day from the end of July until the

448
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,960
Speaker 1: start of the season. So Um, luckily that he felt

449
00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 1: comfortable enough to come back. But you know, sometimes they don't.

450
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,119
Speaker 1: And that's just the risk you take. Yeah, keeps us

451
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:30,439
Speaker 1: coming back again, right, keeps us coming back. You know,

452
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 1: it's not always easy too. That's just that's part of

453
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,760
Speaker 1: the game you play. Yeah, all right, here's another one.

454
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 1: Let's let's imagine that unfortunately for you, you lose access

455
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 1: to this Nebraska spot you've been hunting recently, but you

456
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:49,200
Speaker 1: still want to go out to that region. Let's say

457
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:51,200
Speaker 1: you know, it could be Nebraska or one of these

458
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: you know, western Great Plain states or Midwest you know, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska,

459
00:22:56,359 --> 00:23:00,920
Speaker 1: South Dakota, something like that, and you decide that since

460
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 1: you don't have your old spot, you're gonna take up

461
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,479
Speaker 1: A buddy who had a long time ago said hey,

462
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,640
Speaker 1: you can come hunt my family property anytime. So you said, okay,

463
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pinch, I'm gonna go hunt my friends property.

464
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,520
Speaker 1: You've never been there before, though, so you're gonna show

465
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 1: up day one. It's you know, the season is open,

466
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 1: it's mid September, let's say, and you're showing up to

467
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 1: see this place for the very first time. You you

468
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: weren't able to get there in the summer to scout

469
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 1: or anything, so you you have no knowledge. All you

470
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: know is that your buddy has said, Hey, this is

471
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: these are the property lines. You've got free rain, there's

472
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 1: deer here. What would you do on day one of

473
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,040
Speaker 1: this hunt? Would you start hunting right away? Would you scout?

474
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: Would you hang cameras? What does that first day look

475
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: like on this brand new place? Yeah? I think the

476
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,639
Speaker 1: first day I'm gonna ask is where's the food? Um?

477
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,760
Speaker 1: You know that's kind of when whenever I hunt out

478
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 1: in that part of the country, is you know, where's

479
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 1: the food at? Another thing I might do, and this

480
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,680
Speaker 1: is proven to be successful for us out there in

481
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,439
Speaker 1: that part of the country, but is to find, you know,

482
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: whatever trees that are available on some of these uh

483
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 1: maybe deer trails and just seeing you know, some of

484
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: the some of the routesies deer taken you know to

485
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,840
Speaker 1: and from. Uh you know if it's alfalfa that time

486
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: of year, I know that's you know, really popular for

487
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,760
Speaker 1: us in our region of Nebraska in Montana. UM. But

488
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,120
Speaker 1: you know those would be my my number, that would

489
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: be my one and two things. As where as the

490
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 1: food um, and where can I get a trail camera at?

491
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: It may not tell you the full picture? And then uh,

492
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, especially in Montana, and is the exact same

493
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,920
Speaker 1: way as is there anywhere I can get advantage point

494
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: where I can get go glass from you know, glassing

495
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: a lot of these places in Nebraska and in the

496
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: Milk River where I have a lot of I've spent

497
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: a lot of time over the years, can really tell

498
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: you a lot more so than even a trail camera can. UM.

499
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,200
Speaker 1: So if there's anywhere that I can get and sit

500
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: far enough off that where I don't disturb anything or

501
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 1: mess it up, um you know, and then maybe after

502
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,479
Speaker 1: a day or two of doing that, then maybe you

503
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 1: start you know, game planning um or maybe some word

504
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 1: to hang a stand and um, you know that could

505
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: be another option too, is you know sometimes um, you know,

506
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: when I first started hunting this this region of Nebraska,

507
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: was getting in a tree stand where you're close, but

508
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,399
Speaker 1: you're not close enough to where you're gonna go in

509
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: there maybe mess it up. I didn't really expect to

510
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: go in there and be successful, but it did tell

511
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: me a lot about the deer's habits. Um, you know,

512
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: maybe what trails and routes they were taking to the

513
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 1: alf alfa in the evening so, um, you know that

514
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,960
Speaker 1: time of year, it's it's really tough to hunt in

515
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 1: the mornings at least where I'm at um, So I

516
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: would definitely you know, stay off that and and hunt

517
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: primarily in the evenings. Um, just a little bit of

518
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,399
Speaker 1: a safer bed if you're gonna be there for a while. Yeah.

519
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,879
Speaker 1: So so glassing, you know that first morning sounds like

520
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,320
Speaker 1: that you mentioned wanting to you know, find those trails

521
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: and the trees that they're passing through, possibly putting those

522
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: cameras up. Is that something you'd be you know, cruising

523
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,080
Speaker 1: around midday that first day doing that? And would you

524
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 1: be on foot to scout? Would you drive in a truck,

525
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: would you take a bike or four wheel or something like?

526
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,400
Speaker 1: How would you what would be this the way you'd

527
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 1: want to do that kind of preliminary day one scouting?

528
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 1: How would you do that usually. Yeah. So I know

529
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: what I've done in the in the past is we

530
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: have these these bikes that we take just an electric

531
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: bike and um, I have a little car that I

532
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:37,120
Speaker 1: can you know, put my cameras on and and uh,

533
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: you know, not try to ride anything that's gonna be

534
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: too loud. And you know those bikes are pretty stealthy. Um.

535
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: So you know, using that to to try and go

536
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: and find as many places or if you find a

537
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 1: water hole or um, you know, different different trails. Um.

538
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 1: You know. The only problem is it's like there's just

539
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 1: sometimes not a ton of trees, like you know, sometimes

540
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: you gotta get a little creative and maybe maybe even

541
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: find like a a stick or you know, something you

542
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 1: can stick on the ground and tie camera on too,

543
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: u you know, to see you know where some of

544
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: these deer maybe coming. I've had to do that many times. Um. Um.

545
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 1: So you know that that first day is is uh

546
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: that I'd be doing a lot of that, just trying

547
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: to get around there as quietly as possible, and you know,

548
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 1: um doing that mostly you know, during the middle of

549
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: the day, you know, not the first thing in the morning.

550
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: I'd say, you know, early season, anywhere between you know,

551
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,280
Speaker 1: ten and maybe one or two o'clock. Uh, you know

552
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: that'd be the time to go scouting glass. What what's

553
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: the bike you're using these days? I'm actually finally I

554
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: finally decided I need to get me one of these.

555
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to get some intel from folks to

556
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: see what they like the most. What's uh, what's your

557
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 1: take on that? So we're actually sponsored by back Who

558
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: Bikes and so back Who. I mean they they've been

559
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: great too, and um, you know even for the Georgia dear. Um,

560
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: you know, I don't like riding anything just too loud

561
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: and it it's it's crazy that you know you're able

562
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: to cover as much ground and you know, I mean

563
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: we and even turkey hunting to we run those things

564
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: all day long. Um. You know, I have the mule

565
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 1: Elite Electric Byte from Backou and Um, you're able to

566
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 1: cover a lot of ground in those and you know

567
00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: you really feel like you're it's probably the safest way

568
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 1: to go undetected. Um, at least for me, I've I've

569
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: found a I found that better than you know, leaving

570
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: my scent, you know, by walking and doing it that way.

571
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: I just I feel like you know, the safer you

572
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: can be the better. Yeah, they just seem to be

573
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 1: so much more forgiving of wheeled access to Yes, yeah,

574
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: it's it's been nice to have. My next question is

575
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: this same scenario, same exact scenario, same exact question, except

576
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: let's chee is the date from mid September to now November?

577
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: Would would your day one be different now that you're

578
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: showing up brand new on this place in November? Anything different? Yeah?

579
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, probably probably something different. Um,

580
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: definitely bring a grunt call and rattling horns. Um, you know,

581
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: and maybe some of those places that you did have

582
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: a tree stand hung if you were just trying to

583
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: go get inventory. Um and we're talking about bow hunting right, yes, yeah,

584
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: you know, I would say, you know, definitely definitely get

585
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: somewhere where you can get maybe even a little bit

586
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: closer to the action. Um, you know, just in case,

587
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: and you know, a grunt call that timing year has

588
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: been proven deadly. Um. You know, so rattling horns. We

589
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: rattled up so many deer um even that first second

590
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: week in November. Um, it can it can just be

591
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 1: starting to get really good. And you know another thing

592
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: we've been and two and is uh those Dave Smith decoys,

593
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: they've been they've been great to have. I'm not afraid,

594
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: you know, maybe in Georgia, I wouldn't be wouldn't be

595
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: uh maybe willing to do that or as lucky, um,

596
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: you know, but I've I've had several successful hunts and

597
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: you know, different people we've bought out there over the years. Um,

598
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's been a good strategy as well.

599
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: I mean there's if there's a dominant buck in in

600
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: the alfalfa field or if he can see it. You know,

601
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: I've had some of them see that decoy and come

602
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: in from two hundred plush yards, um, just to come

603
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: not that thing over. That's so awesome to see. Oh yeah,

604
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: it's fun. It really is fun. You know. We don't

605
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: we don't get a whole lot of that, you know,

606
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: down here. I don't. I don't really know what it is.

607
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: But the bucks, at least on our property here in

608
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: Georgia are just not quite as aggressive maybe toward a decoy.

609
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: There may be a little bit more weary, um, you know,

610
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: of just succumbing to that. So but it's something when

611
00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: you get up there and it works, it's pretty fun side,

612
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: even even if you haven't, you know, work on deer

613
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: that are not quote unquote shooters. Um, you know, it's

614
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: it's been proven to be a successful tactic entertaining. If

615
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: nothing else that is that makes for good video. Yeah,

616
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: I bet so. Here here's a very different scenario to consider.

617
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 1: Let's say you have a shared property with a group

618
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: of hunting buddies. I don't know if it's maybe well,

619
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: let's just say it's like you all share it. So

620
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:42,479
Speaker 1: maybe it's the least or it's a place you all

621
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: got permission together, or it's a friends you've all pitched

622
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: in throughout the year, you know, to do some prep

623
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: on the farm, and maybe you guys did a little

624
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: bit of habit at work. You all met up and

625
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: put up cameras in the summer, hung trail, tree stands, whatever.

626
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: Now it's the night before your hunt begins, and you're

627
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: sitting in the kitchen and you're having that last beer

628
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: or the night or something like that, and one guy says,

629
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: all right, well where are we gonna sit? So my

630
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: question for you, tyler, is how do you recommend when

631
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: hunting with a group of friends? How do you recommend

632
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 1: fairly determining how stand sides are picked, like who gets

633
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: to pick where they want, how they you know, how

634
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: do you divvy that up? That just seems like one

635
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: of those things that can be a challenge sometimes because

636
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 1: maybe everybody wants to hunt the one really great funnel.

637
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: How do you do that in a fair equitable way

638
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: and share a place? Dane, That's a good that's a

639
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: really good question. Um, I don't know, you know, I'm

640
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: I've always been Uh, this is not really gonna answer

641
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: your question, but you know, and and yes, I've I've

642
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 1: been fortunate, you know to go and and and do

643
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: a lot of really cool hunts and different experiences. But um,

644
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: you know what what we try to what I try

645
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: to do is just maybe pick a name out of

646
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: a hat or something. I mean, as as silly as

647
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: that may sound, you know, especially between you know, the

648
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 1: different people that hunt on the farm. Uh, you know

649
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: a lot of people want to go to one place

650
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: and there's really just no fair way to do it.

651
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: You know. You may have that buddy though that's maybe

652
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 1: put in more works up more work than the others.

653
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: And we've definitely had have had that too. Um, you know,

654
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: I'd say they get the first right of refusal on

655
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: maybe some of that. But um, you know, there's there's

656
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: a there's not a whole lot of ways to to

657
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: fairly do that without maybe getting somebody upset. But I'd

658
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: say for the people that are that are there that

659
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: have some sweat equity um into some of the prep

660
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: work that goes on, I would I say should receive

661
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: received first right because you know, as far as like

662
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: a hunt club or if you have a piece of

663
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: land you're hunting with your buddies, there's always going to

664
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: be those people that may be put in a little

665
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: bit more work than the others. Um So that that

666
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: that would that would be maybe my best guests on

667
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: what to do. And then you know you may have

668
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: different um sections of the hunt club that it's you

669
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: know section offer each individual. You know, maybe you have

670
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,919
Speaker 1: pieces of that property where you know that that's that's

671
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: the airs. Yeah, well do that. No, there's not um

672
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: what are some I mean is that is like the

673
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: random name picking out a hat what you've seen on

674
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: a live of your hunts, Because I feel like you've

675
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: been on so many hunts of the years where there's

676
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: like there's always a big crew there's a crew of

677
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:35,240
Speaker 1: you guys all out there hunting this farm or this place,

678
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: and you're all hunting different areas. I always wonder, like,

679
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 1: how do they settle on who's gonna hunt where? Um,

680
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: is it something like that you guys usually do, or

681
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: is it sometimes like widel is just gonna call it

682
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: and you guys just live with it, know how to go,

683
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you know, I know I keep

684
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: mentioning Nebraska, but that's somewhere where we've had big camps

685
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: and the Milk River has kind of be in the

686
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 1: same way. You know, if if some anywhere to say,

687
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 1: you know, get maybe eyes on a deer and say, man,

688
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: I really like that deer. So I mean you want

689
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: to go hunt that deer, we'll I mean we'll feel free,

690
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: you know, we'll try to go help you hang to

691
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: stand or um, you know, help you get something set up,

692
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: and um, you know that. I guess if that person

693
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: wants to call Dibbs, that's that's completely fine. You know.

694
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: I don't get too territorial on any of these deer.

695
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people in our group

696
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: are the same way. Um, you know, I just want

697
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: everybody to have a good time. Um. So that's that's

698
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,399
Speaker 1: something that I've I've kind of preached. It is just

699
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 1: you know, if if somebody has a particular area or

700
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 1: if they went in glass to spot that they really

701
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: like and they called DIBs on it first and by

702
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: all means go for it. Um. So that's kind of

703
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: how we go about it. You know, we don't really

704
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: designate somebody just to one particular spot. We kind of

705
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: you know, like the good thing about Nebraska where we go,

706
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna have three or four days, got there and

707
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: glass and scout and hang stands before and um, you know,

708
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: if there's somebody that says, man, I of this particular

709
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: area and that's yours. If you want it, that's yours.

710
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: So um, that's kind of how we go about doing

711
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: it out there. Yeah. Well, it's it's good to This

712
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: comes back to a decision prior to the hunt itself,

713
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: which is when choosing who you're hunting. Buddies are and

714
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: I think it's important to choose the right group and

715
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: be you know, have the right relationships so that you're

716
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: in a situation where that kind of thing works and

717
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: you guys are rooting for each other and it's not,

718
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: you know, and it's not controversial or combative and people

719
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: are pissed at each other for taking this spot or

720
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: that spot. I mean that that's a recipe for disaster. Yeah.

721
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:38,879
Speaker 1: We all pull for each other, you know, we all

722
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: we all pull for each other. Man. It's it's uh,

723
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: you know, a big deer for whatever reason. And you know,

724
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: I feel like I have a pretty good perspective on it.

725
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: It can ruin a relationship, it can ruin a friendship.

726
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: But you know that's just not how our group roles. Um.

727
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: You know, the people we have in camp, you know,

728
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: we're there for the experience, the hunt. Um. You know,

729
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: trying to get close to these white tails a challenge

730
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 1: enough in itself, um, you know, so you know we don't.

731
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: We try not to let gred you know, play a

732
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: factor in it. Um, and just you know, do it

733
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: for the do it for the right reasons. But you

734
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: know for that that isn't that does play out in

735
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: some cases that we've been lucky for the most part.

736
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: That's good. All right. Here's another one for Tyler. You

737
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: are sitting in the tree and you get into the

738
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 1: last hour of daylight of an evening hunt. You hear

739
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: the crunch, crunch, crunch. You look off in the distance

740
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: and you see uh picket fence come in your way,

741
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: and you very quickly realize that this is a buck

742
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: that will make your Georgia buck look like a chump.

743
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: You realize this is the biggest buck you will probably

744
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: ever see in your life. He's well over two inches,

745
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: he's got I don't know, double draft times. I mean,

746
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: he's a dream, dear, and he's headed your way, and

747
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: you're realizing, oh, why I'm going to get a shot

748
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: at this buck? What do you do in the following

749
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:12,240
Speaker 1: seconds or minutes to collect yourself, calm yourself mentally, prepare

750
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: yourself to get this shot? What you know? What's what's

751
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: inside in between your ears? Tyler? Because I think one thing,

752
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: that one thing that stands out about you compared to

753
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: a whole lot of folks, I think is that you

754
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 1: have You're in a position every year to see a

755
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: whole lot of big deer and to shoot a lot

756
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: of deer every year. So you you've you've gone through

757
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: this way more times than I have. I'm sure what

758
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: is your secret sauce to being able to execute in

759
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 1: that moment? That's a great question. Um. You know what

760
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: what I've tried to do is that once I get

761
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: eyes on a deer like that, maybe a deer that

762
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: I don't don't don't know, um, even if it's a

763
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 1: deer I do know, I just try to go to

764
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: another place. This is gonna sound silly to some people,

765
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 1: but I found that the best way to calm myself

766
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: down is to not really look at that deer again,

767
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: not look at his rack again. Um. You know, obviously

768
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: you know, prep for the shot, um, and hopefully I've

769
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 1: done some of that work, you know, before the deer

770
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: is coming in there of knowing you know, where I'd

771
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 1: like to shoot this deer. I have all my spots

772
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,439
Speaker 1: ranged in advance. But I try to just not think

773
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: about anything that's going on in the moment um, you know,

774
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: trying to just get my mind as far away from

775
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: that as possible, because I think if I think where

776
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: people can mess up, as you know, if that starts

777
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 1: going through my mind, like, man, this could be the

778
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 1: biggest deer in my life. You know, I don't want

779
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,439
Speaker 1: to best this moment up. Um. You know. Maybe it's

780
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 1: like a baseball player, you know, going to the plate.

781
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 1: You know, you you you go up there and just

782
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 1: execute um and just you know, thinking about as little

783
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: as possible. Um. You know you don't want that added

784
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: pressure of trying to execute that shot. Um. You know

785
00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: you've practiced, you know, you've you've you're ready to this moment.

786
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: So UM, you know. I try to I try to

787
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: let my mind go elsewhere. You know where elsewhere is?

788
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. It can it can range from a

789
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: lot of different things. You know, work, I have to

790
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: do it in the house, or uh, you know, thinking

791
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: about an email I need to respond to or something.

792
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 1: I mean, just trying to do is as much as

793
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 1: I can not to let the moment get the better

794
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 1: of me. I like that. Now what about you know,

795
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: is there any like your shot prices itself and now

796
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,439
Speaker 1: that bucks getting into range? I'm curious what does your

797
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: Do you have a a mantra? Do you have anything

798
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 1: you say in your head as you're drawing back or

799
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: as you aim, or anything to try to stay in

800
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: that to stay in that moment or do you prefer

801
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: to stay out of the moment completely and kind of

802
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: be an autopilot? Yeah? I think what I think what

803
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: I try to do there, and it is to be

804
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: really confident, not overconfident, but I kind of tell like

805
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: something I always tell myself is, man, you're gonna smoke

806
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 1: this dear, like you're going you're gonna make a great shot. Uh.

807
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: You know, when when you draw back and you know

808
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: you're on a deer of any size or caliber, you know,

809
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: you can get shaky, a little nervous. But I try to,

810
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 1: let you know, tell myself over and over like, man,

811
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: you're gonna put it behind his shoulder and drill this deer, um,

812
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, just make it, make a great shot. And

813
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: I found that when I go in there with that

814
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: mentality instead of being nervous or you know, just want

815
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: to keep the buck fever as far away as possible

816
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: and keeping that that kind of don't give a crap

817
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: attitude of you know, letting, you know, letting the moment

818
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: overtake me. Um, and just you know, going in there

819
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: kind of with a force. Is is kind of why

820
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 1: I found to work for me at least and then

821
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: and then let the butt fever creep in after the

822
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: shot is executed, hopefully, Yeah, that's the right time to

823
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: feel it. Yeah. Now, now here's here's the doozy. Let's

824
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: let's imagine the situation happens. It's November, We'll say, but

825
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: you miss him? Yeah? What do you do after a

826
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: miss on a November hunt like that? Are you? Are

827
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: you the type who can just stick it out and

828
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: stay out there and just like the best way to

829
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 1: get this off your back is to shoot another one

830
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 1: today or do you you know, pull out, go back

831
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: to camp, shoot your bowl, build your confidence back up again. Um,

832
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: what are you physically doing and then what are you

833
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: mentally doing to to get your head read again after

834
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:32,359
Speaker 1: something like that? Yeah, Um, that's a great question. Um.

835
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: You know, I think after a miss, you know, going

836
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: back and and figuring out what exactly happened. Um, But

837
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: what I like to do is is to go back

838
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: to camp, you know, and I'm I'm fine sending it

839
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: out you know for the rest of the hunt and

840
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: not letting that get me down too much because mr

841
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: has just happened. Bow Hunting is really hard, uh, you know,

842
00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: so going back and trying to get you know, ten

843
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: to fifteen shots, making sure my equipments on um, and

844
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 1: just getting my confidence back that way, ums, is probably

845
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: the best thing you know for me to do. Um.

846
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: You know, you can't be repetition. Um. You know it's

847
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: like you know, falling off a bite, getting back on. Um.

848
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 1: You just gotta get back out there and do it.

849
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: You know, everybody, you know, baseball player, you strike out,

850
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: but you're next to back. You know, you've got to

851
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: go out there and make it count again. UM. So

852
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: I try not to let it get get me down

853
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: too much. I think when I was younger, I did

854
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um. You know, it doesn't feel good

855
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: to have a swing and a miss. But you know,

856
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: if you do this thing long enough, reality is it

857
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 1: just happens. You just gotta keep keep positive and keep

858
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: moving on. We've all been there too many times. Yeah,

859
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: all right, So let's let's step back from the shooting

860
00:43:57,120 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: and get back to another hunt thing. And let's say

861
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: this is like a like a late October hunt, and

862
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: you're back in the southeast. Maybe this is a home

863
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: farm Georgia hunt. Maybe this is somewhere else you guys

864
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: are poking around down there in the southeast. But let's

865
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 1: call this kind of a mixed timber and egg kind

866
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: of diverse habitat. And a small cold front pushes through

867
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 1: the day before. So let's say I don't know Let's

868
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 1: say it's cold front coming through on October and you're

869
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: thinking about hunting the next day, and that coal front

870
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: pushes through and you get your first daylight trail camera

871
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: picture of a mature buck in this area. It's about

872
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,760
Speaker 1: twenty minutes before dark on like a small food source,

873
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: like a little hidy hole food plotter, corner of a field,

874
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: something like that. Okay, because the first time he's been

875
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,760
Speaker 1: daylight this season. Now, in most situations, at least for myself,

876
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: I'd be very excited about that, and I'd be thinking

877
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: about getting right back into that next night. But here's

878
00:44:55,640 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: the thing. The wind is going to shift degree is

879
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: the next day. Let's say it was a west wind

880
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: when that cold front hit, and he showed up tomorrow,

881
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,280
Speaker 1: everything's the same, but the wind is a complete shift

882
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:11,759
Speaker 1: and now it's an east wind. Do you hunt that

883
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 1: spot the next evening, giving that he was daylight or

884
00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: does that shift in wind direction? Were you enough to

885
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: to not do that and instead of do something different? Yeah,

886
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: if if the wind was bad, I'd likely go in

887
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: there and do something different, especially if you know where

888
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: he was on trail camera is going to be, you know,

889
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: dead down wind. Then you know, I'd like to try

890
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 1: and do something else I think, Um, I still wouldn't

891
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: be afraid to go in there. Hopefully I have another

892
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: stand uh set up, and if I don't, you know,

893
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: wouldn't be afraid to go in there sometime, um, you know,

894
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: maybe during the middle of the day and get up

895
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,800
Speaker 1: another another stand. Um. You know. For for me, anywhere

896
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: between that October till about November six or seven, I'm

897
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: trying to be in a tree as much as possible,

898
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,080
Speaker 1: and like you said, he's daylight for the first time.

899
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,120
Speaker 1: Um so, and also not afraid to go in there

900
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: and do a hanging hunt you know for the right wind.

901
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: Um that's on that's that's uh, that's close to that dear. Um.

902
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: You know this this, if there's a this probably wouldn't

903
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: work for that scenario. But if you know, if you

904
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,880
Speaker 1: had a a ground blind where you could go in

905
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: there and uh you know enclose your sin in for

906
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 1: bo r gun Uh you know something that's hard show. Um.

907
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: You know we use that a lot here, um, just

908
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,959
Speaker 1: because you know, the wind can be screwy a lot.

909
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: So you know, if there is a situation like that

910
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: where I can use a ground blind, UM to my advantage.

911
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: I'll do that as well. Okay, So that brings to

912
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: mind another scenario that I was going to run by you,

913
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: and it's something I've encountered. Uh specifically, there's one spot

914
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: that really kills me that's like this, and I've seen

915
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: similar in other places in the Midwest. Um, it's a

916
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 1: little bit similar to what we just discussed. But here's

917
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: here's a situation. We're in November. Now, you're somewhere in

918
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 1: the Middle West, and you discover just an absolute sweet spot.

919
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: It's deep in the cover, but you can tell like

920
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: this is the spot. Within the spot. Within the spot,

921
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: there's a little creek crossing with bedding all around, and

922
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: from afar you have seen numerous shoar bucks all cross

923
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: right here. They all come through this bedding area, they

924
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: all cross right here. It's it's the spot. The problem

925
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 1: is that it's a very high deer density area and

926
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: there's just deer all around it. And as you sit

927
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 1: there on the outside looking in, you're thinking, man, how

928
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: could I ever hunt right inside there where all these

929
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 1: deer crossed by, without these forty doughs that are always

930
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 1: coming in and out of here, winding me and blowing

931
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: the whole thing. What do you do in that situation?

932
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: Do you hunt down right in that spot, knowing there's

933
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: the risk and just hoping that you can pull it off.

934
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: I've heard you say spray and pray in the past,

935
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: So would you spray and pray in a situation like

936
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: that or would you say it's just too risky and

937
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: you gotta hunt off of that somewhere else? No? I would,

938
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: I would, You know, I do spray and pray some,

939
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: but you know, if if the density is that high,

940
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: you know, with deer in a particular area, I don't know,

941
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: if there's you know, the amount of the amount of

942
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: scent covering the world, um, that could cover up your

943
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: scent good enough. So you know, no, I would. I

944
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 1: would try to hunt off of there a little bit, um,

945
00:48:23,360 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: you know, if they are going to a spot in

946
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 1: the field where I can get a stand, uh hung

947
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: close to that area and just give myself a little

948
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: bit of breathing room, especially to start off, you know,

949
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: not saying I wouldn't go in there and try that

950
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: situation maybe later on or um, if I didn't have

951
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: a whole lot of time in the hunt, But I

952
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: would say, right off the bat to get right on

953
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,479
Speaker 1: top of them and wrist blowing the whole thing would

954
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: probably play it safe, go back to the play and

955
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 1: safe mentality that I should have listened to a year ago.

956
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: So that's that's probably where what I do in that

957
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: situation was to start off. Yeah, So in my example

958
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: where I had something like this, I had I had

959
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: an area like this I knew about. I finally had

960
00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: access that I could hunt deep in there finally, and

961
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: and I kind of had the same thought you did.

962
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: I was I was worried to go in there too soon,

963
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: So I kept trying to play the edges and I

964
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: hope I can make it happen, and and finally got

965
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: got towards the end of the time I had left,

966
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 1: and I finally thought, man, I just had to throw

967
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: caution to the wind. I'm gonna get one chance. I'm

968
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: just gonna try it. I'm gonna swing for the fences.

969
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,920
Speaker 1: And so I snuck in here. I walked the creek

970
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: all the way into this bedding are deep in there,

971
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,439
Speaker 1: well before daylight. It was like November five or six

972
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: or something like that. And I hang a new set

973
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: in this tree right in the edge of the creek

974
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: and I picked a day where the wind actually blew

975
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 1: down along with the creek, so I thought that was

976
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: my best chance if there was anything that might let

977
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: me get away with something to be if my wind

978
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: was in the water, and I took my shot right

979
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: and sure enough my shooter buck up been after comes through.

980
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: But he comes through like ten minutes before daylight, and

981
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:07,399
Speaker 1: I have to watch him go past me in the dark.

982
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: But I can see him and then go down windo

983
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: me and win me and spook out of that. So

984
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: I could have shot him if it was like fifteen

985
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: minutes later. He did exactly what I needed to, but

986
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: he just came too early. So yeah, yeah, that unfortunately

987
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: can happen. I think what I found, and then you know,

988
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 1: in the Midwest we use a lot of that style

989
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: of home is. You know, playing it saved the first

990
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,720
Speaker 1: few days, you can learn a lot those first couple

991
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: of sets, those first two or three cents and a stand,

992
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 1: and you know, you think you know where the deer

993
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 1: funneling out of a lot, but then you know, if

994
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: you were to get down somewhere and get a little

995
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: bit further off that crossing where those deer coming to,

996
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:49,439
Speaker 1: you know, you get away better lay of the land

997
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 1: and go, oh, I may go try to that tree

998
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: tomorrow or go, you know, maybe try that set up,

999
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: you know, mid day and go have a stand hung

1000
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:00,399
Speaker 1: there for when the wind switches back. Right. Um, So

1001
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: you know that it can it can teach you a

1002
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: lot playing it safe. But you know, there does come

1003
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: a point where it's like you're getting a little bit late.

1004
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: You've been there for five or six days. It's like

1005
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: how long can you continue to do this? Um, and

1006
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: you've got to push in a little bit. But um,

1007
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: you know I would probably you know, like I said,

1008
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: play it's safe to start off with, and then you know,

1009
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,240
Speaker 1: gradually creep in if you can't. Yeah, high risk, high reward.

1010
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: That's right, here's kind of a natural next step scenario.

1011
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: Then if we if we say, we're kind of kind

1012
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: of play it a little bit safe in the beginning, right,

1013
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: So let's imagine it's it's that hunt and we're a

1014
00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:40,799
Speaker 1: little bit off of the best stuff. We're still in

1015
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:43,720
Speaker 1: some pretty good areas though, and you see a shooter

1016
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: buck cruising about a hundred yards out, and like I said,

1017
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: it's like early ish November give or take somewhere in

1018
00:51:50,120 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: that window. He's a hundred yards away, but if he

1019
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: continues on his current path about another hundred yards, he

1020
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: will eventually hit your win. So my question is to you,

1021
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: would you aggressively call to him to try to get

1022
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: him to come your way? Would you be worried that

1023
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 1: he's kind of heading into your general wind direction? Does

1024
00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: any of that pass through your mind? You not call

1025
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: at all? What's your what's your move in that situation? Mm? Hmm,

1026
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: trying to think think through this. Um, that's a tough call,

1027
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: you know. If if you I may try to rattle

1028
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: and grund a little bit, you know, just to see

1029
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 1: if that doesn't switch him, you know, trying to just

1030
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: to turn his direction. Um. That that probably would be

1031
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: what I would likely to do is to call, maybe

1032
00:52:44,719 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: not call it too aggressively, or might try to snort

1033
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:52,320
Speaker 1: weise um, to see if that doesn't turn his head. Um.

1034
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: But that's that's tough. I don't know, I mean, I

1035
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: would I would do. I would do at least the

1036
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,760
Speaker 1: minimum of what I could control to try to stop

1037
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: him and just see if that doesn't doesn't change his

1038
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: direction at all, so he doesn't hit my wind. I

1039
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: would try that. I don't know if I would call

1040
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: to aggressively just because I don't want him to be

1041
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:15,719
Speaker 1: spooked from that on top of the wind um, you know,

1042
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: thinking it's you know pressure. UM, So I would try

1043
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:24,879
Speaker 1: the minimum of at least trying to lightly call. Yeah.

1044
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: So when I was like sixteen seventeen years old, and

1045
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 1: if I saw a buck out of range, I would

1046
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: you know, throw a grunt at him, and then he'd

1047
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:36,240
Speaker 1: stopped and then to keep walking. Then I grunt twice

1048
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:38,280
Speaker 1: at him. He'd stopped and looking then to keep walking,

1049
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: and then I'd like grunt louder at him, and then

1050
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: he keep walking and then I'd like snort wheez at

1051
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 1: him and then he'd run away. Right, all right, That's

1052
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:47,800
Speaker 1: what I'm worried about too. You know, that time of

1053
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: year can be, like you said, high risk, high reward.

1054
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: But you know, I just trying not to educate him

1055
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:56,760
Speaker 1: any more than what I have to. UM. So I'd

1056
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,680
Speaker 1: like to think I wouldn't be overly aggressive with that,

1057
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: um because there's there's always tomorrow. Yeah, So what's your

1058
00:54:05,239 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm wondering is what's the like, what's

1059
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: the cut off mark? Like when do you say all right,

1060
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: he's just not into it, Like, will you try a

1061
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:13,879
Speaker 1: couple of grunts or a couple of things, and then

1062
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 1: if he still ignores that, then you say, all right,

1063
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 1: well it's just not happening. Or how do you know

1064
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: when enough is enough? Yeah, I think just reading the

1065
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: deer's body language, you know, as best I can. Um,

1066
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 1: you know, if he maybe stops, you know, to a

1067
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:32,280
Speaker 1: couple of grunts, may try to you know, lightly rattle

1068
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: mike snort, wee's one time. Um. And if you know,

1069
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: if the deer doesn't doesn't react, or you know, maybe

1070
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 1: stops just for a brief second, keeps on going, then

1071
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, I'll call it off. I won't try to

1072
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: get any louder, won't continue to do it. And if

1073
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: he hits my win, he hits my win. You know,

1074
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 1: that's that's just that's uh, that's part of it. But

1075
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 1: I definitely don't want to try to spoke him anymore

1076
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,400
Speaker 1: than what I have to in hopes of, you know,

1077
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,240
Speaker 1: trying to maybe close him out later in the season

1078
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 1: or the next day or if I half a few days. Um,

1079
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: you know, our hope that maybe he well somehow not

1080
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:10,440
Speaker 1: hit my wind is as bad as I think you

1081
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: will you know, maybe he's got his back to me

1082
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: where he uh where he maybe want is not paying attention.

1083
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: So here's another kind of spotting a buck off in

1084
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:37,200
Speaker 1: the distance situation. Let's say the same kind of deal

1085
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,760
Speaker 1: you spotted shoot her buck, but instead of him cruising,

1086
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: let's say he's locked on a doll and it's the afternoon,

1087
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: and you can see that this dough is very slowly

1088
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: kind of heading off in the direction of a food source.

1089
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: They're in the betting area still, but she's kind of

1090
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: doing that thing where she moves off five ten yards.

1091
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: He's standing behind her, then he walks up, stands right

1092
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: next to her, and then she moves off and they

1093
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: they're just slowly doing this. You're sitting, you know, a

1094
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: hundred yards a hundred fifty yards away, kind of back

1095
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: behind him, watching them slowly get further and further away

1096
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,319
Speaker 1: from you. But they're moving slow. So in that situation,

1097
00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: would you would you ever try to call that buck

1098
00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,319
Speaker 1: and try to get him over to you. Would you

1099
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: slip out of your stand and try to move and

1100
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: like get ahead of them or anything, or would you

1101
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: just say I'm just gonna stick it out where I

1102
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: am and and hope that something crazy happens and they

1103
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: swing by, or a different buck comes through or something else.

1104
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,280
Speaker 1: I might try to throw in a couple of like grunts.

1105
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: I might even try to snort ways, um, especially if

1106
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: it's here on our place in Georgia, But that would

1107
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: probably be the bare minimum. Um you know, I would

1108
00:56:46,200 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: try to just anticipate maybe for that next day or

1109
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: next few days. I wouldn't try to get down and

1110
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: and try to get ahead of them. Um. You know,

1111
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: I may try to do that, may be somewhere else,

1112
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 1: but um you know, maybe like in Montana or Nebraska.

1113
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 1: You know, you may try to do that, but I'd

1114
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 1: still try to play it as safe as I could,

1115
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: because I think you know where I've I've messed up

1116
00:57:13,239 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: before in Montana is getting down out of the tree

1117
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: to try to get closer. I've ended up really you know,

1118
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: blowing some fields out and it and it really cost

1119
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 1: to me. And it may take these deer sometimes a

1120
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: week or two to really move back in and get

1121
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: comfortable again. Um So I've I've learned that the hard way,

1122
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 1: you know, in some of these places. Um So, I'd say,

1123
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, at least the first time, like if it

1124
00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: doesn't work, maybe after a couple of days and you

1125
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: can't get any closer than maybe you do try the

1126
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: ground approach. But um, i'd say to start off with

1127
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: you know, better safe. Yeah, what was your You mentioned that,

1128
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: you know, waiting till the next day and then adjusting.

1129
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: What would your adjustment be for that next day? Would

1130
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: you just try to move in right to where you

1131
00:57:57,880 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 1: saw them again and hope they come back or what

1132
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: it's your plan? Yeah? I think you know, maybe try

1133
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: and maybe hoping that that dough may take him, um,

1134
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 1: you know, maybe closer to us that next day. Um.

1135
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: You know, like that that time of year, a lot

1136
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: of these deer get out there in that alf alfa

1137
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,320
Speaker 1: and you're very limited on what you can do as

1138
00:58:18,320 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 1: far as the movement of where you can you know,

1139
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: move some of these tree stands. You know, you may

1140
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 1: be able to move sometimes a ground blind closer to

1141
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: where these deer you know where maybe the day before um,

1142
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: and that may be able to help you a little

1143
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: bit for for cent and trying to keep that keep

1144
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: that keep that you know, sent away from those deer

1145
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: as much as possible. So um, you know, so that

1146
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 1: that would be what I would probably try to do

1147
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: is uh, you know, just just try to wait it

1148
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: out and hopefully he ends up making a mistake a

1149
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: day or two later. Now would this? Uh? I want

1150
00:58:54,560 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 1: to see if if your answer would change it off?

1151
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: We were to shift a couple of things. Let's let's

1152
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: change that sitting from an afternoon sighting to instead being

1153
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 1: a morning sighting. And now you see the buck locked

1154
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 1: on a dough. But now they're bedded down, they're betted together.

1155
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: It's the morning. They're in a grassy, grassy, brushy kind

1156
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 1: of thicket. What what are you doing that scenario? Does that?

1157
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: Would that change your mind in any kind of way?

1158
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 1: Are you still approaching the same way? Um? So that

1159
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: that he's betted down with the dough, he's locked down

1160
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 1: with the doughs. What you're saying? Yep, it's the morning.

1161
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: They're betted down. It's like ten am. They're betted down together.

1162
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: They're a hundred yards away from you. You see them,

1163
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: They're not going anywhere. What do you do? Man? I

1164
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: just I don't think if they're bedded down and I'm

1165
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: in a tree, you know, I don't think there's anything

1166
00:59:44,800 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: I could do even to to call to him. Um,

1167
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: I think I'd be very limited on what I could

1168
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:53,920
Speaker 1: do in that scenario. I think you still, you know,

1169
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: you'd have to sit it out and wait, I just

1170
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: find it at least in my experience. You know, you

1171
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: and others may be different. But you know, getting down

1172
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: on a deer like that, you know, if a white

1173
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,120
Speaker 1: tail does stand up, they're not going to give you

1174
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:08,439
Speaker 1: a whole lot of time to react, you know, get

1175
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: your bow drawn. Um, and then I'm just worried about

1176
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 1: messing it up for the remainder of the hunt. Yeah,

1177
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: and because you know, in my situation, you've got a

1178
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: camera guy with you most of the time too. Um.

1179
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:20,880
Speaker 1: You know, when you have two people trying to stalk

1180
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 1: and get closer, it it's even that much more difficult. So, um,

1181
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: you know, there there may be some some situation where

1182
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: you can try and close the distance and maybe try

1183
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 1: to get in another tree. But um, yeah, that's that's tough. Yeah,

1184
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: it's a it's a doozy, that's for sure. Let's let's

1185
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 1: pivot to a slightly different situation here. Now, Let's let's

1186
01:00:45,760 --> 01:00:48,840
Speaker 1: again say that you're Sharon Hunt and camp with some friends.

1187
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: It's the rut you're somewhere in the Midwest, you know,

1188
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, We'll say maybe it's Illinois or Indiana,

1189
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: something like that. And you're all out there for a

1190
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: week together and you just cannot buy a shooter buck

1191
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 1: sighting like you're hunting great looking stuff, but nothing is

1192
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 1: panning out for you. But one of your buddies has

1193
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: kind of had a little zone that he's been focusing on,

1194
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: and it's been crazy over there. He's he's been in

1195
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: big deer every single day, different bucks coming through. And

1196
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,320
Speaker 1: on day five of your seven day hunt, he kills one,

1197
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: he tags out, he's out of there. You've got one

1198
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: or two days left. Would you consider going into his

1199
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: spot that was on fire, but where he also just

1200
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: killed a deer and tracted deer and did all that stuff,

1201
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: or would you stick to your own plan and zone

1202
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 1: you've been focusing on up to this point. Mm hmm.

1203
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Um, you know, this may not

1204
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,360
Speaker 1: be the right answer, maybe there is no right answer.

1205
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:50,640
Speaker 1: But I've always been the kind of guy. If I

1206
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 1: have time, you know, invested into a certain spot, you know,

1207
01:01:54,800 --> 01:01:57,720
Speaker 1: maybe you know, won't be as willingness to pick up

1208
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: and move. You know, I get so familiar and comfortable

1209
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: with my surroundings, even if you know, maybe a buck

1210
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 1: hasn't shown up, you know, quite yet. I always will

1211
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: sit it out until the very very you know, last minute,

1212
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 1: you know, even if we're unsuccessful. Um, you know, I like,

1213
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 1: you know, just going in somewhere where I'm I'm more familiar, uh,

1214
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 1: you know than picking up and move into a different location. Uh.

1215
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 1: You know, but sometimes you have to and and and

1216
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: you know, in that scenario, you know, maybe I might

1217
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:32,200
Speaker 1: try to move in there, um and and you know,

1218
01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 1: try my luck somewhere else. But I've always found it

1219
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,120
Speaker 1: for me, I just I try to really stick it

1220
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 1: out with the game plan that I've set out for myself.

1221
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,040
Speaker 1: Um and maybe that and it doesn't always work out,

1222
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, that's just part of the unfortunately part of

1223
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:49,440
Speaker 1: the risk you take is you may be unsuccessful. But

1224
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 1: I've always found that maybe the you know, the longer

1225
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 1: I stick it out and try to exploit all options

1226
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 1: on the current location I'm in, it usually ends up

1227
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: paying off. Yeah. I addle with this every year during

1228
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 1: the rut. Like just last year was perfect example of this.

1229
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 1: I was I found just a dynamite rut spot. It

1230
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 1: was it was like everything all stacked up. It was

1231
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: downwind of a great dough betting area. It was like

1232
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,120
Speaker 1: a hub of two different pinch points that came together,

1233
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: and there was a pond there, and I had food

1234
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 1: up on the rises above me. It was just it

1235
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: just screamed amazing. And and then it just wasn't. There

1236
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 1: was younger bucks and deer's kind of deer slowly rolling

1237
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: through here and there, but it was not what I

1238
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:33,800
Speaker 1: was thinking it would be. The big ones never showed up,

1239
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 1: and I kept battling. I'd sit there like midday on

1240
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: these all day sits and say, okay, you you could

1241
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 1: trust the place and just believe that eventually the good

1242
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 1: one has to come through because it's such a good spot.

1243
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,120
Speaker 1: Or you could go chase, you know, you could go

1244
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: try to find where the hot action is right now.

1245
01:03:51,280 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 1: And and I went back and forth a thousand times,

1246
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 1: and I I must have lost three or four years

1247
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:58,200
Speaker 1: off my long term life expectancy because how much I

1248
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:01,680
Speaker 1: stressed about it. And I never figured it out. I

1249
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:03,400
Speaker 1: kind of did a little did a little bit of both,

1250
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: and it never worked. It's a it's a tough one,

1251
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: yeah it is, you know. And and and and and like,

1252
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:14,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are situations where maybe the hunting is

1253
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: really not as good for me, and like I'd want

1254
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 1: to go up there and try something different, you know,

1255
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 1: where my buddy was just successful, maybe tagged on on

1256
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:25,480
Speaker 1: a really nice deer. I just I don't really know why.

1257
01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 1: It's just you know, you have to kind of go

1258
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:32,760
Speaker 1: in somewhere and learn that that place all over again. Um.

1259
01:04:32,800 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 1: And if I feel like there are some deer in

1260
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 1: the area where I'm currently at, you know, I like

1261
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: kind of sticking it out and seeing it through the end. Um.

1262
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 1: You know, but it doesn't always pay off. You know,

1263
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 1: there are many times, probably more often than it doesn't.

1264
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 1: So uh, it just you know, how stubborn can you be? Yeah?

1265
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 1: Does does that? Does that? I'm trying to say here,

1266
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:00,240
Speaker 1: does that ever change in any way on the very

1267
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: last day of a hunt? Like do you do you

1268
01:05:02,200 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: have a situation or are there examples were in the

1269
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: past you've you've ran a game, playing all the way

1270
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 1: to the end and then you get to that last

1271
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,400
Speaker 1: day and you get a wild hair or you say,

1272
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,280
Speaker 1: you know what, I just gotta try something new, or

1273
01:05:14,320 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 1: I just gotta do the crazy thing, or I just

1274
01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 1: gotta try X. Do you ever have that happen? Yeah,

1275
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've had that happen. And I've had

1276
01:05:22,920 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: it and and and just to be honest, I've had

1277
01:05:25,360 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 1: it not work out more so than you know, maybe

1278
01:05:28,760 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: I have had it work but you know, but that's

1279
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:34,400
Speaker 1: I think that's to be expected. Um. You know, in

1280
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 1: in Nebraska in particular, I remember a hunt two years ago.

1281
01:05:38,480 --> 01:05:43,200
Speaker 1: We were there for thirteen days, um and very limited trees,

1282
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:47,560
Speaker 1: very limited place you could put ladder stands or hanged on. UM.

1283
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 1: So I was I was kind of having to move

1284
01:05:49,960 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 1: my redneck bline you know, up and like just around,

1285
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: you know, different points of the field where these deer

1286
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 1: were coming. Well, I was trying not to get too

1287
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: close to where there were two or three tree else.

1288
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:03,600
Speaker 1: Um that this he was a drop time eight pointer

1289
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: and you know where this deer was going. It was

1290
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:10,720
Speaker 1: it was a really pretty deer, maybe a hundred fifty deer. UM.

1291
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:13,720
Speaker 1: Never had killed a deer with the drop times of thought, Man,

1292
01:06:13,720 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 1: this would be really cool. But you know, I said, man,

1293
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 1: we're on day thirteen, like we gotta we gotta kind

1294
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 1: of go all in and get close to this spot.

1295
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 1: But I knew, you know, we're gonna have a good

1296
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: chance to go back maybe the middle of October. So

1297
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 1: if you're gonna try something like this now, maybe maybe

1298
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 1: now is the time to do it. Um. So, you know,

1299
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 1: we we have that mobile Redneck, put it on a

1300
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 1: trailer and I got within maybe fifty sixty yards of

1301
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 1: of where these deer were going, and there were a

1302
01:06:42,600 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: lot of deer coming down these two or three trails

1303
01:06:45,280 --> 01:06:47,920
Speaker 1: and actually saw him coming. It was not him that

1304
01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 1: actually got spooked. It was really the deer that were

1305
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 1: in front of him, just kind of not liking the

1306
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:55,840
Speaker 1: blind And even though you do have an enclosed Redneck,

1307
01:06:56,400 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: you know you still have sent you know, when you

1308
01:06:58,080 --> 01:06:59,840
Speaker 1: have to open up that front window, there's still some

1309
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,920
Speaker 1: that can that can leak out and they're seeing you

1310
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 1: for the first time. You know, you've played it safe

1311
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:08,280
Speaker 1: this long, but you know this this is uh, this

1312
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,440
Speaker 1: is new for them. So you know, there were some

1313
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: deer that got the better of us on that one,

1314
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 1: and um it didn't work. Um, So that's but that's

1315
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 1: just kind of like I said, you know, part of it.

1316
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: And you know, I've maybe had one instance in Montana

1317
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 1: where we kind of went all out. There's a group

1318
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: of trees in the middle of alfalfa, and all all

1319
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 1: week long we were we were not not going in

1320
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 1: there because deer were on either side of this alfalfa,

1321
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:39,919
Speaker 1: and we knew if we went in there and got

1322
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 1: in that got in that single row of trees, we

1323
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:45,200
Speaker 1: were going to blow some deer. There were no if

1324
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 1: and butts about it. But it was next to last

1325
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:50,760
Speaker 1: day of the hunt. Decided to go in there and

1326
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 1: hang a ladder mid morning. And another problem with that

1327
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: was deer were bedded out there in that alfalfa two

1328
01:07:56,880 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 1: and that was really the main problem why we didn't

1329
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: put a put a tree stand anything in there. But

1330
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,800
Speaker 1: we went in there at ten o'clock, put up a

1331
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: ladder stand loose some deer out of there. It actually

1332
01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 1: ended up paying off, you know, the deer actually when

1333
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: the wind started to die down late in the evening,

1334
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 1: um you know, he uh, the wind really wasn't blowing

1335
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:20,640
Speaker 1: hard one direction, So it ended up working out. But

1336
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 1: you couldn't have guessed that beforehand. It was kind of

1337
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 1: just something that that just happened, you know. And I

1338
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 1: think a lot of deer hunting to requires a ton

1339
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:34,080
Speaker 1: of luck. That has to go your way, man. So true,

1340
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: you just gotta do enough things right enough for the

1341
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 1: time to finally catch that lucky break to coincide with it.

1342
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:43,559
Speaker 1: All right, yeah yeah, and you can overthink it. I mean,

1343
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 1: that's kind of what we were doing all week. I

1344
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:46,759
Speaker 1: was like, man, I wish we had tried that earlier

1345
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 1: in the week. But you know, when you look at

1346
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,639
Speaker 1: it from up top and you see, you know, twenty

1347
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 1: head of deer betted, I'm like, man, what can you

1348
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: really go in there and do without blowing everything out?

1349
01:08:56,400 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 1: And we did. I'd probably say, you know, that field,

1350
01:09:00,439 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: we we blew out. Um. But you know when we

1351
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 1: hun that stand up at ten o'clock, we sit in

1352
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: there all day and shot that dear maybe with ten

1353
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: minutes left to go um of daylight. Uh, you know

1354
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 1: for for camera. So um, that's it ended up working out,

1355
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:19,160
Speaker 1: But not all the time. It does. Sometimes you gotta

1356
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 1: give a shot. Yeah. All right. Here's one last kind

1357
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:27,599
Speaker 1: of tough rut scenario that kind of rears his ugly

1358
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,640
Speaker 1: head every few years and we all bemoan it. But

1359
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 1: let's say it's like the second week in November and

1360
01:09:34,280 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 1: you're on your rut trip to whoever it is this

1361
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:40,599
Speaker 1: this year on that date, will say probably Kansas, Iowa,

1362
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: somewhere in the Midwest. Again, beautiful time of year, right,

1363
01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:49,120
Speaker 1: should be, should be top notch, But your weather conditions

1364
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 1: for that week are hot. It's like seventies and lousy

1365
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: and you're miserable out there. How does your hunting strategy

1366
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: change at all for that time of year or does

1367
01:10:01,120 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 1: it change at all given the warm weather or do

1368
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: you stick to your usual rut kind of tactics? Mm hmm, Man,

1369
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:10,760
Speaker 1: I actually, I mean I feel like I experienced a

1370
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 1: lot out there in Kansas, and I try to usually

1371
01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:15,759
Speaker 1: hunt that last week in October first week in November

1372
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: in Kansas every year. Um, if you know, if we're

1373
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:23,360
Speaker 1: not somewhere else. But man, I've seen it happened out

1374
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,799
Speaker 1: there as well. I mean you can. I still wouldn't

1375
01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:29,240
Speaker 1: be opposed to sitting all day, even in really hot conditions.

1376
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 1: You just kind of never know. That can be a

1377
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 1: magical time really, no matter what the weather. Um you

1378
01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:38,800
Speaker 1: know the moon as well. So UM, you know, I

1379
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 1: try not to let it change my strategy up too

1380
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 1: much because you know, I've heard plenty of stories from

1381
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: people that hunt around that around that area. Um. You know,

1382
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 1: don't let the weather dictate too much that time of year.

1383
01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: It's it's not it's not what it was two or

1384
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 1: three weeks prior. Um. And you want to be in

1385
01:10:58,080 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: a tree as much as possible. You know, there's like

1386
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:03,080
Speaker 1: there's a window usually anywhere from that first week of

1387
01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: really that last week of October Halloween, those first couple

1388
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:10,639
Speaker 1: of weeks in November. I throw every other strategy I've

1389
01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: had up until then, from September and October kind of

1390
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:17,719
Speaker 1: out the window, um, because you know, yeah, you expect

1391
01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:21,639
Speaker 1: the unexpected that time. UM. And that goes with any

1392
01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 1: weather condition. You know, there have been so many deer

1393
01:11:24,439 --> 01:11:27,200
Speaker 1: that don't show up on my camera. Uh, you know

1394
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 1: when I'm out there in a tree, even when it's

1395
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 1: hot cold, um, that I wouldn't have seen if I

1396
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: wasn't out there. And then you kind of adjust in

1397
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: your your strategy from there. So I would say, I

1398
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:41,080
Speaker 1: would say, I try to stick it out. You know,

1399
01:11:41,120 --> 01:11:43,000
Speaker 1: the ruts just one of those times a year you

1400
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,519
Speaker 1: can't I can't think about it too much. You just

1401
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 1: got to be out there. Yeah, and what about like

1402
01:11:48,280 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 1: what's your favorite if you had to kind of describe

1403
01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:54,680
Speaker 1: your favorite rut type of setups. I mean, is it

1404
01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 1: is it the typical stuff that we all hunt, or

1405
01:11:57,479 --> 01:11:59,840
Speaker 1: do you have something a little off the beaten path

1406
01:11:59,880 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 1: that you tend to like to do during that time

1407
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:03,439
Speaker 1: of year. Paint me a picture of what a what

1408
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:08,800
Speaker 1: a rut hunt set might look like for you. Um,

1409
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like it's pretty you know, I

1410
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: am trying to. I am usually in Kansas, you know,

1411
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: mostly that time of year, but anything where I can see,

1412
01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, whether it be you know, standing beans, you

1413
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:24,800
Speaker 1: know that time of year in Kansas. Um, you know,

1414
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:27,599
Speaker 1: seeing deer out there, uh, you know during the rut

1415
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 1: and then also being able to see um, you know,

1416
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: different trails and stuff too, or if I get eyes

1417
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:34,720
Speaker 1: on a deer, you know, I can maybe try to

1418
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:37,680
Speaker 1: turn it with a grunt or a rattle, um, you know,

1419
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 1: but having as much having as much of a visual

1420
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 1: uh that time of year for and it cover as

1421
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:49,680
Speaker 1: much ground, I feel like it's really critical. Um. I

1422
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:52,240
Speaker 1: like to I like to be able to see and

1423
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 1: you know, just for for deer out there. I mean

1424
01:12:54,840 --> 01:12:57,240
Speaker 1: I had plenty of times. You know, it does not

1425
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 1: always a monster, but you you get a glimpse of deer.

1426
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 1: That's four five hundred yards out there. You start rattling

1427
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:06,720
Speaker 1: that deer, a deer will turn and come. Um. So

1428
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 1: I'll like being able to see as much much as

1429
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 1: possible and and to maybe stay on a heavy trail.

1430
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: What's your what's your rattling your typical rattling sequence look

1431
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,720
Speaker 1: like during the rut? I'm just kind of curious, like

1432
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: how long? How you know, is it is just one

1433
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:25,040
Speaker 1: NonStop thing? Is it? Stop? Start? Stop? Start with? What's

1434
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: that look like? Yeah? So I try to do it,

1435
01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 1: you know, maybe every thirty to forty five minutes, And

1436
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:34,960
Speaker 1: so a rattling sequence may go for I don't know,

1437
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:40,280
Speaker 1: maybe maybe sometimes even forty five seconds to a minute. Um,

1438
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:44,160
Speaker 1: and and and then I'll try to lay off, you know,

1439
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:47,600
Speaker 1: for like I said, thirty five minutes unless I you know,

1440
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:50,760
Speaker 1: have a visual of a deer that you know, I'm

1441
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:55,280
Speaker 1: interested in trying to get turned around to come our way. UM,

1442
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,720
Speaker 1: try not to overdo it. I don't know if you

1443
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: if you can't overdo it that time of year, but um,

1444
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:03,720
Speaker 1: I try to give it as that's kind of my

1445
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: gap time in between rattling. All right, man, you have

1446
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:13,200
Speaker 1: made it through the main section of the gauntlet. But

1447
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:16,800
Speaker 1: we've got this last set of rapid fire questions. So

1448
01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: I've got five six questions here. I'm gonna ask you

1449
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 1: real quick, one after the other, and I'm just looking

1450
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 1: for like a one word answer or as quick of

1451
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: an answer as you can give me on these, and

1452
01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:29,719
Speaker 1: we'll just rattle through real fast. Okay, okay, sounds good.

1453
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:33,200
Speaker 1: All right. These are a little controversial, tyler, So you

1454
01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 1: might get some haters coming off of these, to be ready,

1455
01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:40,639
Speaker 1: plenty of those anyway. Yeah, you and me and both buddy,

1456
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 1: So here here we go. Does the moon matter to

1457
01:14:43,920 --> 01:14:48,160
Speaker 1: dear movement? Yes? Or no? Yes? Would you take a

1458
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 1: fifty yards shot at a white tail with your bow? Yes?

1459
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:55,720
Speaker 1: If you could only have one of these tools for

1460
01:14:55,720 --> 01:14:57,759
Speaker 1: the rest of your hunts for the rest of your life,

1461
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 1: would you choose rattling antlers or or a grunt tube,

1462
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 1: grant expandable or fixed blade broadheads? There you go? Yeah,

1463
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:17,759
Speaker 1: there's the haters. Um. Should you stop a walking buck

1464
01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:21,080
Speaker 1: with some kind of sound before shooting with your bow? Yes?

1465
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:26,759
Speaker 1: Or no? Oh? Shoot? Um? Yes? Which state has better

1466
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:34,920
Speaker 1: deer hunters? Georgia or Mississippi? Both? Yeah? Safe? Safe answer.

1467
01:15:35,479 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 1: All right, So here's the last one. This one is

1468
01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:40,640
Speaker 1: not quite as rapid fire. But let's imagine that I

1469
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:46,120
Speaker 1: rule the world. I have control over all hunting scenarios, situations,

1470
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 1: license allocation, YadA, YadA, YadA. And here's the deal. I

1471
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,640
Speaker 1: am going to take away your right to hunt for

1472
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 1: the next twenty years. You can't hunt ever again for

1473
01:15:56,479 --> 01:16:02,320
Speaker 1: twenty years, Tyler, unless unless you kill a mature buck

1474
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:06,400
Speaker 1: in one day this season. I'm gonna let you pick

1475
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 1: the date. So pick the date on the calendar you

1476
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:11,040
Speaker 1: want for this one hunt. And then you have to

1477
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:14,759
Speaker 1: pick the one specific location. So tell me what state,

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01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:18,720
Speaker 1: tell me what the situation is, what you're set up is.

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01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:21,639
Speaker 1: Paint me the picture of what day and what you're

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01:16:21,640 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 1: set up is to kill this one mature buck you

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01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 1: need to kill to save the next twenty years a hunting. Wow.

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01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:33,920
Speaker 1: That's that's tough. So save twenty years of hunting. Pick

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01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:38,679
Speaker 1: one spot. Um, I would say, you know, probably home,

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01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 1: just because I'm so familiar with this place and have

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01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: kind of grown up on it. Um. I really feel

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01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:46,439
Speaker 1: like even though that you know, the people would argue

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01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:48,640
Speaker 1: that maybe other places would be easier. I feel like

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01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:53,000
Speaker 1: I could have a good chance at a mature deer here. Um.

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01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:56,880
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just so familiar with this property, so

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01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 1: I would say that, you know, maybe early sea season, um,

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01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 1: you know, finding a spot like in the woods, kind

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01:17:04,439 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 1: of like what I had last year with with my

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01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: dear hunting somewhere near Oaks pin Oaks, Water Oaks Salt too. Um,

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01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:16,559
Speaker 1: you know, so that would be that would probably be

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01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 1: my deal. Setup is somewhere early season September. Um, let's

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01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 1: just say for you know, we we've been we've been

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01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: fortunate here to have a lot of mature deer still

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01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 1: on a pattern early season, so I would say early

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01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:37,040
Speaker 1: season is really my favorite time. So let's just say

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Speaker 1: September T I'll play the odds and and hopefully hopefully

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01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 1: be able to get a mature buck down. But early season,

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01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:50,000
Speaker 1: early season in Georgia, probably hunt in the woods. I

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01:17:50,040 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 1: like it. You've bucked the usual trend most people pick

1504
01:17:53,320 --> 01:17:55,559
Speaker 1: like the first week in November in the Midwest. So

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01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 1: I like that. You uh, you're willing to risk it

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01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 1: in Georgia early season. That takes some going nuts. I

1507
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:03,800
Speaker 1: like it. I think I think the reason why it

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01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,160
Speaker 1: is just you know, other places while it can be

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01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:09,519
Speaker 1: really good. It could be really unpredictable. Yeah, um, you know,

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01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:12,160
Speaker 1: and it may not pay off for me. But you know,

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01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 1: I've always found I like early season more than I

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01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:17,680
Speaker 1: do maybe the end of October one November, while it

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01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:21,000
Speaker 1: can be fun um, you know, dear, a little bit

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01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 1: more patterntable for us, that early part. Yeah, I really

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01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:28,639
Speaker 1: love that early season to something something pretty special about

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01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: that that bed feed pattern. They can still be on

1517
01:18:31,360 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 1: and they can still be visible and you can figure

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01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 1: them out and it's fun. It's a really good time.

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01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:40,679
Speaker 1: It is and we're getting close to it too. Exciting stuff,

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01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: sure is. And uh, you made it through. You've completed

1521
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 1: the gauntlets, so h thanks thanks for for bearing with

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01:18:48,080 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 1: me on this and and taking a trip down a

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01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 1: few of these wild storylines. No, it was fun, Mark,

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01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:56,160
Speaker 1: It's been been a pleasure. I really appreciate you having

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01:18:56,160 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 1: me on. Oh yeah, man, right back at you. I

1526
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:00,680
Speaker 1: appreciate you taking the time. And and before you go,

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01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 1: can you just feel folcus in on you know where

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01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:06,679
Speaker 1: they can catch the latest with the new season of

1529
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 1: of Road Trips and anything else you guys have got

1530
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: coming out that people should be keeping tabs on. How

1531
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:14,599
Speaker 1: can they follow you throughout the year all that stuff. Yeah,

1532
01:19:14,880 --> 01:19:17,960
Speaker 1: So I have my own Instagram, Facebook, Tyler Jordan pretty

1533
01:19:17,960 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: easy to find. Realtory Road Trips UM is the digital

1534
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:25,960
Speaker 1: show that we're hosting myself, Brian Brown, who's a producer.

1535
01:19:26,080 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: He'll be hunting on camera, and then we have a

1536
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:32,200
Speaker 1: new addition, Michael Pitts will also be joining us. He'll

1537
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:34,320
Speaker 1: be out there in Nebraska for that first week of

1538
01:19:34,760 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 1: most season. Chipper Jones will be out there with us. Um,

1539
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:40,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna do some semi live hunts from out there.

1540
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 1: So excited to kind of going to go the Bill

1541
01:19:43,160 --> 01:19:45,439
Speaker 1: Winky model, and uh, you know, when we have hunts,

1542
01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to get them uploaded that night, maybe

1543
01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 1: late in the night, but we're gonna have guys working

1544
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 1: hard trying to get that stuff edited and content out there.

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01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:58,439
Speaker 1: So um excited, can't wait to get the season going.

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01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:01,120
Speaker 1: And then after Nebraska, we're gonna be in Georgia. I

1547
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:03,639
Speaker 1: got a couple of nice ones here. Maybe not quite

1548
01:20:03,640 --> 01:20:06,760
Speaker 1: as big as last year, but it's a nice dear nonetheless,

1549
01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:09,519
Speaker 1: and uh, looking forward to hunting with the family. So

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01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: ready to kick off the twenty two season. Can't wait, awesome. Well,

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01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to filling long Tyler, and keep up

1552
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:19,719
Speaker 1: the great work and uh good luck this year. Awesome Martin,

1553
01:20:19,760 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 1: You two all right and that's a rap. Thank you

1554
01:20:22,560 --> 01:20:26,120
Speaker 1: for joining me, appreciate you. Make sure you're following along

1555
01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:29,200
Speaker 1: with Wired Hunt on Instagram, maybe on TikTok. Now I

1556
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:32,719
Speaker 1: don't like TikTok, not a fan, but uh I'm there.

1557
01:20:33,360 --> 01:20:36,559
Speaker 1: That's another story though, So follow me on TikTok, follow

1558
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 1: me on a Wired to Hunt's Instagram account, Facebook, the

1559
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:42,519
Speaker 1: Wired Hunt Weekly newsletter. Check it all out, Have a

1560
01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:45,640
Speaker 1: great day, Good luck with your summer scouting or your

1561
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: early season hunts. Whatever you're up to right now, get

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Speaker 1: after it, have fun, and stay wired to Hunt.