WEBVTT - Ep. 816: Rut Fresh Radio - New States Mean New Hunting Opportunities 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:04.720 Welcome to Wired to Hunt's rut Fresh Radio, bringing you 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:08.600 the latest reports from the whitetail Woods, presented by First Light, 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:13.280 creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:18.560 First Light Go farther, stay longer, and now your hosts 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.799 Case Smith and Tyler Jones. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.079 Seasons are continuing to open up around the country in 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.720 the early season. Hive ain't slowing down, no time soon. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:49.520 This is Retfresh. Let's go. Welcome to Refresh Radio, brought 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.240 to you by First Light Gear. I'm your host k C. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:55.160 Smith and Tyler Jones is here from Afar. He has 0:00:55.600 --> 0:01:00.360 joined us from the Netherlands. I come from Afar. I 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:02.920 gotta I got a joke. Actually do you let's hear 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.560 it's a man now, I forgot it. It's something like, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:11.040 how do you know the three wise men were firefighters? 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.039 How do you know? Because as they said, I come 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.840 from Afar, Afar as southern firefighters. Yeah, that's it. I 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.720 like it. I like it a lot. Well. This episode 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.800 of Refresh Radio, of course, is filled with some good 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.559 reports from around the country. I feel really good about 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.760 like our zones, you know, because early season it's hard 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:32.720 to get different states because there's only a few states open, 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.880 but I think this week we have all new states. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:39.640 I'm excited about that. But before that, Tyler Jones, you 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.039 yourself have actually been doing some early season hunting career. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:42.880 I have, Man, I have. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:47.840 It's been Uh, it's been a learning experience. And what 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:49.760 I learned was that I don't want to hunt early 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:50.440 season anymore. 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:55.440 Yeah. I can kind of empathize with that a little bit, 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.400 I think. Yeah, I mean there's some there's definitely some 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.240 deeming qualities to it. I think early season, to me, 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.320 it just seems that if you have something figured out, 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.720 it's gold. But if you go try to figure something 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.320 out and you can't figure a thing out, could be 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:10.960 the worst thing in your life. Huh. Yeah. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.440 And I think you see, you know, it gets harder 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:15.520 and harder to find people that are hunting deer in 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.480 early season. I think every year it feels like you 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:19.400 and I at least talked about that the day. And 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.959 I think a lot of it is people are understanding that, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.600 you know, traveling to hunt early season is very tough. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.280 And again, if you have the spot, if you have 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.280 you know, if you live in Kentucky and you have 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.760 a corn pile, and it's working for you, and you 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.680 get in daylight, great, it's going to be awesome early 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.920 season for you. Outside of that, it can be kind 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:38.280 of tough. And I think a lot of people would 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.280 rather go spend some time in the elk wood and 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.680 try to catch one bugle in and I think that's what. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.120 I want to do next day. It sounds like a 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.120 lot of raw tags. So you went to North Dakota, yep, 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.200 And can you give us a quick synopsis about what 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.960 you saw, what differences you made, and how close you 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:56.680 got to a deer. 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.720 Closest I got to a deer was probably seven yards 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:06.639 and she looked right into my eyes until I closed 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.880 them and then uh, then she just looked at the 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:15.320 front of my eyelids. And I would say the things 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.880 that the report there from North Dakota is one million mosquitoes. 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:27.800 Deer movement in the evenings is consistent at a certain 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:33.480 within a certain time towards dark. And uh, we noticed 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:38.600 a pretty consistent pattern of it seemed like deer bedding 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:40.920 before daylight. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.880 In the mornings. That's not good. No, it wasn't, No, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:45.520 it wasn't. 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:45.760 Uh. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.600 We we had a really close encounter or you know, 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.200 fairly close encounter the last couple of days we were 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.040 we were working in on a buck. Finally that had 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.640 been we had patterned a couple of days before. You 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.600 can hear the the more expansive story of this on 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.200 the Element podcast, our podcast, but for now, I won't 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.640 tell the whole story because it's uh, there's a. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:08.720 Lot that happened. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:12.240 But we did squeeze in on a buck and eventually 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:16.120 got to a couple of fairly close calls with him. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:20.120 But never it never was like never was really probably 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.320 within eighty I probably was within one hundred yards of 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.479 him at one point. So employed the ground game, Yeah, no, less, 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.359 we did so, but I you know, that morning he 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.640 had to get out of his bed I believe, and 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:36.839 browse some corn for a little bit before we were 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:37.560 able to see him. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.039 It was eight o'clock before we saw him. Yeah, So 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:47.159 what was like your number one limiting factor? I would 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:53.640 say corn being in It was always going to happen 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:54.400 early season too. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:55.840 It's just the way it is your hunt if you're 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.400 hunting egg country, for sure, you know, and I think 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.720 that if it was like one one pivot with corn 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.920 in it next to a bunch of grasslands or something 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:10.200 like that. It would be potentially okay, right, but there 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.320 was a lot of ag I didn't hunt a place 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:16.520 that Like, if you watch people hunt North Dakota, like 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:19.960 publicly in on video on YouTube, you probably haven't seen 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:21.480 a whole lot of hunts from this area. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.040 You've seen them from a different part of the state. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:24.920 So it was a tough deal. 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:26.600 I was going somewhere where I didn't really know a 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.720 whole lot of people had been before. I ended up 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.400 finding out after i'd planned this hunt that somebody else 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.200 had been to this area before that I knew. But 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.520 I don't make a habit of asking them too much 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.560 about spots or you know, where they go or nothing. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.320 I'll ask them some kind of general questions about, you know, 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.320 how many deer per acre kind of things or whatever. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.880 But anyway, yeah, I think that corn being in heard 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.720 us because I think the deer were just in and 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.120 out of that corn a lot. 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.080 So getting eyes on deer kind of limited you. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.880 Well, yeah, and I would say another limiting factor to 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:02.080 the that is the fact that they were betting before 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.359 daylight in the mornings, so I couldn't glass them up. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.000 And if you weren't sitting and hunting in the evening, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.039 then you weren't going to shoot one. And so it's 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.160 hard for me to just sit and just try to observe, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.599 especially if you don't like there's a lot of trees 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.520 in this area, so you're just not gonna observe a 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.960 whole lot anyway. So yeah, ultimately seeing seeing deer because 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:27.360 of corn and vegetation and them betting before daylight, I 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:28.600 think it was the hardest part. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.760 So not to get to pinpointed here, but if you 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:39.040 were going to go for a opener next year, how 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.640 would you what attributes to the country would you look 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.600 for to kind of change success? Like on public you're saying, yeah, 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:48.160 just to say, you know, say you're gonna go to 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.880 a state and you're like, hmm, this didn't work out 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.479 well here, Where can I go that looks different that's 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:55.799 going to be better? 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:03.920 Yeah, I think probably like if your limited resources ag 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:10.240 like and that's what like, you've got very little agriculture, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.480 but you can find some then that that helps a lot. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.760 So whatever that looks like, right, it could be in 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.320 West Virginia in the mountains and you've got one person 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.480 that has a you know, field of something up top 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.000 or whatever it might be. Or like if you're hunting 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.120 somewhere where there's not a whole lot of oaks, but 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:31.520 there are some bands of oaks, then maybe you know 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.119 you're able to sit near those oaks, blow your wind 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.320 off of them, observe, see if anything comes in, you know, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.960 go to another band of oaks, observe those for the night. 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:40.520 Whatever. 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.000 But limiting that ag I think helps a lot, because 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.000 there's a thing with big ag beans and corn. Is 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.240 the country where those things are prevalent. When they cut it, 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.160 they ain't nothing on the landscape anymore, right, And so 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.880 that landscape year in and year out, in an annual year, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.200 it really doesn't produce. It's not like, oh we're going 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:08.720 to overproduce a bunch of deer in six months. Because 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.680 there's that vegetation. It's going to hold what it can 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.040 hold in the winter, really, especially up north, right, so 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.560 whenever the summer comes and they spread out, it's really 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.080 like there's not a whole lot deer per square mile. Yeah, 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:22.480 so it makes it really tough. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.320 So I can see that well, I think that's good 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:30.960 information that's pertinent throughout the next couple weeks, because yeah, 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:35.040 the opener of an early September is good if you 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.800 want to go chase velvet deer deer, they don't have 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.720 any pressure. But we have new seasons opening up constantly 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.120 now and so that's same scenario will play itself out 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:48.040 essentially until we hit pre rut where they're taking crops 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.640 out and deer starting to do different things, right, scrapes 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:56.839 and all that. So cool. So, speaking of seasons opening up, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.920 we have some interviews today, some reports, Yeah, from quite 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.520 a few guys who are hunting new seasons that are 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.000 opening up right now. Tyler, who are we talking to. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.240 We've got Ticnick Gonzales, he's out there, he's been in Arkansas. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:16.760 We've got Dakota Wellman in Kentucky who shot a monster 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.400 by the way, Grant Forny out in Maryland, and our 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:24.360 good buddy Mitchell Johnston with that end game calls from 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:25.240 North Carolina. 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.440 Awesome, man, Well, let's get to it and hear what 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.199 those guys have to say. This is our friend Nick Gonzales. 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.800 He has been hunting white tail deer in the state 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.520 of Arkansas in the Mosquito fest. Nick, what's happening, man? 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.720 Oh no, muss, just go back and very itchy. Yeah, 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.280 lots of mosquito? How many to get back or definitely 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:45.400 not so. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:50.400 Arkansas has an early season buck only hunts. What you 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:50.960 went hunting? 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.480 Yeah, yeah, it's a new thing this year for him. Yeah, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.680 and you've had some success in Arkansas in the past 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.880 I have. Did you go in and target those? Seem 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.640 similar tactics? And what are those I did? Uh, it's 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:04.800 just a bed to food patterns. What I was after 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.280 I this time That's what I've done in times past 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.160 two but didn't have much success this time around. I 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.240 went to a different spot and uh, yeah, no success. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:15.800 What kind of food were you targeting? 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:16.520 Uh? 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:17.640 There was a lot of. 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.720 Beans in certain parts of this of this public. Uh 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.160 there were some per simmons and lots of acorns dropping too. 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:26.040 So uh just trying to key in on those simons 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.280 hitting the ground. A couple of them, but most of 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:29.720 them not. They're still too ripe. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.320 Gotcha. So, uh did you have deer hidings? Uh? I did? 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:36.360 What were those deer doing? Well, most of them were betted. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.880 Yeah, well, while scouting around, they were just in some 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.320 like mulberry thickets stuff like that. So a lot of 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.520 funds and a lot of does. Yeah, I think maybe 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.959 one buck, but I didn't get a good look at it. 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:53.240 Gotcha. Cool? Uh. So do you feel like you should 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:54.920 have gone to a new place or do you think 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.880 that historical data would have benefited you more? 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.839 I think it's I enjoyed the challenge of going to 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.800 new places, and so that's kind of why I went 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.040 to this spot. And not all the pieces of public 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:11.840 in Arkansas participate in this early book only weekend, and 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.560 the place that I've hunted in the past wasn't open 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:14.920 for this, gotcha. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.320 Gotcha? Yeah, that makes sense. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:21.920 So when you say mulberry betting, like mulberry trees, the thickets, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.840 like the little what do they look. 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:24.880 Like like a beauty berry? 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:25.599 I don't know what they call it. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.000 Oh, okay, they're the ones that had the purple yeah, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:29.600 clumps on them. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.080 Okay yeah, and just like crp fields and stuff like 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.520 that is what they were in. 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.439 I got you. So, did you see, dear, why you're 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:38.160 actually hunting? 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:38.800 No? 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:42.400 Man, that's tough. Yeah. Do you think that what was 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.520 the temps? Like? It was really good? 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:49.920 Actually yesterday morning was I think fifty three, so pretty 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:50.600 good cold front. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.360 But yeah, I just did you think that they negatively 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:54.920 affected you. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:12:00.079 The temperatures, I don't think so, I don't think that 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.040 I really I don't think I hunted in the very 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:02.559 best spot. 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.040 I only had like a day to scout. 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.360 I didn't want to go in there and just blow 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.960 everything out, and so I feel like I probably should 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.640 have pushed a little bit closer to betting for the 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:12.280 buck stuff. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.880 Yeah, I saw the same thing this week. Deer we're not. 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:19.520 Moving far in daylight at all, and I think that 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:23.280 that would be like a commonality that you're what you're saying. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.679 And what I saw was that deer is still very much. 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.400 They have a lot of stuff to eat, and they 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.559 even though we had some pretty cold temperatures as well, 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.920 still we're not seeing like movement till the very end 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.880 of the day. Saw bucks bedded before daylight and that 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.439 kind of thing. So did you see any bucks at all? 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.120 I think I might have jumped one, but I didn't 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:44.880 get a good look at it. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.960 But other than that, No, Yeah, did you hunt wine? H? Yeah? 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:49.080 I did? Yeah. Yeah. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:50.800 My trip got cut a little bit short because I 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.320 had to get back for some work things. So I 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.079 was planning on hunting today, but I just didn't get 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.600 to I did some scouting yesterday afternoon. I found some 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.000 stuff I think was really good buck but Habitat just 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.680 real thick stuff, and it's a pretty good sign in there. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.960 Just find some rubes, like fresh rubes. I didn't, surprisingly, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:11.920 so potentially all the bucks are still velveted up. Yeah, yeah, interesting. Yeah. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.240 So as we look forward, you know, things are going 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:17.560 to heat up again before the next cool front comes through. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.360 There is a tropical storm brewing out in the golf. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.520 I don't know if that's going to affect Arkansas too much, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.360 but sometimes you know, those things can push up overall 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.920 in the next week. How do you feel Buckwo's going 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:31.920 to be on scale of one to ten? 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:37.520 Mm hmm, I'd still I'd still probably keep it pretty low. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:38.320 I'd probably give it. 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.840 Like a three. Yeah, yeah, that's good and realistic. Yeah, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.080 I agree with you. I think that's going to be 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:45.480 right on the money. Yeah. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.280 Yeah, so you would, you would, you would push closer 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.400 to buck betting to see that movement happen though. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:52.920 Yeah, just like what you were saying, I don't think 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.839 they're moving very far during the day, So if you're 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:56.040 going to catch them, I think it's going to be 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:59.080 you know, right as the sun's going down or right 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.480 as the sun's coming up morning. 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.280 So cool man. Appreciate the report. Yeah, no problem. I'll 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.559 you find more success in this in the future. Appreciate it. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.839 This is Dakota Wellman. He's a Kentucky hunter and has 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.959 recently aired a giant buck. Dakota, congratulations, man. 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:15.640 Thank you, thank you very much. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:19.840 Yeah, you're welcome. Dude. So we were talking off air 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:21.640 well ago, and it sounded like you kind of had 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:24.240 a little history with this deer, which means that you 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:28.120 probably have been plotting and scheming and trying to understand 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.600 what to do to have success in the early season, 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.520 and you got it done. Now, tell me what is 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.280 the main tactic that you used to shoot this big 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:37.520 deer in early season Kentucky. 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.240 It was a lot of history, that repetitive history on 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:42.560 a deer. 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.800 They will normally do, especially early season, before the pressure hits, 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.880 they'll do the same thing over again. 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.600 I seen him opening day last year and seeing him 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.280 again this year. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.480 How about that? So you shot this deer opening day, yes, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.560 working day, Very cool dude. So that deer is starting 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.640 to shit his velvet and you see it in the photos. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:03.760 Do you see that the deer when they start to 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.200 shed their velvet kind of disperse and do different things 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:08.120 in that area. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:12.000 I have deer that will completely vanish from the area 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.960 until January, if not February. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.640 That year in particular, never left that area. That was 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.280 his home and that's where he stayed. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.120 So why was Opening day like when you needed to 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:24.680 get it done? 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.160 Toll front hit here in Kentucky and it was a 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:34.040 major cold front, something really unexpected this time of year. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:38.240 I think the temperature dropped thirty degrees. The high was 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.240 seventy when it was used to be in the nineties 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.880 ninety five, and it got down into the forties at night, 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.320 and it was really time to get in. 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.080 There and get it. Are these deer that you're hunting 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.560 relating to agriculture in the early season or are you 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.160 hunting deer that are just way back in the thickest stuff. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.480 Well, this year they will. There's a lot of beans, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:01.840 but the beans have turned early this year won a 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.960 severe drought, and I think that a lot of the 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.120 beans are out of the question or have been out 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.840 of the question before Opening day this year, unless they 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.120 were planning super late. But you could find, you know, 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.000 pockets of beans that are still green. But most of 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.960 what I've been on and seeing the sweet beans have turned. 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.160 But as far as natural brows and all that, that's 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:23.000 all still there. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.480 What natural brows would you say was most key in 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:27.080 this moment? 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.640 I would say I was this year come into some 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.720 clover which was barely hanging on due to the drought. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.160 But it was a green food source and that's what 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:38.800 got him up. 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.640 The weather got him up before dark, and the green, 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:43.440 green food source made it happen. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.200 Okay, So looking forward to the next week, I would 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:50.240 assume that you know, any of these early season cold 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.680 fronts kind of have a warming trend afterward, is that 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:54.880 going to affect the buck movement? 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.680 I'm going to say for a couple of days afterwards, 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.600 when it heats back up, it's going to slow down 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.680 because they just kind of got shocked by the cold front. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.840 But once they kind of get warm back up, and 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.919 it's been hot all summer, it's not nothing uncommon to 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.399 them to continue to do their normal routine when it 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:13.119 heats back up. 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.760 But I think for a few days after they're going 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.920 to have a little bit of effect to lay down 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:18.560 and not move. 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.119 A whole lot, just do the fact they hit a 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.600 huge coal front, they moved a bunch and then it 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.680 gets hot again, so they're going to take a few 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.040 days to adapt back to the heat after the cold frunt. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.080 So on a scale of one to ten, what would 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:31.640 you rate buck movement in the next week. 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.880 I'm gonna say it's gonna be probably around a five 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:36.439 until they get used to. 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:40.399 The heat again. Got my favorite number, man, Yep, I 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.520 like it. It's it's realistic. You know, everybody this tiny 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.720 year seems to be real high. But you know, sometimes 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.439 you do need to take a step back and be like, Okay, 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:54.240 let's not get too crazy. You know, November November, they're. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.040 Not ripping scrape yet and doing that kind of stuff. Yet, 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.399 it's going to be uh, it's gonna be moderate. It's 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:00.720 gonna be around yeah. 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:03.400 Cool to Got to appreciate the report, man, and congrats 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:04.200 on the giant bug. 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:06.640 Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.040 Now I've got Grant forty with the Everyday at Doorsman 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.000 YouTube channel. He's been doing some hunting in Maryland. Grant, 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.400 what's happening, bro, Not. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.520 Too much, just really excited here at the start a 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.399 hunting season. So that's pretty much my main focus right now. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.000 Got the season started and looking forward for what's the company. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.560 Yeah, man, I was falling along on social looks like 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.040 you got a freezer, queen, So that's good. You got 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:50.639 your meat secure? Congratulations? 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.120 Yeah, yeah, bang. So it was a good opening day 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:57.040 for me, good opening weekend. Was able to put a 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.440 dough down, so that's always a nice way to start 0:18:59.440 --> 0:18:59.879 the season. 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:01.800 But a little bit of meat in the freezer, yeah 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.439 for sure. So you're hunting in an area that I 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:09.240 just absolutely am not familiar with from on a hunting scale, right, 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.440 So what's the move in Maryland this time of year? 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:19.520 Yeah, it's early season like this. It's the food sources 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.119 in the area that I'm hunting are pretty much corn, 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:29.600 beans and acorns, So hunting public land that buffs up 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.200 to a lot of private so you can hunt here, 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:36.280 you know, going into the crop fields and then lots 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:38.680 of oaks. So we've got a good acorn crop this year, 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.760 so that's another big food source. So that's kind of 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:45.199 the strategy is you know, figure out where they're feeding, 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.560 try to catch them between betting areas and feeding areas, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.200 and then another major thing is just trying to stay 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:53.360 away from hunting pressure. 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:54.840 So oh yeah, that's. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:55.520 Kind of the strategy. 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:57.480 Do you find that there's a lot of pressure there 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.080 because it's kind of one of the few are you 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.320