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Speaker 1: Welcome to Wired to Hunts rut Fresh Radio, bringing you

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Speaker 1: the latest reports from the White Tailed Woods and now

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Speaker 1: your host, Spencer new Hearth. This is Wired to Hunt's

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Speaker 1: rout Fresh Radio powered by First Light. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Spencer new Heart and this week we're talking about hunting

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Speaker 1: December weather fronts. Welcome to Wired to Hunt's rout Fresh Radio.

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Speaker 1: This is episode four seven and this week again I

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Speaker 1: am joined by Mark Kenyon who is back home in

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Speaker 1: Michigan and has a deer movement report for us. So

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Speaker 1: what have you been seeing Mark as of late from

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Speaker 1: your glassing and trail camera observations. Yeah, so I have

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Speaker 1: not been out hunting really in Michigan, and well a

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Speaker 1: long time. It's been about a month since I've hunted

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Speaker 1: But I have been home since I don't know, I've

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Speaker 1: been able to do some glassing. I've done some camera

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Speaker 1: move I moved some cameras yesterday actually, and so I've

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Speaker 1: And here's what I've seen over the last couple of days. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Number one yesterday while glassing, and this morning in one

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Speaker 1: of my cell camp pictures, I've seen bucks still fighting.

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Speaker 1: So there's still some of that running activity happening. Even

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Speaker 1: though what today that we're recording, it's you know, end

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Speaker 1: first day of December. There's still that kind of running

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Speaker 1: watch from above, I saw a mature buck when when

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing is is still out there. So

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Speaker 1: The second thing I think that might be of note,

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Speaker 1: movement on the food sources. All my cameras that are

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Speaker 1: snow dropped. So that's what I've seen so far. Um

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Speaker 1: kind of what I expected this time of year. Deer

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Speaker 1: of that late rut kind of stuff still going. Those

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Speaker 1: what I would expect for this this period. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: drop on December one, we're gonna have, like dangiars some

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Speaker 1: and I know there's yeah, I know the rest of

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Speaker 1: we're still focused on it in October and we're so

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Speaker 1: Mark like good weather for December and bad weather for December. Alright,

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Speaker 1: least not going to help things. Um Now, my evolution

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Speaker 1: between food sources and travel route, then that's a great

431
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,119
Speaker 1: place to set off set up on. Currently, you mentioned

432
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,280
Speaker 1: that daylight activity has been increasing. Do you notice better

433
00:22:25,280 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 1: movement right now in the mornings or evenings in Louisiana.

434
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:36,600
Speaker 1: I'm seeing on camera Me personally, I'm seeing better morning

435
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:42,200
Speaker 1: movement when hunting. I'm seeing more dear in the evening. Um. Now,

436
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 1: that's been very average for me My whole hunting career

437
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:46,800
Speaker 1: is because obviously you're getting in trying to set up

438
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,480
Speaker 1: in the dark and the light and make noise, and

439
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 1: you don't know what you're pushing out of an area

440
00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 1: when you go in in the morning. So um. But

441
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 1: as far as activity goes more, morning has been hot,

442
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,600
Speaker 1: but afternoons are are are still my favorite time hot.

443
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 1: Um and they're they're both productives in early December. Where

444
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: do you want to be running your trail cameras? Um? Well,

445
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,119
Speaker 1: I started doing something new in the last two years

446
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: that's worked out well for me um as I've become

447
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: a little more educated on scrapes, UM and signmaking. I'm

448
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:24,520
Speaker 1: actually trying to position my cameras not directly on scrapes,

449
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: but I would get more daytime photos of bucks being

450
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: downwind a baby to fifty yards behind a scrape along

451
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: what could be a travel route or away in which

452
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:38,560
Speaker 1: a buck would try and get down wind of a scrape.

453
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:42,680
Speaker 1: So anywhere that's a a slew edge, a swamp edge,

454
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,560
Speaker 1: lake edge, whatever you want to say. Um, that could

455
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: be downwind from a scrape or or some sort of

456
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: signmaking or even betting. Um. I'm seeing the most quality

457
00:23:55,600 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: bucks in the daytime downwind of very literal, real sign

458
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: you know. I used to be in the habit of

459
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: hanging cameras right on top of a scrape like like

460
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,520
Speaker 1: it's the Truman Show, and I'm always waiting for that

461
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: star to show up, and I wouldn't get anything to

462
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,639
Speaker 1: three in the morning. And then I started putting cameras

463
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: around that area, on travel routes or pinch points or

464
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: like I said, boundary lines like water, and I'm getting

465
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: a lot more pictures. And those d are still checking those,

466
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: but they're just wind checking them from doubt. They're not

467
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 1: going up and peeing in them and reinfreshing them up

468
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 1: during the day. A lot of times they're just walking

469
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: down wind and staying in the thick stuff. So I've

470
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:37,399
Speaker 1: always been a fan of putting cameras on um water

471
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: boundaries if you have that, which we had a lot

472
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:44,360
Speaker 1: of down here um and uh and and and seeing

473
00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: those deer that are skirting the edges, trying to stay

474
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,240
Speaker 1: in the thick stuff or in the buckbrush or something

475
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,639
Speaker 1: without exposing themselves out in the open. Going forward, then

476
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: the six week or so, what do you think that

477
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: bucket t D is going to be on a scale

478
00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,040
Speaker 1: of one detain in Louisiana. I think it's gon to

479
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: stay a seven UM for the next week or two

480
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: UM and then quickly rise up to an eight as

481
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,840
Speaker 1: we get some more cold attempts and Christmas gets closer

482
00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: and that prod action heats up big time and we

483
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: start to get a lot of rut action going. So

484
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with the seven for the next week. Alright, Kyler,

485
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: great intel, good luck with the rest of your season.

486
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,560
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me. Thanks Spencer, all right and joining

487
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 1: us on the line. Next is Doug During, who you've

488
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 1: seen and heard on Meat Eater and Wired to Hunt

489
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: content in Wisconsin. Now, Dug in Wisconsin, what would you

490
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: say the buck activity has been lately on a scale

491
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: of one to ten, Well, Spencer, I think we'd be

492
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,000
Speaker 1: at about a three or four. We just finished our

493
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:45,200
Speaker 1: nine day gun season and with that big disruption, bucks

494
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: have given up on breeding and are more concerned about

495
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: security and um, you know, refueling from the from the

496
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:59,000
Speaker 1: rut um. So the definitely the activity, the bucket activity,

497
00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: the rud activities. So lay down now, you just killed

498
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: a great buck last week with your rifle. Tell us

499
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 1: about that hunt. Why were you in that area and

500
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: why did that buck want to be there? Well, it's

501
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: an isolated area on the farm and it's a soybean

502
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,560
Speaker 1: uh field on the neighbors. And I was up there

503
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: checking on a stand and as I came up around

504
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,560
Speaker 1: it's one of those areas that you creep up into,

505
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: and about three yards away, I see this deer and

506
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: it's clearly a buck. I could see his antlers from

507
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,400
Speaker 1: that distance. Um. I was there checking that field, hoping

508
00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 1: to take an ant list deer, and and there he is,

509
00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: working his way from a betting area out along the

510
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,199
Speaker 1: edge of being field. And I watched him for ten

511
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: minutes as he kept working closer and closer to me,

512
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: and he was completely distracted by eating those beans. He

513
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,200
Speaker 1: wasn't aware of me at all, And there was good

514
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: reason for him to have been aware of me, because

515
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: it's a spot work we all often killed deer from.

516
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: So it's really interesting to see that it was very

517
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: windy day, and I think that had something to do

518
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: with it too, that you know, he could probably couldn't

519
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: hear much now. Obviously to stay like Wisconsin big egg

520
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: is really important to focus on in December. But what

521
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: are some natural food sources, Doug that you've noticed that

522
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: white tails key in on this time of year. Well,

523
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,920
Speaker 1: we don't have any snow on the ground right now,

524
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: and we're seeing a lot of activity late in the day, um,

525
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: where the deer are picking up on you know, the

526
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: green that's on the edge of the fields, and then

527
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: they're in those brush and bottoms and areas where they

528
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 1: can do a lot of browsing as well. Are you

529
00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: seeing any signmaking right now on those field edges? I

530
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: not a lot. I mean you'll see that a scrape

531
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: will get tended, like a hubscrape will will have some

532
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 1: activity in it. But um, from my cameras and stuff,

533
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: I'm not seeing a whole lot of of scrapes and

534
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,159
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing following with sconsin's gun season.

535
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: Do you notice the shift in bedding it all on

536
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 1: your property? Well, and not so much with the does. Um.

537
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: The antalyst here seemed to like those those thermal covers,

538
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 1: like we've got some pine plantations and stuff like that.

539
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: But um, we do certainly notice that the bucks are

540
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: a little more Uh, they're down in bottoms and heidi holes,

541
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,360
Speaker 1: and you know they're they're looking for security. If you're

542
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: doing a morning set up in early December, what does

543
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 1: that look like? I know, obviously your evening setups gonna

544
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,680
Speaker 1: be looking over a food source, but what does the

545
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: morning set up look like for you in Wisconsin? Well,

546
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: we had a successful muzzleloader hunt yesterday morning, and my

547
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 1: friend Eric Cannony and his wife were up and uh

548
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: the dose, dose and funds came out of hardwoods and

549
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 1: they were heading into bedding in a pine plantation. They

550
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: caught him in between, and we were set up for that.

551
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: If you got to choose your ideal weather forecast for December, dog,

552
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: what is it that you'd be looking for. Well, I'd

553
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: like a little less wind. I'd like to have some

554
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: snow on the ground and those temperatures, um that we

555
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: can all stand. I'm not a guy who likes to

556
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: have it real cold. Um. If I could have snow

557
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: on the ground and temperatures in the twenties and low thirties,

558
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: I'd be real happy going forward. Then, in the next

559
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: week or so, what do you think that buckettv is

560
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: going to be on a scale of one to ten

561
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. I think it's gonna still be down in

562
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: that three to four range. But with a few days

563
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: of calming, um, we may uh pick up again. You know,

564
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 1: another another round of of breeding happening here in December. Also,

565
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: all right, Doug, congrats again on the great buck. Thanks

566
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: for joining me. Thank you, Spencer, happy to be here

567
00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: all right and joining us on the line. Last is

568
00:29:55,400 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: Vince Bodyatta from the Chasing Public YouTube channel in Tennessee. Now, Vincent, Tennessee.

569
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: What would you say the buck activity has been lately

570
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten. Uh, lately, I

571
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: would say it's probably around anywhere between a six to seven. UM,

572
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: I would definitely say it's it's past the peak breeding portion. UM.

573
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: But no question, you can definitely catch a cruiser person

574
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 1: around right now. Now, you just killed a great buck

575
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving a day tell us about that hunt. Why

576
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: were you in that area? And why did that buck

577
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: want to be there? Uh? Yeah, it was man, That's

578
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: That's definitely what I'll never forget. UM. You know that

579
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: spot we actually scouted really hard during the summertime, and uh,

580
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 1: we had a lot of good a lot of good

581
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: bucks around. UM. It looked like it had just not

582
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: really been that pressured. UM. Didn't see a lot of

583
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: human sign or anything like that. UM. So it's definitely

584
00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:58,960
Speaker 1: a spot that we were keeping our eye on. UM.

585
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: And it had a lot of good just natural food

586
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: sources around there. So I knew it was going to

587
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: be a spot UM that I could pick up on

588
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: the latter half of the season, and UM, I just thought,

589
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 1: you know, it was Thanksgiving Day, it had been raining

590
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: all day. I figured, you know, there's probably wasn't any

591
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: pressure there in the morning. UM, and we just decided

592
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: to hang out there, and you know, whitetailed. Luck, it

593
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: just happened. It was it just it just turned on

594
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 1: in the right way. Earlier in the season, we did

595
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,920
Speaker 1: hunt that spot a few times, but we did end

596
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: up having a lot of pressure there, so we kind

597
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: of backed off it. And and now it just seems

598
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 1: like they just kind of filtered back in in late November,

599
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: early December and Tennessee. Do you notice better movement in

600
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: the morning or evening? I would say, if you have

601
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: the food sources in the evening, UM, if not, then

602
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: I would probably hunt the mornings right now. And what

603
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: food sources are relevant right now in that part of

604
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: the country. Anything green, just natural brows, you know, clover

605
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: that type of up. If you have the hot the

606
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: um the hot acorn spots so there's still acorns left over,

607
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: I would definitely be on those. UM. But anything green

608
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: you mentioned it had been raining when you killed that buck.

609
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: What is the idea weather that you're looking for in

610
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: December in Tennessee. In December in Tennessee, I'm looking for

611
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 1: where you have, um, like a three or four days

612
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: stretch of just constant temperature and then if it gets

613
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: you know, even a drop of you know, seven to

614
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: ten degrees being this far south, it's enough to be

615
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: considered like a cold front or a cold snap. Um.

616
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: And that really seems to be to be putting deer

617
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: on the feet. If you're doing some in season scouting

618
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: this time of year, what are some things that you're

619
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: looking for. I'm looking for big tracks, big tracks, fresh tracks, um.

620
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,560
Speaker 1: And I'm looking for the actual concentrations of deer now

621
00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: that we're already past the actual peak reading season or

622
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: a portion of the season, I'm looking for those concentrations

623
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: to do. I feel like if I can find those

624
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: concentrations to deer, then you know, as far as success, right,

625
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: I'll just end up being more successful just in general

626
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: as far as being able to harvest more meat. Historically,

627
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: when we get beyond that peak breading day, what do

628
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: you notice for signmaking in Tennessee. I do notice once

629
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: we start coming into December, Um that I will start

630
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: to get more and more bucks coming back through and

631
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: checking on their on their normal scrape patterns. Um. You

632
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: know there's a portion of there through November where they

633
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: just stopped. Once you come into December, they do start

634
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: checking those. Um. But I really focus more on the

635
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: food side and then the signmaking to be honest, once

636
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: it comes into December. Going forward, then in the next

637
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: week or so, what do you think that budget activity

638
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: is going to be on a scale of one to

639
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: ten in Tennessee, I'd say it's probably anywhere between afford

640
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: six and a half. There's better parts of Tennessee where

641
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: it is very mountainous and I'm not too familiar on

642
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 1: that side, but where I'm at in middle Tennessee where

643
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: the train is a little more approachable. Um, it just

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Speaker 1: seems during that time, once we into December, if you

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Speaker 1: can find the concentration to deer, you're still gonna get

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Speaker 1: your good boys. You may not get that one slammer

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Speaker 1: that comes through, but you're still gonna have quality deer

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Speaker 1: that comes through our advanced Congrats again on the great Deer.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me all right, man, appreciate the suncer

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Speaker 1: and that concludes this week's episode of Wired to Haunt's

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Speaker 1: rout Fresh Radio. Thanks to David Kyler, Doug in Vince

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Speaker 1: for joining me, and thank you guys for listening. As

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Speaker 1: a reminder, you can find this week's reading materials linked

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Speaker 1: in the description of this episode, as well as a

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Speaker 1: link to the one Week in November gear package giveaway

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Speaker 1: As we've heard many big buck killers say, the late

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Speaker 1: season can be the great season. So I hope you're

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Speaker 1: still out there and still after some white tails, and

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Speaker 1: I will talk to you next week, but until then,

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Speaker 1: stay Wired to hun