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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for

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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan. In this episode number nine ten

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Speaker 1: the show, Dan and I are joined by my shed

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Speaker 1: hunting fanatic friend Ross Houseman to discuss strategies for finding

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Speaker 1: more shed andlers. All right, welcome to the Wire to

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Speaker 1: Hunt podcast, brought to you by Sick of Gear. And today,

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Speaker 1: as I just mentioned, we're talking shed hunting. And it's

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Speaker 1: mid February right now at this moment. If you're at

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Speaker 1: all like me, you're probably dying to get your hands

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Speaker 1: on some antlers. Or maybe you've already had your hands

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Speaker 1: on some antlers this year. I'm not sure. I certainly haven't,

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Speaker 1: but either way, our plan for today is to talk

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Speaker 1: shed hunting strategies and we're going to be joined by

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Speaker 1: one of my good friends and one of the best

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Speaker 1: shed hunters I know, Ross Horsman. So between Ross, Dan

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Speaker 1: and myself, hopefully we'll be able to share a few

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Speaker 1: tips that can help you have your best shed hunting

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Speaker 1: season ever. So, Dan Johnson, are you getting the shed

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Speaker 1: hunting at yet? Oh? Yeah. I let's see. My My

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Speaker 1: plan was to go shed hunting Monday of this week

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Speaker 1: and it's snowed six inches and as we all know,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to go. Hey, it's hard to go while

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Speaker 1: it's snowing, and be it's even harder to go with

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Speaker 1: a lot of snow on the ground. So I didn't

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Speaker 1: get out, and it made me mad. How did you?

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Speaker 1: How are you going to go on a Monday, dude?

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Speaker 1: I work for a multinational court operation. I get every

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Speaker 1: federal holiday off. It was President's Day. Was a President's Day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so see my boss as a jerk. He doesn't let

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Speaker 1: me take that day off. I totally forgot about. He's

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Speaker 1: an a hole. Everybody know. Everybody knows it. That's the truth.

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Speaker 1: So you didn't get to go shed hunting. Did you

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Speaker 1: do anything? Did you get to dream about shut hunting

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Speaker 1: or map searching or I did a little bit of

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Speaker 1: podcast stuff. I did a little bit of writing. I

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Speaker 1: you go to Google Maps and you can just spend

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Speaker 1: hours on that. But I did go to Shields, which

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Speaker 1: is the it's like a smaller version of Cabella's and uh,

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Speaker 1: I shot a couple of bows, as in, like just

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Speaker 1: shot for fun or do you think about buying it? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a hunter percent sure yet. Um I went

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Speaker 1: and I there's a couple of bows, you know, on

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Speaker 1: on my podcast, I do kind of a bow review thing,

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Speaker 1: and everybody's given this one bow a lot of props,

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Speaker 1: person in the world who doesn't like that bow, particular bow,

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Speaker 1: because I wasn't a huge fan of of it. And

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Speaker 1: but I shot a couple other ones. And then you

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Speaker 1: walk around and you dream about, oh, man, that tent

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Speaker 1: would be cool, or hey, those paraboots would be cool,

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Speaker 1: or hey, I don't ever use a kayak, but I would.

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Speaker 1: I can relate to that. Those stores are dangerous, man,

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Speaker 1: very dangerous. Most of the time. I leave my credit

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Speaker 1: card in the in my car so I don't get

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Speaker 1: tempted to buy to buy his stuff while I'm there. See.

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Speaker 1: My biggest issue right now is, you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime, and so it's just way too easy for

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Speaker 1: me to buy anything I could possibly think cuff on Amazon.

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Speaker 1: Just like I'll be sitting on my couch and if

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Speaker 1: I'm in trouble because it's just right, way too easy,

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Speaker 1: two days. It's it's not a good thing for my

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Speaker 1: checking account. Yeah, I uh, I need to I need

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Speaker 1: to shut it down for a while, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Like, I'm an impulse buyer, so it's it's

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Speaker 1: not even close to season, and usually I try to

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Speaker 1: potter Field, thank you for your business. The Midway and

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Speaker 1: the Midway USA guy, Right, Yeah, the Midway Usa. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I just every time that commercial comes up, he's like,

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Speaker 1: Um so far and nothing. Um yeah. But this spot

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Speaker 1: the Iowa Deer Classic is March fourth and fifth and

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Speaker 1: the biggest antlers I've ever found have been in mid

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Speaker 1: would it be? Oh? Man, uh wow, that was much

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Speaker 1: After listening to Randy Newberg and then listening to his podcast,

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Speaker 1: I think that dude would just be awesome to hang

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Speaker 1: all right, let's take a quick break then to hear

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Speaker 1: from our sponsors of this podcast, Sick a Gear, and

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Speaker 1: then we will give Ross a call. Alright, So as

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Speaker 1: we do every week, we're joined now by Sick of

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Speaker 1: Product category leader Dennis's Zuck and today I want to

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Speaker 1: Dennis talk a little bit about the importance of keeping

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Speaker 1: our hands warm during a hunt and how gloves or

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Speaker 1: the Mark Kenyon shed that I found in your place.

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00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,919
Speaker 1: And what was that was that? Is that right? I

427
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,159
Speaker 1: think it was sixty five on the dot? Yeah? What

428
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:40,080
Speaker 1: about you? Ross? Um, I guess one that's seventy one,

429
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: and then Kendall's got the two big ones that are

430
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: right nice? Have you any No? Not really? Um, it's

431
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: on one seven inch and then I guess when she

432
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: hunting down here at least where we're at, like a

433
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 1: six anything over sixty inches are pretty good shed, and

434
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: you don't find too many of those every year where

435
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: we're at. Everything else is a lot of you know,

436
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 1: like two year olds and then they'll be like the

437
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: you know, fifty five injured or you know from the

438
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,679
Speaker 1: three year old and stuff like that. But like getting

439
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 1: up over sixty inches is getting it's actually pretty tough

440
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 1: to find. And then a seventy inch or bigger side

441
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,360
Speaker 1: in this and they right, I found it's pretty that's

442
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,479
Speaker 1: a pretty nice shed. I'd love to find an eight

443
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: inch or something. That'd be I'd be awesome, that'd be crazy. Yeah,

444
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: that's that's that's the goal. I think you have a

445
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: pretty good chance to find and I think both of

446
00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 1: you too probably have a good chance of finding one.

447
00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,040
Speaker 1: I if I ever hit the seven inch mark, that'll

448
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: probably the best I could ever do. But if you

449
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,159
Speaker 1: ever hit the seventy in markets because you cut in

450
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 1: front of one of us on the way back to

451
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,959
Speaker 1: the truck or something, yeah, you're probably right. Seventy inch

452
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: or last year? I are you talking about the infinite

453
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:03,439
Speaker 1: Ohio trip? Yeah, it wasn't. That's where that was. Wasn't that.

454
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: It was pretty darn close. There's a guy that you know,

455
00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 1: Dan named h a fellow named Corey who uh we've

456
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 1: all three joked about. I think I didn't. Did I

457
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: tell the story of how Corey shed poached me in

458
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: Ohio last year? Oh? He oh in Ohio? So that

459
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: that's the second time he poached you? Yeah? Yeah, you

460
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:27,840
Speaker 1: you know the one he said posted me and Iowa.

461
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: We've we've talked about that. I witnessed it. You called

462
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: him out to Well, Okay, let's get this straight. I

463
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: think before we we throw a Corey under the bus,

464
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: we got to talk a little bit about the rules

465
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:42,399
Speaker 1: of shed hunting, right, we we do. We do have

466
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 1: to do that. I suppose we we reviewed them last year,

467
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: I think. But it's always worth tossing out the rules

468
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 1: that at least that we generally follow, right right. You

469
00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: want to you want to take take take it away, Mark,

470
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,120
Speaker 1: I'll say you can. Well, I guess let me. I'll

471
00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: throw out the ones I can think of right now.

472
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: I think these are pretty well in line with ross

473
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,480
Speaker 1: what you guys practice. I think every different group of

474
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: people that shed hunt together have like some unwritten rules

475
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,160
Speaker 1: of shed hunting, some basic kind of guiding principles UM

476
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: right to being like a fair shed hunter. So there's

477
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:14,879
Speaker 1: kind of this basic thing, you know, you know, if

478
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:18,040
Speaker 1: you're hunting, if you're shetting together, typically you'll pick Okay,

479
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk here so and so I was gonna

480
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: walk there, so and I was gonna walk there, and

481
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: usually you try to follow that and not you know,

482
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: too much encroach on your neighbors places, so they have

483
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,879
Speaker 1: a chance to see something just as much as you do. Um.

484
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: Another popular rule is if you find one side of

485
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,080
Speaker 1: an antler and your buddy found the other side of

486
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: that deer before you, you should give that antler to

487
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: the first person who found it. Um, so they can

488
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 1: have that match set. Um. What else is there any

489
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: other ones? If you if you end up killing the buck,

490
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: you gotta give the sheds back. Yeah, somebody kills the buck,

491
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: you gotta give the sheds back. That's that's an important one.

492
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,239
Speaker 1: That's a good one for sure. Anything else for your

493
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: roster you got do we follow any other things that

494
00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking of? Uh not? Yeah, you don't pick

495
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,919
Speaker 1: you gotta you don't pick it up until roster can

496
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: swim over and take a picture of it, different plane

497
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: on the ground. You gotta do that. That's true. That's

498
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: that's another point. If if anybody saw the article I

499
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: posted on wired hunt dot com last week, it was

500
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 1: like it was I call it like training for shed hunting,

501
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: and it was forty pictures of sheds as they lay. Um.

502
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: Those pictures were yours ross Um. Of course you ask

503
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:32,960
Speaker 1: that no one picks up a shed until you get

504
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: a picture of it where it was. And you've you've

505
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: saved all those pictures over the years, haven't you. Yeah?

506
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I have. I have tons of pictures. I

507
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,639
Speaker 1: don't know. This is my favorite, my favorite part about it.

508
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: When you first see the shed, you know, so I

509
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: just like takeing a snap of a picture of where

510
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 1: it layed. I don't know, it's weird, but it's not weird.

511
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: It's not weird. I do the same thing. Thanks. Thanks man,

512
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: It's really appreciate. It makes you feel better. Do you

513
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 1: ever do you ever do what I told people doing

514
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: that blog post? Do you ever look back at them

515
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: to like just kind of like re like before the

516
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: shed season starts, just to kind of get your eye

517
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: it tuned again to picking up the little things, you know.

518
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: I never like look back purposely, like I just I

519
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: look at those pictures all your round. I just like,

520
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 1: you know, every soft and I'll flip through room and

521
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,360
Speaker 1: just kind of just remember all the sheds. I mean,

522
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: I'm always looking at that stuff all the time, always

523
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: looking to do You're always looking at maths, always looking

524
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,280
Speaker 1: at sheds. So, yeah, we got the three of us

525
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: definitely have an issue, that's for sure. So I got

526
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: a question for your Ross. Since you've got a shed dog,

527
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: has your shed fine totals gone up drastically? I mean,

528
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: is this dog helping you pull a lot of bone? Not?

529
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say drastically, you know, she she's getting better

530
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: every year, but I wouldn't say drastically, because most of

531
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: the sheds A lot of times when we're out, most

532
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: of the sheds um you know, if you're not in

533
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: like sick cover like sick, if you're not in like CRP,

534
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: or if you're not in the cut corn field. A

535
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: lot of times you're spotting it before the dog or

536
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: the dogs a lot of times out in the front

537
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: end picking up before before you do, and you usually

538
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: would probably pick it up anyways, like the only, the only,

539
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: I don't know fairies. I think she does really well

540
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: in our like the grassy areas where you I can't

541
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: see very well see very far. She needs her nose

542
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: really well. And then the corn stubble. She does really

543
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: good in the corn because corn fields can be really

544
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: tough obviously shed hunting, and they can be a difficult

545
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: to stay focused and find sheds. She does really well

546
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: when she she can work back and forth and use

547
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 1: your knowls to pick up any of the sheds that

548
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: you miss. Some corn fools, she's it's probably up to

549
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: our total from more like the corn fields and the

550
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: CRP or the grassy areas and stuff like that. But

551
00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: but a lot of the sheds that we find you

552
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: are they're not like too difficult the spot, I would say,

553
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: you know, if that makes sense, how how did you

554
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: go about training your dog? What was your what was

555
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: your kind of regimen to get her up to doing this?

556
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,960
Speaker 1: The first just playing such at first, you know, with

557
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: an antler, and then she only get the antler obviously

558
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: whenever we were working, and so she um. You know,

559
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: after that, I just started getting better at that. I

560
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: mean we just kind of started in the backyard, just

561
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:36,160
Speaker 1: hiding the shed, having her look for it and let

562
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: me just kind of progressed and made harder and harder

563
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,239
Speaker 1: and harder and harder. I don't know that I did

564
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: it like you know, exactly how they would recommend. But

565
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 1: but she does really well now, and she is a

566
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: she has a really um um. She gets really excited

567
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: about sheds. So like yesterday, for example, you get we

568
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: have some of our sheds that we found us here

569
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:04,720
Speaker 1: laying out and the other night she was standing by him,

570
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: and she'll go over and she'll smell him and she'll

571
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: lick them, and she'll just stand there and You'll be

572
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: sitting and maybe sitting on the couch and she'll stand

573
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: there and look back at you and just stare at you,

574
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: and then she'll look at the sheds and she'll look

575
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: back against stare at you. And then she'll lick the

576
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: sheds and she'll smell them, and she'll look back at you,

577
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: and she's just like, why are we sitting here when

578
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: we could be able to Like she's she's so funny.

579
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: She'll stick her nose over in those sheds all day long.

580
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: She can't have them unless she's working for him. But

581
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: but but that just keeps her. I guess her desire

582
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: for him pretty strong. I don't know. Yeah, I don't

583
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: let her. I don't let her chew on sheds or

584
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: anything like that or have them. I don't let her

585
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: have them all the time. I don't know if that's

586
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: something that was gonna do, but but she just seems

587
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: to want it more than Yeah, it's definitely nice to

588
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: have that just strong desire from the dog to to

589
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: find those antlers and just to associate that that thing

590
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: the antler was like a good time. I know that

591
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: with Booner. With my dog, whenever I grab an antler

592
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,719
Speaker 1: in the house, he just gets stoked. He gets psyched

593
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: out of his mind. He starts bouncing off the walls

594
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: and he's like, all right, let's go time, and he'll

595
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: just be as soon as he opened the door, he

596
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: just tears outside and he thinks that shed hunting time.

597
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: So it's it's fun to see how excited they get,

598
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Oh yeah, she's she's she's pretty awesome.

599
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: She's a she's a good dog. And the only reason

600
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: she would be way better if he the guy training,

601
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: was better at it. So you said that you start

602
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: you started shedding pretty early this year because of how

603
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: mild it was, But when do you usually start shed

604
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: hunting and why do you start that time? Yeah, we

605
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: gotta I suppose I started talking, you know, he's we

606
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: started probably the middle January. Every area is a little

607
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: different one dear shed, but the region kind of where

608
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: we're at her that that area where we're at, well,

609
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: it's times you're shedding pretty early. Um, and so we

610
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: we a lot of times find your best sheds or

611
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: some of our bigger sheds immediately following kind of the

612
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 1: deer season. So like that mill of January, towards the

613
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: end of January, we always usually pick up some really

614
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: nice sheds. So we um, we start around then and uh,

615
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: in the in the early part, we usually just focus

616
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 1: more on like the the fields and the edges and

617
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You don't really go into the timber

618
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but we usually, um, you can

619
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 1: pick up some nice sheds pretty early on, at least

620
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,720
Speaker 1: where I'm at. And then what time of year do

621
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: you think is this your best time of year in general?

622
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: Like if you could only pick like one week a

623
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: year to go shed hunting, what would be your top

624
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: week on average? Probably just you know, the first what

625
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: everybody says, the first couple of weeks in March whenever

626
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: the snow melts pretty much. But this year we've been

627
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: this year, we found we've we're up to nine now

628
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: so far this year, but it's been so mild, so

629
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: we've been able to shed hunt and do a better

630
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: job because there hasn't been as much snow, um, so

631
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: they'll been able to cover a lot more ground and

632
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: in spot more sheds compared to like thoughts last year,

633
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: years prior. There's a lot more snow in February, so

634
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: usually we find a bunch of January February starts to

635
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: slow down a little bit because there's a lot of

636
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: snow usually and then coursing the snow melt it picks

637
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: up again. Do you speaking of snow, I'm curious what

638
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: you think about this too, Dan. But first Ross, I

639
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 1: guess do you think there's anything to shed hunting being

640
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: better on years where there's lots of snow because the

641
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: deer will be, you know, kind of tighter in a

642
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: certain areas that won't be roaming as much first as

643
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:46,919
Speaker 1: years where there's hardly any snow and then the deer

644
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: or just everywhere. Have you have you found that to

645
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: be true? Yeah, let's see, I don't know that two

646
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: years ago when it was really cold everywhere, like had

647
00:34:57,880 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 1: was two years ago when we had like twenty y

648
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: as blows of your or something like that for the

649
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 1: highest for the day or something like that, I don't

650
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: know what was in quite a bit snow and the

651
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: deer were a lot more concentrated. And actually that year

652
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 1: the difference from that year For other years, a lot

653
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: of times we don't find a ton of match sets,

654
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: but that year we found a lot of match sets.

655
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: So I just gathered from that that the deer we're

656
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,720
Speaker 1: spending a lot more time, you know, in a smaller

657
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: area and not roaming as much. That's kind of what

658
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: I figured from the ast. But and when it's when winters, yeah,

659
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: when snows deeper, it's a little bit more predictable. I

660
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: guess you know, travel as far have you found out

661
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: to be true? Dame Well, I tell you yeah. Obviously

662
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: they find the food source and they stick to where

663
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:48,320
Speaker 1: it's at. But my my best, my best shed hunting

664
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: season ever was a mild, a real mild February, not

665
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: a lot of snow, and then towards the end of

666
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: February there was just like this giant in it temperature

667
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,760
Speaker 1: drop and a ton of snow all at one time,

668
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 1: and that made a lot of antlers pop off. And

669
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: I found in a in a three week period is

670
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: when I found all my sheds all there at the

671
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 1: all at the beginning of March, all like the last

672
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: week of February, in the in the first two weeks

673
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: in March. Now, as as they started, as uh it

674
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: started winding down, they started to get chewed on, so

675
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: I could tell they all dropped roughly at the same time.

676
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: It's just I didn't find them all at that same time,

677
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: right right, And I think all that makes sense. I think,

678
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: like you saw ross that one year that we had

679
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: the huge snow, huge cold fronts and all that snow,

680
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: that year was one of the best years I ever.

681
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: I think that was the year I had my best

682
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: shed hunting year, excuse me. And I think it was

683
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: because to your point, when you found one shed, usually

684
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: you were finding three or four or five six sheds

685
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: in that same general area, versus some years where it

686
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: seems there they're just scattered randomly all over the place,

687
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 1: and it's you find one and then you won't find

688
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: another one for five hours, and then you'll find one

689
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: and it will be then the next day or something

690
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: like that. While on that year it was like we

691
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: would find a dozen in or half a dozen in

692
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: an hour. So I kind of like year when you

693
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: were down right and we did really well. Wasn't that

694
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: that year? Yeah? That was the year where Corey Corey

695
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:28,399
Speaker 1: left the day before a really good day. Oh, that's

696
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 1: too bad more for us. Yes, we never we never

697
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: told the Ohio shed story, Dan, that we I alluded

698
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: to it and then we got off topic. Um, if

699
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: we never did tell that, that was the one where

700
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: don't Dan, Dad, I tell you this me and Corey

701
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: were writing with a landowner we've just gotten permission to

702
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: shed hunt this property. And we were riding in the

703
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: car with him, passed his property to to drop him

704
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,320
Speaker 1: back off at his house, and then we're going to

705
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: go out of shed hunt. Um. And we're in the

706
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 1: car and we're driving down the road and I looked

707
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: to my side out the window and in this on

708
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,280
Speaker 1: this grassy hillside, on the property we just got permission

709
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: to shed hunt, I see a giant shed like split

710
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: split g two split brow time, like awesome shed. And

711
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: I'm just like oh, and I just stand there and

712
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: just like staring at you know, usually when you're shed hunting,

713
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: as you guys know, if you see a shed, you

714
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: call it out and say, hey, shout out, I got one.

715
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: But since I was in the car and the landowners there,

716
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: I didn't want to do that, and I don't know,

717
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: just figured i'd wait till we got out of the

718
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: car and me and Corey were on our own, and

719
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: then said yes, I want to go get it. But

720
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: like a couple of seconds after I see it, Corey

721
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: yells up, shut shut shut, he sees it in the

722
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: landowner season I'm like, oh, man, he turns. Corey turns,

723
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: it looks at I'm like, yeah, I saw it like

724
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:47,320
Speaker 1: two or three seconds ago. Um but right, well, I

725
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: just wanted to well, that's the thing. I couldn't prove

726
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: that I saw it before me, and I wasn't gonna

727
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: make a big deal. But I joke, I don't. I

728
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: don't really think Corey post a shed for me, but

729
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: I'd like to give him a hard time about it,

730
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: and uh, probably he It made for for a good joke,

731
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: but it also it was a little bit of a

732
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: bummer because he found that we saw that shed, we

733
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: went to go grab it, and then not like ten

734
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: yards on the other side of that hill was the

735
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: other side. So it was like a really really nice

736
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: match that um I think it was seventy or right

737
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: real close to us. So it was a sweet match

738
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: that that's for sure. And that wasn't Yeah, and then

739
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: there's another time Corey found that thing was side Oh

740
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 1: and uh, you see thing that you were walking and

741
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: he tripped over it. Yeah, I found my biggest shed

742
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 1: ever I stepped on. There definitely are some people who

743
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: just have the luck, like we're walking through this whole

744
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: area together that we thought it was me really good,

745
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: and we didn't find anything, and so we were walking

746
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: back to the car and we were just about back

747
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: to the car and we're right next to each other,

748
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: and it had been one of those days where I

749
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: hadn't found anything all day and I was kind of

750
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: bumming about it. We've been walking for eight or nine hours,

751
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: you know, and at that point it's kind of getting

752
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: to me, and I think Corey had found you know,

753
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,399
Speaker 1: several He's had a bunch and it just wasn't my day.

754
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: As we're walking back, like fifty yards before the car,

755
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: I just hear his boot hit something and here a

756
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: big clunk, and then he's like, oh, what's that? And

757
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 1: then in my head I just made it was like that,

758
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: son of a we got a shed and it was

759
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: a nice one. That's the fun of it, right, Yeah. Yeah,

760
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 1: So what about certain types of days or conditions? Are

761
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: there any types of days or weather conditions or things

762
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: like that that you have found are the best for

763
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: shed hunting? Ross? What do you think about that? Well? Yeah,

764
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: I mean, of course, like cloudier days or days are

765
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: after a rain and it's cloudy, or when it's let

766
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: its cloudy, those are the best days. When you can

767
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: see him the best. I don't I have obviously, I

768
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: like when sunshine into it's just a nicer day. But

769
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: but to find shed there, to spot them, it's way more.

770
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: It's it's just easier to just bottom when it's living cloudy,

771
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: or if there was just a light rain, or if

772
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: it's just wet right after snow melts and they really

773
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,959
Speaker 1: show up good time. Yeah, would would you agree to? Yeah?

774
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: What when it's wet, it's and they just kind of

775
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: pop out in the in the timber. Yeah. Now here's

776
00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: a question. I've always wondered about this, you know, on

777
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: those days, on those sunny days, like you talked about ross,

778
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: sometimes I'm thinking in my head, i'd like sunglasses because

779
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: maybe there's a little bit of snow. So there's the

780
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: bright snow and the bright sun, and it's hurting my

781
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 1: eyes a little bit. So I sit there and I think, though,

782
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: does do the sunglasses impact my ability to spout the shed?

783
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: So I'll put the glasses on for a while, and

784
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 1: then I start getting paranoid about it. I take them off,

785
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: and then I put them back on and take them off.

786
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: I haven't decided yet if I think sunglasses are hindrance

787
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: at all two spotting shows? Do you do either? You

788
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: guys have an opinion on that. I l or sunglasses

789
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 1: and they'll take them off to the mom, will take

790
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:55,799
Speaker 1: them off up to the mom. I kind of go

791
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: back and forth, but I don't know a lot of

792
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: times I do that which one, which one is better?

793
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 1: So I feel the same way that that's a question

794
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,800
Speaker 1: for the audience. Then maybe some people, some other people

795
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: can shine in if if anybody else has that dilemma,

796
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: and be curious to know, because you know, with certain

797
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: types of you know, when you're fishing and stuff, there's

798
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: certain types of sunglasses that help you see through water better.

799
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: I wonder if there's if sunglasses are certain lens will

800
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: help you will make the color of a shed pop

801
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: out against you know, against the background a little better.

802
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, there there could be something to that.

803
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: Maybe someone could create shed hunting sunglasses. That's a product

804
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: that are right there. Yeah, they'll market right up there

805
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 1: with the acorn cruncher. So you're saying, so you're saying

806
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: you'd buy something right right, So, so Ross, you mentioned

807
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: that you shed hunt a number of different places, and

808
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: you mentioned you don't trespass. This all you know, it's

809
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 1: all legal. Um you Yeah, how do you get so

810
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: many different plays? Is the shd up? Um? You know?

811
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: Over the years, I just got to know people and

812
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: then just asking permission initially, just as you ask permission

813
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: from one person, you get to know him a little

814
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: bit better. Um. Then just by always wanting something a

815
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:20,359
Speaker 1: little bit better, just wanting to be able to walk more,

816
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: you know, and there's always this those fields and those

817
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 1: places where you want to walk, and then you know

818
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: you've got to get permission first. I just grew and

819
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: grew and grew, and I just I don't know, I

820
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:37,359
Speaker 1: just got to know people really well. And now fortunately, um,

821
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: I have permission on I probably over a thousand acres

822
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: where I do most of my shed hunting, and and

823
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: I'm really grateful for that. How many different properties is that?

824
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: That's I don't know, like three four or five somewhere there.

825
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: And you assume every Yeah, I was gonna say, it

826
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: seems like every year I talked to years that you're

827
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: you're talent us like a permission on this new farm

828
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: and that new farm and this new farm. Um, you

829
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:14,000
Speaker 1: definitely go ahead. Yeah, it's it's good's it's definite getting

830
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: tougher now too. I'm so I'm so thankful as the

831
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: places to go now. Um, but yeah, just you know,

832
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: like the problem is, like, especially this year in February,

833
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: you're walking some stuff and you're you're trying to get

834
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: out there and pick up the sheds and kind of

835
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,080
Speaker 1: beat the competition too. But then you you walk all

836
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: your stuff and then you run out of ground until

837
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: you gotta kind of scramble to find some more places

838
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: to go to. So I guess every year I just

839
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: kind of add on a place or two and just

840
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: kind of builds. Do you ever walk any pieces twice?

841
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: Like you'll walk it in February, then you'll walk it

842
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:56,439
Speaker 1: again in March. Yeah, everything walk all geez, the same

843
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: thing like jeez, for three or four or five times.

844
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: So for example, how many how many times are you

845
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: coming back to a place and finding a shed as

846
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 1: opposed to like you walk it once, no sheds, you

847
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: walk it again. That's when you're finding them. I've got

848
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: a good couple of good examples this year. So I

849
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: walked let's see, end of January walks Cornfield picked up

850
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 1: three and then we just went there last week so

851
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: that event, it was probably like two weeks later, and

852
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:39,120
Speaker 1: then we picked up two more in the same area. Um,

853
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: and then we'll probably go do that again towards March.

854
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: And these are areas, like, I'm not walking into areas

855
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna be bumping deer or pushing deer out

856
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: of there. They are all areas where you can walk

857
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: regularly and not affect the deer movement at all. So

858
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: that's one thing. But so we'll go back there in

859
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 1: March and then we'll walk it again and I'm continent

860
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: will be able to find another one or two And

861
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: there's another another quarter Filly did the same thing this

862
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: year again. Wow, do you think that those are sheds?

863
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: Do you think that you're actually those sheds weren't there

864
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: when you went the first time, or do you think

865
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 1: it's that just by doing it again you're able to

866
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: spot some of these that you just missed the last time.

867
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: Do you have any that Yeah, these were definitely fresh.

868
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: And then just because the area is walking was pretty

869
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: a pretty specific area, and and the last two especially

870
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: where there's no way you would have walked past them,

871
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: and then just you know, you can see the fresh

872
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: blood on the pedicle or whatever too. Um And this

873
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,240
Speaker 1: morning I went out a couple hours before work actually,

874
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: and uh driving down the driveway to the to the farm,

875
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: and I saw only enough to off the road in

876
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: the hayfield that wasn't there. I think it's so this

877
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: must have fallen Saturday night because it's no Sunday and

878
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: was just under the snow and a head a bloody

879
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: basse and stuff like that. So they, I mean, they

880
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: can fall at any time right now. So so do

881
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: you check your trail cameras at all this time of

882
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: year to check for when most of the bucks are dropping?

883
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: Or do you have most of your cameras pulled now? Yeah?

884
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 1: I just pulled the last one day. You know, I

885
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 1: have problems getting bocks on camera and winter for some reason.

886
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 1: I have no idea. They're all they're around, but I

887
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: cannot get pictures of bucks. It's weird. I have no idea,

888
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: but there's there's still a lot of dear holding. But

889
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: I have troubles even getting pictures of bucks. So I

890
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: don't really do very well with them in winter for

891
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: some reason. I don't know why it is. Dan, did

892
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: you did you do your trail camera thing this year?

893
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: With the with the putting your corn out and putting

894
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: a camera on it. Yeah, but then things kind of

895
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: got busy, so the corn ran out and we just

896
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: put another bag or two on it this last week.

897
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: So I've just been so busy this year that i

898
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: haven't got to do what I typically do, and that's

899
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 1: dropped like a thousand pounds of corn over a period

900
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: of two months, uh in one spot. And you know,

901
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: you get a lot of deer that come up to him.

902
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 1: But you know, just because it's a concentrated pilot corn

903
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that the deer are going to visit it.

904
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: I mean two years ago it was a perfect example.

905
00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: I think I all I did was feed doze. I

906
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: had one or two trail camera polls where I had

907
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: a couple a couple of big bucks, but then they

908
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: were gone. I mean they stayed there for like a

909
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: week and then they went somewhere else. There was that

910
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: one year. There's that one year where I came to

911
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: shed home with you and you found like three sheds

912
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: right by that pile, right, Yep. I did have a

913
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: I did have a year where um, well there was

914
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: a last year or two years ago, I think two

915
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 1: years ago and uh, I found two or three sheds

916
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: in the pile of corn, which makes shed hunting easy.

917
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's what a him off, right. Yeah, it

918
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: never seems to be that easy for me. I I've

919
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 1: I've had food plots. I've been planning food plots for

920
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,919
Speaker 1: like I don't know, seven years an hour or something

921
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: like that, and most of the years I've put some

922
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: kind of good winter food source in there, always hoping

923
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: that you know, I'd find a shed in one of

924
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 1: those food plots someday, and deer are hitting these food

925
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: plots like crazy all January February, UM, year in and

926
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: year out. I always have great activity in these food plots. Um,

927
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: But I have yet to find a single shed in

928
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 1: one of my food plots, even though I see these

929
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: bucks out there every single stupid night, not in the

930
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: food plot and not next to the food plot. Hasn't

931
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: happened for me yet, But I swear one of these days,

932
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: hopefully it'll pay off. But speaking of finding sheds in

933
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 1: certain places, UM, I'm curious ross you hunt so many

934
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: different You shed hunt so many different spots compared to me. Um,

935
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: do you approach how you shed hunt a new property?

936
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 1: For the first time. I'm different than properties that you know. Well,

937
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: do you have like a special strategy for your first

938
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: walk on a new property. I don't, you know, probably not,

939
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: just because it's most times not because if I if

940
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: there's a new property to get permission on, I already

941
00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: know kind of what the deer doing because I've seen

942
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: it from my road. Probably, so I would I probably

943
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: just do the same thing I do with all the

944
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 1: other properties in that sense. But if it was something

945
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 1: new that I never you know, I don't know what's

946
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,280
Speaker 1: going on. Usually I just kind of do a walk

947
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:37,839
Speaker 1: through first. Um, if it's early in the season, I'll

948
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,040
Speaker 1: walk the fields and the field edges not to bump

949
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: the deer and just get an idea where the deer

950
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,439
Speaker 1: at or where they're coming into the fields. And then

951
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: you can look at maps and things like that and

952
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,080
Speaker 1: you can get an idea where the betting areas are

953
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: based on like maybe um, you know, self facing ridges

954
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 1: close to some of the food sources and stuff like that.

955
00:50:55,160 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 1: So maybe what I would probably do is is bring

956
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 1: up a map, look at it, guess where the deer are,

957
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: and then go on foot without trying to bother hear

958
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: too much and then kind of try to confirm that

959
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: and then once I know kind of where the deer at,

960
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: then I go back in when the time's writer and

961
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: and walkt in that area. That's probably how I approach it.

962
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,640
Speaker 1: So then then you kind of spoke to a little bit.

963
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: But then so for the properties that you do, know,

964
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: what does your typical shed hunt look like? Do you

965
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: start a certain way and check out certain types of

966
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 1: features or do you just walk the entire property front

967
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 1: to back or how does that work for you? Usually?

968
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: First first thing I think I said before too, like

969
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: we'll walk the will walk the fields first, pretty frequent,

970
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: so several times from January through through you know up

971
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,840
Speaker 1: until like the snow melts and uh so fields a

972
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: lot field wise, we'll we'll focus a lot on from

973
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: shed hanging. Over the years I wasted I used to

974
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: waste a lot of time she hunting areas were you

975
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: know they like there were a lot of deer there,

976
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 1: There were deer there, but it ended up just kind

977
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: of wasting time. And now I've shifted more towards focusing

978
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: on on the food sources and like so the corn

979
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: and bean fields and stuff like that, and I'm not

980
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: shed hunting like food plots or anything like that. They're

981
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: just like really big agricultural field. So so field wise

982
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: will focus a lot on like the whenever we have

983
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: a field focused on like those those grassy areas within

984
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: the field, or sometimes will be like terraces that farmers

985
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 1: will put in the fields and other areas like where

986
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: a lot of times deer will bed down at night

987
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: and shoot their cud and for some reason, it seems

988
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: like that's where deer shed the most. I mean you

989
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,879
Speaker 1: can have you could have a bean field and then

990
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,840
Speaker 1: you could have uh in an entire beet field and

991
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: details really easy to find shed in and you can

992
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: walk that whole field not find a single shed. But

993
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: then if you find that one area where the bucks

994
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: like to lay down at night after feeding, you can

995
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: just it's unbelievable how many sheds sometimes you can find. UM,

996
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:08,879
Speaker 1: So we like to focus on kind of those areas.

997
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 1: If you can figure out where the dear bed at night,

998
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: those areas are awesome. That's what I found. Are you

999
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:19,880
Speaker 1: talking like buffer strips and field that hit Yeah, sometimes

1000
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: like buffer strips and stuff like that, and a lot

1001
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: of times will be slightly elevated. Um. Like, for example,

1002
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: there was one the spot where ridge came off. You know,

1003
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: there's just a long draw finger kind of that came

1004
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:34,840
Speaker 1: into the field and then there was like a little

1005
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,640
Speaker 1: ridge that kind of jutted out. It was just like

1006
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: a little finger of trees that jetted out into the

1007
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 1: middle of a cornfield and then it kind of made

1008
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 1: like a grassy little point on the end of it

1009
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: that was slightly elevated from the field. Um, and we

1010
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: walked that and I think was within probably a hundred yards.

1011
00:53:56,640 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: There was six sheds and that was that was January

1012
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: like five, so that's not early in the year, and

1013
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 1: there were six sheds later there. This is pretty crazy.

1014
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: And so like if you can find those areas where

1015
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: fear bed at night, I love those areas and so

1016
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: like or like rass stuff like that. I don't know

1017
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 1: why they shed on those things so easily, seo, but

1018
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,239
Speaker 1: they seem just like the magnets for for sheds. And

1019
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 1: a lot of farmers will tell you the same thing.

1020
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: Have you found the same thing to be true where

1021
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: you're at doan? Yeah? You know, I'll be honest, I

1022
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: haven't found a lot of sheds in fields. I've found

1023
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: some you know on some buffer straps. I found some

1024
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 1: ONESO feel that just but a majority of the sheds

1025
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:45,200
Speaker 1: over the years that I've found have been in the

1026
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:51,279
Speaker 1: bedding areas or in the transition um pieces between the

1027
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: food and bed Yeah, I've kind of found the same thing.

1028
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: I found handful in fields, but most of them tend

1029
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:00,719
Speaker 1: to be like you mentioned, and we'll both of you

1030
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,600
Speaker 1: where they're bedded seems you know, And I guess that

1031
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: makes sense because these deer are probably spending the majority

1032
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: of their time bedded. A greater portion of their day

1033
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 1: is spent embedded than out on a food source or

1034
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: right next to that food source. So it makes sense

1035
00:55:13,600 --> 00:55:17,040
Speaker 1: that these deer finding those betting locations near the food

1036
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 1: where they're bedded down for those longer periods of time.

1037
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 1: That's that's where it's most likely. Um. You know. Another

1038
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,399
Speaker 1: another type of spot that lots of people talk about

1039
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: finding sheds are places where deer jump where if they

1040
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,760
Speaker 1: have to jump over fence or jump over creek. Um,

1041
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:36,280
Speaker 1: have you ever found a shed in a situation like that? Ross? Yeah,

1042
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: senses are great, but that doesn't mean they're like you know,

1043
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: you can check out several hundred fence crossings and not

1044
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,800
Speaker 1: find shed, but a lot of times they do shed

1045
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: that fence jumps and fence crossings, and those are always

1046
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: good places to look, but you got to check a

1047
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: lot of them just to find that one. In most cases. Yeah,

1048
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 1: oh yeah, those are definitely great places of look. Yeah,

1049
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: it hasn't worked out for me yet, but didn't Wasn't

1050
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:06,800
Speaker 1: I with you Dan once when you found one like that? Yeah? Um,

1051
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,439
Speaker 1: it was the same day you found your big one,

1052
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: your biggest shed. Yeah, it was like thirty or forty

1053
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: minutes later when we were kind of, you know, saying

1054
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: screw this area because there was still a lot of

1055
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 1: snow on that north facing slope, Like, let's just get

1056
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: to where this the field the field edges are and

1057
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: we'll go from there. And sure enough, right where we

1058
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: crossed was was it shed? Speaking of that speaking of like,

1059
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: you know, when you start getting like a screw this area.

1060
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 1: We've been walking forever, haven't seen anything or whatever. One

1061
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: of my biggest challenges when it comes to shed hunting

1062
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Speaker 1: is on those days or those long periods of time

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Speaker 1: where you're not finding anything. So like you've walked ten hours,

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00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: you've walked from seven in the morning, until five at

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00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: night or whatever it is, and you've just put miles

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00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:56,759
Speaker 1: on the boots and you haven't found a thing. And like,

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00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 1: at least for me, after so many I don't know,

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00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 1: after a certain period of time, five six, seven hours

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00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: somewhere around there, I start getting this voice in the

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00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: back of my head that starts getting me a little

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00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: frustrated or you know, stressed out that you're not gonna

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00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:10,840
Speaker 1: find anything at all. You drove all the way to

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00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 1: Iowa and you're not gonna come home with a single antler,

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00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,239
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And it gets it's it gets a

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00:57:15,280 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: little bit hard sometimes to focus or stay positive. Um.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think I'm the only one that feels

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00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: that way. I've seen a lot of my other buddies

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00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: get frustrated or stressed out if things aren't going their way. Um,

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Speaker 1: Do either one of you guys have any advice for

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00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: keeping keeping focused and having a positive attitude during shedding,

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00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: Because if I found anything, it's that one of the

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00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,880
Speaker 1: most important things to be successful as a shed hunter

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00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:42,880
Speaker 1: is to maintain that positive attitude and focus because kind

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00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: of just like deer hunting, right, it's it always seems

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00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: to be right when you least expect it, when you've

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00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: been going forever and haven't found anything and think you'll

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00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 1: never find anything. If you end up being paying attention,

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00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: that will be the chance you have to actually find

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00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: the big one. I've found that to be true. Have

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00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: either one of you guys internally developed some kind of

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00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: way to just stay positive or or do you guys

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00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: have the same issues I've had in the pastor probably

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00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: just changing it up if you started getting getting down

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00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: or having a bad streak. Usually just changing a change

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00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 1: of scenery helps tremendously. But there's been times when you

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00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: can walk certain properties and walcom and walk and walk

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00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: on the deer side everywhere. It's so discouraging because you're

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00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: not finding anything. And a lot of times the best

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00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:30,400
Speaker 1: thing to do is just change it up instead of,

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00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: you know, to keep walking and and maybe it starts

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00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 1: slacking on, you know, like you're searching and stuff like that,

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00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 1: because i know I've I've gotten in, i know I've

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00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: gotten bummed out and discourage a lot of times, and

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00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: and I'm sure I've walked past a ton of sheds

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00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: because of that. So I would always say, just change

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00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: it up and just go somewhere else and do something different.

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00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: That's a that's what I would usually do. Yeah, what

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00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: about your doing? I'm always thinking about I'm I'm It's

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00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: like in my brains running in at two different speeds.

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00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: I have my shed hunting speed where I'm looking for

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00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 1: the characteristics of an antler the entire time. But then

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00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 1: I'm also start, you know, I start to look up

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00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: in the sky, like I'm looking for trees to potentially

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00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: if I see like a scraper. U I'm like, okay,

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00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 1: well I'm gonna I start looking up and I I

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00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: switched my focus from shed hunting to deer hunting. And

1117
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 1: then I got to refocused and be like, okay, well

1118
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 1: you've walked fifty yards with your head in the sky.

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00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: You're not gonna find any you know, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: find anything or um or I you know, life is

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00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: busy these days. So I start, you know, you're thinking

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00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: about something that's completely not deer hunting or related. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's one reason I really like shed hunting

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00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,920
Speaker 1: is for the pure fact to get outside, stretch your

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Speaker 1: legs and just lose yourself and you're not you're not

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Speaker 1: really thinking about anything for per se putting a lot

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Speaker 1: of energy and thought process to one particular thing. It's

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Speaker 1: just you're walking and it's almost like your zone and out.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of therapeutic, exactly. Yeah, I you know, to

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Speaker 1: to I number one, I've definitely done the same thing

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Speaker 1: you've done. Dan. I always try to tell myself not

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Speaker 1: to do that, because, like you said, it's it's really

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Speaker 1: easy to walk by a shed if you're staring at

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01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: rubs and trees for potential tree stands. But it's hard

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Speaker 1: not to given the fact that you know where our

1136
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: brains are always turned to deer hunting mode, trying to

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01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:40,560
Speaker 1: think of whorse we hunt, whorse we hang, all that

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01:00:40,640 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Um. But another small thing that helps

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01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: me sometimes is just taking not even necessarily changing scenery,

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01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: although I agree with you Ross, I think that helps

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Speaker 1: a lot. Also, just like taking a break, like if

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Speaker 1: you're just like bumming out, like say, okay, you know,

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01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: let's take fifteen minutes, sit on a log, have a

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01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:59,000
Speaker 1: snack during some water. Just even a small thing like

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01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 1: that has a way of just kind of refocusing and

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01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: putting a pet back in your step after just taking

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01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: some time away from constantly scanning for sheds. And just

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01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 1: joking with your buddies and stuff. Um, it always seems

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01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:12,959
Speaker 1: for me that I end up having that success after

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01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:15,120
Speaker 1: a little break like that just kind of gives me

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01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 1: that extra burst, I suppose. So what what about you know,

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01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: tips for just spotting sheds. I've heard a lot of

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01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: different things, different types of advice for actually just being

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01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: able to see these things. Um, do you have any

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01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: any advice? Have you found anything to help you ross

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01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: just in being able to see or spot more sheds? Man?

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Speaker 1: I you know, I don't know. I just over the

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01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 1: over the years, you just get get the hang of

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01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 1: knowing what to look for. No, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: I have like any advice for spotting them necessarily. UM,

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01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: maybe Dan has some some are better ideas than I do.

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Speaker 1: I think I would. I can't say in like the

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Speaker 1: best at spotting sheds, you know, because then I kind

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Speaker 1: of have a d D when I'm in the woods

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01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:12,680
Speaker 1: and Kendall's I've kind of even been standing next to

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01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: sheds before when Kendall points them out at my feet,

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Speaker 1: So if that that shows a thing, But I, I, uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: spotting sheds, I don't, I don't know. You can you

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01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 1: can just take an antler with you. Sometimes you can

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01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 1: throw it out in front of you and you can

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01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 1: just kind of see how lands and get an idea

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Speaker 1: of how it looks and stuff like that. And I know,

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01:02:29,760 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 1: I know Kendall and I have in the past, you know,

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Speaker 1: even when we train our dogs, we'll put out I'll

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01:02:37,280 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 1: put up some sheds and Kendall will you know, she'll

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01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 1: maybe but waiting with the dog, and then we'll let

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Speaker 1: the work for him, and Kendall kind of has to

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01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 1: get the hang of spotting them too. And or we'll

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Speaker 1: throw the the shed out in front of us when

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01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: we're walking and kind of get an idea of how

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01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 1: it looks, and you can practice, you know, you know

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01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 1: how ladies and spotting out in front of and stuff

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01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: like that. But but I don't know. Besides that, I

1184
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 1: don't nor if I don't really have too many tips

1185
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: as far as spotting them, I would say, I don't

1186
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:10,920
Speaker 1: know what about you, Dan, I just look for curves,

1187
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: like I don't know. It's hard, you know, it's it's

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01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: I think it's more difficult when their times up trying

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01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: to you know, it depends on where they're at, if

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01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:24,280
Speaker 1: they're in grass or but if you really look at

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01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 1: the surrounding of where a shed falls, and if it's

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01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: I guess big enough to where the times are sticking up,

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01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 1: you'll notice that it doesn't match anything that surrounds it

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01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 1: unless it's like a darker chocolate colored rack. I mean

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01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 1: the lines of the shed or a little curved or

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01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 1: or they got some kind of like smoothness roundness to

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01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:53,600
Speaker 1: it where everything else is completely flat or straight, or

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01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: the grasses. You know, it never really nothing really in

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01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:02,640
Speaker 1: the timber grows really like curved or smooth. So for me,

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Speaker 1: it's easier for me to find an antler with times

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01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 1: down because that main beam um just really gives it away.

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01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,600
Speaker 1: But when it's time times up, it gives me, you know,

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01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 1: a little bit more problems. But I still really, I

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01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:19,959
Speaker 1: still think that if you yeah, and it just takes

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01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where it just takes time

1206
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:26,040
Speaker 1: time in years of experience doing it, that you can't beat.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like with with actually trying to spot deer.

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01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 1: I always say, you know, as a young deer hunter,

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01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 1: you know, I was out there trying to spot a

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01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:36,520
Speaker 1: whole deer. I'd be out there skanning the woods looking

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01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 1: for an entire dear body, and that rarely, rarely ever happens.

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01:04:40,560 --> 01:04:43,120
Speaker 1: Many times it's actually you spot an ear, or you

1213
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 1: spot an eye, or you spot the white patch on

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01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: a throat or a flick of a tail. It's all

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01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: about spotting these little pieces of a deer or like

1216
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 1: the flat horizontal back of the deer that stands out

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01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: within a forest. Um. And that's kind of how I

1218
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: approached shed hunting, like you kind of alluded to, Dan,

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01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: It's about spotting the certain unique aspects of an antler

1220
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: that are different than the surroundings. So, like you said,

1221
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,920
Speaker 1: the you know, the smoothness of an antler, or the

1222
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: unique curvature the antlers seem to have. Another thing that

1223
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: always stands out to me is like the parallel. You know,

1224
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: if you've got like a three point side where there's

1225
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,400
Speaker 1: three times sticking up. You know, typically in nature you

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01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: don't see something that has three things all kind of

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01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:22,240
Speaker 1: going at the same angle. Just like that. That kind

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01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 1: of stands out for me. Um. So, yeah, that's definitely

1229
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 1: something I would recommend, is is trying to look for

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01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: pieces and parts of antlers and uh, not necessarily focus

1231
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:33,960
Speaker 1: on trying to see an entire antler, because lots of

1232
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 1: times you're just not gonna see that. It'll be, you know,

1233
01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: something poking up over some leaves, or that you know,

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01:05:39,440 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 1: that little shine in the middle of a pile of

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01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 1: brambles or whatever. Um another thing that hasn't well. I'm

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01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: not sure if it's ever worked for me personally, but

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01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: I've always tried it, and I know other people has worked.

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01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 1: For our friend Peter Ross. One time we were out

1239
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 1: there shed hunting, the three of us and Corey and

1240
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 1: Kendall and maybe someone else um, and Peter walks in

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01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:03,320
Speaker 1: to a cornfield and hadn't seen anything, and then he said, hey,

1242
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do that thing where I changed my perspective

1243
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 1: and he knelt down on the ground to look, and

1244
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, just by kneeling, he all

1245
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 1: of a sudden spotted the shed that he didn't see otherwise.

1246
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 1: So I think that's actually a good idea, just changing

1247
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 1: how you're looking at the area, like either getting up

1248
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,480
Speaker 1: high on something or getting down low, or turning around

1249
01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 1: and looking behind you. You know, you scanned the area

1250
01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: walking forward and you didn't see anything, but if you

1251
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 1: turn around and look where you came from, sometimes you'll

1252
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: spot a shed that you wouldn't have seen going the

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01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 1: other way. UM. So those are a few things I've seen.

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Speaker 1: Help um just pick out some of those sheds that

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01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: you might not normally find. But to to your point, Dan,

1256
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 1: a lot of it just comes down to experience and

1257
01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: just developing that eye for it. It's it's becomes kind of,

1258
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 1: you know, uh, subconscious. You don't even think about it,

1259
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 1: just your brain instantly connects a certain shape or color

1260
01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:56,479
Speaker 1: to a shed and then before you know it, you

1261
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:59,240
Speaker 1: you yell shed before you even really process the fact

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01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: that there's an antler, it just happens. Bingo bengo, Bingo bengo.

1263
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 1: There's there's nothing better than than hearing someone yell out

1264
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 1: while you're shed hunting, or hopefully it's you find yelling

1265
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 1: out and seeing that ship that is that is an

1266
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 1: awesome feeling. So I don't know, Dan, do you have

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01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:20,280
Speaker 1: any other questions for Ross or any other shed hunting

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01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 1: tips that we haven't covered yet that we should. It's

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Speaker 1: it's not really I guess it's more of an You

1270
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: said your wife is pregnant right now? Yes, she is

1271
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 1: doing April okay? Is she? And is she still packing?

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Speaker 1: On the miles with you right now. Oh yeah, she's yep,

1273
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 1: she's thirty three weeks and and uh, she's still walking

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01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: with me. So we're gonna still try to get in

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Speaker 1: as much as we can the next couple of weeks,

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01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:55,360
Speaker 1: the next few weeks, so she finds I mean, you've

1277
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 1: got to come over and pick him up for No,

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01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:02,520
Speaker 1: she doesn't. She does really well. She's she can't go

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01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 1: quite as far as she used to, but she does

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01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: pretty pretty well. So it's been a lot of fun.

1281
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:11,520
Speaker 1: I'm glad she got to. She loves shed hunting as

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01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 1: much as I do, so un glad she got to

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01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: enjoy some of it so far this year. And I

1284
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: know that, I know the little one is going to

1285
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 1: going to be finding some sheds that at a very

1286
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 1: early age too. They'll be they'll be tagging along. That's

1287
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 1: gonna be one lucky kid. He or she is being

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01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 1: born into a great white tail family. So I'm sure

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01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:36,759
Speaker 1: they're gonna enjoy some great shed hunting and deer hunting

1290
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: considering all the spots that you hunt and shed hunt.

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01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 1: And I I certainly wouldn't mind being your kid, Ross,

1292
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:50,400
Speaker 1: Will you adopt me? Yeah? So that's why I moved

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01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 1: on over the love Deer. Yeah. And you you you

1294
01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:57,040
Speaker 1: could easily do that too, Mark. You know, I was

1295
01:08:57,080 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 1: just gonna say, I was just gonna say you never

1296
01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:02,800
Speaker 1: failed to mind me that I certainly couldn't move out there,

1297
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:05,240
Speaker 1: which which I think about a lot, that's for sure.

1298
01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: Just moved to north northwest Hella right there next to Minnesota, right, okay, yeah,

1299
01:09:14,240 --> 01:09:16,720
Speaker 1: really close, very right on the border. You can have

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01:09:16,840 --> 01:09:20,639
Speaker 1: both states perfect. Perfect. So so here's my final question

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Speaker 1: for your Ross and and Youtuo Dan. Do you remember

1302
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 1: your best day of shed hunting ever? And if so,

1303
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 1: tell me about that day. Ross? Can you think of that?

1304
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: Do you have your best day top of mind? Yeah?

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01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:37,439
Speaker 1: The best day was I say, the best weekend was

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01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:40,439
Speaker 1: when you were down. That was awesome. That was an

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01:09:40,439 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: awesome wee can we we did awesome that weekend. The

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01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: best day was last year, um kind of and I

1309
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:52,599
Speaker 1: had this spot we called the Glory Hole. That good.

1310
01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:59,960
Speaker 1: It's awesome and uh so so isn't in a truck stop?

1311
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:05,639
Speaker 1: Was it? But it's good? H So? Yeah, we last year.

1312
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:09,960
Speaker 1: And I guess one of my tips to since this

1313
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 1: story has come up would be if people are looking

1314
01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 1: for places to look for sheds. You don't think you

1315
01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 1: have to be by timber. I don't think you have

1316
01:10:17,400 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: to be by any cover woods because gear travel a

1317
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:23,719
Speaker 1: long ways at night sometimes and they'll even for some reason,

1318
01:10:23,760 --> 01:10:27,680
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly why, they'll bypass. There might be

1319
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 1: a timber where they're betting. They'll bet in that timber

1320
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: and they'll walk through, you know, a huge cornfield that

1321
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:38,280
Speaker 1: has plenty of waste, plenty of corn, fined tafeeda. They'll

1322
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:42,799
Speaker 1: travel through that cornfield to reach some different destination field.

1323
01:10:42,800 --> 01:10:45,160
Speaker 1: For some reason, they do it year after year after year,

1324
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 1: and I don't know why they do that. But there's

1325
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:50,960
Speaker 1: the Glory Hole and it's in the middle of the

1326
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: middle of a couple of rows. There's no timber anywhere nearby.

1327
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: But just from getting to know the area of pretty

1328
01:10:57,160 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 1: well and and learning it um a lot of the

1329
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 1: deer travel proof. I mean they travel like a mile

1330
01:11:04,960 --> 01:11:07,160
Speaker 1: maybe even some of these deer traveling and further than

1331
01:11:07,200 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 1: that to get to this this cornfield. It's just like

1332
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:12,600
Speaker 1: a destination corn field. So last year we walked it

1333
01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 1: in the in the one afternoon. It was a great afternoon.

1334
01:11:17,200 --> 01:11:19,879
Speaker 1: It was sunny, which isn't ideal for fund sheds obviously,

1335
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 1: but it was it was warm, one of those days

1336
01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:23,799
Speaker 1: where it's in March and you'll still get a sunburned.

1337
01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 1: And we walked and walked and walked, and uh, we

1338
01:11:27,439 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 1: just for picking up shed after shed after shed to

1339
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: the point where it got to be mid day. We

1340
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:35,919
Speaker 1: had to walk back to the truck, dump all our sheds,

1341
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:39,680
Speaker 1: eat some lunch, and then head back out, so we

1342
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: had some hands that were free and then have to

1343
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 1: carry as many things because the arms were getting tired,

1344
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:47,600
Speaker 1: headed back out, picked up more sheds, and uh, that

1345
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: day we ended up finding fifteen in one day, and

1346
01:11:52,840 --> 01:11:54,599
Speaker 1: it was it was an awesome day and we had

1347
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:56,680
Speaker 1: to put in our work for like we walked. I

1348
01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 1: bet you man, I don't know how many miles we walked.

1349
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:01,880
Speaker 1: UFI I walked eight miles. I would say it back

1350
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:06,120
Speaker 1: and forth, all this stuff, but it was it was

1351
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: an awesome day. And uh, hopefully we're gonna walk the

1352
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,920
Speaker 1: glory hole. We're gonna walk the glory hole next this

1353
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:17,639
Speaker 1: coming Sunday, I think. And then um, it's beans though,

1354
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:20,599
Speaker 1: but then the next year it's hopefully we'll repeat itself

1355
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:23,320
Speaker 1: and it will be another good day So that was

1356
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: my That was my best day. How come Ross, how

1357
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:27,880
Speaker 1: come you never take me in court of the glory hole?

1358
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 1: I don't know? Yeah, the only Yeah, okay, and I

1359
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 1: know you got your sponse. Oh yeah, you guys are

1360
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 1: more than what I'm gonna walk it Sunday, but you're

1361
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:44,680
Speaker 1: more than We'll all welcome to walk it the second time. Okay, Okay?

1362
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,600
Speaker 1: What about what about you? Dan? Do you have? Do

1363
01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:51,120
Speaker 1: you have a day that stands out above all the rest? Yeah?

1364
01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 1: I tell you one of my best days I've ever

1365
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:57,840
Speaker 1: pad was I left work at about two o'clock and

1366
01:12:58,040 --> 01:13:01,080
Speaker 1: it was probably in hour and a half shed hunt

1367
01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:04,280
Speaker 1: and it was this like a peninsula that sticks out

1368
01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:08,439
Speaker 1: into a corn field where the the deer come out

1369
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 1: of this this bigger chunk of timber and this peninsula

1370
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 1: kind of jets into a corn field. And I I

1371
01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:21,759
Speaker 1: only walked for probably an hour and a half and

1372
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 1: you know, got down there, got an hour and a

1373
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 1: half walk in before um I had to head back

1374
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 1: home because I was gonna shed hunt the entire next day.

1375
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:35,120
Speaker 1: But I walked in and I found like my second

1376
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 1: or big second or third biggest shed I've ever found,

1377
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:43,760
Speaker 1: and my biggest match shed, my biggest match set that

1378
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:47,639
Speaker 1: I've ever found, both in the same same walk, within

1379
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 1: forty minutes of each other. And then I found one

1380
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:56,360
Speaker 1: other smaller shed, but as far as most amount of

1381
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:59,800
Speaker 1: inches and one walk that by far, I was like

1382
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:04,160
Speaker 1: two thousand and thirteen. I think, nice, that's that's pretty

1383
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 1: good find some big ones like that. Yeah, so it was.

1384
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 1: It was a fun It was a fun day just

1385
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,640
Speaker 1: because it was such a short walk. It was like boom,

1386
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 1: you know, ten fifty minutes later, boom, ten fifty minutes later.

1387
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 1: That that's awesome. Yeah, So I gotta gotta appreciate those

1388
01:14:21,560 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 1: days because they don't come too often for most of

1389
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 1: us at least, that's right. Yeah. I still haven't had

1390
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:31,280
Speaker 1: any like crazy awesome day. Um. I think the most

1391
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:32,840
Speaker 1: I've ever found in a day was one of those.

1392
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,280
Speaker 1: Maybe that year two years ago with you Ross again,

1393
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,160
Speaker 1: I think I think maybe I pulled like four or

1394
01:14:37,160 --> 01:14:40,840
Speaker 1: five that day. Um, that's probably my best day. But

1395
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:43,560
Speaker 1: my my day with you Dan where I well, the

1396
01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:45,720
Speaker 1: day before I fell through the ice into a river,

1397
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:47,320
Speaker 1: and then the next day I found my biggest show.

1398
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 1: That was a pretty good trip. That one stands out

1399
01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:55,720
Speaker 1: for me too, so yeah, good times, that's for sure. Well, uh,

1400
01:14:55,840 --> 01:14:59,960
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I'm thinking we should wrap this up so Ross,

1401
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: we appreciate you joining us here on the show to

1402
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:05,680
Speaker 1: share your shed hunting expertise and all that. And uh,

1403
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 1: I hope one of these days that the three of

1404
01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:09,080
Speaker 1: us can get together and do a shed hunt at

1405
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:12,200
Speaker 1: some point. Wouln't that be a good good idea? Sounds

1406
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:16,560
Speaker 1: good to me? Oh yeah, of course, looking forward to

1407
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 1: to Uh, you guys coming down to here soon and

1408
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:23,360
Speaker 1: get not walking and be a good time. Absolutely, I'm

1409
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:29,440
Speaker 1: I'm looking for you know, but more more more for

1410
01:15:29,479 --> 01:15:34,759
Speaker 1: the rest of us. You never know, stuff up, Yeah, definitely,

1411
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 1: all right, Ross, Well, thanks so much. We'll we'll hopefully

1412
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:40,599
Speaker 1: bring on next time after we all found a whole

1413
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:42,679
Speaker 1: bunch of sheds on one of these trips in the future.

1414
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,800
Speaker 1: Have a good one, Ross, alright, sounds good, I guess.

1415
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,480
Speaker 1: All right. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed that conversation

1416
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:51,760
Speaker 1: as much as we did. It was just a lot

1417
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 1: of fun talking sheds with Ross, and I gotta be honest,

1418
01:15:54,920 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 1: it's got me pretty fired up to start walking. So

1419
01:15:57,479 --> 01:16:00,559
Speaker 1: I'll actually be heading out this Saturday and I'm pretty

1420
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 1: pumped now. Before we do wrap things up, though, we

1421
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:05,880
Speaker 1: need to pause very briefly for a word from our

1422
01:16:05,920 --> 01:16:08,920
Speaker 1: sponsors of this episode, Trophy Ridge, and I wanted to

1423
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 1: specifically mention a Trophy Ridge product, the static stabilizer, that

1424
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:14,800
Speaker 1: I switched to a number of years ago and found

1425
01:16:14,800 --> 01:16:17,679
Speaker 1: to make a big difference. And really it's this idea

1426
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:19,599
Speaker 1: of a stabilizer and what it can do for you

1427
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 1: that I wanted to mention here today. Now, if you're

1428
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 1: not already using some kind of stabilizer for your bow,

1429
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: this is something you really need to try, is it.

1430
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: It's a tool that can immediately improve your accuracy, and

1431
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:33,360
Speaker 1: stabilizer does this by adding weight to certain sections of

1432
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:36,320
Speaker 1: your bow that will result in holding your bow steadier

1433
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: and that will reduce the chances of you actually torking

1434
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: your bow to one side or the other. Now, I

1435
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: actually used a six inch stabilizer for a long time,

1436
01:16:44,479 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 1: but several years ago, while doing some reading, I learned

1437
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 1: about the benefits of a longer stabilizer. In particular, there

1438
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:52,680
Speaker 1: was a study or a kind of field test by

1439
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:54,679
Speaker 1: Field and Stream that showed that moving from a six

1440
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:58,599
Speaker 1: inch stabilizer to a longer tenant stabilizer cut their long

1441
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 1: range groups in half. So with that in mind, I

1442
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 1: switched from a six inch to a nine inch static

1443
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:08,480
Speaker 1: stabilizer by trophy Ridge, and I too, immediately saw improvements.

1444
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a very real way to

1445
01:17:10,960 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 1: improve your accuracy this year, try longer stabilizer. And if

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01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 1: you're specifically interested in learning about the options from trophy Ridge,

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01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 1: you can visit trophy ridge dot com. Now, with that,

1448
01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: I think we will shut this whole thing down, So

1449
01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 1: thank you everyone for tuning in, and of course we

1450
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:27,439
Speaker 1: do need to thank the rest of our sponsors who

1451
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 1: helped make this podcast possible. So big thank you too,

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Speaker 1: sick A Gear Bear Archery, Redneck Blinds, huntera Maps, Mosonic's

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Speaker 1: Lacrosse Boots, and the White Tail Institute of North America.

1454
01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:42,000
Speaker 1: And finally, again, thank you all for joining us today.

1455
01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:44,120
Speaker 1: I wish you all the luck in the world on

1456
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 1: your next shedhouting trip, and until next time, stay Wired

1457
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Speaker 1: to Hunt.