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Speaker 1: now your hosts, Casey Smith and Tyler Jones.
Speaker 2: It's December that chases on the chase to find the
Speaker 2: rut action.
Speaker 3: This is rut Fresh. Let's go. What's going on? Everyone?
Speaker 2: Welcome were rut Fresh Radio. I'm your host k Cy Smith.
Speaker 2: Tyler Jones is here as well. We're brought to you
Speaker 2: by First Lag Year. It is cold this time of year,
Speaker 2: and it's good time to bundle up and maximize they'll
Speaker 2: warmth man. I mean, one of the things that we're
Speaker 2: hearing from people around the country is that there is
Speaker 2: some cold fronts that have been rolling through and that
Speaker 2: cold weather is good for deer hunting, as we all know. Tyler,
Speaker 2: do you actually like hunting cold fronts?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. You when's when's the time to
Speaker 2: be there? Do you like to like feel the front
Speaker 2: roll in or do you like like it personally?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I do, but I don't know that. I don't
Speaker 4: know that I can like correlate.
Speaker 5: Uh, I don't know that like off hand, I can
Speaker 5: correlate any success with that necessarily, But I like to
Speaker 5: be there when it's rolling in and things get hype.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4: I just noticed.
Speaker 5: I've always this is something that may or may not
Speaker 5: make sense to people. But when at the first day
Speaker 5: that it kind of got cold, if it ever did
Speaker 5: that in a Texas football season for US, people went
Speaker 5: nuts on the field, like people were losing their mind.
Speaker 5: Everybody was ready to chop their feet and do all
Speaker 5: the stuff and be ready to you know, they were
Speaker 5: just moving around, and I feel like deer kind of
Speaker 5: the same way. It's like that first day of the
Speaker 5: cold front. I know a lot of people love the
Speaker 5: first South after a couple of norths or whatever, but
Speaker 5: I like the first I like them north winds too.
Speaker 2: I feel like the cold front gets the young bucks
Speaker 2: up and moving, and that in turn like just kind
Speaker 2: of mixes a lot of stuff up.
Speaker 3: At least that's kind of what I observe, you know.
Speaker 4: I think then those get up and eat man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably true too, especially this time of year,
Speaker 2: because that's what we're really doing. It's not as much
Speaker 2: depending on where you're at right And that's one of
Speaker 2: the things we're going to discuss in today's ret Fresh episodes,
Speaker 2: because you know, a lot of the southern states are
Speaker 2: really starting to come into their own for the rut
Speaker 2: right now. But that cold weather definitely makes those deer
Speaker 2: hit those foods horses earlier in the afternoon, and a
Speaker 2: lot of times with these cold fronts too, they kind
Speaker 2: of correspond with overcast days, which is what I'm looking
Speaker 2: at out the window right now, and that also seems
Speaker 2: to just be a pretty good thing for deer. They
Speaker 2: tend to maybe just spend a little more time on
Speaker 2: their feats whenever you.
Speaker 3: Got to overcast day.
Speaker 2: But the bluebird days are good to you know, quite honestly,
Speaker 2: any reason is a good reason to kind of get
Speaker 2: optimistic about going deer hunting. And I can make any
Speaker 2: day sound like a good deer hunting day. You know, Oh,
Speaker 2: it's a hundred degrees, they're gonna be drinking water. Better
Speaker 2: go hunt that water, you know. So there's always something
Speaker 2: and a good reason to try to go out there
Speaker 2: and hit it.
Speaker 5: You can either be optimistic and go hunting, or you
Speaker 5: can be pessimistic and probably not go.
Speaker 2: Hunting, you know, yeah, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: How do you feel about the guys? I shouldn't say
Speaker 2: it that way. How do you feel about the concept of
Speaker 2: hunt less and kill more?
Speaker 4: I think it depends on what you got to hunt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's kind of property specific.
Speaker 5: Huh, Yeah, I do. But I definitely like to hunt more,
Speaker 5: which is why I do this.
Speaker 3: It's good travel around. Yeah, you know, you travel around,
Speaker 3: you can hunt more.
Speaker 5: But I'm all about if it don't work on a property,
Speaker 5: go somewhere else and hunt. I mean, find some public
Speaker 5: or whatever and go hunt that day if you got
Speaker 5: the day to hunt, you know, I mean, I just
Speaker 5: I mean, in all transparency and honesty. When I first
Speaker 5: you know, from the time I was young, all I
Speaker 5: ever wanted to do was hunting fish. I mean, that
Speaker 5: is what I wanted to be doing at all times.
Speaker 5: So I just tried to find a way to do
Speaker 5: that every day. And so if I could be in
Speaker 5: the woods every day, I don't think it would bother
Speaker 5: me at all.
Speaker 2: If you have Let's give something scenario specific here, and
Speaker 2: this works really well for this time of year because
Speaker 2: deer are definitely shifting to more of a bed to
Speaker 2: food type pattern. There's still some red action going on
Speaker 2: depending on where you're in the country and just depending
Speaker 2: on the deer you have, because I guarantee you is
Speaker 2: somewhere in Saskatchewan right now there's a deer thinking about
Speaker 2: chasing a doe. But in general things are different in December.
Speaker 2: So let's just have that mine. You have sixty acres,
Speaker 2: You've got some food that the deer traveling to, but
Speaker 2: it's a fairly small part.
Speaker 3: Carsel.
Speaker 2: Is it worth having a couple different sets for a
Speaker 2: couple different winds on that thing, or should you just
Speaker 2: set it up for like the the wind that you
Speaker 2: know is the best killing wind. I mean, I think
Speaker 2: if you can make it work, be great. I've got
Speaker 2: a hunted up. I don't know exactly what it is,
Speaker 2: but anyway, it's less than thirty acres and I was
Speaker 2: hunting it like jumping all around. And really I mean
Speaker 2: I say all around. I wasn't hunting all over the property,
Speaker 2: but I was hunting all over an area that the deer.
Speaker 2: I mean, as a bow hunter, you can't shoot. You
Speaker 2: could shoot a hundred yards, you're probably not gonna hit it. Still, advise,
Speaker 2: so you know you want to get closer. So I
Speaker 2: mean a movement.
Speaker 5: A move helps you to get in boat range, and
Speaker 5: I think that's where you know, maybe you learn you
Speaker 5: learned and you know enough about it, or maybe the
Speaker 5: pinch is good enough, or maybe you know, whatever it is,
Speaker 5: you've set it up so that you can have shots
Speaker 5: and you got one place. But I think, like overall,
Speaker 5: I think be being willing to have some sets, especially
Speaker 5: on sixty acres, would be pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 2: I think that it's going to depend on what time
Speaker 2: of year it is, how hard you want to push
Speaker 2: that just off wind right where you don't want to
Speaker 2: mess it up early October by hunting something it's a
Speaker 2: little bit risky, but for a lot of guys just
Speaker 2: kind of do your die time because Christmas is coming
Speaker 2: up and you kind of need to get your buck
Speaker 2: keeled if you're going to do it. So it's a
Speaker 2: good time of year to take some risks, especially when
Speaker 2: the deer are thinking really hard with their stomachs. So
Speaker 2: that's a little bit of a pump you up to
Speaker 2: get out there and go hunting, because man, deer season
Speaker 2: is not over. It is absolutely rocking and rolling and
Speaker 2: in a lot of parts of the country. It's like
Speaker 2: the best that it can be.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk to some guys today that are just
Speaker 2: all up in the rut action right now.
Speaker 3: Right who were talking to today talk.
Speaker 5: Well, we got a bunch of guys, a lot of
Speaker 5: them from the South, because that's where a lot of
Speaker 5: the stuff's going on right now. In fact, many of
Speaker 5: the guys that we know and follow on social media
Speaker 5: platforms from the north are having some trouble right now
Speaker 5: and they're just hunting some cold weather and not see
Speaker 5: a whole lot of deer. So people we know that
Speaker 5: are getting after it and doing stuff right now and
Speaker 5: having some success. We've gotten in touch with what they
Speaker 5: happen to be from places like Alabama, where Parker McDonald
Speaker 5: will be giving us a report doing the double up
Speaker 5: outdoors saying that this has been happening, you know, for
Speaker 5: some people. But justin Henry was in Georgia this last
Speaker 5: week and had some success with his daughter there that
Speaker 5: he hunts all that stuff way out in the southeast
Speaker 5: and is a good correspondent for us there. Matt died
Speaker 5: in Missouri, So you're getting your Midwest fix if you're
Speaker 5: that kind of person.
Speaker 4: Matt is just kind of one of them dudes. You
Speaker 4: just you don't.
Speaker 5: You don't hear it from him all the time, but
Speaker 5: he's out there doing it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: And then Troy Waldron killed an absolute slammer in Texas
Speaker 5: this past week, and he's going to give us a
Speaker 5: report from the home state while we're not even there.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. Let's get the reports on the phone.
Speaker 2: I have got my brother, Parker mc donald was Southern
Speaker 2: Collective and he normally has the voice of an angel,
Speaker 2: but today he sounds like a dog that fell out
Speaker 2: the back of the truck.
Speaker 3: Parker, what was happening, man.
Speaker 6: Man, I bized to anybody. Yes, so listen to a voice.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: You sound like you've been you've been hunting, but also
Speaker 2: like mouth calling turkeys all week where your voice is
Speaker 2: finally scratchy. Have you been like hollering at them deer
Speaker 2: or what made your voice do that?
Speaker 6: That? That is actually not far from the truth. I'm
Speaker 6: being honest with you. It's been really really cold.
Speaker 7: It's been super cold, and I've been kind of a
Speaker 7: little bit, a little bit under the weather.
Speaker 6: But it's the freaking rut, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta go. Alabama is rocking and rolling right now.
Speaker 6: Huh it is, man, And.
Speaker 4: Oh I thought you remember the football team.
Speaker 8: Sorry no, no, not.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 7: Luckily for me, I'm I'm not an Alabama fan.
Speaker 5: So what's the it's going. It's going like the deer
Speaker 5: just running wild through the woods right now?
Speaker 4: Or is that not the case?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is. It is the case. And it's funny that.
Speaker 7: You brought it up turkey hunting, like I feel like
Speaker 7: I've been turky in because that's been a huge part
Speaker 7: of my week this week, is calling and grunning the deer,
Speaker 7: and it's been unreal how well it's worked.
Speaker 2: So what's the scenario on that then? Are you calling
Speaker 2: it deer that you see or are you blind grunting?
Speaker 6: Usually it's blind grunning, but sometimes it's not.
Speaker 7: Sometimes I see a deer and I grunt, And there's
Speaker 7: just such a high percentage if you do it at
Speaker 7: the right time of the year, there's such a highest
Speaker 7: percentage that I've seen of deer coming like coming to
Speaker 7: investigate it. Now, they may try to get down the
Speaker 7: wind and screw you up or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what phase is Alabama in right now? Then?
Speaker 7: Well, over the last over the last two days, every
Speaker 7: camera that I've got out, every buck that I have
Speaker 7: been watching since October has daylighted in the last two days.
Speaker 7: In this seeking I believe it's the seeking phase, which
Speaker 7: in that seeking phase, you find a lot of bucks
Speaker 7: are really aggressive. They've got so much testosterone and it
Speaker 7: does it just doesn't take much to piss them off.
Speaker 7: But every camera I've got I've been seeing the last
Speaker 7: I guess three days now, it's been just just lights out.
Speaker 7: And then my experiences I've been in the woods those
Speaker 7: days too, uh, and my experience and this time of
Speaker 7: the year is always just like this. Once it's flips,
Speaker 7: once they go into that cruising or seeking phase of
Speaker 7: the rut. It's like it's it's the times when the
Speaker 7: woods feel like a zoo. It's like, just go be
Speaker 7: in the woods and if you're if you halfway know
Speaker 7: what you're doing, there's a good chance you can kill
Speaker 7: a deer or see one.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, I'll be honest with you, it's good news for
Speaker 7: everybody in a state like Alabama or like East Texas
Speaker 7: where you guys are at. We all know there's just
Speaker 7: some there's just the those days where it just feels
Speaker 7: like it's magic in the air, and you don't feel
Speaker 7: like you did anything different than you do before. But
Speaker 7: it's just like, wow, I saw eight bucks today or whatever.
Speaker 5: So so with that, you know, going forward to the
Speaker 5: next week, are you going to use a grunt call
Speaker 5: or rattling antlers more often?
Speaker 7: I think I think here at home, I think I
Speaker 7: would say grunt like the.
Speaker 6: Way that I typically do. I'll tell you guys what happened.
Speaker 6: I mean, two days ago.
Speaker 7: I was I was set up on a deer that
Speaker 7: I had come out in the daylight the morning before,
Speaker 7: and it was I mean, I was as deep as I've.
Speaker 6: Ever been on public land.
Speaker 7: Like to give you guys an example, I got I
Speaker 7: got to the boat ramp at three o'clock and I
Speaker 7: didn't get set up until like after six thirty.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, okay, yeah yeah, yeah yeah dude.
Speaker 7: And it was just like it was just it's those
Speaker 7: kind of days that those are the one am days,
Speaker 7: you know, And I knew I needed to be where
Speaker 7: I needed to be at like and and so I
Speaker 7: got up there and uh, right after daylight, a buck
Speaker 7: chases a dough in the holler back behind me, real deep,
Speaker 7: thick collar, and I could hear him grunting a lot.
Speaker 6: Like when I say a lot.
Speaker 7: I mean have you ever have you guys ever heard
Speaker 7: those woodpeckers or whatever they are that almost sound like
Speaker 7: a grunt, and they can fool you every once in
Speaker 7: a while.
Speaker 6: It was like that sound. But he was.
Speaker 7: Changing the tone of his voice, and I could hear
Speaker 7: them running around, and I'd already seen them one time.
Speaker 7: I'd got glimpses up, so I knew it was deer,
Speaker 7: and I knew it was a grunt. And he was
Speaker 7: probably grunting thirty times a minute, you know, like it
Speaker 7: was just back and forth. So later in the morning,
Speaker 7: they had worked their way all the way, like directly
Speaker 7: behind me, and they weren't very far, and I was like,
Speaker 7: you know what, I'm about to turkey hunt this pool,
Speaker 7: and so I.
Speaker 6: Grabbed my I grabbed my grunt too, and I just
Speaker 6: started grunting.
Speaker 7: I'd grunt, then he'd grunt, then I'd grunt, then than
Speaker 7: I'd grunt. Then I changed my tone a little bit,
Speaker 7: you know, and he did the same thing.
Speaker 6: And I could hear them.
Speaker 7: I could hear their footsteps back behind me, chasing and stuff,
Speaker 7: and it was like it was so thinking cool.
Speaker 6: Well, as I'm.
Speaker 7: Turning around trying to figure out how can get a shot,
Speaker 7: I start hearing the footsteps get closer and closer and
Speaker 7: closer and closer.
Speaker 6: And I realized, that's not that book. There's another year
Speaker 6: behind me.
Speaker 7: So I turned back around in my saddle and I
Speaker 7: see this nice buck walking straight towards me. And that
Speaker 7: was all from He was absolutely one hundred percent coming
Speaker 7: to He probably heard fifty plus grunts in the last
Speaker 7: five minutes right there, and he was coming to it.
Speaker 7: And that's what I mean by like it almost feels.
Speaker 6: It felt like a turkey hunt. That really felt like
Speaker 6: a turkey hunt. It was freaking awesome.
Speaker 3: It sounds sick, man.
Speaker 2: So looking forward to this week, you have kind of
Speaker 2: more of the same, good rout dates, good temperatures. Are
Speaker 2: you you still thinking it's gonna be on fire for
Speaker 2: the next seven days?
Speaker 6: I think it'll be. I think it'll be really good
Speaker 6: for about the next three days.
Speaker 7: This rain that we got today, I think it's gonna
Speaker 7: kill the action for the day.
Speaker 6: I really do, because it's hot and rainy.
Speaker 7: But it's supposed to get back down into like the
Speaker 7: twenties in the later part of the week, I believe
Speaker 7: if that's still in the forecast, and I think in
Speaker 7: that time, but I also think there's gonna be a
Speaker 7: little bit of a shift and it's gonna be a
Speaker 7: lot more like that, just a hardcore chasing and without
Speaker 7: much rhyme or reason on where they're at. So sitting
Speaker 7: a funnel is gonna be, Man, I think if sitting
Speaker 7: a funnel in the next week is probably gonna be
Speaker 7: lights out, way to kill a hill country.
Speaker 5: Dear, if you're sitting in a funnel in the next week,
Speaker 5: and on scale of one to ten, what's the buck
Speaker 5: movement gonna be?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 7: If I'm going by what it's been with the what
Speaker 7: the buck movement's been the last two days, I would
Speaker 7: say in the last two days it's.
Speaker 6: Been a ten.
Speaker 3: Let's go oh wow, yeah, I have.
Speaker 7: I genuinely felt like in the last two days, if
Speaker 7: you just set up in the woods, you're probably gonna
Speaker 7: see a buck.
Speaker 12: And I'm beat now, Alabama, Parker, I mean, get here
Speaker 12: quick because it's not gonna last long. Well, thanks, man,
Speaker 12: I appreciate the report.
Speaker 7: The good thing about Alabama is, man, we got ruts
Speaker 7: until the end of freaking February.
Speaker 1: Sure, you chased this.
Speaker 5: Around somewhere to go every every time of the late
Speaker 5: season now in Alabama. I appreciate the report, Parker, and
Speaker 5: hopefully we'll catch up with you again soon.
Speaker 6: Hey, guys, I appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 7: I apologize anybody listening to this voice, this annoying voice
Speaker 7: that I got right.
Speaker 4: Now on the phone.
Speaker 5: A very familiar guy, justin Henry, and he's been in Georgia.
Speaker 5: Seems like there's been some success. Maybe there's a deer down.
Speaker 5: How's everything going, dude.
Speaker 10: It's going good, man, coming off a pretty good weekend.
Speaker 10: It was a first so it was a good one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 13: So, first of what, first you were my seven year
Speaker 13: old daughter being out in the woods with me. I
Speaker 13: got three daughters and my oldest has been hunting and
Speaker 13: we've had success, but my seven year old has never
Speaker 13: been out.
Speaker 10: And she sat in the blind for the first time, and.
Speaker 13: Not too long after we had a nice mature dough
Speaker 13: come out and she looked at me and I looked
Speaker 13: at her.
Speaker 10: I said, you want me to shoot? The smile on
Speaker 10: her face was the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 3: Bad man.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, so yeah, we were successful.
Speaker 10: We got ourselves a nice dough.
Speaker 4: That's cool.
Speaker 5: So what are the deer doing in Georgia right now
Speaker 5: where you're hunting?
Speaker 13: Well, that weekend was extremely cold, bitterly cold. I feel
Speaker 13: like was like twenty eight twenty seven. That's South Georgia.
Speaker 13: I think I said it last week, you know, I
Speaker 13: think in the South that cold cold weather than first
Speaker 13: day or two, it kind of freaks them out.
Speaker 10: This movement in the evening.
Speaker 13: Was real early is at four o' hawk, so quite
Speaker 13: quite a few hours before evening time.
Speaker 10: A couple of dough came out for food.
Speaker 2: So we're still kind of pre rut there in South Georgia, right.
Speaker 3: Are we looking at or where are we at?
Speaker 14: Cauch?
Speaker 3: We're post post run, okay, so.
Speaker 13: See, and that's that weird part of like the eastern
Speaker 13: southern part of Georgia.
Speaker 10: And same thing with Florida.
Speaker 13: Now, once you get over into that panhandle of Florida
Speaker 13: and get up underneath you know, Louisiana and Alabama, that's
Speaker 13: where you get the later December pre run.
Speaker 3: Gotcha. So what are the bucks doing there right now?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 13: And in my area just doing their normal normal bed
Speaker 13: of food kind of I've seen them bachelor back up.
Speaker 10: So back to the bed to food type deal.
Speaker 3: Gotcha? So, uh you got are you running cameras? And
Speaker 3: what are that? What's that stuff on?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 13: Yeah, right now, I got it's on a lease that
Speaker 13: I was honeying up in Georgia. So I got a
Speaker 13: couple of cameras on feeders, and I got a couple
Speaker 13: of cameras on natural natural movement. The kind of natural
Speaker 13: movement cameras have been a little on the slow side, and.
Speaker 10: Really the cameras even on the feeders have.
Speaker 13: Been a little on the slow side. A lot of nighttime.
Speaker 13: I did have I had one buck come through on
Speaker 13: that and from moving in.
Speaker 10: Daytime, but that was a couple of days, two days
Speaker 10: prior to that cold front.
Speaker 3: Moving in, Okay. Got you. So if you're.
Speaker 2: If you're seeing all that nocturnal stuff, are you then
Speaker 2: trying to hold off and just not pressure them or
Speaker 2: are you trying to seek out where those bucks are
Speaker 2: spending their days?
Speaker 13: No, I am, I'm trying to hold off and I'm
Speaker 13: trying to just plant it right.
Speaker 10: Get some daytime movement, try to slide up in there,
Speaker 10: especially this time of the year with.
Speaker 6: It being so are not late, but just much later
Speaker 6: in the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got you.
Speaker 2: So you still you're thinking that another cold front will
Speaker 2: push through and kind of give you some daylight.
Speaker 10: I do.
Speaker 13: I think that now that we've got a couple of
Speaker 13: cold fronts back to back, it seems to be staying
Speaker 13: in these cooler temperatures. I think now is when you, Mike,
Speaker 13: might catch them in that almost like that early season pattern,
Speaker 13: you know, catch them a little bit heading back to
Speaker 13: bed earlier, or maybe getting a bite to eat mid
Speaker 13: mid morning.
Speaker 4: Gotcha.
Speaker 5: So do you expect the next week to be better
Speaker 5: than the last one or about the same or what
Speaker 5: are you thinking?
Speaker 13: I would have to say, I want to go with
Speaker 13: a little bit of optimism.
Speaker 10: I think it might be a submit you better gotcha?
Speaker 4: Gotcha.
Speaker 5: So in the next week on a scale of one
Speaker 5: to ten, what would you rank buck movement?
Speaker 13: I'm going to give it a solid five, all right,
Speaker 13: right in the middle, right in the middle.
Speaker 5: So it's worth going out. I'm trying to shoot a
Speaker 5: buck there in South Georgia this time of year. If
Speaker 5: you haven't got it done yet, there's there. I appreciate you, man,
Speaker 5: thank you for doing this.
Speaker 4: Just and we'll talk to you.
Speaker 5: I'm sure, you know, like next week or something like that.
Speaker 10: Good soil.
Speaker 2: I've got my brother Matt die with landing a legacy
Speaker 2: on the phone while hunting no less.
Speaker 3: He is like in the field right now. What are
Speaker 3: you doing? Man?
Speaker 9: This is about as live as you can get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from the field in Missouri, hun just giving us
Speaker 2: the direct report live.
Speaker 3: What are you seeing?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 3: Oh man?
Speaker 9: What's cool about this little audience?
Speaker 14: For me, it's doing a little bit of marking to timber,
Speaker 14: but also it's antlerless season. Formaseras are trying to do
Speaker 14: a little bit of management and work at the same time.
Speaker 14: But honestly, from overall deer standpoint, this is can be
Speaker 14: one of my favorite times of the year. This post
Speaker 14: rut shift back into food and deer get on really
Speaker 14: good patterns.
Speaker 9: So hopefully.
Speaker 14: Hopefully the deer, the target deer right have made it
Speaker 14: through the gun season. For us, we were very fortunate
Speaker 14: this year, whether it's just weather outings not that many
Speaker 14: deer got harvested in our area. I don't know if
Speaker 14: we lost a target deer two like during rifle seasons.
Speaker 14: So we are now just readjusting cameras, getting them set
Speaker 14: up over that shift of you know, betting closer to
Speaker 14: south facing slopes, but also that transition back into food.
Speaker 14: Bucks are definitely still checking scrapes. That's definitely active still
Speaker 14: on our cameras, but from a standpoint of like, I'm
Speaker 14: just prepared for that, if you will, bed food late
Speaker 14: season type pattern, and they're starting to really get consistent
Speaker 14: on cameras and I like to see.
Speaker 2: Them so in those scrapes. Are those bucks actually daylighting
Speaker 2: on those.
Speaker 9: Scrapes, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 14: And it's been I think that we're seeing the shift
Speaker 14: of food quite a bit quicker than we when we
Speaker 14: do post rut post gun season this year more than
Speaker 14: others because we've had so many like just quick cold spells.
Speaker 14: This coming week, we've got temperatures in the low thirties
Speaker 14: as highs and some just cool, cool nights, and so
Speaker 14: there's there's some evenings where dear in the field at
Speaker 14: two two thirty and then bucks are pidding and checking scrapes.
Speaker 14: They're still doing their social check in faons are going
Speaker 14: to be coming in the heat really anytime now, so
Speaker 14: they're still actively checking the scrapes. But where deer are
Speaker 14: congregating on food sources and bucks are there and they're
Speaker 14: seeming to not have any problem with the right weather conditions.
Speaker 14: Of course, being there in daylight.
Speaker 5: Is when you talk about food sources, you're talking about
Speaker 5: assuming food plots or ag that may be left. And
Speaker 5: is there a type of wild food right now available
Speaker 5: in there in Missouri that you feel like or is
Speaker 5: it going to be pretty much what's been planted?
Speaker 14: Great question for me right now, because I have the
Speaker 14: ability to manage some places my own or leases is
Speaker 14: food plots. But if you don't have that ability, you're
Speaker 14: hunting public or you don't have the ability to manage
Speaker 14: and have that. Don't forget about clover and pastures that
Speaker 14: can green up with some warmer days. I mean, it's
Speaker 14: almost gonna be sixty here today, but then we get
Speaker 14: that cold snap, so like clover can come in and
Speaker 14: out even in December.
Speaker 9: But also the biggest, the main one is going to
Speaker 9: be red oaks.
Speaker 14: Red Oaks late season December are going to still be
Speaker 14: on the ground, still very viable and dear if they
Speaker 14: don't have those other more preferred resources, they're going to
Speaker 14: be hitting those pretty much primarily.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we see the same thing here in Texas this
Speaker 5: time of year, December and January, we see red oaks
Speaker 5: being a big time drawl for hogs and deer both.
Speaker 14: Absolutely, There's been many years ago now don't generally hunt
Speaker 14: mornings at this time of the year. But there was
Speaker 14: a deer on a good pattern. Oh gosh, it's probably
Speaker 14: ten years ago now, but it is morning of December eighteenth.
Speaker 14: I remember it, but headed back feeding back off of
Speaker 14: a food plot early morning, but on a ridge with
Speaker 14: a ton of black oaks, which is a red oak family,
Speaker 14: and he was there just about every single morning. We
Speaker 14: slipped in and killing that deer. But it's a late
Speaker 14: season red oak play and we're we're in that window
Speaker 14: right now. That's still those three plots, that's where id be.
Speaker 2: So when you do get those real frigid temperatures, though,
Speaker 2: do you feel like green is the way to go?
Speaker 9: I do, unless you have grain.
Speaker 14: If you have grain, it's just for for me in
Speaker 14: southern Missouri, it's few and far between.
Speaker 9: Do you even have grain as an option?
Speaker 14: But getting you know, wheat fields cr rye, tricker koe
Speaker 14: or your leftover turn up field from your fall food plot,
Speaker 14: like those are definitely keen right now in this December
Speaker 14: time frame from a planted resource.
Speaker 9: I love green during this window.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cool dude.
Speaker 2: All right, So as we look forward to the next
Speaker 2: week with those really cold temperatures and you know, just
Speaker 2: kind of that post ud stuff that you're talking about,
Speaker 2: are you going to really emphasize hunting in that week?
Speaker 2: Is that going to Does it mean were looking at
Speaker 2: good stuff here?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Well that's what I see according to my weather down here.
Speaker 3: But really I.
Speaker 14: Get excited from now. We've run till January fifteenth for Missouri.
Speaker 14: So I don't try and just come out of the
Speaker 14: gates screaming. I want to pick the right days, the
Speaker 14: best days. It doesn't have to be the coldest day either.
Speaker 14: It could be a day that is average or even
Speaker 14: slightly above average. If you're having cold nights, but it
Speaker 14: gets up warm and it's clear, bluebird sky days. I
Speaker 14: love the clear, bluebird sky days. Deer seem to feed
Speaker 14: early in those fields and soak up as much warmth
Speaker 14: as they can. So again, if you get if you're
Speaker 14: really cold and you start coming on the back end
Speaker 14: of cold mat we've got a wind shift to that
Speaker 14: is super preferred.
Speaker 9: But yeah, if.
Speaker 14: Time allows this week, I probably will slide out and
Speaker 14: put eyes on the field.
Speaker 3: That's cool, all right.
Speaker 2: So on a scale of one to ten in Missouri
Speaker 2: over the next week, what are you gonna rank Buck
Speaker 2: movement at.
Speaker 9: Buck Movement Evenings. I'm gonna go with the six seven.
Speaker 3: Pretty good, man, That is really good, especially pop post Rode.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 14: If you've got yeah, unpressured stuff deer, there's no reason
Speaker 14: for deer to not move and feed in daylight this week.
Speaker 3: Awesome, dude, appreciate the report. Man, Hey, you bet guys.
Speaker 3: I've got Troy Waldron on the phone.
Speaker 2: He's a dedicated Texas hunter and quite honestly, he has
Speaker 2: just killed one of the biggest bucks I've ever seen
Speaker 2: come from Texas.
Speaker 3: Troy, what's happening, dude?
Speaker 11: Oh, not much, man, just trying to catch up on
Speaker 11: some work after being out hunted for a little while.
Speaker 3: I understand that for sure, man, So congrats on the
Speaker 3: big buck.
Speaker 2: I want to know what the deer are doing and
Speaker 2: what you figured out to be able to kill a
Speaker 2: deer like that.
Speaker 3: What the deer doing in Texas right now?
Speaker 8: Yeah? Sure, so I think they're still looking for dose.
Speaker 11: So you know, you got a lot of the breeding
Speaker 11: is over, but you still have some of those that
Speaker 11: haven't been bred. The fawns from the spring are going
Speaker 11: to be coming in soon, and I think those bucks
Speaker 11: are still definitely searching.
Speaker 8: I mean they this weekend and just this beer came
Speaker 8: into rattling.
Speaker 11: I was doing a lot of rattling and grunning sequences,
Speaker 11: So I think they're still chasing some of those.
Speaker 3: Gotcha. That's that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: You know, it almost seems like everybody gets depressed because
Speaker 2: November is over, but in Texas it seems like, especially
Speaker 2: a large portion of state, there's kind of like a
Speaker 2: trickle rut. Do you see that action to last throughout
Speaker 2: December one hundred percent?
Speaker 11: So I actually struggle more in November in certain respects Now,
Speaker 11: I missed the big one early November this year, just
Speaker 11: clean miss and I actually hit two other bucks and
Speaker 11: didn't find them. So that's a whole nother story. Maybe
Speaker 11: my shooting was off, but so I had encounters in November.
Speaker 11: Don't get me wrong, but I in the last three
Speaker 11: or four years as.
Speaker 8: Far as bucks on the wall, I'm having a lot
Speaker 8: of success in December, and it's red activity.
Speaker 11: I mean, it would be different than what you would
Speaker 11: in your mind think you're supposed to be seeing in November?
Speaker 4: What have you?
Speaker 3: So, is there any strategy to like your rattling sequence?
Speaker 2: You know, are you are you trying to just break
Speaker 2: the antlers or is there something like any rhyme or
Speaker 2: reason to the way you you do take them together?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So usually I don't rattle. I'm more of a grunt
Speaker 8: suit guy.
Speaker 11: Even when I do that, I try to mimic what
Speaker 11: I hear them do in the woods, which is like,
Speaker 11: you know, yeah, why not too aggressive, nothing real long
Speaker 11: and exaggerated. But on this trip, because I don't hunt
Speaker 11: this area, you know, very often, I wasn't sure if
Speaker 11: they would or they wouldn't respond to rattling, So I
Speaker 11: brought the ones out.
Speaker 4: There and just light you know.
Speaker 11: Again, I watched a thousand videos of hunting, right, so
Speaker 11: I'm just trying to mimic what I see if a deer,
Speaker 11: you know, is on video, you know, fighting and so
Speaker 11: nothing too crazy loud, but nothing too long. But I
Speaker 11: also try to break it up a little bit because
Speaker 11: they're not just like constantly for a minute straight, you know,
Speaker 11: tickle and tickle and tickling, like there's breaks and stuff
Speaker 11: in there. So I just tried to kind of mimic
Speaker 11: that a little bit.
Speaker 5: And all of those thousand videos, would you say, probably
Speaker 5: five hundred of them or element videos or I mean absolutely.
Speaker 4: Doubt so.
Speaker 5: Were you in like a in like what you consider
Speaker 5: a rut funnel hunting this deer or what were you
Speaker 5: doing exactly?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 11: So probably but mostly edge right, So this area before
Speaker 11: the haunt, I actually got boosted on the ground twice,
Speaker 11: but obviously did a kind of scouting on.
Speaker 8: Google before I got in there.
Speaker 11: First thing keen on was the creek creek systems. Any
Speaker 11: time there's a creek runningto timber, that's going to be
Speaker 11: a go to. It's going to be creating funnels naturally.
Speaker 11: On top of that, there was a field that I
Speaker 11: didn't know what was in there, but the field jetted
Speaker 11: into the timber, and then there was different habitat lines
Speaker 11: within the timber and at all if you were to
Speaker 11: take a pencil and follow those lines, there was a
Speaker 11: spot where a lot of those lines crossed or were
Speaker 11: pretty close to And when I went into Scott, I said,
Speaker 11: I guarantee that those spots going to have a bunch
Speaker 11: of scrapes of it, which was just on the edge
Speaker 11: of that field and I also wanted to see what
Speaker 11: was in the field. There is there hay in there
Speaker 11: is then your ride coming up?
Speaker 4: Or is it brush?
Speaker 8: Is it you know, switch grass? What is it? And
Speaker 8: it ended up just being a bunch of like just
Speaker 8: a big.
Speaker 11: Ticket like saplings, really really thick.
Speaker 8: So I said, well, either going to you can.
Speaker 11: Use it as betting, or it's just going to at
Speaker 11: least create travel. So all in all, though you came
Speaker 11: to your question, it was it was a funnel area,
Speaker 11: but just.
Speaker 8: Those lines all met in this one spot, and I knew.
Speaker 11: If I got in there and there was a spot
Speaker 11: to set up, my entry and exit was going to
Speaker 11: be really good too, based on the wind. So it
Speaker 11: was an east wind Friday and then pretty much the
Speaker 11: south the rest of the weekend, and I was coming
Speaker 11: in from the northwest.
Speaker 8: Gotcha, So I've given up that side, but everything else
Speaker 8: was good.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: So do you think that in the next week or
Speaker 5: so you would you would stay with that same general
Speaker 5: idea of you know, hunting scrapes where a lot of
Speaker 5: different lines are intersecting, transition lines are intersecting, and also
Speaker 5: with the idea that you're going to be seeing running
Speaker 5: movement in the next week.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean the scrapes were there, and that was good.
Speaker 11: I wasn't expecting to shoot something coming through the scrape,
Speaker 11: but having those scrapes there usually tells me it's a.
Speaker 8: Deer movement area, like there's going to be deer here.
Speaker 8: And really, I guess my mindset was more like, even if.
Speaker 11: This is the means there's a bunch of doze in here,
Speaker 11: that's where I want to be because there's those here,
Speaker 11: Those bucks are going to be here. So if I
Speaker 11: were going to keep hunting this week, I wouldn't so
Speaker 11: much key on scrapes per se and the fact that
Speaker 11: you're going to shoot one of the scrape, but I'd
Speaker 11: be near the dos.
Speaker 2: Can't hardly beat that. Man, It's hell. That is definitely
Speaker 2: an understatement.
Speaker 3: You gotta be with it. Where the doose are, you're
Speaker 3: gonna find the buck.
Speaker 2: So on a scale of one to ten, if you're
Speaker 2: gonna rank buck movement in Texas for the next week,
Speaker 2: what would you call it?
Speaker 6: Seven?
Speaker 3: Seven? That's pretty good hunting, not.
Speaker 11: Too unoptimistic, not too over optimistic, just right there.
Speaker 3: I like it. Brother, appreciate the report, dude, have a
Speaker 3: good rest of your season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you guys, see, I appreciate it as you hear.
Speaker 2: There are still some good places to get in the
Speaker 2: woods of the prairies or wherever you might be, even
Speaker 2: the swamps half deering them out there, right, and so
Speaker 2: it can be particular, but December is still a great
Speaker 2: time to kill a really big buck, maybe even one
Speaker 2: that's in the rut, if you're in the right place. Uh,
Speaker 2: And if you need a little inspiration or a little
Speaker 2: bit of thought about how maybe you should do that, Actually,
Speaker 2: Mark Kenyon Mark himself had a guy named Dylan Lenz
Speaker 2: on the podcast the other day from Big Wood Scouting.
Speaker 2: A lot of the country is covered in what you
Speaker 2: might call big woods, and I know that a lot
Speaker 2: of those places that have later ruts tend to be
Speaker 2: what you might call the big woods. So it's a
Speaker 2: pretty good podcast to go check out if you are
Speaker 2: in that boat.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So there's also another really cool video that we put
Speaker 5: out this week.
Speaker 4: We have been on the road like crazy. We are running.
Speaker 5: Everybody is either filming or editing a little bit or hunting,
Speaker 5: and so it's been crazy. We haven't been able to
Speaker 5: get a ton of editing done actually, but we did
Speaker 5: get a video out because I thought there would be
Speaker 5: some people that would be interested in seeing this big
Speaker 5: old giant mondo buck that I ran into when I
Speaker 5: was stalking a different big old giant mondo buck that
Speaker 5: might actually be the one you killed.
Speaker 3: Oh man.
Speaker 2: I think it just where we might be, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: We were juking and jiving out there on the planes
Speaker 2: after these deers. So we're gonna link to both of
Speaker 2: those and the description below if you need a little inspirational,
Speaker 2: little motivation, a little.
Speaker 3: Bit of just uh, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to think about more rhymes than I
Speaker 2: can't even do right now because I'm so excited to go.
Speaker 2: Dearhune after listen to all these good reports, this has
Speaker 2: been rough. Fresh, Keep it fresh,