WEBVTT - Ep. 885: Foundations - Why Understanding Deer Trails is the Key to Better Hunting Everywhere

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide

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<v Speaker 1>to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light,

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<v Speaker 1>First Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host

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<v Speaker 1>Tony Peterson.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation's podcast,

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<v Speaker 2>which is brought to you by first Light.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm your host, Tony Peterson.

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<v Speaker 2>Today's episode is all about really truly understanding deer trails. Look,

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<v Speaker 2>I get it, scrapes, I don't know scrapes and rubs

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<v Speaker 2>anyway a matter a lot.

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<v Speaker 3>I like buck sign just as much as the next hunter.

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<v Speaker 2>But if you put a gun to my head and said,

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<v Speaker 2>what's the key to killing more big bucks and more

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<v Speaker 2>deer in general than really anything else, I'd probably say

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<v Speaker 2>that truly understanding how to read deer trails might be

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<v Speaker 2>it when the deer literally show you exactly where they

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<v Speaker 2>might walk at any given times. A huge piece of

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<v Speaker 2>the puzzle. But it's not so simple. It's also what

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to talk about right now. It is a

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<v Speaker 2>popular belief amongst humans that there are animals and there

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<v Speaker 2>are US fish and US bacteria In us virus in

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<v Speaker 2>us whatever to the deer. There is probably no distinction

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<v Speaker 2>between us and the coyote or the wolf. It's just

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<v Speaker 2>them and the animals that try to kill them. Predator

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<v Speaker 2>and pray. We really don't think of ourselves as predators,

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<v Speaker 2>and truthfully, as animals at all. We think of ourselves

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<v Speaker 2>as special, sentient, and generally better than the rest of

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<v Speaker 2>the animals, even other primates. When civilized cultures started bumping

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<v Speaker 2>into wild apes, which wasn't that long ago, really, the

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<v Speaker 2>natural reaction was that they were uncomfortably like us. So

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<v Speaker 2>those researchers and the people interested in science set out

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<v Speaker 2>to prove that those primates were nothing like us. But

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<v Speaker 2>it didn't work that way. Primate attitudes toward making new

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<v Speaker 2>apes and monkeys made researchers very uncomfortable, because we've been

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<v Speaker 2>told for a long time by the authorities that that

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<v Speaker 2>kind of situation should be kept in the dark and

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<v Speaker 2>left largely unspoken and unseen. Researchers watched them fight and

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<v Speaker 2>didn't make the connection between that activity and ours. Chimpanzees

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<v Speaker 2>which share ninety nine point six percent of their DNA

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<v Speaker 2>with ours or ours with them, and bnobo's, which share

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<v Speaker 2>just slightly less than that have mostly erased the idea

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<v Speaker 2>that there is truly an US in them. Most people

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to hear that, but consider this. They make

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<v Speaker 2>tools and they use them. They engage in trade, They play,

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<v Speaker 2>they make art, they make music, they engage in politics.

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<v Speaker 2>They kiss, They engage in face to face little monkey

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<v Speaker 2>making where the females uh also get their cookies. They laugh,

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<v Speaker 2>They can be altruistic. They play, They have their own language,

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<v Speaker 2>and they reason out problems, some of which involve many

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<v Speaker 2>steps of planning. Makes a lot of us uncomfortable to

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<v Speaker 2>think about the traits we share with gimps and bonobos,

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<v Speaker 2>many of which we view as uniquely human. Now, this morning,

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<v Speaker 2>I drop my daughters off at their school, and while

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<v Speaker 2>much of our snow is gone, not all of it is.

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<v Speaker 2>And if you look at the grounds around their school,

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<v Speaker 2>you'd see trails leading from various streets and parks, connecting

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<v Speaker 2>the school to the greater world around it. I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>proud of this, and I want to make sure that

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<v Speaker 2>everyone listening knows I absolutely do not want to bowhunt humans.

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<v Speaker 2>But when I'm out with the dogs in the park,

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<v Speaker 2>or you know, at the canoe landing or on the river,

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<v Speaker 2>down the road wherever. I often look at the trails

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<v Speaker 2>people have created by hunting around a fence, or to

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<v Speaker 2>go across the corner of a soccer field or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>Then I like to look at the trees and I think,

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<v Speaker 2>where would I hang a stand if I had to

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<v Speaker 2>hunt the folks who use the trails, so that not

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<v Speaker 2>only would I have a good shot, but also wouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>get busted by approaching soccer moms or other dudes with

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<v Speaker 2>their dogs. Again, this is not something I'm interested in.

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<v Speaker 2>It's just something that occurs to me often, probably because

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<v Speaker 2>I have a lot of zombie apocalypse nightmares, so subconsciously,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe I'm preparing for the end of the days I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, or I'm just bored and I miss scouting deer.

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<v Speaker 2>Hard to say, but those trails we make around the

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<v Speaker 2>places we congregate, they are evidence of our patterns. How

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<v Speaker 2>are multiple trails carved through a neighborhood parked or some

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<v Speaker 2>backyards leading to and from a middle school really any

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<v Speaker 2>different from multiple trails carved into the woods leading to

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<v Speaker 2>and from a small watering hole. If we had someone

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<v Speaker 2>hunting us, it'd be pretty much the exact same thing. Luckily,

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<v Speaker 2>we are pretty much at the top of the food

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<v Speaker 2>so we can walk those trails relatively oblivious to the

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<v Speaker 2>threats around us. This is not the case for white tails.

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<v Speaker 2>They walk their trails for two reasons, to get where

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<v Speaker 2>they are going in a manner that keeps them from

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<v Speaker 2>burning excessive calories, and to not become excessive calories. For

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<v Speaker 2>some other life form, the balance is always between efficiency

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<v Speaker 2>and safety when it comes to prey animal travel during

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<v Speaker 2>the rut. You could make the case that this is

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<v Speaker 2>not true, and you'd probably be somewhat correct. Efficiency is

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<v Speaker 2>a big factor in rut travel because exposure to potential

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<v Speaker 2>estrius doze is always the goal. So as we all know,

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<v Speaker 2>safety takes somewhat of a secondary role there mostly, but

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<v Speaker 2>that's a couple of weeks window where the rules change somewhat.

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<v Speaker 2>Although I would argue that an understanding of trails and

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<v Speaker 2>how deer use them is a huge factor in being

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<v Speaker 2>successful for the pre rut and at least partially in

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<v Speaker 2>the peakra well in hell, the post route too, I

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<v Speaker 2>guess anyway, I like deer trails a lot. When I

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<v Speaker 2>travel to random places to hunt public land white tails,

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<v Speaker 2>I generally can't glass for days on end to find them.

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<v Speaker 2>Some environments like the big Woods don't allow for that anyway.

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<v Speaker 2>No trail cameras can tell you a lot, but not

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<v Speaker 2>if you don't have a lot of them or a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of time to use them. So sure, a huge

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<v Speaker 2>concentration of rubs or a community scrape is also you

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<v Speaker 2>know it's going to get my attention. But what if

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<v Speaker 2>it's the end of September and the buck sign is

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<v Speaker 2>almost non existent, or what if it's the late season

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<v Speaker 2>for that matter, And even if I do find some

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<v Speaker 2>bucks sign, I can't ignore how valuable is that without

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<v Speaker 2>knowing how the bucks will get there and where they'll

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<v Speaker 2>go when they leave. Understanding deer travel throughout the year

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<v Speaker 2>and definitely throughout the season is the base upon which

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of great hunters are built. We often think

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<v Speaker 2>it's about finding the right deer, that's a huge component,

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<v Speaker 2>but finding how that deer goes from place to place

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<v Speaker 2>is how you kill him. Knowing how existence alone is

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<v Speaker 2>usually not enough, especially considering how everyone is pretty much

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<v Speaker 2>running trail cameras these days and can generally be aware

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<v Speaker 2>of most, if not all, of the mature bucks using

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<v Speaker 2>their area. It takes more and The easiest way to

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<v Speaker 2>get more is to start thinking about deer trails scratch.

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<v Speaker 2>That's to start going out in the woods and not

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<v Speaker 2>just noticing trails, but figuring out the why behind them.

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<v Speaker 2>Shed hunting and winter scouting are perfect for this task

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<v Speaker 2>because we often generally default to the strategy of walking

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<v Speaker 2>deer trails during both activities. There's also just a lot

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<v Speaker 2>that goes into learning deer travel, and if you want

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<v Speaker 2>to learn how to use deer trails more effectively as

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<v Speaker 2>a hunter, it's got to be a priority. I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to get into that, but the first thing I want

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<v Speaker 2>to talk about is understanding trails in your specific world.

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<v Speaker 2>Now this might seem dumb, but think about this. When

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<v Speaker 2>I first started hunting the big woods and scouting big cranberries,

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<v Speaker 2>bogs and swamps and wetlands and huge swaths of tamaracks

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<v Speaker 2>generally wet, soft conditions, I was blown away by the trails.

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<v Speaker 2>They were all cut deep into the moss and mud,

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<v Speaker 2>so easy to read it seemed almost fake. What I

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<v Speaker 2>realized after a few years of hunting there was that

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<v Speaker 2>the deer population was really low, and that didn't jive

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<v Speaker 2>with how well worn and used the trails. Looked while

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<v Speaker 2>they were certainly carved into the landscape, it wasn't because

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<v Speaker 2>there were tons of big bucks walking them every day.

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<v Speaker 2>It was because generations of low density deer used them

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<v Speaker 2>some and the landscape just holds those memories.

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<v Speaker 3>Well.

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<v Speaker 2>Now take a twelve or fourteen hour drive from there

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<v Speaker 2>to some of the stuff I've hunted in Nebraska and Kansas.

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<v Speaker 2>Then you have a different story. Suddenly you have much

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<v Speaker 2>dryer ground, you have way less pronounced trails, and you

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<v Speaker 2>have way way more deer using them. While this is

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<v Speaker 2>probably easy enough to do on your home turf, recalibrating

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<v Speaker 2>your understanding of the land and the likely amount of

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<v Speaker 2>deer using trails, it's an important skill to possess. It's

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<v Speaker 2>important to understand that a deer trail in some area

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<v Speaker 2>might only have a handful of travelers on it in

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<v Speaker 2>any given week, no matter how well used it might appear.

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<v Speaker 2>Just as it's important to understand in some places the

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<v Speaker 2>trails might not look great but might have a bonker's

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<v Speaker 2>amount of activity on them due to the high prevalence

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<v Speaker 2>of deer in the area.

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<v Speaker 3>Then you have the reality of.

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<v Speaker 2>Parsing out the trails that are mostly for all the

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<v Speaker 2>deer and the ones that are more likely to witness

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<v Speaker 2>some big buck activity. I'm going to get to that first.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to talk about figuring out trails in general.

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<v Speaker 2>There is a common thing people do when they are

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<v Speaker 2>scouting or out on a summer stand hanging mission that

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<v Speaker 2>walk through the woods or along a field edge and

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<v Speaker 2>they'll notice a super well used trail. They'll say, hot, damn,

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<v Speaker 2>found my But and believe me, you can kill a

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<v Speaker 2>pile of deer by not doing much more than this.

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<v Speaker 2>But a better bet is to find that trail and

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<v Speaker 2>figure out what they use it for, not just walking,

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<v Speaker 2>but to and from what and when. I love spring

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<v Speaker 2>scouting for this very task. If I find a trail

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<v Speaker 2>that was definitely in use last fall, then I want

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<v Speaker 2>to walk it out both directions if I can, as

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<v Speaker 2>far as I can go until I either hit a

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<v Speaker 2>property line or the trail just peters out or it

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<v Speaker 2>ends up somewhere at a destination. I try to think of,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, think of it kind of like a road

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<v Speaker 2>system or the way a city could be laid out.

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<v Speaker 2>There's interstates, there's two lane highways, there's back roads, gravel roads,

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<v Speaker 2>and they all lead from betting areas to food sources

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<v Speaker 2>or water sources. The ridgetop trail that goes from the

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<v Speaker 2>thick betting knob to the egg field. That one might

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<v Speaker 2>be simple enough, But what about the secondary trail that's

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<v Speaker 2>quarter of the way down the hill. What purpose does

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<v Speaker 2>that one serve? And why does that one have a

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<v Speaker 2>few more rubs on it than the main trail above it?

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<v Speaker 2>Walk that one out, figure out why. Maybe that trail

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<v Speaker 2>leads to a betting nob that is just ideal for

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<v Speaker 2>catching the early October sun. Maybe it has a perfect

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<v Speaker 2>dead fault to lay against while prevailing winds deliver any

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<v Speaker 2>old factory news that might portend to visit from a predator.

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<v Speaker 3>I remember reading about.

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<v Speaker 2>Dan Infalse Bedhunting Strategy a long time ago, and he

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<v Speaker 2>talks about climbing into a buck bed to look around.

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<v Speaker 2>At the time, I thought that was bullshit, but I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't understand it. I walked trails a lot, and I

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<v Speaker 2>look around when I'm walking trails a lot to see

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<v Speaker 2>how visible I might be and how visible nearby openings are.

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<v Speaker 2>I try to think about the wind and what directions

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<v Speaker 2>it would have to be blowing to make that trail

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<v Speaker 2>the best one for travel or make it kind of

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<v Speaker 2>a no go.

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<v Speaker 3>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>You can definitely reinforce these findings with trail camera recon

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<v Speaker 2>and you definitely should, but you won't learn the purpose

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<v Speaker 2>of any given individual trail just through trail camera work.

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<v Speaker 2>Take some boots on the ground effort. This will also

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<v Speaker 2>give you a chance to pick out really good ambush sites.

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<v Speaker 2>I cannot stress this enough, but understanding where deer walk

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<v Speaker 2>and when they should walk there is important. But without

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<v Speaker 2>identifying the spot along the way where you have an

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<v Speaker 2>ambush advantage, it just leaves you with a lesser value plan.

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<v Speaker 2>So let's give a nod to the Southern hunters who

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<v Speaker 2>don't get much love on this podcast because I mostly

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what the hell I'm doing down there. But

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<v Speaker 2>there's a lot of big woods and a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>swamps in that world. Just like in the northern parts

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<v Speaker 2>of the Midwest, those wet areas might be ankled deep

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<v Speaker 2>to a deer or something they just don't want to

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<v Speaker 2>wade or swim through. If they don't have to, you

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<v Speaker 2>might scout there and you might find parallel trails around

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<v Speaker 2>most of the water, which just makes sense. But you

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<v Speaker 2>might also find a trail that it just cuts through

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<v Speaker 2>some part of the swamp through the wet stuff. There's

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<v Speaker 2>a reason, and you want to know that reason. It

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<v Speaker 2>might be just because there's a little bit higher spine

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<v Speaker 2>of land under the water there. Even if it's an

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<v Speaker 2>elevation chain of a single foot, just allows for a shallower,

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<v Speaker 2>lower effort crossing. There might be a difference in bottom

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<v Speaker 2>composition there where it's sucking stinky mud everywhere else. But

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<v Speaker 2>for whatever reason, the one spot has a vein of

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<v Speaker 2>sandy or a rocky bottom, whatever it is. You now

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<v Speaker 2>have a situation where two trails meet, the one going

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<v Speaker 2>around the water and the one going through. One offers

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<v Speaker 2>an easy path around the landscape, and one goes.

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<v Speaker 3>Through this feature.

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<v Speaker 2>That's huge, But it doesn't do any good if the

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<v Speaker 2>only tree to hang a stand in that spot also

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<v Speaker 2>happens to be right on top of the crossing trail

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<v Speaker 2>or just won't work with prevailing winds. You gotta walk

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<v Speaker 2>that sucker out until you find a landscape feature you

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<v Speaker 2>can work with, something that will give traveling bucks a

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<v Speaker 2>reason to not look for you. This happens when they

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<v Speaker 2>go from super thick cover to something thinner. They almost

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<v Speaker 2>always walk through the last buffer of thick stuff and

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<v Speaker 2>then stop at the edge to survey the easier to

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<v Speaker 2>see parts of their world in the area I grew

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<v Speaker 2>up hunting with a lot of bluffs. You can watch

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<v Speaker 2>dear c I'm a trail that eventually ends up on

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<v Speaker 2>a ridgetop. There's almost always a point when they hit

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<v Speaker 2>a ridge where they'll look around, but mostly look in

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<v Speaker 2>the direction they intend to travel. You can almost predict

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<v Speaker 2>where their focus will be at certain points along a

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<v Speaker 2>trail by walking them yourself and reading the land. I

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<v Speaker 2>kind of look at this like how deer cross fences.

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<v Speaker 2>While they are individuals and they can do as they please,

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<v Speaker 2>there's sort of a template for deer behavior when they

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<v Speaker 2>jump a fence. You know, they walk up, spend some

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<v Speaker 2>time looking around, surveilling what's on the other side, then

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<v Speaker 2>jump land with a couple of quick steps, and either

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<v Speaker 2>put their head down to feed or stop again for

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<v Speaker 2>a quick look. But mostly they get the looking done

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<v Speaker 2>before they jump. If you're set up twenty yards away

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<v Speaker 2>from a fence crossing, you can damn near scene into

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<v Speaker 2>the future and when you should draw and when a

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<v Speaker 2>buck is going to be distracted by the crossing. That

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<v Speaker 2>stuff matters, and it's one of the reasons that when

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<v Speaker 2>hunters have a ton of experience with pressure deer, they

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<v Speaker 2>tend to not surprisingly be really good at hunting because

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<v Speaker 2>they study behavior. Now, there's another thing I want to

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<v Speaker 2>say about scouting deer trails before I wrap this up.

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<v Speaker 2>That also involves looking into the future. When you're out

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<v Speaker 2>there in March, walking out trails and looking for ambush sites,

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<v Speaker 2>you have to try to understand when individual trails would

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<v Speaker 2>be the most likely to see some usage. Why would

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<v Speaker 2>a big buck walk a certain trail in September or

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<v Speaker 2>October or November. A pounded trail now doesn't necessarily equate

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<v Speaker 2>to season long travel, and I'd argue almost never does.

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<v Speaker 2>There are windows when these trails are the best, and

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<v Speaker 2>that means you have to scout them now, run trail

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<v Speaker 2>cameras this summer, and still try to learn what you

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<v Speaker 2>can from in person observation when you actually hunt them.

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<v Speaker 2>Even more than that is the fact that some of

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<v Speaker 2>the trails just seem to be more conducive to buck travel.

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<v Speaker 2>I think we look at this a little bit wrong,

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<v Speaker 2>but maybe not. I think we often think that these

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<v Speaker 2>bucky trails are used because they offer a lot more

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<v Speaker 2>security and predator detection advantages or whatever. And that might

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<v Speaker 2>be true, but I think that's selling the whole thing

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<v Speaker 2>short a bit bucks, especially big mature bucks, claim prime

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<v Speaker 2>betting spots. There are many benefits to being at the

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<v Speaker 2>top of the hierarchy in an animal group, humans included,

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<v Speaker 2>and bucks bed where they are likely to be safe,

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<v Speaker 2>They feed where the food is the best, and they

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<v Speaker 2>travel between those spots. Does and smaller bucks have less

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<v Speaker 2>access to high value resources, so they sometimes start and

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<v Speaker 2>end at slightly different locations than mature bucks. All of

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<v Speaker 2>this is to say that if you get starry eyed

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<v Speaker 2>over a well used trail and fully expect to kill

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<v Speaker 2>a giant on it, you should definitely try. But big bucks,

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<v Speaker 2>at least the ones I've been around on public land

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<v Speaker 2>and other pressured spots, seem just as likely to use

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<v Speaker 2>a little bit more of a subtle trail than the

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<v Speaker 2>deer highway that any hunter could identify in an instant.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why the intersection of trails and the planning around

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<v Speaker 2>really good ambush sites makes the whole thing start to hum.

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<v Speaker 2>If you hunt the maten trail, great, he might walk

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<v Speaker 2>right down it, but he might also skirt you by

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<v Speaker 2>seventy five yards and if you let him know you're there,

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<v Speaker 2>you might not see him use that secondary trail. Ever, again,

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<v Speaker 2>you want to use what he just showed you as

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<v Speaker 2>the basis for moving over to the next trail option,

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<v Speaker 2>and hopefully several months earlier, you walk that trail out

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<v Speaker 2>as well, so that you know when you see a

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<v Speaker 2>toad go down it that there is a spot where

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<v Speaker 2>he had to have jumped across a small ditch and

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<v Speaker 2>twenty yards from that ditch with awesome access as a

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<v Speaker 2>clump of bassboads that are perfect for a stand. That

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<v Speaker 2>might sound like a made up dream scenario, but it

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't have to be. You just have to put in

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<v Speaker 2>some of the work now to start figuring out individual

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<v Speaker 2>trails and use that to inform your fall strategy. So

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<v Speaker 2>do that and come back next week because I'm going

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<v Speaker 2>to talk about spring scouting specifically to find mature buck hotspots.

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