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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wire 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 Wire to Hunt Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan. This is episode number one three

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Speaker 1: anton the show. Dan and I are recounting the highs

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Speaker 1: and lows of our rut hunting vacations. One of us kills,

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Speaker 1: one of us blows the best opportunity of the season,

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Speaker 1: and we both share a lot of stories about the

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Speaker 1: most exciting, stressful, maddening, thrilling, and ultimately marvelous times of year.

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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Sitka Gear and Um. I'm sitting in

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Speaker 1: a hotel room right now, and sitting next to me

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Speaker 1: in the other bed is uh Josh further Hillyard and U.

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Speaker 1: We were trying to get him on the podcast with us,

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Speaker 1: but he made things difficult, so it's just me and Dan. Um.

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Speaker 1: But that will be the only disappointment in today's podcast episode,

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Speaker 1: because otherwise, well that's not that's not true at all. Day. Actually,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have some amazing stories of good things and

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Speaker 1: then some soul crushing stories of bad things. Today is

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Speaker 1: today is h RUT hunting stories, just you and me

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Speaker 1: recap on our RUT vacations and uh, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: does that sound like something you're happy to talk about today? Dude,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to talk. I'm good at talking. You know that.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're just talking about how you're also the

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Speaker 1: brains of the operation too. Right now, A lot of

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Speaker 1: people look at me and go, that guy is good

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Speaker 1: at moving stuff or like loading trucks, and and what

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Speaker 1: they don't know is the brains, you know, more brains.

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Speaker 1: You're the You're the You're the guy. Yeah, you're you're

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Speaker 1: the goat. What have you have you ever seen the

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Speaker 1: show it's always studying Philadelphia? Oh yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it where they have the conversation about no

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Speaker 1: no, no no man, I'm the wild I want to be

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Speaker 1: the wild card. You're definitely Charlie in our group. I'm

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Speaker 1: the guy who goes into the basement. Yeah, you have

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Speaker 1: one job in the last beat rats, Yep, that's you.

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Speaker 1: Oh man. So um, we we're gonna talk about the

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Speaker 1: dear rut. Yea dear dear. That's right. I forgot what

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Speaker 1: this podcast was about first. That's that's usually we talked about.

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Speaker 1: Um okay, so so yeah, today, since you know we

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Speaker 1: are everybody really is in the midst of marathon hunting

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Speaker 1: right now. UM. Figured, rather than try to bring some

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Speaker 1: guests on, we should just talk about what we've been doing,

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Speaker 1: because I know both of us have been the woods

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Speaker 1: a lot, um and we both have a lot of

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Speaker 1: news to share. Um. But I don't know, do we

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Speaker 1: want to start with the good news of the bad news? Dan? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I got a lot to say,

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Speaker 1: So why don't why don't we start with you. I

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Speaker 1: want to find out about this slipping through the fingers

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Speaker 1: thing that you mentioned. And uh, let's let's talk about

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Speaker 1: holy Field and your journey right now. But before we

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Speaker 1: do that, let's take a quick break to thank our

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Speaker 1: partners at Sitka Gear and Today, rather than sharing a

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Speaker 1: sick story like we usually do, I actually just wanted

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Speaker 1: to give you a heads up about a video I

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Speaker 1: recently produced all about my own sick of gear white

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Speaker 1: Tail system. I get dozens and dozens of emails and

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Speaker 1: questions about, you know, what kind of sick of gear

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Speaker 1: do you wear, which items do wear it, which times

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Speaker 1: of year? Why do you like this piece? But not

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Speaker 1: that piece, etcetera, etcetera. Um, so I finally put together

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Speaker 1: idea that details all of that. So go to the

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Speaker 1: Wired to Hunt YouTube page and you're gonna see there.

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Speaker 1: Um within the Wired to Hunt weekly playlist, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: see a video there that's titled reviewing my two thousand

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Speaker 1: seventeen Sitka Gear white Tail system. And in that I

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Speaker 1: go through all the pieces of clothing that I wear,

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Speaker 1: why I wear them, why I like them, at what

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Speaker 1: of stuff like that. So check out out to learn

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Speaker 1: some more about what I'm wearing as far as sick

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Speaker 1: of gear. And if you'd like to learn more about

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Speaker 1: sick of gear for yourself, possibly try some yourself, you

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Speaker 1: can go to Sitka gear dot com. And now let's

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Speaker 1: get back to my story. So the story of holy

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Speaker 1: Field and where I am right now. Um, last time

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Speaker 1: the exact same place where I had seen holy Field

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Speaker 1: on Halloween, where I thought i'd seen holy Field, and

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Speaker 1: actually a tast step back. There's a longstanding joke with

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Speaker 1: So you know the story of six Shooter. I was

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Speaker 1: And then a few years later, I was filming further

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Speaker 1: And UM, long story short, on that sit, I noticed

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Speaker 1: You know, he obviously does not react well to calling.

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Speaker 1: don't know how he reacted to it, but he definitely

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Speaker 1: So now I've kind of seen him ahead. Okay, he's

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Speaker 1: just not he's been there's too many other hunters around it.

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Speaker 1: bad as it would be if I was walking in

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00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,239
Speaker 1: and out on my own. But I'm sure you know,

427
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: after hunting, you know, what is it? Today's November eight

428
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,479
Speaker 1: or ninth, and I started hunting that property October, and

429
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:42,159
Speaker 1: I hunted it almost every day since. Um, trying to

430
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: kill this stupid buck. Yeah, um, yeah, so so I've

431
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 1: been trying to change things up though. So you know

432
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: I hunted. I hung this new stand this summer to

433
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,840
Speaker 1: hunt with southerly winds, so I've never hunted there before. Um.

434
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: I haven't seen him from that stand this year yet,

435
00:22:57,600 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 1: but I saw him from it last year when I

436
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,679
Speaker 1: hung a hanging hunt there once. Um. And then, like

437
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 1: I told you, after seeing him a couple of times, UM,

438
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,239
Speaker 1: I hung a new stand and then I saw him

439
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: there a couple of times. From that. You know, I

440
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: saw him when he betted and all that that was

441
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:16,879
Speaker 1: a new stand. Um. So where does it take us

442
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 1: to take us to? So we were talking about there

443
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 1: was the food plot night. He looked like he was

444
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: coming in, but he didn't. He paralleled and then went

445
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: to this other section that takes me to the next morning.

446
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 1: So I've now seen him, um, two days in a row,

447
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: morning and evening both UM. And now I'm thinking, okay,

448
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 1: I've seen him five times in three sits. It's all

449
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: in the same little tight area like a ten acre

450
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: a little block. UM. But I didn't have a good

451
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,720
Speaker 1: wind direction to hunt. Well, basically there's no good morning

452
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 1: stands around there either, um, because it's all field edge

453
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 1: source of or not all a dudge but relatively open.

454
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: But I had hung a new stand this summer UM,

455
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,719
Speaker 1: just for this kind of situation. Again, like I told you,

456
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: I've got a little bit of timber on the far

457
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: back side of this little core era of his. Um.

458
00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:16,399
Speaker 1: I usually don't see him in there this time of year, UM,

459
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,920
Speaker 1: but I knew it was in that basic neck of

460
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 1: the woods. Now this year I had been seeing him more.

461
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,000
Speaker 1: It's most of my encounters had been towards the back

462
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 1: this year, unied compared to every other one. So I

463
00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: had this new stand hung back there. I thought, all right,

464
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back in there, even though he's been

465
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: up in the front, you know, last night, in the

466
00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: last two nights, I'm going to try here in the back.

467
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll cruise through here in the morning. Um. It's

468
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: tucked in back behind this food plot, maybe like sixty

469
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,960
Speaker 1: yards into the timber from this food plot. And I've

470
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,880
Speaker 1: got dough betting areas on either side of me, one

471
00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: to the northeast, one to the southwest. Um, and I'm

472
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: back in the timber there. I thought there's a decent

473
00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: chance I've seen something happen there. So this is uh,

474
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 1: Tuesday morning, I think, Um, and I get in there.

475
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: Good start in the morning, I see a survivor, my

476
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: three and a half year old chasing? Does I see

477
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,880
Speaker 1: some two year olds chasing? Does year and a half

478
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: holds all over the place? Does running around? It's going

479
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,399
Speaker 1: good until about nine o'clock. Um, and then nine o'clock

480
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: it just shut off. Yeah, from nine to ten. From

481
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:27,120
Speaker 1: nine and ten it was really quiet, nothing going on. Um.

482
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,440
Speaker 1: From ten to eleven, really quiet, nothing going on. Um,

483
00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 1: But I'm sitting all day, and I should say that

484
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: all these days I've been I've been hunting all day. Um,

485
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: so it's like eleven o'clock and as any of us

486
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:44,960
Speaker 1: would do the middle of the day. Um, you know,

487
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my phone ever once in a while,

488
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I hadn't seen anything in two hours.

489
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 1: I got my phone pulled up. I was reading a

490
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: book actually, and you know, I look at my phone,

491
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: look up, skin around, looked down at the phone for

492
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:03,080
Speaker 1: a few seconds, look up, scan around. Um. But I

493
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:07,719
Speaker 1: had stood up because you know, I've been sitting all

494
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: morning and my legs need to stretch, so I was

495
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 1: standing up. It's kind of light breeze. And then my

496
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 1: head was right next to my ozonics unit because I

497
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: was standing, so I'm facing one direction and because of that,

498
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: I can't hear very much looking at my phone. Look up,

499
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: look at my phone, look up, and I hear a

500
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,680
Speaker 1: twig snap behind me. I spin my head around to look,

501
00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: and there's a deer at twenty yards away. But right

502
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,680
Speaker 1: as I spin he turns and bounds away and starts

503
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,919
Speaker 1: running away. Yeah, he saw me move. When I spun around.

504
00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: He was at twenty yards And I look at this

505
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 1: deer and I realized it was Holy Field, Holy sh it.

506
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:52,439
Speaker 1: I had holy feeled that twenty yards at eleven o'clock

507
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, beautiful, perfect shooting lane, wide open, and

508
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 1: I was looking at my stupid phone and uh and

509
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: he ran off and then he stopped like seventy yards away,

510
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 1: turn and looked back at me and then started blowing

511
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 1: and then just slowly walking away below in the whole way.

512
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: And yeah, I I was just like crushed in that moment.

513
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: Like he called further and said let's go to Ohio

514
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: pretty close to it. Um. Yeah, man, I was so

515
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: so so upset. You shouldn't be upset, because if you

516
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,199
Speaker 1: were sitting down and had your head up and was

517
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 1: paying attention, dude, I have had dear literally make no

518
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: noise in certain scenarios. I take it the ground was

519
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: soft because it's been raining up there, and these deer

520
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 1: can come up underneath your stand and you you can't

521
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 1: even hear him. So it's not like you did anything wrong. No,

522
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,280
Speaker 1: I mean, well, I mean if I keep I mean,

523
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: you know, I try not to play the what if game.

524
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: But if I hadn't been on my phone and if

525
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: I was just scanning like I'm usually doing, I would

526
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:11,560
Speaker 1: have seen him pop out of this cover behind me.

527
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: I would have seen him just walking across this wide

528
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: open timber, I mean, walking right towards me. Me. It's

529
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, yes, it was a little bit unlucky that

530
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,239
Speaker 1: that it happened to be the one time that I

531
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: was standing up, not being able to hear anything with

532
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: the unit next to my head and kind of soft

533
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: ground and all these different things led to a situation

534
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: like that. Um, but it was it was just that feeling.

535
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: And I had already been, you know, how I've been,

536
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: how I was last year, and how I am this year.

537
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 1: This deer is kind of consumed everything. Um, I'm constantly

538
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: thinking about I was telling further the other day, UM

539
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 1: that I'm waking up in the middle of the night,

540
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: like two or three in the morning, and I just

541
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 1: wake up and it's like it's like, where am I

542
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: gonna hunt? With a southeast wind? And then I'm like

543
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: and then I'm just sitting there literally like I wake

544
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: up out of nowhere. My alarm her wasn't going off,

545
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,760
Speaker 1: and it's not like cane at the phone and see

546
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: what time it is. It's just wake up. What am

547
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: I gonna do? Toda? Where am I gonna go what's

548
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: he doing. I mean, it's become like, um, just kind

549
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:12,720
Speaker 1: of and so I've put in so much work, so

550
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: much energy, so much time over these last few years,

551
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: and there it was like I had my opportunity. It

552
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: was right there. And because I'm an idiot and I

553
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: was looking at my phone and not focusing, I let

554
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: slip through my fingers and you know, I probably will

555
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: never get another. I don't know about this, but you

556
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,320
Speaker 1: don't get very many second chances on a buck like

557
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: that where I'm at um. So I had a mental

558
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: breakdown at that moment. I kind of broke down, was

559
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: really really upset, and then um and then you know,

560
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: after like a half hour an hour of feeling sorry

561
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: for myself and being piste off of the world, then

562
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: I said, all right, well it is what it is.

563
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: This is where you gotta, you know, show that this

564
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: is where you got to kind of take that mental

565
00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: toughness and grit it out and pushed forward and move

566
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 1: on and keep at it. So I knew he wasn't

567
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: coming back to that tree stand that day, so I

568
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: pulled down, moved back to another spot again, the same

569
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:14,719
Speaker 1: couple of spots I have that I can hunt up

570
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: towards the front of the property, and um, not too

571
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: long after there he is spotted at him again. Um,

572
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: and he's chasing does running around and then eventually it

573
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: looked like he locked onto a dough. And then for

574
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 1: the rest of the evening, for another hour and a

575
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: half two hours, I'd watched him just like stand next

576
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: to a bush and then slowly walk around the bush

577
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: and then stand by the bush and then walk then

578
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: the dough would squirt out of there, and then he'd

579
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: followed the dough another ten yards over. And that's what

580
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: happened all night. He stayed back in that cover with

581
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: that dough. Um, and that was that. That was That

582
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: was yesterday and um and meanwhile my buddies further and

583
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: Corey had gone down to Ohio and down. I was

584
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: supposed to go down to Ohio with him, but I've

585
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: been pushing it off, pushing it off, trying to kill

586
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: holy Field, and I don't know, I just have been stressing.

587
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: And then this happened and everything, and I was like,

588
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: you know what, I just need to change of scenery.

589
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: I've been hunting this spot too much, even though I'm

590
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: seeing holy Field. I kind of just need to get

591
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: away from it for a little bit. UM. So after

592
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: the evening hunt last night, I drove down to Ohio

593
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: and uh hunting here today and just kinda recentering myself. Yeah, dude,

594
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to hear this or not,

595
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: but I think you need to throw that buck a curveball.

596
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: And I mean I mean something that is you don't

597
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: plan it, you just do it. And I'm talking about

598
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: sitting in a fence row on the ground or like

599
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: where he is all the time that's not in your

600
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: stand And it's one of those things where it's almost

601
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: like you have to have a conversation with yourself that's

602
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: am I am I willing to bust this buck off

603
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,640
Speaker 1: my property with such an aggressive move or I could?

604
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: You know, I call these you know, I call him

605
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: like hunts. Sometimes I go in and there's a chance

606
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: it works, or there's a chance I get busted based

607
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: off the wind, you know, a real hard quartering wind

608
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: or an access route or you know, all these things

609
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: that we try to be so fragile with um that

610
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: go into the strategy of hunting these deer. It's you know,

611
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: it's time to take a risk on on one of

612
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: those factors and throw a curveball at him and make

613
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: him like I didn't expect that at all, because I think,

614
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: I think this buck has with the one up on

615
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 1: you right now from where where you are sitting on

616
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: your farm. I mean definitely at the front of the

617
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,239
Speaker 1: food or the front of the property. Yes, like I

618
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: basically and I basically know that. I'm just leaning on

619
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: the fact that one of these days, maybe I'll get

620
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: lucky enough that he's with a hot dough that he

621
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: just can't leave like he did that one time last year. Um.

622
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: But towards the back, I mean, yeah, I've got a

623
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: little a few more options. He just doesn't come back

624
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 1: there very often. Um. But you know where I had

625
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: my shot opportunity was from a stand that I had

626
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: never hunted. Well, I hunted it one other time this year.

627
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: So the second time I hunted that stand and he

628
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: passed by, and then he passed by another spot on

629
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: my property twice that I had never hunted. It was

630
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,479
Speaker 1: about sixty yards away from a stand ahead, but not

631
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: shootable from there. Um. So when I get back from Ohio,

632
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna stay down here for another day or two. Um,

633
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: So I'll be back to Michigan here soon and I'll

634
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: have a handful of days before gun season. I am

635
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: going to just try some different stuff because at this point,

636
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: you know, I've seen him a half million times. I

637
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: know where I can sit and I can see him probably,

638
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: but I don't really care about seeing him anymore. I

639
00:33:55,800 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: just want to shoot him now, UM, So the point

640
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: might as well try something that. Like you said, it's

641
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: either gonna not work at all, I'm not gonna see

642
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: him at all, or I could spook dear, or maybe

643
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: it could be the switch up that that will work.

644
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna focus a little more on the back

645
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: of the property in the mornings. Um. I've got two

646
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: other stands in the back of these betting ears that

647
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,320
Speaker 1: I have not hunted at all this year. I haven't

648
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: had a wind that I could hunt him with, um,

649
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: but I think I will have those winds coming up,

650
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna try Here's a here's a random question

651
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: for you. Are there other bow hunters in your area

652
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: right now? Yes? How close to you? Ah, I don't know.

653
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: I know there's one other property that has a crossbow

654
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: hunter that's uh probably hunting weekends right now. That's I mean,

655
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: it's right next to the property, but from like the

656
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 1: core area that I see holy Field all the time,

657
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,879
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of hundred three hundred yards from there,

658
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: there's another small property that butts up to his little

659
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: core area that I think has two different guys. The

660
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: bow hunted, and I think that they might be hunting now. Um.

661
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: And then there's do you do you think that you know,

662
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: you've mentioned this before, You've mentioned that rattling doesn't work

663
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: in Michigan, right, Um, And you try, you know, you

664
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,479
Speaker 1: do your grunning and your snore wheezing, but you don't

665
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: rattle because it just I don't know whether it's a

666
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: negative it has a negative connotation to these bucks, it

667
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: scares him or whatever. But I think if you next

668
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: time you see him alone by himself, I think it'd

669
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 1: be worth a try. Dude, I don't know. I mean,

670
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: at this point, do you really think it's camp? Uh?

671
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: What we're gonna say, sir, I was gonna say, do

672
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: you really think I mean, he just busted you in

673
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:02,280
Speaker 1: the tree stand? Yeah? Right, and he's still in the area.

674
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 1: That's like he saw you visually and he potentially busted

675
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: you sent wise, maybe right, he didn't. He didn't win me.

676
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: He just saw me. He did he did win you,

677
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: but he did see you. Okay, that's good. So just

678
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: rattling in general. I don't think if you have the

679
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: wind right, I don't think it's going to hurt anything.

680
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: I think I tend to agree. Now, it's at least

681
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: at this point, like I've already I've already made an impact, like, yeah,

682
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: there's not much to lose now. So I rattled to

683
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: him once last year and he ran away from it.

684
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: So that's why I've been so hesitant to do it. Um,

685
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: but did see the dominant buck on the property? He

686
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: has to be. I mean I've never I haven't seen

687
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 1: any other buck that's anything older than three and a half. Um,

688
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: there's one three and a half year old, there's a

689
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: couple two and a half year olds, there's seventeen thousand

690
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: year and a half olds, um, and there's him. So

691
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: you would think he's the dominant buck. But he does not.

692
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: I mean, he has not shown any kind of positive

693
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 1: reaction to any kind of call. Um so decoy, question mark,

694
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: same kind of thing. There's just there's so many doughs.

695
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: I'll see thirty thirty doughs a night. You know, I

696
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: just think that it would just be them blowing at

697
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: it all night. Yeah, but you know, who knows, Maybe

698
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: maybe it's worth trying something crazy because you know gun

699
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: season is coming up soon and at that point all

700
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: bets are off. Um. Now here's Here's the other thing. Though,

701
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: if he can make it through guns season, I feel

702
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: like I have a very very good chance of killing

703
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,240
Speaker 1: him in these usual places that I hunt him. Because

704
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: despite the fact that I hunt him in these places often,

705
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: like more than I wish I would. Um. Now, I

706
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: haven't done it as much this year. Like last year,

707
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,439
Speaker 1: I hunted these couple stands a bunch because I kept

708
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,799
Speaker 1: seeing him, so I kept hunting him. But this year

709
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: I've I've had more stands hung for different situations. So

710
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: I've only hunted the front stand um three times, which

711
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: is you know, you don't want hunt much more in that,

712
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 1: And I hunted the back plot stand twice. Um, So

713
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,240
Speaker 1: I've still kept it, you know, a lot less than past.

714
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 1: But um, what I'm trying to say is that in

715
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: the late season, he throws caution to the wind when

716
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: going to these food sources that I've got planted there. Um,

717
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: both years two thousand fifteen and two thousand sixteen, I

718
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: have like ten to fifteen days during the month of

719
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: December that he visits those locations during daylight hours. Um,

720
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: So if I can make him, if I can, if

721
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: he can make it through guns season, and if I

722
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: don't spook him at all during that time period, I

723
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: could let him you know, established re established a sanctuary there.

724
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: I do think I've got a very good chance of

725
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: killing him once we get into December, and I can

726
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: do like get back to that drone strike approach and

727
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: just wait till the right conditions go in there once

728
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: and hopefully kill him. Um. But but I also at

729
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: this point, you know, you just don't know if I'll

730
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: make it through gun season. So I'm kind of throwing

731
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: caution to the wind right now because I need to

732
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: try to kill him before you know, there's sixty guys

733
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: in my little neck of the woods versus you know,

734
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen or whatever. So yeah, yeah, so I

735
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: don't know. Man, it was, um it was very disheartening

736
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: to have had that opportunity right there and screw it up.

737
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: But I'm going to keep at it and we'll just

738
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: see what happens. So absolutely absolutely, man, that's a that's

739
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: that's like the most frustrating part. Right. I've had a

740
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 1: couple bucks in my lifetime that I've chased like you're chasing. Uh,

741
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 1: And it is, man, it can be frustrated when you

742
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 1: think you're doing everything right and then it's like you

743
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,240
Speaker 1: miss an opportunity or you feel like you're one step

744
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:53,919
Speaker 1: behind the entire time. Yeah, that's hunting, all right, that's

745
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:58,919
Speaker 1: absolutely hunting. So the good thing is though every once

746
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: in a while, all the hard work and time and energy,

747
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: it pays off. And I hear, did that happen for you? Yeah?

748
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,240
Speaker 1: I tell you what man, I I told me about

749
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: your cation. But before that, real quick note, we're going

750
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: to hear from our partners at White Tailed Properties this week.

751
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,839
Speaker 1: With White Tail Properties, we are joined by Gabe A. Dare,

752
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: a land specialist out of southern Iowa, and Gabe is

753
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: gonna be telling us about what the primary factors are

754
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 1: that make for quality hunting ground. You know, there's a

755
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: couple that stick out, I guess the most. Um, I

756
00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 1: want to be neighborhood. I think you gotta have You've

757
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 1: got to have the structure around you. Um, I've even seen,

758
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: you know, in my line of work, I've seen any

759
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: enormous farms struggle, you know, And I say enormous, I'm

760
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: talking thousand, fifteen hundred, two thousand makers farms struggle. If

761
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: you don't have structure around you, like mind, neighbors, you know,

762
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: on the same program or at least close to the

763
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: same program. Everybody's gonna have their differences, of course, but

764
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: you know, um, I think you've got to have, you know,

765
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: the right people around you to really get deer to

766
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 1: that up or age class. And so I think that's

767
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: first and foremost, and then that kind of lead into

768
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: the second one, where you know, depending on what you're after, Um,

769
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: you've got to be in the right area as far

770
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: as genetics, you've gotta be weren't big deer at you know,

771
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,319
Speaker 1: if if if you're an area where your your your

772
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: goal is to shoot hundred fifty five year old buck,

773
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 1: obviously there's a lot more places that a guy can

774
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: get into something like that. But you know, definitely the

775
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,879
Speaker 1: second one be if you're after top top end. If

776
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, if everybody's wanting to shoot bunting Crockett type

777
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 1: animals or even that that new pinnacle that I deal

778
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: with more and more every day is two hunder. You know,

779
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: I hear about it, deal with it, and see it

780
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 1: way more. Um, you know, you've got to be where

781
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: of those animals even have a chance to be. And

782
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: so you know the two things I would say, and

783
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: obviously neighborhood structure around your property, and then your property

784
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,759
Speaker 1: has gotta be in an area where it's gonna where

785
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna produce or have at least have a chance

786
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: to produce what you're wanting to harvest. If you'd like

787
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,760
Speaker 1: to learn more and to see the properties that Gabe

788
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: currently has listed for sale, visit white tail properties dot com.

789
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:19,240
Speaker 1: Backslash A dare that's a d A I R dude.

790
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 1: I've had an amazing rutcation. Um. I got into town

791
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: Friday night. Uh after Uh let see, I packed my

792
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: stuff up, I got into town, and um, the family

793
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: was in town. I mean they came for Friday night,

794
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: which was cool, and uh Saturday morning. Uh see. Like

795
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:42,920
Speaker 1: so I just I'll just kind of run you through

796
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 1: these last five days or whatever, however many days day

797
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 1: one Friday night, you know, and man, we've been having

798
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 1: a ton of east winds and I never planned for

799
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: east winds this time of year, right, so I had

800
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: no stands hung for an east And so I'm just like, Okay,

801
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: if I can't get into this betting area that I

802
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: want to get into, I'm going to set up down

803
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:14,919
Speaker 1: from it. Um, and this this feel that this would

804
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: have been the closest I hunted to a field edge

805
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: all year, right. I was like fifty yards off this

806
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: field edge, and so I could see into it. So

807
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: I run a gun down in here. My wind is

808
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: blowing almost straight east down into this creek, and I'm

809
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: just set up in a good spot ready to start

810
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,919
Speaker 1: seeing movement, you know like this, Uh, make the observation

811
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: and then possibly move in. And so that night I

812
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,399
Speaker 1: get in getting this, you know, get stand set up,

813
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: and instantly I start seeing does you know and young

814
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: bucks running around chasing each other. You know, you know

815
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 1: the young bucks are chasing. Had a really good eight

816
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: pointer come up, I'd say, like, oh he was. He

817
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 1: was a two year old with a good rack eight pointer.

818
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: I'd I'd put him at about one eight pointer and

819
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:11,359
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Um, he walked by a couple of does,

820
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: walked by some button bucks, walked by, you know, I

821
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: was like, well, maybe this isn't gonna turn out to

822
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,560
Speaker 1: be an observation set. You know, they're coming off the

823
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: bottom of this creek and they're working my way. You know,

824
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 1: my wind was blown into the creek, but they were

825
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,879
Speaker 1: coming up the creek, you know, like paralleling my wind,

826
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: which was awesome. And I thought, well, geez man, something.

827
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: You know a lot of these deer bet in these

828
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 1: creek right, you know, the these timber thickets right on

829
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: on there. And I got the food source here, so

830
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: maybe I'm actually in a good spot. Well, I see

831
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 1: a handful of deer, and then all all of a sudden,

832
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: I see this big buck in the field with his

833
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: nose to the ground, and I pick up the horns

834
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: because he was traveling like he was going somewhere right

835
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,240
Speaker 1: nose to the ground. Sniff and sniff, and I cracked

836
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: the antler. I wait for him to get into the timber.

837
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: I put the antlers together, crack him hard, do this

838
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: like one minute rattling sequence, throw it out and he

839
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: is dead sprinting. I mean, he is hauling ass right

840
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: to me. And he comes to the corner fifty yards

841
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: away and there's no shot there. Uh, And I but

842
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: what that does. It gives me an opportunity to put

843
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 1: my binoculars on him and check to see if he's mature.

844
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: He's a three year old, I'd say, I'd say one

845
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: fifty give or take five inches on each side. Okay,

846
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: So he ends up coming through and he's twelve yards

847
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 1: in front of me for I even I don't even

848
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,719
Speaker 1: know how for how many minutes. Uh, he just was

849
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: milling around looking for this fight A couple a couple

850
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: of does we're coming up? So then he ended up

851
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: turning around chasing him. So I ended up passing this

852
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: fifty in ten pointer really good. It was just a

853
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: combination of I got the opportunity and the reason I'm

854
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: saying this is kind of foreshadowing for the ending of

855
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: this my rutcation. But I got the opportunity to observe him.

856
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: I got the opportunity to look at, you know, his body.

857
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: The body said, he's three years old. He's not a

858
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: shooter in that department. He's got a great rack, but

859
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: he's just not what I'm looking for. On day one

860
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: of my of my vacation, So had that encounter, you know,

861
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 1: more deer come in and out, and then some coyotes

862
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: come up behind me and they blow the field out,

863
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: which was great because it was right at last light,

864
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: and it gave me the opportunity to walk in through

865
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:45,760
Speaker 1: the middle of the field back to my truck. Saturday morning,

866
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: I decided, you know what, my family's here. I'm gonna

867
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: sleep in and I'm gonna hang with the family until

868
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 1: they leave, and then I'm gonna go out for that

869
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: evening hunt on Saturday night. So Saturday night, uh so

870
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: I played with the kids for a while, play with

871
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: the family. Um, they leave, I get ready. So I

872
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:12,280
Speaker 1: go to the timber pretty early, and for some reason,

873
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: I said, I got this northeast wind, and I said,

874
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna give this wind a shot

875
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:21,840
Speaker 1: in my best area, and I need basically a straight

876
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: west wind. For typically I hunted on a straight west wind. Um,

877
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: And I said, you know what, I think I've never

878
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: tested this before, but I think that I'm gonna go

879
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,359
Speaker 1: in to this this tree stand that I have in there,

880
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna let the wind and I'm gonna check

881
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: the wind to see what it does. I have a

882
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: feeling that it's gonna go down the timber line just

883
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: a bit where these deer come from. But I think

884
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 1: as this creek kind of curves away, that that crick

885
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: is gonna suck all the wind in and blow the

886
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: wind down the creek. And sure enough I was dropping those,

887
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: you know, I got into my tree stand, got set up,

888
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: I had my access route. Was a little risky getting

889
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:08,720
Speaker 1: in because if there was deer bedded in this thicket

890
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:12,399
Speaker 1: along the creek, my wind walking in would have went

891
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:16,320
Speaker 1: through it. You know. I spray myself down with nose jammer,

892
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, So I feel that if they're exposed to

893
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: that scent, whether it's the no nose jammer or me

894
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: or a combination of it, for a very short period

895
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 1: of time, they tolerate it, as opposed to you know,

896
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: if I was just standing there all night and let

897
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: my wind blow in there, you know what I mean.

898
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: So I think they tolerated it for very short periods

899
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: of time. I ended up bumping two doughs on the

900
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 1: this point across the creek from me on a different farm,

901
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: but you know, it's real close. The property borders the creek,

902
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: and so my wind does exactly what I thought it

903
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: was gonna do. It went down just the ways. But

904
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: then it dropped hard into the creek and it just

905
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: blew out the back of the creek down to the property.

906
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 1: So none of my wind was going anywhere where deer

907
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: were walking unless down wind they crossed the creek somewhere,

908
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So I'm sitting there, I

909
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:18,919
Speaker 1: see a you know, like a couple small tens come through,

910
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,359
Speaker 1: a couple of small eights, you know, some two year

911
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: olds basically or walking through. Um it's getting oh man,

912
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: it's getting like four o'clock. Now, this is before, you

913
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: don't know, Yeah, this is before the time changed. Saturday

914
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: night would have been the time changed, so maybe it

915
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: was five. But I'm sitting there and I hear a

916
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: a branch crack behind me, and I turned around and

917
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: it's another big buck. I got trail camera pictures of him.

918
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: He's a ten with split brows. He's gonna probably be

919
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: in the low one fifties as well. Uh, just out

920
00:49:56,880 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: to his ears, ten pointer, decent mass, and he comes

921
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: within eight yards in my stand. And the third day,

922
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:13,919
Speaker 1: third big plus buck. This is second day, second yeah,

923
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: second day, And because I hunted, my first day was Friday, right,

924
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 1: and so I'm I'm just going, oh man, I don't like,

925
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:27,879
Speaker 1: I don't want my season to be over right now.

926
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: I don't want it to be over. And I think

927
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: he's a three year old, you know, and you have

928
00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 1: these moments where if you like, if you have to

929
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: question it or talk yourself into something, then I don't

930
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: think it's a a good idea to shoot it, right.

931
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: I want to shoot it because I want to shoot it,

932
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: not because I'm talking myself into it to it. So

933
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 1: all these things were running through my head. I was like,

934
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna let him go. So I

935
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: let him go, right I I'll let him go. And

936
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: so I'm saying in there and I look, and this

937
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: is probably ten fifty minutes after this buck leaves. I

938
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: turn and I look in the field and it's one

939
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: of my hitlisters at about a hundred and fifty yards

940
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 1: giver take and he he's in the field, head down,

941
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: and I put my bindoes up. I'm like, who is that?

942
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: Who is that? He puts his head up, kind of

943
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: looks scans the area, and I instantly know what bucket is.

944
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 1: I picked the antlers up and I just go boom

945
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: as loud as I could. I mean, you rattle so

946
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:37,399
Speaker 1: hard that you can smell the antlers, you know, those

947
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: kind of those kind of rattling sequences where you can

948
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: smell the heat coming off from the friction. And he

949
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: turns his body and he starts walking real slow right

950
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: towards me. And I'm like, holy sh it, this is

951
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going to rattle in a mature buck like

952
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: that was the thought that crossed my mind. So he

953
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: just a hears behind some trees. I can't see him.

954
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 1: This is thirty like thirty minutes goes by, and he's closer,

955
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: but he's taking his time and feeding, right. So he

956
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: gets to the corner of this field and he starts

957
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 1: to basically eat. So I throw out a snort wheeze

958
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: at him, you know, and he pops his head up

959
00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: and he looks in and he like his ears don't

960
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,839
Speaker 1: go back, but he kind of it's almost like he's

961
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 1: throwing his shoulders up, like he's getting piste, and like,

962
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: who is in who's in there? I know, I beat

963
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: everybody's ass in there. I who's trying to, you know,

964
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 1: challenge me? He he like kind of walks in this

965
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: big circle, but he I don't know. You ever see

966
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,839
Speaker 1: him moose, You know they they walk with that big

967
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: you know, that big antler's way. Yeah, yeah, he's doing

968
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: he's doing that out in the field to some other

969
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: little bucks, like showing him his antlers. It almost looked

970
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:03,439
Speaker 1: like he's showing him talking about yeah yeah, yeah yeah.

971
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: So this buck is doing that out there, and the

972
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: other bucks are kind of working their way away from

973
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: like Okay, this guy means business. And then I do

974
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: this g running sequence like another bucks tending a grunt,

975
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: you know, tending a dough, and they're like brack brack,

976
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: you know yea, And he he looks in almost like

977
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 1: he knows he's gonna go in there and do whatever

978
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: he wants to anyway, So he's going to continue eating

979
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 1: ten minutes past of him eating at Oh, I'm gonna say,

980
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 1: inside a hundred yards somewhere between eighty and a hundred yards.

981
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 1: And he drops into this real thick stuff. I'm I'm

982
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: hunting some edge, uh, and it kind of opens up

983
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: in front of me. This is that's where all the

984
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: sign is. But it gets real thick. Remember we talked

985
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 1: about my property that they logged it a couple of

986
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: years ago, and now it's just thick and nasty back there.

987
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:58,439
Speaker 1: It's beautiful, and so he goes in there and disappears,

988
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: and I'm like, where the hell did he go? Well,

989
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: out of there pops another dough and a young buck

990
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: chasing her right, and he pops out again in the

991
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: field right, and he's running down, or he's not running.

992
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: He just steps out. The other butt chases this dough away.

993
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 1: The dough is running away, and he lets this young

994
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: buck like he knew she wasn't ready to breed yet.

995
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: Maybe that that was my assumption. Well, this big buck

996
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 1: comes back into the timber right where he left and

997
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: then disappears for fifteen minutes. I hear a branch break

998
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: in the creek behind me and there's a dough and

999
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: I look further down the creek and there he is,

1000
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: and he's coming right at me with this dough. And

1001
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,359
Speaker 1: we go through this the dough. I'm speeding this up,

1002
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: but the dough walks into the shooting lane, walks by

1003
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:56,919
Speaker 1: it down into the creek, and he does the same thing.

1004
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: And he stops to smell where she's at and I

1005
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: draw back anchor pin on, let the pull the trigger.

1006
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, you know, it's like when these

1007
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: guys shoot the three pointers and they know it's in.

1008
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:13,720
Speaker 1: They just turned around and walk away. That's how I felt.

1009
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: Did you turn around and walk away mid shot? Yeah?

1010
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: I looked. I looked back at the camera that wasn't there,

1011
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 1: and I was like, like, nailed it, you know, like

1012
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: I was. Yeah, I was that confident that that this

1013
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: buck was gonna get hit by my arrow like I was.

1014
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 1: I was just I knew it. How far was it?

1015
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 1: It was twenty eight yards yards completely broadside down in

1016
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: a creek. And and then in that moment, it's I

1017
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: mean we're talking. In the matter of a second, I'm

1018
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:50,560
Speaker 1: I go from confident to what the hell just happened?

1019
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: Because not now I don't see my knock leaving, I

1020
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: see my broad head, and then my arrow turned sideways.

1021
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 1: I glanced a very very small branch that was in

1022
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: the way that I couldn't even see until I'm like,

1023
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: what the hell happened? So I picked up binoculars up

1024
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: and I see this. I mean, it's the tiniest, littlest

1025
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: branch there, and my arrow hit it and just like

1026
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: started tail spinning, and this buck pops up on top

1027
00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:28,319
Speaker 1: of the creek. And now he's at forty and I'm

1028
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:30,880
Speaker 1: just like, you know, what the hell, and I launched

1029
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 1: I launched another arrow, and I rushed the shot and everything,

1030
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 1: and uh it was not I should have never taken it,

1031
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: but it was a complete miss right shanked shanked that shot, um.

1032
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: And I kind of went through in that in that

1033
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, I went through what you went through, like,

1034
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: oh my god, I just missed the biggest buck in

1035
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: my life, or you know, like it wasn't necessarily my fault,

1036
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: but it was my fault because I didn't you know,

1037
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: I didn't see the twig. I should have seen the twig.

1038
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: I didn't see the twig. The twig affected the shot,

1039
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: you know. And I got a hundred fifty hundred sixty

1040
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:15,959
Speaker 1: class five year old eight pointer that is gone right.

1041
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:20,600
Speaker 1: And he showed up on trail cameras the next couple

1042
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: of days. But I mean I was let's say, the

1043
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:26,360
Speaker 1: next day he showed up, I was back in that

1044
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: same tree stand to the south because I had a

1045
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 1: like it was a southeast wind, so the wind was

1046
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 1: blowing right into where he would have been coming from.

1047
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 1: So I couldn't. I can't hunt that, you know, that's

1048
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: just that's just dumb you can't take a risk like that.

1049
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:46,960
Speaker 1: So I bounced that that. You see, that was Saturday night.

1050
00:57:49,000 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. I get up and I go to a

1051
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: completely different part of the farm and I sit there.

1052
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: See today is Tuesday, right, we're recording this on a

1053
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: Tuesday Wednesday. Today's Wednesday. So I'm trying to think of

1054
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: what I did. But for Friday, see Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday, Saturday, Sunday,

1055
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: I saw shooters the entire time. Um uh. Let see

1056
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, I get into the timber. Is it Sunday morning, Yeah,

1057
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. I get into the timber, and it is perfect.

1058
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: You know. I set this tree stand up in a

1059
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: pinch point, money winds blown exactly. It's doing exactly what

1060
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: I wanted it to do. And the deer are starting

1061
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,560
Speaker 1: to move through this pinch point like a couple of does,

1062
00:58:48,240 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: two young bucks. And all of a sudden, I catch

1063
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: some movement out of my left eye and there is

1064
00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: another shooter. Oh my god, man, a nine pointer. I'm

1065
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: gonna say, one sixty nine point wide, huge eight nine

1066
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: point And I'm just like, where where are you hunting?

1067
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: Are you hunting an aisle or something. Yeah, I don't know,

1068
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 1: like the farm was just loaded this year. You know,

1069
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: every once in a while you'll get that in here

1070
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: here where I live, and I guess anyway, but uh,

1071
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: you know, like I turned around and he's got his

1072
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: nose to the ground. He's looking so I'm like, okay, braraprap,

1073
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: and he keeps walking rap and he puts his head

1074
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,280
Speaker 1: up looks my way. But he must have been on

1075
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: a dough that I didn't see. I throw the antlers

1076
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: together and rattle it. I'm like, he's just gonna come over.

1077
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:43,240
Speaker 1: I just know it. And then boom in the timbers

1078
00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: gun goes off. Somebody shot a single shot in that,

1079
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, oh my god ruined. You know,

1080
00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: Like then the movement just shut off. Right. This is

1081
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: one of those stands that you know, you wanted me

1082
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:06,080
Speaker 1: to sit all day long to try to try to

1083
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: see what movement was coming in between ten and two o'clock.

1084
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: And I wanted to do it, but you know, I

1085
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: can't do that when guns are going on? Can I can?

1086
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 1: I positive story here? Really quick? Okay? Go for just

1087
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: a brief interlude about that very topic. I just want

1088
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: to mention my holy field shot opportunity eleven o'clock. Our buddy,

1089
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: our mutual friend, Dustin, he killed a bucket to twenty

1090
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 1: in the afternoon a couple of days ago, and we

1091
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: just pulled trail camera cards in Ohio and two different

1092
01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: shooters on trail camera at twelve thirty in the afternoon

1093
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: and one thirty in the afternoon. So just to reminder

1094
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: for everyone out there, midday six can be really good

1095
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: this time of year. That's all. Sorry, continue, No, no,

1096
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: you're good man, You're good. That's a great point. Great point,

1097
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: except I hunt eight. Hunting mid day, yeah, I can't

1098
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: say I enjoy it either. But so so then Saturday

1099
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 1: I went, or let's see, Sunday night, after I've seen

1100
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: that shooter had the wrong wind, you know, I wanted

1101
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 1: to get back down where I was getting all these

1102
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: trail camera pictures of the other bigger bucks, you know,

1103
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: to try to get in on him again. Sat in

1104
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 1: the same two stands, and I think that the my

1105
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 1: my access and hunting there was starting to affect the uh,

1106
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 1: maybe some of the deer movement a little bit. I mean,

1107
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: I still saw some great deer. The dos were still

1108
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 1: there on Sunday evening, uh. And then Monday, Monday morning,

1109
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: I went back down there. And then uh, Tuesday or

1110
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 1: Monday night, I went back down there, and I bumped

1111
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: walking in to this one stand. I bumped literally thirteen

1112
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 1: doughs out of their beds walking to the stand. And

1113
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:59,200
Speaker 1: I'm just like, well, the bucks don't have any reason

1114
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 1: to be here, now, you know what I mean, like

1115
01:02:01,320 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: unless they're cruising, you know, I and I don't. I

1116
01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 1: didn't even see what blew out of the back end

1117
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 1: of this this betting area. But you know, so Monday

1118
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: was over. Tuesday morning, I was back in that same spot,

1119
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: hoping that, you know, that they had filtered in. Sure enough,

1120
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 1: they came in. You know, I had a hot hot

1121
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 1: dog getting chased by um two two year olds pretty heavily,

1122
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 1: and they were all over the place, right, So I had,

1123
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: you know, like three or four bucks came through before

1124
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: seven o'clock and then boom, neighboring property gun goes off.

1125
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: I just like, are you kidding me? Like, I just

1126
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: want to know what what these guys were killing? You

1127
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:47,240
Speaker 1: know what they're killing with these guns? Yeah, exactly, raccoon

1128
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:50,960
Speaker 1: was in the barn, you know, like whatever, But okay,

1129
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 1: So anyway, Uh, you know, so I'm having one hell

1130
01:02:53,920 --> 01:02:56,440
Speaker 1: of a rut already. I'm seeing great deer movement, I'm

1131
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,439
Speaker 1: seeing great sign My trail cameras are consistently showing these

1132
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:04,240
Speaker 1: deer um. But I think I would think I'm putting

1133
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:08,000
Speaker 1: too much pressure on the property. So I thought to myself,

1134
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: you know what, what the hell I want to go

1135
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 1: to this new piece of property that I acquired. I

1136
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: didn't hunt any of it, you know, I didn't hunt.

1137
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:19,360
Speaker 1: I've been hunting on it twice. But it was like

1138
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,360
Speaker 1: on the very north end of the farm and just

1139
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:25,959
Speaker 1: easy access. And it was in early October when I

1140
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: when I hunted those and I think, I told you

1141
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: I saw like a decent a decent buck at dark.

1142
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 1: I really couldn't tell what he was. I was assuming

1143
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:36,440
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I really couldn't tell what he was.

1144
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, And long story short,

1145
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:42,800
Speaker 1: here's another interlude to that story. I was told I

1146
01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 1: was the only bow hunter on there, all right. I

1147
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,080
Speaker 1: go down in there on my second hunt and I

1148
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 1: see a trail camera in a tree stand, so I,

1149
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,280
Speaker 1: you know, I obviously report that back to the Lando

1150
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 1: and I said, hey, man, I there's another tree stand.

1151
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 1: He's like, I'm calling the d n R. They're gonna

1152
01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: get this guy for truspassing whatever whatever. So he goes,

1153
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 1: I want you to go down there, take that tree

1154
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: stand down, and take that camer down and bring it

1155
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: back to the tree or to the house. I'm just like, oh, man,

1156
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 1: I don't want to get involved in this, but if

1157
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 1: the land owner wants me to do it, I guess

1158
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: I'll do it. I go down there and there's a

1159
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 1: guy sitting in the tree stand, so I go, come here.

1160
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: I say, come here. So he gets down and I

1161
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 1: and he I go. I go. I don't want to

1162
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 1: get into any drama, but who are you? And he's like,

1163
01:04:27,920 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: my name is so and so and I've been hunting

1164
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 1: here nine years, And I go nine years. This guy

1165
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 1: doesn't even know who you are. That's awesome. So so

1166
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 1: he's like, well, so the guy that I communicate with

1167
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 1: is the son in law to the property owner. The

1168
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:47,840
Speaker 1: property owner is in a hospital because he broke his

1169
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:53,960
Speaker 1: hip right and he's getting rehabbed out. So so he's, uh,

1170
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: he's telling me that he's been hunting here for nine years,

1171
01:04:57,080 --> 01:04:59,760
Speaker 1: Like okay, I don't care, Like I I got shipped

1172
01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 1: to do. I'll just go hunt on the different part

1173
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 1: of the farm. Whatever. It's good. It's a decent farm.

1174
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: So so that that happened so last night, you know,

1175
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, screw it. I don't have any I have

1176
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 1: nothing to go on other than what I've learned over

1177
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: the years. Right read sign, play the wind, play terrain. Right.

1178
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 1: So I part my truck. I'm loaded up running gun style,

1179
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:27,680
Speaker 1: you know, we've done it a hundred times. And I'm

1180
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 1: walking in facing the you know, face to the wind,

1181
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:36,720
Speaker 1: and the property lays kind of like a upside down

1182
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: l with a thick part of the bottom l um,

1183
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 1: you know how it's there's so there's a corner in there.

1184
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: Right in that corner is a very narrow logging trail

1185
01:05:48,080 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: or like just enough for an a TV. And then

1186
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:54,160
Speaker 1: two it drops down into a ravine and that ravine

1187
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:58,720
Speaker 1: is just very thick, you know, like one of those

1188
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:01,080
Speaker 1: things that if someone you get, you let the new

1189
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 1: guy shed hunt that part of the farm because he's

1190
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 1: gonna be on his hands and knees, you know. So

1191
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: I'm walking in. I'm following these fence lines, you know,

1192
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: and every overhanging tree and I'm not exaggerating here. Every

1193
01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 1: overhanging tree on this field had a scrape in it,

1194
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,919
Speaker 1: and it looked like they were fresh, right, I mean,

1195
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 1: just like it's tore up from scrapes, you know, not

1196
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 1: huge rubs, but you know, there was little rubs all

1197
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 1: along the field. So I'm like, man, something's working in here.

1198
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 1: You know, who knows what it is. So I gotta

1199
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: find a way that my wind is not going to

1200
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:41,320
Speaker 1: blow into this logging trail, but I can still hunt

1201
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:44,600
Speaker 1: the top of this ridge. Because my goal was to

1202
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:48,480
Speaker 1: set up in a tree to where I was close

1203
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: enough to the thick stuff, you know, hunting that edge.

1204
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 1: At the same time, I wanted to be looking into

1205
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: the valley to observe any motion on the opposite side

1206
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 1: of the ridge. You know. That was that was because

1207
01:07:01,560 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 1: this ridge ran the entire length of the farm, so

1208
01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 1: I wanted to make it an observation set. But I

1209
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 1: wanted to do it in a way that if a

1210
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,440
Speaker 1: deer did come by through this stick stuff, because you know,

1211
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 1: deer don't typically work their way. You know, they're not

1212
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: walking on the top of the ridge right there, down

1213
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 1: off the edge, you know, so they can smell everything.

1214
01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 1: But It was hard for me to hunt hunt that

1215
01:07:26,320 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 1: because I wanted to. I wanted my wind to not

1216
01:07:31,080 --> 01:07:35,200
Speaker 1: blow right down that edge. So if something did decide

1217
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:38,440
Speaker 1: to um hunt on the two you know, walk on

1218
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:43,320
Speaker 1: the two track, that my wind really wasn't um I'm

1219
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 1: gonna blow down there. So I came off just a

1220
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:48,919
Speaker 1: bit and it was one of those fifty hunts where

1221
01:07:49,120 --> 01:07:52,640
Speaker 1: I felt if something was gonna come and the wind

1222
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 1: shifted just a bit, I was screwed. But luckily it

1223
01:07:56,160 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 1: held true and it blew out into this field, into

1224
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: the CRP field, and um uh stayed there the entire night,

1225
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 1: so I was cut. It was it was literally like

1226
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 1: a forty ft difference where my uh, you know, my

1227
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 1: wind trackers went when I was, you know, testing my wind.

1228
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: And sure enough, man, I stood up in this tree

1229
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 1: and immediately start seeing deer. It was like as soon

1230
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 1: as I clamped in, brought my bow up and hung

1231
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 1: it up, deer started moving. I saw before the buck

1232
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 1: that I ended up shooting, I saw five bucks, all

1233
01:08:32,640 --> 01:08:36,559
Speaker 1: within shooting range, working this ridge, and I'm just like, wow,

1234
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:41,679
Speaker 1: this and this is what I'm really proud of. I'm

1235
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 1: proud of the fact that I read sign I read terrain,

1236
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 1: and I played the wind aggressively, and it allowed me

1237
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 1: to set up to catch deer movement and not get busted.

1238
01:08:57,080 --> 01:08:59,759
Speaker 1: That's an accomplishment for anybody. I don't care how season

1239
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 1: do you are or inexperienced you are. If you can

1240
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:06,559
Speaker 1: do those three things and get close to deer, you're

1241
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 1: doing something right as far as far as a strategy standpoint.

1242
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:14,240
Speaker 1: You know, now, shooting a deer is a whole different

1243
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: story if you but if you can do those things,

1244
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 1: you're gonna get close to two deer. Well after these

1245
01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:24,280
Speaker 1: bucks work through two doughs out of nowhere, there's no

1246
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 1: there's no real egg. This is all timber like there's

1247
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 1: I think on the neighboring farm there might be some

1248
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:32,080
Speaker 1: food plots, but I couldn't see any through my binoculars.

1249
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 1: It looked like they just had a huge disk up field,

1250
01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 1: like they harvested it and then overturned it. Overturned it,

1251
01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 1: so there's nothing for them to eat. So but there's plenty,

1252
01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 1: you know, there's plenty of stuff in the timber to eat.

1253
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: And two does come out of this bottom ridge or

1254
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:53,080
Speaker 1: where the ridge kind of keeps going comes up over top.

1255
01:09:53,400 --> 01:09:55,880
Speaker 1: Did exactly what I thought they were gonna do, drop

1256
01:09:55,920 --> 01:09:58,720
Speaker 1: off the ridge just a little bit as to not

1257
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 1: like skyline themselves else. And they were working the thick

1258
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 1: stuff through, and they worked by me, and they were

1259
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 1: just like they were in front of me eating on

1260
01:10:08,479 --> 01:10:13,759
Speaker 1: a bush for like, man ten minutes, fifteen minutes, and

1261
01:10:14,200 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the dope popped her head up

1262
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:18,680
Speaker 1: and looks down the ridge, and I couldn't see what

1263
01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 1: she was looking at right away, and she she puts

1264
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 1: her head up, and then all of a sudden, I

1265
01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:30,000
Speaker 1: hear like a like some heavy movement coming through the timber,

1266
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:33,559
Speaker 1: and she kind of notices something was coming at her

1267
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:36,439
Speaker 1: and drops down. And I'm like, okay, there's a buck coming.

1268
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:40,120
Speaker 1: And the three of those bucks had worked their way

1269
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:41,760
Speaker 1: up that way, and I thought, well, maybe one of

1270
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 1: them is coming back. So I put my binos up

1271
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:48,800
Speaker 1: and I see movement, but I could only see from

1272
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 1: half of the deer up, so I can't see its legs.

1273
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:54,960
Speaker 1: I can't see its whole body. Um, I can see

1274
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:57,559
Speaker 1: part of its head and ant or something like, because

1275
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:00,880
Speaker 1: it's real thick, right. I look up and I'm like,

1276
01:11:01,040 --> 01:11:04,080
Speaker 1: oh my god, that and it's all I never saw

1277
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:06,640
Speaker 1: this deer head on. I saw him broadside only, and

1278
01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 1: I'm like, that is a big buck like the mass

1279
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: on his ties, and he just looked huge. And then

1280
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:17,280
Speaker 1: he starts working his way. I kind of lost him,

1281
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:20,520
Speaker 1: but I knew he was coming. And then he intercepted

1282
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:23,920
Speaker 1: those dos and those does went up the ridge and

1283
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 1: he turned around. He followed those does up the ridge

1284
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, I have no idea what this buckets.

1285
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:31,320
Speaker 1: I need to get a better look at him. So

1286
01:11:31,360 --> 01:11:36,240
Speaker 1: I I literally did this rap. That was it, and

1287
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:39,360
Speaker 1: he stopped and I could see his antlers swing around

1288
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:43,639
Speaker 1: and look back at me in in my general direction,

1289
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:47,080
Speaker 1: and I saw him lick his lips like, you know,

1290
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:48,800
Speaker 1: like you know how these deers get excited and they're

1291
01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:52,120
Speaker 1: drooling and they're just like, he licks his lips and

1292
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 1: he turns around, he comes to investigate, and he is

1293
01:11:57,840 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 1: he just I can't get a good look on him,

1294
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 1: you know, like the other two dear I passed this week.

1295
01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:06,559
Speaker 1: I was able to put my binoculars on him. I

1296
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: was able to get a good look at him, and

1297
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 1: I was able to say, you know what that is

1298
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 1: a that is not a shooter. I'm going to pass right.

1299
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 1: I couldn't do this with this book because he was

1300
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: in such thick cover. And then he's getting close, so

1301
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:23,720
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh man, I got I gotta, I

1302
01:12:23,760 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 1: gotta make a decision here, and I couldn't. I couldn't tell,

1303
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:29,479
Speaker 1: so I, you know, I picked my bow up. I

1304
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: got ready to draw back. He's coming into an opening

1305
01:12:32,160 --> 01:12:35,840
Speaker 1: that's about twenty yards away. But that opening is just

1306
01:12:36,200 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 1: it's like a stretch where I just got lucky, I guess,

1307
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: And and there was a shooting lane kind of naturally there,

1308
01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:45,720
Speaker 1: and it was thick. It was thick, and it's kind

1309
01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:47,920
Speaker 1: of antlers popped out, and I'm like, okay, that's a

1310
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:52,080
Speaker 1: that's a big buck. I draw back, and all of

1311
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 1: a sudden he steps out and he's our my my

1312
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 1: anchor point. I didn't really check his body like I

1313
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 1: probably should. He the massive broadside from you know, in

1314
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 1: the Antler department. And you know, it was one of

1315
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: these decisions that I had to make in that one

1316
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: small opening that I had, and it was shoot him

1317
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 1: or lose him right. And I shot him right, and

1318
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:22,040
Speaker 1: I drilled him and he he takes like he go.

1319
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 1: I hear the I hear the and I hear this,

1320
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 1: all this air come out of him, like he just

1321
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: got punched in the gut. And I'm just like, son

1322
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:36,599
Speaker 1: of a bitch, like I just got shot him. And

1323
01:13:36,720 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 1: it was a little back, but it wasn't it didn't

1324
01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:43,719
Speaker 1: seem too far back. And and I'm just like, oh

1325
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:45,479
Speaker 1: my god, I got shot him. But he didn't run,

1326
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:49,799
Speaker 1: so he he he kind of walked off very slow,

1327
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:54,680
Speaker 1: about fifteen twenty yards and he stood there all haunched up,

1328
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,680
Speaker 1: and I put my bot my like, I put my

1329
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:02,400
Speaker 1: binos back on him and not really like judging his

1330
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 1: body because of my adrenaline was pumping. But I was

1331
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:07,080
Speaker 1: looking at his rack, like, dude, that's a decent rack.

1332
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 1: That's a good rack. Um, you know that is a

1333
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:14,120
Speaker 1: good rack. And you know, I just was like I

1334
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 1: was happy, right, I'm just like, oh my god, I

1335
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:17,920
Speaker 1: just did it. You know, I got that. I got

1336
01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:20,920
Speaker 1: that post shot pump, I was like, and I started

1337
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 1: freaking out. You know, I'm that guy who gets emotional

1338
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 1: when when I harvest an animal. But I wasn't like

1339
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 1: a sure yet. And because he's sitting there and he's

1340
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 1: going and I didn't see any blood coming out of him, right,

1341
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: because I didn't hit long, I didn't hit heart. I

1342
01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 1: was back behind the diaphragm on the shot um and

1343
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:43,200
Speaker 1: he was kind of stretched out when I shot him.

1344
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: So when I shot him and he started walking, that

1345
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 1: skin came back from what it looked like over the

1346
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 1: whole in his in his ribs, and he he wasn't

1347
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:57,840
Speaker 1: bleeding very well because that it was so far back,

1348
01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 1: and that's what made me think I guts. So he walks,

1349
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:05,400
Speaker 1: he starts to make this half loop, and so I

1350
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 1: get another air already. I'm like, oh, home, he might

1351
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:09,280
Speaker 1: come back around and I'm gonna shoot him again. He's

1352
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:12,679
Speaker 1: kind of coming up from behind me now, and then

1353
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:16,439
Speaker 1: he gets that wide his tail starts going. I'm like, oh,

1354
01:15:16,479 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 1: that's not a good sign to him, right, And then

1355
01:15:18,840 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 1: he starts getting wide legs right when they're they're laid

1356
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 1: where he's trying to get a bigger basse under him,

1357
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 1: and then he starts taking Then he then he starts

1358
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 1: losing his balance and I'm like, dude, he is toast.

1359
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 1: He's toast, and he starts then he gets back up

1360
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:39,719
Speaker 1: again and I'm like, oh, what happened? Like he's getting

1361
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 1: like then he postures up and he's he looks fine.

1362
01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:45,400
Speaker 1: And then that was it. He he took this, he

1363
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:49,479
Speaker 1: took these three wobbly steps, he laid down, put his

1364
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:52,639
Speaker 1: head down, and then from the time I shot him

1365
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:57,719
Speaker 1: to the time he expired was probably three minutes, uh

1366
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:01,320
Speaker 1: three or four minutes. And I'm just like, oh my god,

1367
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:05,400
Speaker 1: I just shot the one of like the biggest buck

1368
01:16:05,439 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 1: of my life, right, and I was pumped. I called

1369
01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:12,439
Speaker 1: my called my wife, I called my stepdad, I called

1370
01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:15,360
Speaker 1: my buddy Ben, and I was just like, oh, you know,

1371
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:17,479
Speaker 1: I was texting people. I was like, oh, ship, this

1372
01:16:17,560 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 1: is awesome. This is awesome, you know, like I'm happy,

1373
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 1: I'm excited, and I'm dude, I'm still excited. And I

1374
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 1: feel that there's a butt coming though. What a but well,

1375
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:32,720
Speaker 1: you're building this all up like I was. I was,

1376
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 1: I was, but and I am I am, I am

1377
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 1: so and I'm sure this has happened to a lot

1378
01:16:39,400 --> 01:16:43,240
Speaker 1: of people. I get down out of my tree stand

1379
01:16:43,320 --> 01:16:45,599
Speaker 1: and I walk over to the deer and I look

1380
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 1: at it and I'm like, mm hmm. You know that

1381
01:16:50,120 --> 01:16:56,680
Speaker 1: people used the term ground shrinkage, right, this deer was

1382
01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:01,160
Speaker 1: not what I thought it was. Now, don't confuse that

1383
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:08,680
Speaker 1: for me being unhappy with this. Don't confuse that with

1384
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 1: me being um like, oh, you know, like I don't know,

1385
01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: I only shoot big bucks, you know, like that kind

1386
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 1: of ship. Don't get, don't get. Don't get a negative

1387
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:21,840
Speaker 1: kind of connotation with that. This buck was not what

1388
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:26,959
Speaker 1: I thought it was. But I am happy. I am thankful.

1389
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 1: I am like, I'm pumped. I'm still pumped that I

1390
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: shot this, dear. It's just not it's just not what

1391
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:34,840
Speaker 1: I thought it was when it was coming through the

1392
01:17:34,880 --> 01:17:37,880
Speaker 1: thick timber. Right, I'm not trying to make excuses for it.

1393
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 1: I'm jacked. I'm happy. You know, I gotta I gotta

1394
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: buck at the taxidermist. I have a you know, a

1395
01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:50,120
Speaker 1: freezer full of meat coming. Everything that I did and

1396
01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:51,439
Speaker 1: this is and like I said to you, I'm very

1397
01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:54,559
Speaker 1: proud of this fact. I was able to run and gun,

1398
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:59,960
Speaker 1: read sign and and be successful on a first time

1399
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: in and I've never done that before. Right, that's awesome.

1400
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 1: And this buck, this buck is awesome. Awesome characteristics his

1401
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 1: his dude, I I honestly think, in my opinion, he

1402
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 1: is a three year old. He could possibly be a

1403
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:22,559
Speaker 1: two year old. I'm not joking. Yes, dude, his body

1404
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 1: is very small really yeah, yep, yep. But he had

1405
01:18:28,360 --> 01:18:31,400
Speaker 1: a very deceiving rat coming through the timber, and I

1406
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:35,360
Speaker 1: think that played a role in me shooting him thinking

1407
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:38,120
Speaker 1: because his body was so small and I was comparing

1408
01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 1: him to a dough you know, that's the only thing

1409
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:43,800
Speaker 1: that really was around at the time the last year

1410
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:45,599
Speaker 1: I saw. You know, I'm not. I'm not. I don't

1411
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 1: want to make excuses because the buck does not deserve that,

1412
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: but well, I just want to I just it was

1413
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:54,759
Speaker 1: not what I thought I shot. I thought I shot

1414
01:18:55,160 --> 01:18:58,960
Speaker 1: something bigger. It looked bigger coming through the timber. That

1415
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:03,639
Speaker 1: doesn't mean ship. I mean, yeah, that's a good little awesome.

1416
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:07,240
Speaker 1: It's a really good looking and the antlers don't mean shit.

1417
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 1: The memory I have will have of this is will

1418
01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 1: last forever. Yeah. And the knowledge that I gained through

1419
01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:21,680
Speaker 1: how do your travel through the timber on this farm

1420
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:23,880
Speaker 1: and how I set up on it will be something

1421
01:19:23,920 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 1: that I'm going to do again next season when I

1422
01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 1: go to hunt this farm. It sounds like an awesome hunt.

1423
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:33,280
Speaker 1: It was. It was money and it's it's always good.

1424
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 1: You know. I don't know how you are, but do

1425
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:42,040
Speaker 1: you ever, I find myself questioning everything I do. I overthink,

1426
01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 1: I overthink, I overthink what if should I hunt this

1427
01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: dand now should I hunt this Dand yep, I know

1428
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:49,640
Speaker 1: you're guilty of it too. And it was good to

1429
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:53,559
Speaker 1: go in and basically driving down to my main farm,

1430
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, what's screwed. I'm going to

1431
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: this new farm tonight. I'm gonna run and gun. I

1432
01:19:57,200 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: don't I don't care, I'm gonna I'm gonna go. I'm

1433
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:04,559
Speaker 1: gonna do what we all want to do. Just read

1434
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 1: the sign, play the wind, play the terrain. And I

1435
01:20:07,040 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: did it and it worked, and I'm I was so happy,

1436
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:15,479
Speaker 1: like I'm happy that, you know, and I'm happy that

1437
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:18,080
Speaker 1: now I gotta go hang with my kids for a while, right.

1438
01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:24,880
Speaker 1: So it just this was an absolutely awesome vocation. Man,

1439
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:28,000
Speaker 1: just the deer that I saw, the deer that I

1440
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:30,519
Speaker 1: you know, passed. I mean a lot of it also

1441
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 1: had to do with on my other farm. I had

1442
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 1: trail camera pictures of all these deer. I knew who

1443
01:20:37,520 --> 01:20:40,040
Speaker 1: these deer were, right, I said, oh, well, yeah, I

1444
01:20:40,080 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 1: know him. I know he's a three year old because

1445
01:20:42,080 --> 01:20:44,680
Speaker 1: I've looked at a thousand pictures of him on this

1446
01:20:44,760 --> 01:20:47,240
Speaker 1: other on this other farm. I didn't have any trail

1447
01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 1: camera intel, so I didn't know anybody, right, So you

1448
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:58,320
Speaker 1: mix that with what all happened, and it's just like, uh, oh,

1449
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: well it's not what I thought it was. But that's okay,

1450
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 1: you know something. These things happen for a reason. And

1451
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: um again, I just want to reiterate, I'm not disappointed

1452
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:13,639
Speaker 1: in any way with uh, with the outcome of this.

1453
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm very happy, very happy. I'm happy for you, dude.

1454
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 1: It sounds like just a really a really incredible week.

1455
01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:24,559
Speaker 1: And to have an end like that, even though maybe

1456
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:26,639
Speaker 1: it wasn't quite as older as big as you thought,

1457
01:21:26,760 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 1: I think to your point, you put together an awesome hunt.

1458
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: You you you achieved you know, the goal of that night,

1459
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:35,120
Speaker 1: which was to do all those things you mentioned, going

1460
01:21:35,160 --> 01:21:37,559
Speaker 1: to a new spot, figure it out, be within range

1461
01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:42,040
Speaker 1: of deer, and I'll tell you what or some of

1462
01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: the people out there would probably give their left arm

1463
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:47,559
Speaker 1: to ever shoot a deer like that. So you're doing

1464
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 1: all right, I'd say, you are doing all I can

1465
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: tell you that there's at least one person here in

1466
01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 1: this hotel room. His name rhymes with burder and he

1467
01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 1: would shoot that buck all day. So so now now here,

1468
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:08,960
Speaker 1: here's something you gotta think about. Okay. Is I I

1469
01:22:09,120 --> 01:22:14,600
Speaker 1: ate Chinese tonight? Okay, okay, the fortune cookie in my

1470
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:18,960
Speaker 1: Chinese food tonight says a secret adventure is in store

1471
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 1: for you. Okay, that's exciting. Yeah. So here's here's what

1472
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:28,680
Speaker 1: I think needs to happen. I think on your way

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01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: to North Dakota, you need to pick me up. If

1474
01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: I know when you're texting me that, I wish we

1475
01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:36,840
Speaker 1: could do that. I hope we could do that. But

1476
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:43,720
Speaker 1: this dear holy Field has got me locked down. Oh buddy,

1477
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:48,040
Speaker 1: but buddy, kill him and then let's go. Man if

1478
01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 1: I can, if I can make it there still, I

1479
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:52,960
Speaker 1: would love to swing through. I want to pick you up.

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01:22:54,080 --> 01:22:55,920
Speaker 1: I'm right on the way, man, I'm right on the way.

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01:22:56,000 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 1: You are too, man, It would be awesome. Yeah, it's

1482
01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 1: a bummer the way things are going. I don't I

1483
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:01,720
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna get to use that tag

1484
01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:04,840
Speaker 1: at all. I wasted two hours or whatever it was,

1485
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 1: not even get to hunt the state once. But that

1486
01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:11,479
Speaker 1: was kind of you roll the dice when you when

1487
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:14,479
Speaker 1: you playing all these things like that, right, yep, you do.

1488
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: And especially when you go into a season focus so

1489
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: much on one single deer yea and uh and yeah,

1490
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:24,920
Speaker 1: live and learn and you've got to roll the punches

1491
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:30,440
Speaker 1: and play the cards even dealt right, right. So I

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01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:32,200
Speaker 1: just I just want to say one more thing to

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01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:35,320
Speaker 1: everybody who's listening out there. You know, we get on

1494
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:37,600
Speaker 1: we got on Instagram, we get on Facebook, and we

1495
01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:41,040
Speaker 1: see all these giant deer getting killed and it's hard

1496
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 1: not to say, oh, man, I really wish I had that.

1497
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:45,840
Speaker 1: I really I want to do that. I want to

1498
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:49,439
Speaker 1: you know, I want to kill a big buck. Ignore that.

1499
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:53,040
Speaker 1: You have to hunt your hunt, and you have to

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01:23:53,160 --> 01:23:59,519
Speaker 1: hunt whatever however style you see fit um, whether that's

1501
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:02,760
Speaker 1: don't know. There's so many different ways to hunt. But

1502
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:06,559
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at is, don't compare this your style

1503
01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:10,559
Speaker 1: and your dear to anybody else's because they don't hunt

1504
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 1: the same as you. You don't hunt the same as them. Uh,

1505
01:24:13,880 --> 01:24:18,360
Speaker 1: different states, different rules, different you know, there's so many

1506
01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:21,639
Speaker 1: other things that are out there, and it takes away

1507
01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,600
Speaker 1: from the true meaning of the hunt and actually in

1508
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 1: honoring the animal as well. So don't get caught up

1509
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:29,920
Speaker 1: in the bullshit. I guess is what I'm getting at it.

1510
01:24:30,800 --> 01:24:33,639
Speaker 1: I think you need to shoot dear more often, Dan,

1511
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:36,320
Speaker 1: because like you are on your game, You're in your

1512
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: a game tonight. You've got a level of energy and

1513
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: you've got some great points tonight. Like you are, You're

1514
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 1: you're in it tonight, Dan. I like it. I feel

1515
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 1: like i feel like I'm out of it. I feel

1516
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:49,200
Speaker 1: like I'm not like you've brought. You brought the energy tonight.

1517
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:51,160
Speaker 1: So thank you for doing that. Dan. You're you're keeping

1518
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: the podcast to float today. You've got some good stuff.

1519
01:24:57,160 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 1: I'm here just barely keeping my eyes open and thinking

1520
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 1: where am I going to sit tomorrow? But yeah, I

1521
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:06,080
Speaker 1: think you make a really a really good point. I

1522
01:25:06,080 --> 01:25:09,400
Speaker 1: think it's really easy to get. And heck, I'm guilty

1523
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,920
Speaker 1: but sometimes too, even though I tell myself in the moment,

1524
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:15,879
Speaker 1: don't do this, don't let it affect you. But sometimes

1525
01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 1: when when things aren't going your way and you pull

1526
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:20,320
Speaker 1: it Facebook and see ten people you know all killed

1527
01:25:20,360 --> 01:25:24,080
Speaker 1: Giant Bucks, it can be a little bit demoralizing at times,

1528
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 1: and you just gotta fight that and you gotta to

1529
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:31,120
Speaker 1: your point, enjoy it, focus on your hunt, what you're doing,

1530
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:33,760
Speaker 1: and that's what I've been trying to do, especially after

1531
01:25:33,800 --> 01:25:36,560
Speaker 1: what happened the other day when I blew my opportunity

1532
01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 1: and I was kind of beating myself up. Right after that,

1533
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:41,720
Speaker 1: I kind of realized, you know what, this whole year,

1534
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 1: you've been so focused on just killing this deer. Which yes,

1535
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:48,320
Speaker 1: I'm very goal oriented. I like to achieve my goals.

1536
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:50,840
Speaker 1: I like to work towards challenging goals. That's great and good.

1537
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 1: But when that starts to just cause you endless stress

1538
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:56,040
Speaker 1: and take the fun out of it and all that

1539
01:25:56,120 --> 01:26:00,720
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and I tend to have it I am.

1540
01:26:00,760 --> 01:26:03,000
Speaker 1: I am susceptible to this a lot because of how

1541
01:26:03,120 --> 01:26:05,800
Speaker 1: goal oriented I'm I can every year I'm getting too

1542
01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: stressed about something and I always have to end up

1543
01:26:08,479 --> 01:26:13,599
Speaker 1: reminding myself to like chill out, enjoy it, you know,

1544
01:26:14,280 --> 01:26:17,719
Speaker 1: and just take a deep breath. This isn't life or death, um.

1545
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:19,160
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of what I'm trying to do now,

1546
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:20,679
Speaker 1: you know. That's why I decided to go to Ohio.

1547
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 1: I want to, you know, go to go to a

1548
01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 1: new spot for a little bit of hang out with

1549
01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:27,320
Speaker 1: my buddies down here, just have a little fun for

1550
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:29,920
Speaker 1: a little bit because to be honest, I don't know

1551
01:26:29,920 --> 01:26:31,559
Speaker 1: how much fun I was having the last week and

1552
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:34,599
Speaker 1: a half. Um, I was more just it was more like,

1553
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:38,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, I was just caught up in like

1554
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 1: the mission of it, and I was like focused on

1555
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:43,280
Speaker 1: every little thing I did wrong or every little thing

1556
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 1: I needed to do. And um, sometimes you gets to say,

1557
01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:48,519
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm hunting because I enjoy hunting. Let's

1558
01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 1: enjoy it. So so I think that's that's something we

1559
01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:54,960
Speaker 1: can all try to do this year. This time of

1560
01:26:55,040 --> 01:26:58,439
Speaker 1: year can get stressful because you know, everyone, you know,

1561
01:26:58,479 --> 01:26:59,800
Speaker 1: we kind of think that the rut is when you

1562
01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: get I get done. If I don't get it done now,

1563
01:27:01,479 --> 01:27:02,840
Speaker 1: if I don't kill buck now, I'm not going to

1564
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:06,679
Speaker 1: kill one, and um, you know what, just enjoy it.

1565
01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 1: It's a great time of year. Enjoy that time. Don't

1566
01:27:09,680 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 1: let it be all about if you kill or not.

1567
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:15,320
Speaker 1: Actually enjoy the experience in the process. So that's what

1568
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:18,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to do these next few days. We'll

1569
01:27:18,320 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: see what happens lately. Absolutely, because you're gonna blank and

1570
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:25,639
Speaker 1: it's over. That's true. It's very true, and we wait

1571
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:27,680
Speaker 1: all year for it, so I might as well have

1572
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:31,000
Speaker 1: fun while it's here. So absolutely well, I think on

1573
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: that note, man, we should shut it down because it's

1574
01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:34,720
Speaker 1: ten third at night and I gotta wake up in

1575
01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 1: like four hours to head back to a tree stand.

1576
01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:40,479
Speaker 1: My question real quick before we leave is are you

1577
01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:42,559
Speaker 1: in a hotel with one bet or two beds? For

1578
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:47,559
Speaker 1: you guys, We're in a hotel with two beds, okay,

1579
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 1: we do. We do have some separation. You guys put

1580
01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: all your gear on one bed and then you share,

1581
01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:56,599
Speaker 1: you too, share. Of course, I thought that goes up.

1582
01:27:56,880 --> 01:28:04,679
Speaker 1: That goes up being said, Oh man, Josh further Hilliard

1583
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:08,320
Speaker 1: is is very much a part of this podcast episode,

1584
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:12,599
Speaker 1: even though we didn't let him actually talk. I'll tell

1585
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 1: you what if if there's one person I would ever

1586
01:28:15,120 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 1: want to spoon with in a hotel bedroom, it would

1587
01:28:17,360 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 1: be old Josh Further I could. He's just over here

1588
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:27,639
Speaker 1: just shaking his head. And that is how we ended,

1589
01:28:27,680 --> 01:28:30,360
Speaker 1: and that is how we ended. So let's shut this

1590
01:28:30,400 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 1: one down. All you guys out there hunting, good luck,

1591
01:28:33,439 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 1: and so with that we will wrap this episode up

1592
01:28:36,120 --> 01:28:38,160
Speaker 1: before we go. The big thank you to our partners

1593
01:28:38,200 --> 01:28:42,160
Speaker 1: at Sitka Gear. Yetie Cooler's Matthew's Archery, Mayven Optics, the

1594
01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:45,400
Speaker 1: white Tail Institute of North America, Trophy Ridge and hunt

1595
01:28:45,439 --> 01:28:48,880
Speaker 1: ter maps, and finally, of course, thank you all for listening,

1596
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 1: thanks for being here with us. Like I said a

1597
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 1: second ago, good luck in the tree and until next time,

1598
01:28:54,200 --> 01:29:02,080
Speaker 1: stay wired to hunt the County Group of brother Both

1599
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:03,160
Speaker 1: to Pat Tota,