1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for 2 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host, 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm 4 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan, and this is episode three d 5 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:24,159 Speaker 1: and two, and today we're here for another installment of 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 1: our rut Fresh radio miniseries in which we're checking in 7 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 1: with hunters from all across the country to get the 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: latest and greatest intel on deer activity, current conditions, and 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: the tactics that are working right now. All rights Welcome 10 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,959 Speaker 1: to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by 11 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:54,320 Speaker 1: on X, and today we are back with our every 12 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: Wednesday episode that probably you're used to by now, in 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: which we're doing our rut Fresh radio mini series. This 14 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 1: is what we do during the hunting season. Every week. 15 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: It's an episode where we chat with hunters from across 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: the country, usually four or five every week, talking about 17 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: what is happening right now in the white tail. You 18 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: know what, Spencer, you gotta excuse me for having a 19 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: sore throat right now, Guys and anyone listening, you can't 20 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 1: get mad at me for coughing. You can't get frustrated 21 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 1: with the fact that I can't get through our introduction 22 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,840 Speaker 1: because I have a very good excuse. But but let 23 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: me finish what I was saying. This is where we 24 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 1: get intel on what's happening in the white Tail woods. 25 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,240 Speaker 1: So right now, that might be how weather conditions are 26 00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: impacting deer, or maybe how changing food sources are impacting 27 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: deer and the different types of tactics that might work. 28 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: And then as we get into late October or November, 29 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about the rut. And when we 30 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: get into December, maybe we'll be talking about snowstorms. Whatever 31 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: it is it's going on right now, that's what we're 32 00:01:54,520 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: talking about. So Spencer, that's what we usually talk about. Uh. 33 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: Do you want to hear my excuse for why I 34 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: can't talk today? Yeah, and it better be a good 35 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: one because that was not pretty. No, No, that wasn't 36 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,119 Speaker 1: my best work. I am sitting in a hotel room 37 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: right now because I am recording the audiobook for my 38 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: book That Wild Country. UM. So for the last two days, 39 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: I've been reading my book out loud, NonStop, UM for 40 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 1: I don't know how many hours, but the voices is 41 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: hurting a little bit. I'm actually working on something else. 42 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: The rest of tonight, which I do want to talk about, Spencer, 43 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: unless unless you've got something really pressing that you need 44 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: to start us out with. I want to kind of 45 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 1: take a little bit monopolize a little bit of our 46 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: time here on the front to give everyone an update 47 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: on something kind of cool. Am I? Am I allowed 48 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: to do that on this Refresh radio episode? Please do 49 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: because this is quite the announcement. So not only am 50 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: my recording an audiobook, which is great and dandy, but 51 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: actually what's most interesting going on right now and what 52 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: I'm actually working on the rest of the night tonight 53 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,280 Speaker 1: is our back forty video series. We talked about this 54 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: a little bit last week, right we have bought a farm. 55 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: The media the team has bought a farm, and we 56 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: are taking this project on to try to use this 57 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: place as a It's kind of a canvas to tell 58 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: the story of small properties and private land conservation and 59 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: what you can do when you're trying to manage a 60 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,000 Speaker 1: property not just for a bunch of big deer, but 61 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: but everything in between, bees and birds and bucks and 62 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: trying to find great hunting too. So that's what this 63 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: whole project is about. Uh. We launched our first episode 64 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: of that series on Monday of this week, So the 65 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: first one is out there. You can watch it on 66 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: the meat Eater YouTube channel. And I'm probably biased because 67 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 1: I'm working on it, but I think it turned up 68 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: pretty cool. Do you like it? I really liked it, 69 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: and I liked that it wasn't so white tail heavy, 70 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: like we're all obsessed to white we're all obsessed about 71 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: white tails, um, but this took a deeper dive into 72 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: like private at land conservation in what one person can 73 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: do with sixty acres. Yeah. Yeah, And and you know, 74 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 1: of course we're gonna we're gonna do some serious white 75 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: tail stuff, no doubt about them. We're gonna be hunting 76 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: them hard. We're gonna be trying to find ways to 77 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: to tweak and manipulate and adjust and influence this property 78 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: to have the best deer hunting possible. No, no, no doubt, 79 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,599 Speaker 1: We're gonna be digging into that. But yeah, to your point, either, 80 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: there are other things too, And oftentimes what I'm finding 81 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: as I'm diving into this whole project and trying to 82 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 1: wrap my head around it and learn new things, is 83 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: that when you start looking at these other species and 84 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,119 Speaker 1: plant life and all the wildlife out there. You're working 85 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: on this foundation that still does support those deer hunting goals. 86 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: So what we do for birds and bees is gonna 87 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: help dear too, and vice versa. So it's been a 88 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,760 Speaker 1: great learning experience. I think if you guys check out 89 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 1: that first episode, you'll you'll get a better idea of 90 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 1: what we're trying to do. And now we just have 91 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 1: to try to do the work and make it all reality. 92 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: So that's my date for the day. Um, have you 93 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: done anything white tail yet? Are you still chasing milk? Nothing? 94 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 1: White tail yet? My first white tail hunt is still 95 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:12,400 Speaker 1: actually probably like three weeks away. So for now I'm 96 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: just relying on our rut Fresh radio guests and you 97 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: Mark to fill me in on white tails and and 98 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: keep me going until I get on that first hunt. Um, 99 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: are you gonna be hunting the back forty like next weekend? Is? 100 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: Isn't that Michigan's opener? Uh, it's not next weekend, It's 101 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,279 Speaker 1: it's like the Tuesday after that. I think it's October one, 102 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: if I've got my calendar right in my head. But yeah, 103 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: October one, I will be hunting the back forty, so 104 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: that that will be my first Michigan update from the field. 105 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: But I actually have a a a Michigan scouting update, 106 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: if you'll take it well. I got a hot report, 107 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 1: hot tip from someone I know very well who said 108 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:57,239 Speaker 1: that the rut is on in full force in Michigan 109 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: right now. I'm telling you, man, the rut is upen. 110 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,919 Speaker 1: And the person who told me this is my wife 111 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 1: a kid, You not my wife, and she actually does 112 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: know all about dear. She told me that she was 113 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: watching behind our house where we had a field, and 114 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: there's like some deer stuff going on behind the house, 115 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: and she said she saw multiple bucks chasing a dough 116 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: and fighting. Like I'm not I kept telling like, you're 117 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: kidding me, Like there's no way that's happening. What are 118 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: you talking about? And she she kept saying, no, I'm 119 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: not joking. This is happening right now, I'm watching it. 120 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 1: I talked to her on the phone while she was watching. 121 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: Not just like two bucks, like tickling the times, different bucks, 122 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: three or four different bucks, going back and forth, going 123 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 1: out and getting after it. I don't I have no 124 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: idea what that's about. It's obviously not the run, I 125 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: know that, but there was some funky behavior going on 126 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 1: the other night running around. She said, six or seven 127 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: different bucks running all over the place, including like two 128 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 1: nice looking deer. Um, so bizarre. I have no explanation 129 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: for it, but a very interesting observation from one of 130 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: my top scouting expert experts out there. So how to 131 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: pass that along. We hear it all the time when 132 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: it gets to October or even December during the secondary route, 133 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: that all it takes is one hot dough and uh, 134 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: a lot of our listeners an hour probably familiar with 135 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: like the fheedious studies that have been done that kind 136 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: of show that the rut for the most part, as 137 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: far as breeding goes, takes place in like the same 138 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:36,239 Speaker 1: five day window. Um. Quite often that's that's the case. 139 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: But there are dolls that get read, like I think, 140 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: all the way as early as August and as late 141 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: as like February and March. So if there was some 142 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: random dough out there that came into estus, then who knows, 143 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: there's there's no rules at that point, uh late September. 144 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: If that's the case. Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I'm 145 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: gonna guess that it's something, you know, something else, just 146 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: some crazy behavior. But you never know, like you said, Um, 147 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: if it was a month later, then I'd be like, Okay, yeah, 148 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: it's one of these super early doughs. This is just 149 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: like so outside of the realm of the usual. But 150 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: I know I trust her that she at least saw 151 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: that kind of stuff going on. I know that she 152 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: knows how to identify that kind of thing. So I 153 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: I am intrigued and I wish I was there to 154 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: see it myself. Yeah. Well, besides that report, we have 155 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: a report from Cody Butler from Kansas from Dream Chaser's Hunt, 156 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: and then in New Hampshire we talked to Brett Joy 157 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 1: from Real Tree Sea Bucks, and then Greg Mead from 158 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,440 Speaker 1: White Tail Properties in Kentucky, and then we go to 159 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,960 Speaker 1: Minnesota and talk to Matt Coleman from Captured Creative. Nice. 160 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: That's a good slate. Is there any kind of unifying 161 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:48,520 Speaker 1: truth that you've gotten from these folks yet? Is there 162 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: any theme of this week's episode? Uh? Not really. People 163 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: are talking about the unseasonably warm temperatures, and then they're 164 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 1: also starting to know some sign activity taking play and 165 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: also kind of the food source shift that acorns are 166 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: starting to hit the ground, beans are starting to yellow. Um, 167 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: so there's kind of that light bulb moment that we've 168 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:14,439 Speaker 1: talked about before that you sort of see sometime between 169 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 1: like mid September and early October where the deer that 170 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,920 Speaker 1: you've been seeing all year kind of disappear. Yeah, all right, well, 171 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,959 Speaker 1: I'm interested to hear what's going on. I will stop 172 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: my random rambling um and just get let's just get 173 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: after it, all right, We'll talk to you next week. 174 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,840 Speaker 1: Thanks man. All right. In joining us on the line 175 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,839 Speaker 1: now is Cody Butler in Kansas from Dream Chasers Hunt. Now, 176 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,320 Speaker 1: Cody in Kansas, what would you say the buck activity 177 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: is ben lately? On a scale of one to ten, 178 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: I would probably say about a five right now. And 179 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,839 Speaker 1: the reason why I say that is we do have 180 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,720 Speaker 1: some trail cara pictures and stuff like that of bucks 181 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: moving around in daylight, even mature deer. We are seeing, um, 182 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: some younger deer on their feet, um, but for the 183 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: most part, you're four US year old mature bucks. We're 184 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 1: kind of hitting that coming out of your fields and 185 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: stuff like that, you know, right after dark, uh and 186 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I'd say about a five right now. 187 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: Are you starting to see the soybeans turned to yellow? 188 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 1: In Kansas. Yes, definitely. Um, soybeans are definitely changing. Um. 189 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: I'm in northern Kansas, so I can't really say, you know, 190 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: for central and southern by as soon since they're further south, 191 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: little warmer. Um, they are probably as well changing. Um. 192 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,679 Speaker 1: There's actually some guys around here. I live around the 193 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: Nebraska line, just across the border here in Nebraska. There's 194 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: actually some guys starting to um harvest their beans and stuff. 195 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: So we're things are definitely full swing for change right now, 196 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: that's for sure. Are you losing deer on those yellow 197 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: soybeans then this time of year, yeah, definitely. Um, that's 198 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 1: a huge factor. Just kind of depends on the year. Um. 199 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:53,599 Speaker 1: We do have some actually that are pretty green. Um. 200 00:10:53,679 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: I mean I kind of talked before. We had a 201 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: lot of rain this way this year, more than I've 202 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: seen in my lifetime. House actually fits close to the 203 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: Republican River here, and we almost had floodwaters from the 204 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: river in our house. Um. So some guys you had 205 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: to plant their soybeans late. Um. So you know, look, 206 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: I don't have any of those unfortunately, but there is 207 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: some guys that are hunting you know, good green soybeans 208 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,199 Speaker 1: still because farmers had to plant late do the flooding 209 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: and stuff like that, especially up here close to the river. Unfortunately, 210 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,840 Speaker 1: most of my Kansas ground is is deeper into Kansas, 211 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: not right up here on the river. UM, So I 212 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: don't have a whole lot of green beans, and that's 213 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:36,200 Speaker 1: really transitioned um to the corn, which is not the 214 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: greatest thing in the world because when they go into corn, 215 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: we can't really go after them to do good this 216 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: time of year. But corn harvest is kind of started 217 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: a little bit here and there on some dry land props, 218 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: so hopefully for long with corn will start coming out 219 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: and they don't have as many places to hide besides 220 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,280 Speaker 1: with the crops. Are you feeling the effects of this 221 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: summer's floods in other ways? For example, did you lose 222 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: any betting from the rising water? Um? I, you know, 223 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: I think so, honestly, Um, we did. I do have 224 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: one place that's close to our home farm in Nebraska 225 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: that I lease. It's in Kansas. UM. The two farms 226 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: kind of butt together right on the state lines. Pretty 227 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: unique situation. And my cousin was actually here hunting with 228 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 1: me this year. Um. This week he drew a muslimer 229 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:24,640 Speaker 1: tag which is what Kansas is. The season is right 230 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: now you can bow hunt and musli hunt, and he 231 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: drew a Mussler tag and we actually went and hunted 232 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: that lease on the river um. And they actually did 233 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: get to corn out here like four or five days ago. Um. 234 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: And it's directly on the river, and it's more of 235 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: my best places if you've followed any of our stuff. UM, 236 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 1: you know, I killed a deer we called longhorn um 237 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: on that lease actually, and a couple other really good 238 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: deer there over the years. It's kind of one of 239 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 1: my go to spots. And I've got a really good 240 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: we'll probably mid sixties tin pointer and uh and a 241 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,440 Speaker 1: big big eight poorn it's probably in the mid fifties 242 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: there that we really thought we would see after the 243 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,160 Speaker 1: corn was out, And so we went there last night 244 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: and we saw four dose in total. Um. You know, 245 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: for quite some time they had to leave and find 246 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: a different place to go. And I think it's definitely 247 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: kind of changed the way they've acted around the river here. 248 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: For sure. This time of year when you have a 249 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: lot of deer bedding in the corn, do you have 250 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 1: a strategy for getting an arrow in those year or 251 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 1: they just unhuntable at this point. Um. It just kind 252 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: of depends on the situation. UM. A lot of times 253 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 1: all set my trail cameras up this time of year 254 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,000 Speaker 1: kind of to and from like watering most of my 255 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: farms in Kansas. My grandfather who has now passed away 256 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: but owned all these properties, he actually put water holes 257 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: or ponds on almost every single one of the farms 258 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 1: for wildlife. And which is good because in our area, 259 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: other than our lake here, we don't we have a 260 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: lot of dry creeks, and I mean there's pasture ponds 261 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but there's not a ton of 262 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,640 Speaker 1: water around. So I really try to set up a 263 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: lot of my stuff this time of year when it's hot, 264 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: um trails going to and from corn, um to water 265 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: things like that, and um, you know they it definitely 266 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: changes all I guess I'm trying to stay is you 267 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 1: definitely noticed that you can't hunt those deer sometimes if 268 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 1: you don't have water. If you do have water this 269 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: time here because it is so hot, I will a 270 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: lot of times get those deer in daylight coming out 271 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: of corn to drink. UM. So if we have corn 272 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: close to water, UM, so that's a really big thing. 273 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: But there is places as well, um that I just 274 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: simply can't get in the place we hunted tonight actually 275 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: is a hundred sixty acre field and then of corn basically, 276 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: and the very back corner there's about a five acre 277 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: patch of timber with a pond there, and we hunted 278 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: there this evening, um, just knowing that water was close. 279 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 1: I actually have a food plot down in there as well, 280 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: and we set up basically transition of deer coming out 281 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: of timber and corn, and we saw like thirteen different deer. 282 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: I think I didn't see the buck we're after, but 283 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: we did see a few other smaller bucks. And about 284 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: fifty percent of the deer came out of the corn 285 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,240 Speaker 1: and went down and got a drink and milled around 286 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 1: the food potting and then went back to the corn. 287 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 1: And the other fifty percent of them came out of 288 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: the timber and then headed to the corn. So it definitely, um, 289 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: it definitely hurts us this time, especially when the beans 290 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: are starting to change. They really transition to that corn, 291 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: and once they're in there, it's definitely hard to get 292 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: a pattern on them and get them figured out because 293 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: they really don't have to leave too much. Have you 294 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: noticed any signmakings start to show up in Kansas? Um, definitely, Uh, 295 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: there's actually a lot of scrapes and rubs. We noticed 296 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: the place that we went tonight. We're after a big 297 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: six pointer UM. He had been coming out of corn 298 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: going down to a food plot and we'll have a 299 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: pam there. And we actually noticed night when we walked 300 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: in just three days ago, I actually checked the trail 301 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:58,160 Speaker 1: camera and there wasn't any scrapes or rubs. And when 302 00:15:58,200 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: we went in tonight there was actually a brand new 303 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,400 Speaker 1: big scrape I'm on the edge of the food plot, 304 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: and a pretty good rub on a cedar tree. And 305 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: just in the last three days. So I really think 306 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: as some of these cooler tempts come in. I think 307 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 1: we had a hive eighty today. By the end of 308 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 1: the week, we've got some lows in the fifties. So 309 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: I think it's these temps start to drop. You know, 310 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: these they are really gonna start making, you know, laying 311 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: down scrapes and starting to figure out their territories and 312 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 1: stuff like that. So it's definitely definitely they're starting to 313 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: get with it for sure going forward. Then this next 314 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: week or so, what do you think that bucket activity 315 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: is going to be on a scale of one to 316 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: tending Kansas. I honestly think it's gonna jump quite a bit. 317 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,160 Speaker 1: I really think we might be up towards an eight. Honestly. 318 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: We've got some fool weather coming in and we've got 319 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:44,440 Speaker 1: some highs in the upper sixties in most seventies, like 320 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: I said, lows in the fifties. I think that's gonna 321 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: be a huge change compared to what we had. Um, 322 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: we've been having some mid nineties and and things like that. 323 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: So I definitely think buck activity is gonna go up 324 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: when those temperatures dropping, Like I said, harvest is starting. 325 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: We've got some I was getting their dry ankle warm 326 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: out and stuff like that. The more and more corn 327 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: get out gets out in the country here, um, you know, 328 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna have more gear moving into those places, the 329 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 1: smaller wood lots and things like that that we hunt 330 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: here in Kansas, where they're easier to get at and 331 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: we can pattern them a little bit easier. All right, Cody, 332 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 1: great intel, thanks for joining me in good luck this season. 333 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: Thanks man, you too, Take care alright. And joining us 334 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,640 Speaker 1: on the line next is Brett joy In New Hampshire 335 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 1: from Real Tree Sea Bucks now Brett in New Hampshire. 336 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: What would you say the bucket activity is been lateley 337 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,639 Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten, well need to 338 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: be negative, um, but I really feel it's about the 339 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 1: ones I've never seen it. It's bad. Um. We have 340 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: a couple of differents contributed that. The first of which 341 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: and the probably the most significant, is the a corn crop. 342 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 1: We've got have a incredible red oak crop in my area, 343 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 1: I think in a lot of New Hampshire. So the 344 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,959 Speaker 1: bucks really don't have to move very far at all. Um, well, 345 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: they don't have to move where they could probably just it. 346 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:03,160 Speaker 1: They're cloric in take sitting on the belly all day. 347 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:07,359 Speaker 1: They didn't have to get up. Um. That also the 348 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: fact that it's been above average temperatures um for the 349 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: most parties in a couple of days and about average. 350 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: But I think there's been like oh I think seven 351 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 1: to time in the last yeah, seven to ten days 352 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: out the last like thirteen. I think the season is 353 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 1: an open. Four have been above average. And the last 354 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: is the fact that I just think there's probably a 355 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 1: few less bucks in the wood that were last year 356 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: because we had an incredible deer harvest, which is a 357 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: good thing for hunters, but we also had no mass 358 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,360 Speaker 1: crop and an early heavy snowfall and cold temperatures doing 359 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: a run, So I don't think that a lot of 360 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 1: the bucks went into the winter, probably in a little 361 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: bit rougher shape than they typically do, and I suspect 362 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 1: there is a bit more of a winter kill, so 363 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,440 Speaker 1: just less opportunity for for bucks in general. The Wizard year. 364 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: Can you recall a season in recent years for the 365 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:01,239 Speaker 1: acorn crop? Was this big? This early? Yeah? We we 366 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: This actually is is more typical than you think we 367 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: do have. There's probably every maybe three years, um. I 368 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:12,119 Speaker 1: think two years ago and two thousand and seventeen it 369 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 1: was like that. Thinking back, I know that it's had 370 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:17,160 Speaker 1: a few back and within the past you know, five 371 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,280 Speaker 1: or ten years, and I like that. So it's it's 372 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: typical and there's something that we deal with every few years, 373 00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: and you kind of have to expect that it's going 374 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 1: to happen. I knew what was going to just scout 375 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:29,720 Speaker 1: and look for mass producing trees and they're loaded up, 376 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: so you know it's coming, but it's still difficulty. You 377 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: know it's coming, how long do the deer key in 378 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 1: on those acorns. Is that something that you're concerned with 379 00:19:39,119 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: all fall or does that just go through October? Yeah, No, 380 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: it's it's pretty much all fall for us. Um, we 381 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:50,679 Speaker 1: have such a volume of of mass crop here this 382 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: year that they will be key to those acorns, probably 383 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: three November in December, and even some years we have 384 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 1: eight points less in the spring that this starting, you mean, 385 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: So that's that will be the theme of the entire fall. 386 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,400 Speaker 1: Obviously has since change with the run battle that will 387 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: change your game a little bit. But right now it's 388 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,400 Speaker 1: all about acorns and warm weather. Those are the two 389 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: biggest things that would deal with. So what do your 390 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,880 Speaker 1: setups look like this season versus last? With those acorn 391 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:21,359 Speaker 1: crops being so different. So I think that the the 392 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:25,359 Speaker 1: way to combattis is to look at kind of backwards. Now, 393 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: there's food everywhere for the most part, so I try 394 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: to focus on betting food. Um, that's kind of the 395 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: thing that's at I guess the pretty although it really 396 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: isn't because there's just food everywhere. But if you had 397 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 1: to find a limiting factor, would probably be betting. But 398 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 1: even that's extremely difficult as it is. But it's less 399 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 1: difficult than trying to determine which, you know, food, sourcery, 400 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,360 Speaker 1: you thin, because we lose food every which way you turn. Um. 401 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 1: So really I'm focusing on betting and trying to run 402 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: cameras about betting areas and figure out where the deer 403 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,600 Speaker 1: of betting um. And then I think once you determine that, 404 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: you have a chance of getting on it, so you 405 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: can just figure route, you know what, what stand of 406 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: oaks that they're keing in on at that time. But 407 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 1: the problem is is that that's always changing this time 408 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: of the the year because the bounce from stand at oak 409 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: to stand at oakau is you know, some oaks have 410 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: preferred over other acorns or a particular tree taste better. 411 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: Do you notice any big changes in signmaking in years 412 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: where there's such a big acorn crop in those bucks 413 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: maybe don't have to travel as far as they normally do. 414 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: So I don't think I've seen, uh, I see much 415 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,800 Speaker 1: of a difference in the volume of sign making. What 416 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 1: you do see is it's more in concentrated areas, so 417 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: they'll find a bunch of regence scripts around pockets of 418 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,640 Speaker 1: folks that they're preferring at that time. If you find 419 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,919 Speaker 1: those resinence grapes, they could be onto the next you 420 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: know oak preferred oak of the week and all that 421 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 1: sign is irrelevant. So you really have to find the 422 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: sign right when they're making it, when they're there, uh, 423 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: and capitalize and it's not it's just it's just you're 424 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:54,280 Speaker 1: trying to have it right and it's really difficult to 425 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: do going forward. Then this next week or so, what 426 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:58,800 Speaker 1: do you think that bucket activity is going to be 427 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,880 Speaker 1: on a scale of one to two in New Hampshire. 428 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,080 Speaker 1: I think it's probably gonna maintain it a solid one. 429 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 1: I don't see you getting in a very extended forecast. 430 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: Is still above average temperature. Um. If anything, there's gonna 431 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 1: be more acorns on the ground next week, and um, 432 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: you know it's we're getting a period of time where 433 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: bucks have been telling reclusive and loners, so that becoming 434 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,360 Speaker 1: even more difficult to find. At least the last first 435 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: week of the season had a little bit of summer 436 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: activity and where these bucks were a little bit more social. 437 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,160 Speaker 1: But we're not gonna have that anymore, so it may 438 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,120 Speaker 1: even get worse. Unfortunately, hate to be negative, but that's 439 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: just kind of my my estimation over the next week. 440 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,360 Speaker 1: I'm sure your forecast is close, but I hope you're wrong. 441 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: Breat but good luck for the rest of the season too. 442 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 1: Thanks Spencer, alright and joining us on the line next 443 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,199 Speaker 1: is Greg Mead in Kentucky from White Tail Properties. Now, 444 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: Greg in Kentucky, what would you say the buck activity 445 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,679 Speaker 1: has been lately on a skilled one to ten, Probably 446 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: been about a six as of late as far as 447 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: daylot movement, um that the temperatures here have been maybe 448 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: a little bit unseasonably warm in the upper eighties maybe nineties, 449 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: and the days and just didn't cooling off that much 450 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,720 Speaker 1: at night right now, So that's that's really restricting the 451 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 1: movement too, probably the last thirty minutes or so of 452 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: daylight in the evening and maybe the same in the mornings. 453 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 1: What kind of food sources should hunters in Kentucky be 454 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,479 Speaker 1: focusing in on right now? Um, where they're where they 455 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,679 Speaker 1: have them available? Uh, the oaks and the acorns are 456 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: really starting to to bear right now and drop, and 457 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 1: particularly the white oaks if you've got them, if you've 458 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: got crop fields nearby, uh soybeans or whatnot, and they're 459 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: really starting to move towards the acorns, which is pretty 460 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: normal this time of year with it being unseasonably warm. 461 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 1: Do you then focus on water on Kentucky? Yes, Uh, 462 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: that that does help, especially if the area you're hunting 463 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: has a limited source of water being you know, ponds 464 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,360 Speaker 1: or small small water in holes. Uh. If you've got 465 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 1: long streams that are still a roll in the year 466 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: round streams, then you know that that can be a 467 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: little bit difficult to key in on. Have you noticed 468 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: any signmaking that started yet a little bit a little bit, um. 469 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 1: I think mostly what we're seeing though, um is is 470 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: the velvet shedding, you know, where they're starting to rub. 471 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 1: But they were mostly that. Uh. There was a little 472 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: bit of a peak there of that right around the 473 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: end of August, in the first week of September when 474 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 1: they were coming out of velvet. I haven't really noticed 475 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: uh any at normally high amount though since then. I 476 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:36,399 Speaker 1: believe the cooler temperatures they'll really kick those animals in 477 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: gear uh and they'll start to start to show a 478 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,919 Speaker 1: little more sign Where are you running your trail cameras 479 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: right now? And how is that going to change as 480 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: we get into October? Um? Right now, still trying to 481 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: run them off of food sources, maybe on trails leading 482 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: to those food sources, or even possibly in the staging 483 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 1: areas right before they hit those food sources. UM. As 484 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 1: we as we keep moving on through into the month 485 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: of October, I think you might be able to get 486 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:10,719 Speaker 1: them on some early uh scrapes um not necessarily breeding scrapes, 487 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,399 Speaker 1: but the year round scrapes that they make, or licking 488 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: licking branches that they visit, and you can start to 489 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,680 Speaker 1: catch animals there or even in funnels and places where 490 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,560 Speaker 1: you that the movement is restricted. Do you pay any 491 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: attention to the moon phases this time of year, you know, 492 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: this time of year, it seems like to me it's 493 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: not not really the temperature seems to be the major 494 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: dictating factor on on when these animals move. Right now, 495 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: get closer into the rud it seems like, yes, the 496 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: moon phases, will you know, start to determine a little 497 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 1: bit of that movement. You get more midday movement, But 498 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,880 Speaker 1: right now, it's just the temperatures just starting to put 499 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 1: on their summer their winter coach rather, and it'd be 500 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:52,280 Speaker 1: like you or I wearing a winter coach trying to 501 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: run around and nine agree weather there they're they're not 502 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,680 Speaker 1: real active right now more than they have to be 503 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: going forward. Then in the sext week or so, what 504 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: do you think that bucket activity is going to be 505 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten in Kentucky. Um, 506 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,400 Speaker 1: As I looked at the forecast, it looks like we're 507 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 1: we're heating back up next week as well. We've got 508 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,359 Speaker 1: a day or two right now that's dropped down in 509 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 1: the in the eighties. But as we move forward into 510 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 1: next week, the forecast is we're gonna be back into 511 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 1: the nineties. So I really don't expect it to change 512 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 1: very much, uh through next week just yet. But the 513 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,119 Speaker 1: first really good cold snap we get or cool front 514 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: we get that moves in, I could definitely expect to 515 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: see them on their feet, maybe another thirty minutes or 516 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 1: so before daylight, maybe an hour total or something. So 517 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: I think animals could could certainly be you know, exploited 518 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: to to reach in there and get some kills. Maybe. Well, 519 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: good luck this season, and thanks for joining me, all right, 520 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:48,879 Speaker 1: thank you very much, all right, and joining us on 521 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,920 Speaker 1: the line. Next is Matt Coleman in Minnesota from Captured Creative. Now, 522 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: Matt in Minnesota, what would you say the bucket activity 523 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 1: has been lately on a scale of one to ten UM, 524 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 1: I would say it's about a evan um. Not much 525 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: for mature bucks, doesn't seem like in our area, but 526 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,919 Speaker 1: lots of younger bucks moving um seeing almost all the 527 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 1: younger bucks on the camera every time we go hunt. 528 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: What do you think is the food source to key 529 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 1: in on this time of year for us? Right now? 530 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 1: And they kind of seem to be going off the 531 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: beans because they're starting to turn yellow and mature a 532 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,919 Speaker 1: little bit. So we really try and key in on 533 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,120 Speaker 1: like the brass because um oates if we have any 534 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: of those planted things like that, some of the greens. 535 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 1: Have you noticed any signmaking starting to show up in Minnesota? 536 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,640 Speaker 1: The last time we hunted, actually we saw almost every 537 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: book we saw was either working a scrape or making 538 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,080 Speaker 1: a rub, and they're all kind of starting to spar 539 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: with each other a little bit and starting to show 540 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: a little bit more aggression towards each other. So what 541 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: do your guys is opening day setups look like it now? 542 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,680 Speaker 1: Minnesota just had their opening here about a week ago 543 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: or so. For us, we don't have very many huntable 544 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: trees on our land, so we sit in a lot 545 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: of like box blinds that we built ourselves, UM building 546 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: big enough to shoot the ball out of them and 547 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: comfortable for a gun to UM. Normally, we try and 548 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,960 Speaker 1: play the wind as much as we cannot really mess 549 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 1: anything up, or just kind of observed the first few 550 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,919 Speaker 1: days at least and see what the movement is like 551 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: on cameras. How does your trail camp strategy change as 552 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,520 Speaker 1: we get into October? Oh, we kind of start to 553 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 1: move our cameras onto scrapes, looking branches, things like that, 554 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 1: and uh, just kind of more travel corridors. If new 555 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: bucks show up in the area, then we try and 556 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: catch them, maybe start to pattern what they what they 557 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 1: do on a weekly basis. Matt for Opener, were you 558 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: still seeing some bachelor groups together. Yeah, we saw a 559 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: lot of the smaller bucks, maybe something like the two 560 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: and a half or three and a half year old, 561 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 1: in groups of about three or four. Still, the bigger 562 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: bucks kind of seemed to be peeling off away each 563 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: other though. Going forward, then, in this next week or so, 564 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: what do you think that buck activity is going to 565 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: be on a scale of one to ten in Minnesota? UM, 566 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: I would say the activity would probably be about a 567 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: seven or eight kind of depending on what the weather 568 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: is like. UM, I'd expect a lot of the younger 569 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 1: bucks to still be moving. UM, some of the older ones, 570 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,320 Speaker 1: It's hard to say. I guess it's kind of hit 571 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: and miss in our area. I don't know. We're kind 572 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: of in an open area. Some some of the timbered 573 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 1: areas maybe were there hang out a little more during 574 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 1: the day and mill around could be a little bit better. 575 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:23,560 Speaker 1: All right, man, Well, good luck to you and the 576 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: guys from Captured. Thanks for joining me. Yep, no problem, 577 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 1: and that concludes this week's episode of rut Fresh Radio. 578 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: Thanks to Cody, Brett, Greg and Matt for joining me, 579 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,520 Speaker 1: and thank you guys for listening. As always, make sure 580 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 1: you're following me, Mark and meat Eater on social media, 581 00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:43,320 Speaker 1: and don't forget to check out episode one of the 582 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,520 Speaker 1: Back forty, available now on Meat Eaters YouTube channel. Later 583 00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: this week, you're also going to be seeing episode three 584 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: of How to Kill a Buck on YouTube, where me, 585 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 1: Mark and Tony Peterson discussed early October strategies and break 586 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: down how we'd haunt a certain property. I'll talk to 587 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: you guys next week, but in hill then stay wired 588 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 1: to hoot,