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

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

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

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan, and this is episode number three,

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Speaker 1: sixties seven and today in the show for our annual

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Speaker 1: get together on this topic, I am joined by Dan

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Speaker 1: nine fingers Johnson to discuss our goals, hopes, and hit

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Speaker 1: lists for the deer hunting season. All right, welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the Wired Hunt podcast, brought to you by on X. Today,

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Speaker 1: we are taking a break from the you know, interview

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Speaker 1: and experts see what they think about stuff too, instead

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Speaker 1: dive into what we think about stuff that we being

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Speaker 1: myself and my compadre, Mr Daniel Johnson. Dan, glad you're here.

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Speaker 1: I like how you said. We're going to take a

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Speaker 1: break from people who know what they're talking about, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have Dan Johnson on the show, Dan Johnson

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Speaker 1: and then other bozo and if we're gonna run our

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Speaker 1: miles and see what happens. Right, how about yourself? I'm good,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting excited. It's that uh, it's that time of year,

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Speaker 1: you know, m hm uh speaking of it during that

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Speaker 1: time of year. It's also that time of year that

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Speaker 1: we do this episode that we're about to do. Every

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Speaker 1: year we've been since I think twous fourteen, we've done

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Speaker 1: this goals, hopes and hit lists conversation each year, and

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Speaker 1: I like this because I need to go back and

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Speaker 1: listen to those early ones. Can you imagine what we

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Speaker 1: must have been talking about in two thousand and fourteen

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Speaker 1: when we discussed our goals, hopes and hit listening. I

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Speaker 1: would love to listen to the trajectory over the last

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Speaker 1: seven years. Um. It would be an interesting time capsule

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Speaker 1: to go back and examine how far we've come, hopefully, hopefully,

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Speaker 1: how far we've come. It would be funny if we could,

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Speaker 1: over that period of time listen to our voices mature,

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Speaker 1: like going from teenage boys to men. Because I remember

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Speaker 1: a couple of times in some of the first episodes,

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Speaker 1: was it was yeah, you know, it's hitting puberty there

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Speaker 1: around round seven. Hey, it took you twenty seven years

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Speaker 1: Took you thirty three? Ship Okay, it took you damn

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Speaker 1: your thirty years to get your goatee where it needed

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Speaker 1: to be. I still don't even think it's quite Let's

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Speaker 1: let's be honest about it. I'm just trying to prop

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Speaker 1: you out, but I do appreciate that I need that

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Speaker 1: So that's what I want to talk about. I want

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Speaker 1: to catch up on any projects we've been doing here

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Speaker 1: our hopes are for this year, our finalized plans for

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Speaker 1: have on our radar. Um. I've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: So we got a lot to cover, got a lot

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Speaker 1: There's no way that you're gonna be slipping in there

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Speaker 1: Like I got it covered. They would they call you.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna have further on Dan patrol. But

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Speaker 1: the crop fields are kind of on mine, and so

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00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 1: you've got deer moving off of the neighbor's betting coming

428
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,040
Speaker 1: out to these fields where I can hunt, and I

429
00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: can hunt around the edges, and and that's always the same. UM.

430
00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,159
Speaker 1: I've just have changed how I hunt a lot. I

431
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,920
Speaker 1: used to hunt just the edges. Now I hunt some

432
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: of the edges still on occasion, but I've been every

433
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: year I've kind of pushed further and further back UM,

434
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: And I'm going to continue to do that, and I

435
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: think be more aggressive this year than ever. So, so

436
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: I see different movement because of that. UM. As far

437
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,920
Speaker 1: as like deer activity, there's always like a lot of

438
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 1: great activity early in the season, um, and then you know,

439
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,719
Speaker 1: I hunt a few times early in the year. Usually

440
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: mature buck sightings dropt down again through mid October, at

441
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: least out in the spots that I can see easily.

442
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're doing stuff back on the cover. Um.

443
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: But then historically, right around that last week of October,

444
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: it just seems like there's always a dough that comes

445
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 1: in early or something gets them going, and it just

446
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: seems like this farm is a little bit better earlier

447
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: than other places. So I like to make sure I'm

448
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:42,359
Speaker 1: hunting there that last week of October um, because that

449
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 1: just seems to be when it when it gets exciting.

450
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: So it goes through November, and then gun season hits

451
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: and everything shuts down, and then usually late season picks

452
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: up again once the pressure settles down a little bit.

453
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:59,919
Speaker 1: So that's the typical pattern I see. You know, sometimes

454
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: your gut can tell you a lot man and uh,

455
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: I think you I mean, you've been hunting this farm

456
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: for how many years now? Oh um, this might be

457
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: my tenth year, nine years, ten years, something like that,

458
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,760
Speaker 1: So you got it. I mean, for the most part,

459
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: I would say, you've gotta figure it out. I know

460
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: the basics at least now it's just like trying to

461
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: figure out what each individual buck does, but I definitely

462
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: know the basics. Um, But it's it's it's I like

463
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: to bounce around a lot of different states, and I

464
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: like that new adventure. But for some reason, this place

465
00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,120
Speaker 1: continues to be a fun challenge because I'm I'm still

466
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: finding ways to tweak or I'm still doing different things

467
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,360
Speaker 1: and I'm still trying new things. It's it's remained interesting

468
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: for me, which is which has been cool. And I

469
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: think a big part of that has been I've been

470
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 1: lucky to have bucks make it year after years, so

471
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,320
Speaker 1: I get to, you know, learn a specific buck and

472
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: and that just as you know, gets me excited. Yeah.

473
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,240
Speaker 1: And let's see, I'm thinking about the main farm that

474
00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 1: I hunt. This will be season. I've hunted it and

475
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: I've gotten somewhat of it figured out, but it just

476
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: becomes just like any farm. Really, you can have it

477
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: figured out, but it's a matter of that deer has

478
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: to walk by your stand while you're in it all

479
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: at one time. Yeah. Always easier said than done, right, absolutely,

480
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,199
Speaker 1: So So let's talk about that farm then a little bit.

481
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: What's uh, anything new that you've scouted out there, figure

482
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: it out, or basically going in with your mobile hunting

483
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 1: strategy as usual and uh just gonna pick it up

484
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 1: once the season starts. Yeah, I mean that's typically what

485
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 1: I do anyway. Um Man, as far as prepping for

486
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 1: the season, I just feel I'm way behind. I've only

487
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: checked trail cameras one time this entire summer so far.

488
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to sneak out today and maybe take

489
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: my boy with me and go do it. I got

490
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: a wedding down there anyway, so I'm gonna try to,

491
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: I don't know, try to get out and maybe at

492
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: least check them. But the shift, you know, the the

493
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: trail camera shift that we always talk about, I don't

494
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna be able to get to it until

495
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,360
Speaker 1: closer to October now, just because of the schedule. Um

496
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,959
Speaker 1: with work and that storm that came through eastern Iowa,

497
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: we're just way behind. I'm I'm just way behind on work.

498
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,959
Speaker 1: So it's hard to say, Okay, I'm gonna go out

499
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: and check trail cameras or I'm gonna spend a day

500
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 1: to go do this when I know I got a

501
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: ship tonnel work to do at home and and catch,

502
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: you know, catch everything up. But other than that, man,

503
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 1: it's just I'm behind shooting my bow, I'm behind with work,

504
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: I'm behind, you know, I'm just I don't know that's that.

505
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: Those are all excuses, by the way, which nobody wants

506
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: to hear excuses, But that's a fact. I'm just I'm

507
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: a little behind. But as far as that farm is concerned,

508
00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get some trail camera out in

509
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: some in some places to start catching. But the good

510
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: thing is is I know where the good funnels are,

511
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: I know where the pinch points are, I know where

512
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,880
Speaker 1: the the deer movement is for the most part, and

513
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: knowing that allows me to almost it allows me to

514
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 1: be unprepared from what I'm normally doing because the way

515
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: I hunt, I could just get caught up real quick. Right,

516
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: throw some trail cameras out on a couple of days,

517
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: go check those trail cameras. Come late October early November,

518
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: when I make the decision to start hunting, and then

519
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 1: just start that that rotation, right, find the deer on

520
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: trail camera, move in and make those minor adjustments until

521
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: you connect with one. Did you get to listen to

522
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: that whole conversation here with Andre the other day. Yeah, yeah,

523
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,120
Speaker 1: I did, and I get well, not the whole. I

524
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: don't know if I listened to the last fifteen minutes

525
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: of it, but I tried. So I'm curious, based off

526
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: of the stuff he was talking about, do you see

527
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 1: any of his you know, he's got kind of a

528
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: similar approach to you, except for instead of trail cameras,

529
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: you know, he's using just sign he sees in the

530
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: ground and moving based off that. Do you foresee adjusting

531
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: anything basiness on the things he was saying, Is that

532
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 1: anything that might influence what you do there? There's one

533
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: thing that he said that I kind of like, and

534
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: that is you'll never spook a deer out of his

535
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,640
Speaker 1: core area. He'll he'll run away and then he'll come back,

536
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: or he'll go hide somewhere, or he'll back Doria, or

537
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: maybe just you know, go not turnal for a couple

538
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: of days. But he's not going to just leave and

539
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 1: go five miles down the road, right, So that is

540
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: something that I've always kind of thought anyway, But I

541
00:30:56,440 --> 00:31:00,959
Speaker 1: think I'm it's it's hard to be more aggressive than

542
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: what I already am, other than with time of year, right,

543
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: I mean go into the betting area October or something

544
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: like that, right, which I won't be just because of

545
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: time constraints. But if I could, maybe I just start

546
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: hunting and making those more aggressive moves earlier in the

547
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: season to try to try to find where they're at.

548
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: And for me, it's hard because in certain states. And

549
00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: this is I hope I don't come off arrogant when

550
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: I say this, but when you have five deer that

551
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: are four or older on your property, you don't know

552
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: which one of those deers making that sign, right, You

553
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: can you can try to, you can guess or whatever,

554
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: but the only real way is with trail cameras and

555
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: with like in person encounters. Right. So yeah, it's uh,

556
00:31:56,400 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: it's And what I what I found is I guess

557
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: you want to say, is my bread and butter is

558
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 1: to go in and just start the rotation. Just get

559
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: in the timber, go to those historically good places first,

560
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: and then start crossing parts off the farm. Now here's

561
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,719
Speaker 1: what I will tell you. If Gnarlie Charlie shows up,

562
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: I get a cut off half the farm because historically

563
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: he doesn't go through. He went through the main pinch

564
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: point one time. Last year and that was it. But

565
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: other than that, I get a chop that farm in

566
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: half and and just focus on more so how big

567
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: would that chunk be there? The focus area would be

568
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: like fos So, I mean it's still a lot to

569
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: think about. Yeah, that's a lot to process. I mean

570
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: I can spend my whole year drumming my brain trying

571
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 1: to figure out how to hunt eighty acres uh let alone.

572
00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: But you have to remember, not every not every acre

573
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: in that four acres is really good for tree stands.

574
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: I mean it's some of it's wide open timber. Some

575
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: of it is like the bottoms, you know, the crick bottom.

576
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: Some of it is wide open egg field. So you

577
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: take you take your knowledge of the past years and

578
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: minds being thirteen years, and you're able to see where

579
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,920
Speaker 1: the deer moving, what ridges they prefer, and you just

580
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: use that information to put yourself in the best possible position.

581
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: So gnarally, Charlie's your number one buck for sure, right

582
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: if if he's there, If he's there, um, hopefully this

583
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 1: weekend I get to come out and check some more

584
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: trail cameras and confirm it. But yeah, I mean, if

585
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: he's back, he's number one. But there's also a mammoth

586
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: eight pointer out there. Who Now, I think I told

587
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: you this in a previous episode that the first card

588
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: poll I have other than like this one class ten,

589
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: which is absolutely great deer, and if he come by,

590
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: I'd probably shoot him. But there are three other deer

591
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: that made them uh, so a total of five deer

592
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: I would say that have made themselves known last year.

593
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 1: And if last year is the same as this year

594
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: and all these deer showback up, uh, it could be

595
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: a really good year as far as putting the the

596
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: pieces of the puzzle together using the data that I

597
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 1: collected last year. So, um, I gotta let's just assume

598
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: they made it. Yeah, what what would what would be

599
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: the other deer um that you'd be looking at? So

600
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: not if Narali Tcharler is back he's number one, what

601
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 1: would be the next buck you'd be the most excited about. Yeah?

602
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: So there's this ten pointer and he's a hilarious act

603
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: drawing of a ten pointer. And I don't mean like

604
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: he's not a tw ten pointer, but he is that

605
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:08,719
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy typical ten beautiful Iowa white tail, and

606
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: he'll probably a five year old this year, and he

607
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: was one seventy last year. He was probably about one

608
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: sixty two or three year a little one sixties as

609
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: a ten this year, you know, just if if he

610
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: does make it, another one is an absolutely giant eight pointer,

611
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: well passed his years. He's just this cage, another perfect

612
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: frame with a split G two on one side. Um,

613
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: he's one of them that was running around last year.

614
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: And then what was the other one, uh, probably another

615
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:47,760
Speaker 1: one sixty class nine pointer that had a big series

616
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: ten total points, but he was the main frame nine

617
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: with a split G two on the on the four

618
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: point side, so he's running around. And then there was

619
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: another so that's four. And then there was another ten

620
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: pointer really tight, probably just out to his ears, but

621
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: really tall. And he was a three year old last

622
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:14,439
Speaker 1: year at a probably one fifty class one one maybe,

623
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 1: but you know, at another year, he'll be a four

624
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: year old this year. If he makes it, then that

625
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,479
Speaker 1: would be awesome. And then you have your other deer

626
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: that are mature but not necessarily a you know, anything

627
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 1: to brag about in the antler category. Yeah, man, well

628
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: you've got some options hopefully, yeah, And you know, I

629
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 1: hope that doesn't come off ar again, It's just I

630
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: live where I live. He can't falter for that. Um. Now,

631
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: here's here's a question. And I know we've we've talked

632
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: about this in the past a little bit, but I'm

633
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: just curious to see where it stands right now. Let's

634
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: say Gnarly shows up on camera this summer, but to

635
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: get out there and start hunting, he's you know, showing

636
00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: up on camera here and there, But one of these

637
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: other bucks show in shooting range. Is this the year

638
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: that you're going to pass on some of these shooters

639
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: because you really want to get Gnarly or what. Yeah,

640
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. I'm not gonna pass on

641
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,840
Speaker 1: a one seventy class tin pointer for Narlie Charlie. I'm not.

642
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. If any one of those

643
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: hit list deer show up, I'm gonna go after. I'm

644
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: gonna attempt the shot, right Um. But one one thing

645
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,960
Speaker 1: I won't do is if Gnarly Sharp Narlie Charlie is

646
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: active on the farm for some reason, I will be

647
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: putting myself into position to hunt him, not these other deers.

648
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: So my decision making is going to be for him,

649
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: not anything else. The good part about this area is

650
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: that these deer, these five deer from last year, all

651
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: run the same circuit, right. I don't think they all

652
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 1: live in the same core area, but I think their

653
00:37:55,880 --> 00:38:00,800
Speaker 1: core area overlap in that on that farm. So certain

654
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 1: parts of the rough vacation, certain parts of them come

655
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: in and they come out. You know, they're checking them

656
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: for those and whatnot. And you know, if there's a

657
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: good chance that if I put myself in the right position,

658
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to have an encounter with

659
00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: one of those one of those five deer man that's uh,

660
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: or any bonus bucks that come through, which would you

661
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: never know around there. The buck eye shot last year

662
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: was a bonus buck. So yeah, that's exciting. And the

663
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: hunting season, so you'll be gone early season, you'll be

664
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: gone mid season. So when are you gonna start hunting

665
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: the Mainiowa farm Then yeah, probably not. Um I'd love

666
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 1: to get out there and check some cameras. I'm gonna

667
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: be putting some cell cams out just to see the

668
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: deer movement pick up, But other than that, I doubt

669
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: I'm able to hunt that farm until after November three

670
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: or something like that. So I'm gonna vote on November three,

671
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: I think it is, and then I'm heading down to

672
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: the farm. So man, you know what I remember back

673
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: in the day, you would there have been some other

674
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: year where you said you weren't gonna be a hunt

675
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: in October at all. You weren't gonna be a hunt

676
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 1: until November, and I was pissed at you. Um, but

677
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: I'm not so man now, because you are hunting your

678
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 1: hunt all over the place, just not there in Iowa.

679
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: So it's nice to see how life has changed for

680
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 1: it and that way at least. Yeah, man, trust me,

681
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 1: if if things were different, like I can I'm leaving

682
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 1: the state to go to Michigan. If I told my

683
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: wife I was going to go down to the farm

684
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: an hour south to me for four days straight, she

685
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: would not have that. But because for some reason, because

686
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 1: this is a planned excursion, that that she's okay with it.

687
00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: So whatever. So you know, I'm gonna be gone for

688
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: e or nine days on this mule your hunt, and

689
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,720
Speaker 1: then I gotta come back. I gotta work, I gotta

690
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: play daddy. Daycare school is going to be starting up

691
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: with just some crazy as schedule like three days on

692
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: for two weeks and then three days off. So it's

693
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 1: gonna go three three two two three three two two

694
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: until they decided to go back full time or do

695
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: this remote thing whatever that is. So that has to

696
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: I have to play that into the cards. There's the

697
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: potential that my season just gets totally left if if

698
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 1: classes don't resume full time, because that means someone's gonna

699
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: have to watch the kids, my wife is going to

700
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get a daycare provider, my wife's

701
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: gonna have to work from home, like all these things.

702
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 1: That's gonna really cripple the season. To be honest with you,

703
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: and how likely you think that is kind of thing.

704
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not I'm not one for politics, but

705
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: I live in one of the most liberal counties in

706
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: the state of Iowa, which when they make decisions, they

707
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: tend to make them more towards the liberal right. If

708
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 1: we were gonna say this is just you know, hypothetical

709
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:27,839
Speaker 1: or you know, stereotypes, let's just go by stereotypes. Republicans

710
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: they want school to go back in session, you know,

711
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: full time, no restrictions. Democrats they want the schools to

712
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: be closed and go remote right or some kind of

713
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: hybred model. Well, the counties that I live near, the

714
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: two main ones high they're the highest populated counties in Iowa.

715
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:53,760
Speaker 1: There they always vote liberal or Democratic in every election.

716
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: So every decision that they've made thus far has scared

717
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 1: heared me into, you know, like hunting season maybe close

718
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: to home or just way more trips, way more one

719
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,919
Speaker 1: or two day trips down and then come back. So yeah,

720
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,160
Speaker 1: we'll see. Yeah, hopefully it works that okay for you,

721
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: and I hope so too. But either way, I'm equally

722
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: as excited for the upcoming season. Um, you know all

723
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 1: of I think we talked about it like three years ago,

724
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: four years ago, they did all that logging on the property,

725
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: and it is beautiful now in there. I mean it

726
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: is thick, it is nasty. It is what you want

727
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: for deer cover on your farm. I remember how stress

728
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: you were when was happening, and I was like, man,

729
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: just wait, just wait. I'm glad. I'm glad. Um, I

730
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 1: gotta see a picture of that. I'd like to see

731
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: what it looks like. Yeah, well, just stand in front

732
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,359
Speaker 1: of a bush and take a picture. I mean, I'm

733
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: not I'm not joking. They're like it is six ft high,

734
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: just straight wall of patches where they took the wherever

735
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: they took one of these big mature trees down that

736
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: area where it's canopy was is a wall of smaller

737
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: trees bushes. You know. Uh, Woody browsed and it literally

738
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: holds deer and it's awesome. No, speaking of what you're

739
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,800
Speaker 1: just saying a second ago, the Michigan trip, your travels,

740
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: Let's let's circle back on that a little bit. Um,

741
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: we talked this spring about your game plan. Has ever

742
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: anything changed in your mind if you've done any more

743
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: eat scouting or anything like that since we talked last

744
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: time about it? Um, Where where's your head ad on

745
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: all that? Yeah? Man? Uh? Along with the east scouting,

746
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: you know some people giving me tips on where I

747
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: should hunt. Uh, you know some near you, some about

748
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: forty five minutes north of you. Even had one guy

749
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: come up and he's like, dude, you need to come

750
00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: to northern Michigan one of these antler restriction counties. I'm

751
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: telling you it would be it would be worth your

752
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: trip up there. So I've gotten a lot of Um,

753
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: I've gotten a lot of advice from people, everything from

754
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: you're wasting your time, You'll never see a deer to

755
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: you know, to don't sleep on Michigan. If you do

756
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: everything right, you'll get a crack at it, like a

757
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: one pointer or something like that. So, um, you know,

758
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: I'm I'm just excited to do I was talking to

759
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: my buddy Bob Polanic, and I was like, I'm just

760
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: excited to do something different. This would be the first

761
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 1: ever trip that well, other than the combination mule deer

762
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: white tail hunt I did in Nebraska, this will be

763
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: the first white tail focused trip I've ever taken out

764
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: of state. So I'm just excited to do something different,

765
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 1: Excited to see new terrain. Excited too, you know. You know,

766
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: I don't know, just sided for everything. And uh as

767
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: far as what I'm looking for in a buck, you know,

768
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: I used to give me ship for that comment. You know,

769
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: if it makes me go, uh, you know, I'm gonna

770
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: shoot it. Well, this is gonna be probably you know,

771
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it's gonna be a one percent mood

772
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: focus decision, Like what's my mood that day? Does that? Well,

773
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: here's a here's a four corn. I'm gonna be able

774
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: to take meat home? Why not? You know what I mean?

775
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: That's a the Michigan pointer right there, go for it, man. Yeah,

776
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: you know like you're saying, and I know we talked

777
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: about this before, but you definitely could get into them

778
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: and you could see some nice bucks. You know, I

779
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't be shocked if you could shoot a hundred.

780
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: At the same time, it wouldn't be shocked if you

781
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: just saw year and a half olds and does and

782
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: not a single good buck. You know it could be.

783
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: And there are big bucks too, I mean you certainly

784
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: are so you never know, you could shoot a slammer, um,

785
00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: but it will be interesting to see, you know, Bob

786
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: and I we go from Michigan and hunt Iowa. Here

787
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: to go from Iowa and hunt Michigan. I've never I

788
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: don't know a single person who has ever gone the

789
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: reverse order. Here the first person I know who lives

790
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: in Iowa that travels out of stage on Michigan. And

791
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: I'm glad I can take a little credit for that,

792
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:26,279
Speaker 1: pre precious. I'll tell you this as as just a

793
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: fan of bow hunting in general. Right that time of year,

794
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: Let's just say I strike out on that first trip,

795
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: first three day hunt, and for some reason, I'm lucky

796
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: and I tag out early in Iowa. There's nothing stopping

797
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: me from getting back in my truck and going back

798
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 1: to Michigan and potentially hunting some of the rut up there. Yeah,

799
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: do it. I mean, I'll tell you what, whatever size

800
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: buck you kill, if you kill a buck here in Michigan,

801
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: that one's gonna be pretty sweet. You're gonna feel really

802
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: good about it. I tell you, I don't care what

803
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: I shoot. You know, if I shoot a buck in Michigan,

804
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it euro mounted and I'm gonna put it.

805
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: I don't care what size it is. I'm gonna get

806
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: it euro mounted. I'm gonna put it in my office.

807
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. I'm excited. I'm excited

808
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: for that one. So, no specific goal except for where

809
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: you want to kill. You want to fill a tag

810
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 1: of you know something. It's new experience and if I can,

811
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: if I can leave with a full full cooler, man,

812
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 1: that's a win. If you ask me, yeah, i'd i'd

813
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: have to agree. Well, good, I'm looking forward to that one. UM.

814
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: No restrictions as of right now, right yeah, yeah, no restrictions. UM,

815
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: over the counter tag, I can just show up and

816
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: buy buy yep, yep, by your kid when you get here.

817
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: Gas stations, grocery stores, all that stuff. Um, yep, there's yeah,

818
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: pretty much most not all grocery stores, but your Walmart's,

819
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: certain gas stations will we'll get you figured out there.

820
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 1: The only thing that you have to be aware of

821
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: and will cover it once you get here, just be

822
00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 1: the c w D restrictions, Like what you can transport

823
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: across county lines. You know, if you want to bring

824
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: it home, you'd have to have the skull completely skinned

825
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:09,920
Speaker 1: and cleaned out. You could bring like the antlers and

826
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: skull played back and boned out meat, but you you're

827
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: not supposed to take that stuff across county lines throughout

828
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: the state. Maybe I'll just find a taxi or must

829
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: there to do my if I if I shoot a buck, hey,

830
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: just do it there and then, you know, give me

831
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 1: another excuse to come up to Michigan. Yep, I got you.

832
00:48:29,239 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: I got good recommendations for all that stuff so perfect.

833
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: I love it. Um. I was talking a little about

834
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: the back forty. Talk about the back forty a little bit.

835
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: I got a question about the back forty. So you

836
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: guys have done all this really high folks, you know,

837
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: you've really focused on the habitat there over the last

838
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: couple or over this last year. Has it since because

839
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 1: I think the last time that we talked, you mentioned

840
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: that it really hasn't brought more deer into the farm

841
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: quite yet. But now that we've had a growing season

842
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: under our belt, I'm curious if if it's holding more

843
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: deer as of right now. Yeah, and I think the

844
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: answer is yes, I think definitely. Um, I saw two

845
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: things this winter. So after the first hunting season, after

846
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,440
Speaker 1: we stopped hunting and left it alone, there was a

847
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: lot of deer in there, and a lot of deer

848
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: sign When I was scouting in March, I mean, there

849
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: was a lot of deer in there. So they're definitely

850
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: in there at that part of the year. Um, since

851
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: I've been back in the summer, there seems to be

852
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: a decent number of deer. I'm getting deer on trail camera.

853
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 1: I bumped a pretty decent buck the other day when

854
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 1: I went in there and do some work. Uh, like

855
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: a nice five point side on his right side and

856
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: like a weird funky fork dagger thing on his left. Um.

857
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: So right now, we haven't been able to make all

858
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: the changes I wanted to because the whole COVID thing

859
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: this spring completely shut down our spring plans, um like,

860
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: just changed a lot of the stuff we want to do.

861
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: So I got a little bit done the spring, and

862
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: then we're gonna try to do more over the next

863
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: ten days. We're doing some more stuff, but it's definitely

864
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: not the ideal. I still think though there's gonna be

865
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: some noticeable progress because of three big things. UM. This spring,

866
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: I wanted to address these old fields. So as you know,

867
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 1: a lot of the property just like old farm field

868
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 1: that was growing up just from whatever was out there,

869
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: and it had been mostly almost all this weed called

870
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: Mayor's Tale, and it's this invasive weed that has very

871
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,399
Speaker 1: has no food value to deer, has very little cover.

872
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: Um the leaves dropped early, then you're just left kind

873
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: of bean stocks. So like once the leaves came down

874
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: in October, it was basically a like a bean field, um,

875
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: you know, with no beans, and a lot of the

876
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: deer didn't want to travel across that. Deer weren't betting

877
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: in that deer weren't feeding in that. UM. I wanted

878
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: to try to change that. So this spring, my plan

879
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 1: was to plant switch grass across a lot of these areas.

880
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: So I frost seeded switch grass, which basically means I

881
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: just excuse me, I broadcast switch grass seed over the

882
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: ground um early in the spring when I was still

883
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,320
Speaker 1: freezing and thawing, freezing and thawing, and then it just

884
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: takes in the seed. And then I sprayed this pre

885
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: emergent herbicide that would kill the mayor's tail and that stuff,

886
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,919
Speaker 1: and you know, reduce the competition for the switch grass

887
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: to come back in. So I did that, and then

888
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: I also planted a variety of little lines and coves

889
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,400
Speaker 1: and visual barriers of that switch grass sorghum stuff that

890
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: I talked about earlier. I did that across different places

891
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: on the across the farm to create just more structure

892
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: out there in these fields. Um. And when I came

893
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 1: back from Idaho and went to go check it out

894
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: just recently, what I saw was a couple of things.

895
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: Number One, those screening areas came in mostly very good.

896
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 1: I tried it last year, they pretty much didn't come

897
00:52:18,080 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 1: in it all last year. This year they came in

898
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: pretty damn good. So we've got a lot of these

899
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: kind of like corn patches scattered throughout our walls of

900
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:28,719
Speaker 1: corn scattered throughout. It's not corn, but it looks like

901
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: a So right there, it went from these like being

902
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: ten acre open fields and now not feeling like ten

903
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: acre open fields. Just with that. Secondly, by spring this spring,

904
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: I essentially eliminated almost all the Mayor's Tale and what

905
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,720
Speaker 1: replaced it was some of that switch grass. But switch

906
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,760
Speaker 1: grass is notoriously slow to grow, and I've I've remember

907
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: talked to it seems to be like you'll get some

908
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: the first year, but you'll get a lot more of

909
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: the second. So there's some switch grass in there, but

910
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,879
Speaker 1: it's definitely not full of it. Um. But a bunch

911
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,920
Speaker 1: of other stuff came in once the Mayor's tele competition

912
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: wasn't there. You know, I've got a bunch of different

913
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: kinds of grasses. I've got a bunch of different forbes,

914
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of golden uh, golden rod, a bunch of

915
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: shrubby stuff. I mean, it's just diverse, all sorts of

916
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 1: different plant types out here, lots of tall, thick cover

917
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,959
Speaker 1: in all these fields now where last year that wasn't

918
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: the case. So the fields are a lot better. So

919
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: I think that that almost doubles the amount of cover

920
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 1: we have on the farm compared to what it was

921
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: last year. And then last I am about quadrupling the

922
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 1: amount of food that we're planting. So last year I

923
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 1: probably got just over an acre of food plots in

924
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: and they didn't even come in that well, this year,

925
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: I'm closer to almost four acres of food plots that

926
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: I'm planning. Um, just because I did not see the

927
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: deer activity. That deer we're not hitting our food plots higher,

928
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: They're moving off to these bigger food sources on neighboring properties.

929
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 1: So so this year, I've, like I said, significantly increasing

930
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: at I've got a better understanding of how to plant

931
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,840
Speaker 1: with an no tell drill. I'm planning another one of

932
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: these blends, but I feel good about this one. Um.

933
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,120
Speaker 1: So if all this pans out, I'm gonna have four

934
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: times the amount of food out there, two times the

935
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: amount of cover out there, and these strategic you know,

936
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: walls of corn looking stuff making it even more broken up.

937
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,800
Speaker 1: And then finally next week we're gonna come in and

938
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 1: plant I don't know, maybe forty fifty trees across the

939
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 1: farm in these old fields We're to create various like

940
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:34,800
Speaker 1: little pockets of tree. So like a cluster of five

941
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 1: on this little knob, a cluster of four over here

942
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: in this corner, cluster four or five over here, and

943
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: create all these little pockets of evergreen cover two. So

944
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: you take all that, and I think you've got a

945
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: really diverse farm with a lot of cool stuff going

946
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,799
Speaker 1: on with food and in in good places that can

947
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: be hunted that will hold there on the property, but

948
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 1: lots of covers scattered throughout. Um. And still that there's

949
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 1: that swam but naturally is right there in the middle too. Um.

950
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: And then then the last big thing we did is

951
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: that we did a prescribed fire across this big ridge

952
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: system we have that has some native prairie. I removed

953
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: a bunch of like this invasive tree essentially called buckthorne,

954
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: and then another bush called automotive, removed a lot of that,

955
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:24,960
Speaker 1: and then we came in and burned this prairie area

956
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: on the ridge. And now it's come in just flush

957
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: full of stuff. So you've got like a three acre

958
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,919
Speaker 1: ridge that has got like I don't know, nine ft

959
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: tall prairie grass in there and cedar trees. And and

960
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:42,399
Speaker 1: then that's right next to a swamp which is next

961
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 1: to these overgrown fields with four acres of food plots

962
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: tucked inside of all that. I mean, I don't know.

963
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 1: That sounds like a white tail and wildlife mecha to me. Yeah. Man, well,

964
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: is now are there any deer from last year? If

965
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:02,760
Speaker 1: you already checked cameras on that far? So I've only checked.

966
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 1: I've got one cell camera that I've been getting pictures on,

967
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: but all the rest I have not checked. Um, but yes,

968
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 1: you're wondering about bucks. Yeah, so there is a big

969
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: ten pointer that I was getting pictures of all the

970
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: way to the end. Not big, but there was a

971
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: three year old ten point that was still showing up

972
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: on camera to the end of last season. He was

973
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: like a nice salad kind of tight and tall ten

974
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: pointer last year, and I haven't heard of anyone killing

975
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:35,239
Speaker 1: that deer. He was showing up pretty much almost to

976
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: the very end of the season. I think I got pictures,

977
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: so I feel good that he probably made it, and

978
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,439
Speaker 1: he did. He'll be he'll be a really nice buck.

979
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: So I'm really hoping that buck shows up. Um, there's

980
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: that funky buck that I just mentioned to you that

981
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: I bummed the other day. I you know, I couldn't

982
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: see his body size, so I don't know if he's

983
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: like a huge body mature buck, he's you know, he'd

984
00:56:54,040 --> 00:56:56,480
Speaker 1: be a shooter. I couldn't tell for sure just by

985
00:56:56,520 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: watching him run away. Um, there is this big uh

986
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: fork buck that we were getting a bunch of pictures

987
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: through most of last year. Like he was like tall,

988
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: imagine like a I don't even know how to like

989
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: what he looks like, almost like a mule deer with

990
00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: like a fork dantler mule, like a four point what

991
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: they would call two point mule deer almost except for

992
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 1: the forks were farther out on the beams, not like

993
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: super deep on the beams. Just a big four pointer

994
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: last year. Um, if he is back this year, he

995
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: would be a really cool deer. And I think he

996
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: might be um. And there was like a nice six

997
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: pointer that showed up on trail camera on the cell

998
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 1: cam the other day that I don't think would be

999
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: a shooter for me, but he'd be a shooter buck

1000
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: for um my dad, who's gonna come and hunt again?

1001
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: I brought him out there to hunt last November for

1002
00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: a couple of days and it didn't work out. But

1003
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have him back to hunt for like five

1004
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: days right around that time period of early October when

1005
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 1: you were gonna be here. He's gonna coming on the

1006
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: fifth and hunt for four or five days during that period.

1007
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: And I'm really hoping to get him a crack at

1008
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: something so that that bucker, you know, any nice like

1009
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: two year old, would be like the biggest buck he's

1010
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: ever shot, So that would be that would be super cool. Um,

1011
00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: you know, everything else that I know of last year,

1012
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: there's like this really big eight porter I saw not

1013
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: that I saw got pictures of last year. I heard

1014
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: from a neighbor that someone shot him and never found him,

1015
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: so he might be dead. Um the funky sided that

1016
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: there's like a funky nine. Someone sent me a picture

1017
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: of him getting shot by someone. And then I killed

1018
00:58:39,400 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 1: the wide eight. So basically everything we got pictures of

1019
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: last year was was knocked was knocked off through hunting season.

1020
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: So so yeah, I don't know. I will hopefully know

1021
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: in another week or two when I do check up,

1022
00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 1: but I'm much more hopeful this year. I really think

1023
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: if if we get rained and the food plots coming okay, um,

1024
00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: I think we're we've got We've got some cool stuff

1025
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: in there that that should make it should make it promising.

1026
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: So it's another one situations like it was last year,

1027
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: a little bit where it's not me. It's not just

1028
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: me hunting it. So I'm you know, I'm not gonna

1029
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:15,640
Speaker 1: bull hunting it quite the way I would normally do it.

1030
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: You know, that first time we go in there will

1031
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: be mostly just trying to get my dad a buck

1032
00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:22,560
Speaker 1: for that first hunt, and then I don't think I'll

1033
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 1: be going back to hunt it again until we start

1034
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: filming in the second week of November, and at that

1035
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 1: point a couple other people are gonna be joining me

1036
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: out there, and we'd be trying to get them a deer.

1037
00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's it's a little bit less

1038
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: about me killing a deer out there and more about

1039
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: sharing with other people and learning some stuff and seeing

1040
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 1: how the property grows and changes. And so I think

1041
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: my goals up there for the back forty would just

1042
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 1: be for it to be a much better experience for people.

1043
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: Last year, and we went out there and hunted, it

1044
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: was a lot of slow hunts. You know, we killed

1045
00:59:58,080 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: one guest hunter killed a doe, and I did kill

1046
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: buck but it was like that was like the one

1047
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 1: flash of greatness that one day. Um, I would love

1048
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: it if this is a place where, like, if you

1049
01:00:07,320 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: go out there, you better have your seatbelt on because

1050
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna be an exciting hunt. I'm hoping it'd be nice. Man.

1051
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: That's my goal for the back four this year is like,

1052
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: give me an exciting, fun place for people to hunt,

1053
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: um and shoot. If there's a nice but sure buck

1054
01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: out there, that's a bonus. Yeah, yeah, man, that's awesome.

1055
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:29,000
Speaker 1: One one thing I thought of real quick that has

1056
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 1: even has me even more excited about the farm that

1057
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: I hunt is crop rotation here. Um the farmer, like

1058
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: the farmer doesn't take the corn out of this forty

1059
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: acre field until mid November. And it's awesome because it

1060
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: creates this wall between a road in the timber that

1061
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: is just this travel corridor for that I've that I've

1062
01:00:58,240 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: kind of figured out. They come upper ridge, they cut

1063
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: this ridge. It's where I it's where I shot my

1064
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: buck in two thousand eighteen, that big nine. So I'm

1065
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: excited to get back and I'll start hunting that particular

1066
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: piece of the farm just because of the crop rotation.

1067
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 1: Now the crop rotation on the farm near your home.

1068
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:24,080
Speaker 1: Is that a does it matter as far as crop

1069
01:01:24,160 --> 01:01:27,439
Speaker 1: rotation or do you see like if it's a corn

1070
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: ear there's more deer, or it's being here it's more

1071
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: more dear. Yeah, you know what, I have not seen

1072
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: it really influence things every single year regardless there's there's something. UM.

1073
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: What is nice though, is that UM I like it

1074
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: when whatever is on that farm is different than the

1075
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: neighboring farm. And that's what we have this year. So

1076
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 1: I've got a neighbor with standing corn, but on our

1077
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: farm it's just beans. UM, So at least there's a

1078
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 1: little bit of both right there, and and it is

1079
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: kind of nice. Like in that front section where that

1080
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: front food plat system is, Um, what you have is

1081
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: basically my two acre. Like there's a finger of timber

1082
01:02:08,400 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: that comes out, and then there's this food plat system

1083
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: tucked into the inside corner of that finger of timber.

1084
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: And so I've got this two acres of food mixed

1085
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 1: with cover and brush and all this stuff, my four

1086
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: leaf clover food plus system. And then right across the

1087
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: creek from that is a sliver of beans. But it

1088
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: really is only like I don't know, a hundred yards wide,

1089
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 1: and then it hits a standing corn field on the neighbors.

1090
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 1: So there's a bunch of stuff in small proportions, all

1091
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 1: stacked in this little corner, and that's right next to

1092
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: this primo bedding area. UM. So these deer are coming

1093
01:02:44,400 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: in and out and they can feed in the open

1094
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 1: bean field, but it still feels pretty secluded because that

1095
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:52,360
Speaker 1: standing corns right next to it, and then my wall

1096
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 1: of sorghum in uh Egyptian wheat is just on the

1097
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: other side, and then this thick brush on the bedding

1098
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: airs right next to that. Um. So there's been like

1099
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: a ton of activity in there this summer that I

1100
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 1: think is because things just worked out nicely to have

1101
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 1: standing corps next to this and my standing stuff on

1102
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:12,439
Speaker 1: one side. Um, it feels it's not as wide open

1103
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 1: as it is some years, which I think is going

1104
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 1: to be a good thing. Yeah, So we shall see, Um,

1105
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 1: we shall see. Yep. So you know, I think I

1106
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: mentioned that earlier. You know, I I typically have a

1107
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:30,160
Speaker 1: ton of mature deer on the farm this time of

1108
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 1: year or whenever I check my trail cameras by now,

1109
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: and I haven't checked him since ship for early July,

1110
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 1: and I was a little disappointed. I had the one

1111
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: good deer that was on camera. That was it. But

1112
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 1: this is one of those years where I call it

1113
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 1: a being year on the farm, and I think what

1114
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: I'm hoping is that it redeems itself, like the farm

1115
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 1: kind of redeems itself, and once the um the beans

1116
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: became palatable, more dear kind of come and show themselves

1117
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 1: on the farm and work their way in into it.

1118
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping that that will make a big difference.

1119
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 1: And uh, tomorrow or whenever I go and check my cameras,

1120
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: I will have more intel and uh more information and

1121
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:24,439
Speaker 1: hopefully the big dogs show up. Man, if the big

1122
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:26,640
Speaker 1: dog shows up, I might need to get you back

1123
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 1: on the horn and talk to you for five minutes

1124
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 1: to think about it, right right, I know, because I'm

1125
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: excited to see um. So this year is hopefully going

1126
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: to be the year of Gnarly Charlie for you. In November, well,

1127
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:42,960
Speaker 1: October is going to be the year of travels for

1128
01:04:43,080 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: you with South Dakota and the Michigan Adventure. And for

1129
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:54,160
Speaker 1: me it's gonna be Tran year three and hoping to

1130
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 1: see the back forty bloom into something special this year. Um,

1131
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 1: other than killing you know, one of your big mature

1132
01:05:02,160 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 1: box in Iowa and having a great experience in Michigan

1133
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:10,440
Speaker 1: and filling a filling a cooler. Um. And I'm sure, well, yeah,

1134
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:12,360
Speaker 1: I guess do you speak to this too? Do you

1135
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:14,640
Speaker 1: have any other main goals this season? Probably something with

1136
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 1: your South Dakota hunt, of course, but anything, anything, they're

1137
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: worth noting. I'm just excited. Man. The older I get,

1138
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 1: I get a different vibe off bow hunting, and it's

1139
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: more of this weird connection than it is to let's

1140
01:05:34,080 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: go slay some giants, you know, like the old Dan

1141
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 1: Johnson and this, Like like I'm gonna turn forty in November,

1142
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:47,960
Speaker 1: so I'm really just going out right. I'm really just

1143
01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: going to enjoy myself. Man, This this hunt that I

1144
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 1: do in South Dakota is awesome. Yeah. I mean it

1145
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: is one of those hunts where your backpack in, you're

1146
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 1: doing the whole back country thing. You you get up

1147
01:06:06,720 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 1: on a knob, you glass and there's no human structures, Like,

1148
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: you don't see farms, you don't see antenna's. You you

1149
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: gotta look real hard for him, but it's just you're

1150
01:06:19,200 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere, and there's something about that.

1151
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: I made a Facebook or Instagram post the other day

1152
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: where I don't know what I like more the actual

1153
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 1: hunt of the hunting season or the fact of this isolation,

1154
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 1: being able to isolate yourself and just be alone in nature.

1155
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:45,320
Speaker 1: And I don't know, man, I'm starting to love that

1156
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,920
Speaker 1: equally to the chess game with some of these animals.

1157
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:54,120
Speaker 1: So it's just I just look forward to this stuff

1158
01:06:54,240 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 1: every single year, and the passion really hasn't died down.

1159
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:03,440
Speaker 1: It's just changed and and I am I'm just so

1160
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 1: geeked for, you know, that that drive, that anticipation. I mean,

1161
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 1: the other or yesterday, I cleaned my water bladders out,

1162
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 1: I got my uh you know, I got my food organized.

1163
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 1: I got my backpacks organized, some of my gear organized

1164
01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: for the muleeer trip. You know. I I put a

1165
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: new site on my bow. I got confirmation that my

1166
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:32,880
Speaker 1: new arrows are coming in. So all, as much as

1167
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm behind and say I'm behind, you know,

1168
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of you know, checking the boxes

1169
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 1: and putting the pieces of the puzzle together so that

1170
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: the you know, the two days before the I leave

1171
01:07:45,960 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: for South Dakota. I know that, Hey, my mobile setup

1172
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,880
Speaker 1: is ready for Michigan. My trail cameras are out in

1173
01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:55,680
Speaker 1: you know, in Iowa, and I have all the gear

1174
01:07:55,760 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 1: I need for South Dakota. I am just at that

1175
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 1: point on Auto Islet, and I just go where the

1176
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: wind takes me. So tell me this, What is one

1177
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 1: area of improvement that you are hoping to focus on

1178
01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 1: in some way this year? Is there anything that you

1179
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 1: thought about leading into this year that you want to

1180
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:19,760
Speaker 1: try to do a little differently, or that you want

1181
01:08:19,760 --> 01:08:23,080
Speaker 1: to learn from last year, or something like that. You know,

1182
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 1: I think it's hard because you don't know what to

1183
01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:35,799
Speaker 1: improve on until you make those mistakes, right, So you fail,

1184
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 1: and then you learn from that failure and you make

1185
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:40,680
Speaker 1: better decisions the next time you set foot in the

1186
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 1: timber or a field, so to speak. I don't I

1187
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 1: don't know that I've necessarily improved or gotten better at anything.

1188
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 1: One thing that I'm going to do is to just

1189
01:08:57,720 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 1: slow down and absorb, you know, absorb that, you know,

1190
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 1: not necessarily sit in front of a phone all day

1191
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:09,720
Speaker 1: looking at whether, looking at maps, you know, just deciphering

1192
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:13,519
Speaker 1: all that talking about that equation that if the wind

1193
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:15,680
Speaker 1: is doing this, and the terrain is this, then I

1194
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:18,519
Speaker 1: need to do this and all that stuff, just like

1195
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:24,120
Speaker 1: go and make my decision with every step. If that

1196
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:30,640
Speaker 1: makes sense, I think so okay, Um, I think not

1197
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:34,760
Speaker 1: react or I want to react not playing, If that

1198
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:36,680
Speaker 1: makes sense. I think I follow you. I think I

1199
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 1: follow you. That's kind of in line with one of

1200
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:41,600
Speaker 1: my areas of improvement is I want to take my

1201
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:45,680
Speaker 1: uh kind of like the stuff I talked about with

1202
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 1: Andre and some other guys earlier, take my scouting to

1203
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:53,600
Speaker 1: the next level, like like not be so dependent just

1204
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:56,600
Speaker 1: on trail cameras and what I see and try to

1205
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 1: get my ground game up a little bit and some

1206
01:09:58,960 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to folk us more on paying attention

1207
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:03,559
Speaker 1: to tracks, trying to pay attention to what's the sign

1208
01:10:03,680 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 1: telling you, and being willing to push in and and

1209
01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: and and lose. This goes back to something from last week,

1210
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:13,879
Speaker 1: lose the fear of failure. A lot of my hunting,

1211
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:16,720
Speaker 1: especially early on, and every year I've gotten better as

1212
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:19,880
Speaker 1: I've gotten more experienced, but there was always this fear

1213
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 1: of failure. You know. It was like you hear all

1214
01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 1: these people, and you read all these magazines that preach,

1215
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:26,880
Speaker 1: don't spook a mature buck, don't let those bucks know

1216
01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 1: you're there. You've got to make sure that you know

1217
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:30,639
Speaker 1: they have no idea because if they catch you once

1218
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:35,760
Speaker 1: you're done. So so much my hunting revolved around, you know,

1219
01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 1: keeping pressure as low as possible, never letting a deer

1220
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:42,800
Speaker 1: know I was there, and and and stressing out all

1221
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 1: the time about that. Not that that's not important, it's

1222
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: I think it's still very important. But I'm also learning

1223
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 1: that you you can get away with things if it's

1224
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:52,720
Speaker 1: done in the smart way. And because you've got to

1225
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:55,720
Speaker 1: take stabs to get the kill, um, you gotta get

1226
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:58,800
Speaker 1: aggressive sometimes to make it happen. So so I want

1227
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 1: to this year lose a little bit of that fear

1228
01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:04,760
Speaker 1: of failure because sometimes you do have to swing for

1229
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:08,439
Speaker 1: the fences to hit a home run. Um, you can't

1230
01:11:08,439 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 1: always just sit in the sideline. So that's I want to.

1231
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: I think I've been taking steps there each of the

1232
01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:17,759
Speaker 1: past few years, and UM, I'm wanting to take another

1233
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: step this year in that kind of way. So I'm

1234
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit more aggressive. I'm gonna get

1235
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 1: deeper into things that I have in the past. I'm

1236
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:29,600
Speaker 1: going to explore just a little bit more, um and

1237
01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:31,840
Speaker 1: if I bump something or if I screw it up

1238
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 1: that day, well learn from it and adjust and we'll

1239
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: see what happens. Um. So that's that's what I'm hoping for.

1240
01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 1: Any last things you want to cover off on for

1241
01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 1: our goals hopes and hit list d you know, I

1242
01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 1: have one more small goal, and that is to get

1243
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 1: my son and daughter out for a field edge hunt

1244
01:11:58,560 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 1: where I'm not expecting to shoot anything per se, but

1245
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:04,439
Speaker 1: I want to get them out and get them in

1246
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:07,800
Speaker 1: a tree stand for you know, for an hour or

1247
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:12,760
Speaker 1: so and let them see like hopefully the goal is

1248
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 1: to let them see deer in a in their natural environment,

1249
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:19,400
Speaker 1: you know, and say, oh look, hey there's a deer

1250
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 1: right there. Watch him. Let's just watch even if he's

1251
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 1: a hundred yards away. Let him put up the binoculars,

1252
01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 1: let them do all that stuff. So a little bit

1253
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:29,559
Speaker 1: of the you know, the father teaching their kids how

1254
01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 1: to hunt stuff, um while the weather's good, and uh,

1255
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: get some of that going to Yeah, that's awesome. I

1256
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 1: was I was thinking about trying to get Everett out

1257
01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:42,680
Speaker 1: for a little sit at this sometime this fall too.

1258
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:47,439
Speaker 1: If if somehow it worked out were schedule and weather

1259
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:50,280
Speaker 1: came together, and to do something that's sitting, like a

1260
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:52,479
Speaker 1: box blind or a blind that would be comfortable for

1261
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:55,360
Speaker 1: him and we wouldn't spook ten tho deer that would

1262
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: be that'd be awesome because he is like my son

1263
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 1: is nuts for here right now. Um. Every night before bed,

1264
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:04,680
Speaker 1: he wants to watch a deer buck show, as he

1265
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 1: calls him. So we watch a little bit of deer

1266
01:13:06,880 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 1: Buck before bed, and he when there's a buck on screen,

1267
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 1: he's rattling. He's got his own rattley antlers. He goes

1268
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 1: to bed, he brings his rattling antlers to bed with him.

1269
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:17,639
Speaker 1: He's got a grunt tube. So he's grunting, and he'll

1270
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 1: I swear to goodness, swear to goodness. I have to

1271
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Speaker 1: say goodness because if I say I swear to God,

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Speaker 1: or if I say, oh my God. By accident, he's

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Speaker 1: starting to repeat everything. So I'm trying to make about that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to be more careful my language these days. Um.

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Speaker 1: But he he will do a regular grunt. He knows

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Speaker 1: how to do this basic bra he knows how to

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01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:41,320
Speaker 1: snort weez, so he'll snort weez at bucks, and then

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Speaker 1: he also he'll try to stop a buck to get

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Speaker 1: a shot, so when the bucks getting close, he'll start going, Matt, Matt,

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Speaker 1: it's so funny. Um, so that's it's funny you say that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I got all my mouths in my living room, right,

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Speaker 1: and I asked my daughter, which which deer of all

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01:13:59,880 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 1: these mounts do you like the best? She points to

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Speaker 1: one and I say why she's like, because it's got

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Speaker 1: big anglers. Like okay, my my oldest son, Hey, what

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01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:14,680
Speaker 1: what do you like about? Or what's your favorite deer

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01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 1: on the wall points to the same buck and says

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Speaker 1: it's because it's got big anglers. And my little my

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Speaker 1: my two year old, I go, which one is your favorite?

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Speaker 1: And he points to the mount with the uh, probably

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Speaker 1: the smallest rack up there, and I go, buddy, why

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Speaker 1: do you like that buck? And he goes, big neck,

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Speaker 1: big neck, and it is it is. It is the

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Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen. I shot this buck and his neck

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Speaker 1: is just all swollen and huge, and I lost it.

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Speaker 1: I was like, y, so funny, that is great. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be so much fun when these guys are

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Speaker 1: out there hunting with us. I had a conversation with

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Speaker 1: a seventy two year old the other day, um, who

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Speaker 1: his kids are my age now, right, and he's now

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01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 1: transitioned into grandpa mode where he takes his grandchildren out

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01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: sometimes fishing and hunting, and he's he's telling me his

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01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:22,280
Speaker 1: favorite the thing he remembers the most is when they

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01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,800
Speaker 1: start to get into their teenage years and they still

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01:15:24,920 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 1: really like the outdoors, and they really haven't. They've made

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Speaker 1: a decision that they want to be an outdoorsman. It's

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01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:32,920
Speaker 1: okay to not go hang out with your friends, right

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Speaker 1: every single weekend. They want to do the hunting thing. Right.

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Speaker 1: He's like, that's awesome. But what I love even more

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Speaker 1: is when we have arguments, or when we used to

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01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:46,519
Speaker 1: have arguments over where to go set up. He's like,

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Speaker 1: that stuck with me, and that showed me that they

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Speaker 1: were just as passionate as I was about, you know,

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01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: getting into hunting, because they they started forming their own

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01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:02,719
Speaker 1: opinions on on how animals moved and where they should

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01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:05,640
Speaker 1: set up and all these things. And he's like, it

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Speaker 1: was stressful at the time, but I absolutely look back

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Speaker 1: and I absolutely loved that stress. That's awesome. That that

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01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:17,080
Speaker 1: will be cool, That will be cool. Well, we've gotta

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Speaker 1: lot to look forward to, my friend, several more years

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Speaker 1: until that though, But man, I'll tell you this, Mark,

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Speaker 1: good luck this upcoming fall. I hope you have a blast.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, sir, same to you. Let's let's make sure

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Speaker 1: we're checking in as frequently as we possibly can over

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Speaker 1: these coming months so we can keep the progress updates coming.

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Speaker 1: And uh, hopefully next time we talked for one of

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Speaker 1: these things, I'll have an Idaho story for you. Absolutely. Man,

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Speaker 1: all right, Bud, thank you, And that is today's episode.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully enjoyed this one, little lighthearted, a little bit focused

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01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:57,479
Speaker 1: on Dan and not a little bit completely focused on

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01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 1: my season and Dan season. But uh, this is something

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Speaker 1: we try to lay out there so you can follow

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Speaker 1: along with us throughout the rest of the season and

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Speaker 1: kind of see some of the things we're thinking about,

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Speaker 1: and then as the season plays out, you can kind

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Speaker 1: of compare and contrast to what we're hoping for or

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Speaker 1: what we were thinking to what actually happens. And then

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Speaker 1: when the season is done, we're gonna do a postmortem

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Speaker 1: and talk about what we learned. Did we meet those goals,

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Speaker 1: did we fail to meet those goals, What do we

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01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 1: learn from all of that? What kinds of mistakes do

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Speaker 1: we make? There's sure to be a lot of that,

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Speaker 1: so be sure to tune in see how this thing

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Speaker 1: pans out, see what stories come to life, and uh

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Speaker 1: see if maybe Dan and I can feel a tag

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Speaker 1: or two, and hopefully you as well. So thank you

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Speaker 1: for listening, thanks for joining us for this one. We

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Speaker 1: will be back next week with all sorts of interesting

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Speaker 1: new topics, and until then, thank you and stay wired

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Speaker 1: to Hunt.