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Speaker 1: Welcome to Wired to Hunts rutt Fresh Radio, bringing you

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Speaker 1: the latest reports from the White Tailed Woods and now

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Speaker 1: your hosts, Casey Smith Tyler Jones. This is rut Fresh

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Speaker 1: Radio powered by Vortex Optics. I'm your host, Tyler Jones,

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Speaker 1: and this week we're hearing from many guys who say

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Speaker 1: the warm temperatures have affected RUT movement, but there's a

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Speaker 1: cold front on the horizon and it's given us hope.

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Speaker 1: This is a rut Fresh Radio podcast brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Vortex Optics. I'm your host, Tyler Jones, and I've

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Speaker 1: got in the passenger seat right here, hanging out the

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Speaker 1: passenger side. Oh, he's just hanging out right here with me.

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Speaker 1: We've been hunting this morning. It's worn. Look at all

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Speaker 1: these used broadheads on your dash. Yeah, you have a collection.

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Speaker 1: I've got a few man of to shoot. Well that one?

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Speaker 1: What did What did I hit with that one? Goodness?

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Speaker 1: I don't, oh, Dad, that that's We talked about that

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Speaker 1: one already on this podcast. South Dakota, yep, Um, there's

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Speaker 1: some with dirt or some that are blown up. I

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Speaker 1: in his body with that. We talked about it. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: We've got uh some pretty cool fellers on this podcast

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Speaker 1: this week. UM, so we're gonna be hearing from them

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Speaker 1: in a second about what to expect in the second

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Speaker 1: week of the rut. But as of right now, Casey,

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Speaker 1: we had a pretty good first week. Then we sure

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Speaker 1: enough did man and you know, honestly, UM, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: all that ruddy, but it was a good first week

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Speaker 1: in November. Uh. I suppose, um, you and I both

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Speaker 1: killed bucks. I suppose that happened really nasty, very exciting.

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Speaker 1: So we hunted Kansas the first week in November, um

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Speaker 1: and one week one one week in actually five days

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Speaker 1: kind of set the stage here. We head up because

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Speaker 1: November is just like the month, right, It's the month

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Speaker 1: that we all like want to do this thing. So

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Speaker 1: November one, you probably need to be hunting. And even

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Speaker 1: though like I really think like the fourth is wind

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Speaker 1: like it's really like starting to do the thing, right,

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Speaker 1: But we get there for the first to hunt and

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Speaker 1: um kind of like making their plans, but we always

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Speaker 1: hour top mentality, like there's just the odds of you

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Speaker 1: they sure are sure. I Um, I talked about this

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Speaker 1: in the post that I made. But Mr. December is

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Speaker 1: what my name is. Uh, that's what my dad calls me,

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Speaker 1: at least. And uh it's because I'm always like running

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Speaker 1: old eight year old with eight or less points that's

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Speaker 1: you know, how to shoot this deer and what pattern

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Speaker 1: he's on late season, which I actually do like late

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Speaker 1: But yes, it's uh, it's pretty Um, it's a it's

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Speaker 1: play Solitaire on my phone until I win. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: So in North Dakota, it's one of the states that's

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Speaker 1: really been impacted by drought, at least looking on the

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Speaker 1: uh the drought map. Um, how does that really affect

427
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Speaker 1: like that early November time period for a year you

428
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Speaker 1: thinking about water? Are you're thinking about you know, just

429
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Speaker 1: concentration a dyear around it or what do you do there?

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Speaker 1: You know, you gotta think about water a little bit. Um,

431
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Speaker 1: it's been it has been dry, for sure, But like

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Speaker 1: you know, I've bounced all over um eastern side of

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Speaker 1: North Dakota this year, and uh that being kind of

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Speaker 1: the prairie pothole region, you're typically not that far from

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Speaker 1: a water source of some kind. It's not until you're

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Speaker 1: getting out more you know, central and western North Dakota

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Speaker 1: where you're probably gonna want to focus a little bit

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Speaker 1: more on water with it being as dry as it's been. Um.

439
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Speaker 1: But but over all the places I've been hunting, the

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Speaker 1: water sources not typically an issue. Well, we have a

441
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Speaker 1: big cold front looming right now this week is not

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Speaker 1: going to be a drastic change kind of across the country,

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Speaker 1: you know, where we have kind of some temps in

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Speaker 1: the earlier part of the week and then you know,

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Speaker 1: actually kind of you know, right there Thursday Friday, on

446
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Speaker 1: some really good dates, we start looking at some cold fronts.

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Speaker 1: Do you lay off of your prime spots for those

448
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Speaker 1: like just perfect days that we're looking forward to? Do

449
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Speaker 1: you go in that go ahead and go hunt those

450
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Speaker 1: things hard? I? Yeah, I typically hold off until I

451
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Speaker 1: you know, but I play the wind a lot, and uh,

452
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Speaker 1: you know, I have a few spots where I know,

453
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Speaker 1: like I can't really hunt here until the date is

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Speaker 1: right and the wind is right. You know, there's there's

455
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Speaker 1: a set of dates in a in a in a whatever,

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Speaker 1: a very slim segment of wind that I can hunt.

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Speaker 1: So I'm typically I'm gonna hold off and I'll hunt

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Speaker 1: other stuff until I know it's gonna be good. Do

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Speaker 1: you regard the moon much this time of year? I

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Speaker 1: can't say that I pay much attention to the moon.

461
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Speaker 1: I figure it's it's the rut and I should be

462
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Speaker 1: in the woods. I like it. Man, what's the best date?

463
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Speaker 1: What's like when you're talking about the best date coming up.

464
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Speaker 1: What's it gonna be? You know the historically, you know,

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Speaker 1: you hear a lot of people say at a seven, UM,

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Speaker 1: I'm typically like just slightly later than that. I'm a

467
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Speaker 1: big fan of that, like tent through the twelfth time frame.

468
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but that's uh, that's just me cool. So

469
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Speaker 1: UM in the in that kind of kind of tent

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Speaker 1: through the twelfth date range. So you know, next week

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Speaker 1: or coming up in the next weekend or so, what

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Speaker 1: are you going to be focusing on tactically or or

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Speaker 1: you know, with the habitat or what are you looking

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Speaker 1: at to try to kill a buck? Yep, I'm focusing

475
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Speaker 1: on stuff that I know has does UM. You know,

476
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Speaker 1: obviously there's gonna be a few bucks lockdown on stuff

477
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Speaker 1: that time of year. But a lot of times, if

478
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Speaker 1: you can get into a dough group or get into

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Speaker 1: a spot where you know does transition through a lot

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Speaker 1: of times you can find yourself in a rut ball

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Speaker 1: and you know, even if it starts out where you've

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Speaker 1: got young bucks that are doing a lot of the

483
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Speaker 1: chasing or you know, pushing them around, just all that activity.

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Speaker 1: Typically I have found typically draws bigger bucks in UM

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Speaker 1: and they start to push those smaller bucks off, especially

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Speaker 1: mid day if you can, if you can talk yourself

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Speaker 1: into staying out longer, you know, um, a lot of

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Speaker 1: times that time of year. Um, I might hunt way

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Speaker 1: longer in the day and then you know, with that

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Speaker 1: chance of killing something mid day early afternoon, um, and

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Speaker 1: then I might go scout that evening instead of instead

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Speaker 1: of just continuing to sit so I can find another

493
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Speaker 1: ball of doze that I can go hunt the next day.

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Speaker 1: That's a bold move, Cotton. Hope it pays out for you,

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Speaker 1: So pass. That's cool, man. I would like to you

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Speaker 1: to midday buck one of these days. I haven't done

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Speaker 1: it from a tree, you know, on the ground. It's

498
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 1: a little different game where you're moving around find them

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Speaker 1: and stuff. But um, so as we look forward to, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, some really good dates like you're talking about there.

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Speaker 1: If you had to give it a number between one

502
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Speaker 1: and tiena, what you predict the buck movement to be

503
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Speaker 1: lock in the upcoming week? What would you give it?

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Speaker 1: With the dates and the weather we're gonna have. I think,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're gonna be you know, running

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Speaker 1: that red line pretty hard. Eight nine, um, going into

507
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Speaker 1: late into the week. Early in the next week, especially

508
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Speaker 1: with just the attempts are going to go from you

509
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Speaker 1: know what have been in the you know, fifties, sixties,

510
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Speaker 1: and seventies, um, all the way up until a couple

511
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Speaker 1: of days ago, dropping all the way down to lows

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Speaker 1: in the single digits. So it is a is a

513
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Speaker 1: very drastic change coming man, single digits. So it's not

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Speaker 1: my favorite. But I saw a couple of nights in

515
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Speaker 1: the forecast where the low is gonna be three's greeks. Yeah,

516
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Speaker 1: I've been there before, but it's not the it's not

517
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Speaker 1: the most fun hunting I've ever done. But oh no,

518
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Speaker 1: it's terrible. Ye Hey, but I appreciate you hopping on, Sam,

519
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,680
Speaker 1: Thanks for everything. And uh, I'm hoping that you get

520
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Speaker 1: get the shot at a buck on the tenth or

521
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Speaker 1: twelfth there somewhere in your favorite day range and with

522
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Speaker 1: any luck, it's coming. Cool dude, what are you talking

523
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Speaker 1: to me saying? Man? All right, thanks guys on the phone.

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Speaker 1: We have got the tundra master Tyler Freel what's happening, man, Oh,

525
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Speaker 1: not too much. Just got got back from my first

526
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Speaker 1: my first fall white tail white tail bow hunt. So

527
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Speaker 1: that that's that's always fun. Yeah, that's exciting man. You

528
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Speaker 1: Actually we're in Kentucky. We know as you as the

529
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Speaker 1: guy who knows everything that we want to know about Alaska.

530
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Speaker 1: But you've been down here in the lower forty eight

531
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Speaker 1: doing some whitetail hunt. And how is the action? It

532
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: was slow? It was hot and slow. Um, the deer

533
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: just you know there there's tons of sign and in

534
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: some sign that you know rud activity, but not they

535
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: just were not moving during the day too much. Yeah,

536
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: I got you so, uh for that first week in November.

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Speaker 1: What were you kind of concentrating on as far as

538
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: you know your tactic there? Well, we were. I was.

539
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: I hunted two different spots, um, kind of inside corner

540
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: of some act that that on a big edge of

541
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Speaker 1: a big wood lot, and another time right in the

542
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Speaker 1: middle of a big wood lot on a on that

543
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,199
Speaker 1: where a couple of ridges come together. Just kind of

544
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,880
Speaker 1: a good funnel type country that should get a lot

545
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Speaker 1: of traffic through and especially you know if they're starting

546
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Speaker 1: to chase or or cruise for dose. You know, stuff

547
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Speaker 1: that at least in my mind, um, should work really well. Um. Yeah,

548
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Speaker 1: so are you accustomed to hunting white tails? I guess

549
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Speaker 1: That's one of the things I should have asked you

550
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Speaker 1: about because you know, I know you you're from the

551
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: lower forty eight, which you've been Alaska for a long time, right, Yeah,

552
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm I'm super green to hunt in white tails. You know,

553
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: I seen it on TV a bunch and it always

554
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: looked like fun. But this was, you know, my first

555
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: chance to really go bow hunt bow hunt white tails.

556
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Speaker 1: So you know, I I tried to take you know,

557
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: take the advice to the guy guy I was hunting with,

558
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: and and uh, yeah, it was a great time. It

559
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: was slow, but it was a great time. What was

560
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: the key, like, what was the advice that he was

561
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: giving you that that he was hoping you would score on? Oh,

562
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: pretty much just paying attention and being ready to shoot.

563
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: You know, I think that first week in November typically

564
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: is pretty hot action and and you know we're in

565
00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,040
Speaker 1: spots where we're just just ambushing them coming through and

566
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Speaker 1: and yeah, just being being ready and keeping your head

567
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: on a swivel, sitting all day. What what's one of

568
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 1: the things that seemed to translate to you hunting in Kentucky.

569
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,080
Speaker 1: They're um compared to what you're used to hunting. Well,

570
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: the tree you know, animal movement, you know, like the

571
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 1: the early morning, late evening seemed to be pretty good.

572
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Speaker 1: Uh you know, I mean, it's just typical what animals

573
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Speaker 1: like to do. The thing that translated for me is

574
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Speaker 1: I do a lot of BlackBerry and grizzly bear hunting

575
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Speaker 1: out of tree stands. So it was nice. I like

576
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Speaker 1: sitting in a tree and wait and wait, and so

577
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: you know, I'm very comfortable operating at a tree stands.

578
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: And so that was that translated really well, you know

579
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Speaker 1: from how this system all the gear you want to

580
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: be comfortable and and hunt effectively. You didn't have to

581
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Speaker 1: get in the stand at like one thirty am for

582
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: this one though, right, it's kind of a little bit later. No, normally,

583
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm used to sitting all night rather than

584
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Speaker 1: all days. So that was kind of nice. Do you, um,

585
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Speaker 1: if you could, if you had to go, if you

586
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: were hunting again this week, this coming week, what would

587
00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: you change or what would you do differently to to

588
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Speaker 1: uh have success? What do you think? You know? I'm

589
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Speaker 1: not I mean, I'm not sure if I know enough

590
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Speaker 1: about it to really say that I would change stuff.

591
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Speaker 1: I would probably you know, the spots I were I

592
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: was hunting, were good spots. I think, I think it

593
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: was a good plan. Just the timing wasn't right, you know.

594
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Speaker 1: And I'm used to hunting animal you know, a lot

595
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Speaker 1: of my hunting, I might not see an animal for

596
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Speaker 1: days of hunting. Um. So you know, it was I

597
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: didn't know what to expect going into it. So I

598
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Speaker 1: don't know that I would really change anything about the method.

599
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: I would have, just I would just be persistent about it, um,

600
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Speaker 1: because I just think I just think it wasn't lining up.

601
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: My timing wasn't lined up with them moving in the daytime,

602
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: and I you know, for what I hear, it can

603
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Speaker 1: switch overnight too. You know. One of the best public

604
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 1: plan hunters I know, Uh, he hunts the same stand

605
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: almost all season long, and he kills big deer. And

606
00:30:57,880 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: he also says, when the wind change his direction, you

607
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: turn around look the other direction. So sometimes that works, uh,

608
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: you know, looking forward as uh, you know, you have

609
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: kind of a tough week there. If you were to

610
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Speaker 1: predict what you think dear movement's gonna be like in

611
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: the next week there in Kentucky, what do you what

612
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: would you say on a scale from one to ten?

613
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I would I would say probably a seven.

614
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: You know, if after all that that hot weather, if

615
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: they're like any other critter, you know, they're progressively getting

616
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: closer to change. We didn't see a lot of chasing,

617
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: but they're getting close. And uh, you know, after a

618
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: string weather that doesn't want to have that that they

619
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Speaker 1: don't want to move in, tempers are supposed to drop.

620
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: And I think you know, the guys are already see

621
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Speaker 1: even yesterday saw deer moving like crazy. So I think

622
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be good. I think they're I think it's

623
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Speaker 1: gonna be a good week. Awesome, man, Well, Tyler, we

624
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: really appreciate the report. Man, I hope you have a

625
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:56,760
Speaker 1: great winner up there. Yep, thank you. The report is good.

626
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: It is out. It is good. Guys. It is the

627
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: second week and no member, and you know, you could

628
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: argue that this is better than the first week. It

629
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Speaker 1: really really is gonna be good, especially appair with this weather.

630
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: I'm excited about the reports we got from all these guys. Uh.

631
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: If you heard earlier in the podcast, we did put

632
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: down some nice Kansas bucks and those hunts will be

633
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: on the Buck Truck series on meat or coming up

634
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: next summer. So be excited for that. I hope you're

635
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: looking forward to it, because we sure are. There are

636
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Speaker 1: a couple of things that y'all can check out if

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Speaker 1: you need to just satiate some of that deer hunting stuff.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you can't get in the woods until you know

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Speaker 1: Friday or something. You need to read something or watch

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Speaker 1: something on the Element YouTube channel. There's a really cool

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Speaker 1: pre rut style hunt in Texas, but there is some

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Speaker 1: ruddy action dear an answering antlers. They're getting after it um. Also,

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Speaker 1: there is a article on Meat Eater by Tony Peterson

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Speaker 1: about when to abandon your rut hunting plan, and then

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Speaker 1: the Wired to Hunt podcast. Mark also has a just

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Speaker 1: all out rut podcast. I mean, you can't call it

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Speaker 1: anything else, just rutty stuff. It's what we're all about

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Speaker 1: right now. And you need to be considering all these

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Speaker 1: rout tactics. Uh. This week, it's time to get in

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Speaker 1: those pinches. It's time to get after where those dough

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Speaker 1: betting areas are. It's time to kill a big giant buck.

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Speaker 1: This has been rough, fresh, keep it fresh.