WEBVTT - Ep. 1050: Foundations - Summer Buck Diets and the Rut Connection

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind.

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

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<v Speaker 1>Tony Peterson.

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

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<v Speaker 2>which has brought to you by first Light. I'm your host,

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<v Speaker 2>Tony Peterson, and today's episode is all about understanding not

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<v Speaker 2>only what bucks eat this time of year, but why

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<v Speaker 2>it's all sort of tied to what those bucks will

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<v Speaker 2>be doing in November when it's time to shoot them

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<v Speaker 2>in the lungs. You've probably noticed that the latest wave

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<v Speaker 2>in health conscious eating for people involves protein. Walk the

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<v Speaker 2>aisles of your local grocery store and you'll see protein

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<v Speaker 2>packed foods advertised loud and proud. If you work out,

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<v Speaker 2>you probably have also heard all about peptides and how

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<v Speaker 2>expensive they are, how good they work, and on and on.

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<v Speaker 2>You can't help ourselves when it comes to health trends,

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<v Speaker 2>but that's because we need to be told what to

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<v Speaker 2>eat and what not to eat. These days, we've drifted

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<v Speaker 2>from simple eating and the kind of eating that follows

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<v Speaker 2>instincts based off of what our bodies need to kind

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<v Speaker 2>of comfort eating. That's not great, but at least the

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<v Speaker 2>deer don't do that. They know what they need. They

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<v Speaker 2>seek out those nutritional sources and it's honestly one of

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<v Speaker 2>the primary drivers in a buck's life. It's far more

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<v Speaker 2>important to him than almost anything else, and understanding that

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<v Speaker 2>is often the key to meeting up with him during

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<v Speaker 2>deer season. This is what I'm going to talk about

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<v Speaker 2>right now. Let's say you have a busy life, so

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<v Speaker 2>you haven't been working out, and now you have to

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<v Speaker 2>throw on a speedo like doctor Randall used to wear

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<v Speaker 2>while guiding fly fishing clients, and you realize you're not

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<v Speaker 2>quite as cut as you want to beat. So he

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<v Speaker 2>decided to lose a few pounds, and the easiest way

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<v Speaker 2>to do that is to eat right, So you lean

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<v Speaker 2>into prioritizing fiber and lean protein. The one two punch

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<v Speaker 2>that slows down digestion and reduce us is the munchies.

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<v Speaker 2>The eggs and venison and chicken and whatever else are

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<v Speaker 2>a good start, but you also need to mix in

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<v Speaker 2>something that tastes good, so you eat some fruit, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>some fresh vegetables. Now you have low calorie, high energy

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<v Speaker 2>foods keep you going. You feel like you're making some progress.

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<v Speaker 2>So you ditch the refined carbs like you find in

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<v Speaker 2>white bread and you go for something nutrient dense and

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<v Speaker 2>fiber rich, like whole wheat bread. This is all a

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<v Speaker 2>great start, but you also need to give up the soda,

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<v Speaker 2>the ice cream, the sour gummy worms, nerd clusters, and

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<v Speaker 2>whatever else to stay in a calorie deficit. But you

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<v Speaker 2>do these things, and guess what your body changes, and

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<v Speaker 2>so does your mind. Now let's say you're already lean,

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<v Speaker 2>but you want to be jacked. You want to bulk

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<v Speaker 2>up with muscle and not just gain a bunch of

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<v Speaker 2>visceral fat. Well, you need to take in some extra calories,

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<v Speaker 2>say around three hundred to five hundred a day, somewhere

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<v Speaker 2>around one gram per pound of body weight per day.

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<v Speaker 2>And you need fuel to keep picking up heavy stuff

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<v Speaker 2>and putting it down, you know, and that comes from

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<v Speaker 2>the right carbs. And amongst all that, you need those

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<v Speaker 2>healthy fats that are found in avocados and olive oil

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<v Speaker 2>and some nuts. To lose weight. You kind of eat

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<v Speaker 2>what you eat to gain the right weight. But the

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<v Speaker 2>path is quite a bit different. Now. If you were

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<v Speaker 2>a buck or hell really animal in the wild, you

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<v Speaker 2>wouldn't even consider eating to lose weight. Nature doesn't much

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<v Speaker 2>go in that direction very often, but instead is generally

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<v Speaker 2>looking for ways to get as many calories as needed

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<v Speaker 2>without the risk of becoming someone else's lunch. Bucks are

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<v Speaker 2>wired for this, of course, but they are also eating

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<v Speaker 2>to bulk up for the rut. This isn't likely a

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<v Speaker 2>conscious decision, but honestly, who knows. I don't really think

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<v Speaker 2>bucks are out there in their bachelor groups thinking, man,

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<v Speaker 2>I need to eat some more soybean leaves tonight because

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<v Speaker 2>in four months it is on and those doves that

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<v Speaker 2>always bed in the waterway down by the pond are

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<v Speaker 2>looking real good this year. But maybe they do think

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<v Speaker 2>that way, or maybe they think I'm going to eat

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<v Speaker 2>a bunch of elfalf right now because in three weeks

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<v Speaker 2>I'm going to kick that wonky nine pointers ass. Probably not.

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<v Speaker 2>But what does happen right now and up to the

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<v Speaker 2>rut is that bucks eat to be the best physical

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<v Speaker 2>specimens they can be. We don't really consider that because

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<v Speaker 2>if you broke down the diet of a buck on

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<v Speaker 2>any given day in July, it would probably consist of

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<v Speaker 2>dozens of different plants. We like simple, we like straightforward,

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<v Speaker 2>like the way food plots give us something to sit over.

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<v Speaker 2>That deer generally will eat at some point with all

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<v Speaker 2>the background noise of everything else he might eat in

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<v Speaker 2>any given day. To start with, you need to think

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<v Speaker 2>about it this way. That buck out there, he's an

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<v Speaker 2>athlete getting ready for the amorous Olympics, and he needs protein,

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<v Speaker 2>lots of it. But if you know anything about protein,

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<v Speaker 2>it's not that easy to get by just eating a

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<v Speaker 2>leafy salad without any topics. Lucky for him, he understands

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<v Speaker 2>this and knows where to look for the best sources

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<v Speaker 2>out there. He will, if he has access to it,

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<v Speaker 2>seek out soybean fields. Anyone who hunts white tails an

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<v Speaker 2>egg country at all knows that summer bucks and soybeans

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<v Speaker 2>go together like mark and butterfly tramp stamps. Lush green

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<v Speaker 2>soybean leaves contain twenty five to thirty five percent crude protein.

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<v Speaker 2>They're highly digestible, offer two to four percent fat, and

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<v Speaker 2>also contain calcium and phosphorus. In other words, if you

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<v Speaker 2>don't hunt soybeans in the early season, but you could

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<v Speaker 2>or you don't really understand why you should consider that.

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<v Speaker 2>It might literally be the best food source for them

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<v Speaker 2>at that time. In September, if they can get to

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<v Speaker 2>the green leaves, they will. Every day in October, if

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<v Speaker 2>they can get to the green leaves, they will. I've

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<v Speaker 2>mentioned this many times, but one of the easiest ways

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<v Speaker 2>to kill a good buck in the early season is

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<v Speaker 2>to focus on the patches of soybean fields you know

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<v Speaker 2>that are in low or shady areas where the leaves

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<v Speaker 2>will stay green longer when the rest of the field

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<v Speaker 2>starts to yellow. Now, instead of focusing on a fifty

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<v Speaker 2>acre field, you might have three acres in total where

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<v Speaker 2>the deer really want to be, which means you can

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<v Speaker 2>predict with a high level of accuracy where they'll go feed.

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<v Speaker 2>And on top of that, those spots are often the

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<v Speaker 2>places they want to be anyway, because they're not that visible. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>Alfalfa is another brainer for early season and summertime bucks.

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<v Speaker 2>You know it has eighteen to twenty five percent crude protein,

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<v Speaker 2>high digestibility, a fat percentage similar to soybean leaves, and

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<v Speaker 2>a tendency to be real high in calcium. Right there

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<v Speaker 2>with alfalfa are a couple of different kinds of clover

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<v Speaker 2>and peas now where egg isn't everywhere. Bucks will munch

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<v Speaker 2>on young forbes like ragweed and pokeweed, which can offer

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen to thirty percent protein. And they'll even eat BlackBerry leaves.

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<v Speaker 2>I watched a dough a few years ago eating actual

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<v Speaker 2>raspberries in August. I don't know why I'm telling you that,

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<v Speaker 2>but maybe someday somewhere someone will shoot a deer on

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<v Speaker 2>a berry pattern. I don't know. All of this is

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<v Speaker 2>pretty simple and well known stuff, and most hunters don't

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<v Speaker 2>seem to care a whole lot because it seems like

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<v Speaker 2>their summer pattern for those deer is pretty disconnected from

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<v Speaker 2>the fall pattern they'll be on. But it's not. And honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>I think most people who are struggling to kill mature

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<v Speaker 2>bucks would do a hell of a lot better forgetting

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<v Speaker 2>about the rut for a minute and trying to action

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<v Speaker 2>patterned summer bucks and then kill them in the first

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<v Speaker 2>week or two of the season. That used to be

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<v Speaker 2>such a popular method of hunting, and it was talked

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<v Speaker 2>about a lot, but now it seems like it's just

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<v Speaker 2>not as popular. I can't help but wonder if that's

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<v Speaker 2>partially due to the fact that it's easier to sell

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<v Speaker 2>rut hunters a lot of gear than it is to

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<v Speaker 2>sell an early season hunter a lot of gear. I

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to be that cynical, but I've seen how

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<v Speaker 2>the sausage is made, and I'm not so sure that

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<v Speaker 2>isn't true to some extent. Now, the key to this

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<v Speaker 2>strategy and just learning what bucks need to eat to

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<v Speaker 2>do what they need to do throughout the year, is

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<v Speaker 2>that it introduces a level of predictability to their behavior.

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<v Speaker 2>We think that the rut will do this, and it does,

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<v Speaker 2>but not in the same way. You can predict that

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<v Speaker 2>a buck will move more in daylight during the rut,

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<v Speaker 2>because he generally will. You can try to predict where

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<v Speaker 2>that movement is likely to happen, and with the right

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<v Speaker 2>funnel or pinch point and enough time and patience, you

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<v Speaker 2>can be right on you know, often enough to rely

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<v Speaker 2>on it. What a rut plan is just ripe for

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<v Speaker 2>something to blow up. Higher than expected temperatures, east winds,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the most hunting pressure of the season. One

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<v Speaker 2>hot dough on the neighbors. You name it. Promise of

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<v Speaker 2>the rut in all of its awesomeness also glosses over

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<v Speaker 2>the sheer unpredictability of the whole thing. When a buck

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<v Speaker 2>is thinking with his not his stomach, he's difficult to

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<v Speaker 2>pin down. When he's thinking about food, you have the

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<v Speaker 2>chance to almost know where he's going to be on

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<v Speaker 2>any given day. Now, it's not that simple, of course,

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<v Speaker 2>but it is an advantage we often overlook, and that's

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<v Speaker 2>a mistake. So think about it this way. You can

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<v Speaker 2>absolutely know what foods are most beneficial to him. On

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<v Speaker 2>the day of the bowseason opens up in your neck

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<v Speaker 2>of the woods. You can hopefully glass those foods. Is

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<v Speaker 2>to develop some kind of pattern on him, or use

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<v Speaker 2>cameras or both. If you have access to the right

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<v Speaker 2>food source, he will at the very least show you

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<v Speaker 2>an awful lot about how he uses it. That intel

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<v Speaker 2>is real valuable. I'd place a higher value on a

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<v Speaker 2>buck showing up on the edge of an alfalfa field

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<v Speaker 2>three out of seven nights during shooting hours in September,

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<v Speaker 2>way above that same buck showing up on a camera

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<v Speaker 2>and shooting light three out of seven days in the

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<v Speaker 2>first week of November. This is simply because the factors

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<v Speaker 2>that could throw him off that early season pattern aren't

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<v Speaker 2>as numerous as those that could keep him from crossing

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<v Speaker 2>through that funnel in the next week. And when you

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<v Speaker 2>think about it, what we do as hunters is just

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<v Speaker 2>kind of gamble on this stuff. We take in the

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<v Speaker 2>data we can, we decide what to do with it,

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<v Speaker 2>and then place our bets on hunting this stand or

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<v Speaker 2>that blind or not hunting today to hunt next week.

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<v Speaker 2>Whatever the best friend a gambler can have is predictability,

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<v Speaker 2>and nothing in a buck's life is more predictable than

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<v Speaker 2>where he is likely to feed before the rut kicks in. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not trying to talk you out to hunting the rut.

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<v Speaker 2>The beauty of all of this is that you can

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<v Speaker 2>actually hunt the early season, the mid season, and the

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<v Speaker 2>rut even a late season. But if you want to

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<v Speaker 2>kill big bucks, and I know you do, and you're

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<v Speaker 2>not actively trying to figure out the early season game,

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<v Speaker 2>you're not giving yourself the best shot you can to

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<v Speaker 2>kill big bucks. It's kind of that simple. But what

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<v Speaker 2>happens if your deer go from you know, the summer

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<v Speaker 2>tissue building phase of eating to the building fuel reserves phase.

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<v Speaker 2>These are very different things, and the window before they

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<v Speaker 2>turn over is one in which you can kill big

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<v Speaker 2>bucks with consistency. But the turnover might happen the first

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<v Speaker 2>week of September in some places and not you know,

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<v Speaker 2>at least until deep into October and others. But it

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<v Speaker 2>will happen, and when it does, you'll know because that

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<v Speaker 2>field edge camera that has been pretty consistent will suddenly

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<v Speaker 2>show more sporadic movement, and a lot of your daylight

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<v Speaker 2>visitors will start to show up at midnight. This is

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<v Speaker 2>the time when a lot of hunters say, say, well,

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<v Speaker 2>the lull is on and it's time to rake some

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<v Speaker 2>leaves and bank up the brownie points at home because

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<v Speaker 2>the bucks aren't moving in daylight. That's just wrong. Though.

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<v Speaker 2>I believe hunting pressure has a big influence on this shift,

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<v Speaker 2>but that is just what it is, and is so

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<v Speaker 2>highly variable amongst different hunters in their different hunting situations.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a wild card. You just have to evaluate for yourself.

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<v Speaker 2>But even if you hunt public land with lots of pressure,

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<v Speaker 2>you need to remind yourself that the bucks in your

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<v Speaker 2>neighborhood still have very specific nutritional needs. The easiest food

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<v Speaker 2>source to identify here is good old corn fall dear

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<v Speaker 2>love corn and it's probably not for the taste, or

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<v Speaker 2>at least not solely for the taste. Corn averages eight

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<v Speaker 2>to ten percent crude protein and four to five percent fat.

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<v Speaker 2>It's low in fiber but high end calorie density, considering

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<v Speaker 2>it's about seventy percent starch, which is just a form

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<v Speaker 2>of carbs, you know, just the kind of thing you

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<v Speaker 2>want to eat if you're bulking up and getting ready

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<v Speaker 2>to run yourself ragged for a few weeks. Corn is obvious, though,

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<v Speaker 2>and so are acorns. White oak acorns contain about four

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<v Speaker 2>to six percent protein but forty five to fifty five

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<v Speaker 2>percent carbs and plenty of fat. They are like little

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<v Speaker 2>energy balls raining from the trees, and the deer know it.

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<v Speaker 2>Red oaks are similar in nutritional value, but just loaded

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<v Speaker 2>with tannins, which a wildlife researcher told me recently is

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<v Speaker 2>tied to their germination timelines. Red oak acorns apparently need

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<v Speaker 2>to sit on the ground a lot longer, so they

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<v Speaker 2>need a defense against getting eaten up, which is cool

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<v Speaker 2>as hell. Then you have apples per Simon's grapes, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>stuff like that that offers a lot of sugar, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>which is carbs and probably tastes better than soybean leaves

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<v Speaker 2>or field corn. Now there are other food sources I

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<v Speaker 2>could get into, but that's not really the point. The

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<v Speaker 2>point is to think about not what a buck likes

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<v Speaker 2>to eat, but what he needs to eat and why

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<v Speaker 2>he would choose one source over another. A good way

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<v Speaker 2>to think about this is with the acorn drop, which

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<v Speaker 2>happens all across the country with various types of trees.

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<v Speaker 2>When the acorns are dropping, the deer is just generally

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<v Speaker 2>going to eat them. We know this. We hunt those trees,

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<v Speaker 2>and when we don't see deer under a certain tree,

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<v Speaker 2>or don't get buck picks on the camera we sat

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<v Speaker 2>on the oak ridge, we just assume something else is

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<v Speaker 2>going on. Deer eat a lot of stuff, but when

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<v Speaker 2>a highly desirable here today, gone tomorrow food source comes on,

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<v Speaker 2>they focus on it. They just likely know where more

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<v Speaker 2>of the best trees are than you, and they very

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<v Speaker 2>likely feed not where the heaviest drop is, but the

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<v Speaker 2>safest drop is happening. There's a big difference there, because

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<v Speaker 2>not only are all mass trees not created equal, they

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<v Speaker 2>aren't located in equally safe spots. You have to work

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<v Speaker 2>off the assumption that bucks are going to hit prime

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<v Speaker 2>masked food sources and really all prime of the seasoned

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<v Speaker 2>food sources, but they won't be so suicidal over per

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<v Speaker 2>simmons on public land that they feed next to the

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<v Speaker 2>parking lot all day. Doesn't work that way, and that

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<v Speaker 2>is one of the reasons that a lot of people

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<v Speaker 2>really miss out on the food pattern of deer. This

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<v Speaker 2>only gets worse for some hunters because they pick something,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, like an alfalfa field, and they know deer

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<v Speaker 2>eat alfalfa all season, so that's just what they hunt

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<v Speaker 2>over and over. But now you have a food source,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, with kind of varying levels of appeal depending

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<v Speaker 2>on the part of the season, but that is also

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<v Speaker 2>wide open and a hub of hunting activity. I keep

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<v Speaker 2>coming back to the same line of thought with white

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<v Speaker 2>tails and how to kill them consistently, and it's this,

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<v Speaker 2>not only do you need to learn about bucks and

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<v Speaker 2>where they like to walk, but you have to learn

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<v Speaker 2>how to get there to those spots, how to find them.

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<v Speaker 2>We are primarily comfortable waiting for some feature on the

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<v Speaker 2>land to bring deer to us, and we volume hunt

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<v Speaker 2>those spots until the seasonal conditions conspire to put a

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<v Speaker 2>buck in our laps with enough time. That works a lot,

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<v Speaker 2>but it often doesn't because of many reasons. It's much

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<v Speaker 2>better to try to go to the deer when you can,

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<v Speaker 2>and well, you almost always can unless you hunt a

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<v Speaker 2>very small property. Most people don't like to go to

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<v Speaker 2>the deer because they aren't you confident in that style,

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<v Speaker 2>and they buy into the advice of not messing with

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<v Speaker 2>bedding areas and sanctuaries and all that stuff. But most

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<v Speaker 2>people will never kill a pope and young buck in

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<v Speaker 2>any given season, let alone a whole bunch of seasons,

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<v Speaker 2>So how much of that strategy should you adopt. A

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<v Speaker 2>better bet a lot of times is to look at

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<v Speaker 2>your whole season from start to finish and try to

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<v Speaker 2>figure out what is going to get bucks moving in

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<v Speaker 2>the daylight hours. If it's super hot, that's going to

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<v Speaker 2>be water. If it's November seventh, it's going to be

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<v Speaker 2>the ladies. But pretty much the whole season, though close

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<v Speaker 2>to it anyway, it's what he needs to eat to survive.

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<v Speaker 2>We think about food from the perspective of desirability because

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<v Speaker 2>most of us aren't in any danger of starvation. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>we don't have to eat buds off trees. For five

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<v Speaker 2>months in the winter, and I'm sure deer have flavors

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<v Speaker 2>and food sources that just taste good, but mostly they

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<v Speaker 2>are eating to accomplish something with their bodies, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>bulk up for the rut, produce enough milk for triplet fawns,

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<v Speaker 2>stay warm all night long in December. Whatever they eat

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<v Speaker 2>to survive and thrive, and that means they have to

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<v Speaker 2>move to eat and put themselves at risk at some point,

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<v Speaker 2>often some point every single day of their lives during

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<v Speaker 2>shooting hours, or at least every single day during the

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<v Speaker 2>fall when we can hunt them. Think about that and

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<v Speaker 2>think about coming back next week for more white tail talk.

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