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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: six nine and we're back today for our first episode

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Speaker 1: of our rout Fresh Radio mini series for two thousand twenty,

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Speaker 1: in which we are getting the latest reports from across

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Speaker 1: the country on current deer activity, behavior, and what you

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Speaker 1: need to do right now to fill your tag. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the wire Hunt podcast, brought to you by

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Speaker 1: on X. As you just heard, we are back with

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Speaker 1: a new season of rout Fresh Radio. If you're new

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Speaker 1: to the wire Dhunt podcast, this is something we do

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Speaker 1: every single year during hunting season. Myself and co producer

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Speaker 1: Spencer new Hearth rock out an extra epiod so every

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Speaker 1: week of this series in which we get hot intel

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Speaker 1: from different deer hunters all across the country each week

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Speaker 1: telling us, you know, what kind of deer activity we're seeing,

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Speaker 1: how our current conditions impacting dear behavior, what types of

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Speaker 1: things right now would be working as far as tips

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Speaker 1: and tactics. That's the kind of stuff we're gonna cover

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Speaker 1: in just a minute, I'm gonna hop over to a

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Speaker 1: quick introductory conversation that myself and Spencer new Hearth had.

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Speaker 1: I'm on the road hunting Idaho, so you're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: me calling in from the phone, but we'll hear Spencer

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Speaker 1: and I kick things off, and then we'll get to

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Speaker 1: Spencer's interviews with four different hunters from across the country

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Speaker 1: getting all sorts of interesting insights, and then make sure

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Speaker 1: to stay tuned for one of these each Wednesday throughout

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Speaker 1: the rest of the fall. It's gonna get you the

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Speaker 1: best updated information you could possibly ask for coming into

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Speaker 1: your hunts. So, without further ado, let's kick it to

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Speaker 1: the intro to this season of rut Fresh Radio. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Spencer or it is? It is good to be back

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Speaker 1: doing a rout Fresh Radio with you, my friend. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this this like feels the most normal out as I

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Speaker 1: at on X like that's one thing that feels normal

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Speaker 1: in a time of a lot of things and not

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Speaker 1: feeling normal. That is true. And what else is normal

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Speaker 1: for rot Fresh Radio is me calling in from a

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Speaker 1: pickup truck on my phone while I'm driving back from

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Speaker 1: a hunt. So we're kicking it off on a strong note, man, Yes,

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Speaker 1: but we were looking for the freshest, hottest intel anywhere

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Speaker 1: in the world. Right, so you can't get it better

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Speaker 1: than really right off the tree stand right. That's right,

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Speaker 1: That's right. That's why I like these calls. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: giving you the fifteen second rundown of what these episodes

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Speaker 1: don't know. You've been doing this four years, Spencers the

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Speaker 1: start season. This is the fifth season, fifth season, I

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Speaker 1: nine twenty. That's crazy. So five years end up doing

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Speaker 1: these Now, if you were to make the sales pitch

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Speaker 1: agot all the experience. You know what this is all about.

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Speaker 1: You know what folks that have listened to have thought

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Speaker 1: about it. What's what's the Spencer new Hearth pitch on

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Speaker 1: Fresh Radio? Why should people be tuning in every week

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Speaker 1: for this rut Fresh Radio is the most timely dear

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Speaker 1: movement reports that you can possibly get UM. And in

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Speaker 1: every episode, we're gonna talk to four or five experts

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about different things, is like moon phases

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Speaker 1: pressure signmaking. Everything that's relevant to a white tail hunter,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it. We're gonna hear about their

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Speaker 1: that sort of thing you can listen to on your

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Speaker 1: then using the information that you hear all our experts

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Speaker 1: over the weekend. And this is particularly important for a

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Speaker 1: we're talking to people like you, Mark, that just got

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Speaker 1: Light in Kentucky Beautiful. Do we have any kind of

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Speaker 1: Like they're hunting in the mornings, UM, and they're looking

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Speaker 1: it's been the trip, man. I'll tell you what. My

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Speaker 1: my teaser for tomorrow's podcast is that it has been

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Speaker 1: end of the phone call. Uh, And I've been asking

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Speaker 1: The Element podcast. Now Tyler in Nebraska, what would you

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Speaker 1: even even the smaller bucks were by themselves. What food

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Speaker 1: just gonna try to catch uh so that first hour

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00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:41,679
Speaker 1: of daylight. Um, I'm just hoping that buck stays up

432
00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,160
Speaker 1: on their feet for that extra ten minutes right now

433
00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: or fifteen minutes past legal shooting light and maybe just

434
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,879
Speaker 1: catch them slipping. Other than that, it's very hit or

435
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 1: miss in the afternoons, and I'm not seeing any gear

436
00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 1: movement on my cameras or a while I'm in the

437
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,639
Speaker 1: stand for for the afternoons. All right, Richard, But I

438
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 1: hope they things turn around for you in South Carolina.

439
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: Good luck and thanks for joining me, all right, and

440
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you. Good luck to everybody, all right,

441
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 1: and joining us on the line. Next is Alex Compstock

442
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: in North Dakota from White Tailed DNA now Alex in

443
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: North Dakota, what would you say the buck activity has

444
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 1: been lately on a scale of one to ten. I'd

445
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: say in the last week it's probably been in about

446
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,000
Speaker 1: an eight. We've had some really good weather conditions in

447
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: North Dakota that's solicited quite a bit of movement. We

448
00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: had six guys in deer camp over opening weekend and

449
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: pretty much I think every guy was seeing Shooter Bucks

450
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: and or having counters with Shooter Bucks. A couple of

451
00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,640
Speaker 1: nights ago, you arrowed an awesome dear tell us about

452
00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:42,119
Speaker 1: that hunt. Yeah, so that was actually morning hunt. We

453
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:46,800
Speaker 1: got a substantial cold front that rolled through on months

454
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,199
Speaker 1: like Sunday night in the Monday, and so, you know,

455
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:53,440
Speaker 1: typically early season, I'm focusing on the evening. Hunt says.

456
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: You know, getting into a morning spot can be rather difficult. Um,

457
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 1: but with it went from you know, in the eighties,

458
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: in the forties, and so we slipped into a spot

459
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: in the morning. We're in some oaks about fifty yards

460
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: off of bean Field, and we got set up about

461
00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 1: an hour and a half before first light. And as

462
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,680
Speaker 1: soon as I got light out, I could see deer out,

463
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 1: you know, just shadows out in the beans, and there's

464
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 1: a ton of deer in the beans, and they started

465
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: working their way back towards me into the woods, towards

466
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,320
Speaker 1: their bedding, and I had a nice maturity pointer comes

467
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 1: through and kind of just read the script and I

468
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: was able to arrow on my thirty yards working the scrape. Actually,

469
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:34,280
Speaker 1: so it was pretty cool hunting early season in the mornings.

470
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 1: How close to the bedding are you actually getting? We

471
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 1: weren't terribly close to the bedding. I'd stay within a

472
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,560
Speaker 1: few hundred yards, but we had we had to come

473
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: through I guess where they probably were headed more to

474
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: bed and so that was why we wanted to get

475
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 1: in so early, because you know, typically in the morning,

476
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: the deer already usually you know, back to better close

477
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 1: and so on a typical morning you probably renny busting

478
00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 1: deer going out. But with the with the giant col

479
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: front that I had rolled through, that allowed us, I think,

480
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: to slip in essentially at the back door and have

481
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,959
Speaker 1: a successful hunt. You mentioned that that book was working

482
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: as scrape. Did you see a lot of signmaking when

483
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 1: you were in North Dakota the last couple of days.

484
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 1: I did, so we I think, you know, kind of

485
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,960
Speaker 1: as soon as uh, you know as their velvets getting

486
00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: ready to come off, or as there as their shedding

487
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,399
Speaker 1: velvet O. They're starting to actually work the ground and

488
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: started making these scrapes and uh you know using them more.

489
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: I think it's as a communication tool. But there were

490
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: a couple of spots we had where scrapes were popping

491
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: up that weren't there, you know, opening night and we're

492
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:39,119
Speaker 1: there two days later, early season in a western state

493
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 1: on public land. What are the specific things that you're

494
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: looking for when you set a tree stand right now,

495
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: I'm looking for areas that aren't getting aren't getting hunting pressure,

496
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 1: that are close to you know, usually bean fields are

497
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 1: kind of the food source that I'm seeing also deer

498
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: on and I'm trying to find areas that are secluded.

499
00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: So that's what we're really noticing, was area is that

500
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 1: we're secluded, that we're back. You know, you couldn't see

501
00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: from the road, um where you could get in and

502
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 1: there was no hunting pressure. We were seeing a lot

503
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 1: of deer movement in areas like that. Besides beings, what

504
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: other food sources are you looking for this time of

505
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: year other than beings? You know there you know there

506
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: are a lot of wheat fields that it seemed to

507
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: me that as soon as they get cut, the deer

508
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: were hitting up, and the wheat fields this time of year,

509
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 1: especially in you know, areas like North Dakota are getting

510
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: cut right now. So a fresh cut wheat field, you know,

511
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: if that was we had a couple of spots like that,

512
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 1: that would thought up to either some cattail sleues for

513
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: betting or a standing cornfield something like that where he

514
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 1: gave them still some cover, because the one thing with

515
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 1: the cut wheat field is is you know, you have

516
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: no cover at all, and so something like that can

517
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: be definitely something key on when you're planning a hunt

518
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: for September. This water factor in your decision making it all.

519
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: It typically does. We have a couple of spots um

520
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:59,679
Speaker 1: one in particular, we're actually another guy killed and camp

521
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: at night that's really close to a pond. We weren't

522
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: hunting directly over it, but definitely if you can find

523
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: a good water source, I find that to be pretty important.

524
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: After spending about a week in North Dakota, what percentage

525
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,120
Speaker 1: of bucks would you say right now are still in velvet?

526
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: I'd say probably only about most of the bucks I

527
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 1: was seeing was we're already hard horned going forward. And

528
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: then in the next week or so, what do you

529
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: think that buck activity is going to be on a

530
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: scale of one to ten in North Dakota. I put

531
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: it in about a five or six. The temperatures overall

532
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,600
Speaker 1: are going to be not bad, um compared to a

533
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: year over year, as it will be the load of

534
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: mid seventies. But after getting that initial cold front where

535
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: it was down you know, today the high was fifty. Um,

536
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: app is going to kind of go up from there,

537
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: So I put it back down to about a five

538
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: or six. All Right, Alex, we'll congrats again on the

539
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: awesome book. Good luck for the rest of your season.

540
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me, all right, appreciate it. Thanks Spencer,

541
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: alright and joining us on the line. Next is Greg

542
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,640
Speaker 1: Ferrell from First Light in Kentucky. Now, Greg in Kentucky,

543
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: what would you say the buck activity has been lately

544
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten. I would say

545
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: where we were in Butler County, Um, it's probably been

546
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 1: about a seven. Um. Right now, we've noticed that bucks

547
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: are definitely still on the tail end of their summer pattern,

548
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: so we're able to we were able to find them,

549
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: UM and kind of hone in on them based off

550
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: of those feeding patterns you know that you're used to

551
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: seeing in these early fall, late summer months. So coming

552
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: out into the fields, you know, still half an hour

553
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: forty five minutes before dark. UM. So because of that, UM,

554
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: the fact that they're still on some of those summer

555
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: feeding patterns. UM, it's actually been been pretty good by us.

556
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: You just arrowed a great buck last night. Tell us

557
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: about that hunt. Yeah, So we were, UM, we kind

558
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: of came in blind to this property that we're hunting

559
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,479
Speaker 1: this week. UM. We get in day before season opened,

560
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: UM and did some scouting UM from a distance, basically

561
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: through spotters and buyos UM. And then our kind of

562
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: our game plan for this week, since we had never

563
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: hunted this property, was to kind of play conservative um

564
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,480
Speaker 1: at least the first three days, UM, figure out what

565
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: those d are doing. UM, then just kind of slowly

566
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: chip away at them, you know, getting closer and closer

567
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: to betting areas, UM, but doing so in a way

568
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: that we weren't busting them out of there in the

569
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: first first few days. So UM, this is kind of

570
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: the culmination of that. UM. It was a buck we

571
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: found the first night actually in a bachelor group, UM,

572
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: when we were doing that scouting, and after this was

573
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: the third sit, so basically just kind of moving closer

574
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 1: and closer to learning about where they were coming out

575
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: and kind of what they were feeding towards. UM, and

576
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: eventually was able to get in the right tree, UM,

577
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: slipping arrow in him at about forty yards. You mentioned

578
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: that those deer still in the summer pattern. How much

579
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: longer do you think that summer pattern is going to last?

580
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: You know, where we are, I think you probably have

581
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: maybe throughout this week, depending on you know, geographically where

582
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: you're located, UM, in reference to where we are in Kentucky. UM.

583
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: Really for us, we especially like Friday and Saturday. So

584
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: Friday was scouting, Saturday was first Dave season UM, and

585
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: both of those sits we were seeing a lot of

586
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 1: bucks still in bachelor groups, definitely still in those feeding

587
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: patterns UM, and kind of following the same script every night, UM,

588
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: which you know is indication of of summer feeding patterns

589
00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: for sure. UM. But actually, interestingly enough, UM, a few

590
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,959
Speaker 1: days after that, a few of these bachelor groups that

591
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: we had been watching UM started to lose one, two,

592
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: three of those deer and break up UM. And then

593
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: actually the deer that I shot last night, UM, he

594
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: was actually fully solo last night, and when we recovered him,

595
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: he was actually starting to lose some of the velvet

596
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,000
Speaker 1: on one of his side. So I think within the

597
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: next probably five to seven days, UM, in the majority

598
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: of the state, you're going to see that transition of

599
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: deer off of that summer pattern into more of an

600
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: early fall um range in pattern. With this being your

601
00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: first trip to the property, I assume that you threw

602
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: up some trail cameras while you were there. Where are

603
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 1: you focusing your trail cameras this time of year? Yeah,

604
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 1: we definitely did UM. And like I said, our strategy

605
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: because we had not set foot on this I mean

606
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: we had we did a ton of e scouting UM,

607
00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: and we were pretty confident that we had both betting

608
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 1: travel corridors and evening feeding pegged down UM, but without

609
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: actually having hunted this property. We wanted to make sure

610
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: that we had that figured out before we went trumping in.

611
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: So what we tried to do is, UM, we put

612
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: a bunch of cell cameras up actually UM on field

613
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: edges as to not be intrusive UM, but kind of

614
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: use it as like a confirmation on the data that

615
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: we were finding during our hunts and scouting. UM. Now,

616
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: as the hunt goes on, we still have UM one

617
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: guy in camp with a tag UM. We're kind of

618
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: changing our strategy, so we're getting a little bit more aggressive,

619
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: moving in a little bit closer to where these bucks

620
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: are betting, and we're moving our cameras with us as

621
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: we do that. UM, not making specific trips into hang cameras,

622
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: but as we're moving in through these areas to you know,

623
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: do hanging hunts essentially every night, bringing those cameras in

624
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: with us UM as a confirmation of that information. Besides beans,

625
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: what are the food sources should hunters be focused on

626
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: in Kentucky right now? Honestly, I would say beans would

627
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: be the primary um by us. They're still green. I know,

628
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: as we were kind of traveling to the property, UM

629
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 1: we did see some fields that we started to turn brown.

630
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 1: But with those those green um bean food sources, they're

631
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: definitely honed in on those. UM. It seems like the

632
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: areas that have corn UM it's more holding deer than

633
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: they're hitting too hard. They seem to still be coming

634
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: out of the cord and heading towards those beans. So,

635
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: whether you have beans on your property or um a

636
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: neighboring property, I would be focusing on understanding that those

637
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: deer eventually want to be in those bean fields at night, um,

638
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: while they're still green and before they're kind of browning up.

639
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: Going forward, Then in the next week or so, what

640
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: do you think that buck activity is going to be

641
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: On a scale of one to tend in Kentucky, I

642
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: would say you're going to see a drop from that,

643
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: you know, like six seven like we've been seeing, um,

644
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 1: probably down to you know, four's um, maybe even threes

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Speaker 1: as those bucks kind of go a bit more nocturnal

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Speaker 1: um and get into their solo um fall um kind

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Speaker 1: of patterns, both feeding, betting, um, travel corridors, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: All right, Greg, what congrats again on the awesome book.

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Speaker 1: Good luck for the rest of your season. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining me. Yeah, thanks for having me appreciate it. And

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Speaker 1: that concludes the first episode of season five of rut

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Speaker 1: Fresh Radio. Thanks to Tyler, Richard, Alex and Greg for

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Speaker 1: next fifteen weeks of recording these episodes and talking deer

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Speaker 1: hunting on every Wednesday this fall. If you like this

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Speaker 1: Eater dot com, we're gonna have tons of written reports

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Speaker 1: bunch of great articles for me, Mark Kenyon, Tony Peterson,

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Speaker 1: Until then, stay wired hunt