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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. This is episode number one two

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Speaker 1: and today we're back with another RUT radio episode in

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Speaker 1: which we're getting from the field reports on the progress

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Speaker 1: of the White Tail rout and today we're getting updates

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Speaker 1: from states such as Missouri, Ohio, Georgia, West Virginia, and more.

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Speaker 1: Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, just want

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Speaker 1: some audio quality issues you're gonna hear coming up here.

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Speaker 1: We had to record our little intro between me and

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Speaker 1: Spencer while I was on the road calling in from

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Speaker 1: All right. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Podcast, brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Sicking here, and we are back here

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Speaker 1: for another one of our radio editions of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: And as you can tell from how I sound, probably

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Speaker 1: I'm not recording this in my usual studio because it's

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Speaker 1: the RUT and I'm all over the world right now

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Speaker 1: chasing bucks. And uh, how about you, Spencer, you uh,

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Speaker 1: you've been out and about and uh talking to a

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Speaker 1: lot of people about deer hunting at least right Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I am in South Dakota. I'm about to hit a

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Speaker 1: of the world. But I've been doing some scouting and

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Speaker 1: stuff to anticipate those seasons, and the rut is absolutely here.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's more of a perception

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Speaker 1: what it is. But I'm starting to see some bucks

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Speaker 1: and doughs that are you know, locked down out in

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Speaker 1: some crp or uh, you know, bucks just cruising midday

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Speaker 1: and cut corn fields. But the the activity is definitely

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Speaker 1: up here in South Dakota. And I think we're talking

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Speaker 1: to the rare Ohio Mark Kenyon right now, what do

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Speaker 1: you see in there? Yes? Um, very My buddies have

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Speaker 1: been down on how the past few days. Not a

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Speaker 1: but I've heard of other people there's there's some good actions,

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Speaker 1: some good activity, and um and I guess we should

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Speaker 1: we should rewind the tape just a little tiny bit,

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Speaker 1: not familiar with what we're doing here on these special

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Speaker 1: handful of different hunters across the country to talk about

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Speaker 1: you know what me and Stunts have just been mentioned here,

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Speaker 1: and that's the progress of the rut, what kind of

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Speaker 1: working right now? Um. So, so that's what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: Spencer just asked me here about what's going on in Ohio.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a whole lot to stay around the

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Speaker 1: and the activity in Michigan has been really great. Um.

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Speaker 1: deer are starting to move. And who we talked to

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Speaker 1: and Missouri, and then Lindsay Thomas Jr. In Georgia with

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Speaker 1: q D m A. And then from the Average Outdoorsman

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Speaker 1: in West Virginia we have Zach Lamb and then we

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Speaker 1: go to North Dakota and talk to John Armand from

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Speaker 1: Ultimate Outdoor Adventures TV. And then in Michigan. We have

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Speaker 1: Cole Stevens with hawk Hunting awesome well, sounding a good slate.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a whole lot more to share on

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Speaker 1: monstro because um on our regular episode of Wren Podcast,

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Speaker 1: I'll share some interesting stories of what's been happening for me.

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Speaker 1: But anything else in your sun sponsor before we get

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Speaker 1: to these right reports, I don't think so. I'm excited

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Speaker 1: that mid November is upon us, but it's also that

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Speaker 1: kind of a stressful time, as I'm sure you're I

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Speaker 1: was feeling with holy Field that, like you know, these

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Speaker 1: I did feeling the pressure, been grinding away at it

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Speaker 1: and and I will tell more all about that in

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Speaker 1: the next episode. How about that? That sounds good. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next week. Mark. Alright, thanks. Before we

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Speaker 1: sit A story, we're joined by Jeff Simpson, who tells

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Speaker 1: us about the first white tail hunt with his son

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Speaker 1: the late season last year. My son, who was twelve

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Speaker 1: and joining us on the line. First in Misery is

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Speaker 1: Sean Lucti with heart Lambow Hunter. Now, Sean in Missouri,

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Speaker 1: what would you say the buck activities been lee on

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Speaker 1: so with it being locked down, what is your strategy

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Speaker 1: right now if we're trying to get one with your

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Speaker 1: completely silent right now as far as scrapes and drubs, No,

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Speaker 1: season opening, I think it's gonna it's gonna make things

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Speaker 1: of certain areas that I that I think they're gonna be. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's just gonna make things a little more complicated. But

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Speaker 1: this year. Well, you do any calling right now as

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Speaker 1: far as grunting, don't bleeds anything like that. I'm attempting it.

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Speaker 1: If I do see a buck cruising, I definitely ground

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Speaker 1: seen evidence of a lockdown phase or a lull that

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Speaker 1: you know bucks just aren't moving today because they're locked down.

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Speaker 1: Food plots are looking good in most of the state.

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Speaker 1: We've had enough rain in most areas we're not dry

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Speaker 1: going to be mainly oak. Like I said, the mass

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Speaker 1: do you think the bucket activity is going to be

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00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,200
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to tend in West Virginia?

431
00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: Like I said, the we're getting a big cold front

432
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,200
Speaker 1: coming in at the end of the week. Uh so,

433
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 1: I think that's going to bump us up from probably

434
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: a seven to maybe a high eight, eight and a

435
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 1: half maybe nine. Um, So, our our rifle season comes

436
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,399
Speaker 1: in in two weeks, so that our rud always hits

437
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,200
Speaker 1: about a week before then, so that ought to be

438
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 1: pretty well peaked time for us within the next week.

439
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Speaker 1: All right, Zack, Well, good luck with that cold front

440
00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,840
Speaker 1: and thanks for joining me. All right, thank you, Spencer.

441
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Speaker 1: Before our next caller, they'll let's pause it. Thank our

442
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Speaker 1: sponsors at white Tail Properties. And this week with white

443
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Speaker 1: Tail Properties, we are joined by Tony Hanson, a land

444
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,560
Speaker 1: specialist out of Michigan, and Tony is gonna be telling

445
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:08,880
Speaker 1: us about how hunting strategy changes in pressured states like Michigan.

446
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,199
Speaker 1: I'd say the biggest difference is that just the availability

447
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: the number of older deer is much much lower, so

448
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: you don't have, you know, a bunch of them to

449
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:23,880
Speaker 1: pick from us. So you've got to be pretty cure

450
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: that you do have to hunt. And you know, for me,

451
00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,639
Speaker 1: it's it's all about trying to manage the girl that

452
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,800
Speaker 1: I've got so that I do have that age structure

453
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: because it's it's probably not going to be there on

454
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Speaker 1: the neighbors. If you'd like to learn more and to

455
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Speaker 1: see the properties that Tony currently has listed for sale,

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Speaker 1: visit Whitetail properties dot com. Backslash Hanson that's h A

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Speaker 1: N S E N alright. And joining us on the

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Speaker 1: line next is John Armand in North Dakota with Ultimate

459
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Speaker 1: Outdoor Adventures TV. Now. John in North Dakota, what would

460
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,200
Speaker 1: you say the bucket activity has been lately on a

461
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 1: scale of one to ten, I would have to say

462
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,719
Speaker 1: it's probably around a three or four. Well, you know,

463
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 1: we've talked to a couple of my team members that

464
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: have been hunting pretty hard. I mean they're out probably

465
00:24:11,520 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: every evening and he's still seen almost like bachelor groups

466
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,959
Speaker 1: of bucks. You seeing six and seven bucks hanging together,

467
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: and hasn't seen a lot a little bit the younger

468
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: bucks sniffing around. Um, and that was this last week. So, um,

469
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,439
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be going out here tomorrow, so

470
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: I'll know more tomorrow. But hopefully the activity has picked up.

471
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Speaker 1: So do you think that we're a ways off some

472
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Speaker 1: of that really good activity or is it close? I

473
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: think it's close. I think that you know, for us,

474
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Speaker 1: it always seems our rifle season opens up this time

475
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: of year, and um, come this time of year, we

476
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: usually have them hot and heavy chasing, and I just think,

477
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Speaker 1: I don't know what it's been. I've talked to several

478
00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: guys across the state from western North Dakota to eastern

479
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: North Dakota and it's been just kind light. And we

480
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 1: were out in Montana and experienced the same thing. Just

481
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: um the neile deer who seemed like they brought a

482
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 1: little bit later when again we saw three to four

483
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 1: bucks together and they weren't pushing each other around very much,

484
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: and they weren't really on the door. So, um, I

485
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: always I just think it sometimes it just turns on

486
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 1: like a light switch and it's go time, and hopefully

487
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: in the next week it's go time. Well, John, are

488
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,479
Speaker 1: you guys going through harvest at all there in North Dakota?

489
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Speaker 1: And how do you think that will change deer hunting

490
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,439
Speaker 1: for you guys? Well, it's it's made a big difference,

491
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:36,199
Speaker 1: might be undershot book on October thirteenth. Um. And the

492
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: reason I attributed that kill was that we had him

493
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Speaker 1: on game camera all fall, and um, we got some

494
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: late season rains and kind of change some growth around,

495
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 1: and all our bucks moved out of our river bottoms

496
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 1: and we couldn't find them. Didn't have this um buck

497
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: on trail camera for a month. But then our neighbors

498
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: chopped at their corn and we got out there two

499
00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: days after they chopped it, and she killed that beautiful

500
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: eight pointer And it was because he was pushed back

501
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,879
Speaker 1: out of the crops. So, you know, a lot of

502
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: our crops out here hold a lot of deer because

503
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,159
Speaker 1: we don't have a lot of trees um different kind

504
00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: of trains, so a lot of these animals will woke

505
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,960
Speaker 1: bad and live in the corn. So with the corn

506
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: and sunflowers starting to come off, it's gonna push these

507
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 1: deer around a little bit and then get them moving. Well,

508
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 1: what are you seeing for signmaking right now? We're finding

509
00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,919
Speaker 1: that rubs and scrapes are still active. Yeah, you know,

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00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 1: I had said, a couple of cameras last week and

511
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:36,199
Speaker 1: a couple of our go to scrapes that we usually

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00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 1: you know, we don't even but I said, a lot

513
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: of cameras on scrapes because um, you know, whatever bucks

514
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: in the area comes through there and it kind of

515
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 1: gives us an eve until read. A lot of these

516
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: scrapes that we're just getting hit a little bit have

517
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 1: really opened up quite a bit this time of year.

518
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: So again we're seeing that UM activity um increased quite

519
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: a bit. And like I said, I think in the

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00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: next week, you know, gonna shut down just because they're

521
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: gonna be busy doing doing other things. Well, as we

522
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: get into some of those better hunting days, what is

523
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: your best rut set up look like? Well, for us,

524
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, this time of year, we start rifle hunting,

525
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: and that the areas we hunt, UM, we hunt some

526
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: big rolling hills and we sit vantage points. And the

527
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: reason we do that is we spot deer UM coming

528
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 1: from a long runers away and you will see rutting

529
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: activity all the way around you in different areas, and UM,

530
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: it gives this advantage to advantage to see these deer

531
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,159
Speaker 1: at a long distance and kind of see their pattern

532
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: routes and get ahead of them and then make our

533
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: move on them. And you know, when we bow hunt

534
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,399
Speaker 1: again a little different set up then I'm still a

535
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: lot of my UM concentration is always on the food

536
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: sources because this time of year, the doors are they're

537
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: hitting the food sources, and um, where the doors are at,

538
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: the bucks are going to be. So we try to

539
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: intercept them going from their bedding area uh to their

540
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: food source. We're going forward. Then, in this next week

541
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: or so, what do you think the bucket activity is

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00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,479
Speaker 1: going to be on a scale of one to ten

543
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 1: in North Dakota. Well, I'm hoping for about a seven, eight,

544
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: nine or ten. I just think it's gotta it's gotta

545
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: kick in. We just haven't seen a lot of it.

546
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: We've got cold temperatures right now, we got a snow

547
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: under ground, so you know all the signs that helped

548
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 1: things along so that we'll see these deer during the

549
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: daylight and watch them on their feet a little bit longer.

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00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping at least a seven, if not an eight. Well, John,

551
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,159
Speaker 1: I'm sure you guys will get something done with that

552
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: gun season opening. So good luck and thanks for joining me,

553
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: all right, buddy, thank you very much, alright and joining

554
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: us on the line. Last is Cole Stevens in Michigan,

555
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: the digital coordinator for Hawk Hunting Now. Cole in Michigan,

556
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: what would you say the bucket activity has been lately

557
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten on a skillet

558
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: one of ten. In the last week or so, I'd

559
00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: say it's been got a six. Um starting to get

560
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: study here, and it's picked up a lot since the

561
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: way he's previous. But I think it's it's on the

562
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: verge of getting a little bit better here shortly. So

563
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: are you seeing any mature bucks moving yet or we're

564
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: still some of those younger age class dear uh? As

565
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: of right now, it's all the younger age class um personally,

566
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: It looks like online just the threats and stuff like

567
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: with that that they are starting to pick up, um

568
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: significantly they spoken social media and stuff really shows you

569
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 1: what part of the state is doing. And personally, most ideas,

570
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: the bigger than do that I have on camera are

571
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: still all doctor So so how aggressive are you going

572
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: to get then? Um? With that dear activity picking up

573
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: a little, you're gonna try any calling? Are you gonna

574
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: move in embedding yet? Yeah? You know what I mean,

575
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: kind of play it by my sight and sound and um.

576
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: Literally I'm just finding our normal feeding areas, but it's

577
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 1: food plot or just on the way to the food plots. Um.

578
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: Just trying to follow the doors is my big thing

579
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: right now. Whatever they're doing is is what I'm gonna

580
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: be trying to get to um and then trying to

581
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: just chant and see if feed bops, you know, show

582
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 1: themselves during daylight the next week or so, or if

583
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna be pulling out and wait until until dark.

584
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: What was some of our best days of hunting ahead

585
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: of here? Shortly? What is your best rut set up

586
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:30,160
Speaker 1: look like? Personally, it's gonna be tingch points, um just

587
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: what I I hunt in Uh within three acres and

588
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: just straight woods pretty much, so I don't really have

589
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,120
Speaker 1: that that field edge advantage or anything like that. I

590
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: just got to find where these deer cruising between betting areas,

591
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: between food slots, where the pressure is you know, on

592
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: boarding prompanies as a little small small parcels around me.

593
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: So if I can just find those little little honey

594
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,479
Speaker 1: holes where they just don't feel comfortable cruising through, uh,

595
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 1: that's gonna be amount purpose set up. And are you

596
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: your trail cameras changed lately as far as location? Are

597
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: you still running the same setups as you were in October? Uh?

598
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: Most of them are the same, you know, over large areas.

599
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: I didn't switch over off scrapes or the scrapes that

600
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: they popped up, and that seems to be the hotspot

601
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: right now. It was just putting among lows, but probably

602
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: be transitioning those soon to back to the open areas.

603
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: Try and see what there doing. Have you heard a

604
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: new reports yet in Michigan of devils and bucks being

605
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: locked down? Not yet? No, no, just I don't know

606
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: what you would even called. But the phase just before that,

607
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: you know, just the chasing has been light. Um usually

608
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: the standing that I said tonight would be a perfect

609
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 1: stand up to really serve itt that type of movement,

610
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: and uh, you know it was quiet. They won't. They

611
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: won't loosing through. So I think, like I mentioned that,

612
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: they're still but you're here starting to get their noses

613
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: wet and the look in the Asian and off and

614
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: down there. We're going forward. Then in this next week

615
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: or so, cool, what do you think that bucket activity

616
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: is going to be in Michigan On a scale of

617
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: one to ten, I mean still, I'd say about eight. Um,

618
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: Michigan's shotgun and raffles season starts a week from today, actually,

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Speaker 1: so that's that's gonna be quite the stir in the woods. Um,

620
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: it always is for bluck activity, you know, usually the

621
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: first two days of shot then and stuff that us

622
00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: see different pressure and wanting that. But after that, I

623
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: think it's yeah, probably direct back down for a little while,

624
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: because you do start to see a little pencil board games,

625
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: the weekend Warriors and the opening day either they're done blasting.

626
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, in the next next seven seven or ten days,

627
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be really good. Honey, alright, cool, Well,

628
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: I hope you're able to get it done before the

629
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: Orange Army hits the woods. So good luck and thanks

630
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: for joining me. Yeah, thanks Spencer, and that concludes this

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Speaker 1: week's episode of Wired Haunts Rout Radio. I hope those

632
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: all days sits haven't gotten to you yet and that

633
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: you still have some left in the tank for mid November.

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