1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for 2 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host, 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm 4 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan, and this is episode number two 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 1: four and today, like we are every week on Wednesday's, 6 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: we're back with another RUT Radio episode in which we're 7 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 1: catching you up on the latest deer and RUT related 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,319 Speaker 1: reports from across the country, getting you the info on 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: the conditions, the dear behavior and the tactics need to 10 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: know right now. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, 11 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: brought to you by Onyx, and we are here for 12 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: our weekly RUT radio mini series. It's me and Spencer 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: and we're gonna do what we do every Wednesday, which 14 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: is walk you through a series of reports from hunters 15 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: across the country to get us an idea of what's 16 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: happening right now in the White Tail woods. What kind 17 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: of deer activity um, what kind of tactics are working, 18 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:13,280 Speaker 1: How is the weather and other conditions present influencing deer 19 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: movement and hunting. Basically everything you need to know to 20 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: make sure that your next few hunts are going to 21 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,600 Speaker 1: be successful. That's what we're gonna try to get you today, 22 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:26,279 Speaker 1: and Spencer, I don't know about you, but anecdotally looking 23 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: across the country, just from like my social networks and 24 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: stories and then also a little bit of my own observation, 25 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: I feel like the last seven to ten days have 26 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: been one of the better mid October time periods that 27 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: I can remember. Do you feel the same way. I 28 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: feel like I've seen a lot of deer hitting the ground. Um, 29 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,559 Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen it like super isolated 30 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 1: to a couple of days stretch like we did, uh 31 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: two weekends ago, so like I think it was October fourteen. 32 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 1: In that time period. The episode before that, people were 33 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: predicting that there'd be a lot of deer moving around 34 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: because of the approaching cold front, and that seemed to happen. 35 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: There were a ton of deer killed that weekend. Since then, 36 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,960 Speaker 1: I'd agree that I've seen a lot of bucks killed, 37 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: But I don't know about like that really tight couple 38 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: day window like we maybe saw a few weeks ago. Yeah, 39 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: that was definitely the best. I think that that when 40 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 1: that front hit, that was awesome. But from that like 41 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: about to about like a couple of days ago, it 42 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: just seemed like it seemed like my Facebook feed looked 43 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: like November compared to most of towers octobers, you're just 44 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 1: not seeing that many of them hitting the ground. It 45 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: just seemed like, Wow, people were having a lot of success, 46 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: So that was exciting to see. Um, what what are 47 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: we hearing? Though? Do you have any can you give 48 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: me any kind of trend as far as what your 49 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: reports have given us for this coming week or what 50 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,519 Speaker 1: they've been hearing. So let's back up, Like two episodes ago, 51 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: people were really excited for the approaching cold front, so 52 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: we were hearing some super optimistic numbers. Last week things 53 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: that kind of tapered off in what you'd expect for 54 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: mid October as far as predicting on a scale one 55 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:06,920 Speaker 1: to ten what they think the buck activity would be. 56 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 1: And this week we're climbing back up again where people 57 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 1: are optimistic. However, I wouldn't say it's like it was 58 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: a few episodes ago where uh people were feeling that 59 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: the cold front coming through and we're excited about the 60 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,120 Speaker 1: pressure changes and stuff like that. And it's also not 61 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: like last year. If you recall last year, Mark, Uh, 62 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: we had some just perfectly time cold fronts if you 63 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: took your calendar and circle days where you wanted cold fronts, 64 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,239 Speaker 1: we got them. Um, this year is not the same thing. 65 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: I don't see any cold fronts in like the Great 66 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: Planes approaching anytime soon. And uh, the hunters that we 67 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: talked to this week don't address that either. So the 68 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: optimism that you're gonna be hearing and the confidence that 69 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: people feel about the buck movement picking up, that's because 70 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: we're approaching November, not so much because there's a specific 71 00:03:55,240 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: moon phase, weather pattern, pressure change, UM, food stay it 72 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: is something like that that's kind of driving those deer 73 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: to get on their feet. Yeah, that's an interesting point. 74 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,000 Speaker 1: And UM to that point, I just looked at my 75 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: like two week forecast for here in Michigan, and what 76 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: we have coming up is very stable weather. It doesn't 77 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: seem now. Of course, this could change drastically, but as 78 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: of right now, they're predicting almost the same general temperatures 79 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: for highs and lows for the next two weeks. So 80 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,599 Speaker 1: that typically would be something that I wouldn't be as 81 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: excited about, right because sometimes we tend to see that 82 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 1: there's some some increases in movement around those changes in 83 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: temperature around those fronts moving through and you'll get this 84 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,840 Speaker 1: burst of activity, um for the next two weeks. I'm 85 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: not seeing that. But on the bright side, at least 86 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: here where I'm at, it seems like that temperature is 87 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:51,360 Speaker 1: going to be holding below average temperature the whole way, 88 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: So we don't have any of these warm fronts like 89 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: these dreaded late October early November warm fronts that we 90 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: seem to get every year where there's a few days there, 91 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 1: you know, for us here Michigan, if we get a 92 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: couple of days over seventy or in the high sixties, 93 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: that's like a huge suppressor of writing activity. At least 94 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: right now, knock on wood, I don't see that coming 95 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: that way. So, UM, it's gonna be interesting to see 96 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: how that influences things. If we're just gonna have this 97 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: kind of steady movement that slowly tapers up as writting 98 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 1: activity tapers up, um, since we don't have a big 99 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: front that's going to come through and hit you know, 100 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: the accelerator. UM. But I guess I guess, as I'm 101 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: saying all this, I'm not going to complain because I'll 102 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: take forty five to fifty degrees any day of the week. Um, 103 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,320 Speaker 1: any time of year usually it's not too bad. So, um, 104 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 1: what's the point of me saying all this? I don't know. 105 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:38,599 Speaker 1: I'm just kind of rambling as I think about this weather. 106 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: It's got me excited. Um for forty five degrees on 107 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: October thirty one, I'll be hunting the Holy Field property 108 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: next to that point. I think there's a few things 109 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 1: you can take away from that. One is that, uh, 110 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: you don't have to feel pressure to like be out 111 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: there on a weekday necessarily where uh if we did 112 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: have a cold front coming up, like next Wednesday, you'd 113 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 1: feel super guilty for not being enter tree stand on 114 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: October thirty one with a cold front coming through. You 115 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: know that. Uh you know, October November three are probably 116 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: gonna hunt very similar to you know, like a midweek 117 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,599 Speaker 1: day when there's no cold front. The other thing to 118 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,599 Speaker 1: consider is that as you look ahead of these forecasts, 119 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: if we see that stable weather, we're probably seeing stable 120 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,919 Speaker 1: wind as well. You're gonna get a lot of uh, 121 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: you know, four or five days in a row with 122 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: the exact same wind. And so keep in mind that 123 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: do a checklist if you have enough stands to support 124 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: like a ton of consecutive same wind days, so you're 125 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: not burning an area out before we get to the 126 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 1: best hunting of the year in early November. It's a 127 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 1: very good couple of points. They're spencer. UM. I have 128 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: had situations like that happened before, so that's a great 129 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: thing to keep in mind. UM. So that said, then 130 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: we've got pretty stable weather patterns coming up. We're moving 131 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: into late October, which generally is that time when the 132 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 1: pre rut is picking up. We're starting to see bucks, 133 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: mature bucks starting to move a little bit earlier in 134 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 1: the day or move a little later in the morning, 135 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: so we're gonna see that daylight activity picking up. Signmaking 136 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: is definitely picking up. UM. I can give you a 137 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 1: little Michigan report if you're okay with that. I pulled 138 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: camera as a handful of days ago. And they've also 139 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: been observing a lot um on a couple mainly my 140 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: my holy Field property been sitting on the hill doing 141 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: a lot of observing. There's been a lot of daylight 142 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: activity from kind of young mature issue bucks, so like 143 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: two year olds, three year old tons of activity right now. 144 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,880 Speaker 1: The scrapes are just getting blown up, um, including you know, 145 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: like I said, even in the daylight, fence fence line 146 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: scrapes in the daylight even are getting hammered by like 147 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: pretty nice Michigan bucks. So that's been interesting to me. Uh. 148 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: And I think I've been testing most of that to 149 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: the front, the cold front. The cold weather pushed through. 150 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: I think got these deer a little more comfortable. And 151 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: these are very unpressured dear where I'm at, or at 152 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 1: least I've been keeping this specific little chunk as unpressure 153 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: as possible. Haven't hunted at all. Um, So that's kind 154 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: of what I've seen. I give it like a higher 155 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: end of the one to ten scale for my last 156 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 1: few days just from what I've been seeing, like a 157 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: like a seven maybe. Um, I have seen three year old, 158 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 1: a couple of bucks that I've been on the fence 159 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: at the three or four seeing those deer moving in 160 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:25,280 Speaker 1: daylight the last like three or four days. Even so, um, 161 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: that's my Michigan report across the board. I also did here, 162 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: and I know we're going over the time limit, Spencer, 163 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,479 Speaker 1: so I'm started to keep doing this to you. Um. 164 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:37,000 Speaker 1: But I had another friend who was out three days ago, 165 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 1: so this would have been like the nineteenth maybe, and 166 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:43,200 Speaker 1: he saw two mature bucks fighting, he saw nine bucks total, 167 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: He saw bucks chasing, he saw like full blown running 168 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 1: action on that day. I think it's the morning of 169 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: the nineteent um, So that was interesting. I think it's 170 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: an anomaly, right I'm not claiming that there's some kind 171 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: of like the Ruts happening right now, but it was 172 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: an interesting anomaly to see that. Every once in a while, 173 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: you see something that happened this time May year, and um, 174 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: it caught my attension. So that's what I've been seeing. 175 00:09:04,360 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 1: Do you have anything you personally should share? Uh? Not personally. 176 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 1: I have been kind of taking it easy lately because 177 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,559 Speaker 1: once we hit this weekend, I'll have about a month 178 00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: straight where I'll be hunting. I mean literally every day 179 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 1: for about a month, I'll be hunting. So until then, 180 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: I haven't been doing too much so I don't burn 181 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: myself out or burn my wife out from being gone 182 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: so much. So nothing personally, but as far as who 183 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:30,880 Speaker 1: we talked to you this week, we have Josh McDaniel 184 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: in Indiana from Shooters Archery, and then Philip Vanderpool in 185 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: Arkansas from the Virtue TV. Then we talked to Justin 186 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: Michael from ever Wild Collective in New York and then 187 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: from Captured Creative Taylor Coleman in Minnesota. Do you have 188 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 1: one takeaway from the conversations we've had so far, um, 189 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 1: or anything else as far as something that people should 190 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: think about over the next six or seven days. UM, 191 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 1: I don't know about from who we talked to today, 192 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,319 Speaker 1: I guess one thing is referencing last year's episode again, 193 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: is that every single person we talked you brought up acorns, 194 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:10,199 Speaker 1: and this year, unless I prompted and ask them about acorns, 195 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: that doesn't really come up. And so acorns are not 196 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: similar to it's an issue of an issue this season. 197 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: You can probably look to some of those more traditional 198 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: food sources, food plots, uh, agriculture, that kind of thing. Okay, 199 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: I like it. I will give a quick one to UM, 200 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 1: and that being this next week, the last week of 201 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 1: October typically is one of your best chances of the 202 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,720 Speaker 1: year if you're trying to kill a specific deer, because 203 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: once you get into November, once you're in the peak 204 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: of the rut, lots of time these mature bucks they 205 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: get off of their usual patterns and they just start 206 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: going Willie NAILI they're chasing does or cruising larger areas 207 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: looking for a female. It's willing and ready to go. 208 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: So he's not going to be doing what he typically does. 209 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: But if you have a specific buck that you've learned 210 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,040 Speaker 1: a lot about, maybe you've got a few years of 211 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: history with you know some of the places he generally beds, 212 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,960 Speaker 1: you know some of the places he generally feeds, and 213 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: you think you know how to get in between those two. 214 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: If you have that information, this might be your very 215 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 1: best chance to get that shot. Because he's still going 216 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: to be generally on that pattern, but because we're ramping 217 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:14,720 Speaker 1: up to the pre rut time period, he might be 218 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:16,880 Speaker 1: moving in daylight just a little bit more. So this 219 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: might be that period to catch him moving daylight, but 220 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 1: still in a place that you understand him and you 221 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:24,439 Speaker 1: know about him before he starts going crazy in November. Now, 222 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: not all deer like that. I've had bucks that, you know, 223 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: stay consistent in a tight area during the rut year 224 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,640 Speaker 1: after year, even in the first or second week in November. 225 00:11:32,679 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 1: But something to keep in mind as a lot of 226 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: mature bucks tend not to do that. Yeah, and for 227 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: some guys who target specific books, this is literally their 228 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: favorite time off year to be hunting. They would take uh, 229 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,280 Speaker 1: you know, the October twenties over the November you know, 230 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: signaling digit days. So if if there's a deer that 231 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 1: you've been after that he's been nocturnal for the most part, 232 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: this might be your time to catch him moving before 233 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: he completely breaks away from that uh and loses his 234 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: mind come early November. Yeah. So if that's you, I'm 235 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:06,840 Speaker 1: gonna cross all my fingers and toasts for everyone listening. 236 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,719 Speaker 1: If you've got a specific buck, hopefully, uh, hopefully you 237 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: can get after him, So Spencer, anything else before we 238 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,200 Speaker 1: get on with the reports. One nice thing while you 239 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,959 Speaker 1: were giving that last bit of information about talking a 240 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: specific deer, I did check out the forecast for wind direction, 241 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,840 Speaker 1: and twelve of the next fourteen days are predicted to 242 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: be north winds. And so, like I said before, keep 243 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: that in mind. Uh, maybe don't burn out those north 244 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: winds stands quite yet. Or if you have a south 245 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: wind stand that you really love to haunt that you've 246 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: been you know, holding off for early November or something, 247 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: get in those as soon as possible because you might 248 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,360 Speaker 1: not have any chances to hunt it before the best 249 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: action gets here. Yeah, I'll add one more thing now. Um. 250 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: I can't personally say that I paid attention to this 251 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 1: as much myself, but Mark Jury always talks about if 252 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: you've got a long consistent spell of north winds, the 253 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 1: first south is going to be really good. That change 254 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: could be one of your better days. So we've been 255 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: talking about this stable weather. Well, if there's a shifting 256 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: wind direction, that might be one of those sparks that 257 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 1: changes things. So if you're looking for a time to 258 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 1: switch things up or time to dive in, um, that 259 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: first south might be something to take advantage of. Just 260 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: a thought. All right, let's get out of here with 261 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: it and go to our first color. Sounds good, alright, 262 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 1: But before we get to our first color, let's pause 263 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:27,239 Speaker 1: for a word from our sponsors at white Tail Properties. 264 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:30,400 Speaker 1: This week with white Tail Properties, we were joined by 265 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: Justin Mason, a land specialist out of Illinois, and Justin 266 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: is gonna be telling us about what some things are 267 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: to consider when looking at a property that frequently floods. 268 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing to consider when looking at 269 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: a property that floods, there's a misconception that flooded ground 270 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: doesn't hold beer and I have found that personal on 271 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: my own farm to be false. Um, I had perfect 272 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 1: video of this just a couple of weeks ago. The 273 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,400 Speaker 1: river got up less than forty eight hours later that there, 274 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 1: we're back in there. So I think, what if you 275 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: have property that plugs you need to try to identify 276 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,800 Speaker 1: a kind of that high ground and make sure you 277 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: know that the high ground has as much food and 278 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:14,320 Speaker 1: cover on it as you can get. That way, when 279 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: it pushes those deer out, they have a place to go, 280 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: and hopefully you can still keep them on your property 281 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: without losing them to your neighbor. If you'd like to 282 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: learn more and to see the properties that Justin currently 283 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: has listed for sale, visit whitetail properties dot com. Backslash 284 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: Mason that's m A S O N alright, and joining 285 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: me on the line first is Josh McDaniel from Shooters 286 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: Archery in Indiana and Josh in Indiana. What would you say? 287 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: The bucket activity has been lately on a skill of 288 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: one to ten? All right now, I'd say we're looking 289 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: at it probably a six, you said, I said six, 290 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: because I'm not really seeing a lot of mature bucks 291 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: walking during daylight. A whole lot yet, especially from from 292 00:14:57,920 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: the hunts that we've been on and what the camera's 293 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,920 Speaker 1: telling me, I am seeing a lot of two year 294 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: old you're an a half year old bucks. Um, definitely 295 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: getting out about a little bit more so, I guess 296 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: if you know that buck activity is definitely rubbing up. 297 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: It's it's a little bit of higher scale, but the 298 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: caliberty or we're looking for, it's still a lot of 299 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: nighttime activity. But I am getting getting a lot of 300 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 1: pictures of them starting to cruise around a little bit 301 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: and purchase scraper growth quick. Are you finding a lot 302 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: of signmaking in the woods right now? Oh? Yeah, right now. 303 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: This is the last few days I've been out checking 304 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,880 Speaker 1: cameras and moving some cameras. This time year, I like 305 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: to really start to uh, either put cameras on scrapes 306 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: or start to make my own MOX scrapes where I've 307 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: aloys seen existing scrapes in the past, and a lot 308 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 1: of times they're just on the edges of food sources 309 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: where I can get in and out just kind of 310 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: get an inventory. And um, yesterday, I think it was yesterday, 311 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 1: and the day before I was out and man, I 312 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 1: tell you what it's it's kind of this last cold 313 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: front really got them repped up, and there's rubs and 314 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 1: scrapes everywhere right now, especially all long food sources with 315 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 1: a lot of these big dog groups are I'll find 316 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,920 Speaker 1: a lot of those big, those big hood South size 317 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 1: scrapes everywhere. So, um, I definitely think it's in the 318 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: right direction that all my cameras are still telling me 319 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:09,720 Speaker 1: it's a lot of nighttime activity for them true bucks. 320 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: But you know, you know what comes next, so kind 321 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 1: of definitely exciting. Do you use that information for any 322 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: hunting purposes? And what I mean is when you find 323 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: all those scrapes lit up along a food source, will 324 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:23,160 Speaker 1: you set up and hunt there or are you just 325 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: using that for inventory on what bucks are around? You know, 326 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: for the most part, I'm kind of using that for inventory. 327 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: But every once in a while, you know, we get 328 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: these cameras on, you'll get one of those bucks are 329 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: just super killable over those scrapes, and um, you know, 330 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,040 Speaker 1: especially you get a lot of these big dog groups 331 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: that are all in this food spurts. Uh, these bucks, 332 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,240 Speaker 1: these mature bucks are going to keep an eye on them, 333 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: and they want to be the first when one of 334 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: those dude, But those inside of pop so um. You know, 335 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 1: if I get one of those mature bucks that are 336 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: showing me he's there every other day, every every day 337 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: during daylight, you know about what means, I'll slip right 338 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 1: in there and try to kill him, um um. And 339 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: you know this time of year, I'm really trying to 340 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: be careful. I don't want a whole lot of morning yet. 341 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,919 Speaker 1: I can get lucky, but I just feel like myself, 342 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,399 Speaker 1: I'm doing a lot more harm than good. And I 343 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: just let those cameras and and you know, observation sets 344 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,239 Speaker 1: and I'm sitting and kind of tell me what's going on. 345 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: And as soon as I start to get one of 346 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: those bucks that are show them, they're killed. But we'll 347 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: kind of dive in with the right wind. But yeah, 348 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: those those those scrapes are mostly from inventory lots camera 349 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: that got on them. But like I said, one out 350 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: of one out of ten will show you there's a 351 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:32,640 Speaker 1: buck that you won't be shot down. You know, we'll 352 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 1: dive right in there and shoot him if we if 353 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 1: we can. What would get you making a morning set 354 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 1: up sooner than late October for example tomorrow, if if 355 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 1: we had the correct moon phase or cold front, or 356 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 1: you know, rising pressure. What might that be to get 357 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: you haunting some morning sooner? Uh? Yeah, you know, if 358 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: if if I got that cold front coming in now 359 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: that we're into the twenties of October, Um, you know, 360 00:17:57,640 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 1: now if I get that the high pressure morning with 361 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: uh you know, we're down in the in the thirties 362 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:06,399 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, and these cameras, you know, like 363 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 1: I said, they're telling me, they're all it's all still 364 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 1: pret nocturnal stuff. So it really takes something good for 365 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: me to to get out there. But now that, like 366 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,159 Speaker 1: I said, now that we're getting into the twenties and 367 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,360 Speaker 1: November or October, sorry, um, it's about that time. Yeah, 368 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:24,239 Speaker 1: well I'm looking forward to that first morning and it's 369 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 1: definitely take a good cold front for me to the 370 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: high pressure morning to get out there. What are your 371 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 1: calling strategies for this time of year? Will you do 372 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: any blind calling or do you for sure have your 373 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 1: grunt tube with you? Oh? Absolutely, Yeah. This is my 374 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: favorite time of year to call, uh because you know 375 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,199 Speaker 1: a lot of these bucks, these mature bucks are just 376 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: starting to get ripped up, and it does aren't quite 377 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,240 Speaker 1: ready yet. Um. You have occasional dough a little popular 378 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: in there, but for the most part, the majority of 379 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: the does are. You know, they're not ready, but a 380 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: lot of these bucks are, So you get on some 381 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,359 Speaker 1: of these food sources, especially if a lot of my sets. 382 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: If I'm not dove, if I haven't dove right into 383 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: where I need to be yet, I'm still kind of 384 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: an observation set. But I'm still in a spot that 385 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 1: I can kill one. You know, big dude comes out 386 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: into a field and he's pretty far away out. You know. 387 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: Sometimes all it takes a few few tending grams and 388 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: he's on his way and can you can see the 389 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,040 Speaker 1: deal automatically. Um. But they're like I said, they're really 390 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,560 Speaker 1: they're really fired up, a lot of them and that's 391 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 1: all it takes. They're looking, you know, they're so frustrated, 392 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, a lot of bucks are still 393 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: kind of pushing each other around, trying to um find 394 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: out who the domino ones are over um for the 395 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: for the rest of the rut, and I'll even tickle 396 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: the horns a little bit. This time of year. I 397 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: usually get too crazy with it, but I have been 398 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: seeing a lot of spawning already with a lot of 399 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,399 Speaker 1: these two year olds and sometimes that might be all 400 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: it takes to entice one of those big dudes that 401 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna come out after dark might be enough to 402 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,439 Speaker 1: get him, you know, thirty minutes before last shooting light, 403 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: to get on his feet and give you the shot 404 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,879 Speaker 1: you're looking for. Going forward, then the six week or so, 405 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: what do you think that bucket activity is going to 406 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: be on the scale of one to ten in Indiana? Uh? 407 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,919 Speaker 1: This next week? Um, as far as mature bucks again, 408 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,919 Speaker 1: I think we're going to be at a seven on 409 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: its way to an eight. As long as the weather cooperates. 410 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: I'd love to I'd love to get after it that 411 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,440 Speaker 1: last week of October at least last three or four 412 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: days for Halloween tip the weather's right, and then obviously 413 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: we started rolling the sweet November, so that anything happened 414 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: is just gonna go up a little bit every day 415 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 1: again as long as the weather is good. UM, really 416 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 1: looking forward to, like I said, probably seven going into 417 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: an eight this next week. Ali, Josh, I'm sure you 418 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: and Kristin will have a bb D here very soon. 419 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,399 Speaker 1: So good luck and thanks for joining me. Good luck 420 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: to you too, good Man, Thanks alright and joining us 421 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 1: on the line. Next is justin Michelle from New York, 422 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: from the ever Wild Collective, justin in New York. What 423 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: would you say the bucket activity has been lately on 424 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten, uh, buck activity has 425 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,000 Speaker 1: been around a six. I would say, I think we're 426 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 1: beginning to see quite a bit more movement with these bucks. 427 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 1: And I know that past two or three times we've 428 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,920 Speaker 1: been to the woods. Uh, there's quite a bit of 429 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 1: sign that's popping up. So we got rubs and scrapes 430 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,679 Speaker 1: that are, um, you know, traditionally where we thought they 431 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 1: would be, but even some popping up in new spots. 432 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:14,640 Speaker 1: And we've been getting a decent amount of rain. So 433 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: going out after those and even going out during those 434 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: rain showers to check cameras, you could definitely tell that 435 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: that these bucks are kind of on the move with 436 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 1: you know, making sure that those are updated and and 437 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: uh and freshened as as the rain passes through. I 438 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: think in a lot of the country that signmaking has peaked. 439 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: But what do you guys do with that information? When 440 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 1: you find a bunch of rubs or scrapes somewhere, are 441 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:43,639 Speaker 1: you setting up on that to hunt or you just 442 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 1: putting cameras on there to to get inventory of what 443 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: deer around. Yeah, we we're using the scrapes that are 444 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: that are popping up. We will throw a camera on 445 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: those as well. But we also have some mock scrapes 446 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,760 Speaker 1: that we've started that the box are using as well. Um, 447 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: but yeah, we're we we don't typically set up on those, although, um, 448 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 1: it seems that we have a few that have popped 449 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: up near stand locations that we prefer, um, you know, 450 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: typically where we are we get a traditionally west uh 451 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 1: northwest winds. So um, some of those are actually gonna 452 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: be pretty beneficial. Last night I sat and saw probably 453 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,000 Speaker 1: a three and a half year old buck on its 454 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: feet right before dark, which was the best encounter I 455 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: had had so far. He had a busted off rights 456 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: right side already, but he kind of followed the plan. 457 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:43,959 Speaker 1: He came down a trail that had a scrape on it, 458 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 1: and and I watched him go over to uh, a 459 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:50,840 Speaker 1: scrape that popped up near one of our stand locations, 460 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: and he you know, he scraped and freshened, and then 461 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:59,080 Speaker 1: as soon as he was done, there were six doughs 462 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: probably third in your forty yards from him. He immediately 463 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 1: took off after one of those does chased her, and um, 464 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: so I think we're beginning to see, you know, a 465 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: bit more of that aggression and frustration that's uh, that's 466 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,600 Speaker 1: peaking now. And you know the dough got away a 467 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: couple of minutes later, he was doing his best to 468 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: take a tree down. So I think we're beginning to 469 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,200 Speaker 1: see a little bit more of that, uh, that movement 470 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 1: and that activity that we're all looking for. What does 471 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 1: what do the food sources look like in New York 472 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: right now? Well, we have a fair amount of acorns, 473 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: but traditionally the spots that we hunt don't have a 474 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: lot of of oaks, so we're still seeing um does 475 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: coming out to green fields. Um. You know, we have 476 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: a fair amount of alfalfa here and a lot of 477 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: the corn that that is around the areas that we're 478 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: able to access is been down now for a month. 479 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:59,639 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, about a month, so those have have dried 480 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 1: up with activity for the most part. So I'm sure 481 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: there's some brows in the woods. But yeah, last night, 482 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: even coming out, there were does out in the field 483 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 1: in yafalfa. What strategies do you have for calling this 484 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: time of year for the most part, we stay fairly quiet. Um. 485 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 1: You know, New York is a pretty heavily pressured area, 486 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: so we we tend to stay quiet until another week 487 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: or two when things start beat up a bit and uh, 488 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:34,359 Speaker 1: and more of that talking is you know acceptable. Um, 489 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: there's just so many guys in the woods and um, 490 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: we we try our best to keep the calls in 491 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: the bag until you know, if you know, I was 492 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,239 Speaker 1: ready last night, had it had a deer popped up 493 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: at that scrape or whatever, that if I could have 494 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: pulled him over just a bit, then I probably would 495 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: have done that. But we're not really doing much blind 496 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: calling at all at this point. How about with morning setups? 497 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: U is the time of year when people tend to 498 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: get a little more aggressive and doing a lot more mornings. 499 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,119 Speaker 1: It's how about you guys in New York. Yeah, we 500 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: we typically hold off on those, at least this year. 501 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,480 Speaker 1: We have a lot of our setups are just hard 502 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 1: to access in the mornings. Again, there's so much farmland 503 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: around us, and it just seems that most every good 504 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:26,600 Speaker 1: spot that we need to get to is uh. You 505 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: you know, you're exposing yourself while they're out feeding. So 506 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: we're just not to a point where the does are 507 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,879 Speaker 1: you know, kind of hiding from the books and and 508 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: they're out there and we're trying to keep them as 509 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: uneducated as possible up to this point. Going forward, then 510 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: the six week or so, what do you think that 511 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: budget activity will be on a scale of one to 512 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: ten in New York? I think it's kind of I 513 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: think it's kind of increase. As yesterday I would have 514 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: said somewhere around a four or five. But after last 515 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 1: night sit and uh and talking to a friend with 516 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 1: who had killed a pretty nice buck day before yesterday, 517 00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 1: it does seem like it's ramping up. So I think 518 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: by you know, a week from an hour, within the 519 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: next week, we could be, you know, closer to a seven. 520 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 1: All right, justin well, good luck to even the guys 521 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: from ever Wild Collective. Thanks for joining me, Thanks so much, Spencer, 522 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: alright and joining us on the line. Next is Taylor 523 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: Coleman from Captured Creative in Minnesota. Now, Taylor in Minnesota, 524 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: what would you say the buck activity has been lately 525 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten. I would say 526 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: the buck activity in Minnesota here has been a solid 527 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 1: six to seven out of ten in the last week. Um, 528 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: before before the middle of this past week, it was 529 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,080 Speaker 1: probably down at like a three, But just in the 530 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: last five days or so, it's really been picking up. Um. 531 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: We're seeing mature bucks on their feet before before the 532 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: end of light and and actually there's been a few 533 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,920 Speaker 1: sightings of them tailing was already as well. Is there 534 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 1: any reason specifically that you think the buff move has 535 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: gotten so much better some weather front or crop status, 536 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 1: or just because we're getting closer to November. So typically 537 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: for us, the rut hits the first two weeks of November. Um, 538 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: but this year it seems like it's been a little earlier. 539 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,439 Speaker 1: I mean there's even guys hunting the first week of 540 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: October that we're seeing deer movement that they typically don't 541 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,919 Speaker 1: see until the end of October. And I think all 542 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: that is because of the few cold fronts that we 543 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: had sort of hit us early. Even we had one 544 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: major cold front hit us already at the end of September, 545 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 1: and then there was another big push that came through 546 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:47,959 Speaker 1: the first weekend of October, and those were those kind 547 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,639 Speaker 1: of caught us off guard. Um. We even had temps 548 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: down into into the twenties, which is very uh unlike 549 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: the norm for Minnesota at the first of October. I 550 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: think that that is pushing some of the buck to 551 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: start chasing a little earlier. And then on top of that, 552 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,400 Speaker 1: in the last few days here with the rud activity 553 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: really picking up, we've had some really strong pressure spikes 554 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 1: that I think is aiding that as well as the 555 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: moon phase. What are the food sources like right now 556 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: in Minnesota? M are there still a lot of steaming 557 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,120 Speaker 1: crops around And how's the acorn crop look this year? 558 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,440 Speaker 1: So the acorn crop is is very strong this year. Um, 559 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: it seems like everybody that is able to hunt over 560 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 1: acorns has said that there's this acorns covering the ground. Unfortunately, 561 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: I'm not able to hunt over any acorn crops, but um, 562 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: where I am hunting, I'm hunting a lot of egg fields. 563 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 1: And the soybean harvest is probably around out right now. 564 00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 1: Seems like there's guys rolling every day and soybeans out, 565 00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: and then there's actually some that have moved on to 566 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: corn and pulled some corn out and probably probably say 567 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: the corn harvest is around twenty out right now and 568 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: in the next week that's going to change a lot. 569 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 1: So by the by the middle of rut. Like the 570 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: first week of November, we should be seeing a lot 571 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,240 Speaker 1: of egg fields already being harvested. It sounds like you're 572 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,720 Speaker 1: hunting a lot of field edgese right now on those 573 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,680 Speaker 1: field edgies. What does the signmaking look like lately? Do 574 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 1: you think we've we've hit peak rubbing and scraping it? Yeah, 575 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: I would say it's on at the peak of of 576 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,719 Speaker 1: the bucks in their pre rut action. Um. There's every 577 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:44,000 Speaker 1: scrape that I walk past on the way that my 578 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: deer stands is freshened up every single day. Um. Unfortunately 579 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to be sitting next to 580 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 1: one of those when a buck actually comes in to 581 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 1: check it out. But um, or a mature buck, I 582 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,040 Speaker 1: should say. Last night I was actually sitting over in 583 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: about twenty yards from me, and I had two year 584 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: and a half old bucks both come in and they 585 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: were pond at the ground and and working that scrape. 586 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: So and the and the ruts, it seems like the rubs, 587 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: I should say, are really active and showing up on 588 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: all the little trees right now in the last week 589 00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: going forward, then it's next week or so. What do 590 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: you think that buck activity is going to be on 591 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: a scale of one to ten in Minnesota, I would 592 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 1: I would put the next next week of buck activity 593 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: out of ten. So I think this next week is 594 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 1: going to be the best time to be in the woods. 595 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 1: Um As gun hunting starts the first two weeks of November, 596 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:44,880 Speaker 1: So leading up to that gun hunting, um, this is 597 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: going to be the best time for bow hunters to 598 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: hit the woods. All Right, Taylor will like your optimism 599 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Thanks for joining me in good luck. Thank 600 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: you alright and joining us on the line. Next is 601 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: Philip Vanderpool from the Virtue TV in Arkansas. Now, Philip 602 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,400 Speaker 1: in Arkansas, what would you the buck activity has been lately? 603 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: On skill of one to ten, I'd say the buck 604 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: activity has probably been about a seven or an eight. 605 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 1: It's it's starting to happen. Yeah, starting to see a 606 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 1: lot of movement. Uh. New bucks are showing up. A 607 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: matter of fact, a buckeye nicknamed o j Um probably 608 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: jumping the gun here a little bit showed up this 609 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: morning and daylight right in front of my three stand 610 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,680 Speaker 1: the covert trail cameras is telling me the story right 611 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: there on what's going on. That's that's the good thing. 612 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,960 Speaker 1: I'm kind of doing it from those LTE cameras to 613 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: sell camps. They're really helping out. Well, Philip, let's back 614 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 1: up a few days, because you just killed a monster 615 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 1: buck in Arkansas, and that dear is a world class 616 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,160 Speaker 1: white till no matter what part of the country you 617 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,959 Speaker 1: to kill it in. So tell us a little bit 618 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: about that buck and a little bit about that hunt, 619 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: just you know, the short version of it. This is 620 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: a book I nicknamed Obsession. This has been a three 621 00:31:55,960 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: year quest. He had a range of about five miles us. Um. 622 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: I'm finding out from the neighbors there was more people 623 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: hunting than I thought, and nobody has showed me a 624 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: daylight picture yet. This deer was totally a nocturnal deer 625 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: from what we've seen. But uh, I put in a 626 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 1: big time buck brunch food plot. I had the covert 627 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 1: trail cameras out and just hand planted this plot. And 628 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,080 Speaker 1: this last Saturday, I was fortunate enough to get an 629 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: arrow on this big guy. And it's the first time 630 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: I had really ever seen him in daylight. Right there, 631 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 1: I self video the hunt and uh with my new 632 00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 1: ritual bow. That's a bow that's not Uh. The R 633 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 1: thirty that's just now getting Letty to be released, and 634 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,800 Speaker 1: that makes my second hundred and seventy class white tail 635 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: that I've taken this this fall. I've been truly blessed 636 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:56,480 Speaker 1: um And like I said, this is probably maybe the 637 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,360 Speaker 1: highlight of my career because this is I shot this 638 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: buck less than fifty yards or where I shot my 639 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: very first pope in young white tail by in that 640 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 1: I actually won the Arkansas Big Buck Classic in the 641 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: archery division and one third overall. But to take a 642 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: buck of this caliber, he is just I believe he 643 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,200 Speaker 1: has the biggest frame of any white tail that ever 644 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:25,320 Speaker 1: taken in and I think I've got over eighty amounts 645 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:31,680 Speaker 1: now and all bow kills, and he's just unbelievable. My emotion, 646 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: and then having my granddaughter who was four years old 647 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: is wanting to go hunting with her papa all the time. 648 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,600 Speaker 1: She was right there when we've done the recovery. Uh 649 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: Ronda was there, my wife, and we just it was 650 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 1: just a big buck celebration totally. That was simply off 651 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: the charts. I've been truly blessed this year. Was there 652 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,720 Speaker 1: something specific about that day you killed that buck on October? 653 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: Was there some sort of condition about October twenty that 654 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 1: made you go after him, or do you think you 655 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: had him pegs so good that you would have had 656 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: you kill him? Uh? You know all throughout the end 657 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: of October here. Uh no, the deer. I think the 658 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,000 Speaker 1: whole key to this was the food plot. It just 659 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,839 Speaker 1: seemed to be right in his travel pattern. For one thing, 660 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: He's coming out of this big thicket. I had found 661 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,479 Speaker 1: shed antlers of him from from actually three years ago 662 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,680 Speaker 1: when I started really putting the time in it. But 663 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:37,120 Speaker 1: I think the weather conditions. The day before it rained 664 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,839 Speaker 1: all day. I couldn't hunt, and I mean it was 665 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,560 Speaker 1: just pouring down all day. And then right before dark 666 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:47,720 Speaker 1: I actually went out to hunt a ground blind where 667 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 1: I had an encounter with him the evening before, which 668 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: was the very first time I'd ever laid eyes on 669 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: the deer. But he was within bow range. He got 670 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: within fifteen yards of me, and I could not get 671 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,920 Speaker 1: the shot. He bumped a spike off and I couldn't 672 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,040 Speaker 1: get the shot. The next day it rained all day 673 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 1: and then I knew I needed to be in that 674 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 1: tree stand, but I because of the weather conditions with 675 00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,400 Speaker 1: all the camera gear and me self video, and I 676 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,560 Speaker 1: decided that I'm gonna stay out. I'm gonna hunt the 677 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: ground one because I can stay dry. He didn't show 678 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:21,920 Speaker 1: up ahead of another buck, or to show up in 679 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: front of the ground line. But that buck showed up 680 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,360 Speaker 1: that evening right in front of my trail camera again 681 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: in the pouring rain. I couldn't believe it. And he's 682 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,600 Speaker 1: after in the food plot and a my heart just 683 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,120 Speaker 1: sink because of the next day was muzzle at the season. 684 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: And then I knew I had to get in there. 685 00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: So I got in there the next day and I 686 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: hunted all day. Okay, I got in that. I got 687 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,839 Speaker 1: in that tree stand all hour, hour and a half 688 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,719 Speaker 1: before daylight, and I stayed and I had some four 689 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: small small bucks come in, but he didn't show. And 690 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,880 Speaker 1: then right a six thirty prime time that last thirty 691 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,400 Speaker 1: minutes to light. I'm an emotional person anyway, but I 692 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:05,120 Speaker 1: could not control my emotion. I was literally in a 693 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,640 Speaker 1: in a world to myself. I mean, and I give 694 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,400 Speaker 1: God all the glory. I mean, without him, I couldn't 695 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,400 Speaker 1: be doing this. And uh, but I was blessed. I 696 00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 1: had a feeling. I got this overwhelming feeling before I 697 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 1: blew that stretch back grunt. Call that something good? What's 698 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,760 Speaker 1: gonna happen? Dwell any how, two would have been emotional 699 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:30,560 Speaker 1: having that happened, even someone who has eighty months on 700 00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,399 Speaker 1: the wall. So I'm gonna back up even further out 701 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,359 Speaker 1: to last season, Philip. When I talked to you then 702 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,240 Speaker 1: you had talked about the overwhelming acorn crop in Arkansas? 703 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,000 Speaker 1: Is that the case again this season? Not not so? 704 00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,320 Speaker 1: Uh from what I've been out and seeing their very 705 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 1: spotty this year. So people out there looking. Uh, where 706 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,800 Speaker 1: I'm finding most of my acorns this year, for sure 707 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:58,440 Speaker 1: is around those edges of fields or openings where they 708 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:03,439 Speaker 1: where they're getting more sunlight, if if that makes sense. Um, 709 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: and uh there again now on the property that I'm 710 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,879 Speaker 1: hunting here, what I am finding is some of those 711 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,640 Speaker 1: I don't know for sure. I think it's a red 712 00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:17,320 Speaker 1: oak variety tree. Uh. They're little, their little bitty acrons 713 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,560 Speaker 1: and and I say akrons here. I'm sorry, I'm from 714 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,120 Speaker 1: the south. Down here, we can't pronounce right most of 715 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:27,319 Speaker 1: the time, but Bacon's down here. They're small on these 716 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,759 Speaker 1: big trees, and they're along this fence line, and they 717 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 1: are absolutely bent over and I think that's another reason. 718 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 1: And they're just now starting to fall, and so I'm 719 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: gonna see more buck or more dear activity. I think 720 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,479 Speaker 1: on the proper I'm hunting because of that, and they're 721 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,720 Speaker 1: starting scrapes are starting to open up. I'm not seeing 722 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,160 Speaker 1: a lot of big bucks signed yet as far as 723 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: rubs and scrapes. A matter of fact, obsession the buck 724 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 1: I just shot, I don't think he has rubbed a 725 00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 1: single tree. Now. I've seen some good rubs, but it's 726 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,919 Speaker 1: it's those other bucks around that's doing it. And uh 727 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,759 Speaker 1: another buck I call obsession Junior. He's already broke off. 728 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:09,960 Speaker 1: He's he's really a big frame deer. He's gonna take 729 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 1: after his daddy, I assume. And he's already broke off 730 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: a G two right on the base of of of 731 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,879 Speaker 1: his uh main beam there, he's already snap one off. 732 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,960 Speaker 1: He's he's really an aggressive deer. It's funny how they 733 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,359 Speaker 1: all are different. Going forward. Then, in this next week 734 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:28,160 Speaker 1: or so, what do you think that Bucket TV is 735 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:29,759 Speaker 1: going to be on a scale of one to ten 736 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: in Arkansas? I think it's gonna be about an eight 737 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,759 Speaker 1: or nine. Because we're gonna have the weather conditions, and 738 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 1: if we continue to get this this cold snap in 739 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,440 Speaker 1: these cool temperatures, I think you're gonna see a lot 740 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,279 Speaker 1: of rud activity, especially when that broometer of pressure is 741 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:49,759 Speaker 1: a moving, especially on the rise. I think it's gonna 742 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,000 Speaker 1: be I think it's gonna be exceptional myself. These muzzleloaders, 743 00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 1: it's a Muzzleloaders season right now. They're gonna tear it up. 744 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,839 Speaker 1: Art Film Will congrats again on the awesome deer. I'm 745 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 1: sure you'll have a few more this season that go down. 746 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me, Thank you appreciate the time. And 747 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,760 Speaker 1: that concludes this week's episode of Wire to Hunt's wrote Radio. 748 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,520 Speaker 1: Thanks to Josh, Philip Taylor, and Justin for joining me, 749 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,279 Speaker 1: and thank you guys for listening. As I always make 750 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,359 Speaker 1: sure you follow Wire to Haunt on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, 751 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 1: and YouTube. And follow me Spencer New Heart and my 752 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: blog rut Fresh on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well. 753 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,960 Speaker 1: And like you'll see in those reports and we talked 754 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,000 Speaker 1: about in this week's episode, the best time of year 755 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,399 Speaker 1: is approaching, so make sure you get some tree stand 756 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 1: time in and good luck to everyone out there. Stay 757 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:38,360 Speaker 1: Wired to Hunt,