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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to

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Speaker 1: the White Tail Woods presented by first Light, creating proven

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Speaker 1: versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First

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Speaker 1: Light Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Mark Kenyon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on

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Speaker 2: the show, I'm breaking down my twenty twenty five Iowa

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Speaker 2: rut hunt and detailing for you the decisions I made,

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Speaker 2: the tactics I used, and the mindset I had that

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Speaker 2: ultimately led to me having what I believe white possibly

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Speaker 2: might be my very best rut hunt ever. All right,

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Speaker 2: welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to

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Speaker 2: you by First Light and their Camera for Conservation Initiative.

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Speaker 2: And today it's just you and me, another solo episode,

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Speaker 2: and I am doing a couple day after breakdown of

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Speaker 2: my twenty twenty five rut cation to Iowa. I've done

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Speaker 2: this before. I've broken down specific hunts, especially ones that

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Speaker 2: turned out well. They don't always turn out well, but

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Speaker 2: this one did. I've got a successful rut hunting deer

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Speaker 2: story for you today, and really an epic trip. As

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Speaker 2: I mentioned in the introduction, as I drove home from

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Speaker 2: this trip, a couple days ago, I thought to myself,

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Speaker 2: this is probably my most enjoyable rut hunt ever. This

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Speaker 2: was my best rut cation to date. And so what

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Speaker 2: I want to do today for you is explain to

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Speaker 2: you exactly why that was. Explain to you exactly how

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Speaker 2: this hunt came together, why it was so successful, and

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Speaker 2: going to break down day by day where I sat,

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Speaker 2: why I sat there, how these things set up, what

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Speaker 2: were the tactics I ed use, what kinds of things

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Speaker 2: did I see, what didn't I see what worked, what

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Speaker 2: didn't work, and everything else that went on around it, Because,

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Speaker 2: as I just alluded to a second ago, what was

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Speaker 2: going on around this hunt maybe was just as important,

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Speaker 2: or possibly more important than what was actually going on

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Speaker 2: in the tree. And I'll explain that to you more

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Speaker 2: as we go along here. And you know, a lot

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Speaker 2: of what made this trip so successful, what I think

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Speaker 2: made this trip so special in many ways, can be

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Speaker 2: attributed back to some lessons that I learned from the

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Speaker 2: last time I hunted in Iowa. That was back in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, and some of you might remember I

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Speaker 2: recorded a podcast the very day after that hunt ended,

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Speaker 2: in which I did something very similar to what I'm

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Speaker 2: happened day by day, what I did, what my decisions were,

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Speaker 2: how it all went, and what I learned from it.

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Speaker 2: And that was a raw podcast. That was a podcast

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Speaker 2: that I was I was feeling it on that day,

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Speaker 2: after it had been a rough hunt. Things ended poorly.

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Speaker 2: A bunch of stuff happened throughout the week but ultimately

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Speaker 2: didn't fill my tag, and that next day I was

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Speaker 2: driving to another trip I recorded this podcast, and after

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Speaker 2: that I realized that there was something wrong with my

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Speaker 2: it's still hard to put words to it exactly, but

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Speaker 2: next year or two, if you've listened to if you

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Speaker 2: of trying to work through that and trying to make

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Speaker 2: that I had lost the fun in deer hunting because

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Speaker 2: I was so obsessed with success, conventional views of success.

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Speaker 2: I was so obsessed with killed the big buck. I

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Speaker 2: the other good things around hunting that make it so special.

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Speaker 2: An appreciation for the beautiful scenery, spending time with your

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, Mark Kenyon, just after my last Iowa hunt.

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Speaker 2: excerpt from the end of my podcast breaking down my

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Speaker 2: just being brutally honest with you. This is embarrassing. It's

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Speaker 2: hosts the Wired Dunt bog Gas this great big whitetail podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be the guy that's supposed to get

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Speaker 2: But the one thing when I climbed out of the tree,

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Speaker 2: just a really great excuse to get together with my

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Speaker 2: surrounded by again these like high fields with big ridges

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Speaker 2: at the top middle of that M. All three of

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00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,479
Speaker 2: those points kind of come together in this spot, and

434
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 2: I was sitting in that spot. There's a little bit

435
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 2: of a saddle. Three of these points all kind of

436
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 2: come together up at the top here. And in addition

437
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,240
Speaker 2: to that, my buddy who had owns this property had

438
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 2: cut some paths through all the thick stuff too. So

439
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 2: there's a mode trail down one of the points. There's

440
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 2: a mode trail that leads to another point, and there's

441
00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: a mode trail that cuts down into a ditch where

442
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,840
Speaker 2: there's a crossing leading over to the other point, and

443
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 2: then at the hub of this wheel in the middle

444
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,280
Speaker 2: of this he has a scrape tree that, as I

445
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,120
Speaker 2: showed up and saw, was just pounded by deer with

446
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 2: bucks making scrapes there. So really a dynamite set and

447
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 2: a location that you know, you could see deer cruising

448
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 2: through and visiting at any point in the day. And

449
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 2: then off one of those points within sight, not the

450
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,639
Speaker 2: one I'm sitting on the top of that m, is

451
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 2: where that corn plot was that I hunted on day one,

452
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 2: so I could see some of that from where I

453
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:57,400
Speaker 2: was at. So I can see to this little heidihole

454
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 2: food plot, I can see down to the bottom of

455
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 2: the down at the bottom where you know, that's like

456
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 2: this low area where it's really hard to hunt because

457
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 2: of swirling winds, But that's like where a whole lot

458
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 2: of travel converges too, So I could see down there

459
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,240
Speaker 2: and call to anything. But up high on the m

460
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,439
Speaker 2: at the top of that hub, I can have that

461
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 2: safe wind and still take advantage of a lot of that.

462
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 2: So I get in there early in the morning. Just

463
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 2: as I'm almost done getting set up, I hear and

464
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 2: a buck comes walking right in underneath me to that

465
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 2: scrape tree. I had taken my bino harness off because

466
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,080
Speaker 2: I was putting on my main jacket and doing that,

467
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,000
Speaker 2: I hung the binos up off to my side. So

468
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 2: that buck walked in when I didn't have access to

469
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:42,359
Speaker 2: my binoculars, but just with bare eyes and it was

470
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 2: dark still, I could just see this huge frame and

471
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:48,080
Speaker 2: he just destroyed that scrape tree, and I could smell him.

472
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 2: You could smell the rut musk stink on this deer,

473
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,680
Speaker 2: so that was an exciting start. Had a second buck

474
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 2: coming behind him. This one was maybe like one hundred

475
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,399
Speaker 2: hundred and ten inch buck, and he looked dinky compared

476
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 2: to that first one, so knew there was a good

477
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 2: one in the area. Knew that, you know, the two

478
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 2: best bucks on this particular property were in the zone.

479
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,119
Speaker 2: They had been showing up on camera a lot in

480
00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,040
Speaker 2: recent days. The buck that had been at that corn

481
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:19,199
Speaker 2: plot most often the last week was this deer we

482
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 2: called Hamburger Bun, and he's just a giant ten pointer

483
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 2: with a split brow tye and a big hook kind

484
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 2: of flyer off off his I guess it'd be his

485
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 2: right side looked like one hundred and sixty class buck,

486
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,400
Speaker 2: big bodied, and I got to think, and that might

487
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,439
Speaker 2: have been the deer that came in before daylight, just

488
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,399
Speaker 2: based on the way the frame looked. So I was

489
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 2: excited as it became daylight and right away just buck

490
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 2: after buck cruising through, and it seemed like I was

491
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,680
Speaker 2: on the X. Like almost every buck that came through

492
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 2: would cruise up one of these points and go through

493
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:56,159
Speaker 2: that hub of the wheel right in front of me,

494
00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 2: or a couple times just for fun, like I saw

495
00:25:58,680 --> 00:25:59,959
Speaker 2: a two year old or a three year old buck,

496
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 2: I would do a little grunt and they would come

497
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 2: and that would suck them in right to there. So

498
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 2: I felt like unbelievably confident in the spot. I think

499
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 2: I saw six or seven different bucks that morning, maybe

500
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 2: two year olds, three year olds, year and a half olds.

501
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 2: Just an awesome Iowa morning, the kind of morning you

502
00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 2: dream of. Cold crisp, a lot of deer moving, a

503
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 2: lot of deer in range. Got to watch a bunch

504
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 2: of NICs. Like I said, young bucks just ripping up

505
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:31,760
Speaker 2: that scrape fifteen yards in front of me. Very enjoyable.

506
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 2: I came in. I hunted till I guess twelve thirty

507
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 2: or so on that day, and again this is where

508
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 2: I think what I tried to do on this trip

509
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 2: differently than other years was that I tried to balance

510
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 2: hunting hard still and putting in the time and being

511
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 2: out there, but at the same time still trying to

512
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 2: enjoy yourself and be a part of the camaraderie side

513
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 2: of things. So I told myself I wasn't gonna hunt

514
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 2: every day all day. I was gonna take some days,

515
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 2: coming at midday and enjoy the thing whateverbody else. So

516
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 2: on this particular day, hunt until twelve thirty snuck in.

517
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 2: It was a spot where I had the right access

518
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 2: to be able to exit without spooking anything. So I thought, Okay,

519
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 2: this is a perfect time where I can slip out

520
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 2: the back door. Nothing will know I'm gone, nothing will

521
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 2: know I'm coming and going. Went back to the clubhouse,

522
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 2: had coffee and lunch with the guys, had a good laugh,

523
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 2: enjoyed ourselves for an hour and a half, and then

524
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 2: I grabbed my gear, snuck back in, was back out

525
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,520
Speaker 2: there by two thirty or so. Get back in that

526
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 2: same tree. I all just get everything all set up

527
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 2: and then look way down there in the bottom of

528
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 2: this creek, bottom down there, and I see something moving around.

529
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 2: Pull up my bi and I see a dough, see

530
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 2: another dough, and then I see antlers. Pretty quickly, I

531
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 2: see it's a big buck, and then I realized it's

532
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 2: Hamburger Bun, the number one deer, and he's back there

533
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 2: bumping around this dough. I watched him for a while

534
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 2: and she eventually takes him up off the other side,

535
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 2: up the ridge, on the opposite of my kind of

536
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 2: ridge top. I'm on and off out of sight. Very

537
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: exciting though, to see the number one buck, the big

538
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 2: guy with a dough in the area. The afternoon progresses

539
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 2: and other young bucks are bumping around down there, and

540
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: then I see another set of big anilers pulp my

541
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,199
Speaker 2: bios zoom in there. Assume it's the same buck, but

542
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 2: it's actually the number two deer. It's the other really

543
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 2: big deer in the area. And this is a deer

544
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 2: that did not have a brand name at first. This

545
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 2: deer originally was called nutkicker because my buddy originally said

546
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 2: this was a deer that they thought we should not shoot.

547
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 2: And so the joke was that, you know, if you

548
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 2: shoot this buck, it's a nut kicker. So at first

549
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 2: he was calling it that deer. But by the time

550
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 2: this got around, my buddy got to the point where, actually,

551
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 2: and hey, we're supposed to be having fun. Kind of

552
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 2: back to my same thing. My own journey is a

553
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: journey that I think my buddy who owns this property

554
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 2: has been going through himself in many ways to not

555
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 2: be so stressed out about big deer, not be so

556
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 2: stressed about whether or not you kill the big one,

557
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 2: but instead sharing the good times of the people, enjoying

558
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 2: the process, enjoying these friendships that form around hunting. And

559
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 2: so in doing that, you know, he has made the

560
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 2: incredibly generous choice to share this property with myself and

561
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 2: some of the of our other friends. And also you

562
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 2: know realize like, hey, every deer doesn't have to get

563
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 2: five or six, Like it's okay if we shoot a

564
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 2: really good four year old or something like that. And

565
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 2: so this deer ended up being one of those deer

566
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: that was like, maybe he needs another year. But at

567
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 2: the same time, gosh, he's a giant. This would be

568
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: an incredible deer for one of these guys to shoot.

569
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 2: Go ahead, shoot him. So the name was changed to

570
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: Nutbread Sticking with our bread. The very ridiculous. I realized that.

571
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 2: So Nutbread is down there following a dough, and I'm

572
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 2: texting with my friend and just confirmeding, like, are you

573
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 2: sure this is the deer? You want me to shootes again?

574
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 2: I shoot him, shoot himbsolutely. So I ca to him

575
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 2: as he's coming up, let me take it back. He's

576
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 2: following this dough up the hill. Then the dough breaks

577
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 2: off of him and he does not follow the dough

578
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 2: for some reason. Now he's on his own, kind of

579
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 2: angling in my general direction, but looks like he's going

580
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 2: to move off down this point in the other direction.

581
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 2: So I give him a grunt and that turns him

582
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 2: and he starts coming my way. This is like a

583
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty something to one hundred and sixty type, big, huge,

584
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 2: clean typical, but taller and tighter than the other one.

585
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 2: And this dear kind of follows the opposite ridge from

586
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,080
Speaker 2: me all the way up from like two hundred and

587
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 2: fifty yards away all the way to seventy yards gets

588
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 2: to this point where this ditch crossing is that all

589
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 2: these other bucks had dropped down and come up right

590
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 2: to my hub. I watched probably three or four other

591
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: bucks do this thing. They get to this very same

592
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 2: point where Nutbred is, then they drop down the ditch

593
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 2: and cross and end up at the scrape tree right

594
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,239
Speaker 2: in front of me. So I've got everything righty. I'm

595
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: holding my bow. He's at seventy yards and walking down

596
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 2: to that ditch crossing like he's gonna just pop up

597
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 2: right to me. And it's this mode trail. Once you

598
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 2: drop him to the ditch, it's like a mode path

599
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: that like delivers deer right to you. It's it's a

600
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 2: dynamite set up. But as he starts to drop, he

601
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 2: hears something behind him, turns around and there's a dough

602
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: above him, and that spins him. He goes up there,

603
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 2: chases the dough and he's out of my life. But

604
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 2: incredible evening having seen both of those bucks, both the

605
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 2: two biggest bucks in this property, both of them, you know,

606
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: incredible to see in person, and one of them came

607
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 2: pretty darn close. So great day, great setup. This this

608
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: terrific terrain funnel that's also surrounded by dough betting and

609
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 2: dough feeding just within sight too, So kind of the

610
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: dream rut scenario. So the next day, I said, I'm

611
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 2: going right back in there. Day four, I'm hunting this

612
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 2: location again, and if it's good again, I probably should

613
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: just stay the whole day. So I slipped the under

614
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 2: the next day, it's a slower start, but around nine

615
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 2: something nine thirty or so, I see what looks like

616
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 2: a deer running straight down into the bottom ahead of

617
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 2: me from the opposite side. So I just had a

618
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 2: quick glimpse of what looked like a deer, maybe a buck,

619
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 2: sprinting down into the bottom. I pull up my bios,

620
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 2: can't see anything, so I say to myself, well, I

621
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 2: was thinking about maybe doing some rattling in the late morning.

622
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 2: This is as good a time as any. Let's rattle

623
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 2: and see if whatever ran down there will come up

624
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 2: my way. So I grabbed my antlers, turn around to

625
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 2: rattle away from the direction of where I saw those deer,

626
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 2: because I don't want them to see the flash of

627
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 2: the antlers. I'm rattling. And as I'm rattling, I look

628
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 2: back over my shoulder down towards the bottom, and I

629
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 2: see a deer running like charging up at me out

630
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 2: of the bottom, and it's a huge framed buck, and

631
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 2: I realize it's Hamburger bun. The number one deer is

632
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 2: charging up out of the bottom, and so you know,

633
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 2: in that moment you kind of freak out. You trying

634
00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 2: to hang up the antlers, trying to grab your bow,

635
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 2: trying to turned around, just pure amazing white tail chaos.

636
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 2: He charges up from three hundred yards down at the bottom,

637
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 2: all the way up the opposite ridge, exactly in the

638
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: same path that Nutbread took the day before, and he

639
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 2: gets all the way to seventy yards right to that

640
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 2: same ditch crossing, and then stops and stares over at

641
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 2: my ridge and just just looks like a monster, and

642
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 2: he's looking for the fight. And he just sits there

643
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 2: and stares and looks and looks and looks and looks,

644
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 2: and then finally he didn't see the other bucks, and

645
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 2: so he turned around start walking away. I tried to

646
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 2: give him a call or two, but he wasn't having it.

647
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 2: He just started trotting back the way he was going.

648
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 2: So he runs back down the hill, runs up my point,

649
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 2: and then does like a big circle and circles downwind

650
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,000
Speaker 2: of me, eventually going out site. But I was a

651
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 2: little worried in the back of my mind, like, oh crap,

652
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 2: he probably circled down wind of me, out of sight,

653
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 2: maybe winded me, probably winded me. Maybe that's the end

654
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 2: of the day, Like maybe that's the end of this

655
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 2: buck encounter. He's gonna catch on to me and be

656
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 2: out of here. So super exciting encounter, but sort of

657
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: disappointing that, you know, it didn't ultimately come together on

658
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 2: the good news though, is that we ended up getting

659
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 2: a trail camera picture of him like six hours later

660
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 2: in daylight on that property. Still, so I was like,

661
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 2: all right, he's still around, he didn't spook. Game is

662
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 2: still on. That night goes on, I do the all

663
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 2: day sit see some more deer, but but no more

664
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 2: big deer. That's day four, great encounter. Day five wind switch.

665
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 2: Can't hunt this area that I've been hunting the first

666
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 2: handful of days. Now we've got easterly winds. We've got

667
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 2: to go to a brand new place. I'm gonna still

668
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 2: hunt the same property because we very quickly kind of

669
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 2: found that this particular property where hamburger bun was where

670
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 2: way more mature deer. We're hanging out the other property

671
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 2: where sour dough or pancake, where those deer were there

672
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 2: was you know, those deer were like three year olds

673
00:34:57,800 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 2: and we really were not getting any of the older

674
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 2: so we had got on camera in the summer still

675
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 2: around it all. My buddy Pete, who had been hunting

676
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 2: there had not been seeing anything mature, but on this

677
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 2: other property it seemed to be really lights out, so

678
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,919
Speaker 2: that's where we focused. So day four no sorry, day

679
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 2: five with a southeasterly wind, we had to relocate to

680
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 2: a different side of the farm. And this is another

681
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 2: really good setup. It's another one of those like ideal

682
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 2: rut locations that's worth discussing I think in some detail

683
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 2: here because it's something that if you can replicate like

684
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 2: it will work. This is the kind of spot that

685
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 2: absolutely will work if you have bucks in the area

686
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 2: that you want to get a crack at. This kind

687
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 2: of setup is perfect. So if you can imagine this

688
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 2: property has like two big blocks of cover. You've got

689
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 2: imagine like one big bowl like a big circle, and

690
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: then another big like rectangle of cover underneath it, and

691
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 2: separating these two is like a big crp field that

692
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 2: pushes in. So this big grassy field goes in between.

693
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 2: So you've got this big bowl on top and you've

694
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 2: got this big rectangle cover beneath it, and the cerp

695
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 2: field pushes and separates the two right in the middle,

696
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 2: except at the very end of it that timber there's

697
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 2: a small sea of timber that connects the two. So

698
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 2: imagine a big circle at the top, a sea of

699
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 2: timber that then the letters I mean, like the letter C,

700
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 2: that curves down and then connects this big rectangle cover

701
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 2: at the end. So that creates a pinch point in

702
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 2: the end, and that letter C of timber is created

703
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 2: by this point, this topographic feature that has big bluffs,

704
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: and so you've got this high point that then drops

705
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 2: off to a low valley beneath it where a creek

706
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 2: bottom is. So where we were set up was at

707
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 2: the head of that pinch, right by that big bowl.

708
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 2: So there's a big circle which is basically timber that

709
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 2: then gets low on the bottom and on the edges

710
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 2: of that is dough betting all around it, and then

711
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: the pinch right there leading to the bottom. So we

712
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 2: were sitting at that pinch next to do all this

713
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,280
Speaker 2: dough betting that connects to a bunch of dough betting

714
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 2: at the other side of the funnel, and then our

715
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 2: wind blew off that bluff out over the creek bottom

716
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 2: behind us, so the wind was perfect, nothing could smell us.

717
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 2: We were in between we were in a funnel in

718
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 2: between two betting areas, and then we were also right

719
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 2: next to a set of dough betting areas and could

720
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 2: see more dough betting around us to call to. So

721
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 2: it's got everything you could possibly ask for for a

722
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 2: rut sit. It ended up being a kind of slow morning,

723
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 2: if I recall, that then led to kind of the

724
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 2: affirming information we needed in the late morning. So very

725
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 2: slow early. But then late morning we saw a handful

726
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 2: of younger bucks and then a pile of doughs. I

727
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 2: can't remember exactly how many, but maybe nine or ten

728
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 2: different doughs, and five or six of them ended up

729
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 2: betting like right around us, you know, within sight of us.

730
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 2: And so what that told me was that, hey, maybe

731
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 2: this doesn't work out right now this morning, but eventually

732
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 2: a good deer has to come through. Her bucks will

733
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:01,319
Speaker 2: cruise through here because they are forced to buy this

734
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 2: terrain and buy this cover. This is the connecting point

735
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 2: to get between these two big dough hot spots. And

736
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 2: our wind is bulletproof, so if you spend enough time

737
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 2: here good things will happen. That's what I kept telling myself.

738
00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 2: We sat there till midday, did not see a mature buck,

739
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 2: but saw the doughs that we needed. Some young bucks

740
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 2: actually pushed out most of those doughs. We didn't have

741
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 2: to spook them getting out of there. We left midday,

742
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 2: went and got lunch. One of the other guys in

743
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 2: our camp had shot a buck, so we got to

744
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 2: go check that out and have some good times just

745
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,799
Speaker 2: helping with you hanging the deer up, weighing the deer,

746
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 2: standing around gawking at it, telling stories, all that kind

747
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: of good stuff. So that was another fun thing that

748
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 2: was going on. But it is day five, so you

749
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 2: got to make sure you're still taking advantage of your

750
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 2: hunting time. So we ended up going to a new

751
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 2: location for the evening because again the southeast wind was

752
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 2: tough for the original best spots. So here's another situation

753
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 2: where there is a ground blind that's set up next

754
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 2: to a sanctuary of sorts that doesn't get hunted, that

755
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 2: has tons of bucks historically, and it's a spot that

756
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 2: my buddies have access to a neighboring property. It's just

757
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 2: a field, but they've set up a ground blind on

758
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 2: the edge of this, and then when you put a

759
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 2: buck decoy out in that field, sometimes you can pull

760
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 2: bucks off of the neighboring property out into your field

761
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 2: and get a shot out. This is a spot that

762
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 2: I had the opportunity to hunt last time, and I

763
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 2: said no to it because again, it wasn't like up

764
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:43,320
Speaker 2: to my hunt, my imagined hunt quality standards or whatever

765
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 2: it was. So I didn't go. And instead some of

766
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 2: my other friends went and they had a grand old time.

767
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 2: One of my buddies shot a great buck and had

768
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,959
Speaker 2: all sorts of fun. So this time around was like, dang,

769
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,919
Speaker 2: I wanna hunt the blind. Who cares? It's a good

770
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: time and we you know, usually multiple people will go

771
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 2: hunt and you just kind of shoot the bowl the

772
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 2: whole time, and it's a very fun place because you

773
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,759
Speaker 2: can see a lot of deer and then you maybe

774
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 2: get bucks out there in the field to come to

775
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 2: your decoy, so you get to watch all that. So

776
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 2: you know, dang it, I'm gonna experience that finally this year.

777
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 2: So we did it, got out there, two of my

778
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 2: buddies sat with me. Again, this is not your typical

779
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 2: hardcore DIY saddle hunter kind of set up. This is

780
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 2: instead three goobers sitting in a box blind, laughing and

781
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 2: telling stories for much of the day. But at the

782
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 2: same time we saw a bunch of deer, got to

783
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 2: see some cool interactions with the decoy, and just had

784
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 2: a really good time. Ultimately we saw a couple of

785
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 2: nice three year olds, but nothing that we were gonna shoot.

786
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 2: Nothing came close enough that we wanted to shoot. And

787
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 2: so that was the end of day five. Day six,

788
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 2: new wind, north wind. I decided to go back to

789
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 2: that first property Hamburger, Bond and nut Bread were and

790
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 2: again hunt terrain. But with a north wind, I couldn't

791
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 2: hunt that hub of the m as I described it earlier.

792
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 2: I had instead go to the bottom ridge of the

793
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 2: m where you could blow your wind off that ridge

794
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 2: over another one of these big creek bottoms got down there.

795
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 2: This is deep in the property. This is hard to

796
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 2: get to. I had to get in there very early

797
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 2: in the morning, and I was gonna have to stay

798
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 2: there all day, very windy day. I don't know if

799
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 2: you remember. This would been like November fifth or sixth

800
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 2: or somewhere in that ballpark, and it was like twenty

801
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 2: thirty mile an hour winds. So I was blowing in

802
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 2: that tree all day. It was kind of a tough

803
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 2: long sit. Didn't see a whole lot. Saw a young

804
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 2: buck come in early, and then a couple doze, and

805
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 2: then two forty five. I look over my right shoulder.

806
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 2: The one place that my wind will get me in trouble,

807
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: like this spot's bulletproof, right in the edge of this

808
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 2: bluff blowing out over the back behind you. But the

809
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,320
Speaker 2: wind cuts just a little bit where some deer could

810
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 2: travel on the edge of this bluff, and that, of course,

811
00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 2: is where this deer comes from. I see feet, I

812
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 2: see legs approaching me through a pine tree. Pull up

813
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 2: my binoculars and I can see big antlers and this

814
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 2: is one of the shooters, a deer we called pumper nickel,

815
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 2: and pumper Nickel stops at like thirty yards and it's

816
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 2: just like staring at me. And I drop a milk

817
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 2: weed and see that the milkweed is going right to him.

818
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,720
Speaker 2: So I realized, like I'm busted. He's smelling me right now.

819
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 2: I sat here all day long, and then the one

820
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 2: time you see a buck, of course, he has to

821
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 2: come to the one like five degree area where I'm

822
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 2: vulnerable from a win position, and he does. He wins me,

823
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 2: he spins around. He doesn't like spook spook, but he

824
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 2: does turn and just kind of like trots away. And

825
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 2: that was the day. That was day six. It was

826
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 2: one maybe point in the trip where I was starting

827
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 2: to feel like, uh oh, this is not this is

828
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,479
Speaker 2: not going my way, and we're running out of time.

829
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 2: And was trying to stick to that positive message that

830
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 2: I've been sharing with you here today, like just have

831
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 2: fun with it, see what happens. But I will tell

832
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 2: you that this point I was getting a little bit nervous.

833
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 2: I guess a little background for you. I hunted Iowa

834
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve and killed a buck, but when I

835
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 2: went and returned in twenty fifteen, I missed a giant

836
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 2: like a one hundred and sixty five inch buck. Missed

837
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,960
Speaker 2: a buck in twenty fifteen. Then I came back in

838
00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one in the trip that I've been telling

839
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 2: you about last time around, and that's I missed a

840
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 2: giant eight pointer on the last day of that hunt.

841
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 2: So it's twenty twenty five. Now it has been thirteen

842
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 2: years since I filled the tag in Iowa. And my

843
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 2: buddies have been giving me a hard time about it.

844
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 2: The joke has been that I'm the buckless non resident.

845
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,760
Speaker 2: I'm the only guy who I'm the only non resident

846
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 2: who can't kill buck in Iowa, apparently. And so now

847
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 2: it's day six again things don't go my way, and

848
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 2: I'm starting to feel like I might be the buckless

849
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 2: non resident forever. So there's a lot of joking and

850
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 2: laughing about that. And you know, I should point out

851
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 2: that every one of these nights, everyone comes back to

852
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 2: the clubhouse, and so there's like the group of us

853
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 2: that are hunting, and then there's some other local friends

854
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 2: in the area that all come to get together, and

855
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 2: so just a lot of fun and camaraderie and giving

856
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 2: each other a hard time and telling stories. So that's

857
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: all going on, while I'm also, you know, slowly getting

858
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 2: a little bit more nervous that, geez, is this going

859
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 2: to be a whole bunch of close but not close

860
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 2: enough hunts again? Which leads to day seven. And day

861
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 2: seven we have that southeast wind again, and so with

862
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 2: the southeast wind, this is when we hunted that just

863
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 2: picture perfect rout setup that blows your wind off over

864
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 2: top of the creek at the sea, the sea pinch

865
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,720
Speaker 2: point I was telling you guys about, that's the set

866
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 2: that would work really well for the southeast wind. So

867
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 2: this is a situation where we said, like, we have

868
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 2: to just trust that even though we didn't seen an

869
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 2: good bucks last time, even though it seems like, you know,

870
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 2: the southern part of the Farmers where we've seen everything,

871
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 2: we gotta trust that this place, if you spend enough

872
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 2: time here, it's gonna work out because it is a

873
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 2: pinch point between two amazing dough betting areas. You're right

874
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 2: next to one of those amazing dough betting areas and

875
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 2: your wind blows off into never never Land, so nothing's

876
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 2: gonna bust you. It is so good when the wind's right.

877
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 2: Spend time there, good things will happen. That's what I

878
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:26,799
Speaker 2: kept telling myself over and over again. So now we

879
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,919
Speaker 2: had that southeast wind, my buddy Ross is gonna hunt

880
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 2: with me. He's going to take a day off from

881
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 2: hunting and sit with me again because this is just

882
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 2: seems like a good spot, great time. Let's have some

883
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 2: fun together. Let's get out there and sit in the tree.

884
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 2: So we slip in there before daylight gets set up,

885
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 2: and pretty quickly we're seeing deer. We see a really

886
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 2: nice buck chasing a dough way off in the distance.

887
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,879
Speaker 2: Down on that bottom there's crop feels way down there

888
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 2: that you can see from a farce. We see that

889
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,240
Speaker 2: going on. Then we see some young bucks cruising around

890
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 2: in the bowl. That big northerly betting area I talked about.

891
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,840
Speaker 2: We can see some bucks cruising there. Then some does

892
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 2: start moving in to bed around us, and it just

893
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 2: feels like, you know, anytime no something good's going to happen.

894
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: And uh, you know, I just remember, like the sun

895
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 2: is rising and the whole woods is like glowing and

896
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 2: glittering blue skies, orange and yellow kind of just rattling

897
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 2: leaves all around you. The sun's kind of shimmering through.

898
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 2: I think you guys know what I'm talking about. This

899
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 2: is like that gorgeous early November mornings where you have

900
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 2: the bluebirds, skies, the golden sun, the orange fall colors,

901
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 2: the kind of like fog that's in the air just

902
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 2: a little bit that kind of like makes everything just

903
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 2: seem like ethereal, almost like a magical scene around you.

904
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 2: That's what's going on. I look over my right shoulder.

905
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 2: I see antlers coming towards our way through that pinch.

906
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 2: Pull my binos realize that's a big buck. I tell

907
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 2: Ross like, big buck coming, big buck coming. I hand

908
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 2: him my phone so he can film. Then he says

909
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 2: it's him, and I realized, Holy smokes, this is the buck.

910
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 2: This is hamburger bun. This is the number one deer,

911
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 2: the one that I've had two other encounters with. And

912
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 2: he's coming right down the pipe. So I slowly get

913
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,919
Speaker 2: turned around. I grab my bow. He's heading right down

914
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 2: this pinch that just delivers deer right in front of you.

915
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 2: If he follows this path and doesn't, for some reason

916
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 2: get turned around, he ends up walking right into like

917
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 2: twenty yards, but there's branches in my way here. He

918
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:28,760
Speaker 2: stops at twenty and looks like right up at the tree,

919
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,440
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, oh, no, like we're done. But he

920
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 2: just kind of looks up in the general area. It

921
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 2: doesn't see anything that he isn't like, and I thank

922
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 2: goodness for just, you know, having a lot of cover

923
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 2: in that tree. I guess because he doesn't see anything

924
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 2: that totally bogers him. And he turns and just starts

925
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 2: walking across. Now he heads right to where me and

926
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 2: Ross walked in. Again, there's this one branch that's running

927
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 2: along the side of me, and along this one side

928
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 2: you just can't get a shot from the position I'm in,

929
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 2: so I'm waiting for him to clear this branch. He

930
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 2: gets to the spot where we walked in, so now

931
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 2: he's at our ground scent and I'm thinking like, oh no,

932
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 2: he's gonna hit our ground scent and this is gonna

933
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 2: spook him. And he hits it, sniff, sniff, sniff, and

934
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 2: here I think, goodness that I used I put nose

935
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 2: jammer on my boots, you know, not trying to do

936
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 2: a product plug here, but I do really think this

937
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 2: thing helps. Smells that but doesn't freak out, but then

938
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 2: turns and starts walking straight away. And now I'm thinking like,

939
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:26,280
Speaker 2: oh geez, that's it. He's just gonna walk the other direction.

940
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 2: But he instead just took like one step away from

941
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 2: us or two steps away for us, and then stopped

942
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 2: and then turned back. So now my shot opens up.

943
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 2: He's brought a slightly quartering away. Now he takes a

944
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 2: step past that branch just blocking me. I'm able to

945
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 2: draw back. I just remember thinking to myself like take

946
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 2: your time, take your time, remember like centering my site

947
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 2: picture in the peep site and then putting that pen

948
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 2: right behind the shoulder. Pull him back and uh double

949
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 2: lunged him. Perfect shot. He goes running off. I watch

950
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,879
Speaker 2: him go down. The celebration and ensues. And what made

951
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 2: it so great, I think was that you know, my

952
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 2: buddy was in the tree with me. We got to

953
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 2: just you know, relive this story and high five and

954
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 2: just celebrate the craziness of it all. It seems like

955
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,240
Speaker 2: in so many of these rut hunts, so many trips

956
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 2: in general, at a certain point it starts to feel impossible.

957
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 2: It starts to feel like, oh my gosh, this will

958
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,919
Speaker 2: never come together. Get you have close encounters, or maybe

959
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 2: you never see anything, or maybe it seems that they're

960
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,439
Speaker 2: always just out of range, or something always goes wrong,

961
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 2: or you're not seeing a good buck or whatever it

962
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 2: might be. On so many of these trips, you get

963
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 2: to a point where it seems like it's never going

964
00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 2: to happen, Like it never could happen. This is such

965
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 2: a hard thing to pull up. How could this ever work?

966
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 2: But if you stick it out and keep doing the

967
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 2: right things, enough and keep it fun. Often not always,

968
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:52,600
Speaker 2: but often, eventually something flips and all of a sudden,

969
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,600
Speaker 2: in a matter of seconds, it's all changed and it

970
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 2: finally does all fall into place. That's what happened this time.

971
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 2: Kill Hamburger Bond. We get to walk up on him.

972
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 2: He's an absolutely gorgeous, big old Iowa buck. It broke

973
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 2: off that hook unfortunately, which it would have been just

974
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 2: like a really unique cool buck, but one hundred and

975
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 2: sixty class slammer Iowa whitetail, a deer that is one

976
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 2: of my biggest bucks ever, but without a doubt, was

977
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 2: a part of my most fun hunt ever, because you know,

978
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 2: when I look at this hunt, there was a handful

979
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 2: of things that stand out that made this trip so special,

980
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 2: and much of it was not related to the fact

981
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 2: that I killed a big, giant buck. That was a

982
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 2: really nice side effect. I'm very glad that happened, but

983
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 2: I still think I would look at this trip and

984
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 2: still rate it as incredibly successful and fun even if

985
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 2: I didn't kill this deer because of everything else. I

986
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 2: think one thing that I did much better this time

987
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:59,240
Speaker 2: than I've done in previous trips, especially to Iowa, is balance.

988
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 2: I really want to focus on balancing the experience, and

989
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 2: you know, at times hunting really hard, at times hunting

990
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,760
Speaker 2: all day, at times you know, putting in the putting

991
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:11,800
Speaker 2: in the serious hours, because right, that's the name of

992
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 2: the game in the rut is time in the field

993
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 2: is grit is grit is toughness, is just being out

994
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,880
Speaker 2: there hunting hard. Right, So so you gotta do some

995
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 2: of them. But the same time, I also want to

996
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 2: not make the same mistakes that I had in the past,

997
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 2: which was hunting so much that you don't let yourself

998
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 2: enjoy the rest of the experience. And so that's why

999
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 2: I came in for some lunches, That's why I went

1000
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 2: out for breakfast one day. That's why you know, I,

1001
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 2: you know, hunted the spots that maybe I want to

1002
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 2: hunt in the past. I hunted the tower blind I

1003
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 2: hunted the box blinds. I went out and brought friends

1004
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 2: with me. Those things probably did not help me have

1005
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 2: a better chance of killing a deer, right, more scent

1006
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,680
Speaker 2: in the air, more chance for movement. But dang it,

1007
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 2: we had so much fun. We had so many good laughs.

1008
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 2: The experience was so much better because of it. This

1009
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 2: was an opportunity to really enjoy the companionship of some

1010
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 2: of my best hunting buddies out there in an incredible place,

1011
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 2: chasing an incredible animal and getting to share that with

1012
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 2: a friend or a family member makes it so much sweeter.

1013
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 2: And I allowed myself to do that this time, and

1014
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 2: I think that made a huge difference that made this

1015
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 2: so so so enjoyable. I also had trust this time around.

1016
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:30,040
Speaker 2: I tried to not make the mistake that I've made

1017
00:52:30,080 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 2: many times as a hunter, and that is to constantly

1018
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 2: second guess your decision making, constantly debate we should have

1019
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 2: been here or here there? Or there? Was this the

1020
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 2: right spot? Was that the right spot? I shouldn't have

1021
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 2: done this because I at least know I'm a very

1022
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 2: analytical person. I'm constantly like hyper analyzing everything, and that

1023
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 2: can help me in many cases, but it can also

1024
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 2: hinder me because it can just lead to this constant

1025
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 2: decision making stress and worry over your tad decisions like

1026
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 2: then I put myself in the best possible place, or

1027
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 2: should I have moved there? Should I have rattled here

1028
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 2: and not rattled there? Whatever it might be. This time around,

1029
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 2: I tried to make a good decision and then trust

1030
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:15,360
Speaker 2: that trust the decision, trust the spot, and then just

1031
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 2: release yourself from worrying after that, like, like, we made

1032
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 2: the decision, now let it be. It is what it is.

1033
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 2: Now just enjoy it. So I remember a couple different times,

1034
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 2: you know, where I start having that creeping feeling about geez,

1035
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 2: I should have done something different, or oh gee, should

1036
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:32,399
Speaker 2: I do something different? And I would just remind myself that, hey, chill,

1037
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 2: you're supposed to be enjoying this. Enjoy the experience. Like,

1038
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,280
Speaker 2: take a deep breath, close your eyes, listen to the wind,

1039
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 2: Smell the fresh air, take a look at the sun

1040
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 2: shining through the leaves, and just like, enjoy this thing.

1041
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 2: Enjoy it. Stop stressing, just enjoy it. Trust what you did,

1042
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 2: let it play out. Handful of times, I think that

1043
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,920
Speaker 2: really helped me. I think another thing is that I

1044
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 2: released myself from expectations. As I described on pass trips.

1045
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 2: When you go to Iowa or one of these other

1046
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 2: big buck states, you sometimes go into it thinking, well,

1047
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 2: it's Iowa, or it's Ohio or it's Kansas. You got

1048
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 2: to shoot a giant. You see everybody's shooting these big

1049
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 2: giant bucks on these Midwestern states, and so you start

1050
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 2: to think that that's what you have to do too.

1051
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,040
Speaker 2: So because of that, you put a lot of pressure

1052
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,400
Speaker 2: on yourself. You pass a bunch of bucks maybe that

1053
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 2: you normally wouldn't want to pass. You force yourself to

1054
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 2: do things maybe that you wouldn't normally do because you

1055
00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 2: got to shoot that giant. And so you're so worried

1056
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,799
Speaker 2: about shooting that giant that again, you don't do the

1057
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 2: fun stuff. You don't spend time with your friends, you

1058
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,279
Speaker 2: don't come in and do some stuff. Maybe maybe your

1059
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 2: buddy shoots a buck, and you don't go on the

1060
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 2: blood trail because you don't want to miss one possible

1061
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 2: minute in the tree. I've made that mistake in the past.

1062
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 2: I wasn't going to do it this time. So I

1063
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,480
Speaker 2: came in with modest expectations, my expectations, my goals. Like

1064
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 2: I've said earlier, it was not to kill a one

1065
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 2: to seventy. It was not that I had to kill

1066
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 2: a six year old. It was not that I had

1067
00:54:55,520 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 2: to kill the number one target deer. It was I

1068
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 2: want to have fun. I want to, you know, experience

1069
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 2: the full Iowa experience, and I'd like to shoot a

1070
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 2: mature buck. And that was it. And just let you know,

1071
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 2: let be whatever is going to be. And because of that,

1072
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 2: I had so much less pressure, so much less stress

1073
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 2: during this trip. I just really tried to enjoy it.

1074
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 2: And yet at the end I did start having some

1075
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 2: of that creeping worry come in. That's hard not to have,

1076
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 2: at least a little bit. We did joke a lot

1077
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:26,799
Speaker 2: about how I was going to be the buckless non

1078
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 2: resident forever and maybe I was just cursed, But at

1079
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 2: the same time, it wasn't so serious and so worrisome

1080
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 2: that I was actually miserable. I have been actually miserable

1081
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 2: on some of these past hunts where I'm so obsessed

1082
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 2: with the outcome. I just need to enjoy the process.

1083
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 2: That's what I was doing this time around, and it

1084
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 2: helped a ton. Ultimately. What it came down to, though,

1085
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:50,839
Speaker 2: is I think because of the fact that I came

1086
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,319
Speaker 2: in with those expectations, because of the fact that I

1087
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 2: balanced things, because of the fact that I trusted my

1088
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:59,720
Speaker 2: decision making and didn't stress too much. And then finally

1089
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 2: I prioritized my friends and the camaraderie and the whole

1090
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 2: experience of being there with these good buddies. Because I

1091
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 2: prioritized that over these other things. I just had a

1092
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 2: damn good time. We laughed so much. We have so

1093
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 2: many amazing stories to share it now, we have so

1094
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 2: many experiences that I'm going to look back on fondly forever.

1095
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 2: The buck almost comes in second to all that. But

1096
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 2: I do think that I ultimately had success and killed

1097
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,239
Speaker 2: the deer because I was enjoying myself so much and

1098
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 2: was not as stressed and not as worried as I

1099
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 2: would have been past years, that I was able to

1100
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 2: just let the hunt come to me. I was able

1101
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:41,240
Speaker 2: to trust in the process, and finally, when the things

1102
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 2: actually lined up, I was in the right place, trusting

1103
00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:46,919
Speaker 2: a spot where we had not seen a big buck yet,

1104
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:50,360
Speaker 2: but trusting in the spot. I was hunting with a friend.

1105
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 2: We were having fun, and we trusted that eventually good

1106
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 2: things will happen if we keep it fun, if we

1107
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 2: keep doing the right things well enough, and sure enough,

1108
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:03,760
Speaker 2: day seven, the fates aligned and things happened, and yeah,

1109
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 2: I killed a great deer too, which is a hell

1110
00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 2: of a bonus, tremendous trip, the perfect opposite, like the

1111
00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 2: mirror opposite of the last time I was here in Iowa.

1112
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 2: And I think a reflection of maybe some personal growth

1113
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 2: and some important lessons learned that I think helped me

1114
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 2: not only have success, but also enjoy this hunt and

1115
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 2: made this my best rut hunting vacation ever. So that's

1116
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 2: how I killed this twenty twenty five Iowa Whytail. That's

1117
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 2: how I had a terrific trip. I hope there's something

1118
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 2: in there that you can relate to and that you

1119
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 2: can learn from. I think that that on the tactical side,

1120
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 2: you know, key things here would be trusting those pillars

1121
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 2: of the rut, not over complicating things, Trusting in funnels

1122
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 2: and pinch points and travel corridors, trusting in dough betting airs,

1123
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 2: and putting in the time in those places. Don't let

1124
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 2: all the other stuff cloud or muddy your vision and

1125
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 2: your plans. If you're hunting that kind of spot with

1126
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 2: safe wind and you put in the time in a

1127
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:10,439
Speaker 2: place where there are the kinds of deer you want

1128
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,680
Speaker 2: to shoot, that's all you gotta do. And then finally

1129
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 2: make sure you're enjoying the process along the way. And

1130
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,880
Speaker 2: I know that's what I talked about a lot here,

1131
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 2: but I think that has just been so so important

1132
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 2: to this whole thing. You do that all the rest

1133
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 2: falls into place. So I appreciate you joining me. Thank

1134
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 2: you for being here, Thank you for following my journey

1135
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 2: over all of these years. As I've had my ups

1136
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 2: and my downs, and my highs and my lows, and

1137
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 2: my twenty twenty one type hunts and my twenty twenty

1138
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 2: five type punts. I hope all of it has been

1139
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 2: helpful to you as you go through your own journey,

1140
00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 2: and I appreciate you being here a part of it all.

1141
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 2: So best of luck on your upcoming hunts, and until

1142
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 2: next time, stay Wired to Hunt,