1 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host, 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:16,920 Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyon, and this is episode number three 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: and four, and today we're back for another one of 6 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 1: our rut Fresh radio episodes in which we are getting 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: hot off the press intel from all across the country 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,800 Speaker 1: from different hunters about what's happening in the woods right now. 9 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: All right, welcome to the Wired Hunt podcast, brought to 10 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: you by Onyx. We are back for another rut fresh 11 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: radio episode in which Spencer and I are going to 12 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: be talking just a little bit here on the front 13 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: end about what's going on in our white tailed world, 14 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: and then we'll be chatting with deer hunters all across 15 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: the country to find out what is happening, what kind 16 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: of activities out there, how are the current conditions impacting 17 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 1: deer movement, what kind of tactics and ideas could be 18 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: working right now, and all the above. So, Spencer we 19 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,120 Speaker 1: le I should say you you chatted with those folks, 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,559 Speaker 1: Um do we get some good reason intel? We did, 21 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: And this is probably my favorite time of year for 22 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: the podcast. Because like, the intel that you get over 23 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: these next three weeks is maybe the most valuable. I think, 24 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: because although it's fun to hear guys say that activity, 25 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: you know, that first week of November is like a 26 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 1: nine out of ten um. You get everything else across 27 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: the board from like now October one through kind of 28 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 1: October fifteen, it's it's maybe the least predictable time of year, 29 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 1: and so I think this is maybe when the intel 30 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,400 Speaker 1: is the most valuable. UM. And from the guys that 31 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: we talked to this week, everybody kind of discussed that 32 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: it was poor dear movement this past weekend, but they 33 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 1: are optimistic for really good dear movement this coming weekend, 34 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: and that mostly has to do with the approaching cold front. 35 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:14,639 Speaker 1: Most of the Midwest in the Northeast has a large 36 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: cold front on the way that looks like it's supposed 37 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: to set in on Friday and kind of hang around 38 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,080 Speaker 1: through Sunday. And last year mark, if you recall, we 39 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 1: had sort of the same conversation this same exact time 40 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: that first weekend of October, and it seemed like, although anecdotal, UH, 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: people were killing a ton of deer and social media 42 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 1: was lighting up with big bucks that were killed, maybe 43 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: at a time that you don't normally expect that. Yeah, 44 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: it's true that the cold front. I know you sometimes 45 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: are skeptical of it, but and time and time again, 46 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: whether it's the placebo effect or real it certainly seems 47 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: to help a lot of hunters. But I've got a 48 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: hot tip for you tonight. Uh, something a little bit 49 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 1: contrad victory to the usual report about cold fronts. Do 50 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 1: you want to hear the latest and greatest, the very 51 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:12,240 Speaker 1: first update on my two thousand, nineteen Michigan hunting season. Yeah, because, 52 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 1: as we talked about this, today was Michigan's opener, right, Yeah, 53 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: Opening day here in Michigan, and a cold front ruined 54 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: my first night of hunting season ruined as Spencer, Because 55 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: here's the deal, it's opening night. I have hunted Opening 56 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: Night in Michigan every single year for years and years 57 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: and years, at least I can't remember the last year. 58 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: I think I might have missed Opening Day when I 59 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:43,160 Speaker 1: was working in California just out of college, but since then, 60 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: so at least the last ten years, I've hunted Opening 61 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: Night every single time. I think, I think I know 62 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: where this is going, don't steal my thunder, Spencer, don't 63 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: steal my thunder. I saw the forecast, and I saw 64 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: that opening day it was going to be hot, hot, 65 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 1: hot hot, superhumid, muggy, crappy. It's like mid eighties really 66 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: warm today and then tomorrow though, by the time the 67 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: evening time rolls around, it's gonna be more than twenty 68 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: degrees cooler by tomorrow night. And I thought to myself, Wow, 69 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: I can hunt the first night like I usually do, 70 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,960 Speaker 1: but I'm not feeling very good about that really warm 71 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,280 Speaker 1: weather and the next day and the following couple of 72 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: days after that are gonna be so great with his 73 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: cold front running through. I don't have any kind of 74 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 1: really great recent intel that tells me that the buck 75 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 1: I'm after on my main farm is moving in daylight yet, 76 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: So why don't I watch? Why don't for the first 77 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,960 Speaker 1: night ever? I'm just gonna sit back and observe opening night. 78 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,840 Speaker 1: I'm gonna scout, I'm gonna get better informed, and then 79 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: with a cold front coming through, I will sneak in 80 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: hunt one of my better spots the first you know, 81 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: October two and third. That was my game plan going 82 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,479 Speaker 1: to this. Okay, and did this warm weather, just save 83 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: a deer's life. So there's a there's one deer, and 84 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: there's one dear only spencer that I'm interested in killing 85 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: on my main Michigan property. That's a buck I called Tran. 86 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: He's a buck I passed on last year. He is 87 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,480 Speaker 1: a buck that showed back up this summer. Just an 88 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: absolute stud four year old, really tall, tight mega eight pointer. 89 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 1: Just like I'm smitten, absolutely smitten with this deer so 90 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: badly want to see him. I had a bunch of 91 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: encounters with the last year, lots of intel on him. 92 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:39,000 Speaker 1: UM just excited to hunt him this year. So I 93 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 1: got set up near the road on a hillside where 94 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: I could look way down this property down a power 95 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,599 Speaker 1: line where I can see two different little food plots 96 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: I have planted, and several different areas were deer crossed 97 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: between two chunks of timber. So I thought, all right, 98 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: this will allow me to see all the way to 99 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: the back and the back of the farmers where this 100 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 1: deer usually is the most active. UM, so I can 101 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: see that. Even though it's warm and I wasn't really 102 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: expecting to see much, I thought, well, I'll just observe 103 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: see what's going to happen. Maybe he'll step out at 104 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: last light way in the back. At least i'll know 105 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: when that cold front comes by tomorrow night that backspots, 106 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: you know, the spot to be well fast forward is 107 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,559 Speaker 1: the evening progress as I see some dos, more doughs, 108 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: more doughs, more doughs, gets just about last light, and 109 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: I'm about to pack it in and head out, and 110 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: I see a big body in the front, and I 111 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: pulled my binoculars, and I pulled up my spotting scope, 112 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: and outsteps Tran and he walks within ten yards of 113 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 1: the stand that I've hunted an opening night the last 114 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: three years, walked right by the spot I would have 115 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,760 Speaker 1: hunted tonight if I was gonna hunt just I mean, 116 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: just as pretty as you could ever ask for. Sat there, 117 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 1: feeding on some clover, puts them around with at least 118 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: five minutes, maybe ten lent two ventsus shooting light left 119 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:04,000 Speaker 1: um and I was sitting two fifty yards away watching 120 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: and a tiny part of my soul died to night Spencer. 121 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: Have you ever killed a deer on opening night? That's 122 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: that's one question. Another question is how confident are you 123 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: that he's going to be there one of these next 124 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: like three days. And then the other question is is 125 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: the wind going to participate for you to go kill 126 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 1: that deer? Yeah? So question number one, have I ever 127 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: killed an Opening night buck? Yes? I actually killed an 128 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,200 Speaker 1: Opening night buck four or five years ago from this 129 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: exact tree stand that trand walked by tonight. It's like, 130 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: my it's my favorite little spot for Opening Night because 131 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 1: it's a great early season food sources tight to good betting. 132 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: I can get into it pretty easily without blowing up 133 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: the farm. It's it's near the front of the property, 134 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: but it's it's good even though it's low impact. So 135 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 1: it's just a really nice balance. Um. So I've hunted 136 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: an Opening Night quite a few nights. Um killed a 137 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 1: buck a few years ago. I saw hold field one year, 138 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: another year, so it's it's a high odd spot. But 139 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: but you know, tonight decided to save it, save it 140 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: one day. And so that leads me to question number two, 141 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: which is will the will the wind work right? That's 142 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: what you're gonna ask um and tonight, Now, this is 143 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: the only thing that makes me feel slightly better about 144 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: the situation. Tonight, we had like a west southwest wind, 145 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: and if I had hunted that tree tonight based off 146 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: the direction he came from. He came from the south, 147 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: or at least he entered the He entered my line 148 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,920 Speaker 1: of sight south of that tree stand, so I might 149 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:41,079 Speaker 1: have got away with it, but without west southwest wind. 150 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: If he was coming from the west and south, he 151 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: and based off of my previous year's worth of intel 152 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 1: with him, I think he beds pretty far to the 153 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 1: east and south of this tree stand, so I think 154 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: he would have had to be moving into that wind 155 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,080 Speaker 1: unless he unless he came from due south, I don't know, 156 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: but it was There could have been a chance that 157 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: if I sat there tonight, he would have winded me, 158 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: and maybe he wouldn't have actually showed up there at all. 159 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: Now the good news is I saw him tonight. I 160 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: saw him come out to that food source in daylight, 161 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: and because of that, it changes what my plan would 162 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: have been for tomorrow's hunt. Otherwise, I was thinking I 163 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: was going to have to hunt near the back of 164 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: the farm, and I thought, because he had been in 165 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 1: the backs quite so often last year and conditions look good, 166 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: I was going to push back there and try hunt 167 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: for him. But now he's in the front and I've 168 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: got the perfect wind for the front of the farm 169 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: tomorrow perfect so it's still northerly ish, um, which would 170 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: give him what was it win today? It say it 171 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:48,679 Speaker 1: was west west, it was west southwest, I think, so 172 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: tomorrow's a little more easterly, so so he maybe he 173 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: won't come out because the wind is not as much 174 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: in his favor. But the wind is better for me tomorrow, 175 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: I guess. So that'll be interesting to see if he 176 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: moved the way he did because the wind was working 177 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: for him, and if tomorrow the wind is not going 178 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 1: to be as much unfair, he'll steal based off where 179 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 1: he is. He'll still have a northerly ish wind which 180 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: will be into his face from where I typically think 181 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: he beds um. So I'm not sure what will happen. 182 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: But he didn't get pressured right, I saw him moving 183 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,200 Speaker 1: comfortably tonight. Um. I snuck out of there without spooking 184 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 1: any deer, So I feel confident that with a good 185 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:25,560 Speaker 1: wind where I do not think I'll get winded, I 186 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: know I can get in there without spooking deer. I 187 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: know it's a hot food source, and I know that 188 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: tomorrow evening it will well tonight it was in the 189 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: mid eighties. Tomorrow evening it's gonna be like high fifties, 190 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 1: low sixties by the time that prime time gets there, 191 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 1: so and it's gonna be lightly raining throughout the day 192 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: and just petering out during primetime, So it should be 193 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:49,240 Speaker 1: a dynamite sit um. So I'm very excited, like frustrating that, 194 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: a little frustrated by tonight that I wasn't able to 195 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,079 Speaker 1: be sitting there when he walked by, but also very 196 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: excited for tomorrow, Like this is one of those nights 197 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: where I'm gonna be sitting up texting my buddies all night, 198 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: looking at maps, thinking about tomorrow. Tomorrow is gonna be that. 199 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: Do you ever have those days? I have these every year. 200 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: We're just the conditions seem perfect. You feel like you're 201 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: going in for a kill set, like you're just kind 202 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: of tingly all day with anticipation. I have that now, 203 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: and there's nothing I enjoy more during hunting season when 204 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 1: you are leading up to one of those kill knights 205 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,920 Speaker 1: where it just feels like this should happen. Well, I 206 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 1: like that you're calling your shot, but yeah, like the 207 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: feeling that you're describing, that's pretty rare for October. Second, 208 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 1: I think so like, I like where you're at because 209 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: I don't know your schedule or when you leave from Minnesota, 210 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 1: but just maybe not much that's stopping you from like 211 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: hunting this spot when the conditions are right, like while 212 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 1: he's still on this pattern. So it seems like it's 213 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 1: gonna work out. You know. I don't want to go 214 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 1: as far as to say that I'm gonna cross all 215 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:56,679 Speaker 1: my fingers and toes on a knock on wood because 216 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 1: you know, right the odds are probably that he won't 217 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:03,280 Speaker 1: show up again. But I feel better today than I 218 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,839 Speaker 1: would have this morning. You know, now that I know 219 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 1: he was there, there's a good chance he might be 220 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: back again. I hadn't gotten pictures or seen him since 221 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: September four before this, and that was the day of 222 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 1: I think that was the day before our youth season 223 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:20,320 Speaker 1: in Michigan, so I didn't even know if he made 224 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:21,959 Speaker 1: it for youth season. So now I know at least 225 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: he made it to opening day. He's still here. He 226 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: was moving in daylight and on a hot day, So 227 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:29,559 Speaker 1: that makes me think that dang, once we get a 228 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: good cold day tomorrow and the next day, um, it 229 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 1: sure feels good. So if nothing else, I'll be going 230 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: into a confident and excited and that's that's a good 231 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: thing on So is there anything that like threatens to 232 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,240 Speaker 1: push him off his pattern? In the Midwest this time 233 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: of year, there's a lot of things that can kind 234 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,560 Speaker 1: of cause the deck to be reshuffled, like, uh, some 235 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,839 Speaker 1: kind of crop being harvested, or some sort of other 236 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: season opening. If you hunt in a wet area in 237 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: duck season opens, or if you hunt in a CRP 238 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 1: area or like an upland season opens, those things can 239 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: kind of reshuffle the deck. Is there anything like that 240 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: that threatens this buck from changing what he's doing? I 241 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: don't think he's necessary. I wouldn't go so far as 242 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,640 Speaker 1: to think that he's on like a hard pattern, right 243 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,400 Speaker 1: because I've been able to watch this little area a 244 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: decent amount over the last couple of weeks, and this 245 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,520 Speaker 1: is the first time I've seen him come back out there. 246 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 1: Um Like, I saw him in this general area a 247 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 1: couple of times during the summer, gotten a handful of 248 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: pictures of him at the back of the farm, and now, 249 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: for the first time in weeks, I saw him back 250 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: at the front. So I'm not gonna go and be 251 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: so confident to think that this he's gonna keep doing 252 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: this over and over. I think there's a decent chance 253 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: he might do it again tomorrow simply because he did tonight. 254 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 1: But you know, he just as well could be back 255 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 1: on the back of the farm somewhere too. I think 256 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,719 Speaker 1: crops could be harvested. Uh. You know, the beans are 257 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: still not fully dry down on this property, so I 258 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: don't expect that to happen anytime soon. The corn's got 259 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: a long ways to go, so that won't be anything 260 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: that will impact me, probably hill November. Um. You know, 261 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,959 Speaker 1: if acorns are going to be an impact and impacting issue, 262 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: they would be already. I know there's make corns hitting 263 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: the ground around here. I'm sure he's feeding on those 264 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,720 Speaker 1: at times. But you know he's he's gonna hit the 265 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: ice cream on occasion. So I can hunt the edge 266 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: of these corn fields he can hunt. I can hunt 267 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 1: these couple of little small food plots of green food 268 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: sources that I know he's going to hit on occasion. Um, 269 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: And so I'm just gonna play safe, hit the edges 270 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: of things a couple of times here early while the 271 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,320 Speaker 1: conditions are good and then I'll be out and I've 272 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: got that Minnesota hunt, and I've got other hunts going on, 273 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: and be hunting the back forty um and then we'll 274 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: get back after him and late October and hopefully the 275 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: testosteron will be picking up. We'll hopefully he'll be dead 276 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: tomorrow night, but if not, then I'll be thinking late 277 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: October and or if a big coal front comes through 278 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: or something. So the cold front theme that we'll be 279 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: talked about by all the guests is definitely on my mind. 280 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: It's definitely um already impacted my season. Hopefully it'll influence 281 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: it for good here in the next day or two 282 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: as I'm gonna get a little bit more aggressive than 283 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: maybe I do in past years. I'll hunt the front, 284 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: but I might push into the back the day after 285 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: that or the day after that, depending on what I 286 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: see and how things go. So I'm gonna try to 287 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: take advantage of this weather. Well. Besides your report from Michigan, 288 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,880 Speaker 1: we also hear from Byron Horton from White Tail Experience 289 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: in Ohio, and then John Armand in North Dakota from 290 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: Ultimate Outdoor Adventures TV, and then we talked to josh 291 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: Ganthony from cut four Outdoors in North Carolina, and then 292 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: we go to Nebraska and t talk to Bryce Lambley. Well, 293 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 1: I can tell your sweating already that I've been blabbering 294 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 1: on for fifteen minutes cutting into the normal nice, short 295 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: and sweet Spencer podcasts. So should we get to the interviews. Yes, 296 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,000 Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next week. Mark, all right, I'm 297 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: gonna do my best to have good news before we 298 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: move on, though, I want to tell you about all 299 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: the new content over at the meat Eater dot com 300 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: that's available right now. If you head over there, you're 301 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: gonna find episode one of The Back Forty where Mark 302 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: and Steve investigate Mark's new Michigan property. 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All 312 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,880 Speaker 1: right Enjoining us on the line now is Byron Hornton 313 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: from the white Tail Experience in Ohio. Now Byron in Ohio, 314 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: what would you say the bucket activity has been lately 315 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten. Oh I gotta 316 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: go with a two out of ten here. This last 317 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: week we've had major warren temperatures and that is just 318 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: not working for us. Have you seen any signmaking start 319 00:16:46,680 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: to show up yet in Ohio? Yeah, I would say 320 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: at least from the scouting. I did a lot of 321 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: a lot of scouting. I feel like, uh this past 322 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: weekend and noticed like in certain areas is that that 323 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: there is a concentration a buck sign and then there's 324 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: gaps where there is no concentration of buck sign. I 325 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: think the key is now finding those those areas. I 326 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 1: do this like seven rubs within a fifty yard area 327 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: right on the edge of this betting area, and then 328 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: walked for the next half mile and it came across 329 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: zero buck sign. So I definitely think if you can 330 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: find it, that's that's where they're they're holding up at 331 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 1: this time of year. What is your scouting strategy when 332 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,760 Speaker 1: you're in season like this? So if it's a morning 333 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: hunt and the sun comes up, and I have zero 334 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: confidence I am getting down the first forty five minutes 335 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 1: or or an hour. I'm not gonna wait. Um. Generally 336 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: I go into two pre scouted betting type areas. Um 337 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 1: that is that I've scouted in the winter. But then 338 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,160 Speaker 1: it is it is covering ground and kind of I've 339 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,320 Speaker 1: used on X and marked uh known betting areas and 340 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 1: so that gives me like a blueprint. So I am 341 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:55,720 Speaker 1: just trying to get toe in and around them, um 342 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: at a distance, but pick up buck signed that might 343 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: be leading back some of these bed areas, uh, some 344 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 1: of these oh kind of second tier spots on the 345 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: public land that all I need is to know a 346 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 1: good track or a couple of good rubs leading one 347 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: and hopefully I can then dive in and make the 348 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,920 Speaker 1: game playing on and figure out what's going on in there. 349 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 1: Do you find it difficult to avoid public land pressure 350 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: on opening weekend? Oh? Yeah, Saturday morning? In fact, we 351 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 1: uh we we're not alone in the parking lot and 352 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,399 Speaker 1: uh pulled in kind of had to make a judgment 353 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:32,159 Speaker 1: call on me if I stuff these guys were oh 354 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 1: dicky mos or or legit guys and they had no stands, 355 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 1: there's no headlands, So it was more of I'm not 356 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: worried about these guys going very far doing anything really 357 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: to kill a big buck in this area. So I 358 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: stayed state point and went hunt at that same piece. 359 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: And um, it is something that we definitely know and 360 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,480 Speaker 1: you know, the squirrel blasters or something you gotta take 361 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: account for here on the public pieces, avoiding stuff like hickory, 362 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: gros and and walnuts. Um, those guys tend to be 363 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: in the as areas and and they'll they'll hike just 364 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:03,679 Speaker 1: as far as you because all they gotta do is 365 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: carry At twenty two, what food source are you concerned 366 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 1: with this time of year? Have have acorns started hitting 367 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: the ground yet? Yeah? And here it's it's it's all. 368 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 1: The acorn crop isn't isn't as big as what it 369 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: has in the last two to three years. So to me, 370 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 1: that's good. I mean, if you can find the white 371 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 1: oak this dropping, it's it's it's uh the money source. 372 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: I also see a decent amount of like meadows and 373 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: prows being like a popular item since all the beans 374 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: are turned and are pretty much dry at this point. 375 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 1: You mentioned before that the hot weather made for really 376 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 1: poor dear movement. Does that mean you're getting really aggressive 377 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,639 Speaker 1: when we do get those cold fronts this early in 378 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: the season. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of have the philosophy, 379 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: oh that if you leave a buck's in there, you 380 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,679 Speaker 1: know that at least on the public, you're gonna be 381 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,400 Speaker 1: fighting other hunters. So if it's a cold front, why 382 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 1: not get aggressive? And then I also have the philosophy that, oh, 383 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: my in season scouting, I can go find another buck 384 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: that kind of hits what I'm looking for out there. 385 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: It's a long so if I if I bugg or 386 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,439 Speaker 1: something up, I'm not just solely chasing one deer. I 387 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,280 Speaker 1: think at least with where I'm at and what I'm doing, 388 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 1: I'm not chasing that one particular giant. As someone who 389 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 1: mostly does mobile setups, is there anything with your mobile 390 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: setup that changes between now and the RUT? Yeah? I 391 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:27,160 Speaker 1: would say right now, I'm actually taking four Mini six 392 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 1: because I'm not you know, with with canopy coverage, I'm 393 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,440 Speaker 1: not getting up as high. Um, I'm also not hunting 394 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: the big woods, so I'm not taking the full length 395 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:38,240 Speaker 1: six at this point in time. And then uh, as 396 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: far as packing in, I don't have to bring any layers. 397 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: I just have to bring my camera gear and just 398 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 1: a few minimalist things. So running gun hunting, I feel 399 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 1: like in October is is definitely just easier. You you're 400 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: less bulky and and you have just less items going forward. 401 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,919 Speaker 1: Then in a six week or so, what do you 402 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: think that bucket activity is going to be on the 403 00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: scale of one to ten in Ohio? I really think 404 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 1: we've got this first cold front twenty degree tient drops 405 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: coming Friday, some systems pushing through, and it's gonna stay 406 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,040 Speaker 1: cold for a couple of days. Um, I'm gonna go 407 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 1: ahead and give it an eight. I truly think if 408 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: you're gonna kill an early season buck um, this is this. 409 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: We'll see some big bucks here in Ohio hit the 410 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: ground this weekend. I like your optimism. Thanks for your time, 411 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: buying a good luck, absolutely, Spencer, thanks for having me 412 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,960 Speaker 1: on alright, enjoying us on the line. Next is John 413 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: Armand in North Dakota from Ultimate Outdoor Adventures TV. Now 414 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: John in North Dakota. What would you say the bucket 415 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 1: activities been lately on the scale of one to ten? 416 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: I would say probably about a six. We were earlier, 417 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,119 Speaker 1: I would say an eight, but we kind of slowed 418 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 1: down with some of the moisture coming through. Now, moisture 419 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 1: has kind of been a theme for the great planes 420 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,840 Speaker 1: this summer in this fall. How has that affected dear 421 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,199 Speaker 1: movement this season in North Dakota. Well, there's been you know, 422 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 1: for us getting out on the weekends, it seems like 423 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 1: every weekend we're getting trench or downpours. Um. I think 424 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: beer no different than we are. They don't mind the rain, 425 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: but when it's blowing thirty miles an hour and the 426 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: winds and rain is going sideways, they kind of hold up. 427 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: So Um. We've had a few weekends where the movement 428 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 1: has been slower, but once the weather you know, breaks, 429 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: the movement has been actually really really good this year 430 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: for us. How about the rain that we had this summer. 431 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 1: Has that effected anything as far as is it's going 432 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: to be a late harvest in North Dakota and how 433 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:26,399 Speaker 1: will that change things? It is that it's gonna be 434 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: one of those It's gonna it could change a lot 435 00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,440 Speaker 1: of things, especially for rifle season. I think there's gonna 436 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: be a lot of crops that are still um left 437 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,320 Speaker 1: um right now. We're seeing small greens. I think a 438 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,959 Speaker 1: lot of them haven't been taken off and they're probably 439 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: not even going to get them off because they're ruined 440 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 1: right now. Um starting to see you know, soy beans 441 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: are starting to turn, but there's still a lot of 442 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:51,879 Speaker 1: them that are still growing and still green. Um. You know, 443 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,960 Speaker 1: the moisture has been kind of a blessing and occur 444 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:57,159 Speaker 1: so I'm one that I would much rather hunt a 445 00:22:57,240 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: dry condition than the wet condition. And this year where 446 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 1: as wet as we've ever met. You talked about the 447 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: soybeans still being green there. Does that mean that's your 448 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: focus right now for food sources? It is. We have 449 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,600 Speaker 1: a couple of fields that we're put in at different times, 450 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: and the ones that have matured and they're turning brown 451 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: don't have a lot of activity, and the one that 452 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 1: are green and have have all of it diering right now. 453 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,800 Speaker 1: So we're still still hunting soybeans and hoping to knock 454 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:26,760 Speaker 1: down a deer. We've we've we've gotten a couple of 455 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: opportunities early and we didn't capitalize, but we're hoping to 456 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: make something happen in the next week. Have you seen 457 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: any signmaking start to show up yet. Yes, you know, 458 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 1: I was just down checking pool cards the other day 459 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: and a lot of the rub lines, the scrape lines, 460 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: you know, you're starting to see a lot more activity, 461 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,639 Speaker 1: you know, where they were just kind of you know, 462 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: paught up a little bit. Now they're starting to get 463 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: after them. Started some mock scrapes that are getting hit 464 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: really hard. So I think, you know, things are starting 465 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 1: to crank up a little bit. How concerned are you 466 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:03,359 Speaker 1: with moon phases in early and mid October? You know, 467 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 1: I'm one of those guys that I get that I 468 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,480 Speaker 1: only get to hunt so many days, so I hunt 469 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 1: no matter what. But there's definitely a difference. And you know, 470 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: this year, when we the opening weekend, the moon phase 471 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: seem to be perfect. And that's what I'm hoping for 472 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 1: in the next week. I think it's going to follow 473 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 1: the same pattern, um like the moon always does, and 474 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: you're gonna start to see that activity because to me, 475 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: there's that three or four days out of the month 476 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: that the movement is just crazy, and I'm hoping that's 477 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 1: going to happen. Uh And the next rself, what's your 478 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: strategy this time of year for hunting those deer that 479 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 1: like to bed out in the egg fields. We're you know, 480 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,520 Speaker 1: we kind of know different. We hunt um the edges 481 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: of our coolies and the edges of the egg field, 482 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,760 Speaker 1: so we try to get them coming out, trying to 483 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 1: pattern them. You know, most of the time they're going 484 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 1: to come out from the corn fields because they're not 485 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: really feeding in the corn fields, going to come out 486 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,080 Speaker 1: hit the alfall fulfilled at the smybeans. So if we 487 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 1: can see that they're betting in those fields, those cornfields, 488 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: we'll try to set up, you know, and in the 489 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: way and kind of get lucky and hopefully have one 490 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,880 Speaker 1: um walk bias going forward. Then in the next week 491 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 1: or so, what do you think that bucket activity is 492 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: going to be on a scale of one to ten 493 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 1: in North Dakota. Well, if it follows the suit that 494 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,400 Speaker 1: we had opening weekend, we're coming around the same moon 495 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: phase and things like that, it should be excellent. Because 496 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: our our movement this year has been really really good, 497 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: almost crazy. It seems like the deer have been out 498 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 1: in the field earlier and I've been staying out longer. 499 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: So we're we're hoping for a ten out of tenna 500 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: the next week. Our John Well Good luck to you 501 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: and everyone else from Ultimate Outdoor Ventures TeV. Thanks for 502 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 1: joining me all right, buddy, thank you very much, and 503 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,199 Speaker 1: good luck to you guys alright and enjoining us on 504 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 1: the line. Next is Josh Genty in North Carolina from 505 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 1: Cut four Outdoors. Now, Josh in North Carolina, what would 506 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,399 Speaker 1: you say the buck activity has been lately? On a 507 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: scale of one to ten, I'd probably have to give 508 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 1: it probably four, maybe a three just with all the 509 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 1: heat it went again. I mean, we don't really haven't 510 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: been on their feet a whole lot um. They just 511 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: kind of kind of like that summer pattern where they 512 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: don't want to be far from the three, but they 513 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: ain't getting up until they absolutely have to. So probably 514 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,840 Speaker 1: give him a sore on that one that Josh, you 515 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,880 Speaker 1: just tagged a buck about a week ago in North Carolina. 516 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: Tell us about that set up. Well, I had my 517 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,680 Speaker 1: Number one saying that I had been watching all some mean, uh, 518 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:29,639 Speaker 1: I knew that's the tray I wanted to be in, 519 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: and opening day, which was probably two weeks before, I 520 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: noticed all the doing coming out on the other side 521 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: of the field. Which it's kind of odd considering all 522 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:41,120 Speaker 1: the scout and I've done everything. A couple of weeks later, 523 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: the same patterns continued, so I just took a climber. 524 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 1: Whenever they're got in there kind of room had to 525 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 1: set up where I know they wanted the stage in 526 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 1: this other corner of the field, and they always worked 527 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: their way down. The food of this acorn had just 528 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 1: started dropping maybe a week before, and that's how I felt, 529 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,000 Speaker 1: they're just waiting and what a who was the second 530 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: dud that came out? I mean there was a sport 531 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: before corn that came out and he was out behind it, 532 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: which was kind of weird because it was real early. 533 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: It's probably six o'clock when he came out. It just 534 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: kind of caught me off good just to see him 535 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: out that early and just kind of leave that. We 536 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: made you touch on that the acorn that just started 537 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: falling in North Carolina? What is that a corn crop? 538 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: And like this year it's honestly, I've I've never seen 539 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 1: this many falls. Um. You know, usually you know, you 540 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: can always tell when the white oaks and still start falling, 541 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: you can sell it they started migrating to that. But 542 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: I mean oak trees that I haven't even noticed that 543 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,200 Speaker 1: they are honestly like they just never dropped until now. 544 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 1: I mean that's playing a huge role, especially this past week, 545 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 1: because now it's it's almost like they don't even want 546 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,960 Speaker 1: to stage up anymore. It's like they've made their mind 547 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 1: up where they want to get, where they want to 548 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 1: be every evening or every night, like they're just that 549 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 1: they're determined to get to that oak tree light evenings 550 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,400 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So how does that change your 551 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 1: strategy for hunting to lead to mid October? When there's 552 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 1: so many acorns on the ground. Nicely, I couldn't use 553 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: it the same way that scouting, So then I couldn't 554 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: rely do more observation sits and kind of figure out 555 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,440 Speaker 1: what's fine the field they want to be they want 556 00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,159 Speaker 1: to come out, and then golf of that, figure out 557 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: what acorn tree they want to be near, and then 558 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 1: just kind of want my way back through there trying 559 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 1: to find you have more of the community trails and 560 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: stuff like that. So I'm trying to figure out where 561 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 1: I'm catching the daylight. Now, have you noticed any signmaking 562 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: start to show up in North Carolina? Um, just just 563 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: a few robes from where they said they're velvet, another 564 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: warm one, the smallest grape, but nothing crazy. I don't 565 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: have seen any significant robes. Maybe one or two it 566 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,360 Speaker 1: the most, but nothing really to think of. I feel 567 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 1: like they're just barely moving into the fall transition right now, 568 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 1: but not really fully committed to their home ranges going forward. Then, 569 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: in this next week or so, what do you think 570 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: that bucket is going to be on a scale of 571 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,680 Speaker 1: one to tending North Carolina? Um, I feel like it's 572 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: gonna jail bouts approbably eight because we gotta from about 573 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 1: ninety grades nine of averages. It's gonna be a high. 574 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: I really feel that the bus I'll be on their 575 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: seat moving because it's just gonna be a change for them. 576 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,240 Speaker 1: And I really saw they're gonna be up in lazing around, 577 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: definitely trying to get ahold of what I had been 578 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: in the past week. Alright, Joshua, thanks for joining me, 579 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: Congrats on the great deer alright and joining us on 580 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:32,800 Speaker 1: the line. Last is Bryce Lamley from Nebraska. Now Bryce 581 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: in Nebraska, what would you say the buck activity has 582 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: been lately on a scale of one to ten? Well, 583 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: you know, I'm usually conservative, and right now I'd say five, 584 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 1: but it's starting to pick up. We start September one 585 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: with both season September has been pretty slow for myself 586 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,880 Speaker 1: and a lot of the other guys, but it's just 587 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: starting to pick up. The last week we've been um 588 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: seeing quite a few bucks that we haven't seen before 589 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 1: show up on trail camera. Were starting to see some 590 00:29:56,480 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: scrapes show up. Nothing really you know big you know, 591 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,960 Speaker 1: carbood types of scrapes or anything like that. But we're 592 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: starting to see scrapes and scrape line show up. And 593 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: one of my good friends from the Lincoln area killed 594 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: a really nice pope and youngrossing five by seven on 595 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: September twenty seven. And that we've had some up and 596 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: down weather we've had. I mean, yesterday was nineties three 597 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 1: here and today at sixty five. It's been crazy. But 598 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: when the weather has cooperated, um, the deer starting to 599 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: show up now, Bryce, you have great record keeping. That's 600 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: one of the reasons I like talking to you. You You 601 00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:33,120 Speaker 1: mentioned last year that you saw more signmaking than you've 602 00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: probably ever seen in your life. Why do you think 603 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: that was and what is your kind of scrape forecast? Well, 604 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,680 Speaker 1: I think last year was due to combination several factors, 605 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: but mostly because I had beans in an area that um, 606 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: it's kind of concentrated where the bucks were all coming 607 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 1: out in the same quarter mile to access the egg 608 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,960 Speaker 1: fields to a to a bean area, and this year 609 00:30:58,000 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 1: I don't have that, so that may have been the 610 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: catalyst for what I saw last year. Now I'm not 611 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: seeing a whole lot of scrape activity yet, but two 612 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: of my friends, like I said, are starting to see 613 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: an uptick in that, and also seeing an uptick in 614 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: the trail camera pictures on those sites. And one of 615 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: those friends from Hall County out by Grand Island, it 616 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: seems quite a bit of sparring even on his trail 617 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 1: cameras in traditional like staging areas with with the scrapes 618 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: and so forth. Now, most of the great Planes were 619 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,680 Speaker 1: hit with a lot of flooding in this summer. I 620 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: assume it's been the same for you in Nebraska. How 621 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: has that changed things for you this fall? Well, I 622 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,360 Speaker 1: have two different places where the river literally took ten 623 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,800 Speaker 1: acres of land from them, and these are betting areas 624 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: close to the river, and I've had a hard time 625 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: finding those betting areas again. But I think what's going 626 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 1: on is they're betting out in grassy cover, weedy coover 627 00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 1: um in some cases three quarters of a mile from 628 00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 1: their original betting areas. Places that aren't being pastured with 629 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: cattle have really grown up and are really good places 630 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 1: to hide out, and also um places where they get 631 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: away from mosquitoes that tend to concentrate on the timber bryce. Historically, 632 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 1: when you see that summer flooding, do you notice that 633 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: those deer kind of always returned to the same area. Well, 634 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 1: I've noticed that a lots of spapes are starting to 635 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 1: show up in those same areas, and I tend to 636 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 1: believe that we have I read an article this summer about, 637 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: you know, how floods affect things, and that the I 638 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 1: guess the theme of that article said that they would 639 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,560 Speaker 1: return to their old areas, and so I'm kind of 640 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: banking on that and I'm just starting to see that 641 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: happen a little bit. Now. How do you think all 642 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: the moisture is going to affect harvest this year in Nebraska? 643 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,880 Speaker 1: And how is that going to change deer hunting for you? 644 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,800 Speaker 1: I haven't seen any crops coming out yet, except some 645 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: guys that are cutting from corn. Looks like for you know, 646 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,680 Speaker 1: silas or something like that. Um Beans are pretty much 647 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 1: uh yellow now some turning brown. Although a friend of 648 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: mine has had really good luck in in a corner 649 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: of a field southwest corner where there's a low spot 650 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: and it's still green on those beans. However, my buddy 651 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: that's further west is says all the beans are yellow, 652 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 1: and in his case, they're walking through the beans going 653 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: to the path Afla. Now, Bryce, you hunt quite a 654 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 1: bit and you can kind of pick and choose your 655 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: spots when you get out there this time of year. 656 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 1: What are the ideal conditions you're looking for in early October? Well, 657 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,760 Speaker 1: I guess I'm still looking at um. I like staging 658 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,840 Speaker 1: areas just inside the timber where I can still make 659 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: a relatively secret entry and exit. Um those staging areas 660 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,840 Speaker 1: where they're um kind of killing time before they go 661 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 1: out to the egg field. And usually in the evenings 662 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,320 Speaker 1: mornings that might go to those same places, or maybe 663 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 1: a little bit deeper, but on like lanes in the woods, 664 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,560 Speaker 1: so again I can get in and out. I really 665 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: don't want to booger up the woods too much this 666 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: time of year. That having said that, I have killed 667 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 1: a nice deer in in this you know, early October 668 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,480 Speaker 1: first ten fifteen days. You just got to be out there. 669 00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: It's true about my hunting that I hunt all the 670 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 1: time no matter what, and because of that, I haven't 671 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: really paid a lot of attention to moon faces. However, 672 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,800 Speaker 1: I can tell you that there's a really big increase 673 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,080 Speaker 1: in sightings and so forth when I see um cold 674 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 1: weather maybe on the back side of a low pressure 675 00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,680 Speaker 1: system and that type of thing. And so when we 676 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,320 Speaker 1: have like this next week coming up, it's supposed to 677 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: be highs in the fifties and sixties and lows in 678 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,520 Speaker 1: the forties, I'm pretty excited about that in October going forward. 679 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,239 Speaker 1: Then in a sex week or so, what do you 680 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,120 Speaker 1: think that buck activity is going to be on a 681 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: scale of one to ten in Nebraska. I'm gonna be 682 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 1: optimistic and for October and say seven, because I tend 683 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,280 Speaker 1: to have a flurry of stave activity on trail cameras 684 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:45,959 Speaker 1: in that August excuse me, the October tenth timeframe, couple 685 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:50,319 Speaker 1: days either side, and with this cold uh weather coming 686 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,759 Speaker 1: in for the time of year, I'm really encouraged to 687 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,240 Speaker 1: be optimistic. I guess alright, Bryce, great info is always 688 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 1: good luck there in Nebraska, And thanks for to one 689 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 1: to me. Oh, thank you. And that concludes this week's 690 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 1: episode of rut Fresh Radio. Thanks to Byron, John, Josh, 691 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 1: and Bryce for joining me, and thank you guys for listening. 692 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,320 Speaker 1: Happy October to everybody out there. Most of the states 693 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:16,839 Speaker 1: in the country should now be open, so I hope 694 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: everybody has some hunting in by the time you hear 695 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:23,759 Speaker 1: this podcast. And for more great white tail intel like this, 696 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,399 Speaker 1: make sure you're checking out the meat eater dot com. 697 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 1: We're gonna see all kinds of new white tail content 698 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,960 Speaker 1: coming out for Mark and I and follow me market 699 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: meat Eater on social media to stay up to date 700 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,280 Speaker 1: with what we're doing this fall. Until next week, stay 701 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:39,000 Speaker 1: wired to Hunt