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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, home of the

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Speaker 1: modern whitetail hunter and now your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm your host, Mark Kenyan,

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Speaker 1: and today in the show, I'm joined by Dan nine

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Speaker 1: Fingers Johnson to help break down the story of my

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Speaker 1: early October success in Michigan and the lessons we can

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Speaker 1: all learn from this experience. All right, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Wired to Hunt podcast, brought to you by First Light. Today.

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Speaker 1: My friends, we've got a good one. I had some

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Speaker 1: success in Michigan. I'm excited to talk about it. I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to share the story and some so I think

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Speaker 1: lessons learned and take away as it can help all

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Speaker 1: of us throughout the rest of the season. But because

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Speaker 1: this is such a great occasion, we had to bring

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Speaker 1: in the o G. We had to bring in the

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Speaker 1: man of all men, nine fingers Dan Johnson. We had

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Speaker 1: to bring back the original dream team to have this podcast.

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Speaker 1: So Dan's gonna help me tell this story. Dan, thank

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Speaker 1: you for being here. Yeah. Absolutely, I love I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what I love. I love this time of year

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Speaker 1: for the bloody arrow pictures that get sad. Right, So

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Speaker 1: all the all the buds, you know, all your buddies

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Speaker 1: who are are also bow hunters. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you're like, I look at my wife ago, oh Mark,

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Speaker 1: Mark arrowed something tonight and uh and then you're just

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Speaker 1: like then it's just like all these questions and then

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Speaker 1: it's like, hey, I want picks, and you know, and

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Speaker 1: then the whole, the whole flood comes and uh, it's

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Speaker 1: awesome to to see friends find success and I love

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Speaker 1: getting those notifications. Yeah. Man, it's a great time to

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Speaker 1: the variously lived through all your buddies adventures and and uh,

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Speaker 1: I wish we lived closer together so we could be

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Speaker 1: getting together in person. But I had some people here

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Speaker 1: locally who came and celebrated with me. What was it

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Speaker 1: Saturday night? And uh, that's just the best, Like getting

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Speaker 1: to be with your buddies and help them be either

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Speaker 1: help them on a track job or them help you,

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Speaker 1: or have a beer at the end of the night.

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Speaker 1: I mean that is Uh, that's what's all about that

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Speaker 1: you that you cracked when you got back to the house.

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Speaker 1: I had a beer. It's called Deer Camp. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a it's a beer from a brewery up in the

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Speaker 1: Upper Peninsula of Michigan Upper Hand Brewing. So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: just bought the twelve pack earlier that day and uh, man,

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Speaker 1: I had a very good reason to crack into it

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Speaker 1: that night. So yeah, yeah, yeah, man. So there's a lot,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot to cover. Um, I'm gonna be putty

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Speaker 1: in your hands, though, I will let you take their

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Speaker 1: reins as host today, my friend, and uh And basically,

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Speaker 1: all I want to achieve here, just so you know,

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Speaker 1: is like I want to recap, you know, what happened

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Speaker 1: the story of how I killed the mature buck on

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Speaker 1: home putting night in Michigan, and then, um, you know

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Speaker 1: what the big takeaways were that I had from the

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Speaker 1: lessons I learned the things that I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: could help other people, uh with their their season this year.

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Speaker 1: So that's what I want to achieve. How we do that,

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Speaker 1: Dan is up to your crazy as mind. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna break it all down, right And

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Speaker 1: this this is the this is the part that I

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Speaker 1: love about podcasting is the the details, into the details,

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Speaker 1: into the details that you know, the why behind the story,

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Speaker 1: the data that goes into it, the decision making and

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Speaker 1: breaking it all down. But I have to ask you

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Speaker 1: one question first. Okay, this has nothing to do really

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Speaker 1: with this hunt. So what We're gonna lighten the mood

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Speaker 1: a little bit. We're gonna get everybody. We're gonna get

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Speaker 1: everybody a little you see, so that they flow into

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Speaker 1: this episode and really absorb it. So I've been talking

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Speaker 1: with I've been talking with Tony Peterson recently. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: know you know Tony Um, he every once in a

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Speaker 1: while will throw a jab your way about your mustache

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Speaker 1: and it's like a low blow. And I I say this,

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Speaker 1: I go, hey, Mark's not here to defend himself. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's only proper that you start off this

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Speaker 1: podcast by low blowing Tony Peterson. Well, here's something that

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Speaker 1: nobody knows about Tony is that Tony is a bigger

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Speaker 1: nerd than I am. He tries to play off this

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Speaker 1: and he likes to trash me and Spencer and our

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Speaker 1: The guy makes you and me look like varsity athletes.

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Speaker 1: Stand it really is amazing. The job he's done, Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: a nerd, is what you're getting at, big big card,

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Speaker 1: that's definitely why he is the way he is now

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Speaker 1: is because of all those that have gott in high school.

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Speaker 1: I got you all right. Well, now we know a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about Tony Peterson, the inside of what

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Speaker 1: makes him work. He's just he's just a big nerd.

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Speaker 1: him for a space fact. Space he loves. He loves

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Speaker 1: giving space facts so much so that his wife, who

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Speaker 1: he is stuck to a quota. He's only allowed to

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Speaker 1: share one space factor night to his wife because you

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Speaker 1: can't handle any more than that. But he's so excited

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Speaker 1: about space. This is no joke. This is literally real life, Dan,

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Speaker 1: This is awesome. This is real life. So there's a

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Speaker 1: little insight into Tony Peterson. Okay, perfect, there we go.

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Speaker 1: Now we're now we've just talked trash on someone. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but every time I talk

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Speaker 1: it's it's no stranger. You've you've posted the pictures on

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Speaker 1: on social everybody knows you you killed a deer. But

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Speaker 1: there's a whole story behind it. It's not just hey,

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Speaker 1: Dan and you tell me if I'm going off base here,

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Speaker 1: But the previous me, in many years, you know this,

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Speaker 1: So so he first showed up two years ago last year. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: and you know, throughout the summer they um summer in September,

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Speaker 1: and have showed up to differing degrees. Yeah, talk to

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Speaker 1: you know, like all the farms that this this general

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Speaker 1: and hit lists for the year. Um. So, coming into

429
00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: this year, you know, I really had only two main goals.

430
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 1: There wasn't any specific buck goals. There wasn't you know,

431
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: I want to shoot a bunch of mature bucks. It

432
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,440
Speaker 1: was I want to have a good shooting year, like

433
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to follow through my shop

434
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: process and have good confidence shots. And I want to

435
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,639
Speaker 1: just have a fun year and get back to what

436
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 1: made me love hunting so much. And so part of

437
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: that was having time to hunt and enjoy my local

438
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 1: Michigan stuff again. Last year, I didn't get to do

439
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: very much of that. Yeah, So coming to this year,

440
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: you know, I knew I was going to spend more

441
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,440
Speaker 1: time locally in Michigan, and you know, was going to

442
00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: have loose fun expectations for it. Um but I still

443
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: want to do some work. So there were some things

444
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 1: I knew I needed to tweak and maintain to kind

445
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 1: of keep the Michigan local stuff looking good. So what

446
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: that entailed this year was getting those two food plots

447
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 1: uh planted and and kind of maintained properly, which is

448
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: kind of a disaster in some ways. UM. There's one

449
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,200
Speaker 1: plot that was like uh perennial clovers, and I was

450
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: able to kind of get that up and going again.

451
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: But the front food plot UM got taken over by

452
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: weeds while I was gone over the summer, and so

453
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: I had to have some folks come in and help me.

454
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: And it was too wet, like two or three different times,

455
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,600
Speaker 1: UM to get equipment in there to get rid of

456
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 1: these weeds. And that was the whole thing. But you know,

457
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 1: it got done. So those food plots are put in. UM.

458
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: There are a handful of tree stands that I've set

459
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: over the years that I've kept up year after year

460
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 1: because they're kind of an old, faithful locations that are

461
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,000
Speaker 1: are tried and true at least for you know, they're

462
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: gonna work for killing does every year, and you know,

463
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: every once in a while that'll be the right spot

464
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,680
Speaker 1: for a buck. So you know, this summer when I

465
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 1: got home from Idaho, I went and just checked those

466
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,159
Speaker 1: tree stands, checked the straps, checked um, the ladders, going

467
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: up to them, trimmed everything out, just made sure those

468
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 1: are all good. So I think there's probably five locations

469
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: like that that I just made sure we're good and

470
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 1: cleaned up and all that kind of stuff. I installed

471
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: two fakes grape trees and these plots, I mode trails,

472
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: and otherwise it was going to be a saddle game.

473
00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: So you know, earlier in this winter and spring, um,

474
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: you know, I always go and do a good full

475
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: run through of everything, walking through everything again and just

476
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: trying to look at the properties um with a new

477
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,440
Speaker 1: set of eyes. Right, I've hunted this place for eleven

478
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: years now, so I know this. I know this general

479
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,440
Speaker 1: region pretty well, but I try to go into it thinking,

480
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:45,640
Speaker 1: you know, what what am I missing? What have I overlooked?

481
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: Is there anything that's changing? So I did that kind

482
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: of scouting and then just thought through, you know, is

483
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,719
Speaker 1: there anything? Are there any new spots I would want

484
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: to hunt here in my saddle, And so I prepped

485
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: a couple of places in the summer, uh, just going

486
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: in and cutting out a path to these trees and

487
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: clearing a tree and shooting lanes from that tree, so

488
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: that if I want to go in there with my

489
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 1: sticks and saddle that tree is ready. So there's a

490
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: couple of spots I did that in and that was um,

491
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,760
Speaker 1: you know, that was the extent of physical work on

492
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: these properties. And this all happened in August because I

493
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: was gone all summer, So in August I did all

494
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 1: that stuff, um And then the only other thing from

495
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: there was was scouting work. So I do two kinds

496
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: of you know, preseason scouting in this area. I do

497
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:31,679
Speaker 1: some glassing. So I get out there in the summer

498
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: and in September, and there's a couple different places that

499
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: I can get up on hills or get on them

500
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: from a distance and glass and watch some of these

501
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: open fields or these like brushy spots um. And as

502
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: you know, over the years historically there are some places

503
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: I've been able to see deer and get an idea

504
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: of what they're doing from a distance and make a move.

505
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: And then cameras, So I glassed in the summer and

506
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:54,439
Speaker 1: all the way through September, as many different nights as

507
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,479
Speaker 1: I can get out and do some watching. And then

508
00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: I had five trail cameras up this year, no, six

509
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: cameras up. Five of them are cell cams. One of

510
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: them was a regular camera UM put into some some

511
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 1: kind of right now. They are set in that like

512
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: kind of a spot where I thought, basically, I'm trying

513
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: to get early October data, so September through early October

514
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: kind of locations, which means they were on food sources

515
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: and scrapes next to those food sources, UM or mock

516
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: scrapes in the food plots. UM. That was the That

517
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 1: was the work that I've done leading into the year

518
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: out here. UM, that was the setup I had to

519
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: get some information leading into the season. So once we

520
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: you know, got into September, as you know, UM, I

521
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: like to get all of my preseason work done by

522
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: September and then stay out until opening day. UM. I

523
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: had to do a little bit of food plot stuff

524
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: still in September because of those high water issues I

525
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: was mentioning, but other than that, I was out of

526
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: there and UM just was was glassing and letting the

527
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: cameras silk so that I could get some good intel

528
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: and then you know, in the days leading up to

529
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: the opener make a decision. Yeah, so what were those

530
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: trail cameras telling you, uh, leading up to you know,

531
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: throughout that September time frame, leading up to the opener. Yeah,

532
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: so this is where kind of the the hunt was

533
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: a big part of the hunt came together because of

534
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: my glassing and cameras this year. Um. Historically, historically in

535
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: early October, there's a lot of activity up on the

536
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: west side of this farm. There's like some really good

537
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: betting up there, and almost always, like if there's a

538
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: good buck or two in the region, they usually bed

539
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: over on the west side and the thick, nasty brushy

540
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: stuff and then they come out and feed in the

541
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: crop fields to the far west or in one of

542
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,160
Speaker 1: these food plots I have. Um, you know, this is

543
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: where holy Field was a lot. This is where that

544
00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,920
Speaker 1: buck Frank that I ended up killing a few years

545
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: ago was hanging out. So I kind of no most years, like,

546
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: that's usually where my first night or two or three

547
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: of the season is spent is somewhere on that side.

548
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: That's where I hunted opening night in the first couple

549
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: of nights last year. Um, so that's usually where I

550
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: count on it. And so this year I'm glassing up

551
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: in that section, I'm watching and I'm just not seeing

552
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:22,720
Speaker 1: the good bucks up there. Um, nothing's showing. And Um,

553
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 1: the opposite though it was true in the back of

554
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: the property. I had a couple of cameras in this

555
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: back region. There's this narrow, tiny finger of beans, and

556
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: there's the swamp back there, and then one of those

557
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: food plots in this eastern section. And what was unique

558
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:40,959
Speaker 1: this year that I think maybe had a little bit

559
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: to do with this is that it's a bean yere

560
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,400
Speaker 1: and it was a late planting of beans this year,

561
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: so this is maybe a little bit. You know, you

562
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: mentioned did the crop rotation impact things at all? And

563
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: most years it doesn't, but this year it kind of

564
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: did because the beans were planning really late, and that

565
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: led to me still having green, fully leafed out beans

566
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: on this property all the way until October one. Most

567
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: years they're all dried up, defoliated, and you know, they're

568
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: not a major thing, and that's the case around me,

569
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: like most the other farms around me, UM do have

570
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: fully dried down beans. But this property in particular still

571
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: has a lot of green beans. And so because of that,

572
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,720
Speaker 1: all through September, these bucks were feeding out into these

573
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: bean fields, but they weren't feeding on the west side.

574
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: They were feeding in this little secluded east section um

575
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: and so that's where like all my camera activity was,

576
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: that's where the mature bucks were showing up most consistently.

577
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: Had a camera on the food plot, and then I

578
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: had a couple of cameras on these in this back

579
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: corner of beans, and that's where I was getting pictures

580
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: of JR. That's where I was getting pictures of um

581
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 1: this buck that I ended up calling just referred to

582
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: as G this big nine pointer. And that's where the

583
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: wide nine was showing up a handful of times. Now

584
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: he he showed up some in the front west. Um

585
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: in the west section a couple of times. But I

586
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: knew as I got into late September, like, Okay, this

587
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: is gonna be a different year than most. I'm not

588
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: going to be focusing on the west. I'm gonna have

589
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: to take a stab into the back of the property

590
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: because that's where that's where it's happening. Um. So, I

591
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: you know, leading into the season, I started putting together

592
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: um my crazy person files. So I sent some pictures

593
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,479
Speaker 1: to a couple of my buddies of what I was doing.

594
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: This like two nights before opening day, and I was

595
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: sitting in my computer desk at like ten o'clock at

596
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: night and I had a spreadsheet and I had a

597
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: word doc open, and in the spreadsheet I had taken

598
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,320
Speaker 1: every daylight picture I had of Junior from the last

599
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: two years and had listed out like the date, the wind,

600
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: the temperature, all that kind of stuff, and every daylight

601
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: photo in location of where he was. And then on

602
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: my word document I had the notes. I had a

603
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: set of notes, and these notes documented, um, not just

604
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: what Junior had been doing, but also what these other

605
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: bucks the Wide nine had been doing, what h G

606
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: had been doing, both two pictures that I had gotten

607
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: so far in September, but then also what I had

608
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: from last year. So I looked at one what happened

609
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: in the days leading up to opening day. Um, I

610
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: looked at what happened on opening day, and so I

611
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: had like some some very interesting information that showed me

612
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: where these bucks were. And there were two locations that

613
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: these bucks had showed up on last year on opening day.

614
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: And then there was also like the recent intelligence I

615
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: had been getting from these cameras leading up in the

616
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: two weeks leading up to opening day in two so

617
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: all of that information, I'm looking at all these pictures,

618
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this historical data I'm looking at the

619
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: observations that I have not been having in two and

620
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the observations I made from glassing last year,

621
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to look at, Okay, what's like my

622
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: year over year pattern looked like, and what's like the

623
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: recent stuff that's happening right now telling me? And what

624
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: it told me? Dan was one of two things. Basically

625
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: my number one location seemed to be this little low

626
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: spot in this bean field. Basically this bean field next

627
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: down into a tiny, tiny little finger that's about seventy

628
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: yards wide, and there's a low spot in it. And

629
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: historically I've always ran a camera on a scrape right

630
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: there in this low spot, and it's always a place

631
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: that like deer always passed through. I always get good

632
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,800
Speaker 1: bucks passing through there. It's very secluded, it's way in

633
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: the back of this property. The problem has always been

634
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 1: that I've never been able to figure out a good

635
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: way to hunt it because there's it's just scraggly, nasty brush.

636
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 1: There's no good trees, and so I can't get in

637
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: a tree stand or saddle there, and so I've I've

638
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: kind of like dabbled around it, but never hunted right there.

639
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,160
Speaker 1: So this year, I said, well, that's where these bucks

640
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: are coming through the most often. It seems like the

641
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: second best location would be my back food plot. A

642
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: couple of times over the last like ten twelve days

643
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: leading into opening day, some of these bucks have been

644
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 1: showing up there, passing through that plot and heading to

645
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: the beans. So leading into opening day, I had looked

646
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: at all these things and I said, Okay, my number

647
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: one place that I really think I need to be

648
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: is in that low spot in the pinch, and I'm

649
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: going to do something different this year. I came into

650
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: the year saying, you know what, I've hunted that front

651
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: food plot, of hunted that front western area a lot

652
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,799
Speaker 1: in the past, and you know, most seasons I don't

653
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: kill one up there. Um. Early on, when I first

654
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 1: started hunting this property back in like two thousand eleven

655
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, I did hunt the back food plot

656
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: quite a bit because I thought that would be deadly um,

657
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: and never killed a buck there on opening night in

658
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: Rolla's first couple of days. So I said, you know what,

659
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: this year, I'm gonna change it up. You know, if

660
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 1: it hasn't worked in the past, why I keep doing

661
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: the same thing over and over again. Let's do something different.

662
00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 1: Let's figure out some way to hunt that little low spot.

663
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: And that's gonna mean you're gonna hunt the ground. So

664
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,720
Speaker 1: I decided I was going to pull out a gilly

665
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: suit and I was going to sneak in there, and

666
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: I was going to carve out a little opening in

667
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: this thick, brushy fence row, and I was gonna lay

668
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: on the ground in my gilly suit and try to

669
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: kill one of these bucks have been passing this low

670
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: place from the ground. So that was my game plan

671
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: going in the opening down. So there's was Was there

672
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: a lack of tree options back there? Yeah, there's just

673
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: there's no trees you can get into it. It's just

674
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: like it's like buckthorne and multi flora rose. It's like

675
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: it's a brushy fence row, um, and there are a few, um,

676
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: there are a few trees you could hunt, but they

677
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't put you in the right place. You'd have to

678
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: be like fifty sixty yards down on either side. Right.

679
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: So I can I can remember when you were hunting

680
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: for Frank right the op, like just his movement you

681
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: had identified and then you thought too uh, you know, Hey,

682
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: the best thing to do at this point is is

683
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: getting a ground blind. Get the ground blind up, get it,

684
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: you know, in this area, and sure enough you shot

685
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: him out of you shot him out of the ground blind, right,

686
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: Just to be clear, Frank, Yeah, out, Frank, I have

687
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: a Frank, I have a ground blend. A different different

688
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: this he was that that was like the west side

689
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 1: of the property. But yes, I'm just talking about the

690
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: deer strategy portion of it, right, Like you've identified some

691
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: the movement and you you adjusted based off of what

692
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: this deer. You know, what these deer were doing, So

693
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 1: no no tree options in this little low spot. Kind

694
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: of taking a step back though, were you getting all

695
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 1: of these what you would consider shooters on the same

696
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: trail camera in this low spot? So they were kind

697
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: of shifted throughout the month of September. So I was

698
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: getting pictures of my number one, actually several of the bucks,

699
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: but definitely Junior a lot um in a in an

700
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: area that was coming out to these beans, but in

701
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: a basically from the south part of this property. There's

702
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: a swamp and he kept popping out of this swamp

703
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: and I would get these pictures and this this kind

704
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: of southwestern corner, and so in like late August and

705
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: early September, he starts showing up here a lot. I'm thinking, man,

706
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go hunt that part of the spot.

707
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: You're that part of this property. And then as the

708
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: month progressed, I got less and less activity there and

709
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 1: more and more activity farther to the north, but still

710
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: in the back. So the most pictures that I was getting,

711
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,919
Speaker 1: we're in this low spot and on the back food plot,

712
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: with a few other of these swamp pictures still popping

713
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: up here and there. But but my best camera Dada

714
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: was telling me this low spot or the back food plot,

715
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: which told me that these bucks were betting in one

716
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: of three locations basically for for that to be where

717
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 1: they're heading out into the evening, they're either betting sometimes

718
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: in the southern swamp. They could be betted in the

719
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: far eastern backside of this property that kind of is

720
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: like a high ridge along the back of the swamp,

721
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: and then there's some grassy stuff on the neighbor's or

722
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: these bucks could be betted in the northern location, where

723
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 1: you know historically has been the best betting. And basically

724
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: this low spot and the food plot are like the

725
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 1: central food that those three betting areas surround, and you

726
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: know those are the options. And going into the hunt,

727
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: I have to I have basically trying to make a

728
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: best guess on where are these dear bedded tonight? In

729
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: what direction they're gonna come to the food Like I

730
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: felt very confident they were coming to these two food sources.

731
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: You know, they would come to some part of that.

732
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: They're gonna either pop into the finger of beans from

733
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: the south or and they're pop into the finger of

734
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: the beans from the east, or they're gonna pop into

735
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 1: the food plot from the north and transition into the beans.

736
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: But based on you know, a month's worth of trial

737
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: camera information, um, they were doing that on a fairly

738
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: regular basis, and historically like last year, Um, they were

739
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: coming through the same area. I had the wide nine

740
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: and I had Junior hit my northern food plot on

741
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: October one and then transition into the corn in the

742
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: low spot. So so I knew this was a thing

743
00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: like they've been doing year after year, they're doing it

744
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: again this year or I just don't know what they're

745
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: gonna do in this particular night. Yeah, So why so

746
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: why a guilly shoot and not a ground blind. Well, basically,

747
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: I didn't want to pop up some big, new obtrusive

748
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: thing that would make you know, that'd be noticed by dear.

749
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: The biggest thing would be getting past the does, Like

750
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: this is a high deer density area, and so the

751
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,760
Speaker 1: biggest challenge most of the time is just not getting

752
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: does to booger out for one reason or another, whether

753
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: that be seeing you in a blind or winding you. Um.

754
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: So that was why the guilli suit seemed like the

755
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: way to do this kind of impromptu ground hunt. I

756
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: could get in the grass and brush, I could get low,

757
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: I could conceal myself as best as possible. And you know,

758
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: last year I did a lot of ground hunting and

759
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: all these different states on hunt, all these different places.

760
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: So I have become become more confident in, you know,

761
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: my ability to be able to pull off that kind

762
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: of hunt. So, and the reason I'm asking this line

763
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: of questioning is because I wanted to kind of identify

764
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: the time frame you got this data, You made this decision,

765
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: and you instantly reacted to it. Right, It's not like

766
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:19,440
Speaker 1: you you had this idea in early September or this summer.

767
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: What these deer were doing right, You set the trail

768
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: cameras up, then you got the data. Then you decided

769
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 1: to make the move in there, and you felt it

770
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: was too late to put a ground blind in there

771
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: because they wouldn't they wouldn't uh get used to it

772
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: in time. Exactly, okay, exactly, all right? Cool, cool, alright?

773
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: So um, you know you have this, you have this

774
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: idea in your head. What kind of conditions did you

775
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: feel that you needed to get in there and make

776
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: this happen. So this is where things get a little

777
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: bit interesting, dam because I I need a You know,

778
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: I love good weather, like I would love a cold front,

779
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: I would love cool temperatures. I love like all these

780
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: different little things that line up to typically good activity.

781
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: But I don't I don't um when it comes to

782
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: the first couple of nights of this season in Michigan,

783
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: I don't care what the weather is. I'm gonna hunt

784
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: and take a stab no matter what, because I just

785
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: year in and year out, almost always have a good

786
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: opportunity the first day or two of the year, regardless

787
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: of weather, because these deer just there, it's just this

788
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,479
Speaker 1: little window before they really get hammered by everybody. Else

789
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: that they're still being slightly dumb. They're still doing their

790
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: daylight stuff just a little bit. So you know, regardless

791
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: of weather, I'm going, I just need the right wind

792
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: to hunt the right spot. That was the big thing.

793
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 1: So in this case, opening day weather looked pretty good.

794
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: It was like right around average high temperatures a couple

795
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: of degrees below average, no big cold front or anything,

796
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: but solid weather, not crazy hot, and high pressure which

797
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: high bear metric pressure, which some people I don't know

798
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: if I believe it or not, but I don't mind

799
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: how high barre metric pressure days. They seem to be

800
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: pretty good days usually. So like all those things lined up, Um,

801
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: if you're a moon guy, which I'm not necessarily a

802
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: moon guy either, but I you know, I kind of

803
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: just keep tabs just because I'm curious. It was a

804
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: red moon evening, so people that believe in the red

805
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: moon would tell you that's a really good time to

806
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: be hunting. Um, So those things all looked like, hey,

807
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 1: this could be its certainly not bad weather. Um. The

808
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: trick would be the wind. Would I have a wind

809
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: direction that would let me hunt the place that seemed

810
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: to be the best place. And I felt pretty excited

811
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: when I looked at the extended forecast leading into opening

812
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: day because I was actually getting easterly winds. And easterly

813
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: winds don't happen very often ever, but they are really

814
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: good for this farm because most of the bedding is

815
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: always happening to the east on this particular in this

816
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: particular region. Um, So whenever I get those east winds,

817
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: I can be way more rest of than I usually am,

818
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: actually because I can get to places I usually can't.

819
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: So we're supposed to have predicted northeast wind for opening night,

820
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: and I think, okay, this low spot for me to

821
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: get to this place I want to hunt the ground.

822
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: Northeast wind actually would work just about perfect because it

823
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: would be a just off wind. It would be blowing

824
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: just down and across from where this swamp is that

825
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: Junior has been coming out of a lot, and then

826
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: it'd be blowing away from the northern bedding where g

827
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 1: might be bedded or where the Wide nine might be betted.

828
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: So basically it's going to be in a position where

829
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: if Junior is in that swamp like he had been

830
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: quite a bit this summer in September, he's gonna have

831
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: the wind kind of in his favor, right, it's gonna

832
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: be the situation where he'll think he could come out

833
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 1: into the beans and have a good sense of what's

834
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: going on, but my wind is blowing just off and

835
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 1: down the other way, just past the swamp. So that

836
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,120
Speaker 1: was what things look like coming into opening morning. I

837
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: wasn't going to hunt the morning because basically this is

838
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: like open bean field kind of hunt situation. I don't

839
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: have a way to get in there without blowing out

840
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 1: deer in the morning. So this was an evening hunt plan.

841
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: The morning comes along, I look at the wind direction

842
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: prediction and it's changing dan and it's changing to north northeast.

843
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: So now it's midday and I'm looking at north northeast.

844
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, man, northeast would have been just off, but

845
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,359
Speaker 1: you get that like north northeast. In my head, I'm thinking, man,

846
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna end up being like you know, some

847
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,760
Speaker 1: gusts are straight north, some gusts are east, some gusts

848
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: are straight north. And if I get that straight north,

849
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: that's gonna be blowing right across the bean field low

850
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: spot where I think these deer might feed, and right

851
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: into that swamp where I think Junior is likely bedded

852
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: and maybe some of these other deers sometimes and in

853
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: my head, I'm like, gosh, like I felt so confident

854
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 1: in this location, like this is gonna be the hunt,

855
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the set up. But if that

856
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,919
Speaker 1: winds like that, like, I don't know how that could

857
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: possibly work? Did uh? Did the Mark Kenyan paralysis by

858
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: analysis set in at any point? Can you you've ever

859
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 1: seen um in the In the Hangover, there's that scene

860
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: where Zach Galfanakis is like rain manning on the craft's table.

861
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: Do you know that part where you're like seeing like

862
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: all like the different figures and things going in his head.

863
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: That was me during the day on October one, as

864
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: I'm thinking through like oh god, what am I gonna

865
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: be started yet? And you're just like racking your brain

866
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: to try to find the best the best spot. Yes,

867
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: exactly like I had. I had felt so confident, like

868
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: the night before, I had like made my decision like

869
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: this is how I'm gonna do. What I'm gonna do

870
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: the ground, It's gonna be a little risky, but I

871
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: can pull it off. I'm gonna be in this place.

872
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 1: And now the wind shift just a little bit, and

873
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: now I'm having to reconsider, and so it's like two o'clock,

874
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,479
Speaker 1: it's three o'clock, and I'm like, all right, I gotta

875
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: make I gotta figure this thing out. And what I

876
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: ended up deciding to do dan is I decided I

877
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: was going to go to the low spot, and I

878
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 1: was gonna bring everything I needed to hunt on the ground.

879
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: I was gonna bring a little hand saw to cut

880
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: out some stuff. I was gonna bring my gilly suit,

881
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 1: and I was gonna bring a whole hell of a

882
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: lot of milkweed, and I was gonna get to that

883
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 1: location and I was gonna just start loft and milkweed

884
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: and hang out there for a little bit and see

885
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,279
Speaker 1: what the wind was actually doing in this spot. See

886
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: how I was looking, There's this low spot, like a

887
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,719
Speaker 1: mentioned and then there's a hill that comes up to

888
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 1: the side of me, like not a big hill, but

889
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: a hill in the in the field. And I thought,

890
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 1: if I get just enough to easterly push on this

891
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 1: north or east excuse me, north northeast, my wind might

892
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 1: hit that hill and funnel along the side of it

893
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: instead of going into the swamp. So I thought maybe

894
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: I could get away with this, but I gotta see

895
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: in person. So I brought my stuff to hunt on

896
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 1: the ground, but I also brought my climbing sticks and

897
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: my saddle and platform, so that if I couldn't make

898
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: the low spot work, I could pivot and pick a

899
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: new location to hunt from a tree that the wind

900
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: would work. So I brought in two full sets of

901
00:48:13,239 --> 00:48:15,160
Speaker 1: gear for two different kinds of hunts, and I was

902
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: going to make an infield decision based on what the

903
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 1: wind was doing in that exact location. So I sneak

904
00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: out there, I get to the low spot, I start

905
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: throwing milkweed, and it's just it just was not looking good.

906
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: And I wanted it to work so bad, and I

907
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: was so confident in this plan, and I would stop

908
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: and I throw milkweed, and I sit and watched, and

909
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: I think, and I racked my brain. And then I

910
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 1: walked twenty yards and I check again, and I throw

911
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: it and think, and I waked another ten yards, and

912
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 1: I sat and thought and that and thought, and I

913
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: ended up just trying to envision, like, Okay, what scenario

914
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: would this work in? Okay, so what if the wind

915
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: is pushing like this? So I just the way the

916
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: wind was pushing the southerly portion of this swamp and

917
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: stuff like. It just seems like I'm gonna be blowing

918
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: right to where these deer are probably popping out where

919
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 1: they historically have popped out. I don't think I could

920
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: pull that off. Okay, well, what if they come from

921
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: the east. What if the bucks are actually bettered to

922
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,760
Speaker 1: the east. What if they come that way, Well, gosh,

923
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: by the time they get into a spot you could

924
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 1: actually shoot there, basically going to be downwind of you

925
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: now too. And then I thought, okay, well what if

926
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: they come from the north. Well, if they come from

927
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: the north, if I'm hunting this place, I won't be

928
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: able to see them at all until they're downwinded me

929
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: again too. So I just couldn't envision a scenario where

930
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: the thing I really wanted to do would work. So

931
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: at like three thirty four o'clock, I decided, you know what,

932
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm gonna have to hunt my Plan B location,

933
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna have to sacrifice something because if I

934
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: were to move further back, the next best option I

935
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: had is that I had to hope for bucks to

936
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 1: be bettered to the north, and that maybe these deer

937
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: that had been coming out and transitioning through the food

938
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: plot to the beans. They that would be perfect for

939
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: this win direction. I thought, I could kill one of

940
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: those deer. And if I want to kill one of

941
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 1: those deer, though, I have to get down there by

942
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:13,479
Speaker 1: that back food plot where they transition through. That's gonna

943
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: mean sacrifice in the swamp though. Yeah. And so I

944
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: sat there and I thought to myself, Okay, I've got

945
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: two options. I can pull out of here completely and

946
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:23,879
Speaker 1: just go back to the front of the farm where

947
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: I've been glassing a lot, and I've not seen any

948
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: of the shooter bucks up there. But I could go

949
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 1: up there and just sit and maybe get lucky, like

950
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: maybe something will come through for the very first time,

951
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe I'll be all observed something um

952
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:37,719
Speaker 1: And that'd be the safest thing. I wouldn't blow anything up,

953
00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: would be perfectly safe when to be easy, peasy, nothing wrong.

954
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: I've done that many other years in the past. That

955
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: was one option. Or the other options be aggressive, get

956
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: to the back of this back food plot section where

957
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 1: they were sometimes transitioning through, hope that these bucks are

958
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: better than the north and sacrifice the swamp, which is

959
00:50:55,560 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 1: where Junior had been the most. And that is a

960
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: tough call, Like I really was unsure, like basically, my

961
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:07,320
Speaker 1: number one buck, I am gonna be blowing my wind

962
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: right into a place where my number one buck has

963
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: been bettered a lot, and basically saying, well, I'm just

964
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get a crack at this deer tonight

965
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 1: probably if he if he is better there, like it

966
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: seems like he beds a lot. But I thought, in

967
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:24,879
Speaker 1: the end, I'm thinking through what usually happens in this area,

968
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: and what usually happens is you get a night or

969
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: two where there's this early first sit magic, and if

970
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: you don't take advantage of that first day or two,

971
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: they're gone for weeks like they're around, but they're nocturnal,

972
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: and then it might not be untill laid October until

973
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 1: you have another chance. And so my mindset, basically, you know,

974
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: I decided I'd be happy shooting any one of these

975
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: three deer. I think there's still an opportunity for that

976
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: first sit magic, but it's not happening from the south.

977
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: There's no way I can pull off a hunt for

978
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:58,239
Speaker 1: a deer come of from the south. But I can.

979
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,479
Speaker 1: There's no way to get behind him, right. There's there's

980
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: just there's there's no there's no way to get to

981
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: where these deer are gonna be coming out to feed

982
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 1: and get in between them there without this wind completely

983
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: blowing it out. But I could get a crack at

984
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: these deer if there's deer to the north. So that'st

985
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: the decision I made. I decided to sacrifice the south,

986
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 1: sacrifice the swamp in order to have a really good

987
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: chance still for dear to the north, because I believe

988
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 1: that there could be this buck g there could be

989
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: this buck the y nine that could be up there,

990
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,320
Speaker 1: and this is set up very well for that. So

991
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 1: that's what I did. I moved this is like, you know,

992
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: I don't know, eighty ninety yards down to this back section.

993
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: I had a tree prepped on the edge of this

994
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: food plot that I had planted there. So I've got

995
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: the beanfield finger to the south of me. I've got

996
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: this little food plot to the north of me, and

997
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: very good bedding to the north, the swamps to the

998
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: south of me. I'm blowing right to the swamp, so

999
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,399
Speaker 1: like a little part of my soul is dying because

1000
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: I'm blowing my wind into the swamp, and I just

1001
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,399
Speaker 1: know a bunch of deer are smelling me, and I'm

1002
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,720
Speaker 1: I'm willing to make that sacrifice and that risk because

1003
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: I know, like I've got a chance for kill tonight

1004
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: from somewhere else. And I also knew that I could

1005
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 1: pull out and return in three weeks, and I still

1006
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: felt confident I could be back in the game in

1007
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,839
Speaker 1: three weeks. But I'm I'm making a ruckus right now.

1008
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:21,320
Speaker 1: And I get up in the stream the edge of

1009
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: the food plot, and um, you know, going back and

1010
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 1: forth in my mind like this is a stupid did

1011
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: you just blow up your whole place for the first

1012
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: night and you're not gonna see anything? And then some

1013
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: doughs start coming out into those beans and they come

1014
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,240
Speaker 1: out from the side that should be safe, and they booger,

1015
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, what's weird? Is my wind swirling

1016
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: or something like that? Should not be happening. And then

1017
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:45,160
Speaker 1: like a half hour later, another dough and two fonts

1018
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: comes out in the beans to the southeast of me.

1019
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 1: Again should be very safe, and they bogger out of there,

1020
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,759
Speaker 1: and the night's progressing, and like, good Lord, like I

1021
00:53:53,840 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: took this risk, your um milk weed isn't like going

1022
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: back and getting sucked back in by I don't know.

1023
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes I've noticed that if if I'm if I'm

1024
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: sitting in the sun, then and I'm maybe in a

1025
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: not necessarily the highest spot, but not necessarily the lowest

1026
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 1: spot the and you know, as the evening starts to

1027
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 1: get cooler, the predominant wind will blow in one direction,

1028
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,160
Speaker 1: but the thermals will suck down into a low spot

1029
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,440
Speaker 1: and then potentially, you know, get sucked back into the

1030
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: terrain and go back into the timber or something. Did

1031
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,360
Speaker 1: you feel like any of that was going on? So

1032
00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: there there had to be something funky like that going on,

1033
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: but I could never get it to show with the

1034
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 1: milk weed consistently. But I'm in like this thick fence

1035
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: row with a lot of big trees and a lot

1036
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: of leaves on, and so I think it was it

1037
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: was a strong wind night. So the best I could

1038
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: figure is that the wind was blowing through this fence row,

1039
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: through these trees, and it was kind of swirling when

1040
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: it hits this tree line. Maybe in some way something

1041
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: was going on. I couldn't put my finger on exactly what.

1042
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: And it wasn't happening all the time, and I couldn't

1043
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 1: get the milk weed to show me consistently, but something

1044
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:04,840
Speaker 1: was getting my wind to push not it was supposed

1045
00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 1: to be going northeast, but it seemed to be pushing

1046
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: northwest occasionally too, because these doughs coming to that side

1047
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:13,919
Speaker 1: of me were blowing and busting out there. So we're

1048
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 1: down to the last hour and a half a daylight,

1049
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 1: and I've had this happen a couple of times at

1050
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 1: the doughs, and in my head, I'm just thinking, jeez,

1051
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: you really, you really did a great job here tonight.

1052
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: You blew out the whole swamp and now the other

1053
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: deer are winding you. Um, this is uh just a

1054
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: classic Mark Kenyan f up and seasons often classic and uh,

1055
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: And I just kept thinking, man, you just you gotta

1056
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: believe that these bucks are to the north, like you know,

1057
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 1: they've done it in the past. You know, you've had

1058
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,320
Speaker 1: some pictures of them coming from the north. It's possible.

1059
00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,279
Speaker 1: And that's rock solid from the wind. So just as

1060
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: long as a dough doesn't blow right as these bucks

1061
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 1: pop out, if they do, you know you still have

1062
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 1: a chance. You still have a chance, and um. You know,

1063
00:56:01,080 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: most years you make it, You make these series of decisions,

1064
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: you take a risk like this, and nine point nine

1065
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 1: times that a tenant does not pan out right most

1066
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: of the time, it doesn't most of the time. You know,

1067
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: you take the risk, you screw some stuff up, and

1068
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: you live to hunt another day, and you learn something

1069
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 1: from it, and you keep trying. Um. Last year, I

1070
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: did a lot of these kinds of things and they

1071
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:25,439
Speaker 1: didn't pan out. And I just kept saying to myself, man,

1072
00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: you keep doing these things. You keep doing most of

1073
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 1: the stuff right. You know. Ever, once in a while

1074
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: the cars will fall in your favor. Ever, once in

1075
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: a while that risk you take will pan out. You

1076
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: just gotta let fate get give enough time and then

1077
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: fate will fall right way and um and so. On

1078
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: this particular night, a lot of stuff had gone wrong,

1079
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 1: a lot of things have changed, but I made a

1080
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: few decisions. I took a couple of risks, and tonight

1081
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: it was lucky enough that it did pan out in

1082
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: my favor, because with an hour before dark, I see

1083
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: a buck pop out from the north, steps out in

1084
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:01,959
Speaker 1: this food lot, walks right to my little fake scrape tree,

1085
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: and I right away, see like nice time length and

1086
00:57:04,680 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 1: pulled the buyos and I look at him like, oh man,

1087
00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 1: he's a nice three year old. It's a nice buck. Um.

1088
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: He starts working that scrape and doing his thing, and

1089
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,359
Speaker 1: I filmed in with my phone. I'm watching him. I'm thinking, man,

1090
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: well there's one. There's usually more at this time of

1091
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: the year, there's these bucks are usually still hanging out

1092
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,040
Speaker 1: in groups for a little bit longer here. And as

1093
00:57:23,080 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm filming that buck, I see another dear step out

1094
00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: behind him and come walking towards and throwout the buyos.

1095
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: Look at him, and right away you can just see

1096
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: this is like a different kind of animal, like double

1097
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: the body size, you know, antlers just like clubs compared

1098
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: to the spinley three year old. And just knew right away, well,

1099
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: that's that's the nine. That's that's this buck. I was

1100
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 1: calling g this eight pointer that I'd seen a bunch

1101
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: last year, had been passing him last year. At the

1102
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 1: end of the year last year, I was like, gosh,

1103
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 1: she's you know, after I had a tough season last year.

1104
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: I almost I was on the fence, but maybe trying

1105
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 1: to take a crack at him. At the end of

1106
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 1: last year, um, because he was the only other good

1107
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: buck that was still showing with Junior last year. But

1108
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: now he's back this year and he's a big, big bodied,

1109
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: solid nine point buck. And he was one of those

1110
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: three deer that I said, if I saw him, I'm

1111
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: taking a crack. So he pops out, he walks to

1112
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 1: the mox grape, but he's behind branches and stuff. I

1113
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: can't get a shot at him. But I'm like, holy crap,

1114
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: this is actually happening. I'm actually seeing one of these

1115
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: shooter bucks. Came out to the food plot and very

1116
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: happy and excited at the moment, and then the little buck,

1117
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: the three year old, turns and starts walking right to me.

1118
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: And this is not what these deer usually do. Usually

1119
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:42,400
Speaker 1: they transition either, you know, working about yeah, basically they

1120
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: usually work away either side of me. And you know,

1121
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 1: all the doughs that night that had popped out on

1122
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 1: the food plot had worked through about thirty yards and

1123
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: crossed the fence row and went into the bean field

1124
00:58:52,720 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: to the south. Sometimes they do this to the other

1125
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,120
Speaker 1: side of me. But this buck instead comes on a trail,

1126
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: not trailing a b line, right to me and walking

1127
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: through cover like I've got like a bunch of basically

1128
00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 1: had two shooting lanes to this food plot, and he

1129
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:09,440
Speaker 1: chose to come walking through the thick cover right in

1130
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,240
Speaker 1: between the two shooting lanes and is walking right at me.

1131
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, my gosh, this buck is gonna come

1132
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: right to the base of my tree. He's gonna smell something,

1133
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: he's gonna wig out and spook out, and I'm never

1134
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,040
Speaker 1: gonna get a shot. The big one behind him, and

1135
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: sure enough, I'm holding my belt and watching this happen

1136
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: and thinking to myself, there's just nothing I can do

1137
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: right now. This buck walks right to the bottom of

1138
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: my tree, and something's not quite right, and he he

1139
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: doesn't blow, but he bounces back to the plot. He

1140
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:36,840
Speaker 1: takes like two big leaps back to the edge of

1141
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: the plot and stops. Meanwhile, gee, the big one stops

1142
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:42,800
Speaker 1: right in the edge of the plot and just starts

1143
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 1: looking around, like what's going on? What's going on? And

1144
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 1: fortunately they did they knew. The young one knew something

1145
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: was up, but didn't really know what it was because

1146
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 1: he went back to feeding. He starts feeding again, and

1147
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 1: the big one just stands there for like five minutes,

1148
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: doesn't move for five I'm standing there, hold in my bow.

1149
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: He's staying there, just kind of looking around. But again,

1150
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: he's behind all this cover in between my two shooting lanes.

1151
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: I can see him and remember thinking like I'm sitting

1152
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: there and I'm watching him forever, and I'm thinking, oh

1153
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 1: my gosh, I've got the shooter within range. He's at

1154
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 1: twenty yards, but I can't shoot him. I remember thinking,

1155
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: is there any hole in this cover? Can I find

1156
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: a little openings or somewhere I could squeeze one in there?

1157
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: And then I just thought, dude, you do not You're

1158
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 1: not gonna do this again. You're not going to force

1159
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 1: a shot like you did on Tran two years ago.

1160
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:30,960
Speaker 1: You're not going to rush a shot like you did

1161
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 1: last year trying to get this other big eight point

1162
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: in Iowa that you really wanted. Like, you're not going

1163
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 1: to make all these mistakes. You're gonna wait until it's right.

1164
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: You're gonna slow, You're gonna follow your process, and if

1165
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,120
Speaker 1: it works, you're gonna make it work right. If it's not,

1166
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 1: you're just not gonna You're not gonna do it. You

1167
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 1: can't get an arrow back because I just kept on

1168
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 1: trying to tell myself to just just wait it out,

1169
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: do it right. Waited out, do it right. And finally

1170
01:00:56,280 --> 01:01:01,920
Speaker 1: he turns and starts slowly fee eating back towards the

1171
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: shooting lane. He gets right to the last set of

1172
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: branch that I need him to clear, and he's slowly

1173
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: taking a step, taking a step. I draw back because

1174
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: he's just about to step out from how the branches,

1175
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 1: and then he stops again. I'm at full draw. And

1176
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 1: this is like exactly what happened to me last year

1177
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: on a dough. I got stuck at full draw for

1178
01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: like two minutes and got all shaky and ended up

1179
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 1: hitting that dear a little low. So now I'm thinking

1180
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 1: about that again, like gosh that this can't happen again,

1181
01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: Like should I draw down? Um? Can I stay a

1182
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: full draw? Unfortunately, as I'm thinking through like should I

1183
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 1: draw down or should I not, he takes one more step.

1184
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 1: And this is where the next big thing happens, which

1185
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 1: is can I accomplish my goal of of good shooting,

1186
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: of like sticking to this new shooting process I have

1187
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 1: and doing it the right way? And and basically, um,

1188
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 1: I have this like set of like like um words,

1189
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: like phrases, that I say to myself every single time

1190
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: I shoot, to keep myself in control into like follow

1191
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: each step of the process to make sure I don't

1192
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: rush and punch punch a trigar Russia shop. So as

1193
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 1: I draw the bow back, because I'm like mid draw,

1194
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 1: I say, no matter what, I'm gonna do this right,

1195
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: I get locked in. And then the next thing I

1196
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: say is I say, addressed the target. So when I

1197
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:19,360
Speaker 1: say addressed the target, that means that pin goes right

1198
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,080
Speaker 1: there behind the shoulder. And the next thing that happens

1199
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: I said, address the trigger, which means now I can

1200
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 1: put my finger on the trigger and lock in. And

1201
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: then I say, here we go. And then that's when

1202
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: I can start pulling through. And I we'll give myself

1203
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: a b on how I did with this shop. Because

1204
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 1: I got through step one, I said, no matter what,

1205
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this right when I got drawn back,

1206
01:02:41,960 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 1: and I'm focusing on just staying in the moment, focus,

1207
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: take a slow. When he stepped out from behind the branches,

1208
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: I said to myself in my headset, addressed the target.

1209
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 1: I saw that pin go on there behind the shoulder.

1210
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 1: In the previous world of me, as soon as that

1211
01:02:55,880 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 1: pin hits the deer, it's usually gone. The arrows on

1212
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: the way right then, but I was able to not

1213
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 1: do that. I got that pin behind the shoulder and

1214
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: I was able to then address the trigger. I got

1215
01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: my finger on the trigger. But then before I said

1216
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:12,560
Speaker 1: here we go, in my mind, I was pulling through.

1217
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: So I did the right process. I pulled through. I

1218
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: didn't use my finger at all. I pulled through. I

1219
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 1: went through the slow process all the way. But I

1220
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: did not say here we go. So in my you know,

1221
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: I didn't do it perfectly. I'm a working progress still there.

1222
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:30,160
Speaker 1: But I did pretty good with it. I made progress.

1223
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: It definitely forced me a slowdown more than I had

1224
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 1: done in the past, and all that led to the

1225
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 1: arrow getting right behind the shoulder. Double long shot. I

1226
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: watched that buck kick and run out of there like

1227
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: a bad out of hell, and I knew that was

1228
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 1: a dead buck. I knew I had just center punched

1229
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:50,880
Speaker 1: a four and a half real Michigan deer after a

1230
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: really tough year last year. Um, and it felt absolutely

1231
01:03:55,680 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 1: incredible and I was really, really really thrilled. That's awesome, man.

1232
01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:06,280
Speaker 1: Uh So that uh that shot process, right, you've been

1233
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 1: practicing and working on it. You called it a b

1234
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: but I I would look at it more binary than that.

1235
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's what you did is way

1236
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: more than what most people do, and way more I mean,

1237
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 1: for me, way more than what I do. You know,

1238
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,320
Speaker 1: I still almost I don't want to say I live

1239
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 1: by it. I I slowed myself down a little bit,

1240
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 1: but it's better than grip it and rip it, you

1241
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So that that that's a win, dude, Yeah, definitely,

1242
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:37,600
Speaker 1: I mean it was it was improvement. It was improvement,

1243
01:04:37,680 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 1: and so I'm glad for that. And it was a good,

1244
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 1: really good shot, and it was an improvement, and it

1245
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 1: was a thing that I had not done yet, right,

1246
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: I hadn't shot a deer before with that new process,

1247
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: and so it felt good too. I felt good to

1248
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 1: do it. And and now I'm I'm gonna go on

1249
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 1: dough patrol and just keep fine tuning and keep working

1250
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: until I get all the way through, you know, two

1251
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 1: thousand percent in control. Um. But I've been working really hard.

1252
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: I mean I went and met with his coach in April,

1253
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:06,800
Speaker 1: spent a day with him, and then since April, I've

1254
01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 1: been doing this, you know, as close to every day

1255
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:11,760
Speaker 1: as I possibly can. Um. I mean I've been shooting

1256
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: a ton just trying to make this like second nature.

1257
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 1: So um, to see that come together pretty darn close

1258
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 1: was was encouraging. Yeah, awesome, awesome, congratulations Mark, So thank you.

1259
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: The arrow goes through him. Did you know it was

1260
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: a pass through right away? Yeah? I knew as it

1261
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:36,400
Speaker 1: passed through. How far it was? The shot now yards yards? Okay,

1262
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: passed through. Did you see immediate blood? Uh? You know,

1263
01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if I saw immediate blood. I remember,

1264
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: I guess what I do. What I remember seeing is

1265
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: when he turned, when he spun to run back the

1266
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 1: way he came. I remember seeing something coming out the backside,

1267
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 1: and I remember wondering my head, was that the arrow

1268
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:02,240
Speaker 1: still stuck in there? Or was that blood shooting out

1269
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: the backside? Because I could have swore it was a

1270
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:06,560
Speaker 1: pastor because it had to be a pass through where

1271
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 1: it hit. But I remember like seeing something shooting out

1272
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:12,680
Speaker 1: the backside, and it must have been blood because it

1273
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 1: was a pastor right where I hit him, So that

1274
01:06:15,160 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: must have been blood I was seeing coming out the

1275
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: back But um, you know, I waited like a half

1276
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:23,160
Speaker 1: hour in the tree, made some phone calls, sent some texts, Uh,

1277
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 1: celebrate a little bit, and then got down checked the

1278
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: arrow saw that yes, it was a pass through right

1279
01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 1: where I thought looked the good blood. And then I

1280
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: backed out and went back to my house and was

1281
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 1: going to wait for some buddies to come out, but

1282
01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:41,720
Speaker 1: also my family, My boys wanted to come along for

1283
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 1: the track job, so I was gonna wait for them

1284
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 1: to come home from a Halloween camp out. And uh,

1285
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: and yeah, so do you want me to make a

1286
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 1: I can make the quick final final? Uh, here's what

1287
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 1: I here's what I. I have another question here? When

1288
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 1: it so that all right? So when it so at

1289
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: this point you still I mean, you shot this buck.

1290
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 1: But in the back of your head, Michigan is a

1291
01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 1: two buck state, right, so you have the possibility of

1292
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 1: I don't running into another one of these deer. Did

1293
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:22,280
Speaker 1: I know your boys wanted to come out, you wanted

1294
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: to have the whole crew come out and and do

1295
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 1: the recovery. But did any part of you go, Hey,

1296
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: if I can get this deer out of here quietly

1297
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: and low like, as low pressure as possible, then I

1298
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: might be able to get right back in here. And

1299
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: and hunt another one of these deer that's still on

1300
01:07:40,400 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 1: one of the on the same pattern. Good question. Um,

1301
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 1: but I have like a self impose one buck rule

1302
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:50,960
Speaker 1: in this area, got you, So my thought is, you know,

1303
01:07:51,360 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 1: you get one, you leave the rest alone, so you've

1304
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: got something fun to hunt next year. So as soon

1305
01:07:57,440 --> 01:07:59,439
Speaker 1: as I shot that deer, the first thing I thought

1306
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 1: was man and juniors get a free pass. Um. So

1307
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:04,600
Speaker 1: I'm not going to shoot one of those other deer

1308
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:06,360
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. I'm gonna hunt out here

1309
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 1: for dose and do that. Um. But the bucks will

1310
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: have a really nice little sanctuary. Um. And then next year,

1311
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:18,000
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully we'll get to uh see these deer.

1312
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 1: Hopefully these deal will make it and we'll get to

1313
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,400
Speaker 1: chase one of them then. But uh but no, I

1314
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:25,400
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna I wasn't gonna worry about that. I wanted

1315
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: to fully celebrate and enjoy and just just have fun,

1316
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 1: like I just leading into the season I had. Even

1317
01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: though I even though I joked about, you know, going

1318
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 1: rain Man style and trying to figure out what to

1319
01:08:37,040 --> 01:08:41,439
Speaker 1: do and YadA, YadA, YadA, I had way lower levels

1320
01:08:41,479 --> 01:08:44,680
Speaker 1: of stress and worry and analysis by paralysis. This year

1321
01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:46,720
Speaker 1: than I've had in a long time, because I just

1322
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 1: I don't want to stay. I didn't care, but I

1323
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:52,640
Speaker 1: wasn't I wasn't like living and dying and whether I

1324
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:55,040
Speaker 1: was gonna kill Junior or one of these deers, Like, man,

1325
01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: I'd love to get a crack of one this deer.

1326
01:08:57,080 --> 01:09:00,880
Speaker 1: I really enjoy this fun like puzzle old chess game

1327
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:04,080
Speaker 1: that you know starts now. And like my buddies were

1328
01:09:04,160 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 1: joking like, god, this looks miserable looking at my spreadsheets

1329
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 1: and my notes and you know, trying to think through

1330
01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:10,720
Speaker 1: these different patterns and stuff. But I was like, no,

1331
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 1: this is like the really fun part for me. I

1332
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:15,680
Speaker 1: geek out about this. Um it's just like if I

1333
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:17,680
Speaker 1: take it too serious and like get upset when things

1334
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: don't work out, that I let it go bad. But

1335
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: this year I was like, you know what, who cares

1336
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:23,519
Speaker 1: if I if it doesn't pan out. They just just

1337
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 1: get back to having fun with it, having a nice

1338
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: quiet night in the tree stand with like no other

1339
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,240
Speaker 1: you know. You know, I enjoy a lot of stuff

1340
01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: with the filming and producing the shows and everything that

1341
01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: there's it's a really cool thing and I'm glad I

1342
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 1: get to do that, but having nights like Saturday night

1343
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 1: where I've got no other people, no cameras, no talking

1344
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:44,320
Speaker 1: points I need to cover, no story I need to

1345
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 1: like capture. I just get to hunt and enjoy what happens.

1346
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 1: Like that was really really nice and um so that

1347
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 1: was that was what was on my mind. I was

1348
01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 1: just enjoying it and like soaking it in. Yeah that's

1349
01:09:57,360 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 1: a And so talk to me a little bit of

1350
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 1: out the recovery, the recovery with the boys. What this

1351
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,599
Speaker 1: year did after the shot that kind of stuff. Yeah,

1352
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: I mean the biggest thing that came out of it

1353
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: was there was a good blood trail, and you know,

1354
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 1: my family was close enough locally that um, you know,

1355
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 1: we could they could be a part of it. It

1356
01:10:16,840 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: wasn't so late. It wasn't you know, a situation where

1357
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:22,320
Speaker 1: we had to travel really long ways. And the kids

1358
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: were interested, like very excited. They both when they heard

1359
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 1: that shot a buck, they both really wanted to track.

1360
01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: And my oldest Everett, he's like really really into it

1361
01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:34,720
Speaker 1: and so he's already helped me track three does we

1362
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 1: did two last year and one the year before, and

1363
01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:39,920
Speaker 1: like he's a pro, Like he can see blood blood

1364
01:10:39,960 --> 01:10:43,640
Speaker 1: better than I can. So he's actually an asset. So

1365
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:45,560
Speaker 1: I knew, like if I shot a buck and it

1366
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,080
Speaker 1: worked out with bedtimes and all, that would be awesome

1367
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 1: if he could come. And then my youngest who's too

1368
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 1: for the first time, he was like he really wanted

1369
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 1: to come, so because of that that my wife had

1370
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:57,640
Speaker 1: to come. So my wife, a two year old, and

1371
01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:00,439
Speaker 1: my four year old, we we all had it out there,

1372
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 1: and then my buddy Dustin showed up a little bit

1373
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 1: later to help, and uh, you know, the blood trail

1374
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:07,280
Speaker 1: took us through some thick, nasty stuff, but maybe like

1375
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 1: eighty ninety yards something like that. Uh you know, we

1376
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,759
Speaker 1: found him piled up in the thick brush, and and Everett,

1377
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:17,680
Speaker 1: my four year old, he was leading the way the

1378
01:11:17,720 --> 01:11:19,920
Speaker 1: whole time. There's blood, there's blood, there's blood. And so

1379
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:21,840
Speaker 1: we spotted the buck up in the distance, you know,

1380
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: and let him discover it on his own, and uh,

1381
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 1: you know, just getting to see his excitement when we

1382
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:29,160
Speaker 1: finally came up on it and trying to pick up

1383
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 1: the antlers and like, oh man, this is heavy. Um,

1384
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 1: that whole thing was just just so so cool too

1385
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: to have everyone there and um, you know, just it

1386
01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 1: was It was just great. It was everything I could

1387
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:44,600
Speaker 1: have asked for. You know, I kind of had a

1388
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 1: hunch that this year, coming into the year focusing more

1389
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:52,240
Speaker 1: and just getting back to basics and enjoying myself and

1390
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:56,800
Speaker 1: enjoying the simple things and community and my local stuff

1391
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: and all that. I kind of had a hunch, like,

1392
01:11:58,120 --> 01:12:00,479
Speaker 1: I bet you this is gonna be a good year

1393
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 1: when I'm just like less stress less, travel all all

1394
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:08,040
Speaker 1: these things. And sure enough, you know, made a couple

1395
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:11,120
Speaker 1: of good decisions, got a little lucky, and um you

1396
01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 1: kind of need those two things to come together, and

1397
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:16,040
Speaker 1: they usually come together a couple of times a year,

1398
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 1: and uh, if you're lucky, and this year it happened

1399
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:23,120
Speaker 1: to be here at the beginning, and um man, it

1400
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:25,439
Speaker 1: was just great. It feels really really good to uh

1401
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 1: to get a bow a bow kill under my belt

1402
01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: and um, you know, onward, onward, onward. So awesome. First off, congratulation.

1403
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:42,960
Speaker 1: So I don't know what it's like to hunt like

1404
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:45,960
Speaker 1: opener anymore. I I used to way back in the day,

1405
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:48,679
Speaker 1: pre kids, but now with all the activities and things,

1406
01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:50,519
Speaker 1: I save all my you know, I put all my

1407
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 1: eggs in the basket for for the time with the

1408
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 1: uh you know, for the rut the late late October.

1409
01:12:58,479 --> 01:13:00,240
Speaker 1: I am going to be going out this week though,

1410
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 1: but I'm a little jealous because I definitely wanna, uh

1411
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:08,840
Speaker 1: someday get back into the opening day, even if it's

1412
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 1: just for the one evening. So kudos on that. Uh

1413
01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:18,519
Speaker 1: So you mentioned onward, What does onward look like? Now? Yeah, So,

1414
01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of my October schedule I had

1415
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:24,840
Speaker 1: assumed was going to be hunting, you know, these deer

1416
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 1: here in southern Michigan. UM a lot of you know,

1417
01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:30,800
Speaker 1: most of that's off the table. So there's a few

1418
01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:33,439
Speaker 1: other spots of Michigan that I can hunt that I

1419
01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:38,639
Speaker 1: will dabble with um throughout the coming weeks, but mostly

1420
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 1: I'm going to be shooting dos because this general, this

1421
01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: pocket that I hunt has got a lot of doughs,

1422
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: and now that I've got a buck off of it,

1423
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 1: I can focus on just doing that, and I want

1424
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:51,680
Speaker 1: to keep working on that shop process. I think this

1425
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 1: is a great opportunity to just do some dough hunting,

1426
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,759
Speaker 1: get more and more confident with this new shop process

1427
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:00,360
Speaker 1: so that I'm you know, really really confident it with it.

1428
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:03,599
Speaker 1: And then I got access to a property in Ohio

1429
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: just recently, and so I'm gonna start getting down there

1430
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I'm gonna save it because I'm going

1431
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:13,960
Speaker 1: to try to uh, We're doing that one week in

1432
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: November show again this year, and so I want to

1433
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:20,760
Speaker 1: save that location for that show. Um. So I'm not

1434
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,040
Speaker 1: gonna shoot anything down there in October, but I'm gonna

1435
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 1: go down for some scouting, Like We're gonna go down

1436
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 1: tomorrow and put some cameras up and just walk it

1437
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: for the first time, and then I'll probably show up

1438
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:33,920
Speaker 1: again one time mid or laid October just for observation

1439
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:36,840
Speaker 1: sits and more scouting and check cameras and stuff. Um.

1440
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:40,800
Speaker 1: But I don't have a planned traveling hunt outside of

1441
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:43,240
Speaker 1: just like some other Michigan stuff, going up to our

1442
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 1: deer camp hopefully a couple of times. Um, nothing until Halloween,

1443
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:51,400
Speaker 1: when I'm gonna drive to Nebraska and start filming that

1444
01:14:51,520 --> 01:14:53,680
Speaker 1: one week in November. And basically the idea is to

1445
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: hunt Nebraska until I kill something, hopefully, and then once

1446
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,240
Speaker 1: I do, then drive back down to Ohio to finish

1447
01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: things off, and then you know, the rest of the year.

1448
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 1: The only other travel I have is a Texas hunt.

1449
01:15:06,439 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 1: So much less travel this year, but still like some

1450
01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 1: fun stuff. Um and hopefully, you know, without as many

1451
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 1: of those traveling hunts, I'll just have more time to

1452
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 1: you know, take my son out or go hunt with

1453
01:15:18,840 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 1: my dad or um just do some of these local

1454
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: things or these family and friend things that I've I've

1455
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 1: not gotten to enjoy in a while. Um, but that

1456
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:30,200
Speaker 1: are such an important part of like my hunting love.

1457
01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: So that's, um, that's what I'm looking forward to. Um. Yeah,

1458
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 1: that's that's what's in store. Less less stress, more fun

1459
01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: this year. Less stress, more fun. And you know that's

1460
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:46,720
Speaker 1: that's like one of the big takeaways for me, Like

1461
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: out of this opening day hunt and my season so far,

1462
01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:53,080
Speaker 1: there's a few things that I think I can learn

1463
01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 1: from this. But I just think that, you know, coming

1464
01:15:56,880 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 1: into the year with that attitude that like, that's not

1465
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 1: why I old this dear, right, but it's certainly I

1466
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:06,760
Speaker 1: think set me up in a way that I was, um,

1467
01:16:07,280 --> 01:16:09,960
Speaker 1: you know, in the right headspace to allow this thing

1468
01:16:10,040 --> 01:16:12,799
Speaker 1: to happen, right, And so I came into the season

1469
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 1: more flexible with what I was willing to shoot, what

1470
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 1: I was interested in hunting. And so when I, you know,

1471
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:21,720
Speaker 1: had my Plan A and Plan A. Didn't you know

1472
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna work out right. I wasn't dead set

1473
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: on it. I wasn't stuck. I wasn't like, well, if

1474
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 1: this doesn't work, I'm screwed. So I'm done. No, I

1475
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:30,240
Speaker 1: could fall back on a Plan B, and I had

1476
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 1: a Plan B in mind, and I had to Plan

1477
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,320
Speaker 1: C in mind. And so I think my big lessons

1478
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:37,240
Speaker 1: are takeaways from this stand or one, like it's so

1479
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 1: important to be flexible and like your decision making. And

1480
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 1: I think I think the key or something I'm trying

1481
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:45,760
Speaker 1: to get better as to have like to have well

1482
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:48,680
Speaker 1: thought through decisions. So like when I'm deciding where I

1483
01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: want to hunt or what i want to do, I

1484
01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: want to have a really well thought through plan, but

1485
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 1: I want to be lightly held, So well thought through

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Speaker 1: but lightly held. So I've got a great Plan A,

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01:16:58,040 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: and I really had a good thing going, I thought,

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01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:04,680
Speaker 1: But when the situation on the ground is different, or

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01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:08,040
Speaker 1: when something changes and it's not gonna work, you need

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01:17:08,120 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: to be willing to pivot fast. You need to be

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Speaker 1: flexible and adjust. And maybe an older version of me

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01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:15,720
Speaker 1: would have been like so dead set in the plan

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01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:17,639
Speaker 1: that I would have so well, I gotta try it anyways,

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01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:21,320
Speaker 1: But you know, being able to realize, okay, this this

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01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 1: isn't gonna work, we need to adjust. That got me

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01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 1: into position somewhere else where I could still have success.

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01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:31,200
Speaker 1: That was one big thing Dan. A second big thing

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01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:33,920
Speaker 1: was just like this is just another good reminder for me,

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01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 1: just like that first set magic, whether it be opening

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01:17:36,600 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 1: day or the first time into a new place, like

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01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 1: I am, I am willing to I've been reminded this

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01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:45,759
Speaker 1: year after year, and this was a really good example,

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01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: Like it's worth taking a swing when you have that

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01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:52,400
Speaker 1: first set opportunity, Like it's worth taking a risk, It's

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01:17:52,400 --> 01:17:55,639
Speaker 1: worth being aggressive when you have that fresh set, when

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01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:58,599
Speaker 1: you have that unpressured, dear kind of thing, whether it's

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01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 1: opening day or whether it's a place you haven't touched

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01:18:00,880 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 1: for three weeks, and you just know it's golden. Um.

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01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:06,760
Speaker 1: You know, I used to be a lot more conservative

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01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:08,400
Speaker 1: and I never would have done something like that. And

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01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 1: with that brings me to my third thing, which is like,

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01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:14,840
Speaker 1: sometimes you have to sacrifice something to get something. When

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01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 1: it comes to deer On, like you always have to

1514
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: make a choice. There's gonna be something you're gonna sacrifice.

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01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's gonna be a small sacrifice, like okay, you know,

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01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 1: Dear are gonna blow. If Dear come to the east

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01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: of me, they're gonna win me. Or some days it's

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01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: gonna be a big sacrifice, like I made a big

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01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:32,519
Speaker 1: sacrifice on Opening Night where I said, basically, I'm writing

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01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:34,719
Speaker 1: off the swamp, which is one of the big betting

1521
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 1: eras that I think my number one buck is likely

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01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:40,120
Speaker 1: using a lot, and like that was a that was

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01:18:40,200 --> 01:18:43,200
Speaker 1: a huge risk. It was a big like sacrifice and

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01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: I just knew, like all right, but because I was

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01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 1: because I had a set of goals that allowed me

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01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 1: to have some flexibility, I said, all right, I'm I

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01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:53,200
Speaker 1: know that the first set can be magic. I have

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01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:56,720
Speaker 1: to take a chance on this first set, first night opportunity.

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01:18:57,560 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 1: I have a chance to still get a nice buck

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01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: that could be better to the north. So I'm gonna

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01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: right off the south, take a big swing because I

1532
01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:08,080
Speaker 1: know there is this home run opportunity to the north.

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01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 1: And I think that six seven years ago I never

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01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 1: would have touched that idea. But I you know, I've

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01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:18,200
Speaker 1: seen enough now to realize that you've got to give

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01:19:18,520 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: to get. So so those are my big takeaways I

1537
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:24,000
Speaker 1: think from this hunt that I think could apply to

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01:19:24,120 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 1: the whole year, um in in different kind of ways. So, um,

1539
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:33,240
Speaker 1: sometimes that aggressive and flexible approach is really the best

1540
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 1: way to go. Yeah, well, hey, your your season is

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01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:39,360
Speaker 1: off to a good start. And uh that's uh, I

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01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 1: don't know, man, that's uh, that's a good thing to have.

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01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 1: I have yet to have a season where I just

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01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:45,920
Speaker 1: knocked one out of the you know, knocking off the

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01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:49,840
Speaker 1: list right away. I usually hit some kind of uh

1546
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: uh drought period where I'm just hunting and hunting and

1547
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 1: hunting and then and then it comes together. But uh,

1548
01:19:56,120 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 1: it sounds like you're on a roll already and hopefully

1549
01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: the role continues through the to the season. Man. So

1550
01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 1: once again, congratulations, thanks man, I appreciate it. It's a

1551
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:07,760
Speaker 1: it's a great feeling. I haven't last year I didn't

1552
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 1: shoot them mature buck, and then the year prior to that,

1553
01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess two years ago it was the

1554
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: last time I shot a decent buck on my boss.

1555
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 1: So it's been a little bit and uh it felt

1556
01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:21,320
Speaker 1: good to uh finally see it all come together. So

1557
01:20:21,760 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: thank you, my friend for coming on here to pick

1558
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:26,040
Speaker 1: my brain on it and to celebrate with me a

1559
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: little bit. And um, I'm ready to have you on

1560
01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:31,639
Speaker 1: here soon to tell your story. So get out there

1561
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:35,720
Speaker 1: and let's let's have another one of these. And that

1562
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:39,720
Speaker 1: is a rap. Thank you for listening, Thanks for going

1563
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:42,479
Speaker 1: on this journey with me. Uh. As I've already said,

1564
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: it was a great kick off to the season, and

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01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:47,840
Speaker 1: I'm excited for how the rest of it goes. Now.

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01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:49,760
Speaker 1: I didn't get to do this at the beginning, so

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01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:52,160
Speaker 1: bear with me here. I gotta plug a few things.

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01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:55,680
Speaker 1: Number one, have you seen Dear Country yet? That's my

1569
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 1: new show. So we're on the Meat Eater YouTube channel

1570
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:01,840
Speaker 1: at this point five of the episodes. Five of the

1571
01:21:01,920 --> 01:21:05,120
Speaker 1: six episodes are out, so please head on over to

1572
01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 1: the YouTube channel, check them out, subscribe to the channel.

1573
01:21:09,439 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 1: Like those videos, leave a comment and share some feedback.

1574
01:21:12,439 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 1: Would love to hear what you think. It was an interesting, challenging,

1575
01:21:17,360 --> 01:21:21,560
Speaker 1: uh growth inducing hunting season for me last year, but

1576
01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of the show we put together and

1577
01:21:24,479 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 1: the stories you told along the way made all those

1578
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:29,519
Speaker 1: ups and downs worth it, I hope. So thank you,

1579
01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Um Meatior season eleven. It's coming

1580
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:38,639
Speaker 1: out October, and that season and the four seasons prior

1581
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: are being made available on the meat Eater website, so

1582
01:21:42,040 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 1: that's the meat eater dot com. And finally, next week

1583
01:21:48,160 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: is a great big white tail week for meat Eator.

1584
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:54,599
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna leave it at that. But we've got

1585
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:57,680
Speaker 1: some great deal, some good news, some new stuff all

1586
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:01,799
Speaker 1: drop him next week. So stay une, check out this podcast,

1587
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:05,560
Speaker 1: check out rough Fresh Radio, checkout Tony's Foundations episode. It

1588
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,000
Speaker 1: would be a new episode of Deer Country. There's gonna

1589
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,280
Speaker 1: be all sorts of articles over on the Wired Hunt website.

1590
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:14,639
Speaker 1: We are pumping out the Dear Ship for you. Excuse

1591
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 1: my French if you're underage your muffs. Otherwise we love

1592
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:22,599
Speaker 1: to hear. It's dear season. It's the greatest time of year.

1593
01:22:22,800 --> 01:22:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm loving it. I hope you're loving it. And until

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01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:30,200
Speaker 1: next time, my friends, my family, stay Wired to Hunt.