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

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Speaker 1: the whitetail woods, presented by First Light, creating proven versatile

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

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

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

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Speaker 2: the show, I'm going to be walking you through the

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Speaker 2: top ten preseason tasks to finish before opening day of

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Speaker 2: hunting season. All right, welcome back to the Wired to

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Speaker 2: That said, today, what I want to do is talk

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Speaker 2: about summer prep and early fall prep, the last things

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Speaker 2: we need to do before hunting season. And the way

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Speaker 2: I thought we'd do that is walk through what's on

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Speaker 2: my to do list, walk through my final projects, the

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Speaker 2: things that I need to get done before the season begins,

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Speaker 2: and use those things as examples. Use those things to

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Speaker 2: illustrate a number of different ideas, concepts, projects that you

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Speaker 2: might want to add to your repertoire as we come

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Speaker 2: down to these final weeks and months before the season starts.

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Speaker 2: So as we talk, it is, you know, as I

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Speaker 2: record this, at least it's August twelfth, and my opening

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Speaker 2: day in Michigan is October first, so we are less

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Speaker 2: than two months away from that opening day. I know

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Speaker 2: some people kick it off in September, so we might

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Speaker 2: be less than a month out. For you, that means

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Speaker 2: we're getting down to the wire. It's time to get

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Speaker 2: serious about this stuff. It's time really to cram for

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Speaker 2: the final exam because it's just about here. So that's

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Speaker 2: what I want to do here. I want to talk

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Speaker 2: through things like, you know, getting ready with our shooting.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about some final habitat work. I

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Speaker 2: want to talk about, you know, prepping tree stands and

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Speaker 2: saddle sets and clearing access routes and some scouting advice

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Speaker 2: and you know, cameras and glassing, getting access to new properties.

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Speaker 2: All that kind of stuff is on the to do

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Speaker 2: list here today. And before we get to that, though,

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Speaker 2: I want to give you a couple quick heads ups

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Speaker 2: on things, a couple house cleaning items I think I've

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Speaker 2: called it in the past. Number one, we do have

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Speaker 2: that new first Light white tailed gear out as I

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Speaker 2: mentioned at the top, on over to first light dot

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Speaker 2: com to check it all out. There are three new

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Speaker 2: kits that are part of the system. That's a jacket

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Speaker 2: and bibcombo for kind of the early to mile type temperatures.

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Speaker 2: That's the Phase. Then there's the Core kit, which is

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Speaker 2: that peak of the rock kind of laid Ouctober November

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Speaker 2: kind of thing, very versatile. You could use it earlier,

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Speaker 2: you could use it later. Then there's also the Thermic

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Speaker 2: and that's the super late season, very very very cold

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Speaker 2: weather kit. So check those out. I won't belabor the points,

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Speaker 2: but they might be something you want to look into.

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Speaker 2: The other heads up just another reminder Whitetail Edu Tony

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Speaker 2: and I. We've got this educational video series over on

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Speaker 2: the meat eater Clips YouTube channel going over there. There's

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Speaker 2: new videos coming out about mature buck travel. We had

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Speaker 2: one that came out about scrapes, rubs, deer droppings, all

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Speaker 2: sorts of stuff. If you want to level up your

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Speaker 2: foundation of deer hunting knowledge before the season. This would

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Speaker 2: be a good way to do it. Finally, if you

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Speaker 2: listen to this one and you've got more kind of

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Speaker 2: give you two other episode recommendations that would be useful

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Speaker 2: to number two ninety nine, so Wired to Hunt Podcast

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Speaker 2: Buck in Your Neighborhood with Adam Hayes. I think this

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Speaker 2: one's particularly irrelevant right now because Adam, if you if

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Speaker 2: So there's two more suggestions for you after this one,

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Speaker 2: two ninety nine and forty nine. Check them out if

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Speaker 2: Talk through what I'm up to right now. Why I

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Speaker 2: And that is stressful, that's exhausting, and it's an easy

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Speaker 2: something called the Full Focused Planner. And this is a

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Speaker 2: And then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, there's a full two

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Speaker 2: never get the big stuff done that's important if we

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm up to right now. That's what the

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Speaker 2: That's why I'm taking this approach. So that's all happening,

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Speaker 2: It's simple, it's effective, and it's good for a lot

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Speaker 2: I'm relatively small scale, right, I'm not doing this on

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Speaker 2: I probably have I don't know, three acres of food

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Speaker 2: do have the ability to do some management. This is

431
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:44,760
Speaker 2: nothing dramatic, this is nothing too crazy, but access routes.

432
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,360
Speaker 2: This is something that sometimes we can overlook. You want

433
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:54,760
Speaker 2: to have, if possible, cleared out quiet access routes on

434
00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 2: properties that you have the ability to do this. So

435
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 2: for me, that looks like a couple of different number

436
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,879
Speaker 2: couple diff things. One just the other day, I've sprayed

437
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 2: some of these trails that I have that you know,

438
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 2: over the course of the summer they get overgrown. I'll

439
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 2: do one herbicide application just to knock down everything right now,

440
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 2: and then I will do a mow here towards the

441
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 2: end of the summer. Once that's done with a mowing

442
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 2: in the spring, you've got a clear, low, quiet trail

443
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,480
Speaker 2: that you can access your tree stand locations, that you

444
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 2: can access spots to change trail cameras, that you can

445
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 2: drive your e bike or your UTV or whatever it is.

446
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 2: Having those trails is super helpful. I do that with

447
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,800
Speaker 2: the mower in places that that's possible. But something that

448
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 2: I you know, I don't always do this as much

449
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 2: as I should. I'm trying to do more and more

450
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 2: of this every year. I'll try to create small, cleared

451
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 2: out trails to my actual stand locations too. And that's

452
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 2: just as simple as going in with you know, for

453
00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 2: me like some pruners and pruning the branches, just clearing

454
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 2: out branches or any brush on the ground, many downtry

455
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,439
Speaker 2: limbs or anything that are going to make it loud

456
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,879
Speaker 2: or difficult for you to get to the actual trees

457
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 2: that you want to hunt. So this is one of

458
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,199
Speaker 2: those things that if you can make the time, it

459
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 2: can help you because, as we've talked about many times

460
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,879
Speaker 2: over the years, at least if you're trying to kill

461
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:25,480
Speaker 2: and hunt matured deer, the little things matter. The tiniest

462
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 2: little mistake can be the thing that keeps you from

463
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 2: getting that deer you know, stepping on that one branch

464
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 2: or getting your backpack hung up in some bushes behind

465
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 2: you and making a bunch of noise. That might be

466
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 2: the thing that spooks the buck that's bed at eighty

467
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:43,440
Speaker 2: five yards away. So any little thing, any little variable

468
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 2: that you can control now will help you, because there's

469
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,199
Speaker 2: a whole lot of stuff come in the fall that

470
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,120
Speaker 2: you can't control. So that is the kind of thing

471
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 2: that I'm looking for with this access route prep clearing

472
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 2: those little trails, raking some vegetation out of the way,

473
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 2: or spraying the grassy path so you can get into

474
00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 2: there more quietly. Again, it's not a huge thing, but

475
00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 2: it can make a big difference in a few months.

476
00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 2: Number four scouting Summer scouting. This is something that I love.

477
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite things for this time of year.

478
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 2: But it's something that you have to look at with

479
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 2: a grain of Salt's here's what I mean. Probably most

480
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 2: of you know this, but I want to review it

481
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 2: just in case you're relatively new to this, because it's

482
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 2: very very important. Seeing deer in the summer, feeding in

483
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 2: fields or getting pictures of deer in the summer is

484
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. It can tell you some things,

485
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 2: but it is not the end all be all, because

486
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,199
Speaker 2: there is a significant rain shift from the summer to

487
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 2: the fall for many bucks. So if you see or

488
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 2: get pictures of a deer right now, there might be

489
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,239
Speaker 2: a fifty percent chance that that deer is going to

490
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 2: relocate to a totally new zone one September hits. So

491
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 2: I scout and I pay attention, but I'm doing all

492
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 2: of it without getting overly excited and without drilling into

493
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,639
Speaker 2: the details of you know, if I saw a buck

494
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 2: move into the corner of this field, I'm not going

495
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 2: to be like, oh wow, I'm going to kill the

496
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 2: deer in the corner of that field if I don't

497
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: have an early season opener. So if you have an

498
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 2: early season opener in September, you know, first week or

499
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 2: two of September, then yes, summer patterns might still be

500
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 2: relevant and you can kill a deer doing the stuff

501
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 2: you're seeing them do now in August. But if you

502
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 2: are like me in your opening day is not until

503
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 2: October first, it's going to be pretty different. That all said,

504
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 2: there are a few things you can gain with summer scouting.

505
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,360
Speaker 2: There's a few things that I'm personally looking for when

506
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 2: I do this. Number One, you can assess the quality

507
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: of deer in the general area, even if you know

508
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 2: a given deer might not be on your property, that

509
00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 2: is on your property right now. If you are trying

510
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,400
Speaker 2: to figure out does this zone have mature bucks, your

511
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 2: summer glassing and summer pictures can tell you that. You

512
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 2: can also get confirmation of deer being back. You know,

513
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 2: let's say you had a few bucks that you were

514
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 2: hunting last year. Now's a great time to determine whether

515
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 2: or not they're still alive and whether they're around. Take

516
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 2: a look at them, see how they're looking, See if

517
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 2: they're as old as you think they are, See if

518
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 2: there's new deer in the area. Again, we alluded to

519
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 2: this at the very beginning, but you can also try

520
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 2: to find a buck now that maybe isn't a totally

521
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 2: new area, and then try to get permission in that zone. Now,

522
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 2: be careful if you spot a buck in August, he

523
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 2: might be somewhere different in September, So continue that kind

524
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,040
Speaker 2: of surveillance into September. And that's a key thing I

525
00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 2: think we should remember is that usually most deer are

526
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 2: losing their velvet the first week or so of September,

527
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 2: and that is really when most rain shift happens, because

528
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 2: you've got a major testostere rise happening this time of year,

529
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:04,880
Speaker 2: velvet's peeling off, and bucks are starting to relocate to

530
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 2: their fall ranges. From my experience, I would say about

531
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 2: a third ish of the bucks that I see in

532
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 2: the summer go somewhere else come September. But that still

533
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 2: means two thirds are there. And I'm not hunting big properties.

534
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 2: I don't have any properties I have access to that

535
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 2: are more than like one hundred sum makers. So you know,

536
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 2: maybe if I had a thousand acre swath, I could

537
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 2: keep track of all of these deer. Maybe the deer

538
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 2: that are here in August would just be down, you know,

539
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 2: on the other side of my property comes September. But

540
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 2: I just don't have that scenario. So a third to

541
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit more than a third of the

542
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 2: bucks I'm watching now I know are just going to

543
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 2: be gone. But that's okay in my case. There are

544
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 2: for example, in one of my main zones in Michigan,

545
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 2: there are two bucks that last year I had been

546
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 2: passing on when was a three year old. One was

547
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: a four year old, and I was really hoping that

548
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 2: they would make it to this year. Both of them did.

549
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 2: One of these deer is a buck that my youngest

550
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 2: son named Bear Deer. He was just like a tall,

551
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 2: mainframe eight pointer last year as a three year old

552
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 2: with a big inside time, and you saw him a lot.

553
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: Didn't try to kill him. He just showed back up

554
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 2: within the last handful of weeks, maybe two three weeks ago,

555
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 2: and he's big and tall, really nice tall bro. I mean,

556
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: he's just a very very impressive deer, a big deep

557
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 2: split in G two. He lost an inside time but

558
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 2: now has a split G two, so he's on the list.

559
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 2: He's a very cool deer and my son is very excited.

560
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 2: The bear deer is still around. So he's a deer

561
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 2: that I'm getting pictures of and I'm trying to glass

562
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 2: and get eyes on him, and that's that's purely for fun,

563
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 2: you know, sometimes summer glassing is just a good time.

564
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 2: I realize I'm not probably going to be able to

565
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 2: pattern him in any kind of way because i can't

566
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 2: hunt him now, but I just like watching deer and

567
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 2: watching deer do deer stuff, so that's part of what

568
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 2: I'm doing now. The second buck in this zone that

569
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 2: is back is a buck that my other son named Bulldozer,

570
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,440
Speaker 2: and he is a five year old. This year I

571
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 2: passed a bunch of the three year old last year's

572
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 2: a four year old passed him one time with the

573
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 2: muzzle ludder muzzler season and then saw him a couple

574
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 2: times but out of range, but he was always around.

575
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 2: He's the oldest buck. He's the one five year old

576
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 2: that I know of in this area, and we actually

577
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 2: found his match set of antlers. I found one antler

578
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 2: close to this spot where I thought he betted, and

579
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 2: then later found his other side and then went and

580
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 2: got my youngest son brought him out and had him,

581
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 2: you know, fine to himself. So so yeah, really cool

582
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 2: story with that buck having his antlers, having seen him now,

583
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,240
Speaker 2: you know, for so many years, so those back. He's

584
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 2: a big nine pointer, big old body, and blind in

585
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 2: one eye, so it'll be interesting to see if that

586
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 2: will make him slightly more approachable. I guess I'm not

587
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 2: sure what to you know, how much of a factor

588
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 2: that'll be, but it'll be interesting to watch him. He

589
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 2: was really really big bodied last year during the season,

590
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 2: so I'm excited to see what he looks like as

591
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,720
Speaker 2: those testosterone levels start to rise and he really starts

592
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 2: to get runted up, I think he'll be pretty darn impressive.

593
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 2: So so yeah, I mentioned this, But there's there's two

594
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 2: kinds of summer scouting that I'm doing. One is the glassing.

595
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 2: Any night that I can get out and sit on

596
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 2: a hill or on the side of the road and

597
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 2: glass some of these beanfields or alfalfa fields. I'm doing

598
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,400
Speaker 2: that one to try to see these bucks that I'm

599
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:51,000
Speaker 2: after and just see them, get some footage of them.

600
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 2: That's just plain fun. But then I'm also trying to

601
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 2: assess new areas and just get a sense of hey,

602
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 2: is there a different neighborhood, a different area where there

603
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 2: are some like spectacular deer that I should try to,

604
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 2: you know, somehow get permission on. That is a possibility,

605
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 2: and that's something that I like to try to do.

606
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,720
Speaker 2: I'll just do like what I call a deer drive,

607
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 2: where I'll just go drive around, drive the back roads.

608
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 2: It's a good time and sometimes you can learn about

609
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 2: a new honey hole that might be worth investigating further.

610
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 2: And then secondly, running trail cameras. I'm running these on

611
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 2: all the properties I have access to that I've been

612
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 2: hunting forever, and then I'm also putting trail cameras on

613
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 2: new properties that I'm getting access to to try to

614
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 2: assess like what's here, what's the area offer, and do

615
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 2: I really need to double down on this spot? Which

616
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 2: brings me back to or brings me to another one

617
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 2: of these ideas or one of these kind of categories

618
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 2: that I'm working on, which is getting new access. And

619
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 2: this is something you know that you can't these days.

620
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 2: You almost never can stop doing this because if you

621
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 2: don't own your own farm, if you're depending on permission

622
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 2: or even leases, it's just so common to lose that permission,

623
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 2: to lose that access. There's just you know, land is

624
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 2: changing hands, there's obviously a lot of demand for hunting access,

625
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 2: and I just find myself, you know, every time I

626
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 2: get something good and new that I'm excited about, it

627
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 2: seems like it disappears in a year or two. So

628
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 2: that happened to me this year. I picked up a

629
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 2: really nice new property last year that I was excited

630
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 2: about a couple hundred acres, and now already this year

631
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 2: I don't have access. So a major thing that I

632
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 2: try to do all year round, but especially comes summer,

633
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 2: especially right about now, is start checking in with the

634
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 2: network and trying to find possible new opportunities for hunting locations.

635
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 2: I've kind of had a renewed urgency this summer because

636
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 2: of losing that spot, and so I've just started like

637
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 2: asking random friends who maybe have a family member that's

638
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 2: a farm owner, or I bumped in to a neighbor

639
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 2: the other day and just brought it up, just asked, hey,

640
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 2: you know you happen to know of anyone you happen

641
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 2: to have something, And you know, I've landed a couple

642
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 2: of little spots, nothing big and extra special, but I'm

643
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 2: now in a point where I'm just trying to stack

644
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 2: up little spots. So, for example, I talked to a

645
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 2: farmer the other day who I've gotten to know over

646
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 2: the years, and I knew he had a handful of

647
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 2: different properties. I've never tried to get access to them

648
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 2: in the past, but we developed a relationship over the

649
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 2: years to a point where I thought, you know, maybe

650
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 2: he'd be open to that now, and so I just mentioned, hey,

651
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 2: you know lost some spots looking for a new location

652
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 2: or two, I know you've got a property over an

653
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,919
Speaker 2: X y Z road or another one down that road.

654
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: Would you ever be you know open to me, you know,

655
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 2: helping out with the dope problem there and hunting sometimes

656
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 2: and lo and behold, got me permission on a couple

657
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 2: of these spots. And so that is my maybe biggest

658
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 2: piece of advice when it comes to this, is just

659
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: always always ask, you know, anytime there's someone who might

660
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 2: know somebody or owns some land or has a family

661
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 2: member that owns land, it can't hurt to ask, right

662
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 2: The answer is no already if you ask, the worst

663
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 2: case scenario is it's going to be no still, but

664
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 2: maybe you will get a yes. And you never know

665
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 2: where those kinds of conversations can go. And you can

666
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 2: never have enough hunting property, right. It's location. Location. Location

667
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 2: is so much the name of the game when it

668
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 2: comes to hunting deer. So I got permission on a

669
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 2: few new spots. They're not, you know, amazing spots, but

670
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 2: you never know that one little extra location might make

671
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 2: all the difference next year. For example, one of these

672
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: properties that I just got permission on is something like

673
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 2: sixty or seventy acres, but it's almost all crop field.

674
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: There's just four acres of cover. Rest is standing corn,

675
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: but the four acres of cover which is mixed grasses,

676
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 2: some willows, various shrubs and stuff, and then some trees.

677
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 2: This butts up and is adjacent to a really big

678
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 2: swamp system. And the swamp system is one that I've

679
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 2: known of in the past. I've driven around this area

680
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 2: a lot during previous summers and I've seen a lot

681
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 2: of deer all on the edges and all around it.

682
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 2: So I've just known, like, man, this spot holds a

683
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 2: lot of deer, and some big deer like deer get

684
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 2: old around these swamp systems in southern Michigan. And so

685
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 2: when I knew or when I saw that I could

686
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 2: get access to the edge of it, even though it

687
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 2: was just four acres, it's still exciting. And so this

688
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 2: is another one of my top ten things is doing

689
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 2: this last minute scouting. I just went and did a

690
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 2: quick speed scout of this new property yesterday. What I'm

691
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 2: trying to achieve in this quick speed scout is twofold

692
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 2: number one. I want to get a lay of the land,

693
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 2: just going out there quickly to get a sense of

694
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: what's the access like where do I park, how do

695
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 2: I get in these places, where will be the routes

696
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:09,919
Speaker 2: I can take in without spooking a bunch of deer.

697
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 2: And then I want to figure out where's the food,

698
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 2: where's the bedding, where's the travel? And you can figure

699
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 2: that out relatively quickly, especially on a small property like this,

700
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 2: right a four acres, you can relatively quickly figure out. Okay,

701
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 2: obviously there's deer feeding in this cornfield. Obviously there's deer

702
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 2: betting on the edges of this swamp and inside the

703
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,760
Speaker 2: swamp in high spots. But as I walked this little

704
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 2: swath of ground, I ran up on a buck that

705
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 2: was standing in the standing corn feeding, bumped him. And

706
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 2: then later I bumped a nice buck out of a

707
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 2: bed kind of on the edge of this swampy area,

708
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 2: and some like tall, grassy, willowy stuff. So right away

709
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,479
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, okay, there's bucks in here. Right now,

710
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 2: there's all sorts of sign all sorts of old rubs,

711
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 2: old scrapes, beat down trails, all the good stuff you

712
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 2: want to see. So I've done two things with this.

713
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 2: I've figured out where the bedding is, where the feeding is.

714
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 2: I've seen a bunch of the trails I identified a

715
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 2: couple little pinch points. For example, there's like a like

716
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 2: a canal or a channel, like a drainage ditch. I

717
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 2: guess it'd be coming out of the swamp that butts

718
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 2: up right to the edge of the cornfield. So this

719
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 2: drainage ditch is full of water, it's pretty wide, not

720
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 2: easy for deer to get across, And then it comes

721
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 2: right up to the edge of that cornfield and stops

722
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: maybe five yards ahead of it, and you can just

723
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 2: see how all the deer, you know, rather than crossing

724
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 2: this big drainage ditch, they all funnel around the top

725
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 2: of that ditch in the edge of the cornfield. So

726
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 2: here's a major travel pinch. Anything that wants to come

727
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 2: from the north side and wants to get to the

728
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 2: south side, a lot of these deer are going to

729
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 2: move around this little corner. So right away I knew, Okay,

730
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 2: this is a possible hunting location, and this is definitely

731
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 2: a good spot for a camera. So I put a

732
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 2: camera out and that's going to give me back to

733
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 2: the summer scout that's going to help me assess the area.

734
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 2: So again I'm not necessarily trying to pattern a deer

735
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:07,600
Speaker 2: with these cameras right now, I'm just trying to get

736
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 2: a sense like, hey, am I right? Are there some

737
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 2: older deer in this area like I would expect given

738
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 2: the swamp, given the habitat, you know, could there be

739
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 2: something worth chasing even though there's just a little four

740
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 2: acre window I have here. And then number two. As

741
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 2: I do that, I'm also looking for spots that might

742
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 2: be worth coming back and hunting in the fall. So

743
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 2: in this area, like for example, I found this pinch

744
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: and then I started thinking, Okay, this is a great location.

745
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 2: I can see this is like close to the bedding.

746
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 2: It's this area that a lot of deer travel is

747
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 2: going to want to be funneled through. Is there a

748
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 2: tree around here I can hunt? And the answer to

749
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 2: that was actually no, there's not a good tree to hunt.

750
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 2: So what could I do? Well? I got to thinking, man,

751
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,760
Speaker 2: I really think this would be a place worth hunting,

752
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 2: but there's not a tree. So what could I make

753
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 2: work on the ground? And what I came up with

754
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 2: was that actually, there's so much deer activity in this

755
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 2: area that the corn field was like mowed down, Like

756
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 2: the corn most of it was eaten down to like

757
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,880
Speaker 2: waste height. And I realized if I were to stand

758
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 2: and hide in the standing corn about thirty yards back

759
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 2: where it isn't mowed down by deer, you could actually

760
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 2: hide on the ground in the standing corn and have

761
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 2: a clear view right to the edge and where this

762
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 2: water source butts up to it. So I went in

763
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 2: there kind of found a perfect spot, marked a waypoint,

764
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 2: and have a setup now where I know if I

765
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 2: want to come back in here in October when the

766
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 2: season's open, I have a pre planned location. I mapped

767
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 2: it out to make sure I could see like shooting

768
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 2: lanes to the pinch point, to a couple other spots.

769
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 2: I found that perfect spot marked a trail, so I

770
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 2: can go and actually hunt from within the standing corn,

771
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,919
Speaker 2: aiming out towards this ditch and this cleared out area

772
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 2: where the deer have already been feeding and mowing down

773
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,399
Speaker 2: the corn. That's what I'm trying to do with this

774
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 2: summer scouting is determine quality and like presence of deer

775
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 2: with cameras, and then number two get some potential hunting

776
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 2: locations planned out. I don't in most cases anymore going

777
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 2: prep full tree stands anymore. Right, I'm a saddle hunter,

778
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 2: ninety nine percent of the time on new spots. I

779
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 2: like to be pretty mobile. I don't want to get

780
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 2: committed to anyone location too much. So in this case,

781
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 2: I just found a spot like this for the ground.

782
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 2: I found another spot where I found like probably this

783
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 2: tree or that tree would be the ones, and I

784
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 2: just marked those pins. So I didn't go in there

785
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 2: and do any major prep work on the trees. I

786
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 2: didn't go in there and hang a tree stand or

787
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 2: a permanent set. I didn't trim a thousand tree limbs.

788
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: I just marked a couple of trees. Now while I

789
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 2: could walk around while I saw where the trails were.

790
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 2: It'll make things a little bit easier for me if

791
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 2: I do come back in October, I'll have like an

792
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 2: easy idea, a quick idea of where I want to go. Now,

793
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 2: that's kind of what I will do on some of

794
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 2: these newer properties where I'm not committed to anyone spot

795
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 2: in a big way. If I were to be doing

796
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 2: my prep work on a property that I know I'm

797
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 2: going to hunt a lot, it would look a little

798
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 2: bit different. And I'll get to that in a second,

799
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 2: because I definitely am doing some more thorough prep work

800
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 2: in other locations. But when it comes to this new stuff,

801
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 2: I'm trying to cover a bunch of ground. I'm trying

802
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 2: to give myself a bunch of options, and so you know,

803
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 2: this little four warker piece just eyeballed it. Took a

804
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 2: quick walk, put two cameras out located to possible hunt locations,

805
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,360
Speaker 2: mark those, and now we're going to move on and

806
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 2: wait and see what shows up there, and wait and

807
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 2: see if it ends up being something i want to

808
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 2: spend more time on. I've got another property like this

809
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 2: that I picked up access to that I'm going to

810
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 2: go later this week and do the same thing too.

811
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 2: There's a couple other pieces of public that I'm going

812
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 2: to do something similar, so again not doing not making

813
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 2: a huge investment into them yet because I'm casting a

814
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 2: wide net. I don't want to get stuck on any

815
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 2: one piece. I want to cast a wide net, have

816
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 2: a bunch of different options, and maybe the buckle pop

817
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 2: on one of them but nothing on the other, or

818
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 2: maybe I'll have time to hunt one more more than

819
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: the other and I'll be able to spend more time

820
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 2: prepping trees that or bounce around while I'm in hunting

821
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 2: season and get to know it in that kind of way,

822
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 2: but right now I'm just trying to get a sense

823
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 2: of the place and have a starting point. Now, another

824
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 2: one of these that'll be coming up is a pretty

825
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 2: exciting new situation down in Illinois. And this kind of

826
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 2: goes back to like always be asking, always be thinking

827
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 2: about new access. This kind of came up when I

828
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,320
Speaker 2: was spending time with my buddies Casey Smith and Tyler

829
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 2: Jones from the Element last week at a work thing.

830
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 2: We were talking about how we really need to find

831
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 2: a piece of ground that we can share and hunt together,

832
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 2: and wouldn't it be great to be able to do

833
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 2: some stuff kind of in collaboration, And we got to think, of, man,

834
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 2: we just need to like send out some mass messages

835
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 2: to anyone we know in like Illinois or Ohio and

836
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 2: just see is there anything we might be able to

837
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 2: get on. And long story short, one of our contacts

838
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 2: that Casey reached out a shared contact, ended up happening

839
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,880
Speaker 2: to know of a person who might have some land

840
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 2: they'd be willing to let us get on, maybe for

841
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 2: a small lease fee or access to use their stuff

842
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 2: and help them out with some things. And long story short,

843
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 2: it looks like that's panned out. It looks like we

844
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,439
Speaker 2: have a few properties that the three of us could

845
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 2: hunt in Illinois. And so our plan later this week

846
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 2: is to go and do a speed scout similar to

847
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 2: what I just discussed. I'm going to go down there

848
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 2: and drive down there to Illinois and kind of burn

849
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 2: across these properties as fast as I can, just to

850
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 2: get cameras out with the same goals in mind which

851
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 2: I mentioned are get a sense of the place, see

852
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,480
Speaker 2: what the quality deer is out there, and you know,

853
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 2: maybe we'll get lucky and some of these deers stick around.

854
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 2: But again I'm not trying to pattern on them right now.

855
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 2: I just want to see, like a general vibe check

856
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,240
Speaker 2: is what I'm going for in the summer, and then

857
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 2: again speed scouting, walking the borders, walking all the main

858
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 2: interesting zones of habitat right I'm doing a pretty significant

859
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 2: e scout for every one of these new properties ahead

860
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,600
Speaker 2: of time. And when I'm looking at that and trying

861
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 2: to identify, you know, where does it look like there's

862
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: the best cover, Where is the possible betting, where's the

863
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 2: possible food, Where are the possible funnel funnels or pinch points?

864
00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 2: Where are the possible water sources. So mark all of

865
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 2: that on my map that I'm looking at. I use

866
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 2: ONYX for this, get that all done ahead of time.

867
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 2: That way, when I show up in person and I've

868
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 2: got one day to scout, I can then go and

869
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 2: hit all of those highlights, so I don't need to

870
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 2: cover every square inch. I can just go and check

871
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 2: all the places that I thought had the best opportunities,

872
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 2: that I believed were the most interesting, and then I

873
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 2: can ground trooth them. I can then see, Okay, yes,

874
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 2: this actually is awesome. Cover check market, this is a

875
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 2: good betting era. And then when I'm in these different locations,

876
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 2: then I'm also going to be pinning possible trees. So

877
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,799
Speaker 2: anytime I find something that I find that could be

878
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 2: useful for a hunting location, Like maybe they'll be a

879
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 2: little isolated corner of a bean field that pokes into

880
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: some good bedding off of a ridge, and I see

881
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:08,839
Speaker 2: a patch of big oaks on the edge of it. Man,

882
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 2: this could be a great early season location. Let's think

883
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 2: about what the wind might be here, and let's try

884
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 2: to find a tree or two that I could hunt,

885
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 2: and I'll pin that. I'll try to find one that

886
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 2: you know has good access. Maybe you know, maybe it

887
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:24,839
Speaker 2: makes sense to trim a couple of tree limbs off

888
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 2: real quick. But again, in this kind of speedy scenario

889
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 2: where it's a new place, I haven't been able to

890
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:33,919
Speaker 2: commit to it for a long period of time. I'm

891
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,720
Speaker 2: not going to go hung a day, hang a dozen stands.

892
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 2: I'm going to try to get a bunch of starting points,

893
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 2: and then when I start hunting a new place, I

894
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 2: go in there with a sal and I hunt my

895
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,480
Speaker 2: way to the deer. So I'll start with a starting location.

896
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 2: I'll observe, I'll learn, I'll adjust, I'll scout, i'll adjust,

897
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 2: i'll watch, I'll adjust. I've really gotten away from hanging

898
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 2: a bunch of stands on day one on a new

899
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 2: property and doing a bunch of work, because then you

900
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 2: kind of over commit yourself. And if you spend all

901
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 2: this time putting up a permanent set and trimming out

902
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 2: a thousand trees and cutting an access trail to this location,

903
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 2: if you do that and then you hunt it, you

904
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 2: hunt it, and it stinks. It's much harder to pick

905
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 2: up and move to a new spot when you are

906
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 2: so committed to a permanent location. So I've gotten away

907
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 2: from that, very light and fast and adaptable. Yeah, that's

908
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,640
Speaker 2: my new approach now. So when we're there in Illinois,

909
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 2: we're gonna do the speed scout. We're going to ground

910
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 2: truth all these locations. We're going to mark some possible trees,

911
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,959
Speaker 2: We're gonna put up some cameras to do our vibe check,

912
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 2: and then I'm probably gonna do an evening drive around

913
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,400
Speaker 2: the neighborhood again, getting a sense of the place, getting

914
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 2: a sense of what our expectations should be for the area.

915
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 2: Is this a place where there's a bunch of four

916
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 2: and five year old bucks running around like we hope,

917
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 2: let's see you know, is a good buck here like

918
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 2: a four year old one? Or is it a five

919
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:02,240
Speaker 2: year old one? Sixty? Are there dear bigger than that?

920
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 2: That's the kind of thing that you can determine in

921
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 2: the summer. Again, yes, things change, but the general sense

922
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 2: of the place, the general sense of the neighborhood is

923
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 2: usually a good barometer for what you can expect to

924
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 2: come fall. So that is That's what I've got going

925
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 2: on when it comes to these new properties with these

926
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 2: quick scouts, there's a lot of that happening over these

927
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 2: coming weeks. I'm going to do some more of that,

928
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 2: some kind of last minute public checks too. Did some

929
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 2: of that in the spring. But there's just always more locations, right,

930
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to get better since I don't have

931
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 2: I don't own a bunch of big farms, I don't

932
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 2: own anything like that. What I've found that I need

933
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 2: to do is have a lot of different small things,

934
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 2: a lot of different opportunities, because if you are dependent

935
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:53,720
Speaker 2: on any one spot, which I have been in the past,

936
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 2: sometimes you can get yourself in a bad spot if

937
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 2: that location is, you know, not producing for whatever reason.

938
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 2: Maybe there's more pressure around it, or maybe the one

939
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 2: deer year after got shot by a neighbor, or maybe

940
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 2: the winds just wrong for most of the farm for

941
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,719
Speaker 2: a whole week, whatever it is. If you are beholden

942
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 2: to a single location, you just inevitably are going to

943
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 2: find yourself in times when it's just not right and

944
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 2: you're stuck at home. I don't want to be stuck

945
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 2: at home, So I'm trying to get better every year

946
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 2: at adding new places, even though I keep losing them,

947
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 2: trying to add these little spots, and public land is

948
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 2: a great option for that, as well, because there is

949
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,279
Speaker 2: great opportunity on public land, you have to work hard

950
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 2: at it, you have to search these places out. But

951
00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 2: you know, one way I like to look at this

952
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:46,720
Speaker 2: is that you know, I might spend the best weather days,

953
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 2: the best conditioned days, in my best private land locations,

954
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:51,719
Speaker 2: but then there's going to be a Friday night or

955
00:50:51,719 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 2: a Saturday night, inevitably during the hunting season when the

956
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 2: conditions aren't great, and you might say, well, I don't

957
00:50:57,680 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 2: want to hunt my good spots right now because I

958
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:01,399
Speaker 2: don't want to blow it up on a bad day.

959
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 2: But at the same time, you want to hunt. So

960
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 2: this is a great opportunity if you have these places

961
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 2: planned out and scouted and have some ideas on the board.

962
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 2: On the maybe not great day, go and hunt those

963
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,120
Speaker 2: public spots and sure, maybe it's not a great night

964
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 2: and you don't see anything, but no harm, no fault,

965
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 2: you didn't blow up your good things, no big deal.

966
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 2: On the flip side, maybe get lucky. Maybe you discover

967
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 2: this spot's actually better than you thought. Can you go

968
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 2: in there and you see a bunch of sign and

969
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 2: you realize you want to put more time to it,

970
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 2: or maybe you see a great buck maybe you shoot

971
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 2: a deer when you never expected it, because deer don't

972
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 2: always follow the playbook. Deer don't always do what we

973
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 2: think they'll do. So you want to be out there

974
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 2: as much as possible to take advantage of these freak

975
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 2: mother nature kind of events. And if you're sitting on

976
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 2: the couch because you don't want to hunt your good

977
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 2: private spots, you might be missing out. So for that reason,

978
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 2: adding some more public scout into my repertoire for this

979
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 2: last month, too, suggest you do the same. So that's

980
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 2: property access, that is last minute speeds gouting new properties,

981
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 2: which I'm doing a lot of back to prepping on

982
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 2: committed properties which I have as well, so the properties

983
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 2: that you have hunted for years in the past and

984
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 2: you continue to do. So the next thing that I'm

985
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 2: doing that I suggest you do is go and check

986
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:38,879
Speaker 2: every one of your sets that you currently have up.

987
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 2: So if you have tree stand locations or prep saddle

988
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 2: trees or blinds that are out there all year round,

989
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 2: you got to go check them every year. And so

990
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 2: I make a point every late summer to go and

991
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 2: do a couple of things. Number one, I go and

992
00:52:55,719 --> 00:53:00,200
Speaker 2: check the straps on any sticks and stands, and make

993
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 2: sure the straps are number one, loosened up enough so

994
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 2: that you know they account for the growth of the tree.

995
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 2: You don't want them stretched out because that'll lead to

996
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 2: them breaking and inhibiting the tree growth. So I make

997
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 2: sure that the tree straps are loosened a little bit.

998
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 2: I then check the straps, of course, to make sure

999
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 2: they're not ripped or torn or damaged in any kind

1000
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 2: of way. I do the same thing to every tree stand.

1001
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 2: Adjust the straps, check all the you know, connection points

1002
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 2: to make sure the tree stands are safe and good

1003
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 2: to use, make sure my safety lines are in there.

1004
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 2: I then will trim out every one of these stands.

1005
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 2: So any permanent location, like a spot that I keep

1006
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 2: maintained year for year, these are the spots where I'll

1007
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,799
Speaker 2: do some significant you know, tree limb cutting. Making sure

1008
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,880
Speaker 2: I've got good lanes, making sure, as I mentioned earlier,

1009
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 2: that I have access trails to them, making sure that

1010
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 2: I have room around the base of the tree to

1011
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 2: lay my bow down and to get hooked into the tree,

1012
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 2: or to throw my lineman's belt around, whatever it might be.

1013
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 2: I'm doing a lot of that, So lanes, straps, access trails.

1014
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 2: Another thing I do in these locations is I will

1015
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 2: also every year try to improve these sets a little bit.

1016
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 2: One way I found to do that is by modifying

1017
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:13,839
Speaker 2: maybe the deer movement just a little bit. Like try

1018
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,439
Speaker 2: to like if you've hunted a location year after year

1019
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 2: and you found that a lot of deer, maybe fifty

1020
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,840
Speaker 2: percent of the deer travel a secondary trail that's just

1021
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 2: out of range, well, now is a great time to

1022
00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 2: go and cut a tree or two and block part

1023
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 2: of that trail that pushes them. Hopefully that funnels them

1024
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 2: closer to you into range. So you can manipulate deer

1025
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 2: movement a little bit by blocking trails or opening trails

1026
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 2: where you want them. You could do this and a

1027
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 2: food plot, you might lay a tree top down across

1028
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 2: part of the food plot so that any deer that's

1029
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,399
Speaker 2: coming through that area has to go around that tree limb,

1030
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,920
Speaker 2: which then pushes them to ain shooting range maybe of

1031
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 2: a stand location. That type of thing I'm doing and

1032
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 2: is definitely worth doing this time of year. Speaking of

1033
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 2: modifying deer movement, another thing that I'm adding to the

1034
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 2: to do list right now. Anywhere that I hunt a

1035
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 2: food plot or open field, I am putting in a

1036
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 2: scrape tree location where I want it. So what I

1037
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 2: mean by that is I am either adding or reopening

1038
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 2: a mock scrape underneath a real tree if there's a

1039
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 2: spot like this within shooting range, or if not, I

1040
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 2: am going to create a fake scrape tree location. I

1041
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 2: do this for a couple of reasons. Number One, mock

1042
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 2: scrapes are terrific locations to get trail camp pictures, both

1043
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,960
Speaker 2: in the summer and during the hunting season. I like

1044
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,160
Speaker 2: to have a location like this buy some of my

1045
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 2: top tree stand locations, especially if it's like an open

1046
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,920
Speaker 2: field there, like we're talking about, because we'll just use

1047
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 2: one of my examples. I have at like an acre ach.

1048
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,760
Speaker 2: Yeah about an acre food plot in one of these spots,

1049
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 2: and there's not a lot of trees on it, and

1050
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 2: deer will kind of come in and out of it.

1051
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 2: In many different locations, it's hard to zero in on

1052
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 2: the entry or exits into this food source, but there's

1053
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 2: deer comeing to it. But by putting a scrape tree

1054
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 2: in the middle of that field, it is a magnet

1055
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 2: for deer activity. So you can take that acre worth

1056
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,919
Speaker 2: of deer travel and narrow a bunch of it down

1057
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 2: into this one spot right where you want it. Because

1058
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 2: just like bass will be attracted to a Christmas tree

1059
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,960
Speaker 2: sunk in the middle of a pond, deer will be

1060
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 2: attracted to a single tree, a single scrape location in

1061
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 2: the middle of an opening because it is it's like

1062
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 2: the water cooler. A scrape is a message board, is

1063
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 2: a communication center for deer, and if it's the only

1064
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 2: thing like that in an open area, they're just they're

1065
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:52,839
Speaker 2: going to be pulled to it like with a tractor beam.

1066
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 2: And so I will add these scrape trees to each

1067
00:56:56,200 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 2: one of my food plots in the open within shooting,

1068
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,720
Speaker 2: so that not only can I get pictures, but also

1069
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 2: you have this possible increased chance of a deer that's

1070
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 2: entering that area to come within range of you and

1071
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 2: to also stop where you want him, so that scrape

1072
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 2: not only gets him close, but he gets them stopping

1073
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 2: gets him focused on something other than you, because he's

1074
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 2: focused on that scrape, and if you do it right,

1075
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 2: he'll hopefully be facing that scrape in a direction that

1076
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:30,000
Speaker 2: gives you a good broadside or quartern away shop. So

1077
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 2: highly recommend if you have any of these openings. If

1078
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 2: it's a meadow or a crp field, or a food plot,

1079
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 2: or the inside corner of a crop field that doesn't

1080
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 2: get planted. This is something that can really be a

1081
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 2: useful add on for any stand location. And I'll tell

1082
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 2: you I've used a lot of different things to achieve this.

1083
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 2: I've tried a lot of different ways, and I've kind

1084
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 2: of come upon my favorite scrape tree method. What I

1085
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 2: found works best for me is to cut down a

1086
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 2: tree about four to six inches in diameter, so a

1087
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 2: pretty hefty sized tree. I don't want a little tree.

1088
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 2: I've used little trees in the past, they just don't

1089
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 2: seem to work as well for me. I like a

1090
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 2: big tree because a big tree can be sunk deep

1091
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 2: down into the ground, can be locked into place. I

1092
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 2: like to bury it like at least two, if not

1093
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 2: three feet deep, using postal diggers, and then I really

1094
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 2: try to pack in the dirt around it. I know

1095
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 2: some people will put gravel or cement around it. I

1096
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 2: haven't done that, but you really want it firmly in place.

1097
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 2: And what you get with that big tree is that

1098
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 2: eight number one. It's much less likely for a deer

1099
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 2: to knock that out of the ground, or bend it over,

1100
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 2: or you know, cant it in any kind of way.

1101
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 2: These little trees they've used in the past just never

1102
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 2: seem to hold up because what happens is come fall,

1103
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 2: Bucks will use this scrape tree and they will rub

1104
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 2: it and push it and do all sorts of stuff

1105
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 2: to it. And if you've got a little dinky tree,

1106
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 2: they just beat it up too much. But if I

1107
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 2: have a four to six inch diameter post essentially driven

1108
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 2: into the ground, Bucks can work that and it won't

1109
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 2: it won't destroy it. But what I will have is

1110
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,720
Speaker 2: you will see this post this tree, especially if it's

1111
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 2: a real tree. I've not tried using like a what

1112
00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 2: am I trying to stay here? A post that you

1113
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 2: can buy at the store. I've not used a post

1114
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:31,680
Speaker 2: you can buy at the hardware store. But what I

1115
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 2: do know works with a real tree is that they

1116
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 2: will rub up on that and they enjoy all the

1117
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 2: benefits of a real natural rub Right there's there's some

1118
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 2: sap in there still, they get the peeling effect, they

1119
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 2: can leave their scent on. It's very natural thing. So

1120
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 2: I've created effectively a manufactured rubbing post. And in the

1121
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 2: past I used to try to cut down a tree

1122
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 2: and use the actual branches attached to that tree. But

1123
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 2: I've gotten away from that. I've started actually buying or

1124
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 2: doing this yourself. I've done it myself and I've bought

1125
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 2: the tool for it, but effectively creating a licking branch

1126
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 2: holder and attaching that to the post. And the thing

1127
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 2: I found that I like the most is a tool

1128
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 2: called the scrape stick, I think, and it is a

1129
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 2: tool that you can either strap or drill into your

1130
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:25,880
Speaker 2: post and it has then a adjustable limb holder. So

1131
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 2: imagine like a fishing pole holder where you can just

1132
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 2: stick the butt into your fishing pole into this tube. Well,

1133
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 2: this tube is instead of a fishing pole. It's there

1134
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 2: to hold your licking branch and then it has an

1135
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 2: adjustment on it so you can adjust the angle of

1136
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 2: tilt for that fishing pole holder. So what you can

1137
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 2: do is go find an ideal licking branch for me.

1138
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 2: I want something that's very leafy, very bushy. I like

1139
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 2: oak trees a lot, and then I've also had success

1140
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 2: with like cedar limbs, conifers, that kind of stuff, but

1141
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 2: I would say oaks are usually my number one. So

1142
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,439
Speaker 2: let's say I've got my post buried two to three

1143
01:01:04,440 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 2: feet deep in the middle of the food plot, within

1144
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:10,840
Speaker 2: shooting range of my stand. I then attached the scrape stickholder,

1145
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 2: the the you know, fishing pole holder type thing, and

1146
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 2: I angle that I get that to a height about

1147
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 2: maybe just below chest height, I guess, give or take.

1148
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,720
Speaker 2: And then I'm going to, based on the limb that

1149
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 2: licking branch, adjust the angle so that that licking branch

1150
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 2: is about deer head height. And I have found that

1151
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 2: you do not want it too high. I sometimes have

1152
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 2: accidentally made my licking branch a little bit too high,

1153
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,800
Speaker 2: like more like my eye level. And you got to remember,

1154
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 2: deer is shorter than you realize, Like in real life,

1155
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 2: most deer are not that tall. Yeah, big mature buck

1156
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:53,280
Speaker 2: might be. But you want the doze and young deer

1157
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,360
Speaker 2: to be able to rub their faces and their noses

1158
01:01:55,360 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 2: and their glands in that leafy licking branch too. And

1159
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 2: if those doughs can't reach it, they can't leave as

1160
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 2: much scent. There's less of an attraction for the bucks.

1161
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 2: So do your licking branch a little bit lower than

1162
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:09,560
Speaker 2: at least I have to tell myself to do my

1163
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,800
Speaker 2: licking branch a little bit lower than I think is right,

1164
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 2: because too many times I've just seen these doughs come

1165
01:02:16,360 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 2: up to the camera and the licking branch and they're

1166
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:22,640
Speaker 2: you know, not being able to reach it. So that's

1167
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 2: something that I'm doing in a handful of different locations,

1168
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:29,919
Speaker 2: is creating this like ideal scrape, big post, big oak

1169
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 2: tree limb, perfect height. I kick out a really big,

1170
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,520
Speaker 2: very obvious scrape in the ground. You know, I've done

1171
01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 2: different scent things in the past to try to kickstart

1172
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 2: a mock scrape like that. I've peed in it myself

1173
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 2: and that seems to work fine. I'm trying something this

1174
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 2: year called DH three from a friend who's got a

1175
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 2: new company. It's got a licking branch scent and a

1176
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 2: synthetic urine TBD and all that kind of stuff. But

1177
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:02,919
Speaker 2: that's something I'm trying some different places. But whatever you need,

1178
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,880
Speaker 2: open up a scrape, have a licking branch. If it's

1179
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 2: in a obvious location where it stands out, deer going

1180
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,200
Speaker 2: to use it. And then I always like to have

1181
01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 2: one of my cameras facing these spots because they become

1182
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:17,800
Speaker 2: a great place to get an idea of what's visiting

1183
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 2: these open areas. So scrape trees big project of mine

1184
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 2: this time of year, and again I try to get

1185
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 2: these in by the end of August, and I like

1186
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 2: to not do them too early. This is a key thing,

1187
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 2: is that your scrape trees, especially if you are putting

1188
01:03:33,120 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 2: on a limb, I don't want to have to change

1189
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 2: that limb a bunch. I don't want to go in

1190
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 2: there in the middle of the hunting season and walk

1191
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 2: around these places. So most of the time I will

1192
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 2: put a limb, a licking branch limb on these fake

1193
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 2: scrapes at the very end of August. It's the last

1194
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 2: thing I do, and then they still hold their leaves

1195
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:55,720
Speaker 2: and are good into October and maybe November. Especially if

1196
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 2: you use oaks, like a big leafy oak seems to

1197
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 2: hold onto those leaves very well. For some reason, I've

1198
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 2: found that that kind of licking branch would be a

1199
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 2: little bit more attractive. So let's see here, We've talked

1200
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:11,840
Speaker 2: about checking and improving our old sets. We've talked about

1201
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:16,640
Speaker 2: access routes, glassing, summer photos, habitat work, shooting your bow,

1202
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 2: prepping new locations. You know, I guess I will say

1203
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 2: that one thing I will do on these committed properties,

1204
01:04:24,880 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 2: so kind of differentiating here the new properties like my

1205
01:04:29,080 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 2: wide net bunch of new spots, I'm not prepping trees.

1206
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 2: I'm just having trees marked for my mobile running gun possibilities.

1207
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 2: But on properties that I'm for suregun hunt that I

1208
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 2: have hunted in the past and I definitely will here

1209
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 2: again in the future, I will still prep trees for saddles, right, So,

1210
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:49,880
Speaker 2: even though I don't put as mainy tree stands up

1211
01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 2: as I used to, I still like to have new

1212
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 2: trees prepped for saddles, especially in locations that I've found

1213
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 2: to be historically good. So like I've run, I've done

1214
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:01,760
Speaker 2: a bunch of run and gun hunting, hunting new places,

1215
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 2: trying new spots, and over the years I found like, man,

1216
01:05:04,840 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 2: this is the place that I keep coming back to

1217
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 2: a year after year, or this is a spot like

1218
01:05:08,320 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 2: just needs to have a prepped location. So something I'm

1219
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 2: doing over the coming weeks is going to those locations

1220
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 2: and trimming around the tree to make sure I can

1221
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:20,440
Speaker 2: easily maneuver at the base. So I talked about this earlier,

1222
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 2: but it's an important thing, making sure there's room around

1223
01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 2: the base of the tree to set down your backpack

1224
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 2: or your bow to get your sticks on the tree,

1225
01:05:28,440 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 2: to do all that kind of stuff. Make sure that

1226
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 2: the tree is prepped up so you can put your

1227
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:37,640
Speaker 2: sticks up, or maybe even install permanent tree steps or

1228
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,800
Speaker 2: you know, a set of ladder steps, whatever it is.

1229
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:43,919
Speaker 2: If this is one of those locations that you find

1230
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 2: yourself coming back to over and over, maybe it makes

1231
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 2: sense to put a permanent way to get up into it.

1232
01:05:50,040 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 2: And then finally I will go up in the tree

1233
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 2: with my saddle and identify shooting lanes that I want

1234
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:58,880
Speaker 2: to clear. It's nice to have, even with a saddle.

1235
01:05:58,920 --> 01:06:01,640
Speaker 2: It's nice to have pre set trees that you can

1236
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 2: just slip to climb right up and know like you're

1237
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,320
Speaker 2: gonna have great shooting lanes, you're gonna have the cover

1238
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 2: you need, and you can be as efficient and quiet

1239
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 2: as possible. Yes, this is extra work, but it's still

1240
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 2: not nearly as bad as doing twenty different tree stands.

1241
01:06:17,640 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 2: This way, you can just have you know, ten fifteen

1242
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 2: trees prepped and ready, and then you bounce around with

1243
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:25,960
Speaker 2: your saddle whenever you want to hit one of those spots.

1244
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 2: So that is what I'm doing with my tree prep.

1245
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 2: Last thing cameras. We talked about summer cameras in summer

1246
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,040
Speaker 2: intel and how you have to take it all with

1247
01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:42,320
Speaker 2: a grain of salt. What I didn't mention is that

1248
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 2: my summer camera locations are different usually from my fall

1249
01:06:47,840 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 2: my fall camera location. So a summer camera location is

1250
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 2: going to be very It's gonna be very related to

1251
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 2: summer food because deer are specially slaves to the stomach

1252
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 2: in the summer, and they're feeding on things like at

1253
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:03,080
Speaker 2: least an agg country that I hunt, they're feeding on

1254
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 2: soybeans or alfalfa. But come September or October, that's going

1255
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 2: to start to shift. So I like to make my

1256
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 2: camera adjustments at the end of August, very beginning of

1257
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 2: September and move those cameras to the spots I want

1258
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:20,440
Speaker 2: them to be in leading in the hunting season. So

1259
01:07:20,560 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 2: this is going to be, you know, on the edges

1260
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 2: of betting and staging where I think like they'll be

1261
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:29,120
Speaker 2: heading to fall food sources. So a staging area in

1262
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 2: between a betting area and a cornfield. The action might

1263
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 2: not be there right now alongside of cornfield because they're

1264
01:07:35,280 --> 01:07:38,480
Speaker 2: just not feeding in there as much right now, But

1265
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 2: come October, come November, they absolutely will. So I'm going

1266
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 2: to move my cameras to those kinds of spots now.

1267
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 2: I'm going to, like, if there's a spot deep in

1268
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 2: the timber in some backwoods funnel location that historically is

1269
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,200
Speaker 2: really good in the rut, I don't want to go

1270
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:55,600
Speaker 2: hang on camera in October. I want to hang that

1271
01:07:55,640 --> 01:07:58,360
Speaker 2: camera now, even though it won't be good for another

1272
01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:00,960
Speaker 2: month and a half. So important thing here is that

1273
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 2: when you're putting up your cameras at the end of

1274
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 2: August or early September, make sure you've got a power solution,

1275
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:10,000
Speaker 2: either with a solar panel or really good lithium batteries

1276
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:12,480
Speaker 2: or whatever it is. Make sure that you know that

1277
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 2: you can put your cameras up now and not need

1278
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:17,840
Speaker 2: to worry about them, you know, just before hunting season

1279
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 2: or in the middle of hunting season, especially if it's

1280
01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 2: in a hard to get to place. So that's the

1281
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 2: final thing. I'm just moving all my cameras to their

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01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 2: final spots before the hunting season, you know, and ideally

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01:08:29,160 --> 01:08:31,639
Speaker 2: in locations that will give me good early season intel.

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01:08:31,960 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 2: And really I can keep a lot of these cameras

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01:08:34,080 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 2: up all season these days, so putting them in those

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01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:38,800
Speaker 2: spots that will get me the information that I know

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01:08:38,840 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need in October, in November, or whatever. It

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01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 2: might be. A final note, I suppose on these fall

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01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:51,680
Speaker 2: camera locations, almost always I will make sure that there

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Speaker 2: is a mock scrape or a real scrape in front

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Speaker 2: of that camera. So by that, I mean, let's go

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Speaker 2: back to that stage in location. Let's say I know

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01:09:01,479 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 2: I want a camera in a staging area between a

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01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 2: bedding area and the cornfield, because that's gonna be good

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Speaker 2: come October. Okay, So if I'm going, then I'm walking

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Speaker 2: through the staging area, which is like mixed cover in

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01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:14,559
Speaker 2: between the bedding and the food. As I walk through

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01:09:14,560 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 2: that mixed cover, sure, I'm going to look for trails. Sure,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to look for convergences of travel or pinch

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01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 2: points of travel in between there. But I will also

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01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:26,320
Speaker 2: be looking like, is there a historical straight scrape. Is

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01:09:26,360 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 2: there a big old scrape that's been used year after

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01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 2: year after year that's going to be like the spot

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01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 2: within the spot for the camera. And if not, if

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01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,280
Speaker 2: maybe I just have like three trails that all come

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01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:39,040
Speaker 2: together at a crete crossing in this staging area, that's

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01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 2: pretty good. I'm going to add a licking branch in

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01:09:41,840 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 2: front of it to have that little extra attraction or

1309
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 2: that little extra thing to stop a deer right or

1310
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 2: I want it for the picture, and I'm going to

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01:09:50,040 --> 01:09:52,800
Speaker 2: have that on. I mean, I have a hard time

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01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 2: thinking of any place I wouldn't have that. I will

1313
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,919
Speaker 2: always have a mox scrape. If there's not a scrape,

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01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:00,759
Speaker 2: I'm going to make sure that there's the licking branch.

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01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 2: Either I bend down into the zone or or make

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01:10:03,400 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 2: sure I pick my camera angle to have some kind

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01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 2: of liking branch in the frame, and I will kick

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01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 2: out a scuffed up area in front of it, make

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01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 2: sure that looking branch is present, Put some scent, you know,

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01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 2: take a take a leak in at whatever I got

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01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:18,000
Speaker 2: to do to make sure that I have a chance

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01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 2: of a scrape, you know, starting to get used there

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01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:24,679
Speaker 2: in front of the camera. I almost always always always

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01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:28,519
Speaker 2: sweeten the deal with that mock scrape. And that's what

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01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 2: I'm doing. That is the final piece of the puzzle.

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Speaker 2: Like I said, I try to do that at the

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01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:35,719
Speaker 2: end of the summer because I want to make sure

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01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 2: that I'm taking advantage of the shift which happens in

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01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 2: the beginning of September. And this is this is another

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01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 2: good point. You can do things in August that in

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01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 2: September might really mess stuff up. But if you do

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01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,519
Speaker 2: it in August, not only is it a long ways

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01:10:51,520 --> 01:10:54,160
Speaker 2: away from opening day at least if you are hunting

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01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 2: somewhere like I am, where opening day is until October,

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01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:59,519
Speaker 2: but there's that rain shift. Remember I always look at

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01:10:59,560 --> 01:11:02,879
Speaker 2: like September Uber seven is when those bucks are usually

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01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 2: shifting by. And so if I do a big project

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01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 2: at the end of August, I might be mucking up

1339
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:10,639
Speaker 2: this spot and putting a camera on the staging area,

1340
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:12,920
Speaker 2: and the bucks that I'll be hunting in a month

1341
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,680
Speaker 2: might not even be here yet. They might be a

1342
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 2: mile down the road. But if I were doing this

1343
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:21,000
Speaker 2: project on September fifteenth, well, every buck who's going to

1344
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:23,160
Speaker 2: be here for the hunting season, he's here now, and

1345
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 2: he's smelling this, and he's hearing this or seeing this.

1346
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 2: So I like to get it done well ahead of that.

1347
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:32,439
Speaker 2: Give these dear time to calm down, give these dear

1348
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 2: time for the new ones to move into the area,

1349
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:37,799
Speaker 2: and make sure that I am ready both with cameras

1350
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 2: and fall locations. Trees prepped, saddle locations pinned, a plan

1351
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:49,120
Speaker 2: in place, access trails cut, and getting as much laid

1352
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 2: out as possible, even though you know that there will

1353
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:56,040
Speaker 2: be new ideas to try out come fall, even though

1354
01:11:56,040 --> 01:11:59,200
Speaker 2: you know things won't go quite as you planned. If

1355
01:11:59,240 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 2: you have a well prepared playing field, it gives you

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01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 2: an opportunity to start from a position of power. I

1357
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:10,360
Speaker 2: think would be one way to think about this, like,

1358
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:14,679
Speaker 2: if you show up unprepared at all, you're just kind

1359
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:16,719
Speaker 2: of throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks.

1360
01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:20,679
Speaker 2: But if you show up with a well prepared plan,

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01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:25,400
Speaker 2: you at least can start well. You got to adjust,

1362
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 2: you need to pivot sometimes you need to learn in

1363
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 2: the fly. But start well prepared in your hunting season

1364
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:35,200
Speaker 2: will go much much more smoothly. It will be much

1365
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 2: more enjoyable, and you'll have pretty darn good odds to

1366
01:12:39,120 --> 01:12:44,280
Speaker 2: wrap attack on something. That is what I am doing

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01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:49,120
Speaker 2: over these coming weeks. That's my top ten preseason tasks.

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01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:51,600
Speaker 2: Those are the projects I'm focusing on. These are the

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01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:54,760
Speaker 2: types of projects I would suggest you consider if you

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01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 2: were not already. I would love to answer any questions

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01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 2: you guys have about these, so please head on over

1372
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 2: to Probably the Wired to Hunt Instagram would be the

1373
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:05,920
Speaker 2: best place for you to message me or leave a

1374
01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 2: comment or We also have video versions of this podcast,

1375
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:13,360
Speaker 2: so if you go to the Meat Eater podcast Network

1376
01:13:13,479 --> 01:13:18,720
Speaker 2: YouTube channel, comment on this YouTube video for the podcast

1377
01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:21,759
Speaker 2: with your questions and I would happily answer your questions

1378
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 2: there too. But I hope this is helpful. I thought

1379
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:27,599
Speaker 2: this would be a good exercise for me to walk

1380
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:29,720
Speaker 2: through these things to make sure I'm staying up on them,

1381
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 2: to make sure that I'm incentivized to stick with my plan,

1382
01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 2: to keep on checking things off my list, to talk

1383
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 2: through all these things and make sure I'm not forgetting

1384
01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 2: something to which I don't think I am. The writing

1385
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:44,080
Speaker 2: things down thing does help, so I'm feeling good about this.

1386
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 2: I'm chipping things off the list, checking things off the list,

1387
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 2: chipping away at them and makings of progress, and I'm

1388
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 2: very excited. It's an amazing time of year. It's just

1389
01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 2: a lot of hope, a lot of anticipation, and before

1390
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:02,719
Speaker 2: you know it, hunting. So make sure you are working

1391
01:14:02,800 --> 01:14:05,599
Speaker 2: on a list of your own. Make sure you check

1392
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:08,879
Speaker 2: out those other podcasts I mentioned at the top, Episode

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01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:11,519
Speaker 2: number two ninety nine with Adam Hayes. Is all about

1394
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 2: finding the best bucks in your neighborhood, seeking them out,

1395
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 2: getting access, and putting together a plan. I think that's

1396
01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 2: really relevant to what we're talking about here. And then

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01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 2: check out episode four forty nine Mastering September. That's going

1398
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:26,599
Speaker 2: to be all about tactics to use during this first

1399
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:29,000
Speaker 2: month of the hunting season if you start in September,

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01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 2: and I think there's some good things to get brushed

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01:14:31,479 --> 01:14:35,120
Speaker 2: up on. So well, that all said, I appreciate you

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01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 2: tuning in, thank you for being here, best of luck

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01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 2: with your final summer projects, and until next week, stay

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01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 2: Wired to Hunt.