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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wire to Hunt podcast, your home for

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Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Mark Kenyan, and this is episode number three

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Speaker 1: and today on the show we are covering the ten

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Speaker 1: steps to your best deer hunting season ever and discussing

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Speaker 1: our first white tail hunt of the season. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the Wired Hunt podcast, brought to you by

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Speaker 1: on X to Dan. The show it is myself and

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Speaker 1: Josh further Hilliard. Josh, how you doing. You don't like

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Speaker 1: it when I call you further Well, I mean you

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Speaker 1: did this little shake of the head. I'll take it.

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Speaker 1: It's all funny games. I don't have a choice anymore.

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Speaker 1: I don't think to change it now. So no, man,

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Speaker 1: it's locked in stone. Um So here's what we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do today. Um we I thought that with hunting seasons

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Speaker 1: opening up across the country, right our season started today.

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Speaker 1: You and I out. We're out here in Idaho on

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Speaker 1: our public land whitetail hunt. We just had our very

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Speaker 1: first hunt of the year tonight. Um, our seasons are

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Speaker 1: kicking off. People are kicking off in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: all over the place, and then a bunch of seasons

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Speaker 1: opening up for the next couple of weeks. I thought

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Speaker 1: we'd kind of do my beginning of the season Pep

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Speaker 1: Talk episode. Every few years, I try to do this,

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Speaker 1: just kind of laying out some key things to think about.

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Speaker 1: And I thought, rather than it be just me lecturing folks, UM,

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Speaker 1: why don't the two of us talk through a handful

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Speaker 1: of things. UM, I'll kind of lay out some of

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Speaker 1: these idea is basically what I've done is is compile

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Speaker 1: a list of ten different I don't know if it's steps,

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Speaker 1: it's more so ten different reminders of important things to

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Speaker 1: keep in mind throughout the hunting season that's going to

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Speaker 1: help you. Some of these are there are contactical things,

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Speaker 1: Some of these are more mindset things. Um in some

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Speaker 1: our beginner some are a little bit more advanced. But

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Speaker 1: I think regardless of if you're a new hunter or

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Speaker 1: if you are a very experienced hunter, there's something in

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Speaker 1: here that will be helpful to you to keep in

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Speaker 1: mind over the course of the next four months. Right

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Speaker 1: because you can never stop learning, you can never have

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Speaker 1: this stuff figured out enough so you know, if this

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Speaker 1: all sounds like something you've heard before, as we're discussing it,

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Speaker 1: think about, Okay, how do I actually execute some of

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Speaker 1: these things this coming season? Or can I pick one

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Speaker 1: of these things to try to really focus on and

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Speaker 1: get better at this thing? Um, that's how you grow

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Speaker 1: is by kind of taking purposeful, meaningful focused practice or

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Speaker 1: attention to detail specific things. And I think that's what

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Speaker 1: we can do here. So some ideas will walk through

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Speaker 1: these ten things, and then after that, we gotta tell

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Speaker 1: everybody about our hunt to night because we had a

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Speaker 1: hell of a hunt. We had a good one tonight.

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Speaker 1: I still can't really wrap my head around what happened

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Speaker 1: to you tonight. Further further had a hell of a hunt, guys,

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Speaker 1: a really fun night. Um, so we're gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: about that after we run through our ten steps or

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Speaker 1: keep this one kind of quick because I know folks

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Speaker 1: want to get out in the woods. The seasons are opening,

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Speaker 1: so let's not spend too much time sitting in the

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Speaker 1: out there and do it. So, uh, here's what I'm thinking, Josh,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring up each one of these different topics.

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Speaker 1: I'll kind of lay out some of my thoughts or

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Speaker 1: or if you've got questions, or if you've got something

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Speaker 1: and do that. Sounds good, um, And we'll just kind

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Speaker 1: story time. So here we go. Ten steps to your

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Speaker 1: best deer hunting season ever. Like, one of the first

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Speaker 1: this up a lot, but Mark D'Antonio, the former coach

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Speaker 1: the same thing applies to white tail hunting. It's the

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Speaker 1: way through your day. It's it's it's not glossing over things.

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Speaker 1: And it's so easy to do. And I am guilty

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Speaker 1: able to you know, move around. All these different things

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Speaker 1: Keep those dear guessing they are not going to know

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Speaker 1: And that's gonna put you in a better pocisition. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And just like you know, I I hunted. I got

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Speaker 1: it is. And that tastes some time to figure out,

431
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 1: you know, if if you're brand new, don't feel bad

432
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 1: if you don't know some of these things yet, but

433
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 1: try to pick up or listen when you hear other

434
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: conversations when people are talking about these different times of year,

435
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 1: these different circumstances, that that that that influence them to

436
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,880
Speaker 1: do certain things. Know that very little that's by accident.

437
00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:03,600
Speaker 1: Most the serious and consistently successful deer hunter does not

438
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:07,120
Speaker 1: do things willie nilly. They don't do things by accident.

439
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:11,120
Speaker 1: The people that are consistently successful do it because they

440
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,120
Speaker 1: have a very clear plan and they do things for

441
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,400
Speaker 1: a reason. Nothing's by accident, Which brings us to another

442
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: high lovel concept which has helped me learn a lot

443
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,439
Speaker 1: as I go through my deer hunting journey, and that

444
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 1: is this this um idea of always asking why so

445
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 1: when something happens. And I've I've shared this anecdote many

446
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: times in the past, I'll share it again. But I

447
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,880
Speaker 1: was hunting with with the late Craig Doherty and we're

448
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: sitting in one of his blinds in New York and

449
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 1: he was a very experienced great deer hunter and I

450
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,440
Speaker 1: was just a kid, I don't know, twenty one or

451
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:51,560
Speaker 1: twenty two. And we're sitting there and we were hunting

452
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,199
Speaker 1: what looked like a great place to me, but we

453
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: weren't seeing any deer. And as the night wrapped up. Um,

454
00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: I said, well, I guess you know, I just got unlucky. Um,

455
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,280
Speaker 1: just how it goes sometimes. And Craig's like, no, no,

456
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 1: something was going on tonight. There's always a reason why.

457
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 1: I always ask why. And then he started like putting

458
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: up potential things. Maybe it was this. Maybe when we

459
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: access to this blind, we didn't think about the fact

460
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,040
Speaker 1: that the wind was blowing into that whole cutover timber

461
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: area and that might have been where they are all

462
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 1: better tonight. So what I try to do and what

463
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna try to start doing this hunting season

464
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 1: is every day after I hunt, come back and ask why,

465
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: Like examine what happened tonight, what I see, what they

466
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 1: not see? Why did these things happen? And if you

467
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,199
Speaker 1: can do that in many different ways, you can do

468
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:47,240
Speaker 1: that like I just described after hunt, or you could

469
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 1: do that when you're you see a buck go skirt

470
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: in the edge of field, or you watch a mature

471
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: buck go do something, always try to think about why

472
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 1: that buck's doing that, because again, mature bucks, just like

473
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: consistent dear hunters, they don't do things I accident. Typically

474
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 1: they're doing something for a reason, and if you can

475
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: get better and better and better at discerning that reason,

476
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,200
Speaker 1: you become a much better hunter. So always ask why,

477
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: because that is the key I think to learning and growing. Yeah,

478
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 1: that's definitely something I need to get better at asking

479
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 1: myself why. I think that's a great idea to keep

480
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 1: track of. You know, your observations, what you're seeing, and

481
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 1: then why why? Why is that what you're seeing? Yeah?

482
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,480
Speaker 1: And then and so part of it is a thought

483
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: exercise for you, Right is it you the individual? You're

484
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: asking yourself why, and then you're making guesses. Right, You're

485
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 1: trying to think they're Okay, these are the things I know,

486
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,280
Speaker 1: these are things I think. I know. It might be this,

487
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,560
Speaker 1: it might be this, it might be this. And simply

488
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 1: going through that exercise is going to be good for you.

489
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: But also don't be afraid to ask other people that

490
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 1: are experienced get other perspectives too, because that's really gonna

491
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: help you so and you may be able to start

492
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: connecting dots to you if you're looking at Okay, you

493
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,439
Speaker 1: know November one, I saw him November eight, so you

494
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: know what, what were there any similarities from those days

495
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: and maybe that's the reason why he was doing that. Um,

496
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: I think that definitely definitely helps something I want to

497
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: start doing more of. And and this is where just

498
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,320
Speaker 1: having a good network of hunting buddies of some kind,

499
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: whether that be folks you grew up with or someone

500
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: you're involved in a conservation organization. If you don't have

501
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: a group of hunting buddies, get involved with something like

502
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: q D, m A or b H. It's a great

503
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,600
Speaker 1: way to get some friends that can help you out

504
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:27,919
Speaker 1: with these things. And one of my you know, one

505
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: of the favorite things during the hunting season I enjoy

506
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: is this, you know, reaching out to your buddies after

507
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,600
Speaker 1: something happens, Hey, this happened, What do you think? Why?

508
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:38,600
Speaker 1: Why do you think this happened? And getting all these

509
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 1: different ideas. UM, that's fun and it's also really helpful. UM,

510
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: So don't be afraid to do that. Don't be afraid

511
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:47,640
Speaker 1: to ask why. You don't need to know it all.

512
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: You don't need to feel bad if you're don't have

513
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: if you don't have an answer. UM, Admitting you don't

514
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 1: have the answer is probably the first step. And then

515
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,120
Speaker 1: trying to figure something out or a lot of times

516
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 1: you probable won't have an answer, but the process can

517
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: help you get there somewhere, moving on to something a

518
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: little more tactical. And this is this is just a

519
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: key consistent trade again of all the people that are

520
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: really really good at this thing that we talked about

521
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: on the warrecome podcasts all the time. Deer hunting, scouting,

522
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: scouting more, they scout more than they hunt. Scout scout

523
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: scout scout scout, learn, look for details, pay attention tracks,

524
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: pay attention to fresh sign, pay attention to old sign.

525
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: Go back and and study these different things. See how

526
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: sign changes year after years. See how sign changes in

527
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: regards to crop rotations. See how um see if you

528
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,640
Speaker 1: can pin specific kinds of sign to specific deer year

529
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: after study trail camera pictures, study observations from the past,

530
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: take note of these things you're seeing. Don't just walk

531
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: around the woods and look at stuff, but go back

532
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: and write in your journal or right on your phone

533
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,280
Speaker 1: in the notes that you saw this. He y're in

534
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,600
Speaker 1: here and here, or go on your maps on ONYX

535
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: or wherever and mark all these things up so you

536
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,440
Speaker 1: can start to put the picture together. Um. It's such

537
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 1: a simple thing. But it's easy to want to just

538
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,199
Speaker 1: go out there and hunt because that's you know, what

539
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: a lot of us think of his hunting. But I

540
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 1: can't think of anyone who's really good at this who

541
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: doesn't point to the fact that they enjoy scouting a lot,

542
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: but do it more than more than the average person,

543
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:37,439
Speaker 1: for sure. So so just don't discount that this. It

544
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: can be in season, it can be off season, it

545
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: could be boots in the ground, it could be studying

546
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: maps or studying trail camera pictures. Um. But it goes

547
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: back to a lot of what we're talking about here.

548
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:54,239
Speaker 1: We have this whole puzzle that we're trying to figure out.

549
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: When we're trying to hunt dear, you're trying to learn

550
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: what dear do, why they do it, and then you're

551
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: trying to predict what they're gonna do next, because that's

552
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: the only way you can kill a deer is by

553
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: predicting what these deer are gonna do. The only way

554
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:10,719
Speaker 1: we can do that is by actually getting puzzle pieces

555
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: to build out the damn picture on the table, and

556
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: the only way you get those puzzle pieces in place

557
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: is by scouting. There's lots of different ways to do that,

558
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,479
Speaker 1: but you need those puzzle pieces. It's very hard to

559
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: recreate the picture on the box if you've only got

560
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: four puzzle pieces of a thousand, So get out there,

561
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: find them, do the extra work to do that. UM

562
00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: an educated, well planned out hunt, just one like that

563
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 1: we're scouting has has led you to have a well informed,

564
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: educated guests behind everything you're doing. One of those is

565
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: worth ten willy nearly uninformed hunts, or or fifty it's

566
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: it's it's again something that over the last however many years,

567
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: have been doing is eight nine years talking to the

568
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: best deer hunters across the country. That is very, very

569
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: very consistent. Next, let's talk mindset again, positive mindset, but

570
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: negative preparations. So here's what I'm talking about here, and

571
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: this goes back to what you talked about a little earlier.

572
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: I do think that there's something to be said about

573
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: having a positive mindset, believing in yourself, having confidence in

574
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: the fact that I'm going to make this thing work,

575
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: and also being positive about the fact that, yes, bad

576
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 1: things are gonna happen, and you know, I'm not gonna

577
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 1: let that weigh me down and ruin my hunt and

578
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: ruin my day and ruin my year. So what you

579
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: what you can do is often, at least the way

580
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: I look at Maybe it's different for different people, but

581
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: it comes down to a decision. You can choose to

582
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: be a negative Nancy, or you can choose to say,

583
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to find some way to

584
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: find silver linings. And a lot of these things are connected.

585
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: I'm going to control what I can and I'm gonna

586
00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: let go of what I can't. Um And what you

587
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,000
Speaker 1: can do when you have that is that you become

588
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: much more accepting. I don't know if it's accepting, but um,

589
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: We've got a friend who believes that if you've got

590
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: a positive minds that it creates like an energy feel

591
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: that draws things to you. I'm not there yet. I

592
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: don't know. If I don't, I don't, I don't. I

593
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: can't get behind that. But I do think that if

594
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:26,240
Speaker 1: you have a positive, confident um, optimistic belief in yourself

595
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: and view of the world, that you become much more

596
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of good things when they come about.

597
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: Those opportunities. You know, someone might call lucky, but I

598
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: think you know what do they say? Luck is where

599
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: preparation meets opportunity. It's you've You've put in the work,

600
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: You've you've got the right mindset to take advantage of

601
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: these things when they come along. If you are sitting

602
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: there sulking about all your bad luck, all the things

603
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: that went wrong, how tough your rut hunts bit, you

604
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: haven't seen any to hear it's been so yeah, exactly,

605
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: and all those all those things lead to you know,

606
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: self fulfilling prophecies. So that is the positive mindset side

607
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: of things. But I was recently listening to someone talk

608
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: about the positive benefits of negative thinking, which was kind

609
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: of counterintuitive. Counterintuitive to me, but it makes sense and

610
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: and her her horror role idea here was that the

611
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: whole positive mindset things important, but it is also beneficial

612
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: to think through and have a plan for negative possibilities.

613
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: So believe in yourself, believe and and be positive about

614
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: how you're gonna spin these things as a positive, but

615
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: also know that, hey, they're likely will be potential challenges.

616
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: So why don't I spend a little bit time thinking

617
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: about what will these or what could these excuse me?

618
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: What could these challenges be? And how can I plan

619
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: ahead of time to to do something about it. So

620
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: heading into your hunting season, get your mind right, plan

621
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: on being positive, but then think about, Okay, hey, there's

622
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: some things that probably will go wrong, and maybe I

623
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: can do a little thinking ahead of time to be

624
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: ready to deal with some of that stuff. So, for example,

625
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: we're on our public plan hunt right now. I want

626
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,239
Speaker 1: to be positive and optimistic about how things are gonna go,

627
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: but likely some things will go wrong. Here's something that

628
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: could go wrong. I bet you there's gonna be other

629
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: hunters out there. They're gonna muck things up. So before

630
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 1: this hunt, I thought to myself, Okay, probably is gonna happen.

631
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: There's gonna be other people. So right off the bat,

632
00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,479
Speaker 1: I need to really try hard not to get all

633
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: pissy and money and upset about that when it happens,

634
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: be okay, this is what it is. That's okay. How

635
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: do we adjust? Okay, so there's one thing I'm thinking about.

636
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna be much better at that. And

637
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: it happened tonight, right, and we can be pissing money

638
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: or because Okay, that happened. It is what it is.

639
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: How do you adjust? What else we could we do?

640
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: We're worried about other hunters, Well, have backup plans. So

641
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: this year I made sure we had three very different, diverse,

642
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: different types of areas where you're not dead set stuck

643
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: on any one place. We have options. So if we

644
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: came in here and there's a lot of other hunters,

645
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: we plan to have their options. So that's just one

646
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 1: example of of of how you can do this. The

647
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: same thing could be said for your upcoming hunting season.

648
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: Like here's another example. I am so focused on trying

649
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: to kill Tran right, that's my number one target buck

650
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: in Michigan, my third year hunting him. Um, you know,

651
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: I spend a lot of mental bandwidth thinking about how

652
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: I'm going to find this deer, and you know, I'm

653
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: all wrapped up in this mission or whatever you wanna

654
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: call it, but I also need to be realistic about

655
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: the possible negative possibilities. I'm not wishing this, I'm not

656
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: I'm not giving into this fate. I am just being

657
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: realistic about the possibility. Hey, a neighbor could kill him,

658
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: someone else could kill him, he could get hit by

659
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: a truck, And all these plans, all this work I've

660
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: done specifically to try to kill this one deer, I

661
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: can all go out the window. So I'm going to

662
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 1: and I already have. I've had like a little mental

663
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: conversation with myself saying, hey, this is a possibility. How

664
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:56,320
Speaker 1: are you gonna handle that? What are you gonna do

665
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: when that happens? You're gonna sulk theman and give up

666
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 1: on the season, or you go into you know, regroup

667
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: and go find something else, somewhere else and find another

668
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: fun thing to do for this season. So I've kind

669
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: of already tried to mentally prepare myself for that so

670
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: that when it happens, if it happens, I'm not going

671
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: to be devastated and kicking and screaming on the floor.

672
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, you know, take the punch and move on.

673
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: So that's all you can do to have that positive mindset,

674
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: but prepare for negative possibilities. I think that's something that

675
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: in so many parts of the deer hunting experience, can

676
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: help you. What else do you want to talk about, Josh?

677
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 1: How about here's a high level one that again this

678
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: isn't rocket science, this is nothing new to anyone, but

679
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 1: it's something that I think you just had to get

680
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: knocked on the head with over and over and over

681
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: and over with it, which is, don't get lazy with

682
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: your access in your exit. Don't cut your corners when

683
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: it comes to getting into your tree stands or out

684
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: of your tree stands without spooking deer, because if you're

685
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: educating your deer, this goes right back to the very

686
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 1: first thing we talked about. The first said is the best.

687
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: You don't get a first set if you let them

688
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: know you're coming in on the way you're there, and

689
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: you don't get to enjoy future first sets if every

690
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: deer in your property knows that you're leaving at the

691
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:11,919
Speaker 1: end of the night and walking through a cut corn

692
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: field and you're spooking fifty deer every single night. You

693
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: gotta have a plan in place for how to deal

694
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: with access and exit. So today, when we hiked in,

695
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: we had we had to deal with slightly less than

696
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: optimal wins. We had a plan for how we're going

697
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 1: to access this as best as possible, thinking about when

698
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: thinking about send control. And then when we had to

699
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: exit tonight, you and me were talking through, Okay, how

700
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: do we get out of here? What spooking these deer

701
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: that got to these fields? You wait a while, I'm

702
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: gonna sneak out this back way a little bit um.

703
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,360
Speaker 1: You just don't want to bust these deer. And again,

704
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 1: I'm not claiming this to be rocket science. This is

705
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: just a hey, this is your once this week reminder.

706
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: You gotta take it serious. Yep. Well, especially like just

707
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: to go into a little bit about tonight, I mean,

708
00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: first hit really good. Sit made some great observations that

709
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: we can use to our advantage tomorrow, which could potentially

710
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:08,840
Speaker 1: be another quote unquote first hit in a little different spot,

711
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,400
Speaker 1: mix it up a little bit, um, move and adjust

712
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: our setups to what the deer are doing. Similar win directions.

713
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: So we you know, I had a deer all over me,

714
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: so I just had to wait to get out of there. Um,

715
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: try to get out there as quiet as we can

716
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: so we don't muck it all up for tomorrow. Well yeah,

717
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: and that's the thing is that you have. We had

718
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: this great first set, We had this great observation with

719
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 1: great new intelligence, this new scouting intel that we can

720
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: use to hopefully put a kill, make it happen tomorrow.

721
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: But if we got lazy with our exit, we could

722
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: throw all that out the door, because we might educate

723
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,839
Speaker 1: all those deer and then tomorrow they're gonna do something

724
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: totally different. So it's one of those things that can

725
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,919
Speaker 1: just have this really disproportionate effect. It can really change things.

726
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: It can take all your hard work and and just

727
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: stomp on it like grapes. So oh so, don't let

728
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: that be the crux that ruins what you're doing. And

729
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: it's it's again it goes back to planning these things

730
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: out ahead of time. Think through, Okay, what's the challenge

731
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: of getting in or out of here? And how do

732
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: I count for that? Is this the spot I just

733
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:15,759
Speaker 1: can't hunt in the night, in the air, starry in

734
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: the evenings. Is this the spot I just can't go

735
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: to in the mornings. Is this a spot that I

736
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: have to convince my wife to come drive out here

737
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: and pick me up? Um? Whatever you gotta do. Think

738
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: about those things and understand that it's it's something that

739
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: has to be part of every decision when it comes

740
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: to picking where you're hunting and when you're hunting. That

741
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 1: has to be at the very forefront of that decision

742
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: making process. How many does that, Josh, I don't know.

743
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: I was about to ask you how many we've gone through?

744
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 1: You know what I did here is I wrote down

745
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: more than ten. I got on a roll and I

746
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: just started writing things down. So I don't even know.

747
00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: Let me see here. Um one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,

748
00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: eight two more two more. Okay, Uh. This is one

749
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: more tactical thing, and it's a little bit of a

750
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: it's nothing too special, tricky, but something that's helped me

751
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: out in a lot of situations. And this is the

752
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: idea of the It's it's easy to get tunnel vision

753
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,880
Speaker 1: with the places that you hunt. You can get so

754
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: focused on the little the spots you hunt and the

755
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: property that you hunt, that you what's the saying you

756
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: you missed the forest for the trees. You don't zoom

757
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: out and look at the bigger picture. So my reminder

758
00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: to everybody is to remember to look at the big picture.

759
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 1: Don't get too obsessed with these two trails and how

760
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 1: dear getting between that little ravine and that swallow or

761
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 1: that swell. That's important, But also what you can do

762
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: is zoom out, literally zoom out on the maps and

763
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: look at how your little property fits into the bigger

764
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: scheme of things, or look at your property with new

765
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 1: eyes and try to say, Okay, if I had never

766
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: hunted this place and I was looking at this as

767
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: a brand new property from above, what would I think

768
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 1: where the places that look particular appealing? Because if you've

769
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,479
Speaker 1: got twenty years of history in place, it's very easy

770
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: to get sucked into the same old, same old stuff.

771
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: And this is what grandpa there, that's what we did,

772
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: and this is what we do, or this is what

773
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: has always worked for me. But getting those fresh eyes

774
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 1: on a property and and looking at it from a

775
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: high level and trying to start the simplest and then

776
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: work down it's a really powerful way to come to

777
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: new ideas. So that's something like before the hunting season

778
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: opens or soon after. I'd encourage everyone to try to

779
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: to try to do this, to try to look at

780
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: your spots, whether it's a public land area or your

781
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: land that you own or least or have permission on.

782
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: Try to try to as best as you can. This

783
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,880
Speaker 1: is against like a mental exercise. You can't completely do this,

784
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: but try to say, Okay, if I didn't know anything

785
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,719
Speaker 1: about this, if I was looking at this as a

786
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: brand new place, what would the spots be that a

787
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: key in on? Or how do I think deer moved

788
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: through here? Or how does this property fit into the

789
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: square mile? Or how did dear get from that corner

790
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: of the square mile to this corner of the square mile.

791
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: You might start to see trends or ideas or patterns

792
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 1: that could help you in your little tunnel vision world,

793
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: but you never would notice if you only lived in

794
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: that tunnel vision world. So look at the big picture.

795
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: And that's number nine. Number ten. I think we will.

796
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: I've got three good ones to choose from, Josh, I'm

797
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: just gonna say them all. I'm gonna call this ten.

798
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: Execute on the plan. You know what to do if

799
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: you listen to this podcast, if you love this kind

800
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 1: of stuff. You know, most of the things you're supposed

801
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: to do. I say this a lot, but this is

802
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: one of the hardest things we have as hunters. And

803
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: it goes back to the whole. Little things matter the whole.

804
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 1: Every inch counts. It's doing the ship that you you

805
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: know has to get done. But it's hard to do.

806
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: It's hard to do all the little stuff. It's hard

807
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: to get up early. It's hard to make sure you

808
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: packed everything and double checked. It's hard to wake up

809
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:03,880
Speaker 1: eight days in a row. It's hard to walk that

810
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: extra half mile to make sure you're not blown deer

811
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,959
Speaker 1: out of the field. All those things are hard. What's

812
00:42:07,960 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: easy is to skip things. What's easy is to say

813
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: it'll be fine today. What's easy is to say it's

814
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: raining outside, I'm gonna watch college football unless you like

815
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: the big time. Um, you know, but if you can

816
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: make this promise to yourself, and every year I try

817
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: to do it, and I'm never I'm not I'm never

818
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: perfect at this, and maybe some people are. I'm not perfect.

819
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: I can't nail this all the time. But every year

820
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: I try to have kind of a mental little pep talk,

821
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: you know, at the beginning of the season, and then

822
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: usually at the beginning of the run, like, hey, you

823
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: gotta do better than you did last year. At least

824
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: execute on this thing. And you know the things to do.

825
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: You have a plan, You've done the work. Now you

826
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: just have to follow through on it. And maybe maybe

827
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: you don't try to, you know, bite it all off

828
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: at one time. Pick pick the one or two things

829
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: that you know you really struggle with the most that

830
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: consistently every year that you struggle with. Pick those and

831
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: and try to fix those this year, and then maybe

832
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: pick something else next year, and you know you'll get

833
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,640
Speaker 1: that ball rolling downhill and you'll be good to go. Yeah,

834
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: And that applies to all of these ideas, right, A

835
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: lot of different high level, little little reminders here. And

836
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us could probably try to

837
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 1: focus on all of these, but if each one of

838
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,280
Speaker 1: us could pick one of these things to really focus

839
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 1: on this year and make a real tangible difference there

840
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: here all of a sudden, I having a better deer

841
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,799
Speaker 1: hunting season, Which brings me to the last thing, which

842
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: is something that Andre du Cuisto talked about a week

843
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago on the podcast, and it

844
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: really stuck with me was this idea of trying to

845
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: overcome our fear of failure. And it's something that I

846
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:44,840
Speaker 1: realized as he was talking about this, that I've had

847
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: a lot over the last decade as I've learned more

848
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: and more about, you know, hunting mature bucks. I don't

849
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: know what the twelve thirteen years ago now on my

850
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: thirty three, I was about twenty. Yeah, so about thirteen

851
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: years ago I decided I'm gonna start try to start

852
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: shooting big old bucks. And the first things I read

853
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: and many of the people that I was learning from

854
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 1: early on, it was all about how to not screw up.

855
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 1: And and some of the things we've talked about today

856
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: are related to how to not screw up, how to

857
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: keep tear from getting educated. That's very important. But at

858
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: the same time, back to the baseball analogy, if you

859
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: constantly are bunting because it's like a safe thing to do,

860
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: you're never gonna hit a home run home run. Sometimes

861
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: you do have to take that swing. Sometimes you do

862
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: have to get aggressive, and that comes with experience, It

863
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: comes with time, it comes with knowing the right time

864
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: to strike um. But I'm working on this year to

865
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: try to not be so afraid to fail and instead

866
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: be a little bit more I'm not sure what the

867
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: right word is, but prepared to succeed or or or

868
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: reaching for the success. Sometimes you gotta go get it.

869
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: You can't always wait for it to come to you.

870
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:59,320
Speaker 1: It's it's like there's two approaches. There's the weight around

871
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: and just don't r up enough until the deer makes

872
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: a mistake approach, or there is a go for it,

873
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: go for it, go for it until you get the success.

874
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: And you make a bunch of mistakes along the way,

875
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: You screw up a bunch of stuff along the way.

876
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: But if you swing for the fences enough times, you

877
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: will get that home run. And you only need one

878
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: home run a year to be a pretty happy hunter. Um.

879
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 1: There's a lot of circumstantial stuff that can change how

880
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: you actually execute on this. You're like, you don't want

881
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: to go hunt betting areas every single time. If you

882
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: have a twenty property, that's the only thing you can hunt. Um,

883
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: But I do think there are opportunities, at least speaking

884
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: for myself, where I can get more aggressive in the

885
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: smart way, in a well planned way. UM that in

886
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: the past I was probably you know, worried that's that's

887
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: too risky, or that's you know, too aggressive for this

888
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: time of year, for this kind of property, for the state. UM.

889
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: But maybe that's a lot of just what other people

890
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: are telling me. UM. Why not go learn those things

891
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: for yourself and see if you can pull it off,

892
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: and if you can't pull it off, what you learned

893
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 1: from it? Ask why after the situation learn from it.

894
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: Control what you can control, Let go of the things

895
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: you can't execute the damn plan. Be positive, but prepare

896
00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: for the negative possibilities. And right up in a nice

897
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: little bow there, Mark, that was nice. If you can

898
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: do those things, you are set for quite possibly your

899
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: best your hunting season ever. Maybe that's literally, maybe that's

900
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:29,720
Speaker 1: just emotionally or fun or whatever. But I do think

901
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: and I hope some of these ideas can help you out,

902
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: whether this is your first hunting season or your UM.

903
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: I think there's some things in here that that each

904
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: and ever one of us could could think about a

905
00:46:41,239 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: little bit more. So those are my reminders leading the

906
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 1: hunting season. I'm excited for all of you. I I

907
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: I'm excited for myself. I'm excited for you, Josh, And

908
00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,240
Speaker 1: let's just give the people the story of what happened

909
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: tonight because we got to I know, we drove twenty

910
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: five hours straight from Michigan, all the way through the night.

911
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: We got to my place out here. UM, we did

912
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: some scouting on a property, lots of other hunter signed

913
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: a bunch of trail cameras tree stand UM. So that's

914
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 1: a little disheartening, but were prepared for this. Um ID

915
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: scouted several other places this summer. So I had one

916
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: place in particular that I was very excited about. UM.

917
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: I think I talked about so Dan on one episode,

918
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: but I'll just for those that aren't familiar, I coul

919
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: should have to be just a little bit. I. I

920
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:31,280
Speaker 1: basically had been roaming Idaho looking for places where public

921
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: land intersected with river bottom cover, which is usually where

922
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: you find good white tailed populations out west. And then

923
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: I was trying to then verify that after after finding

924
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: these places on maps, and then I go and verify

925
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,720
Speaker 1: in personally. Can you get access in here? UM doesn't

926
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: actually look like there's food around it the deer would

927
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: be feeding on. Can you hunt it with certain wind directions?

928
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: Are there actually deer in here? So I went and

929
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: visited a bunch of places, drove all over the place,

930
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,200
Speaker 1: UM hiked in suddenly spots, and eventually found one of

931
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: them that I really liked. I snuck in there in

932
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 1: the last couple of hours of daylight, started seeing deer

933
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: crossing little opening. I hunkered down, watched this area for

934
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 1: a while. Then I stuck up to a field edge

935
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: right at the edge of the public and watch several

936
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 1: nice bucks and a bunch of deer go out in

937
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: the south alpha field. So right there I ascertained Number one,

938
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: there's quality deer on this piece of public land. Number two,

939
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: I figured out, hey, these deer going going to this field,

940
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: Here's where they're betting, here's where they're feeding. In a

941
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: general idea, and then I went and I left with

942
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: a little bit of daylight left, and when drove the

943
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 1: outside roads to see other food sources, to see, you know,

944
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: are there more deer coming to other fields? What's the

945
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: kind of big picture of what we have here as

946
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:46,399
Speaker 1: a possibility that all led to us today. We checked

947
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,959
Speaker 1: spot number one, determine there's some other people in there.

948
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:51,479
Speaker 1: So the idea was, let's going to spot number two.

949
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:53,439
Speaker 1: I can tell you right out the gate that there's

950
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: gonna be deer probably feeding in the south Alpha field

951
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure the betting on these you know

952
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: river bottom stuff over to the north. Um, and you

953
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,439
Speaker 1: and I snuck in with the game plan to try

954
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: a first night hunt with what goals to observe and

955
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: learn and you know, still be in a position that

956
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: maybe we could get lucky in that number one. Yeah,

957
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: I think we we definitely put our We both put

958
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: ourselves in positions that I think we could potentially have

959
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 1: shot shot opportunities, but then also be able to kind

960
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: of see what's going on with the with this piece

961
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: of public land and what's going on with it and

962
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: what the deer how they're using it, and um, yeah,

963
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,919
Speaker 1: I've had a I had a night like I don't

964
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: think I've ever had in the woods before, just with

965
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: NonStop action. Um and started off slow. I mean we

966
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: got in there pretty early, um, just to make sure

967
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,399
Speaker 1: we had some time to check it out and knew

968
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: what we were doing and knew we were going and um,

969
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,279
Speaker 1: but we had a geez, what was that maybe two

970
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: hours before dart first buck popped out in the off

971
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: Alfa field where you know it's going kind of slow

972
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 1: and then all of son. First dear came out, um,

973
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 1: and then from there on out it was just um

974
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 1: whirlwind of trying to keep track up the deer that

975
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,919
Speaker 1: I saw on and trying to keep track of where

976
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: they were coming out, on how they were using the

977
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: betting area and coming out into the food source and um,

978
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: you know. And so to back up real quick, Josh,

979
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: just when we're explain how the two of us set

980
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: up differently, Um, we ad you set up kind of

981
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,319
Speaker 1: on the edge of this field so that you could

982
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: shoot in the public land cover on our side, but

983
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: you could at least glass the half off the field

984
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: and the private land. The idea being that we really

985
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: wanted to know a, are there deer still coming out

986
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,880
Speaker 1: to feed out here? And be if so, where are

987
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: they leaving the public land from. If we could figure

988
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 1: that out, then we would know one night number two

989
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,439
Speaker 1: where to go set up. Yep. Um, so that's where

990
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: you went. I went back in the cover closer to

991
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: the betting areas to try to see, Okay, is this

992
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: where they are? I didn't know. Excuse me, we weren't

993
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:03,960
Speaker 1: able to be out here for the first couple of

994
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,359
Speaker 1: nights of the season. So we're in here nine, number

995
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,720
Speaker 1: three of this season. So I was a little worried.

996
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: You know, I did a bunch of guys poundless the

997
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: first couple of nights, and all that bad defeat stuff

998
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: isn't gonna be happening as visibly out closer to the field.

999
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: We might have to be typed to the bedding air.

1000
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: So I thought, you know, if you're on the observation,

1001
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 1: standing near the food sources, you can see what's happening

1002
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,399
Speaker 1: out there. I could be a little tighter to the cover,

1003
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: a little bit farther in, and we'll kind of see

1004
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: which situation we're dealing with. And pretty quickly became apparent

1005
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: that your situation was was pretty good, because I saw

1006
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 1: some deer, but nothing like you saw. I saw two doors,

1007
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: a fawn, a little six pointer, a spike, and like

1008
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: a nice little two year o day pointer. Um. And

1009
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: that was all about in the last hour of daylight

1010
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: for me. Um. But that's what I saw. Like seven deer.

1011
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: You saw seventy eight d deer or something. I couldn't.

1012
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: I couldn't keep tracking. You've never had a night I've

1013
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,359
Speaker 1: never ever. I mean, every time I turned around there

1014
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: was more deer like and I could tell there are

1015
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 1: different ones because they kept feeding out into the middle

1016
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 1: of the South Alpha fields. I mean by the time,

1017
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: you know, daylight was gone and there there was eight

1018
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: deer in that. I mean, it's crazy. I've never seen

1019
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: anything like it. How many five or thirty? I saw

1020
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: one bachelor group of ten bucks come out another seven

1021
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,920
Speaker 1: bucks just before uh last light, and I saw I

1022
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: think I was keeping track on my phone. I think

1023
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: I saw eight Bucks before those two groups. Um, you

1024
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: can never say that I got a hole. You Yeah,

1025
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: that you're right. I didn't put you in a bed

1026
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: and you picked your own spot, but I certainly didn't know. No,

1027
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: we you know, it was incredible. I mean just there's

1028
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:50,799
Speaker 1: deer coming out everywhere and trying to keep track of

1029
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: where they were coming out and eventually just got okay.

1030
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 1: I think maybe out of those or thirty bucks, maybe

1031
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,480
Speaker 1: three or four of them were like mature bucks that

1032
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: like good shooter bucks. Um, and I want to take

1033
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: a step back to just say this is absurd. Yeah,

1034
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: it is not normal for most people or for us. UM,

1035
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: I don't like, yeah, this is nuts. We've kind of

1036
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,800
Speaker 1: we've kind of stumbled on him and my scouting worked

1037
00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: out got a little lucky to found a little honey

1038
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 1: hole here. That's hard to get to. You gotta walk

1039
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 1: along ways on the road. It's relatively tough to access

1040
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 1: public land in an area that not a whole lot

1041
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 1: of people are interested in white tails. And you've got

1042
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: good food and good cover. All these things kind of

1043
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: line up to have this kind of underutilized resource. But

1044
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of deer and a bunch of

1045
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: nice bucks. Um and knock on wood. We're in the middle,

1046
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: and they see him healthy. I mean, we saw a

1047
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: bunch of I saw a bunch of fawns, a bunch

1048
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: of doughs with with twin fawns. And so that's exciting too,

1049
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: from like a like a quality standpoint, like these animals

1050
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: are getting the food that they need, and they've got

1051
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: the security cover that they need him and get. They've

1052
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: got everything right there and um, they don't have to

1053
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 1: adventure very far for any of it. I don't think so. So.

1054
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: So you were set up on the field, you had

1055
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,799
Speaker 1: a buck, he had one shot opportunity. I did, I did,

1056
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: I passed, I passed a nice as the nine point

1057
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: I think he's probably two and a half year old.

1058
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 1: You know, my personal goals are like a three and

1059
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 1: a half year old. And I was clipped in on

1060
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: my bow and I was looking at I may regret

1061
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: it later. I may regret it, regret it by the

1062
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:28,760
Speaker 1: end of the week, um if if another opportunity doesn't arise.

1063
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I was. I was this close to

1064
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: uh taking a shot tonight. Just um. I wasn't quite

1065
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:39,879
Speaker 1: ready to be done that in the first day after

1066
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,319
Speaker 1: that kind of action. So yeah. So everything else though,

1067
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:44,759
Speaker 1: was was kind of out of range by a little bit. Yeah,

1068
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: most most things were out of range. Out of all

1069
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: those dear, I think I maybe had I don't know,

1070
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: five or six within range um. And then some of

1071
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:56,239
Speaker 1: that was on the private that the LFLFA field was

1072
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:58,440
Speaker 1: they couldn't shoot into there um, but there were a

1073
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: few deer that would have been within range um there.

1074
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think maybe five to six deer, we're

1075
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 1: probably within range. And then everything else was I don't know,

1076
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:09,800
Speaker 1: you know, some stuff was way out and some stuff

1077
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:13,520
Speaker 1: was within a hundred yards. So some microadjustments I think

1078
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:16,520
Speaker 1: to what I want to do tomorrow, and I should be,

1079
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: uh should be in the game. So I didn't see

1080
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: anything I was interested in shooting where I was at,

1081
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:23,880
Speaker 1: So I'm making a wholesale move to a new area.

1082
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: But you saw several bucks that you would like to shoot,

1083
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 1: So walk me through your game plan for tomorrow. So

1084
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 1: we got a couple of things to think about. One

1085
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: of the things we didn't talk about was we did

1086
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: have another hunter in there tonight. UM. I don't know

1087
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: when he came in. I never saw him come in.

1088
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: You never saw or heard him come in, UM, but

1089
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: come Yeah, we just saw him riding a bike like

1090
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: a mountain bike on the way out that I could

1091
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:49,919
Speaker 1: see about binoculars. He had a bow in his lap

1092
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 1: and that was like fifteen minutes before shooting light ended.

1093
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: So that was one of those things. Jeez, you know,

1094
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: I might as well start packing up now. And no

1095
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,919
Speaker 1: later did he go driving out? Did a bachelor group

1096
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,600
Speaker 1: of seven bucks come out right where he rode his

1097
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 1: bike through, Um, two of those being good shooter, you know, nice,

1098
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 1: really solid eight points UM within minutes after he left.

1099
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 1: So UM, I don't know where exactly he was at,

1100
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:22,719
Speaker 1: but I think my plan is to um move up

1101
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: on a little bit towards the betting area and further

1102
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: towards the east of where these deer were coming. They

1103
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: were they were coming out into the field about seventy

1104
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: yards from where I was set up. So if I

1105
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:37,240
Speaker 1: can cut that distance down and then move a little

1106
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: further back into the cover, I'd like to try to

1107
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 1: intercept them a little bit sooner. I mean, they came

1108
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: out within the last couple of minutes of shooting light,

1109
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,280
Speaker 1: So if I can get back in there a little

1110
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: deeper without spooking anything, UM, give myself a few, you know,

1111
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,279
Speaker 1: a few extra minutes of daylight, hopefully to to make

1112
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: something happen. What's the conference level? UM, I'm pretty high.

1113
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 1: I'm feeling and pretty good about it. Um, if you

1114
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: had to place like a probability that you're gonna get

1115
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: a shot tomorrow percentage wise, I don't like doing this.

1116
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: I was gonna put ten bucks on it. I don't

1117
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: you're putting me in a bad situation. I don't like

1118
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 1: putting it because then I'm gonna have this pressure on myself.

1119
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: I don't know what I mean, so many things can

1120
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: go wrong. I mean, right now they're calling for the

1121
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: same wind, and you know, will they do the same thing? Maybe?

1122
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: Did they come out down there because they knew I

1123
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 1: was in there, and they you know, it could be

1124
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: a number of the why I don't know. I don't

1125
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: know why they did that. Um Or is that just

1126
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: the the trail they have been using for the last

1127
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: couple of months in their summer feeding patterns. I don't know.

1128
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:50,200
Speaker 1: Um if they did exactly the same thing, and I

1129
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: set myself up in a good you know, a tree

1130
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: where I could have some multiple shot out pretty like

1131
00:57:55,440 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: different lanes and things, I don't I don't know, confident man,

1132
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: positive mindset. If there's seventy or eighty deer running around there,

1133
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it'll be some others that could get an

1134
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 1: arrow as well. So, UM, I really see my target

1135
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: rich environment. Yeah, I'm I'm really excited. I didn't have

1136
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: nearly the night you had, but just hearing about your

1137
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: experience has me so excited, just because a that makes

1138
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 1: me feel great about my own possibilities, but then also

1139
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be fun to see you get an opportunity.

1140
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: And now now that we say that's I probably won't

1141
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:33,479
Speaker 1: see a single deer tomorrow or something we don't believe

1142
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: in jinx is. We don't believe any of that kind

1143
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: of stuff. We're gonna see what happens, and if it

1144
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:41,439
Speaker 1: doesn't go well, we will adjust and adapt and we'll

1145
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: figure out I forgot I did see a cow moose

1146
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: to your grand of the night sounds kind of well,

1147
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool, cool cool critters man, big big animals.

1148
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: All right, Josh, do you have any final thoughts before

1149
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: wrap this one up? No, just I'm see if I can.

1150
00:58:57,880 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: I should be able to get some sleep tonight, but

1151
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: going on like thirty six straight hours and not much sleep,

1152
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: but I'll be thinking about tomorrow afternoon. Everybody. If if

1153
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: nothing we said here tonight makes any sense, just know

1154
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 1: that's because we drove all the way through the night

1155
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: and then hunted and worked all day today and it's

1156
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: like almost midnight when we're recording this, and I think

1157
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: we've neither one of us got more than two hours

1158
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 1: over the last of sleep, two hours of sleep over

1159
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 1: the last forty hours. So the fact that we have

1160
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: coherently spoken for fifty nine minutes and fifty six seconds

1161
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 1: I think is downright miraculous. So we just got a

1162
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: good attitude and we've got the right mindset right exactly.

1163
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, with that said, I think I'll let

1164
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: you guys get after it. For those of you that

1165
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: are starting your hunting seasons this week or have over

1166
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,479
Speaker 1: the past couple of days, good luck get out there.

1167
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: I hope you can take some of these things into

1168
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 1: account and find them helpful. You know one thing I

1169
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: didn't mention and should have mentioned, one of the very

1170
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 1: most important things on top of all these other reminders,

1171
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: on top of all these other ideas, Ultimately, have fun.

1172
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: Enjoy it out there. Don't get too worked up, don't

1173
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 1: get too stressed, don't make it work. Try to enjoy

1174
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: this thing. Put food on the table, spend time with

1175
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: your friends and family, and enjoy the great outdoors. This

1176
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 1: is an awesome thing we get to do. It's a privilege,

1177
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:26,959
Speaker 1: it's a it's just good stuff. So best of luck,

1178
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: enjoy it until next time. Stay wired to hunt.